jimdahl

Wow, was that just what we needed. Come on D, let's get it back.

This is really out of line. Everyone, drop the politics please.

Copy & paste don't work, there's not really a good cross-platform way to accept a pasted image in a web browser. Uploading a local file or a providing the URL to an image on the net should, though. PM me (hover over my name and click "send message") with the photobucket URL you're trying to use and I'll see if I can help.

I can't currently reproduce it on Chrome latest -- for me the background screen goes gray and a white popup window with a green title bar appears. However, I know a lot of little layout tweaks were made to improve browser compatibility, so my best guess is that you're getting some combination of the new pages and some cached content on your PC. First, hitting escape causes that popup window to close, so at least can you back out of that without having to close the window/tab. Second, to make sure you don't have any old stuff lying around on your machine, go to the little wrench, options, under the hood, "Clear browsing data" button, uncheck everything but "empty the cache" and hit ok. That won't break any of your logins or cookies or autocomplete or anything it will just make sure your Chrome isn't serving up old versions of anything.

Got it. Fixed.

Just to be clear on what I'm looking for, that behavior changed with the patches I applied yesterday? (That is, up until today clicking the title thread jumped to the last unread post?) For now as a workaround, near the top right of the first page of each thread is a "jump to last unread" link that you can use. It's an extra click, so reasonably annoying, but it will get you by while I'm looking into the other.

Ok, I put in some patches that make the photo importer a lot better. In addition to local files, in can now pull photos from URL or your facebook profile (if you link -- which is actually a handy way to login if you're usually logged into facebook).

Ok, I've believed for a few weeks that though not a winning team, the Vikings were a dangerous team. However, I'm again pretty surprised to see the odds for this week -- Chicago is favored by only 1.5-3 (depending on your source). Again, the people putting their money on the line see some threat in the Vikes.

As I was putting one of my pools together this week and saw the Vikings again FAVORED by 1-3, I found myself pondering the lines for the season. By my best recollection, every one so far has been within a field goal or so (favored in 4, underdog in 1?). Even the 0-3 Vikes going into 3-0 Detroit was a 1-2 point line (game settled in OT by a FG). I don't know what my point is other than that the oddsmakers have seen some threat there each week, I really think the Vikes are a dangerous team. I think I'll (again) pick Minnesota for this week, so we might as well pencil in 0-5 already, but it will certainly be interesting to see what happens when that 0-5 team goes into Chicago, hosts Green Bay, and goes to Carolina with nothing to lose. At some point the goal has to switch from maximizing the season record to building for the future, which probably means getting Ponder tested/ready.

Among the improvements, I was able to implement both ideas from this discussion. However, in hindsight, just one (attaching the rep to the post but not the person) probably would have been sufficient. I'll try to give it a little more thought and tweak it in coming days... Off the top of my head, I could see reinstating neg post rep and possibly upping the rep/day limits.

While it's true that most of the improvements are on the admin side (last summer's upgrade was a big user-oriented upgrade), stuff I've noticed so far that users are likely to directly benefit from... - Improved mobile / phone support - Enhanced social network integration (e.g. you can now post with your Facebook account rather than separately register, or link your Facebook account to your existing account to autologin) - Better reputation / like functionality (that let me configure it to address a lot of the previous concerns) - Improved user interface interaction (better post editor / quick reply / more "AJAX" [interacting with the page doesn't require reloading the page as much])

Fixed. I migrated all the smilies from the old verison. Yes, that's one area in which it's a lot better, particularly on the most modern (iOS/Android in particular) devices. It's supposed to autodetect most common phones (and does in my testing) and default you to that mobile version (though you can always opt back to the full version). I'll look into why there's not a "skin selector" in the bottom. UPDATE... to get the "change theme" link to appear I had to reenable the default theme. Not sure why that's necessary, probably a bug, but it lets you manually select the mobile theme for now.

As usual, things might be a bit wonky over the next few days as I iron out the bugs, enable new features, etc... Also as usual, things are reasonably different, so will undoubtedly feel uncomfortable for a little while (I don't like Facebook "upgrades" either), though there's lots of good stuff and now seemed a better time than mid-season. One change to the software was it went from the old scheme of supporting both an avatar and a photo to just one profile image per person, but I unexpectedly managed to lose everyone's photos/avatars. I might be able to get those back, or you might just want to take this as an opportunity for a refresh.

Saw this first thing this morning... the two things I had to say about it: It was a fun read.

You know, I was actually planning merchandise (to the point that I have exclusive prototypes) right when the big name issue blew up. It didn't seem prudent to make a big push when the name was likely to change very soon... who knew it would drag out this long?

Please keep the debate about the topic at hand, and refrain from personal attacks on other members.

The Righthaven saga continues to bemuse... Righthaven rocked, owes $34,000 after "fair use" loss

I missed it! All the nickname chatter led to more posts per day than I was expecting off-season.

I know what you're saying... I've been working on a related big change -- adding a feed that tries to capture almost all the discussion about Sioux athletics (which would be a separate thing from the media/official feed). However, to make it work, it will necessarily try to (intelligently?) pick out the relevant tweets from thousands of people rather than just naively publish all the tweets from a preselected group who tend to tweet a lot about UND sports. I could simultaneously pare back the current feed so it doesn't include accounts that tend to include a lot of off-topic or personal tweets, leaving sort of a dedicated official/media UND sports tweets feed to accompany the general one.

Nice to see the idea coming to life! The easiest way to get your stories into the SiouxSports hockey blogroll is to submit the RSS feed to collegehockeyblogs.com. Then the stories will automatically be displayed as they're published. Best wishes in your endeavor, it's a fun idea.

Students Win NASA Moon Robot Competition

The playoffs this year have really proven the old adage that defense (and in hockey, the netminder) wins championships. I've gotta think Vancouver is favored, but the predicted outcome of the first post in the thread is still possible.

It would have been more impressive if you had predicted TB to sweep before the series began instead of after it ended. All the pros were penciling the Caps in for the Eastern Finals after watching the Rangers series. I think they just choked (again). Atlantic has the newest teams, so there's not the rich history in all-time titles or original six, but the Atlantic has won 2 Stanley Cups in the last decade, Southeast has won 2, Northeast has won 0. Regular season standings are pretty much a wash top-to-bottom, though an SE team has won the East the last two years. As a Sioux fan, this quote is all too familiar. Though the stunning rally to win the East again made for a fun regular season, the early playoff exits are getting old, and I'd be surprised if we didn't see some personnel changes this time. At least Philly also seems about to get bounced, so I will probably get to calm down and just enjoy the remaining games without getting too upset about who wins and loses.

Down 0-2 wasn't actually that frightening, particularly given the way the Bolts won game 2. Down 0-3 is. TB put out everything they had in the 3rd tonight, absolutely dominating offensively, so I would think odds have to favor the Caps in game 4 with just a 24 hour break. But, odds wouldn't have put TB up 3-0, so who knows.