GreekChat bug? - Page 2

Tom Earp · #16 08-24-2003, 12:16 PM

Now Chillin,

take a deep breath count to one (1) sit on an ice cube if you can find one in this heat!

Dec, to be truthfull, I had no idea what the hell you were talking about!

Way over my head!

damasa · #17 08-24-2003, 12:31 PM

You have been taking little stabs at John and the way he runs this site. Just because a certain feature isn't working for you doesn't mean it's a life or death ordeal. Deal with it. Understand there are some 30,000 members on this site and I don't recall paying a membership fee, did you? That's right, it's free and free of pop-up ads. I think we should be thankful of that much. Remember you are just one member among the 30,000. Take the time you are using to research this "bug" and put it to the org you are trying to start. I assume it must take some work to get an professional org to be "socially selective."

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Originally posted by decadence
Danielle,

That was incredibly RUDE and offensive. I'd appreciate it if you directed your (publicly posted) oh so "smart" remarks elsewhere - I do not care for them. I have no intention of reading such books half a century old nor any desire to hear your opinion of my social skills or ability to "win friends". If as you say the problem "hasn't affected you" I wonder why you even bothered posting in the thread. I'm getting sick and tired of this. If my posts bother you that much use the Ignore feature.

decadence · #18 08-24-2003, 12:40 PM

Take the time you are using to research this "bug" and put it to the org you are trying to start.
Thanks for the tip. An org takes slightly more than five/ten minutes to start though.
I assume it must take some work to get an professional org to be "socially selective."
I wouldn't know nor need to. I'm not trying to to do that nor ever shall.

damasa · #19 08-24-2003, 12:44 PM

Awww come on now lil buddy, your "last post" was like four posts ago already.

And I didn't mean it takes that time to start the org, read my post again, I said put that time into the org, not start the org.

decadence · #20 08-24-2003, 12:52 PM

My take on this is that at least some of the people saying the 'so called bug has never bothered me' also say 'I don't use the feature anyway'. So if it the feature has a bug then obviously it wouldn't affect them that much. Some users do use the feature. Doesn't hurt to bring it up. If it's not practical to fix it that's fine. But doesn't hurt to bring it up so it can be a least glanced at.

It's not affecting my daily life of course but if it's no biggie to fix it once notified then notfiication in the seemingly mot suitable manner does no harm. And if fixing it would be a big huge thing then obviously fixing it isn't practical but the act of notifying it had no harm.

Tom Earp · #21 08-24-2003, 12:53 PM

dec, followed your link and wonder what the hell kind of language these folks are using! I would say ggrreekk to me!!!!!!!!

But that would be a clichet(?)!

Had some nice logos on sig tho!

decadence · #22 08-24-2003, 12:55 PM

I liked the logos too!

John · #23 08-25-2003, 02:29 PM

I didn't realize there was a problem/bug with the subscribed threads feature - thanks for pointing that out.

Usually I do not upgrade the software on GC every time minor upgrades/updates are available, depends on the specific changes/fixes included. vB version 3 should be available soon (currently in beta stage) - I've been planning for the next GC update to be when version 3 is released.

If vB takes much longer for version 3 to be released, I'll upgrade to 2.3.2 when I have a chance to do that.

decadence · #24 08-25-2003, 03:23 PM

John, thank you for your kind reply.
Having a passing interest I glanced at the company's vb....com announcements section, and - with wry amusement

- read a note from the dev. team; explaining their interim 'new' vB version 2.3.2 needed 'x' line changing to fix something, although new ready-amended files were downloadable for those who'd not already installed that (earlier) 2.3.2 build. Having worked in the software development & publishing arena myself in the relatively distant past, I'm amused to see not much has changed in terms of "bug free" final master versions not ever being quite so all out bug free!

I fully appreciate and see the logic and sense in that course of action in the last line of your post, and I look forward to continuing to use the GreekChat.com forums.

Kind wishes,

Richard.

Tom Earp · #25 08-25-2003, 04:38 PM

Must have been why GC was down a lot of the day!

Hell, going nuts till I got home and fired up the PS PC!

TA DA, back on again!

John, thank you for putting up with us!

Dec, I knew you werent Insane!

KSig RC · #26 08-25-2003, 11:36 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by decadence
John, thank you for your kind reply.
Having a passing interest I glanced at the company's vb....com announcements section, and - with wry amusement - read a note from the dev. team; explaining their interim 'new' vB version 2.3.2 needed 'x' line changing to fix something, although new ready-amended files were downloadable for those who'd not already installed that (earlier) 2.3.2 build. Having worked in the software development & publishing arena myself in the relatively distant past, I'm amused to see not much has changed in terms of "bug free" final master versions not ever being quite so all out bug free!

I fully appreciate and see the logic and sense in that course of action in the last line of your post, and I look forward to continuing to use the GreekChat.com forums.

Kind wishes,

Richard.

Just so you know . . . vBulletin software is the best of a group of bad solutions for this type of software. In fact, most pay sites that use it use a hacked code to enable features they desire, and disable ones that drag on server performance. We are using a standard version, it seems, and as such you should expect some minor bugs, as that is what the vB software has shown in the past.

So . . . unless you have the time to decompile-'n-dig and fix what you don't like, you're stuck with it. Problems are endemic in the code. Take a little time and read up on some problems with vB, or I can point you to one site in particular that has done extensive work on the code to make it streamlined - it's a pay site though, and that kind of work is unrealistic for John and this site.

He does a great job just keeping it working regularly, it has nothing to do with him - it's just that the software is the best of the bunch, which doesn't say much.

Tom Earp · #27 08-26-2003, 07:02 PM

Yo KS Dude!

Thanks for pointing this out!

Ya are much sharper on this than me! Think Dec was taking a lot more heat than he desearved!

Of Couse Richard can be a _____ But Still Love Him!

One of the Good Guys!