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Here's the list of things that we acknowledge are wrong with the new site (or at least the ones that affect users, as opposed to those at a tech level or only affecting editorial users).  Feel free to add new ones...

Advanced search filters not appearing in certain key categories such as TV's and home cinema amplifiers
Site search results inconsistent in ordering.
Most read news block needs to be time limited to within last month
Most read blogs needs to be time limited to within last month
Videos missing page furniture - Missing links to other videos beneath the video player.
Forum - improve font of user name.
Forum - change date format
Forum - latest posts - headline font
Forum - latest posts page - date should be 'Today/Yesterday/Date' and not bold.
Forum - if replies = 0, show "-"
Forum - Add pager to active topics individual posts
Forum - formatting for subforums (eg Headphones and turntables in hifi)
Forum - Go button drops down on some browsers
Forum - pagination at top of page as well as bottom.
Forum - Better selection of smileys.
Forum - landing (eg Hi fi) - remove 'updated'
Forum - landing (eg Hi fi) - remove '[##] new'
Forum - landing (eg Hi fi) - change 'by {link to username}' to {link to latest post with word 'by' before it}
Forum - Skyscraper ends up in footer on first page of forum thread.
Forum - reduce whitespace between replies
User page - could do with layout tidy up
User page - Add last 10 user's posts to user biog

EDIT - Additions:

Forum landing pages (eg Home CInema) don't page when not logged in.

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RE: About the new site

Not anything wrong with the site as such John but you have a weeny problemo with profile update,it aint working at the min.

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RE: About the new site

floyd droid wrote:

Not anything wrong with the site as such John but you have a weeny problemo with profile update,it aint working at the min.

How so?

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RE: About the new site

I changed my emither address and then checked the delete current avatar. Browse and uploaded another foatie. Clicked save and after an aeon got a server not responding or something like that, cant remember exactly. Although it did read 'we are aware of the problem'.

 

Gimme a couple of mins and i will try again.

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RE: About the new site

Nope . It reads 'page could not be loaded'

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RE: About the new site

Try it one step at a time - remove avatar/save/upload avatar/save/change other stuff/save?

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RE: About the new site

John Duncan wrote:

Try it one step at a time - remove avatar/save/upload avatar/save/change other stuff/save?

I am also having trouble uploading my avatar, i have also tried that JD but still get the error page.

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RE: About the new site

Just tried avatar only. Nope.

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New message this time john. It reads Internal server error.

 

Have fun im off for a smoke and coffee fix.

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RE: About the new site

Just changed some permissions. Try again while I do the same...

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RE: About the new site

You are going to need another 2oz of gv john,lol. Still no luck this end mate. Got the previous error this time.

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i've tried many times now to delete albert and use tuco as my avatar, but albert won't go away Shock

edit.. just logged on using my android phone and my avatar is tuco, but albert on my pc. strange..

 

 

 

 

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floyd droid wrote:

You are going to need another 2oz of gv john,lol. Still no luck this end mate. Got the previous error this time.

Curses.  OK, needs further investigation...

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RE: About the new site

John I'm still getting the same as yesterday. The below message only comes up when trying to load avatar.

Internal Server Error

The server encountered an internal error or misconfiguration and was unable to complete your request.

Please contact the server administrator, root@localhost and inform them of the time the error occurred, and anything you might have done that may have caused the error.

More information about this error may be available in the server error log.

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RE: About the new site

ummm...

perhaps I have misunderstood but isn't the point of "mark all as read" to get rid of the "updated" flags. Doesn't work for me so EVERYTHING since the changeover shows as updated

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Well since we're removing the 'updated' flags, we'll be removing the 'mark all as read' as well...

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