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Hi everyone,

even though I think that most topics that have a Sticky OR Announcement pinned to them are more or less important:

There are way too many of them now!

When I open up the page on my monitor, all I see are sticky posts, and only after I scroll down a bit, there are the new posts.
The screen is too clogged up with them now. Something has to be done.

Couldn't some of them be either deleted or merged into one thread?

As far as I see it, it would be possible to merge these ones:

- Announcement: Forum Guidelines
- Sticky: How to create a thumbnail image on a forum post
- Announcement: Posting now permitted by registered users only (perhaps even delete this one)

Merge these ones into "Preliminary and Newbies FAQ"
- Sticky: Celestia 1.4.0 prerelease FAQ
- Sticky: A preliminary Celestia User's FAQ
- Sticky: Newbie? just say hello!

Merge those two:
Sticky: CelestialMatters News
Sticky: Celestia Educational Activities - 2006 - now with SOUND (or delete it while moving the message to somewhere else [perhaps FAQ?])

Move this one to development?
- Sticky: The Feature Requests Collecting Thread

Leave that one as it is:
- Sticky: Articles on Celestia: Found some, post them here.

Well, frankly speaking I don't know if we really need those two (at least as sticky):
- Sticky: Post your Celestia pictures!
- Sticky: Celestia under Vista (wouldn't that better fit either under development or bugs)

Just my two cents.

Regards,

Guckytos[/b]

Guckytos wrote:There are way too many of them now!

I think so, too.
Maybe Selden could collect all of them in a forum of its own, named "introduction to the Users Forum", or something.

I remember they were cleaned up some months ago, so the problem is always going to return unless something is done.

BTW, while i am at it (re readability), i really can??t *stand* the black Solaris scheme: too difficult to read. It was much better in the old days, when the Silver scheme was the default...

Yes i know i can turn it off in my prefs, but it often does not take: usually i must log in several times to get it to stick.

- rthorvald

I agree with the opinion that there are too many sticky posts.
As for the forum scheme, I am comfortable using either one.

How about simply making a section named former stickies, and than duplicate the catagories, and move the present stickies into the catagories they belong in. That way they don't loose their or there inherit topic.

Don. Edwards

Maybe I'm missing something... but why not just click on "posts since last visit"?

That's what I do, and the only time I ever see a sticky is when a new comment is made in one.

Runar: do you have cookies enabled on your computer? If not, that is probably why you keep going back to the Solaris theme. Although, when I think on it, there should be no reason for that particular function to keep reseting, without any of your other preferences resetting. Hmm....

...John...

Guckytos wrote:There are way too many of them now!

I'm also agree, it's why yesterday I have done "Newbie, just say hello!" (a compilation of several stickies like what you are proposing, to reduce the number of them and avoid the always same questions)...

I've PM Selden about this problem, but seems he don't see the things like us, no response...

IMHO, such sticky special newbie should be in the very first page on top of all forums...

Yes, I've thought so too.
With my not so wide display, I can't see the new posts without scrolling...
Some of sticky posts should be moved or be turned into normal posts.

Dollan wrote:Maybe I'm missing something... but why not just click on "posts since last visit"?

That's what I do, and the only time I ever see a sticky is when a new comment is made in one.

Ditto.

I don't mind.

Dollan wrote:Runar: do you have cookies enabled on your computer?

Of course, but that usually doesn??t help. I notice if i log in directly to the prefs form, the silver scheme shows up. But not if i go via the regular dialog.

Besides, i often flush the cache since i am doing a lot of testing in my work...

- rthorvald

I think there has been a problem with the sites cookie handling (on some pages) for a few months now.
I find that if I login via the normal login it fails to actually log me in properly (style stays as solaris, and none of the "logged in" specific features are available).
... a second attempt will log me in correctly, however it appears that the cookie was renewed on the previous failed login attempt, as the "View posts since last login" shows no posts.

The only way around this that I have found is to login via a rather circuitous route, by faking a reply to an existing post... this works every time.

(I thought this was just a problem with my cookie handling, however as others seem to be experiencing similar issues, it seems it must be a bug in the site).

Browser: Firefox

Chuft-Captain wrote:The only way around this that I have found is to login via a rather circuitous route, by faking a reply to an existing post... this works every time.

That??s exactly it. I have discovered that i only get logged in properly if i first clck on something else (like the Prefs button) to force the Login Dialog to open. Going directly to the login dialog doesn??t work.

- rthorvald

Have you guys used the "remember me" function at the login? Couple that with hitting the new messages link might help. Works on every forum I use.

Or, I could be dead wrong

Thank you for cleaning up the board Selden.

It looks much better now.

Regards,

Guckytos

Guckytos wrote:Thank you for cleaning up the board Selden.

Yes!
Good solution.

- rthorvald

I'm glad it helps.
Sorry it took so long: I've had other things that needed doing.

With regard to cookies, my personal experience has been that Firefox does get confused. Deleting all of the cookies for a site and starting over again often fixes problems like those described above.

Chuft-Captain wrote:I think there has been a problem with the sites cookie handling (on some pages) for a few months now.
I find that if I login via the normal login it fails to actually log me in properly (style stays as solaris, and none of the "logged in" specific features are available).
... a second attempt will log me in correctly, however it appears that the cookie was renewed on the previous failed login attempt, as the "View posts since last login" shows no posts.

The only way around this that I have found is to login via a rather circuitous route, by faking a reply to an existing post... this works every time.

(I thought this was just a problem with my cookie handling, however as others seem to be experiencing similar issues, it seems it must be a bug in the site).

Browser: Firefox

I'm a little late on this reply, but I have exactly the same problem... and I use the same get-around.

Browser: Internet Explorer 7

selden wrote:I'm glad it helps.
Sorry it took so long: I've had other things that needed doing.

With regard to cookies, my personal experience has been that Firefox does get confused. Deleting all of the cookies for a site and starting over again often fixes problems like those described above.

I've tried that and it hasn't fixed it.

Didn't help here either.

Try clearing both cache and cookies. See if that helps.