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2009-09-30 , 12:20
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#91
Originally Posted by mece View Post
how's this?
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SIZE=1 and FONT=Courier New
No Courier New on my machine ... Guys, give up, this is HTML - you cannot hard set font sizes and font types.
 
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2009-09-30 , 16:23
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#92
Originally Posted by JayOnThaBeat View Post
It seems Truejournals already started.

http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php?t=28109
Note that the thread above also contains links to many of the forums that added introductory stickies which could be plagiarized adapted to other forums by their moderators (and from that thread and my previous experiences with forums, I assume this capability is restricted to the moderators and administrators).

Also I would urge the moderator of the N810 forum to copy and make the following two posts from Tablet 101 stickies in the N810 forum (after the very nice introductory sticky):

http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php?t=11508
http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php?t=11746
 

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2009-09-30 , 17:51
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#93
New on this forum and find it quite user friendly. Apart from some quite cynical answers that I find amusing but not rude.

I have moderated on a forum and noticed that when new users join a forum with a lot of enthusiasm and want quick answers or want to improve on their rankings by increasing number of their posts they tend to clash with people who want to correct them. I haven't even seen moderators warning or issuing a ban to users with big letters.

I have no coding background and would be and advanced user. The N900 that is causing so much excitement is not yet out and people should realize that until it lands in the hands of people their issues would not be immediately addressed.
 

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2009-09-30 , 17:53
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#94
Originally Posted by doksng View Post
New on this forum and find it quite user friendly. Apart from some quite cynical answers that I find amusing but not rude.

I have moderated on a forum and noticed that when new users join a forum with a lot of enthusiasm and want quick answers or want to improve on their rankings by increasing number of their posts they tend to clash with people who want to correct them. I haven't even seen moderators warning or issuing a ban to users with big letters.

I have no coding background and would be and advanced user. The N900 that is causing so much excitement is not yet out and people should realize that until it lands in the hands of people their issues would not be immediately addressed.
Welcome, Doksng to the forum!
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2009-10-04 , 18:22
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#95
I've lurked for a few days before registering; from my new user's PoV this seems a pretty laid-back and friendly place. Of course, that perception may change once people start replying to my drivel as it deserves... 8-)
 

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2009-10-04 , 18:34
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#96
Originally Posted by TomJ View Post
I've lurked for a few days before registering; from my new user's PoV this seems a pretty laid-back and friendly place. Of course, that perception may change once people start replying to my drivel as it deserves... 8-)
Welcome, TomJ, to the forum! I love drivel.
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2009-10-04 , 18:37
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#97
Danke schone!
One quick question: where are the settings for thumbnail/avatar and signature for these fora? I can't see them anywere in the CP...
 
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2009-10-04 , 18:41
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Originally Posted by TomJ View Post
Danke schone!
One quick question: where are the settings for thumbnail/avatar and signature for these fora? I can't see them anywere in the CP...
It should be here: http://talk.maemo.org/profile.php?do=editprofilepic
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2009-10-16 , 19:59
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#99
I've been active on the forum. Apparently I never had an account on the "main site" which is a surprise to me. (I didn't realize single sign on was not implemented.)

I think the following steps either indicate a bug (or complete incompetence on my part):
  1. Today I went to http://maemo.org/ and clicked the register button.
  2. This took me to https://garage.maemo.org/account/register.php. I registered with username mountainx.
  3. I went to https://garage.maemo.org/account/login.php and logged in with my username and password.
  4. I went to http://maemo.org/profile/view/mountainx/ and I got this error message:
    Error 404: Page could not be found.
    The requested URL /profile/view/mountainx/ could not be found on this server.
  5. I went to http://maemo.org/ which is where I started the registration process. I logged in using my known username (lowercase) and correct password. I got this message:
    Username or password was invalid.
  6. I went to https://garage.maemo.org/ (behold, I'm still logged in!). So I log out and I log in (I know my username and password). Now I'm logged in again.
  7. Again, I try to access my profile because I have proven that I can log in using my username "mountainx". http://maemo.org/profile/view/mountainx/ again gives a 404.
For someone that has been posting on the maemo forums almost every day and who runs several Drupal websites, I can see how people would view this as not user friendly. People can't even log in to my Drupal site when the process is as simple as pie. Will the average person go through the steps I did above?

And for me to go through all those steps and still be unable to log in at the home page of the main site (http://maemo.org/, the page from which I registered), I am left bewildered.
 

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2009-10-16 , 20:52
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#100
Originally Posted by JayOnThaBeat View Post
1. The MO login is (unfortunately) independent of TMO, so the "user-friendliness of TMO" has nothing to do with it.

2. By "user-friendliness" the OP meant how accomidating the people are, not how easy it is to log in to the "other" site.
I suppose I could have left all that out of my post and just listed the steps I tried and the results I got. If you hadn't quoted me, I'd just delete that unneccessary commentary.

FWIW, I seem to recall a lot of comments in this thread about site layout, completeness of the FAQS and other issues that are along the same lines as the one I mention. When I first joined, the inability to log in on MO after creating an account on TMO was definitely an impediment to me participating as fully as I would have liked. I know that's a nebulous statement, but when the site application is not working as expected, the end result can often be the same as when someone is treated rudely -- they don't come back.

EDIT: Oh, btw, I'm not complaining. I love this site. I'm just attempting to offer useful "debugging" feedback.
 
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