Forum Activity for @strumelia

Helping my members see their 'pending' Followers

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This works GREAT, Michael!! It's exactly what I needed for the user menu.

One thing though- this new link doesn't appear in my user menu editor ( https://fotmd.com/core/skin_menu)... and perhaps for good reason. But is there a way for me to move it up or down in the listed user menu links, so it doesn't have to appear at the very bottom of the user's dropdown menu? I'd like to position it very close to the top instead... can you tell me where I'd go to do that please? I used to think I'd do that in my skin's two header_menu.tpl 's... but maybe it cannot work there and needs to remain where you told me to put it- in the plain old menu.tpl ?
updated by @strumelia: 01/13/18 12:41:08PM

Simple Chat Acting Strange After Recent Updates?

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My members report that this fix has worked- thanks so much Brian and Michael!

Helping my members see their 'pending' Followers

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I didn't want to add to this prior thread:
https://www.jamroom.net/the-jamroom-network/forum/my_posts/55403/auto-approve-followers-checkbox-not-doing-its-job#last
So I'm starting a new thread to try and improve things on my sites. Specifically, I'm finding that lots of members are not aware of the fact that they have 'pending' followers piling up. They never think to click on their profile page 'Followers' TAB, and they don't always seem to pay attention to the notifications to approve a follower. I wind up with people emailing me because they don't understand why they can't PM each other, since they both 'followed' each other. They don't realize they have not 'approved' the person yet and thus not completed the 2way follow circuit that allows private messaging.

There are two things I'd like to do to help steer members towards going to their followers page more often, so they'll then see the bright yellow 'pending' ones and then approve them.

The FIRST thing I want to do to help this situation is to add a link in their user drop-down menu under their name at the top when logged in. I already had added a link there to "Members I'm Following" which seems to work well and takes them to: https://fotmd.com/follow/following

I went to my User Menu editor in my Core Tools, but I'm finding it not easy to add the new link, because the link should take them to an URL with their member name in it... for example mine wold be: https://fotmd.com/strumelia/follow
So I don't know what URL I should put for the menu editor- please see screenshot for what I have so far, but so far my menu link's not functioning, since it doesn't contain the profile's member name and goes instead to: https://fotmd.com/follow which is a 'not found'.

How do I do this? Clearly I'm missing something.
what I fumbled with so far:


updated by @strumelia: 05/31/18 11:32:52AM

Block comments

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I think Dim means that for instance user Mary wants to prevent user Jack from posting comments on her profile page comment wall, but Mary doesn't want to block everyone from posting on her comment wall.... just Jack. Meanwhile, Jack can continue posting as usual on other people's profile comment walls... just not on Mary's.

Simple Chat Acting Strange After Recent Updates?

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I just experienced it without making private chat rooms on my site fotmd.com
As Admin, I attached 4 jpgs one after another into my chat posts. As Admin, I could see them fine when clicking on them. Then I logged in as a regular (test) member, and I could still see them all fine- but figured maybe that's cause I had them on my computer. So I asked a live regular member to post a jpg... and I could only see the defualt avatar, even when logged in as Admin. It seems though that everyone can download the attached images and see them that way. But this is happening a lot, but not always, for everyone in my chat. Take a look at my chat right now and you'll people posting their results. But if you are logged into my chat as an admin, you may not experience the problem. If you want my regular member test login, just message me or something.

Simple Chat Acting Strange After Recent Updates?

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I've just gotten a report of this same thing from one of my Profile Admins.
Here is what he wrote this morning:
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"In the chat room, when I upload a picture. Instead of the picture I selected it puts the picture of the dulcimer avatar for the new members. This just started yesterday. On my end, it shows what I uploaded. But If the others in chat click the download button, it shows what I uploaded. They can only see it if they download it.
I had Rob upload a pic and I clicked on it, it opened. Opened for Cynthia, too. Cynthia uploaded a pic and I could open it, but Rob had to download it.
This craziness started yesterday. Was there some kind of update that could have caused this?
Oh, if a link for a video is uploaded, it works fine."

User "sort by last login" not functioning right..?

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Just applied the latest User module update, and this is all working great again. Thanks!!

No comments box on profiles, images or Private Notes for some users

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My moderator above has kindly allowed me to log in via his account, and I'll be checking on my own windows pc from his account off and on until Monday evening. So far I was able to make a test post and saw no issues, 'as him'. But then he said it comes and goes for him and today he said he was not having the problem. (was something fix tested today maybe?)

(he's on a new machine, win 10, chrome. I'm on a 6 yr old win 7 desktop, chrome.)
updated by @strumelia: 01/06/18 02:51:43PM

No comments box on profiles, images or Private Notes for some users

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However... one little thing I HAVE found that I'm not sure should be this way in the text editor reply box is this:

I find if I have a text reply box, and I click with my mouse in the MIDDLE of it somewhere to start a reply, I get NO cursor and cannot type in it. BUT if I click right at the TOP in the box, where the first line of text might go... then i do get the cursor and can type and post normally. Was this always this way, or is it a new bug?

No comments box on profiles, images or Private Notes for some users

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I can ask him if he'll let me do that, but I would understand if he was wary of giving me his login (even with a temporary password), since theoretically I'd be able to read his private messages while I was logged in as him.

I'll get back to you on this. But meanwhile... I don't have the problem on Chrome myself, or when logged in as my regular test member or another moderator member who since passed away.