Bugs / Feature requests

Not a bug or anything, just a congrats.

I love that signing up for a ride has a phone # field now. Great addition.

Good job Jonathan,

I do have a bug to report, when I loged-in I have the following error message at the top of the forum sub-frame:

warning: is_readable() [function.is-readable]: open_basedir restriction in effect. File(/dev/urandom) is not within the allowed path(s): (/home/httpd/vhosts/mcgillcycling.com/httpdocs:/tmp) in /home/httpd/vhosts/mcgillcycling.com/httpdocs/sites/all/modules/phpass/PasswordHash.php on line 49.

I took a screen shot if you need it.

I'll need to look into that one. The hash method uses dev/urandom as a first choice, otherwise a pseudorandom generator, but it outputs the error message every once in a while.

I think It looks very different, but I find It alot more user friendly than the old Site.
Thank You. It makes my life easier

It looks like everyone who updated their profile has their name down twice on the roster page (in the 2nd page of "Our Team Members").

Yah, that is a temporary solution to prevent most users from not appearing at all. I'll fix that once I get roster themed properly and we fill in the team members.

Minor quibbles but can you allow the frames to be re sizable? I'm running 1280x800 and there are really big gray bars to either side of the screen. Makes the actual forum posts fairly squished with the menu and sponsor bar at the side.

Also, think you could swap the location of the comment box and the smileys box? - also there are a bunch of smileys that appear in a separate frame called " roving"at the bottom of the page, I figure that is a bug.

This is all on FF too not IE.

all of these are also on safari

@jason :

... i know, i've had a lot of problems creating the script compatible for Internet Explorer. Even v.7 isn't perfect, but the provious ones are impossible almost for cross browser web content because of various detection issues. I basically developped the forum, and most of the website (except for the Roster, which John made with the obvious errors) with W3C CSS for Gecko, also compatible with Webcore (for Safari, which runs fine, even reproducing glitches, as matt said). Anyway, i'm not starting over again.

The easy solution is to NOT use IE, which you shouldn't be using anyway. It's like shopping at Wallmart.

but...but I'm using firefox 3.5.7 :p

The page basically operates fine as far as I can tell in IE, in fact for whatever reason that little roaming frame is actually formatted properly in IE but not in FF.

Is the roaming frame actually supposed to be hiding under the smileys box to be displayed when you click "more..."?

Whats wrong with shopping at walmart anyway? Well other than the people?

Lol, nice try Nick :) You definitely did lot's of quick research :) Didn't even know about webcore myself :glasses:

@Jason, I'd not noticed that roaming smiley section, but now that you mention it... I'll fix it ASAP. And I should be able to move the other smileys bellow. As to making the site resizable, that requires some kind of themeing of the menu/header at the top. I'm quite open to suggestions, but I don't have any talents in arts... Ideally some kind of image of what you'd like. If practically everyone runs they're browser at >=1000 pixels though, I can definitely make everything wider. However, I don't want to limit the site to fancy monitors, and still want it to be viewable onm, say, a netbook...

p.s. Jason : that's the website find of 2010 so far!!

Also, think you could swap the location of the comment box and the smileys box? - also there are a bunch of smileys that appear in a separate frame called " roving"at the bottom of the page, I figure that is a bug.

This is all on FF too not IE.

Comment box is now at the bottom. I can stick the roving box inside the other, but there's some bug in the JS for the more link, and it's the most obfuscated code i've ever seen! Anyways, i'll work on it.

What do you think about making the "You have a new message" message a brighter color. All that red text on the right hand side kind of blends into each other. Perhaps a bright blue, or maybe a really bold black, or something that stands out from the less important text.

Oh, and vic made a few good comments to me, one of which is that to return to the forum home, you have to scroll all the way to the top of the thread. any chance we could put replicate buttons for forum>>public>>everything else down at the bottom?

(I forget what else you said vic)

@Ben: both accepted

@Jason: I guess you can figure out the temporary fix :santa:

@Jon I'm pretty sure standard resolution for a 14" laptop monitor is 1280x800 now. I actually have a netbook, I'll check what the page looks like on that.

I prefer the smileys all hidden anyway :)

@Nick I knew you'd like that website;)

haven't laughed that much since.... i was at walmart

oh, yeah, my other suggestion was that we bring back the pages feature from the old forum... i think it was 12 posts per page or something? (yes i'm that lazy and i hate scrolling). that way you can just skip to the last page when there's a new post on the plyometrics thread, for example.

and, for the stickies, there's no nice yellow star when there's a new post. but i do really like having the yellow stars!! a nice change from the red...

i for one really like that all replies appear on the same page, instead of having it go onto another. Plus there's the "last post" option which is handy.

There actually is a seperation at 25 posts if i remember well. If people want, i can lower it. There is the #new link at the top, and the #top at the bottom of every post which takes you back to the start.

I'll add a little yellow start to the stickies, i hadn't noticed those...

I like all the posts on one page as well, never been a fan of having to jump back. Can you have a "go to last post" button at the top that auto scrolls the user to the bottom?

@Jason, there already is such a link.

oh duh...yeah.

Just made a couple of small fixes.

@Jason very few sites use resizable frames, since they usually don't scale very elegantly. I will make the site a bit wider. However, that will require some re-theming/new pictures, and won't be done too soon.

Feature request: FavIcon for your website.

This one could be good for instance:

I think it should be fixed. Hard to tell with caching though :)

Working!

i just noticed this now... but i only get a notification of a new pm when i log out and log back in. is there any way we can get the notifications without logging out? i am usually permanently logged in...

I'll look into this Victoria. The little mail icon should also turn red when you have an unread pm though.

hmm... i can honestly say that i never noticed that! i will look out for it.

Quick question, should you get a notification on every page, or only once? Only once means that you might not get it if for example you click a link, and then click a second link before the first loads.

I use google chrome at work. And it lost its mind today and wouldn't let Julien or I log in.

I don't know if others have had that happen.

@adam, did you get an error message, or did it just not do anything? what if you try going to mcgillcycling.com/user? If you are getting an error, is it a chrome error? Or the website giving the error?

Turns out it is chrome. No error just a redirect to the same pg without logging in. Its happening for everything besides email.

Hey Jon, the sponsors logos at the top right don't scroll anymore since the sponsors changed. It looked really nice before with the smooth scrolling. Now it's just the same sponsor for the whole time you're on the website, different sponsor when you leave the website and come back.

The top sponsor block shows one sponsor from the "gold" sponsors on each page request, randomly.
The bottom bar has them all.

Hmm. I kinda liked it better when they scrolled. It looked super pro. And who ends up at the bottom bar anyways?

I found that the scrolling script would mess up on some older browsers. Of course, you should always use an up-to-date browser, but there are some lost souls out there on the internet.

The other week I actually clicked on the Paladin link at the bottom to see what they do. I guess their CEO is big into cycling?

also, related to the sticky we are using right now, it used to be the little thumbtack would change to orange if there is an unread message. Now There is nothing on or by the thumbtack, but there is the little "1 new" message to the right.

The colored pins and stars should make their way back.

As to scrolling banners, I can also re-add them if they're a popular demand. My understanding though is that scrolling banners have been so over-done that people tend to automatically ignore any such item.

I too miss the scrolling banner. It's not like our site flashes in 17 different places and tells you that you've won the lottery, and I feel like scrolling better acknowledges the sponsors.

Scrolly rolly then. Enjoy.

haha back by the popular demand of two. Power to the people!

Is this too much or good? Yellow sorta didn't fit as well with the rest of the color scheme.

It looked a little weird at first but I like it.

I liked yellow better. I found because it was a little off the wall it stuck out better, which was the point. If you keep it as red though lighten it up a little its too much of a maroon.

To me the new colour is much more aggressive actually. I don't think a different colour of red would work because that seems to be the shade used throughout the design and anything else would clash. I'm 50-50 but the red is growing on me as the novelty wears off.

I like the red. Fits with the overall theme, but still jumps out at you, in a good way.

One feature I liked that has been missing for a while is the team roster. Any plans for bringing this back?

Totally agree with Pete that would be sweet.