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It seems I can't download any of the attachments. What's going wrong?

Haven't tried the attachments but in general this is a wonderful upgrade. Takes a bit of getting used to but I'm very pleased.

I must say that the forum seems to be running extremely slow. But I am way down here in South Texas . . . perhaps the lines aren't as fast to here!

Because the CMAA web site runs on a shared server with dozens of other customers at the hosting company, the performance of our server is affected by the load on the system from other customers, and our load is not the heaviest -- it seems to be about the 3rd heaviest at the moment.

Let me know if speed improves. I turned off the "fcgiphp5" web server feature, which was there to boost our speed, but maybe didn't work so well.

Working great out here on the Left Coast, Richard! Speed is actually great. Congrats.
Love the "draft saved" feature.

Yes, downloading works now for me (I'm using Chrome). Thanks!

OK...this isn't working well for my mac.

I click on partipated discussions and i get the ones from 2008. I try to go to the last page for the latest ones, and it says, 'i have not participated in any discussions'

All of the links that I posted as links to download scores from my website and the preview audio file do not work anymore.

The plugin software to identify Participated Discussions wasn't sorting them, so I found and added a fix to do that. Thanks for the heads-up.

Looks like attachments are working for me as well. Thanks, chonak!

Indeed that is a new function in this version of the forum software. Those notifications for bookmarked discussions are enabled by default, but you can customize them.

To enable or disable those notifications:

* In the menu at the top of this page, click on your name. Your user profile page will appear.
* Then click on "My Preferences" to see the options for notifications.

Edited. I am a technological ditz.

Just now, a search on "motet" produced 20 results, clicking "more results" gave another 20 results (all most recent). There was no further "more results" option.

I got similar results searching on "CPDL" yesterday, knowing that there was a thread somewhere about two years back or so - and, of course, I was disappointed that the search only went back to sometime this past year (since "CPDL" is mentioned quite a bit here).

Searching on "CPDL copyright" gives the same number of results, but they don't go as far back as searching on "CPDL" alone does - which makes it seem as if the search is really on "CDPL" OR "copyright" (not "CPDL" AND "copyright" as implied by the "Searching in for forum" topic. Indeed, I checked one of the citations - and, although the thread does contain "CPDL", it does not contain "copyright".

Moral: you cannot refine your search by typing more keywords. Bummer.

I was able to bump the number of results returned from 20 up to 200.

Thanks, Richard. Let's hope that this will solve the problems.

Ah, a comment on aesthetics! And I agree that the choice of a paler yellow for the "New" designation would be much easier on the eyes, yet still quite visible. Something like "background: #FFFFCC" might work much better (I don't know how to coax this combox into showing this - it doesn't seem to like html "span style=" statements).

Another aesthetic comment: Although I'm quite used to virtually all blogs putting the posts on the left, with a column on the right for other information, I'm equally used to many forums doing exactly the reverse (such as was done in the previous incarnation of this forum). This variance in style serves as a kind of "signal" to the user just what she/he is looking at and doing, and such visual cues, however subtle or not, tend to make it easier for the user.

One last thing, on a different point: Is the "Announcement" designation really necessary for job postings? That such threads are already "Closed" seems enough. And I doubt that we want to keep seeing these announcement piling up at the top of the list of threads. If it is deemed desirable to have them at the top for a short while (a week?), then that is a different matter.

Sorry if I seem so picky, but as manager of CPDL's ChoralWiki, experience has made me rather sensitive to such things regarding appearance, etc. I am happy that performance speed seems to have improved over the old version, and - like marajoy - I do adjust to change, even when at first some of it seems annoying.

Thanks, Richard - I was assuming that "Announcement" was like the old "Sticky" tag.

Is there any way you could allow GABC file to upload? It's not too common, but it would be nice.

I was wondering why my RSS feed on the forum had gone silent last week. But I'm trying to re-subscribe using Google Reader, we'll see if that gets synced up to my tablet.

Nice thing about RSS, of course, is that the speed of the connection pretty much doesn't matter.

It just says it isn't allowed. Here's a copy and paste of what I get:

File upload failed. Reason:
(a psalm of david.gabc) Uploaded file type is not allowed

OK, Ben, would you give it a try now? I have added "gabc" to the allowed list of file extensions.

Also, a tip: it's good to avoid blank spaces in file names. E.g.:
a_psalm_of_david.gabc is better then
a psalm of david.gabc
Either will work, but in the former case, the resulting URL will be easier to read.

Oh, I guess the file name no longer determines the URL in this version, so you needn't mind about the spaces. In the old version, the original file name was reflected in the URL of the stored file. Sorry for my error.

Sorry that the above post is largely redundant, but I didn't realize that "HTML tips..." was a link to a thread "HTML shortcuts..." and consequently totally missed that my post there was noted in "All discussions."

Carl, does the RSS feed under "Quick links" include what you need?

No, Chonak, I tried it this morning and got the same behavior.  It gave me a random assortment of ten new and old posts, and doesn't update.