I'm having problems.

Its normally quite late when I get chance to catch up on GC posts for the day, so i tend to go into the midnight close for 15 mins. The problem is when its comes back on I lose what posts Ive read and what I haven't, because it starts afresh. I find it so infuriating!!! 02

 

I know the feeling on two ocassions I have been well over a 1000 posts and the next time i,ve visited this site my post count has been reduced to 950,I,ve pm the mods and admin but have still not had an explanation or the problem put right and this was months ago.

 

Thanks for your concern anyway Woo,slinky and Marley and all. If I had a better memory I might remember what posts I'd read and not.:D 02

 

I was always thinking when this happens that it would be better to have a little message saying that the site will be back online in like 15min or something as the general vbulletin message displayed at the moment is basically the same one that other forums have when they crash... or say when you get on the website at say 11:45 there should be a little warning at the top of the page stating that from 12 till quarter past that the site will be offline

 

Actually, we DO have a such a message, kalmia, but it only appears when WE have closed this site for maintenance. The midnight closure is caused by our present server doing maintenance which should be done away with when we change servers any day now. You may not notice this change, I don't know.

As for the deleted threads, they are only soft deleted (i.e. just taken out of public view) because that way, the posts still exist and therefore it doesn't affect post counts. Only if we 'hard' delete, or physically remove, posts do they drop off the radar that way.

As for the missing posts - I'm as bemused as you all are. Sorry.

 

ive been away for some time, but when i came back ive seem to have lost my avatar,some one please explain ,not to sure about this new layout,seems less friendly,very clinicle,maybe its my old age

 

Hi macleaf and welcome back to GC. Your absence had been noted.

Times they are a-changing and GC will be at midnight tonight and will be down for 2-3 days. I'm not sure if the layout will change or other aspects at that time.

May I suggest you bear with us and come back at the end of the week and one of us will walk you through the avatar problem .... I think you may have lost it when we changed over earlier in the year.

Hope you are keeping well these days. :thumb:

 

All the Avatars that we used on the old site that came with the software have gone,unless you had your own in PB etc that you could still use.I lost my Angel one so have replaced it with one of my dog that was so kindly painted for me by Dag one of the members on here.

If I had known it would vanish I would have saved it to use on this site if that was possible.

All the smily emoticons that we used on the old site went as well.That is why they only show up as codes in your signature.

If I have got this wrong I am sure someone will come along soon to put us both right.