as long as there is the option to turn it off, i'd vote for this too...

the problem is for "hot topics", i can see getting a couple hundred email notifications a day... at which point, it would be rather annoying (for me, anyway)...

Hey, here's a bug. I was posting my update as ForceFlow was. When my post was submitted, his and others also showed up. When I tried upvoting his post, it just sent me to the top of the page. Once I hit refresh, all was well.

i think that's an existing bug, as that used to happen to me prior to the site update occasionally...

I think yellow is a good highlight color. I also like the idea someone suggested that the ad be automatically bumped to the top every few hours.

Typically, you can "subscribe" to a thread for notifications, and select whether you want "instant" email notifications any time there is a new post, a daily email notification (which might be useful for hot topic threads where you would only get a maximum of 1 email per day for that subscribed thread), a weekly email (similar to the daily email notification), or a monthly email.

that works for me...

Robin,

I was posting a link and it cut it off for some reason, tried it twice:

http://www.ipdb.org/search.pl?any=frankenstein&search=Search+Database&searchtype=quick#947

Looks like maybe the spell check function truncated the link?

Looks like the pinball title cut the link short.

This reminded me of another link issue. When linking to a google groups post, the link gets truncated and becomes unclickable. For example:

https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/rec.games.pinball/jQ6cLR35sNg

I'm guessing the #! symbols messes with the pattern recognition of links.

[edit]: On the other hand, just using the # symbol is fine. For example:
http://www.pinwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=Bally/Stern#Bally

shebang...

Sweet! Not a big deal or anything, but that one bugged me all the time. Thanks.

yup me too, thanks again on that one robin.

i also noticed today the checkbox to turn off the pop up when up/downvoting a post...

Robin, thank you for making the up vote/down vote dialog box an option to pop up or not. Much better!

YES!! So much better now. When I want to see the voters (and I often do!) I'll just click the pop bumper. Big improvement, and thanks for putting the option right in the box itself, where it's easy to find. Good call.

Wow, that does work well.

i gave Aurich a thumbs up, the dropdown window appears, i UNchecked the "Auto-open This Box When Voting" checkbox, then hit the [Close this Box] button.

i then gave pinball_faz a thumbs up, the dropdown window appears, and I had to UNcheck the "Auto-open This Box When Voting" checkbox for his post, then hit the [Close this Box] button.

it looks like the UNchecking of that box is a unique "state" to every post, instead of being system wide for my profile. Was that the plan?

...just checking...

cheers

nope, once i unchecked the box, gone forever...

Nope, once I unchecked it, it stays closed whether I give someone an up or down.

I had to refresh the page to see it stick.

It looks like a topic I have selected with my mouse, it's painful on the brain. I am going through and "draining" all the highlighted threads they are so distracting.

Could you consider perhaps putting the paid ones in "bold" instead so, they don't look like we've chosen them with the mouse?

Highlighting is the wrong web UI approach. Highlight = selection by user.
-mof

Double-post.
I've been seeing horrible lag on posting the last few days.

ahhh thanks... i'll try that.

maybe related to me using Macbook Pro with Chrome ?

Edit/Update: yep. Looks like i needed to do a Refresh after doing an UNcheck.

To give you an idea about alternatives... another forum I use updates the favicon live with notification counts. The result of this is in my bookmarks, I can immediately see if I have pending notifications at the website because I have the bookmark in a bar in my browser. All I need is to be busy in my browser.. which is almost always open anyways.

dupe

hrm, lots of dupes

when I clicked the save post button.. the page blinked, but did not show that my post was made..

Yeah that bug is a huge problem all of a sudden. Can confirm. There are freaking ten duplicate posts in the Mad Amuements thread!

I've been noticing something on the 'You Viewed' activity page:
sorting_issue.png

I haven't been to the LED OCD post in a long while, but somehow it's listed as having nothing new, but is listed BEFORE the JPOP thread. Why did it get bumped up if it has no new activity?

Edit: It *DID* have new activity - one new post. But for some reason, that wasn't displayed in the token icon..

Yup. I visited it, but longer than 4 minutes ago - so that one post was new to me. This has happened before, I just didn't think about grabbing a screenshot or going into the thread.

In Internet Explorer 11, I used to be able to click on the number of new posts and it would open. Now, if I click on the number but it is a new topic, it does nothing. It works fine if you have read some of the topic before, but it is annoying since it used to open messages either way before. Any reason for this?

Anyone else have this issue: when using my iPad, as I scroll down the screen, about every 10 secs or so goes back to the top of the page? On the main forums page I have to try and fly down the page, find the topic I want and hurriedly hit the link and hope that it doesn't (which it normally does) pop back up the page. It's just about unusable. Sorry, if this was discussed earlier in this thread, but it would take me forever with this the way it is to find it.

Otherwise, love the new look!

When doing a forum search, the sort by "Post count" doesn't seem to work.

robin, you might want to update the "pinside faq" to reflect the removal of tilt warnings and the new method of "hiding" nsfw pictures...

is it just me, or are images taking forever to load?

edit: or just hanging waiting for the image to load?

I have all kinds of problems with images now on Pinside. What's funny is if I load them in a new window and strip out the https it works fine, so might be something funny with the secure connection? Try that and see if you get that too.

seemingly no difference on an ipad... hmmm...

Are you running iOS 8? Does enlarging the images work?

yup. nope. enlarging them seems to take the same amount of time...

just to make sure it's not my internets connection crawling, i streamed some video with no issues...

edit: occasionally, new images seem to load ok... but most of the time, very slow....

I have the same loading issue on iOS8. Most likely the DNS bug in that version.

Been loading slow for me too, but not always. On Monday it was taking a long time to load pages and would occasionally timeout. I was getting frustrated and began worrying Predator might be released and that I wouldn't be able to read about it. Site was slow again yesterday but no signs of Predator yet. Looking forward to that "news conference" in one week.

Don't know if it's been mentioned yet, but the floating nav bar does not seem to display on an iPad. IOS 8.1.3

Love everything else!

Two questions -

1. I thought I read somewhere that the "Topics You Viewed" was supposed to save the sorting option we selected? Mine doesn't seem to remember - not sure if it's my system or I misunderstood something.

2. On the 'Recent Topics Started', is there a way to filter out everything started before my last visit? (In other words, I'd like to see a list of ONLY items that have been started since my previous visit...)

Cheers!
-Mike

I mostly use an android phone and dolphin browser to view Pinside. As of this moment the only images that have loaded on this page are a couple of avatars.

Within the last few days images have rarely been loading for me also.

I'd glad it's not just me, has been driving me kinda crazy thinking it was my network. It really seems to be an HTTPS problem.

It's happening on my android phone as well.

If I try to open one of the non-loading images directly, I see a CloudFlare page with error 1003 "Direct IP access not allowed"

If it strip off the https from an image in a new window it loads fine for me, which is why I was guessing an https issue.

I tried the same thing, and yep, switching from https to http allows me to load the image too.