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By Jim - 10 Years Ago

As you have obviously noticed, the forum looks a bit different. There were complaints about colors that made it difficult to see some text, issues uploading and not being able to find the login button. Ryan Healey (owner of the company that developed the forum software) has taken us under his wing and he has worked the issues. As you can see, we now have links back to the main site, although I think that the forums are the real heart of the site.
Look just below the text area to see the buttons for formatting, inserting pictures, etc.

Please put it through it's paces and report back (I KNOW THAT YOU WILL!). I am trying to keep this site working for all.

By Hoosier Hurricane - 10 Years Ago

Jim:

Here we go again! What can I do to view the topics under the various headings. I don't get the finger pointer, only an arrow, and when I click on the topic, nothing happens. There must be a way to access the topics, I'm just too dumb to figure it out.

John

By Jim - 10 Years Ago

John, you lost me on the finger pointer thing. When I click on topics, I see them. Can you elaborate?

By brokengate - 10 Years Ago

My thanks for the upgrade it is much easier on the AARP eyes, I was afraid to refresh because I thought it would revert. I don't have issues with selecting topics the hand works on my old IE laptop unit, haven't tried the Ipad.

By MoonShadow - 10 Years Ago

Thanks for the post Jim. I was looking all afternoon for the button I thought I pushed by accident. :-) Looking good and easier on the eyes. Thanks, again, for all you do to keep this site rocking! Chuck

By lyonroad - 10 Years Ago

Jim, looking good. When i first logged on it didn't seem to load. I cleared all of my History and now it seems good.

By lyonroad - 10 Years Ago

Lets see if we can add a picture.

http://forums.y-blocksforever.com/uploads/images/9e760242-f9e0-44ac-ad68-6e9f.jpg

Yup.

By Jim - 10 Years Ago

Thanks guys. I understand the AARP eyes! The issues that have been addressed are
Colors - to make things easier to see.
Pictures - now able to upload again.
Login - this was partially caused by colors, the login area had text the same as the background.

I'm sure that Ryan made additional tweaks to make the forum software better. He has been most helpful.

By Vic Correnti - 10 Years Ago

Looks great Jim, at first I thought my computer which today has had a mind of it's own was playing with me again. Windows 8!

By Jim - 10 Years Ago

Haha! I can't feel your pain, I run Macs. Just wring it out, I'm hoping that the little glitches are now resolved.

By PF Arcand - 10 Years Ago

O.K the former setup did have some minor glitches, but I could get the forum & so on to work.. Now I can't even get the catagories to open!. It just sits there & cycles. Can somebody explain this to a computer dummy with an old program. Mark mentions clearing history, but I'm not sure how to do that without possibly creating a disaster.. thanks

By Hoosier Hurricane - 10 Years Ago

Jim:

When I move my mouse the cursor on the screen moves, and when I stop on something that I can read, a finger replaces the arrow, and when I click on that item, such as "Technical", it brings up the list of topics. I used to pick the topic I wanted to view, the finger replaced the arrow, I click and the topic is accessible. Now when I pick the topic, no finger, click on it and nothing happens. At that point the only thing that works on that screen is my "back" arrow at the top. I am only able to reach this particular topic is by clicking on the message on the upper right of the screen. I found that by accident yesterday. I'm dumfounded.

John

By charliemccraney - 10 Years Ago

I know what you are talking about, John. The pointer turns in to a pointing hand when it is over a link or button. I don't know how to fix it, though.

That is a general theme in web browsers. Does it work on other websites? If so, then clearing the cache, as was done last time might be worth a try but make sure your frequented websites user id's and passwords are written down before doing so because those will probabloy be cleared out.

By lyonroad - 10 Years Ago

PF Arcand (9/23/2014)

O.K the former setup did have some minor glitches, but I could get the forum & so on to work.. Now I can't even get the categories to open!. It just sits there & cycles. Can somebody explain this to a computer dummy with an old program. Mark mentions clearing history, but I'm not sure how to do that without possibly creating a disaster.. thanks

Hi Paul. I'm not sure how you were able to post a comment if you computer continues to cycle. That is what mine did until I cleared the History. This is a normal procedure and should not create a disaster and you should really do this regularly. It clears out a lot of garbage that can slow your computer down. You will have to log in to sites that you have previously logged in to automatically. That's why I keep a paper list of all my passwords. The browser you use to to access the Yblocks Forever Forum (I use Firefox) should have an item in the main menu at the very top of the page that says History. Click on it and select Clear all History. This should clear enough of the links associated with yesterdays version of the forum and open up a path to access today's forum. If you don't clear the history you computer is trying to link to yesterdays version which isn't there anymore. Don't fear change, embrace it. The new version is much better.
Good luck.

By Daniel Jessup - 10 Years Ago

Yep - all settled for me, just clear your history and your golden.

By Ted - 10 Years Ago

http://forums.y-blocksforever.com/uploads/images/295fbbff-c45f-4697-9be7-11cc.jpg

Jim. Love the new look. And picture posting on my end looks to be fixed.

I too had a problem initially in getting into the individual forums but deleting out the old history and cookies took care of that. I did have to go back into the ‘Browsing History’ popup window and uncheck the ‘save the passwords’ box as that particular one was keeping me from viewing the threads within the various forums. The forum now appears to be working well for me.

By Dobie - 10 Years Ago

I was able to get to this discussion only by using the RSS feed and clicking on the "What's New" button @ the upper left of the screen. When I go to the other forums (Technical, Street) they won't open, all I get is an endlessly circling gizmo. Also don't see any option to log out/in.

By paul2748 - 10 Years Ago

OK THANKS TO lyonroad I GOT IT FIXED

THANKSI normally use firefox. I can't access the detail on the forums with this latest change. I usually log in at the point that the various main headings come up ( Tech, Street, Racing etc). When I click on either of those the individual items do not come up, all I get is a arrow that goes around and around.

I can access events, links etc okay

I know this happened when the new system went in and somebody told me how to fix it. Howevr, I don't rmember how, so can some one help me. Detail instructions please

I'm doing this now on AOL, which I only use when Firefox is not working.

Thanks

By 56_Fairlane - 10 Years Ago

I still don't get email notifications of subscribed threads.

By PF Arcand - 10 Years Ago

Mark: I seem to have it working ok now.. Thanks for your directions

By slick56 - 10 Years Ago

The 'search' function appears to be missing ?

I'm about to rebuild the front suspension and can't find anywhere to type my search for info.

Favorite topic email is also not working, i saved this topic yesterday for email updates.

By Daniel Jessup - 10 Years Ago

Still can't upload an image from my computer. That just continues to "hang".... but I can link to other sites that host (ex. Photobucket)

By charliemccraney - 10 Years Ago

slick56 (9/24/2014)

The 'search' function appears to be missing ?

The bar up top, Home, Explore, Latest, Popular.... click Explore, scroll to the very bottom and click on search.

By Jim - 10 Years Ago

Go to the "Explore" tab at the top, then scroll all the way down in that. You will find the search choice.

By slick56 - 10 Years Ago

Thanks Charlie and Jim, found it!

By 56_Fairlane - 10 Years Ago

What about the email notifications about the subscribed threads???
Not working still.

By lyonroad - 10 Years Ago

Jim (9/24/2014)

Go to the "Explore" tab at the top, then scroll all the way down in that. You will find the search choice.

When I click on "Explore" I get a drop down menu with "Home, Latest, Popular, Members, Moderators, Who's on, Tags" but no "Search". Am I looking in the right place?

By charliemccraney - 10 Years Ago

You are in the right place. You just need to scroll down. The scroll bar is hard to see but it's on the right. Click on it and drag it down.

By lyonroad - 10 Years Ago

Got it Charlie. Thanks. You're not kidding when you say its hard to see. I wonder why the wheel on my mouse doesn't scroll down.

By NoShortcuts - 10 Years Ago

This entry is from the thread 'Spinning Wheel', but may help those who have been STRUGGLING as I have been to get back on...
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You can reload web page(s) and bypass the cache to refresh possibly outdated or corrupted files.

Hold down the Shift key and left-click the Reload button <I used this one after clearing history &cookies did not work on firefox and then it worked ok...
Press "Ctrl + F5" or press "Ctrl + Shift + R" (Windows,Linux)
Press "Command + Shift + R" (Mac)

You can open the Web Console (Firefox/Tools > Web Developer).Check on the Network tab if any content is blocked and has a file size 0 (zero).

https://developer.mozilla.org/Tools/Web_Console

You can also check the web Console log for (JavaScript) errors.
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I have done EVERYTHING imaginable in the last several days ATTEMPTING to return to normalcy in using this site. Clearing history, clearing cookies, clearing saved passwords, running Norton 360, restarting my computer, reloading Firefox (I thought). Absolutely NOTHING would resolve my ability to log-on as a Forum participant!

Specifically,
- I could not get past the 'spinning wheel' using Firefox.
- I could read the Forum entries using Internet Explores, but could not log-in as a participant.

Your direction to toggle the 'Y-Blocks Forever' web site on my PC and then press "Ctrl + F5" (F5 is a key in the top on my keyboard) INSTANTLY resolved my Firefox webpage contents so that log-in was again visible AND access to viewing Forum topics and threads was doable using Firefox.

Thanks, again, tomfiii!

By pintoplumber - 10 Years Ago

When I look at my f 350 post, instead of pictures I see just links. Then you have access to all my photobucket pictures. Is that a site problem or my computer?

By lyonroad - 10 Years Ago

Does for me too Dennis. But I see that the photo of the rear cab supports that I posted is still there though. Must be a Photo Bucket thing.

By charliemccraney - 10 Years Ago

Dennis,

It looks like they got converted to links. If you go back and edit them, delete everything outside the (IMG] and (/IMG] tags, they should work. Or just go back and copy and paste the images from photobucket.

By Y block Billy - 10 Years Ago

Was wondering why the colors changed, thought I was going color blind or something!!! Now if we can post pics???

http://forums.y-blocksforever.com/uploads/images/8692f8a2-e2ef-420f-8dbb-361e.jpg

Wow it worked!! I owe somebody a kiss!!!

By pintoplumber - 10 Years Ago

I looked at the Ford Truck Enthusiast web site and the pictures are there, so it must be something with this site.
I tried reposting but it came up links again.

By charliemccraney - 10 Years Ago

Dennis,
I just edited the links in your first post of the F350 thread and it seems to have worked. If you go back and click edit, you can see what I did.
You will see (URL=http//:xyz.com) and (/URL) and within those you will see (IMG)http//:xyz.com(/IMG). You want to delete the URLs and leave the IMGs as well as the stuff between the IMGs.

Also, the () will be []. If I use [] here the forum thinks it is html rather than text and tries to make links or pictures so I used () for the example here.

By pintoplumber - 10 Years Ago

Thanks Charlie, I think I can figure it out now.

By Glen Henderson - 10 Years Ago

OK, I am back on my own computer. In the past I used goggle search, my wife loaded goggle chrome and things seem to be working fine now with it. Keeping my fingers crossed!

By Barry L - 10 Years Ago

Need some help finding "log-in" and " log-out ", seems like I've been logged in for the past few days. Now,whenever I click on this site it seems I'm already logged on??? Barry L

By MoonShadow - 10 Years Ago

Where did you take the engine for this picture? Way too clean for your shop! Chuck

By charliemccraney - 10 Years Ago

Barry L (9/29/2014)

Need some help finding "log-in" and " log-out ", seems like I've been logged in for the past few days. Now,whenever I click on this site it seems I'm already logged on??? Barry L

To the right of your name, at the top right of the page, there is a gear looking icon. Click on that and the option to logout is at the bottom.

If you are not already logged in, the option to login will be in that same area.

By Barry L - 10 Years Ago

Sorry, no such icon on the page I have, just a little gray box that says "your profile" when you scroll over it......and "click to view your profile", when I scroll over my name. Seems I'm automatically logged in when I get here. Thanks, Barry L

By charliemccraney - 10 Years Ago

The gray box that says "your profile," that's what you need to click on. There's not a little gear in that box for you? The gear is in the gray box for me.

By Barry L - 10 Years Ago

Nope, no gear here. If I click on the gray box for "your profile", the next page has these options : summary, contact, personal, picture, signature and login. If I click the login, it will allow me to make changes to my user name or password, but doesn't let me login or out. I think I've been logged in for about 4 days now. Seems like I'm in and can't log out???? Barry L

By lyonroad - 10 Years Ago

Barry L (9/30/2014)

When I go to mine it says "logout" When I click on that a small window opens up and asks me if I am sure I want to logout. I expect that if I agree I will be logged out. I never log out, does this create a problem?