Images and Private Messaging

[elbirth]

Other than my profile and all being completely messed up, I'm wondering about a couple other things-

For one, images seem to be acting really weird. Some smilies end up being a link instead of an image, and the image tags don't work, so all images have to be clicked on to be seen. I know vB can embed images and would really prefer it that way if at all possible. I know having properly sized images would be an issue with that, though.

Also, I read in the announcement about PMs being missing and/or duplicated or whatever... I was going to check this out, but it seems I have no PM feature at all? It's not in my User CP as it should be, and I've looked everywhere to no avail. Am I the only one, or is it disabled for now or something?

[CyberDyneSystems]

PMs

Click "USer CP" at the top of the page

On the left hand side "Control Panel" select "edit Options"
Scroll down a bit ands enable PMs by checking the box next to "enable private messaging"

Images should work with standard img tags as long as you have "VB code" and (IMG) codre enabled in your post.

[elbirth]

Great, thanks!
Not sure why these would be disabled by default, but good to know they're functional and it's not a problem that needs to be fixed

[Sketcher]

Great, thanks!
Not sure why these would be disabled by default, but good to know they're functional and it's not a problem that needs to be fixedThere are many, many options masks, processes and permissions settings on the forum and on each forum category. "Best Practices" for good forum administration when bringing a new home online is to leave the majority of user options unavailable until the monitoring of essential operations (user logon and post ability) are solidly in-hand. Turning everything on at once (even if it seems harmless to do so) makes it more difficult to track down and resolve offending issues that do come up.

And, being that there are so many options to configure; especially on a completely new site it simply takes time to get at everything. At a point of comfortability, you just enable site logins and let the user base drive the direction of your next attention.

-A side benefit of options requiring enabling per user; it forces everyone to get familiar with their user control panel. There's a lot of functionality in this rig that wasn't in the previous board or it was located in a different place before. Having to poke around a little bit in the new digs should for most people be good exposure to a lot of cool tools and personalization of their account.

That's my take on it anyway. Opinions may vary.

[4walls]

I liked the "forced" image width on the old forum. Is that something
you can do again here? Something around max width of 800 pixels would
be great.

[Pekka]

I liked the "forced" image width on the old forum. Is that something
you can do again here? Something around max width of 800 pixels would
be great.

That feature was taken off even in the old forum - it slows down opening a thread too much and in few cases a prevented opening posts totally.

I'll see if there is some alternative code to be made - best alternative to me would be that people simply posted smaller images.