TPU Site Issues 2018

[W1zzard]

@W1zzard The forum no longer displays the time of a post if more than a few days old. It was useful to have this info, so could you please restore it?

Hover over the date. It has always been like that

 

[qubit]

Hover over the date. It has always been like that

Shit, I'm annoyed I hadn't worked that one out!

I shall go on the Advanced Mouse Clicking course to improve my performance in this area.

 

[Norton]

Can't seem to reach techpowerup.org to upload a pic atm

Anyone else having trouble?

 

[jboydgolfer]

Can't seem to reach techpowerup.org to upload a pic atm

Anyone else having trouble?

It's been doing that quite a bit lately over the past week or so.

edit
not the TPU upload, but ive been having issues with inserting, and direct uploading to TPU, dunno if its the same .org or not

 

[qubit]

Doesn't work for me either. Blank page.

@W1zzard

 

[W1zzard]

the hosting company for techpowerup.org had some outage earlier today, everything should be fine now

 

[dorsetknob]

Still down (trying to access from UK)
Unable to connect

Firefox can’t establish a connection to the server at www.techpowerup.org.

The site could be temporarily unavailable or too busy. Try again in a few moments.
If you are unable to load any pages, check your computer’s network connection.
If your computer or network is protected by a firewall or proxy, make sure that Firefox is permitted to access the Web.

 

[qubit]

Still down here too.

 

[burebista]

^^ Same from Romania.

 

[W1zzard]

Now fixed, thanks for the speedy responses

 

[dorsetknob]

Confirmed >>>> Fixed

 

[qubit]

Working ok now.

 

[Space Lynx]

@W1zzard

Hey there, just a suggestion. I had someone PM me yesterday about a want to buy thread I had posted (nvidia vision glasses), the thing is this person just made their new account yesterday too... feels like a scam to me so I am not doing it. I reported the Private Message between us. Maybe we should not allow people access to view the sell thread until after a certain amount of time and posts? 500 posts and 6 months of usage maybe? Keep it a nice and reputable community of people who do not want to risk losing that respect amongst other sellers/buyers.

 

[W1zzard]

@W1zzard

Hey there, just a suggestion. I had someone PM me yesterday about a want to buy thread I had posted (nvidia vision glasses), the thing is this person just made their new account yesterday too... feels like a scam to me so I am not doing it. I reported the Private Message between us. Maybe we should not allow people access to view the sell thread until after a certain amount of time and posts? 500 posts and 6 months of usage maybe? Keep it a nice and reputable community of people who do not want to risk losing that respect amongst other sellers/buyers.

We do require users to be a member for 14 days before they can write content into the BST forum, everybody can view it.

I wanted to keep the rules simple enough for people to participate without wondering why they can't access the forum.

Also giving more people read-only access should increase the chances of something getting sold. Also Google can index those pages, which might lead to better sales for you.

Ultimately it's your decision who you want to do business with. Ask him for $$ first and ship the item out later.

 

[jboydgolfer]

@W1zzard

Hey there, just a suggestion. I had someone PM me yesterday about a want to buy thread I had posted (nvidia vision glasses), the thing is this person just made their new account yesterday too... feels like a scam to me so I am not doing it. I reported the Private Message between us. Maybe we should not allow people access to view the sell thread until after a certain amount of time and posts? 500 posts and 6 months of usage maybe? Keep it a nice and reputable community of people who do not want to risk losing that respect amongst other sellers/buyers.

Just include terms in your thread, stating that you're only interested in doing business with reputable, or established members. I do it myself, and I realize I could take payment first and then send the item, but it's not only not getting paid that worries me ,but rather ,im more concerned with headache's, dealing with someone who's going to take delivery of an item ,then going to make some kind of drawn out "this was broken or that was this way" when it simply isnt true, it's just a headache that anybody who sells something can possibly run into, but I find the occurrences are greatly reduced when you only do business with people who are well-established, or more importantly, people who know what it is they are buying.

I can normally tell if someone's going to be a pain in the butt, based on certain interactions with them. I recently refused to sell to someone based on my contact with that person in private message. If someone starts asking really ridiculous questions that are very obvious, or things they should know, i can tell it's not worth my time. Basically I try to just sell to people who know what they're buying, I don't want to begin a relationship or some type of 20 questions scenario. I want to sell an item so it doesn't go to waste sitting on a shelf , and there are plenty of people who will eventually be interested in a given item in time who DO know what they are buying.

you can always see if the interested party has accounts on other tech sites, by asking for theyre other usernames

 

[Octopuss]

Bug: when you click on one of the unread alerts, all of them are marked read, which makes it pretty difficult to figure out what have you read and what not.

bump

 

[Durvelle27]

I think we need some new guidelines on new members and how they can post

It seems over the past few weeks I’ve noticed an abundance of new members who joined and just post spam threads or post things of no help or benefit to other members.

 

[qubit]

I think we need some new guidelines on new members and how they can post

It seems over the past few weeks I’ve noticed an abundance of new members who joined and just post spam threads or post things of no help or benefit to other members.

Isn't that normally how it goes with new members? Perhaps it just looks worse because there are more signing up? Alternatively, there may actually be more spammers signing up.

 

[Durvelle27]

Isn't that normally how it goes with new members? Perhaps it just looks worse because there are more signing up? Alternatively, there may actually be more spammers signing up.

Here’s an example

 

[W1zzard]

Use report post

 

[ZeppMan217]

The quote's overlapping with the poll and giveaway.
Firefox 61.0.2, 1920x1080, 125% DPI.

 

[Canon]

Apologies if this has already been covered but I have done a little searching to no avail. I had a thread moved to "The Lounge" ? (If I recall) and it's not visible to me, I would assume I have not met some sort of criteria, post count or otherwise, is there any way I can find out what this is?

Thanks.

 

[sneekypeet]

Apologies if this has already been covered but I have done a little searching to no avail. I had a thread moved to "The Lounge" ? (If I recall) and it's not visible to me, I would assume I have not met some sort of criteria, post count or otherwise, is there any way I can find out what this is?

Thanks.

I do not see it in you profile, nor do I see a thread started by you in the lounge. To access the lounge I think you need 50 posts and 3 months membership.

 

[95Viper]

Apologies if this has already been covered but I have done a little searching to no avail. I had a thread moved to "The Lounge" ? (If I recall) and it's not visible to me, I would assume I have not met some sort of criteria, post count or otherwise, is there any way I can find out what this is?

Thanks.

Quote from the Lounge "The rules of this forum"

This new forum called "The Lounge" is a community asset where members can go to discuss non tech related stuff.

In order to read/post in the Lounge a member must have been:

• registered for at least 3 months
• AND
• have a post count of at least 50 posts (i.e. be an active member of our community).

Just in case you are looking for it... @Canon Read your "Profile Posts"

• Canon
• Jul 31, 2018
• My thread was removed, how do I found out why? (not a complaint)

bogmali Not removed but moved...You posted on the general software section and the discussion has nothing to do with software. All the talk was about working at home remotely and no such software is being discussed. It is now located in the lounge. LINK: https://www.techpowerup.com/forums/threads/working-from-home-remote-work.246396/#post-3878732

Aug 1, 2018
Canon Ah..I don't have permissions for that forum to be visible, let alone post in it.

Aug 1, 2018
bogmali OK it's back in the original location....enjoy

 

[Octopuss]

How about collapsible forum sections, W1z?

Bug: when you click on one of the unread alerts, all of them are marked read, which makes it pretty difficult to figure out what have you read and what not.

Am I on Wiz's ignore list?