jimdahl

Yeah, there was a quick flood of new spambots. They can usually sneak a few through before the filters begin to catch them, but now they seem mostly contained. Sorry for the inconvenience.

I personally wouldn't mind having a buy/sell/trade forum. But, normally we do such a thing when there's a problem with a topic dominating a forum, so we split it out into its own. I don't feel like the number of buy/sell/trade threads in any of the sports forums is overwhelming, and I think the people who participate in the buy/sell/trade threads in the hockey forum actually appreciate the increased traffic it gets from being in that forum. That's my one concern with just giving it a shot, is if we forced the sale threads into a separate forum would the decreased traffic harm them? I don't have a strong opinion on this, that's just my gut reaction.

Yep, let's all keep the discussions about the topic and not personal details of other posters. Thanks!

Ok, I updated the feed URL. New stories should flow in shortly. I'll check on it again tomorrow.

It seems to be an issue with the W10 Anniversary Update's version of Edge and the CKEditor (third party editor the forum uses): https://invisionpower.com/4bugtrack/active-reports/41132-edge-wont-quote-a-post-r12195/ Because it involves a third party component, I'm guessing it will take slightly longer than usual for the vendor to fix it.

Hmm.... maybe I just see it because I'm a moderator. Well, there goes that idea. I'll do some more digging with the vendor on the edit issues. Again, Android is so prevalent that it's hard to believe it's a general Android issue.

In the little toolbar for the editor window (top of the message editing window) there is a button labeled "Source" in the upper left. It should be there on all screen sizes/resolutions. That toggles you from WYSIWYG (what you see is what you get) mode to html/bbcode (shows you the markup).

Silly question, but the behavior on your devices is so erratic... have you tried clearing the caches/deleting local files? If your browsers were somehow running old versions of the files, that could lead to very erratic behavior.

Wow, that's quite a list. Sorry to hear you're having so many problems! If a quote box is selected (if not, click the title portion of it) hitting delete works on all the platforms I have access to, but it doesn't include those you mentioned (though those are quite common, so it's hard to believe they're not tested). In the rare occasion that doesn't work, you can always still toggle to the "Source" view and just wipe out the text and the markup. Pasted links don't turn into something clickable until you actually post. It causes problems with the editing to make them live while in editing mode. You might also be running into an issue related to its attempts to smartly expand links--e.g. a link to youtube gets converted to an embedded video instead of left as a link. Not familiar with can't edit problem... is this immediately after posting? We have a time limit set where you can't edit posts after they've posted for a while because at that point they've become part of the conversation and modifying them disturbs that.

There was a forum upgrade a week or so ago that apparently resulted in that change (see bug report https://invisionpower.com/4docs/knowledgebase/41132-go-to-new-comment-does-not-go-to-last-comment-when-a-content-item-is-marked-as-read-r346/). I applied the patch, and expect it to be fully fixed in the next release.

Sorry, I'm always slow during the summer... Yeah, the way all browsers work is that they load everything they need for the page (which causes the page to keep redrawing as new stuff loads), then jump to the right part of the page only once everything is loaded. This actually isn't a case where the browser cache should matter much (that comes into play when there's a forum upgrade that replaces a file with a new one with the same name, but your browser keeps using the old one that it has cached). But, marking all as read, or even clearing the cookies, might. I'm also a couple minor releases behind, so will update the forum software soon, which fixes lots of small stuff.

An opinion piece on the Skins name from a long-time outspoken critic (from https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/im-dropping-my-protest-of-washingtons-football-team-name/2016/05/19/b09e8e7e-1cfe-11e6-8c7b-6931e66333e7_story.html?hpid=hp_local-news_o-mccartney-815am%3Ahomepage%2Fstory):

Please debate the topic, not attack other posters. Thanks.

Taylor Chorney in for still injured Orpik tonight...

Let's just say it's been fun cheering for a team that's up against a Hak playoff team. In all seriousness, no team is more likely to blow so dominating a 3-0 lead than the Caps. So, Philly fans shouldn't worry until it's over.

How is there not already a general playoffs thread? Anyway, tonight's win marks the first time in franchise history the Caps have taken a 3-0 series lead in a best of 7. Somewhat shocking given they've had 2-0 leads 7 times, and hopefully a sign that they've shaken off the demons. Flyers (and fans) completely lost their composure in the 3rd, allowing the Caps to run up the score. Makes you wonder if the coach knows how to coach in the playoffs

Ugh, I was so busy early this week I missed it. Just assume I picked a bunch of Caps and Ducks

http://siouxsports.com/hockey/bracketleaders.php

I'm a little surprised that with a UND win it's only a 5-way tie, but congratulations to: UND1981 / stack / nhockey30 / ringneck28 / bigskyvikes Each not only missed just one game, but all missed the same game, picking St Cloud St to win its opener!

The toque makes up for my lack of protective hairs.

Last nights games left us with a 5-way tie, all of whom picked UND. I don't know if any traitors who are lower ranked picked QU, and thus could pull into the lead.

Huh, not penalizing the goals against really simplifies the strategy. Trying to pick a goalie that was going to exit early but without giving up too many goals required some tradeoff between the two factors. Now, the strategy for all players is just pick ones that are going to go deep.

I'm a pessimist - I would've said probably tie, no, and no. Ovie's been hot lately, but 3 goals in 3 games is still a tall order. But you're right, I probably will have to turn away at 8:30.