Is it a new feature?

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Casey, Chicagoland, OPC

no i don't think so

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sarah
WI
OPC
My Pastor's Sermons: Mark Jenkins...he's awesome!!!

Today's the first time I've seen it.

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Norm
IA PCA

In love he predestined us for adoption as sons through Jesus Christ, according to the purpose of his will. Ephesians 1:4-5

Some of the mods were just discussing it. I posited three potential reasons:

* An ungrade by Rich that is still in process.
* An intrusion by the devil.
* Another one of Joshua's tricks.

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Dennis E. McFadden, Ex Mainline Baptist (in Remission)
Atherton Baptist Homes, CEO
First Baptist Church of Alhambra, Member, Transformation Ministries (CA)

Click to get: Board Rules -- Signature Requirements -- Suggestions?

Huh?

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Brian Withnell
Deacon, OPC
Leesburg, Virginia

You cannot train for war in the midst of a battle. Prepare before the battle starts; if the battle is long and hard, you will wish you had.

<blink> ????

Please explain.

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Wayne Sparkman, Th.M.
Director, PCA Historical Center, St. Louis, MO
Blogs: The Continuing Story and PCA History Blog

I'm confused

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Doug
Baptist
Hemet, Ca
Old Time Radio Podcast

It's this blinking notification in the top center (not the usual upper right).

Hahaha! I thought he was talking about the icon scratching his head!

Again, that's what I thought he meant and the mods were just discussing it. Again, my suggested explanations are as above.

Hmm, haven't seen it and I've been on all day (Vista/Firefox with Tulip skin).

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Anna
Wife of Tim/Marrow Man
Louisville, KY
Member of Midlane Park Presbyterian (Associate Reformed Presbyterian)

I vote for (B), or (C) if he's around.

Thank you for this thread. I thought an alien being had touched my screen. At least now I know I'm not being <blinked> alone.

Waiting to hear the source and solution.

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Sandra, Lady of the Lake
CBA, Acton ME
http://www.viewsfromthedeck.blogspot.com

Let us then approach the throne of grace with confidence, so that we may receive mercy and find grace to help us in our time of need. Hebrews 4:16

Is this a suggestion or a question about why there is a blinking notice when you have a new notification?

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Rich
PCA, Northern VA
Student, New Geneva Theological Seminary

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Rich,
Posts 8 and 9 have a screen shot of an odd placement for the notifications. Not all of us are experiencing it, though.

It only occurs if you have an unread PM.

Standby and I'll show you...

I have the number 4 flashing at me in red and I've read all four messages which are actually quite old.

Suggestion: It would be cool if there were a way to turn off the blinking notification.

Read your notifications.

So is there...a way to turn it off? Where are our "notifications"? Thanks.

Berean,
Your notifications are in the upper right as always, right under Welcome, Berean. You last visited on ----.

Speaking about strange board behavior, none of the signatures are showing up. Everyone it seems no longer have signatures...

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Ewen
1689 LBCF
Assemblies of God Bible College
Singapore

They just have it set so that after an initial post in a thread their sig doesn't show up in subsequent posts within that thread.

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Andrew Thornquist My Photo Album
Calvinistic Baptist
Ukiah, California
To follow Christ was the best decision God made for me!

Why!!! That is so.... inconvenient. =p

Can we vote on whether we prefer it the 'old' way or the 'new' way?

Sure, but it doesn't mean it will accomplish anything.

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Josh Hicks, Chloë's Dad
Christ Covenant Reformed Presbyterian Church, RPCGA
Facebook - The Calvinist Vent
Board Rules - Signature Rules - Suggestion Box

It is God that multiplies our sorrows.... God, as a righteous Judge, does it, which ought to silence us under all our sorrows; as many as they are, we have deserved them all, and more: nay, God, as a tender Father, does it for our necessary correction, that we may be humbled for sin, and weaned from the world by all our sorrows; and the good we get by them, with the comfort we have under them, will abundantly balance our sorrows, how greatly soever they are multiplied. - Matthew Henry

I changed it to a less obtrusive symbol. You may vote but this is not a cheerocracy. It is a cheertatorship.

Maybe a separate topic, but I do miss having the sigs in all the posts. If you use the "Go to first new post" link in a 2 or 3 page thread, most posts are missing their sigs by that point in the discussion. I would find it helpful to have the signatures in all of the posts. What say you?

I've been tweaking the backend and figured out how to repair the original functionality of the Popup box that appears with new Messages.

I've also found a less obtrusive notice for New PM's in the NavBar.

As to the Signature thing, I like having only one sig per person per thread. It unnecessarily clutters the thread on long threads. If you want to remember who they are you can check their profile.

okey-dokey

I don't know if this is the place, but I would like to sound my opinion:

I don't have a great memory, and if I am reading a thread that has many posts, it is convenient to have the signature below the members' posts in every post, because it helps to know their name, church, and perhaps points to their stance (and thus may be useful).

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Mitch
Presbyterian Church of Coventry, CT (PCA)

Mitch,

As I noted, if you want to remember such things then click on the user name and view the Public Profile.

I know I can do that, but it wastes extra time when I can simply scroll faster on a thread.

Sorry, meant to quote, not thank. I think the old way takes up more server or bandwith or whatever.

Semper Fidelis--could you make the signature disappearance optional? Or would that not help with performance issues? As in, a profile setting, I mean.

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Jonathan
Audio Engineer
Reformed Anabaptist
Ohio

Moroni's magical glasses of proper interpretation:

Jonathan, allow me to answer on Rich's behalf:

Probably not. It's a practical thing, not a personal one. The reason being is that when a signature shows up for each member's each and every post in a thread it takes up more space and makes the page loads slower, etc. for everybody.

Thanks for the response Josh. It cannot be customized in the User CP. You can turn all signatures and images off from your UserCP but the mod I made was to the postbit template that affects all users.

It seems like doing away with the avatars would save more bandwidth than doing away with a few lines of text in the sigs. At least that's my recollection from my dial-up days. Although I do recall at least one sig that had an image in it.

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Edward
Deacon
PCA
Texas

Rich,

Is this change set in stone, or subject to members' opinions?

I can't emphasize enough how convenient and useful it is to have the signature in every post, especially for multi-page threads. Most members don't end their posts with their names, so it's nice to be able to put a real name to a username (as well as congregation) quickly while I'm scrolling through posts.

Moreover, I was writing a reply in another thread, and I had to hit back and scroll up to remember the posters' names that I wished to address.

If I'm in the minority, I'll shut up, but I wanted to express my opinion on it while the subject was hot. Could we have a poll on it?

Thank you,

Mitch