New format

[henry crun]

Re: New format

I'm using Firefox 1.5 and have had no problems at all.

[shaky]

Re: New format

Thanks Henry.

I've re-installed Firefox, put pprune.com on the cookie whitelist, enabled Java and javascript and the problem persists.

To muddy the waters further I can see the cookies are present on my machine (valid till 2011) and my name appears in the list of members online in the index page.

Any other Firefox users experienced this?

[BRL]

Re: New format

Try pprune.org?

[shaky]

Re: New format

BRL. You got it in one. Just changed my bookmarks from .com to .org problem solved. Thanks very much.

[Just an other number]

Re: New format

Rep Power - V Bulletin has some clues -
An Introduction to User Reputation
User Reputation in its simplest form is a ranking of your user's benefit to your forum. Its basis comes from the opinions of all of your forum users that choose take part in it.

Users gain and lose reputation based on how their posts are scored by other forum participants. Users with the ability to affect reputation, will either give or take aways points by approving or disapproving with a post's content.

User reputation can be a derisive element of your forum so great care should be taken before a decision is made to enable it.

All of the factors that affect a user's reputation score are found in the User Reputation section of the vBulletin Options. Please view that section of the manual for more information on controlling how users are able to affect another user's reputation.
Look here -
http://www.vbulletin.com/docs/html/

[Carrier]

Re: New format

Is there a problem with the Search function? I tried to do a search for a particular airline to find past threads on this operator. I was advised that there was no match. I know there have been a number of threads on this operator over the past few years. When are the Search function and access to past threads likely to be available?

As someone else mentioned: "If it ain't broke, don't fix it!" We had a very good and easy to use format before. This change is a big step backwards. Please return to the previous format ASAP.

[Gouabafla]

Re: New format

"If it ain't broke, don't fix it!" We had a very good and easy to use format before. This change is a big step backwards. Please return to the previous format ASAP.

I suspect that a site as big as Pprune was fairly close to being broke under the old Vbulletin and MySQL standards. I don't think the changes are anything to do with the look of the thing, but are more to do with the ability to search and handle a very large database. It's no surprise that it is taking a while to get the search running again and Ridley has already explained on this thread why that is so.

I think you underestimate the amount of work that it would take to change back to the old standard - it isn't just about tweaking a few colours and such.

I've just spent a couple of days updating a much smaller online system and this was for work. Danny and Co have spent a far longer time doing this for Pprune during their free time and deserve a very big thank you.

[Rainboe]

Re: New format

Shaky, I was plagued by the same problem, and thanks BRL for the ingeniously simple solution!

[Trislander]

Re: New format

Is the search facility going to be fixed soon?? I can't find any news on it.

I'm one of those pruners who just types what their intersted in the search and reads the results rather than a forum-trawler.

Please sort it soon!!!!

Thanks, Tri=

[BOAC]

Re: New format

We seem to have 'advanced search' up and running - not the 'simple', but I don't think the search user is working yet.