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It's set to 800x800, but the pictures are re-sized automatically and you can enlarge them as a reader.

Noice work, guvnah.

Anyone else tried leaving VMs? Do users get any form of notification when one is left?

Isn't there some sort of medication you can take for that? Nurse!

Visitor messages? No, I haven't. I'm not entirely sure what they do, either.

Well, were you aware that you had one from Jay, for instance?

Umm. No, I was not!

There's that little mystery solved. *dusts hands*

Stu_the_great wrote:

Umm. No, I was not!

There's that little mystery solved. *dusts hands*

That was a private message though. Are they the same thing? I'm able to view that message on your profile, so can everyone else see that too? That's probably going to cause problems down the line, first instance off the top of my head is the Forum Awards, PMing your votes to whoever runs it this year will be redundant if we can all see the votes.

JayMoyles wrote:

That was a private message though. Are they the same thing?

Visitor Messages are like Facebook Wall posts,a nd appear on your profile. They're different to Private Messages. I think.

^ Pretty much. It's frustrating that you don't get told when someone leaves one, though. Might see if I can fix that.

So is there a way to send a legitimately private message, or do they all end up like a Facebook wallpost?

Not sure if this has been mentioned, but individual threads don't have URLs. I was going to link a thread to my Twitter followers, but couldn't. And yet, I linked the Wii U and 3DS' Monster Hunter threads to each other the other week.

JayMoyles wrote:

So is there a way to send a legitimately private message, or do they all end up like a Facebook wallpost?

Yep! Me and Balla have been using them this whole time. Simply click on the envelope symbol near the top of the forum to access your inbox/sentbox/outbox, just like NGamer Forum.

Dusty: I'll have to look into that when my new laptop is with me.

Dusty Knackers wrote:

Not sure if this has been mentioned, but individual threads don't have URLs. I was going to link a thread to my Twitter followers, but couldn't. And yet, I linked the Wii U and 3DS' Monster Hunter threads to each other the other week.

The url style is different to most phpBB forums I've used, but they appear fine on this end.

For example, the link to the first page of this thread is http://messedupcables.forumotion.net/t3-welcome-introduce-yourself with later pages adding in p25, like http://messedupcables.forumotion.net/t3p25-welcome-introduce-yourself

Hmm, for some reason, every page I got to has www(.)gnamer(.)org(.)uk in the address bar, and nothing else.

I don't know if this would be a problem on your side or not but even though I have all email notifications off I'm still receiving some when people reply in one of my topics.

Hmm, that's odd. I've got e-mail notifications off too and I've never ran into that problem. Double check to make sure you've not accidentally got them turned on?

Aye they definitely are all off, maybe it was one last one creeping through.

The_Jaster wrote:

I don't know if this would be a problem on your side or not but even though I have all email notifications off I'm still receiving some when people reply in one of my topics.

I had this problem at first. Turns out my account was initially flagging watch topics and notifying me of replies. You can unwatch stuff by clicking on the watched topics subheader, which I believe is on the main page.

Hiya, I've noticed that when Balla logs on on my 'puter, then I log him off and log on as me on the same machine, all the topics that he has read / marked as read, appear to have been read on my profile when they haven't. Not a biggie, as I can use the times of the last posts and my almost photographic memory to remember what I have and haven't read since my last visit, but just thought I'd make you aware of it.

That's very weird. I've been having problems with this too, though mine stems from the fact that it automatically de-highlights unread topics when you log back out of the site prematurely (for whatever reason).

I've had to shift the online indicator to where it originally was. The forum hasn't reverted to its default at all, it's simply stopped displaying the online marker how it was when it was fixed. The code had remained in the same place when I went to investigate.

I've started experiencing the same problem as Nupkin, except nobody else has been on my account/laptop to browse the forum

Yeah, I've had that problem intermittently as well.