Forum: About Mellophant

There is a networking issue that I have been complaining to our hosts about, and today they discovered that it's a hardware problem on the machine that we're running on. They want to move the VPS to a different server, which will involve a little...

I click the Quote button on a post, but no text is brought down. I will raise this thread, and experiment. Regards, Shodan

Please. Swap it with the "submit" button, wouldja? I keep hitting save when I mean to hit submit, as they are not logically laid out. If you MUST leave it as is, at least give the option of "ignore" so that you don't lose your post when you hit...

I'm a curious kind of person, so when I see this kind of thing viewtopic.php?f=12&t=1066 I have to wonder how do you know who is a troll, and where is "you know where"?

Can we have a marker to indicate which threads we have posted in? If I sleep, I forget which threads I posted in and if the thread is older or I missed it for a while, it gives me an easy place to start reading from. (I'm not a fan of posting...

Please see the relevent posts by MsRobyn. Specifically: I will still reiterate that calling someone a troll in this forum is inappropriate. If you think someone is trolling, you are perfectly free to take it to the Thunderdome. I modified my...

I am sure it's been discussed, but I can't find it. I used PhotoBucket toi resize the pic I want for my avatar to 100 X 75 pixels, but it still won't post. What am I doing wrong? For the record, this is the pic I want: ...

Quote, delete, edit, and New Topic. All vanished suddenly yesterday afternoon. Had to switch to a blinding white theme to type this. Making it short. Please fix. Thank you.

Couple of things I haven't been able to answer and haven't seen addressed anywhere. What is the significance of the scrolling/non scrolling script on the left of the thread titles? Also do we have a "go to first new post" icon and if we do, where...

I suggest for discussion some improvements to the categories provided when a 'Report Post' is attempted. The current selection is: The post contains links to illegal or pirated software (this one's OK as far as it goes, but could be widened to...

I find that links I post with the url-tags don't stand out enough, at least with the subsilver skin. Is there a way to highlight them further?

I can't keep a link in my bookmarks list without a favicon. It's just unprofessional. Sorry.

When I left the dope last year, I spent some time on a board that had forum leaders. Forum leaders didn't have any mod powers or anything like that, but they generated content--posting topics for debate/information, etc. Other people could, and...

I'd like to make a request for the edit window being extended. I'm guessing it's about five minutes, but any chance it could be doubled?

Guys, In addition to the moderators that are about to be elected, we've appointed three new moderators. These are: TheFlame sublight What Exit?, (moved from Technical Staff to Moderating Staff, upon request). All of them are solid...

I may have missed it if mentioned already, but how long do elected mods stay on the job? Can they run for re-election, or should they have to wait a term between runs?

I may have overlooked a really obvious button, but I miss the vBB thing where you could subscribe to a thread and later go to the user control panel to see which of your subscribed threads had new replies. I depended on that use case every heavily...

So I've been relaying various board drama stories to my only vaguely-interested husband (he's a Something Awful man, himself), and have just been referring to this as the "awesome new board" because I don't know how it's pronounced. Can someone...

Will someone please take me by the hand and show me, step by step, how to put an image into a post. Thanks in advance!

How do I embed links so that the word is clickable instead of my pasting sloppy links all over my post? I no code gud.

This is a spoiler This is a larger multiline spoiler This is a larger multiline spoiler This is a larger multiline spoiler with color This is a larger multiline spoiler with bold This is a larger multiline spoiler Yep the note should be...

I can read a few threads and jump a forum but sooner or later I keep getting a 'page expired' notice and have to refresh to go back to the board. Is it just me?

I have two questions. The fact that I have been on the internets for nearly 15 years and don't know how to do this is a little embarrassing. 1. How to do I post an avatar? 2. How to I post a picture. Remember to talk to me as if I a...

Sorry about the server burp there. It looks like one of the php processes went nuts and started sucking up memory like crazy, which snowballed due to the requests backing up. I've placed some limits on the size and number of php processes which...

I've mentioned this multiple times, and even reported a mod's post to communicate the fact. But it dawned on me that I probably should post it in this forum. The fact of the matter is that the mod tag isn't readable in Black Pearl. NOTE: I am not...

Avatars. Hmmm. OpalCat created me an awesome profile pic for the SDMB, so I decided to use it here. I reduced it from 125x125 to 100x100. It was quite a bit bigger than the 6KB max size allowed on Domebo. So I shrunk it to 75x75. Still too big....

Guys, We're about to elect three new moderators, and appoint some more (names secret for now), as we move to dedicated mods for each forum. If you would like to be considered, then please reply to this thread. Some have PM'd me already, and...

I have never added anyone to either a friend or enemy/ignore list on this (or any other) messageboard. If I were to add someone to a friend list, for example, what are the advantages to me and to them?

What I mean is: x2 should give me x squared, but it doesn't. Ditto the code. Any particular reason, or am I just stupid? (This is not an either/or question).

What, exactly, makes a thread "popular? Do the cool kids have to post to it or what?

I do. I love the idea that the internal moderator discussion forum is openly visible. Kudos.

Title pretty much sums it up. If I spend some time in another tab, I get logged out, and get annoyed, and have to log back in even though I have clicked 'log me on automatically each visit'. What the fuck?

I get "foes" -- those are people on my ignore list. What are "friends" -- what does that setting do? Will -- will people think I'm cool and popular if I put a lot of people on my friends list?

Guys, Now we're about to start adding quite a bit of content to the front page, we should probably come to a copyright agreement that everybody is happy with. How about authors retain copyright for all their works, including MB posts, so they...

Ok, first off, I'm an unobservant bonehead. I'll cop to that. Now that that's out of the way, how is quoting supposed to work? Just pressing the "quote" button brings up the reply window, but it's empty. The post I wanted to quote doesn't appear....

Can't read it. It's a medium gray on bright orange. Can you darken your background color? (Please don't get rid of Black Pearl. It's the only theme you have that doesn't give me eye strain headaches.)

I got an e-mail this morning from the host. For a new website, we are outstripping average CPU load by ten times, due to the amount of members and the traffic we are getting. I suppose that this is a great achievement, and I can't lie, I'm...

It's almost as if I've visited a board much like this one before...

When I get an email notification that I've had a response in a subscribed thread, and I click on the link, I get taken to a login page, which then takes me to a confirmation page, and then to the post. Is it possible to it to do the same as other...

A couple of problems to report: 1) Around here, domebo.net lands me on a blank page. domebo.net.forum gets me a 404 error. I have the same results on different networks; for example, home through Roadrunner, coffeehouses through AT&T. The...

I would like to know which settings to change in order to have my forums reflect which thread had the latest post. By that I mean to say, threads which have had the most recent posts, from top to bottom. Top thread = just posted through bottom...

Several days ago, I replied to a post here, and when I previewed my reply I got a notice that someone else had replied to the thread while I was composing my reply. It showed me the new post, so that I would have an opportunity to change my post if...

Now that things have settled down and the admins have nothing to do... Okay, when you get around to it, could you fix the time? It's and hour fast. Thanks.

It seems that there will be no merger between the two boards right now, but I still have the feeling that all the talk of disagreements and different "cultures" between Domebo and Giraffeboard are the opinions of a select few on both sides of the...

I've had an idea: How about a forum for creative writing? (My suggested name for this new forum is in the thread title). The proposed forum would differ from the others and from anything on the Dope or GB; posters would be invited to post...

Tonight we make the move onto the new VPS, kindly offered to us by user McNutty. Some time "soon" (and that is a rather loose term at this point), I'm going to disable the board. This will freeze the content, and allow me to transfer the forum...

Is it supposed to be mofobo.ignorelist.com or domebo.net? If I may make a preemptive request, I'm asking what time it is and don't need the history of watch making. I don't mean that the way it sounds, and I'm not unappreciative of the complexity...

The theme, Black Pearl, has been modified with a smaller, more streamlined Quick Reply box. The textarea is smaller. Gone are the smilies buttons, the font color palette and the formatting buttons. If you nedd to access those features, use the...

This morning I posted in this thread. My post appeared right after Chefguy's. I know because I looked it over after I posted it. I just returned to the thread and my post is gone. S'up?