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[crazyal]

Is there any way to change the colors? The "yellow" that indicates a new thread is almost white on my laptop. It's a very light pink color and almost impossible to see now. I get most people don't like change but it is what it is. Being able to customize it some would be nice though.

 

[grsthegreat]

I don’t know, does not seam complicated at all. Getting more use to it now.

 

[Muhammad]

I don't see the layout as being anywhere near "similar".

I lost all the folders I had in my subscriptions to sort content to make easy to find.

Is the a way to restore the folders I had for subscribed threads in the old soft in this new version?

I'll add this to the feature list but recovering old folders isn't possible due to the change. Sorry for the inconvenience but we will restore the feature.

 

[dieselscout80]

Thanks

 

[buckeyefarmer]

In addition to everything else, the new site is actually a higher resolution than the old one. So basically our old avatars are like video tapes but we're playing them on high definition screens. Time to update the avatars with larger images do they're sharper.

Cool, I remember having to make mine really low resolution whenever that was.

 

[buckeyefarmer]

Image changes are a little slow right now because of the DNS change with our CDN.

Basically, we all upload the images to our TBN server, and then when we access it, our CDN checks to see if 1) it has the image and 2) if the image on our server is the same as the one it has. If those are both true, it sends you the image it has (which, conceivably, should be faster than our server) but if it's not the same, it will request the new image and then show you that.

But it doesn't check EVERY time. Because most of the time, avatar images don't change, neither do the images people attach to their posts. So maybe it checks once every hour. Or maybe four times a day. Sometimes your own ISP does the SAME THING (sending you cached images to save their own bandwidth and speed up your access) but maybe your ISP only checks for updates every 2 hours. Depending on when people update their images, you might get a new image RIGHT AWAY, or maybe 2 hours (or tomorrow!)

The Internet works, but we definitely all do a LOT more on it than we thought we would 20-30 years ago!

tldr: If you change an image and it's not immediately updated across all your devices, just give it 24-48 hours. If it's still an issue, let us know and we'll help try to figure it out!

Yea, I wrote cgi bin programs for mid 90s web servers to process basic forms. Things have changed a lot.

 

[aczlan]

What kind of breakfast cereal do you eat to get your superpowers?

Fresh eggs from our chickens every morning is the secret
In all seriousness, this is the 4th or 5th site that I am on that has switched to this software, so I am used to it and like it more than the old software.

Aaron Z

 

[Muhammad]

Yea, I wrote cgi bin programs for mid 90s web servers to process basic forms. Things have changed a lot.

We had a few of those running back then.

 

[Jstpssng]

So I had to save a new bookmark for TBN & had to pause my VPN to open any page, even from Google search, etc. Must be a way to whitelist this site.

(I liked the old smileys a lot better & the new interface seems a lot more comlicated)

I also preferred the old smilies, at least in part because they seem unique to this site.
However, it's only been a couple of days since the change and the Founder has said he plans to try to bring them back. Right now I'm sure that they have other gremlins to work out... I just hope that Muhammed wasn't halfway through doing a roof or remodeling his kitchen.

 

[Muhammad]

I also preferred the old smilies, at least in part because they seem unique to this site.
However, it's only been a couple of days since the change and the Founder has said he plans to try to bring them back. Right now I'm sure that they have other gremlins to work out... I just hope that Muhammed wasn't halfway through doing a roof or remodeling his kitchen.

No, the kitchen was done in november... my brother's fence, however, is 80% finished as of Friday.