Sam, I was testing if the shout box supported multiple languages. By that I mean, non-latin or non-cyrillic languages. Typically, I was trying to see if it could work for Indian languages (although almost all Indian ninjas prefer English for written communication). Curiously, it posts 2 shouts without any problem and crashes on the third one. And happens only on IE as Mig observed earlier (any IE version, so IE 7.0 isn't going to fix this problem). Mig had momentarily prevented keying in any Unicode chars but now has removed it (with the hope that nobody repeats it). Time to curtail my inevitable curiosity I think. When it crashed again yesterday, I reported to GC explaining the problem.

One thing I just noticed looking at the User Lists.

There are 90 pages of User Accounts.

Arranged in order of posting volume, Pages 37-90 have not written a single post. In other words, approximately 60% of the existing Ninja accounts, some going back to 2002, have never posted at all. (Think of all the Congratulations they've missed out on!)

Pages 17-37 have written 10 or fewer posts.

Are these accounts supposed to exist forever, or should they be deactivating after enough non-use?

Yeah and this messageboard needs more babes.

I think this problem was mentioned on the old board too. WTF

One thing I noticed, looking at the User List. Some people seem to have their Member Titles, and some don't.

For example, Inky and Crumhorn are listed as "Ninja". Ed Yetman and Knight Tour are just listed as "Member". All four were Ninjas under the old system. Could this have something to do with not posting since the board upgrade was loaded?

I wanted to change my username to Samantha Hardwick, IV but it doesn't seem to be possible on the new board.

Gee, that's a drag. (no pun intended)

Thats not what I was going for Sam.




I mean I can lower my expectations in the face of reality but even that has a limit.

I suppose it does. After the board upgrade my title was also shown as Member, and right after I made my first post it changed back to Ninja.

Looks like the problem with images has been fixed. I started some test messages and could see the image in the preview window in all forums.


One other thing. In the new setup, are all messages in this forum automatically e-mailed to the Mods? Or only the Help Forum? Or both? Or neither?

Another problem I'm noticing. I'm having trouble posting diagrams. For example, the final position from Game 2:

[img]http://www.eddins.net/steve/chess/diagram.php?fen=2k4r/p5p1/b1p1n3/4p3/1BPrP3/P1R3KP/B1R3P1/8[/img]

I see the raw text here, rather than any diagram. It definitely worked on the old software. I thought it might be a problem with this one site, so I tried diagrams using other programs:

[img]http://www.france-echecs.com/diagramme/imgboard.php?fen=rnbqkbnr/pppppppp/8/8/8/8/PPPPPPPP/RNBQKBNR[/img]

[img]http://www.jinchess.com/chessboard/?pos=rnbqkbnr/pppppppp/8/8/8/8/PPPPPPPP/RNBQKBNR[/img]

Nope. Strike Three. But Images are working on the new board now, as we can see:



So I don't know what the problem is with diagrams.