Missed this thread for weeks, toggling off the message seems to be doing fine.

And being able to quick reply immediately is awesome.

Just want to say that I use the search regularly (at least within a thread) and I'd rather not see it removed - Google definitely isn't that good for returning specific pages in a forum.

novice Wrote:I've had occasional "server unavailable" http errors after you turned this off. I do have a slightly flaky internet connection though.

I saw that happening from my monitoring too, once or twice a day, usually overnight US time. Most likely something at the server or network level and way outside our forum.

NobleHelium Wrote:Just want to say that I use the search regularly (at least within a thread) and I'd rather not see it removed - Google definitely isn't that good for returning specific pages in a forum.

The search I mentioned was the "similar threads" display at the bottom of every page, which seemed pretty useless as just listing other threads with similar words in the title. I was never considering turning off regular search.

T-Hawk, now that you're on a roll, any chance you could have a look at why we can't add or change our Avatars?

Avatars are wildly off topic for this thread. Unfortunately I don't think I can fix that. The regular avatar upload fails for me too. There's a separate avatar upload in the admin control panel (this is used for setting up default avatars, like the various Civ units over at CFC and so on), which also failed but at least it gave me a fairly detailed message about a certain directory not existing. Googling for help points to that being set up in config files that I don't have access to; doesn't seem to be exposed in the admin control panel anywhere.

BTW, I'm traveling for the rest of this week, until Sunday night. Not sure what chances I'll have to be online. Hopefully the forum can survive a few days unsupervised (or Sullla gets over himself and comes back.)

Got it. The error was coming from vBulletin trying to use an image library called ImageMagick. There was indeed an option to turn that off, accessible to me. This means we don't quite have full functionality -- it might not take some more exotic image formats, and won't automatically resize to the 100x100 limit -- but it should work now.

And I fixed my own avatar, always bothered me that I had a slightly cropped version of the image on here, don't remember why that happened in the first place.

Great, thanks, it's working!

Neat. Thanks for all the effort, T-hawk.

T-hawk Wrote:Hopefully the forum can survive a few days unsupervised

Guys, remember leave the keg outside till he's at least down the block...

Sweet! Thanks! :D

I have an avatar now! Small things make a big difference. Thanks T-Hawk.