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by smorty71

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Community feature development has begun ramping up again. We are going to start the Thursday "reveals" again starting this week (Feb. 17th).

This week's stuff is mostly backend infrastructure items that enable some future improvements, so don't expect to be blown away (the blow-you-away stuff will start rolling out on Feb. 24).

One item that will be added is the My Discussions link. It will be added where the "Edit my profile" link lives now. There are some more UI/look-and-feel changes (don't worry, we're not merging discussions and TQ&A) we will be rolling out by the first week in March, so the exact location of that link may move slightly (but it is back to stay).

Also, I will be sharing some mock-ups of the upcoming member search page to get everyone's feedback.

Thanks and let me know if you have any questions.
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by hal 9000

Now instead of having our names if we wanted them there is only our aliases. This is one thing that I've noticed since the change. I realize that there was a problem with the names appearing on every section of the My Profile pages but the actual profile no longer has any names.

Col :)

by smorty71

There have been a few nagging issues around activating all of the member profiles that had previously been hidden. We defaulted to a truncated e-mail address so that we weren't opening up members to spammers. The name thing became a bit trickier considering how we were storing your participation flag in the db.

We're still trying to figure out the best way to determine that you actually chose to show your real name (so that we don't accidentally show someone's name who had opted to hide it in the past).

I'm hoping to get this resolved soon so that we could actually have real names instead of truncated e-mail addresses and site aliases.

Thanks,
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by oz_media

You mention changes and INSTANTLY jump in and say, "(don't worry, we're not merging discussions and TQ&A)"
That's pretty funny. I guess you got the hint then. :D

Look forward to seeing some new layouts.

I noticed that the View Profile link can be a real drag sometimes, it is fine sometimes, the rest of the site is fine but the View Profile link gets pretty hung up from tim eto time. I assume this will also be rectified by addiing My Discussions again anyway.

Thanks,
OM

by Jay Garmon

We've noticed that we need to tune our caching on that page because some of you (*cough* TheChas *cough*) have SO much Discussion and Tech Q&A activity to sort through, it hangs the app server to run the live query. We think we've got our tweaking right, but we won't know until you guys break it, so keep a sharp eye out.

--Jay

by hal 9000

When I suggested removing Chas's TQ & A privileges, but it seems that he is hurting TR as well. :D

Perhaps you should post a Question and let The Chas answer it for you as to how to limit his participation. :(

Col ]:)

by thechas

I guess I must be spending too much of my evenings on the site.

I took a week off from answering questions.

Did that help or hurt?

I've even cut back on discussion postings.

With any luck, my posting rate will drop significantly come late March.

Once I complete a few more "honey do's" I plan to get back to some serious physical exercise.

Chas

by oz_media

Where there were about 4 or 5 unsure answers, one even mentioned 'where's The Chas been, he'd know this?"

Look what yo've done you horrible ogre of a man!

Oh well, I'm sure Chas wanted or needed a reast anyway.

by oz_media

Just one of those 'checking all new questions things', ran into it on the list of new.

by house

The suspense is killing me. ;)

For real though, you folks are moving pretty quick for a site the size of TR. I'm very impressed. I guess that historical issues have been kept to a minimum throughout the years.

by hal 9000

I had OZ complaining that you where not around and he even went as far as saying that some people on the TQ & A section where asking where you where and you would be able to answer the question blindfolded or something like that.

Of course he didn't bother to remember the questions so I maybe might have been able to help out. Well I suspose 30 minutes sleep a week is way too much anyway. :)

Col ]:)

by oz_media

I just said that I was looking through questions and a few people had guesses but added "Where's Chas, he'd know this one" or when they were unsure of their answer they added "But TheChas will probably be along soon and he'll know"

I didn't note the links, I just went on to the next, I did add to one reply that TheChas said he would be taking a bit of a break but that's about it, next!

So don't take it personally Colin, it wasn't that I was waving a please come back flag (Chas, not to say I don't like reading your input, god knows how much I've learned form you two).

Sorry Colin, next time I'll nore the link and send it to you, I just didn't think of it when I was there, I figure you usually troll the Q&A section when you have time and would stumble on them anyway.

So can we all just have a big group hug and move on?

by hal 9000

How about a couple of drinks at the local?

We would all feel much better afterward. :D

Col ]:)

by willcomp

We managed not to do any significant harm while you were away. I even had a few answers rated and accepted. Will miracles never cease!

Good to have you back though.

Missed one on WD drive jumpered as master. Wish they had specified drive manufacturer or that we had asked. I Primarily use WD drives and should have thought of that possibility. Happened to me after removing a slave. Exact same behavior. Learned to leave WD drives set to default (cable select) for simplicity's sake.

Dalton

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