The new website - A failure or success.

Michael - increasing the number of posts per page certainly makes for easier reading - good one.

However I can still not update my profile - as I mentioned earlier it complains about the space in my username. I don't mind adding an underscore or whatever, but I am afraid that if I change my username now I will lose all my history on this site.

sorry, I missed that point John.
i've removed the space in your username now.
next time you log in, use "JohnMurphy" as your username and the same password as you normally use.
hopefully it will work ok for you.

if you want a - or a _ in there instead, just let me know.
only takes a few seconds to change.

michael.

Michael,

I arrived into work this morning to find notification emails in my mailbox.
I am now able to update my profile, since you removed the space from my username.
All in all a result - thanks for your efforts Michael, appreciated.

Spaces in usrnames was a completely unforseen setback to Fireboard that was not known untill the migration happened, and some users had complaints! Sorry about that John, I thought this was pointed out in a thread a while ago... :blush:

Seanie.

I must say, I did find the old e-mail notification of new topics very useful. You could see straight away when there was something of interest. I really like the layout of the new site. I've worked with PHPBB before but not fireboard. Is there not a 'New topic Notification' mod for fireboard?

It does seem that traffic is slower on the new site alright. I'd say the new topic notification would go a long way to rectifying this.

Well I thnk we have a reasonable amount of feedback here and it seems pretty clear that email notification is missed by the majority of posters on this thread.

If it is at all possible the IFAS web team should try to rectify this. If it is not possible with this version of Fireboard then IFAS should put pressure on Fireboard to include it in future revisions, and also to make it selectable in users profiles as to what kind of feedback they want to set automatically.

In the meantime thanks to Michael O'Connell for the help with resolving a number of issues, though I feel the "hit subscribe button" is just another work around, it should be set and forget in the profile. I will of course use it though, and I would suggest that the use of this button should be highlighted to users so that it may help re-stimulate activity on the site. We can't change the weather but some things are under our control....