Ongoing upgrades, tweaks and modifications

[Caoimhin]

Hello all and I hope you are enjoying our new format.

We have had some growing pains and I'm working to correct the various issues that have arisen over the last couple of weeks.  You may have noticed some of the changes and I hope they are for the better.

Here are some of the issues that should now be resolved, as well as some of the improvements:

• Broken links in emails - Links to the forum in emails (both topic notifications and registration emails) should be working correctly
• Email notification/welcome on registration - New users should now receive an automated message notifying them of account activation.
• Session timeouts have been extended - When you login, you should be automatically logged out too soon.  This is especially helpful for people with slow connections
• Thread icons - These are the icons that look like little plants at the head of a thread.  If you click on the icon you should now be taken into the thread.  (Green plants for new posts; Grey for no new posts)
• New registration process - A new and hopefully better registration process has been implemented which included multiple welcome emails
• Theme change - The home site has a new look with a larger font.  Hopefully it's easier to read.

I hope these changes make this site more user friendly.

Please don't hesitate to let me know if you run into any problems or have any suggestions for improvements.

[Caoimhin]

There have been sporadic reports of a pop-up login box showing up on the website when loading the home page.  I believe I've corrected this problem.  Please report it if you see it again and try to put it in the context of what you were doing at the time to help me pinpoint the cause.

Thank you.

[JMaus]

That pesky pop-up login box keeps showing up for me.

[Caoimhin]

That pesky pop-up login box keeps showing up for me.

Thanks for the feedback.  I'm pretty sure I've fixed it this time .  I can't reproduce it anymore so if anyone gets the Pesky Pop-Up Login Box (TM) try refreshing your browser page a couple of times and, if it's still popping up, post it here.  I don't think anyone else will see it, however.

[Bob B]

I think there might be another timeout issue that occurs when your browser has been inactive for 30 minutes or something like that. I just received a 'you need to login' message. The main page recognized me but I had to log out and then back in again to see 'unread posts'.

[Caoimhin]

Thanks Bob,  I'm going to reset the session length to 4 hours.  Hopefully that's enough.  Members need to be aware, however, that this means that unless you logout your session will remain active for a full 4 hours.  Let me know if this doesn't fix your issue and I'll look into it some more, but I think this should take care of it.