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DanRRight · Posted: Mon Apr 13, 2015 6:31 am Post subject:

Typically, because i get messages not very often i also check mailbox rarely. The PhpBB system should probably set to remind about new message into the face as soon as you login.
Sending messages and organization of Inboxes and Outboxes indeed is a little bit inconvenient in such types of boards

DanRRight · Posted: Mon Apr 13, 2015 6:37 pm Post subject:

Same problems. Was unable to send you PM for an hour. Busy time in UK when in California 9am?

JohnCampbell · Joined: 16 Feb 2006 Posts: 2615 Location: Sydney

Dan,

I sent you a PM in November and it is still in my outbox. Have you seen it arrive yet ?

John

DanRRight · Posted: Tue Apr 14, 2015 7:38 am Post subject:

John,
With surprise found it in my mailbox, don't remember i had reading it. May be some other message came and yours was missed? The system should inform that message is still new, is it doing that ?

Or may be besides keys, phone, wallet and glasses i started losing also messages? Another possible explanation (to stop more and more blaming myself for total disorganization which grew over all possible limits) is that we had one of our grant reviews next day and i was in crazy state a week before and still recovering few days after Sad

. Last couple years this somehow became like a chronic chasing race to catch accelerating and always squeezing from hands time. You should know my email, better use it next time!

DanRRight · Posted: Wed Apr 15, 2015 4:55 am Post subject:

John,
yes all was exactly as you described.
Today though sending works fine.

DanRRight · Posted: Wed Apr 15, 2015 11:15 pm Post subject:

I have sent OK again today.

Plus did you notice notification of "New private message waiting you in your mailbox" ? Very nice! Good job, Silverfrost

DanRRight · Posted: Sat Apr 18, 2015 7:58 pm Post subject:

It appeared ones you login. But when login clicking on link in email notification it did not (which is probably reasonable).

silverfrost · Posted: Fri Apr 24, 2015 7:47 am Post subject:

The forum system is now quite an old version of phpBB. We (I) need to find some time to upgrade it to the latest version and hope its idiosyncrasies will go away.

JohnCampbell · Joined: 16 Feb 2006 Posts: 2615 Location: Sydney

I've used forums with newer versions of phpBB and noticed that the idiosyncrasies have changed, rather than disappeared.
I think OpenMP.org use it and a few others I have forgotten.

Attachments and a larger post size are the main changes; plus the pm storage limits are annoyingly small. Would making the post size 5x or 10x be an easy change ? I wouldn't expect this to be a significant problem for running the forum, with the change in disk storage capacity over the last 10 years.

The other annoying feature is that Preview does not account for the post limit. Fixing this could help although I suspect the size limit has aged a bit!

John

DanRRight · Posted: Sat Apr 25, 2015 1:26 pm Post subject:

Here how looks the PM notification. I think it must be ON by default for us users because we actually very rarely get PMs. The site Admin though probably does not need one as i guess he is checking personal messages automatically every time