Forum software upgrade - RF Cafe Forums

RF Cafe Forums closed its virtual doors in late 2012 mainly due to other social media platforms dominating public commenting venues. RF Cafe Forums began sometime around August of 2003 and was quite well-attended for many years. By 2012, Facebook and Twitter were overwhelmingly dominating online personal interaction, and RF Cafe Forums activity dropped off precipitously. Regardless, there are still lots of great posts in the archive that ware worth looking at. Below are the old forum threads, including responses to the original posts. Here is the full original RF Cafe Forums on Archive.org

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 Post subject: Forum software upgrade
Posted: Wed Jun 23, 2004 11:28 pm 
 
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Joined: Sun Aug 03, 2003 2:02 pm
Posts: 629
Location: Erie, PA
Well, I took the dive and updated the forum software.

No major problems, except that, as expected, the new version disabled the ability to allow unregistered users to vote in the polls.

Fortunately, I was able to reinstall the hack code, and now everyone can vote in the polls again.

Sorry for the 1-day inconvenience.


- Kirt Blattenberger


 
   
 
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Posted: Thu Jun 24, 2004 10:15 am 
 
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Joined: Mon Apr 12, 2004 4:50 pm
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Location: South Florida
Everything seems to be working great!

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 Post subject: cant read forum
Posted: Wed Dec 15, 2004 5:48 pm 
I can only read the left 2/3 of anything. Your ads take up too much of the screen and the frame cannot be resized.


 
  
 
 Post subject: Re: cant read forum
Posted: Thu Dec 16, 2004 9:33 am 
 
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cant read forum wrote:
I can only read the left 2/3 of anything. Your ads take up too much of the screen and the frame cannot be resized.


Scroll bars should be provided in the forum area so that you can see all of the pages. The horizontal scrollbar is at the bottom. Are they not showing up on your browser?

Unless your browser is very strange, the ads cannot possibly occupy 1/3 of the screen. The ad width is 120 pixels, and the page width is 760 pixels (an Internet standard).

Thanks for writing.


- Kirt Blattenberger :smt024


 
   
 
 Post subject: I made it better
Posted: Fri Dec 17, 2004 8:00 am 
 
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OK, I increased the size of the inline frame on the Forums page to the full normal page width of 760 pixels. That pushes the ads off to the right, and off of most browser screens. Now, the horizontal scrollbar should only rarely be needed.


- Kirt Blattenberger :smt024







Posted  11/12/2012