forum bugs

[cpugeniusmv]

i can't search for new posts....

says i can only do a search every 60 seconds when i haven't searched in an hour.

[vipp]

Difficult to post the forum bug I have when the dang forum won't let me post at all. Grrrrrr

[Happiechik]

I think this may be a bug, but i could be wrong. I am not able to change my user title (ie. filesharing newbie), I cant figure out where to do this. I am also not able to change my avatar. There are no avatars to select from.

[The Hunter]

I dont believe the administration has this option enabled yet, since the forum upgrade.

[aqlo]

damn you are fast hunter.

seph was doing avatards for people in the real bug thread, happie. I don't think you got much control over your title yet anyway (does she?)

[The Hunter]

Nope she doesnt, i cant even change my user title.

[reg]

I think this may be a bug, but i could be wrong. I am not able to change my user title (ie. filesharing newbie), I cant figure out where to do this. I am also not able to change my avatar. There are no avatars to select from.
forum bugs (http://zeropaid.com/bbs/showthread.php?t=15064/)

[DudeAsInCool]

forum bugs (http://zeropaid.com/bbs/showthread.php?t=15064/)

I wonder if it would be worthwhile to create a subjects page,
that goes beyond the Zeropaid categories. There's a wealth
of information accumlated here, and it might be worth while
to index some of threads by title

Just an idea..

[aqlo]

why not just stick em in your favorites list dude?
as if cool

hey potato come get your thing anytime now btw, it was cool for the first 30 minutes or so, but after that it got kind of old, I want my evil W back. Someone will help us if we are nice.

[DudeAsInCool]

[QUOTE=aqlo]why not just stick em in your favorites list dude?
as if cool


i was thinking more for the members and visitors--a place they can
go to look at a longer list of index subjects covered

[aqlo]

dude make a bookmarks page
and fill it with the stuff you love
bring us back the link

(keep in mind that most of us have other places crosslinked with all this though)

[dubstylee]

ok... everyone should be able to change their title after they get to 30 posts and custom avatars should work but not sure about standard avatars. can someone test for me plz?

[Sephiroth]

I still cant see the option to change title or custom avatar in the usercp at all.

[aqlo]

Thanks man
It's the little things
that make all the difference

[Potato]

why not just stick em in your favorites list dude?
as if cool

hey potato come get your thing anytime now btw, it was cool for the first 30 minutes or so, but after that it got kind of old, I want my evil W back. Someone will help us if we are nice.

The Hobbes avatar? The dancing one is too... happy. Not that my current one isn't happy.... it's pretty damn excited.

[The Hunter]

The custom title is working fine for me, and I didnt try the avatars yet, but just hang on and i will give it a shot.

[The Hunter]

For me it is still a no go for the avatars.

[dubstylee]

I still cant see the option to change title or custom avatar in the usercp at all.

seph you should be able to change your title now...

[Sephiroth]

seph you should be able to change your title now...

its working now thanks.

[MoonMan]

seph you should be able to change your title now...

I can change my title now thanks to your help dub, but a no go on the avatar. Seph you said you can change peoples avatars ? If possible, change mine to this -> http://moonman.p2pchat.net/moony11.gif

[Wolfie]

For me it is still a no go for the avatars.


Try using a pic hosted elsewhere (the url option) instead of uploading an image to ZP's server. That's how I managed to change mine yesterday.

[reg]

i can't search for new posts....

says i can only do a search every 60 seconds when i haven't searched in an hour.
... kinda weird, buggy?? ... when i posted in this thread earlier, i could have sworn that Happiechik was listed as the starter of this thread & that hers was the 1st post (at least that's what appeared on my screen). but then this morning, i was looking through the new posts & i saw this thread on forum bugs, started by cpu & i thought, another forum bug thread??? then as i started reading through it, i could see that it was the same thread, with a couple of posts added to the beginning of the thread, before Happiechick ... hmmm, i think me needs more caffeine... :mellow

[aqlo]

reg there was a clock glitch, when the time changed to its current offness we got inserted in the middle of existing threads wherever our new timestamp would be.

[dubstylee]

ok standard avatars should be working.. this vbulliten beta edition has a couple bugs.. I will make sure to stay on the new releases to get them cleaned up asap.

[The Hunter]

Also the old e-mail bug just bit us in the butt again.

[dubstylee]

email is wierd.. i dunno that one might take me a few. hopefully i will get it by tonite.. on a brighter note quick reply is now enabled!

[Potato]

I went to move my car, came back, and quick rely now exists.

Why is it that whenever I leave something new happens?

[dubstylee]

yeah mail is gonna be broken for a minute. sorry. and when i say a minute i mean a while.

[aqlo]

Why is it that whenever I leave something new happens?Murphy's law is why. Make yourself a correlary out of that.

[cpugeniusmv]

i like the quick message box :)

[Kevin06906]

I just noticed that when you view certain threads and you scroll to the bottom, it shows you a thread that is similar to the one that your viewing.

[rainbowdemon]

a maximum allowed 30,000 bytes
For image attachments this is not nearly enough. Unacceptable!!

[Kevin06906]

how come there making the bytes smaller. It saves space or something?

[Wolfie]

I just did forum search with the word 'internet' in it, but it keeps telling the word 'internet' is too long. I knew there was 3 letter minimum for search but but whats the deal with such a small upper limit on word size?

[multi]

can you turn the [img] code back on in the sigs? :)

or no more sig pics..?
oops i just saw the signature thread..
i c its only temporary

[cpugeniusmv]

kind of redundant, isn't it?

this is on the search page (sorry about the monochrome, i can't save jpegs due to restrictions on this computer)

the search page has two sets of "goto page" thingies.

[.::BeatFactory::.]

I've been getting an "access denied" in the news admin page for about a week now...

[.::BeatFactory::.]

***bump***

[cpugeniusmv]

you'll have to PM jorge or dubstylee about that one.

[REDO]

For some reason when I do a quick reply it doesnt get posted. I just posted a quick reply on a building a pc thread, I go back to check for replies, but my post wasnt there. It has happened on a couple of posts.

[REDO]

nm, Im just stupid.

[Kevin06906]

Yeah, my email notification is down for two days now.

[cpugeniusmv]

Yeah, my email notification is down for two days now.
same here.

[rainbowdemon]

Clicking on something in the "recent posts" part of the front page takes you to the end of the thread, rather than the beginning. Kind of irritating if you have not read any of the thread.

[vipp]

The forum time is driving me nuts. I like to know what time things were posted. My last adjustment to get the correct time to show put me in Tokyo. Man, I'm sure doing some traveling trying to keep the time current.

[rainbowdemon]

The forum time is driving me nuts. I like to know what time things were posted. My last adjustment to get the correct time to show put me in Tokyo. Man, I'm sure doing some traveling trying to keep the time current.Not to mention learning to speak Japanese!! lol Hi Ms. Vipp.

[Potato]

rainbowdemon: do you ever sleep?

[vipp]

Not to mention learning to speak Japanese!! lol Hi Ms. Vipp.

Morning Mr. RD

[rainbowdemon]

rainbowdemon: do you ever sleep?
Sure!! But I don't work in the summer, so I have a lot of free time.

[reg]

The forum time is driving me nuts. I like to know what time things were posted. My last adjustment to get the correct time to show put me in Tokyo. Man, I'm sure doing some traveling trying to keep the time current.
... i second that ... i kinda got used to the the time being 20 minutes ahead, but this "current offness," as Aqlo described it once, is like time travel ... : )

[DudeAsInCool]

everytime i move from the forums, the sports betting pop up add comes on and steals my memory its making my mac do somersaults i cannot imagine its programmed to pop up every time you navigate to a new place on the site


ps the problem now seems to have corrected itself, but it was annoying most of today what causes it?

[phalkon30]

I was getting that popup also but figured I had some spyware that spybot missed.

I didn't get it this morning, but got it a ton last night, like every page I clicked on.

[The Hunter]

I get them every time I reboot.

[phalkon30]

Well, yeah, now I'm getting them again this morning. Its every time I restart my browser.

[The Hunter]

Well I just downloaded Popup stopper free version, and i think I will give it try in a bit.

[phalkon30]

The proxomitron isn't blocking it, and I've got it pretty customized.

BTW, did they remove the "similar thread" thing at the bottom? I don't see it anymore and the site is much faster than last night.

[The Hunter]

I havnt seen it so far this morning.

[phalkon30]

I just found it in a thread, its still there.

[rainbowdemon]

I'm still getting that sports pop-up. It's getting on my last nerve.
:finger

[rainbowdemon]

Well I just downloaded Popup stopper free version, and i think I will give it try in a bit.
I'm looking for a good one too. I used up my 30 day trial from Panicware. The ones I see on Google look kind of cheesey.

[The Hunter]

So far so good with this one, it was a little slow the first time through, but seems to be working better.

[The Hunter]

I spoke too soon its still there.

[rainbowdemon]

I spoke too soon its still there.
I found one on Google. It's called Popup Zero Pro. It's shareware from PC World magazine. Copy and paste the url for this damn sports thing into what it calls "the white list" and it's gone.
http://www.pcworld.com/downloads/file_description/0,fid,22595,00.asp

[The Hunter]

I didnt even have to do that, I just installed it and voila

[The Hunter]

Now to find a free one that works just as well.

[Malicious Intent]

While "Forum Bugs" is back in the recent list, I'd like to point out how annoying it is that when I click on a recent post, it drops me off at the last post in the thread, so you have to scroll back to see whats being said. The e-mails on the other hand seem to find a completely random place in the thread to take you to.

[MoonMan]

While "Forum Bugs" is back in the recent list, I'd like to point out how annoying it is that when I click on a recent post, it drops me off at the last post in the thread, so you have to scroll back to see whats being said. The e-mails on the other hand seem to find a completely random place in the thread to take you to.

Yeah I REALLY hate the fact that clicking a thread link takes you to the last post. It is quite a hassle to scroll up, and sometimes go back a few pages in a thread to read all of the posts in order.

[rainbowdemon]

Yeah I REALLY hate the fact that clicking a thread link takes you to the last post. It is quite a hassle to scroll up, and sometimes go back a few pages in a thread to read all of the posts in order.
I agree. I truly do hate that.

[vipp]

I actually like it, because to me, 'recent posts' means just that, and should take you to the recent posts.

[Potato]

It'd be nice if you had a choice if you wanted it to go to the most recent post or just the top of the thread.

[vipp]

It'd be nice if you had a choice if you wanted it to go to the most recent post or just the top of the thread.

You do have a choice. Simply click "new posts" from any forum page. That lists the links with the new posts, and you can start right from the first post in each thread. :)

[rainbowdemon]

I actually like it, because to me, 'recent posts' means just that, and should take you to the recent posts.
Oh hell, somebody's always got to nitpick. j/k Hey, vipp!!

[Potato]

I was thinking more about the main page actually. When I click a link there, it sends me to the most recent post in that thread. Maybe I don't always want to do that.

[vipp]

Oh hell, somebody's always got to nitpick. j/k Hey, vipp!!

Oh hush Mr. RD :wings

But honestly, sometimes I've seen a certain thread several times, and I don't like having to go thru the old posts to get to the newest one. I like going straight there.

[DudeAsInCool]

I'm looking for a good one too. I used up my 30 day trial from Panicware. The ones I see on Google look kind of cheesey.


anyone know of any good popup killers for macs?

[Kevin06906]

This site also got a lot slower i have noticed in the last four days. Anytime of the day i come here, it takes forever to get directed to the forums.

I have cable, and this is the only site that has gotten slower.

Is it because of the new forums?

[MoonMan]

I'm not quite sure why it has gotton slower, but it has definitally slowed to a crawl compared to before the update.

[phalkon30]

Hunter, any word from Jorge or dub about my suggestion?

[The Hunter]

Nothing yet bud, & slow is not the word for it.

[DudeAsInCool]

Nothing yet bud, & slow is not the word for it.


Im convinced thats Sports PopUp is part of the problem..its back with a vengeneance today. Some times i can go straight to a page, other times I hang for like a minute or so...and Im on DSL...

[Wolfie]

Speaking of pop-ups, I was under the impression we are not supposed to get them if we are logged in.

[phalkon30]

Yeah, thats how its been in the past.

I guess I could tolerate a few popups, but this is a whole PAGE that comes up.

[cpugeniusmv]

mozilla firebird.

cpugeniusmv is popup-free.

(that rhymes!)

[phalkon30]

Now I'm getting runtime errors asking if I want to debug.

Not only that, I replied to the floppy thread and it gave me an error (I think http 400), I tried it again and it said "Sorry! This forum is not accepting new posts."

bah

[The Hunter]

I just installed Free Surfer, and finally no more popups.

[reg]

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Originally Posted by vipp
The forum time is driving me nuts. I like to know what time things were posted. My last adjustment to get the correct time to show put me in Tokyo. Man, I'm sure doing some traveling trying to keep the time current.
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hehe ... kinda funny this morning, looking at the new posts, with the time thing, the forum's current offness ... some of the posts this morning are listed as being posted tomorrow!! "tomorrow 02:16 a.m." ... kinda like upcoming attractions?? or back to the future?? or zp's own twilight zone?? ... more time traveling ... made me look twice ... : )

[reg]

reg's messenger service at your service ... hehe ... malicious intent pm'd me & asked that i post this ... so, here ya go ... :santa

"Hey Reg0232, I notice that you can still post. I'm sure that all the mods knew that a load of us wouldn't be able to post if they changed the time again, even so, can you please make a post saying that I'm getting the 30 second rule when I try to post. I'm sure I'm not the only one.
Thanks"

[Malicious Intent]

Thanks rag0232, looks like I can post again.
This really needs to stop happening. I thought that the time had been put right?

[reg]

Thanks rag0232, looks like I can post again ....
hey ... who you callin' a rag!!!!!!

heheh ... j/k ... :devil

[Malicious Intent]

hehe - sorry rEg0232

[DudeAsInCool]

RE: Post Edits/Hacks

Ive noticed that someone changed one of the mod's news comments a week or so ago Today my CPU was played with I guess the site is easily hacked... Are their protections against this?

[phalkon30]

Sorry, but what are you talking about? News comments, or forum comments?

News comments have a straight HTML interface. If we need to edit a comment, you scroll through the html code, find the comment, then delete it. Sometimes if a news mod trys to do something quickly, or is just careless, things that weren't meant to be edited are.

[DudeAsInCool]

Sorry, but what are you talking about? News comments, or forum comments?

News comments have a straight HTML interface. If we need to edit a comment, you scroll through the html code, find the comment, then delete it. Sometimes if a news mod trys to do something quickly, or is just careless, things that weren't meant to be edited are.

Well specifically:

1) When I posted the article about International Piracy, Moonie sent me a note suggesting that I send the articles in HTML and gave me some code examples and a link The next day when I checked the article, his comments were changed and the link was to a porn site I thought it was a funny hack, but Moonman noticed his comments were changed too (see his comments later down the page beneath the article)

[WRFan]

There is a forum exploit that allows to delete whole threads started by other people. I confess I deleted two posts yesterday. sorry, I know, it's a bad thing to do, but I am innocent, it's those voices in my head, they forced me to do it. lol.

it works like this: sometimes when a poster posts a reply in a thread their replies are posted as FIRST post right above the original poster's post. which gives him the the possibility to delete the entire thread, 'cause the poster whose post is at the very top has the control over the life of the thread

[MoonMan]

Well specifically:

1) When I posted the article about International Piracy, Moonie sent me a note suggesting that I send the articles in HTML and gave me some code examples and a link The next day when I checked the article, his comments were changed and the link was to a porn site I thought it was a funny hack, but Moonman noticed his comments were changed too (see his comments later down the page beneath the article)

I do not quite remember your link being changed to a porn link, but I do know why my comments were changed.

In order to *show* html on a webpage, for example:

&lt;br&gt; (to show a <br> tag). Well when me, or another news mod (doesn't matter who) editted the comments to most likely delete a bad remark, something happened to that. My theory is, when it was shown on the site as <br> it didn't go back as &lt;br&gt; when the moderate comments box was opened to change something. It was shown as <br>.. therefore the browser did not know the difference and used it the way it was programmed to.

If that doesn't make too much sense.. well, I am not very good at explaining things but it is a reletively simple concept. Anyways, my point is my comment being screwed with was more of an accident rather than intentional.

Sorry for the confusion. :)

[Malicious Intent]

I confess I deleted two posts yesterday. sorry, I know, it's a bad thing to do, but I am innocent, it's those voices in my head, they forced me to do it. lol.


Well what the hell did you delete? It may not seem like anything important, but it may well have been to the posters.
I'm guessing that the error occurs when the forum is have another change of heart about the time. I've accidently posted at the start of the thread before, it was when lots of people were getting the 30 second rule. Its not like it can really be exploited. Someone who wants to do damage would have to be watching the forum for a time change. Even then the only threads they can get are ones written after the new time.
Still something that should be corrected.

[DudeAsInCool]

[QUOTE=MoonMan]I do not quite remember your link being changed to a porn link, but I do know why my comments were changed.

i think your theory is correct but fyi, after you made your html suggestions, you also gave an example with a link that took me to a porn site so someone had some fun after you :)

[The Hunter]

This morning things were running great, but right now the site is just hanging, & the task bar just keeps showing downloading picture. security settings at default, or disabled makes no difference.

[phalkon30]

Yeah, its slow processing the page at first, but then it downloads the page great. Looks like the servers under a heavy load to me, fine with bandwidth, but lacking in server power.

Eh, its the weekend, I can stand ZP being like it is anyway, as long as it doesn't get as slow as it was...

[The Hunter]

Thats what i suspect also, and i posted this mostly as feedback. Although it is still showing downloading picture as i type this, and now the pages never seem to fully load. All other sites are working fine, and the popup stopper, and antivirus was disabled for a test. It does seem like excessive server load.

[The Hunter]

I am still waiting for it to load that dam picture. It better be a good one. LOl

[Malicious Intent]

Try this Janett999
http://sundry-tech.com/products/GlueRem.html

[The Hunter]

Bwahaha, Mal that just might work. janett it will be stickied, but you wont be able to tell for a while.

[The Hunter]

Also by just being herself is how she became a mod, but i wouldnt know anything about that.

[The Hunter]

Heh heh, its just good to have you aboard.

[The Hunter]

If this was a vote, i got a feeling it would be by landslide.

[rainbowdemon]

thx hun :)...well thats a vote of 1,LOL j\k
Make that 2!!!!

[The Hunter]

I waited a long time to say this, but things are now running smoothly, and looking pretty good. Now that just felt good, I didnt have to complain for a change.

[The Hunter]

PS, after all the PMs I sent complaining the site was having problems, I sent the bosses one saying nice work, and it is working great.

[The Hunter]

You and me both, the last time we almost had to do that striptease routine.

[rainbowdemon]

You and me both, the last time we almost had to do that striptease routine.
Damn!! I miss out on all the fun.

[The Hunter]

Well all I can say is the forum softwear must have known who would be crazy enought to try and keep things going, and we became the default spammers.

[The Hunter]

Now dammit janett i told you to stop sharing that pic.

[rainbowdemon]

....jorge told me if i did a strip tease, he would ban me
Hunter too!! LOL

[Potato]

spam spam spam

You know spam is from Minnesota?

[The Hunter]

Thanks tater, i just knew that someone would turn this into an educational thread.

[Potato]

lol the only reason I know this is because their workers went on strike (or threatened to, I don't remember) a while ago... it was all over the news.

That and... sometimes when the papers get bored, they write about how great spam is... and how it's neat cuz it's from here....

Boo to spam (the real stuff).

[rainbowdemon]

Boo to spam (the real stuff).
I kind of like it!!

[The Hunter]

Joe, you are one very sick MoFo

[Potato]

ewwww... there was this article that had a bunch of recipes for different things you could do with it. I shoulda kept it for ya...

[rainbowdemon]

Joe, you are one very sick MoFo
This is redneckville. All kinds of canned meats are very popular!!

[The Hunter]

Uh huh, you said meat, and that is more like mystery meat. It is a mystery to me why it was ever called meat.
i prefir actual meat, like cuts of meat. Not pressed shavings. Chipboard in a can, J/K, but not much.

[The Hunter]

Dont worry, Im working on it.

[rainbowdemon]

if anyone is interested , i like my steak 2 in thick med rare lol
That bull still comes around once in a while.

[rainbowdemon]

i prefir actual meat, like cuts of meat
For the most part, so do I. But a couple of slices of spam, fried, with some cheese melted on top, makes a good sandwich. Of coure, nothing is better than a well-made venison roast!! There's a lot of that around here too!!