Issues and Suggestions

Posted by: hello

Posted by: Dev

There is a registered  member by the name of hello that  has not received their activation email. 

Is there a way to have his account activated? 

Thanks

 

Thanks Dev! Hi everyone.

Did you end up receiving your email or did one of us approve your account?

Posted by: hello

Posted by: Dev

There is a registered  member by the name of hello that  has not received their activation email. 

Is there a way to have his account activated? 

Thanks

 

Thanks Dev! Hi everyone.

Welcome. 

I think he just needed to reset his password. 

I’m going to bring them in slow to make sure there isn’t any activation issues. 

Posted by: Patrick Lipp

Posted by: hello

Posted by: Dev

There is a registered  member by the name of hello that  has not received their activation email. 

Is there a way to have his account activated? 

Thanks

 

Thanks Dev! Hi everyone.

Did you end up receiving your email or did one of us approve your account?

Found password reset email in my spam.

Posted by: hello

Found password reset email in my spam.

Same here

So, any recruited members should be told to look there for the email.

Oh and this is also a test for the vanishing edit button - to see if it goes away after a follow-up post.

Posted by: neomr2

Posted by: hello

Found password reset email in my spam.

Same here

So, any recruited members should be told to look there for the email.

Oh and this is also a test for the vanishing edit button - to see if it goes away after a follow-up post.

Since someone made me a moderator I cant see some of the things that you guys see in regards to some of the fictionality of the forum so Patrick or LT can fix these issues. Im working on recruitment at the moment but if you could look over the forum and see what needs to be done from a users perspective  and post issues that need to be fixed we can make this forum ready for prime time.   

No problems joining! Please advise and I am more than happy to contribute, I do not want others to shoulder the finances alone.

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Posted by: NottaMiata

1) Data point: I also had the spam folder problem.  Known issue to you and to me. Just a data point, probably useless.  I'm using gmail, if that helps.

 

2) Your site is not using SSL, at least not when I use it from my phone and my PC at work. Recommend you look into that "fairly soon".  I saw a mention of TLS, but it's not working.  I get to the un-secure site by simply typing "mr2-spyder.com" into the address bar, and it doesn't redirect to HTTPS like it should.

 

3) When I come in on my work PC (have not tried on the phone yet), the first panel - DIY - takes me to a blank page.

 

4) In general, the site layout is just terrible on a phone.  I know how that sounds, and I'm sorry, but it is virtually unusable IMO. (I'm a developer, I fully appreciate the work and effort you guys are putting in, particularly as an un-paid labor of love, so this is entirely constructive criticism).  I don't know how much control you have with a WordPress site, but here's what I mean: the layout (inside a thread, not the whole site) is very scattered, there are no boundaries between content areas, where one post ends and another begins, and the editor box is just sort of hiding in plain sight at the bottom.  I don't know where to tap to start editing, and the continuity of the thread I am in is very "thin".  In other words, you can take the "flat look" too far (I hate the trend personally, it absolutely rapes usability, which is the whole damn point of software).  When nothing is distinct from anything else, it's just a pile of text and a precious few lines and boxes that could help the user, if there were just a few more of them.  UI boundaries not "clutter" any more than the dashed lines, guardrails, and signs on the highway.  Whoever got this asinine "flat look" fad going should be horsewhipped.  Oh, wait, I've descended into a rant. That's good for now.

You have valid points but please keep in mind that this is not the final layout.  Things will improve, we just need time to sort though and make this a better board.  

Its a rough start but at least we have the ability to post and it will take some time before the site gets better.  The most important thing right now is that the board is ours and we can choose its destiny. 

Posted by: NottaMiata

1) Data point: I also had the spam folder problem.  Known issue to you and to me. Just a data point, probably useless.  I'm using gmail, if that helps.

 

2) Your site is not using SSL, at least not when I use it from my phone and my PC at work. Recommend you look into that "fairly soon".  I saw a mention of TLS, but it's not working.  I get to the un-secure site by simply typing "mr2-spyder.com" into the address bar, and it doesn't redirect to HTTPS like it should.

 

3) When I come in on my work PC (have not tried on the phone yet), the first panel - DIY - takes me to a blank page.

 

4) In general, the site layout is just terrible on a phone.  I know how that sounds, and I'm sorry, but it is virtually unusable IMO. (I'm a developer, I fully appreciate the work and effort you guys are putting in, particularly as an un-paid labor of love, so this is entirely constructive criticism).  I don't know how much control you have with a WordPress site, but here's what I mean: the layout (inside a thread, not the whole site) is very scattered, there are no boundaries between content areas, where one post ends and another begins, and the editor box is just sort of hiding in plain sight at the bottom.  I don't know where to tap to start editing, and the continuity of the thread I am in is very "thin".  In other words, you can take the "flat look" too far (I hate the trend personally, it absolutely rapes usability, which is the whole damn point of software).  When nothing is distinct from anything else, it's just a pile of text and a precious few lines and boxes that could help the user, if there were just a few more of them.  UI boundaries not "clutter" any more than the dashed lines, guardrails, and signs on the highway.  Whoever got this asinine "flat look" fad going should be horsewhipped.  Oh, wait, I've descended into a rant. That's good for now.

Point 1 - I need to see if the forum software uses the normal Wordpress SMTP settings and/or if it's using a KRON job or a built in hard coded SMTP server - Just checked my email, it's being sent out through Dreamhost who is LT's hosting provider which means it's doing KRON jobs.. and isn't routing through an SMTP relay. I'll need to look into this.

Point 2 - I will get with LT to see about getting an SSL cert. On the WordPress side, it's a simple change.

Point 3 - Nothing has been added on the DIY page as of yet. If you would like to be the first to contribute, by all means.

Point 4 - I agree. I can change up the color scheme, and will do so as time goes on. As DEV said, this is only the start and things are still early.

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I realized this AM that using a direct link as was suggested to me here works best instead of using a ‘link for forums’. I’ve been using postimages.org more recently (free account) and that has been working very well. Click the ‘share’ button at top left once you upload your pics and use ‘direct link’ once it applies the URL to the pic, and it posts very well. I tried tinypic and imgur in the past, but the postimages.org site seems to work much better.

Interesting. Looks like I can edit most of my posts but not all. Guess it's not retroactive. As long as it works going forward I am happy.

Posted by: NottaMiata

Posted by: kamlung

Posted by: Dev

I think maybe both loosely Spyder community related and off topic would be appropriate for now.  I would think having more categories might just be overwhelming and simplicity would be best.  

I think the best thing we have going for us right now is that Recent posts button which is intuitive.  

Now if we can get a temporary picture on top it would really dress up the place. 

 

 

i vote uncle mush car because his car was on the cover of spyderchat for ages when they couldn't get the COTM rotation working... 

I haven't been around long enough to be in on the whole joke, but my vote for funniest car picture would be that now-classic image of Cyclehead's black snowcar.  LOL.

No offense, UM, your car is lovely and that's a great picture, but you gotta see my point, right?

Back-pedal: I might have my stories mixed up, my memory sux and I thought it was Rampage's old car, may it rest in peace, but if the black snowcar is the one that got tag-teamed by a bucket and a semi earlier this year, then that's not what I mean and that's a tasteless joke. I simply tried to make a play on how long that image has been the COTM over at [the site that shall remain nameless].

I mean... If we're talking funny, do a search for "Sivart" on Spyderchat...... You're welcome?

NOOOOOOOOO Spyderchat messed up Sivarts posts... either that or Sivart came back and edited his posts to remove the pictures... never the less, he's up to it again with an LS swapped "AWD Mini"... post to follow 🤣