[Bugs]

As an absolute amateur, with no weather skills at all, I struggle to cope with the technical side of this forum. However, I find it intensely interesting and can only apologise for being a lurker whilst I attempt to master the subject. Please forgive my lack of contribution, but be assured that I am a regular 'reader' and greatly appreciate the info which is so readily available.

[Dave W]

Yes I was keen on this .. but not many contributed I recall.

Also we had a maritime weather forum with the same issues at one stage..

[Uskys]

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Bugs - 29/4/2009 23:13

As an absolute amateur, with no weather skills at all, I struggle to cope with the technical side of this forum. However, I find it intensely interesting and can only apologise for being a lurker whilst I attempt to master the subject. Please forgive my lack of contribution, but be assured that I am a regular 'reader' and greatly appreciate the info which is so readily available.

Hi Peter, thanks for your comment, & welcome to UKww. We try to make the side good for anybody with an interest in the weather. And its very understandable the site seems challenging in the layout, but it works once use to it, think of it like a book with chapters and verses ( forums & sub-forums)........ Please though, if you are ever unsure of which forum to raise a topic in, raise it in any, you will soon get familiar.... its you the members that make the site.
:) .

[Godot]

Is there any way in which the forum software could be tweaked to automatically parse URLs? It always seems a bit of a hassle typing in http://www.. and having to manually make it into a clickable link.

Edit : Ah, it did it for that one but not for any of the other ones I post. What am I doing wrong? [dunno]

[PK2]

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Godot - 10/2/2010 13:04

Is there any way in which the forum software could be tweaked to automatically parse URLs? It always seems a bit of a hassle typing in http://www.. and having to manually make it into a clickable link.

Edit : Ah, it did it for that one but not for any of the other ones I post. What am I doing wrong? [dunno]

Parts of the board seem a bit "odd" in that depending on whether the post was made with the "quick reply", rich text, or "basic" editor affects many things. Even worse when quoting a post made with a different "editor". I now use the basic editor and the BBcode plugin for firefox, which makes most things simpler but I can't resize images that way yet.

[Anabolic North]

I think we should bring back 'Villages View' or even have 'Convective North's View'!

[Andy Mayhew]

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Godot - 10/2/2010 13:04

Is there any way in which the forum software could be tweaked to automatically parse URLs? It always seems a bit of a hassle typing in http://www.. and having to manually make it into a clickable link.

Edit : Ah, it did it for that one but not for any of the other ones I post. What am I doing wrong? [dunno]

It works if you use the quick reply box, but not if you use the full reply (as when you quote a previous post).  Dunno why.

[Dave W]

Martin, is that an offer??!

[5hort5]

Speed - I can't find the post but a while back there was a poll about the site speed, at that point I thought it was ok (ish), now it sucks.  The speed seems to have gone down really badly for some reason.  just thought I'd mention it.

[admin]

http://www.ukweather...w.asp?tid=34906

[ldavidcooke]

Hey All,

Just a quick question, I had originally intended to create a general survey poll regarding Climate Chat to gauge everyones opinion. I had left the option open for others to add their own and had intended to resubmit the survey with everyone having a chance to vote for all options. As the response rate has been so low there is not a statistically significant reason to continue with the experiment. (We need a minimum of 30 responses and would be more comfortable with 300.) So if no one else has any complaints I will terminate going further with this effort.

Cheers!
Dave Cooke

[belfryboy]

I'd like to see members that had some knowledge behind thier ideas of what cheap (<£100) AWS could actually achieve, (inappropriate text removed - Moderator)

[Dave K]

There is no ongoing suggestions thread and I can't create a new one so...

With regard to the disquiet caused by flood posting to the daily Current & Recent Conditions in some cases nearly two weeks old, could I suggest that each day's thread is locked by a moderator after say a couple of days after. This would still give a member the chance to post obs for midnight - midnight the next day and remain on topic.

In special cases where someone can't post very interesting obs for a few days due to power loss etc, if an extreme event then there will usually be a relevant "watch" thread or they can respond to existing threads or open a new thread in the general weather chat.

Or as Ed suggests a single thread

tbh all that is required is a thread in weather from the past maybe? solely aimed for this purpose, updated as and when up until the last report?

This post has been edited by Dave K: 22 November 2012 - 09:04

[Halo]

There's this thread:

http://www.ukweather...ns-or-feedback/

Personally I think there is no need for another thread as you may still have the same problem which is the fact that the individual is flooding which is the issue and the cause of the complaints. I would go along with the above outlined and just lock the thread after 2-3 days.

[John Robert Mellor]

Halo, on 22 November 2012 - 09:16, said:

There's this thread:

http://www.ukweather...ns-or-feedback/

Personally I think there is no need for another thread as you may still have the same problem which is the fact that the individual is flooding which is the issue and the cause of the complaints. I would go along with the above outlined and just lock the thread after 2-3 days.

This issue has been raised before....and no action seems to have been taken. Its about time it was. Its the same person flood posting the thread..has that person been PM's by a moderator saying thanks, but we don't really need 2 week old reports that have no real interest unless there was an extreme to report on.

[Uskys]

Nothing was done before because more members didn't mind than objected.

However, lets do this via a poll and the results will speak for themselves.

I'll set one up.