Solar Panel Talk gets a face lift

[solar pete]

Hello solar panel talkers, the internet seems to be working tonight in my new digs in the Northern Territory bit of a rare event all the planets must be in alignment, cheers

[sensij]

If you want to include links without moderation, make the post with just prose, then go back and edit it to add the link.

(yes, I'm counting on spammers to not read this thread and abuse the loophole)

[SunEagle]

fwiw the moderation is fast.

I try to keep up with the posts but I sometimes get backordered.

[DanKegel]

fwiw the moderation is fast.

[inetdog]

I feel like my posts are now all being moderated, whereas before they weren't. Has that changed?

Most posts that contain links are now subject to moderation. This is probably a transition stage too.

[createthis]

I feel like my posts are now all being moderated, whereas before they weren't. Has that changed?

[DanKegel]

Does this new forum software support private messages? I can't seem to find a way to send a PM. --mapmaker

PMs were disabled as it encouraged "referral farming" (?). Alas.

[mapmaker]

Does this new forum software support private messages? I can't seem to find a way to send a PM. --mapmaker

[solar pete]

Hey Guys, we are on to it, seems vbulletin in their infinate wisom has set it up to work as it does, Glenn is on to it but I think he is busy at the moment we only get a few hours on a weekend generally. Cute lambs Mike, I think I know how you feel, I grew up on a farm with about 300 sheep + or - , dad would have us out on fox patrol till the wee hours for a couple of weeks, we had issue with crows as well, the dirty bastards would just pluck out their eyes and tongue, got pretty good with the old .22 ....thanks for putting up with the teething problems, we have a new patch that we need to install that has a bunch of fixes on it apparently, hopefully that will get done this week, cheers

[Mike90250]

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My problem is not being able to keep up sometimes during the day since I also am at work and can spend just a little time on the forum so it takes some time to go through all of the "flagged and moderated" posts first which IMO is more important to clear up issues before I get to read new things.

Ditto.
Spent the last couple days lambing, the sheep are dropping lambs all over. Didn't get much sleep last 2 days, we have to lock them in to keep them safe from coyotes.

And I see we still have to plug in a substitute link, to replace a spam link.

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[solar pete]

Howdy Dan, to tell you plainly I dont like links going from our site to anywhere, other than solar-estimate.org and solarreviews.com, I am trying to get more traffic and better google ranking and sending people away from this site only hurts us and helps the others so if you dont mind, keep the links to an absolute minimum and dont be surprised if I delete some, in fact a lot.

[SunEagle]

I agree... the "New Posts" button is a hot mess now, I've shifted to using the "Today's posts" and "New topics" links.

While the "New posts" collects all new posts I found by going to the last one it allowed me to quickly reduce a group of posts all associated with one thread.

My problem is not being able to keep up sometimes during the day since I also am at work and can spend just a little time on the forum so it takes some time to go through all of the "flagged and moderated" posts first which IMO is more important to clear up issues before I get to read new things.

[sensij]

I just noticed the "New Topics" button to the right of "New Posts". That was probably there before, but I didn't see it. It solves part of the fluffiness problem for me.

I agree... the "New Posts" button is a hot mess now, I've shifted to using the "Today's posts" and "New topics" links.

[DanKegel]

I just noticed the "New Topics" button to the right of "New Posts". That was probably there before, but I didn't see it. It solves part of the fluffiness problem for me.

[solar pete]

Thanks for the feed back peeps, yeh we need to get this sorted, i preferred the old way it displayed too, will talk to Glenn about it next week