I'll look into the problem and see what I can find.

Click here for more information on the Flatten Forum Categories option.

Where are you seeing a 24-hour clock instead of 12?  And what happens when you set it to 24-hour?  Does it change it 12-hour or stay the same?

Bara

When I saw yesterday that there was a new forum update, I changed to 24-hour clock. Then I changed my mind, and changed it back to 12-hour. I did this by the "Options" tab, under "My Account". (didnt use the "Options" under the search box)

After some time (1 or 2 hours), I saw that it was 24-hour clock. I went to Options again, and saw that the "24-hour clock" option was checked. I uncheck it again, to set it to 12-hour. The same thing keeps happening again and again. It always changes back to 24-hour on its own

Pretty weird.

Quick favor, next time it changes to the 24-hour clock, don't change it back, then let me know so I can take a look at the database.

Also, did you visit the forums on different sites?  That is, did you come in from forums.stardock.com then forums.impulsedriven.com then forums.elementalgame.com?

Bara

No, I am always on the Demigod forums.

It seems ok for now, last time I changed it to 12-hour was this afternoon, did you do something and fixed it for me? If so, then thank you

I will let you know if it changes again, and thank you again for being so helpful and responsive

I'm a PC and WC2010 was my idea.  

Seriously, the new site is coming together nicely(albeit with a few bugs) and I'm sure it will get even better with time. Thanks for the updates and improvements.

gosh, feeling dense, still don't get it. I saw what it did but...

@Bara: Ok, I figured it out: I click to a forum thread to open it, and its 12-hour. I click on the same or another thread again, and then its 24-hour

Weird.....

However perhaps you're not interested in *all* the forums on a particular site. For example on Galciv2 the bulk of the traffic is either from the Off-topic forum or from the Impulse forum. If perhaps you aren't interested in Impulse or Off-topic then you can effectively exclude them by simply pushing down into the GalCiv II forum.

Of course you always had this ability however in the case of the GalCiv II forum there are 11 subforums. Using the "flatten categories option" allows you to monitor a forum and *all* of it's subforums without in this case having to monitor 12  forums separately.

Even if there are 2 or 3 forums like this it's far easier to check 2 or 3 forums instead of 2 or 3 forums plus dozens of subforums.

However if there is no particular category on the site that you're on that you wish to ignore then there's no real reason to use this feature and all you would do is to monitor the recent posts lists which effectively already operates in "flatten categories" mode since *all* posts from *all* forums on the site appear there.

From your tomorrow which is today for me, but yesterday and a half for Jafo.

Now I only have to apply the Lorenz-Fitzgerald Contraction to comment on a post.

But not to worry, the answer will only appear after I refresh a few times next week.

Three points.

One is that I live in the Eastern Time zone and if I recall correctly forum time always agreed with my time.

However with this change I noticed that suddenly it was as if Daylight Savings time was not supported because the time was 1 hour later than it really was.

So I changed the timezone to Atlantic Time and the time changed to the correct value however later on, I didn't notice precisely when, I noticed that again the forum said it was 1 hour later than it really was so I changed myself back to Eastern Time and then I was OK.

This is perhaps just a startup issue that would apply only to those in the Eastern Time zone but for what it's worth I though I'd mention it.

Secondly in the spellchecker if there are multiple words and you choose "ignore all" it will ignore all occurrences of that word *except* the one that you selected and so you need to correct that one again using "ignore word" to ignore *all* occurrences of that word.

Thirdly, since the forum update that preceded this one I have had a lot of issue with what seems to be stale data. I make corrections and they don't appear. I use ctrl-F5 and no good. I can even exit the browser and then call it up and reload the site and still it's not updated. I often find myself going back and forth between IE7 and FF and when I switch browsers then I do get the updated data.

Doesn't happen all the time but it happens frequently enough to be really annoying.

I guess you could call it a focus tool gmc2.  So you can concentrate on a particular subject.  Basically a tech tree in the direction you point it.

I enabled this feature and didn't see any difference and while I'm still not sure I understand, it seems like it could be a good thing. I'll play with it some more. new things to learn.

Bara, my issue is fixed. If you did fix it for me, then thank you

If you didnt, well thanks anyway

I didn't do anything to resolve your issues.  I'm going to have one of our QA guys try and reproduce it.

I'm also going to try a few new things to resolve the "posts/edits won't show up immediately" issue, but theres no guarantee that what I do will fix it.

Bara

Anyway, thanks for all your hard work

Much appreciated