Forum software upgraded - POST PROBLEMS HERE

[FIRE'd@51]

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Originally Posted by retire@40 Your email is hidden.

Thanks.

[dory36]

Are you sure? It is supposed to always be visible to you, but not to anyone else.

When I look, logged in as non-moderator, all I see is "hidden" on your profile, and no email link by your messages.

[kramer]

I sometimes read this group using the web browser on my Treo 650 portable device. With the new forum software, there is a wireless mode, and a lower bandwidth version of the group is presented (the old software presented the group exactly as if you were on a desktop machine). Unfortunately, the wireless mode is a little too pared down. I miss things like posting time for a post, latest 50 posts which it says are now unavailable in this mode, etc. Not having superfluous graphics is great, though. My device surfs at around 80 kilobits/second with high latency (so it is probably effectively equivalent to dial up because of the nasty latency). But my device could handle more complexity easily.

If there were a way to upgrade the wireless mode to require a little more bandwidth, and thus present a little more info, that would be great I do not know if there is a dialable setting in the software for this.

Thanks again for the great work.

Kramer

[HobbyDave]

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Originally Posted by kramer With the new forum software, there is a wireless mode, and a lower bandwidth version of the group is presented (the old software presented the group exactly as if you were on a desktop machine). Unfortunately, the wireless mode is a little too pared down. I miss things like posting time for a post, latest 50 posts which it says are now unavailable in this mode, etc. Not having superfluous graphics is great, though. My device surfs at around 80 kilobits/second with high latency (so it is probably effectively equivalent to dial up because of the nasty latency). But my device could handle more complexity easily. If there were a way to upgrade the wireless mode to require a little more bandwidth, and thus present a little more info, that would be great I do not know if there is a dialable setting in the software for this.

I used to read the board on my treo (300 *sigh*) as well, and now I use a blackberry. I really like that there is a web version, but I agree that I would like a few more useful fields added back in (if possible). Specifically I would like to see how many replies there are (as large threads are good to read on a pager when bored). That's the main field that I was missing.

In either case, I really like that it's cleaner now.. my device downloads the pages much faster, and it's easier to read without all those images.

[BigMoneyJim]

For the wireless layouts the new software tries to autodetect and send the appropriate layout. But I think you can force it to a different mode.

• wap - Seems to be very bare
• wap2 - Has unread replies and unread posts option at bottom of main index
• imode - Seems to have same features as wap2 but looks different

You can manually add the parameter to the url (with "?" or ";" depending) or try (and bookmark if you like) one of these links:

• http://early-retirement.org/forums/index.php?wap
• http://early-retirement.org/forums/index.php?wap2
• http://early-retirement.org/forums/index.php?imode

I don't see offhand a way to force it to display as it would to a regular web browser.

I just tried this site on my small-screened cellphone. Cool, it automatically uses the small fast layout and is reasonably responsive on my pitifully slow phone browser.