The forum is just not working for me since the upgrade and I dont know why About 85% of the time when I click a link it goes to the error page that says cannot find server instead of the page I am trying to view. I can't use the full reply or full edit functions on my post as they go to the 'cannot find server' page 100% of the time.

Why is this happening?

Tara,
Your not alone!

Jan

I've had some issues too...but am working through them. PM Dee.. she can probably help you...and she gave this little non computer savvy person step by step instructions on how to go about fixing the problem...and It seems to have helped my situation.

Good Luck.

The first suggestion is to clear your browser's cache. What is most likely the problem is that your browser has cached (saved) the page and when you click on a link your browser is trying to load a page that no longer exists. When you clear your browser's cache then the browser is forced to go to the server for the new page.

Another option is when you click on something and it doesn't work as expected .. try clicking Ctrl F5 .. This will also force your browser to reload from the server and not your cache.

If you don't know how to clear your cache then send me a PM and let me know which browser you are using and I can send you instsructiions on how to clear your cache ..

We have also pruned the database by deleting old posts .. not sure how far back it went as Shelly did post of that. So if you are clicking on a link to an old post then a page doesn't exist error is valid.

Hope that helps.

OK ... what happened to the little people by the people's names that show online or offline?? Now can't tell at a glance who's on or off...

The little people are gone .. Many thought they looked like "men" and were confused because they thought they had set their gender to female.. I personally didn't like the little people ..

Blue/green icon --> online
Grey icon --> offline

I haven't really had any problems since the upgrade, but I do have one question about it. I used to go to the history and everywhere that I went showed up there and I would click on the last one (ie. with games I'd click on the last one and it would take me to the last post that I made) now when I go to history all it shows is the pictures I've viewed on QP.com but no posts etc... I clear my cache quite regular, so that can't be the problem...

Sounds confusing when I reread it, so I hope it makes a little sense!

Thanks!!!

The only thing I miss are the cut, copy, and paste buttons in the post editor.

Sorry .. I'm not sure what you mean by "history" .. can you elaborate?

Thanks

You know .. I never even knew they were there before. I am a Ctrl key girl myself so probably never even noticed them ..

Sorry, I mean the history in Internet Explorer. Where you can go back and look at all the pages you've been to for the day, or the day before etc...

I like that Jo---little people....that is what I called them too....so they are gone........
Ut Oh.....

I'm a computer dummy.. i'm wondering what cache is???

The little man beside the user names when looking at a post is gone. It was an icon of a "man" and was orange. It is now an icon that is blue/green when the user is online or grey when the user if offline.

The little people in profile are still there .. If the member has set their gender then it would be pink for women and blue for men.

Browsers will store copies of web pages that you have visited so that the next time you visit the page loads much faster. This is called cache.

So what happens is sometimes the browser will try to load a web page from cache and the page no longer exists because it has either changed or been replaced. (ie an upgrade) You could get an error, the page partially loads, you don't see all the functions etc ..

What fixes this is clearing out the cache so the saved pages just aren't there anymore. Because the pages are no longer saved in cache the browser is forced to go to the server for the most recent page ...

Clicking Ctrl F5 will also force the browser to load the page from the server and not cache ..

I hope that helps .. Not sure I explained it properly ..

Yea, You are doing great explaining Dee....
Talking about the little people...I remember the first day of the change I mentioned about seeing all these little people, not knowing that is what they were...And someone, I think it was Jo; wanted to know where the little people were that I was talking about....If it was her, I was just reminding her of what she had said...A lot of us were lost that day.

Thanks for all your help Dee....and QPdad has been a big help also....thanks to you Buddy...

Oh Julie you aren't kidding us...We know what "little" people you were talking about....The ones that you're always talking to when you think no one is paying attention...

Ohhhhhh.. those little people! I have a few of my own! Last week they started to talk back!

Aw shucks---oh my---now they are beginning to talk back to Dee----Hmmm...

Connie---I'll get ya----go out and play in the snow up there....

Nope, wasn't me that couldn't figure out the 'little people'. i figured out real quick that they showed who was on line and off line and as for gender? didnt even notice .... they weren't there that long I guess......anyways, thanks for pointing out the color difference still letting us know on and off line ... i have to move the screen on my laptop to see the difference in the color, but at least now i know grey means off, blue/green means on

Other than the little people question, i like the new forum. Haven't used ALL the bells and whistles yet, but I'll figure them out when I need them.

Has any one noticed problems with the search function? I've been trying to find two posts and either they have been deleted, my search function isn't working right, or I simply am not entering in the right information. Having said that, I've gone through the forums pretty far back and can't find either post.

I use the search function regularly and it seems to be working fine for me. As part of preparing for the upgrade and a long overdue cleanup, Shelly has pruned the database .. She has deleted old posts and inactive member accounts. It is possible that what you were searching for may have been deleted.

I thought it was just my dodgey ol' computer! Pages on the forum no longer appear in your internet explorer history... which I used to use all the time when explorer crashes (all too often, stupid thing) and I want to go back to the pages I was looking at.

Hmm... I don't know if this has anything to do with the upgrade, but I tried to change my avatar... and it now appears in the dimentions of the new one (so it's squashed as the old one was wider), but the same picture as the old one. In 'my controls', it shows the new one fine. Perhaps it will work itself out in a bit?

On a brighter note, I love that you can see who's online or not via the blue or grey square It's great!

When you change the avatar image, the new one gets the same file name as the old one. The page code gives it the height/width ratio so if you have the old image cached on your computer it's probably coming up with the old image "squashed" to the ratio of the new one.

Try holding down your "Ctrl" key while refreshing the page. That will force the new one to load from the server.

AhHA! It worked Thank you, QPdad!

It did also zoom out on the page for some reason, but I know how to fix that

Great i didnt care much for them men just to see if someone was online. Thanx for answering all these questions

Have another question what is the profile view thing? Is it by the member or by the view?