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| Posted: Fri Nov 4th, 2011 03:11 am |
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whattarack Pasture Boss 
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It appears the message board upgrade has no gone or is going into effect. I just saw it myself. A little shocking at first but upgrades are necessary even if I cringe at 'change'. I'm sure we will all get used to it in time and perhaps all of those having log in problems will finally be able to join in the topics. One thing I noticed is the avatars are missing. I had to reinstall one for myself. I bet everyone will have to do so. I'll help where I can. Also, some of the emoticons are different. I'm sure we will get used to that as well. I hope that what we are seeing now isn't the 'final' result of the upgrade. If so, I'll see what, if anything, I can do from here to make it as clean and simple as possible for everyone. The only choices you have for viewing color schemes are found in your own personal settings. Try them out and see if you can find a color scheme that works for you. I changed my settings and I think what I've done will work for me. If there is anything I can do to help anyone, I'm here. But please understand that this is new to me as well. We will be learning it together. Best wishes to everyone as we navigate this new board. I'm sure it will all grow on us and work out just fine.
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| Posted: Fri Nov 4th, 2011 05:02 am |
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JessiFK G.O.G Community Member 
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Upgrades or not.........just so happy to have this wonderful resource available!!! it has been such a blessing to have found and always happy to tell people about it so they'll join and starting learning more/better ways to enjoy/train their gaited horses! :cool: I changed mine to the SEA setting............  kinda like it, a bit easier on the eyes!found a pic to reload for my avie and hey, what do you know, even has Nikon wearing his IMUS comfort training bit in it! he he!
____________________ Horses make me SMILE and I make them SMILE(or at least have trained Karma to on cue! HA HA) <3 |
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| Posted: Fri Nov 4th, 2011 02:22 pm |
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whattarack Pasture Boss
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That's the spirit!! (in my pretend box, there isn't a red X. but there is an emoticon showing 2 thumbs up.)
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| Posted: Fri Nov 4th, 2011 03:45 pm |
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Brenda Im Pasture Boss 
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We've updated the software for this board, mostly to give whattarack, Jake, and myself a break from having to go behind the scenes several times a week and delete hundreds of "spam" memberships manually. The old board had no security in that regard, while this software will eliminate that problem. It's also more secure from hackers (we were nearly hacked completely down once by a disillusioned former member). There are years worth of posts that are useful, and that we would hate to lose in that eventuality. There are many members who only come on once or twice a month - or year - who would be "locked out" should that happen. I've been tooling around the board a bit, and don't find it at all difficult to navigate. I know some of you are frustrated (I also hate change, and curse Yahoo! every time they force a software update on their mail accounts), but within a day or two you'll all feel right at home again! PB 
____________________ Always forgive your enemies. It's good for you - and really messes with their heads! |
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| Posted: Fri Nov 4th, 2011 04:26 pm |
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Bpen1 G.O.G Community Member 
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I changed my avatar and while looking under profile where you put state, country then Birthday the next field is required but all it has is a colon and the asterick showing it's required info. Anyone know what that is supposed to be. I am one of those that just checks in periodcally. Oh and I can only see 5 of the emoticons to the left, all others are little red x's
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| Posted: Fri Nov 4th, 2011 05:00 pm |
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whattarack Pasture Boss
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The unknown required field has been there for a while now. I have no idea why. Just put something there if you have a problem registering. The board upgrader people will have to deal with the lost emoticans. I wish they could also restore the avatars but I think since those are not a part of the installation package and originals are stored on our personal computers that they cannot restore those.
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| Posted: Fri Nov 4th, 2011 05:37 pm |
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slipslider G.O.G Community Member 
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weird, I luckily I guess have not had a problem at all. Everything is working fine on my end. All pics and emoticons are showing up for me.
____________________ LaVonne Summertime Stables, LLC |
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| Posted: Fri Nov 4th, 2011 05:40 pm |
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TN Trailrider G.O.G Community Member 
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I've looked thru the menu stuff and can't find a place where I could possibly change the background on this. HELP!
____________________ Lynne |
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| Posted: Fri Nov 4th, 2011 05:44 pm |
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JessiFK G.O.G Community Member
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go to the MENU, then MY ACCOUNT then the Preferences tab and you'll see board THEMES -- just click on the little menu and there's 4 options! :-) Last edited on Fri Nov 4th, 2011 05:48 pm by JessiFK ____________________ Horses make me SMILE and I make them SMILE(or at least have trained Karma to on cue! HA HA) <3 |
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| Posted: Fri Nov 4th, 2011 06:01 pm |
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Karal G.O.G Community Member 
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I thought something was wrong with my pc. HAHAH gonna have to find a pic to redo my avatar
____________________ live - laugh - love |
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| Posted: Fri Nov 4th, 2011 06:05 pm |
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Karal G.O.G Community Member
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ah that's better than an x.
____________________ live - laugh - love |
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| Posted: Fri Nov 4th, 2011 09:35 pm |
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TN Trailrider G.O.G Community Member
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"go to the MENU, then MY ACCOUNT then the Preferences tab and you'll see board THEMES just click on the little menu and there's 4 options! :-)" I did that, and in my account under preferences, there is no section titled Themes. Guess I'll keep trying. Also missing is the little section that allowed you put the quoted item ina block. Oh well, guess that's just improvements!
____________________ Lynne |
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| Posted: Fri Nov 4th, 2011 09:39 pm |
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TN Trailrider G.O.G Community Member
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Forget it -- dummy discuvered it said Board Themes, not just plain old Themes. Changed it to an Aqua Blue which is easier on my eyes.
____________________ Lynne |
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| Posted: Fri Nov 4th, 2011 10:14 pm |
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whattarack Pasture Boss
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If anyone cares to email pics to me for setting up their avatar, I'm willing to try to load them for you. I think I can do that from here. At least, I'll try. send to: nbyerly@triad.rr.com don't forget to tell me your user name so I load them to the correct user. Thanks.
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| Posted: Fri Nov 4th, 2011 10:21 pm |
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whattarack Pasture Boss
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TN Trailrider wrote: Forget it -- dummy discuvered it said Board Themes, not just plain old Themes. Changed it to an Aqua Blue which is easier on my eyes. Lynne, to put someone's text into a 'quote' just click the quote button above their post and a reply box will open with their text in quotes. It's easier than before. Or, you can still highlight a selected portion of type and click the " " icon in the reply box and the highlighted section of type will be placed in a quote box as shown here.
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| Posted: Sat Nov 5th, 2011 04:18 am |
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Shelby Jean G.O.G Community Member 
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Thanks for the info on the upgrade, Sharon/Whatta! I thought my computer caught a virus... mana for you!
____________________ Jean(me) & Shelby Jones (TWH) |
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| Posted: Sat Nov 5th, 2011 11:32 am |
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karenlexsc G.O.G Community Member 
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Okey dokey, this sure is different! I got the theme changed (I chose simple...like me and like it). Now the avatar search box is greyed out, got an idea for that? I have it saved on my computer, so can re load, when browse button will let me.
____________________ Karen No hour of life is wasted that is spent in the saddle. ~Winston Churchill |
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| Posted: Sat Nov 5th, 2011 11:47 am |
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sdlepal Ranch Hand 
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The blue is kinda bright and I don't like change either. But I am for an upgrade to keep the "bad guys" away. While you all were having a good time at EF there was some wierd people posting on here. Thankfully the ones I could'nt delete, everyone seemd to just ignore them till the PB's could delete them. It will take some time getting every ones new pictures associated with their old ones. Just when I think I have won over the technical stuff, something new pops up! It does like nice though!
____________________ Pam and Cowboy Casey |
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| Posted: Sat Nov 5th, 2011 12:13 pm |
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karenlexsc G.O.G Community Member
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Got the avatar back to what I had and the emoticons are back too! Someone is working on it - great! tu1
____________________ Karen No hour of life is wasted that is spent in the saddle. ~Winston Churchill |
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| Posted: Sat Nov 5th, 2011 02:28 pm |
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slipslider G.O.G Community Member
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Ok, with the first change, everything was working great on my computer. I could see all avatars and emoticons. Only thing that changed was the color and the new updates. It was great. Now that someone fixed it for those having problems, I now have the problems that were mentioned before. Some avatars not showing and emoticons are messed up as well. OOPs. Looks like more work to be done to get this fixed for everyone.
____________________ LaVonne Summertime Stables, LLC |
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