Hi, Floyd.

The new site seems to be working well.

One issue, which may not have an easy fix, is that links to nodes in the old site embedded in messages don't work, since the URL has changed. Or will you be changing the URL back to the old one?

David

Yes it really is fast & I like the typeface for the title. Also like that you seem to have got rid of those ?scoring thingies at the bottom right of each post - never did understand what they were for. The only thing is, the "search" button refers back to the old site. Thanks for all your hard work, Floyd.

Patsy

I loved the bread pictures on the "this server is being updated" page, especially the bread with the knife in its teeth.

:-Paul

Thank dstroy for finding them.

There's a cat in the kettle at the peking moon
I use to eat there every day at noon
They say its beef, chicken, shrimp, or pork
But there's a hair ball on my fork dad
There's a hair ball on my fork

I seem to be having a problem with images from my server, Floyd. My webhost disallows hotlinking of images but I can over-ride it with .htaccess. This is what I've put in my .htaccess but the images are still not showing up on my portion of the Freshloaf blog.

RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^http://tfl.thefreshloaf.com.*/.*$      [NC]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^http://tfl.thefreshloaf.com.*$      [NC]
[...]
RewriteRule .*\.(jpe?g|gif|bmp|png|bmp|ico)$ /images/notavailable.gif [R,NC]

This is what I had before (and it worked):

RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^http://www.thefreshloaf.com.*/.*$      [NC]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^http://www.thefreshloaf.com.*$      [NC]
[...]
RewriteRule .*\.(jpe?g|gif|bmp|png|bmp|ico)$ /images/notavailable.gif [R,NC]

Clearly, I know just enough about .htaccess to get me in trouble. Any ideas how to fix this?

-Elizabeth

Wow, really fast, even on my work computer with all the filters, etc. IE6.

Pictures load very quickly and links are very fast, also.

Good job, Floyd!!!!!!!!!!!

Floyd,
I really appreciate the speed of the new server. The old one always made me wonder if I needed a defrag of my hard drive. Also, the input box is bigger! Or my eyes getting more near-sighted? The font also is more Courier-like than the old input box. And the font is different after Preview. I guess a lot has changed!

Question: Do I take it correctly that the Save button has replaced Submit? When I first saw it I thought it wasn't going to submit, but Save-it-for-later, so to speak. Once you know, it's OK, of course.

Thanks,
Soundman (David)

Floyd,
I'm not sure if this was different on the old server. The default settings (as far as I was concerned, since I never set anything on these back then) were Threaded list expanded, Date oldest first, and 300 comments per page.

I don't mind resetting these to my preferences, but it would be more intuitive if the drop-downs shown reflected the currently saved settings of the user. That way I'd know what I've got and be better able to figure out what I want to change to. Just a thought.

Soundman (David)

I might be doing something wrong, but I opened the browser and still got the forwarding message. Since I'm on the west coast, it can't get much more mornignthan this unless we go to Hawaii.
I think this is all great, just wanted to let you know what I see. Thank you Floyd for all you do, I know this is not your "real" job, but what a terrific job you do. This site is so much fun.

Marni

I'm not seeing a gallery link.  Has this feature gone the way of the dodo?

karladiane

but I had to clean out all my files but I did some more clean up and I flushed my dns. It seems to be working now.

There used to be a choice of "recent posts" or "my recent posts," where you could check to see replies to posts you've made. Very handy but it seems to have disappeared in new format. Please bring it back! Thanks, SC

Hi Floyd,

Say, I used to get notified when any thread that I had posted to had a post added to it.  That no longer happens.  I've gone to the "notification settings" section and enabled all that there seems to be to enable and yet I get no notifications.  Am I missing something?

Thanks,

:-Paul

Thank you.  The notifications hadn't run yet.

They should have just sent.  Did you get them?

Floyd,

I was trying to paste a word doc today into the text box and it was a mess of formatting text. This was a copy of a PDF that I converted to a word doc. I have done that in the past without issue. I'll clip it below here.

<!-- /* Font Definitions */ @font-face {font-family:"Cambria Math"; panose-1:2 4 5 3 5 4 6 3 2 4; mso-font-charset:1; mso-generic-font-family:roman; mso-font-format:other; mso-font-pitch:variable; mso-font-signature:0 0 0 0 0 0;} @font-face {font-family:Verdana; panose-1:2 11 6 4 3 5 4 4 2 4; mso-font-charset:0; mso-generic-font-family:swiss; mso-font-pitch:variable; mso-font-signature:536871559 0 0 0 415 0;} /* Style Definitions */ p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal {mso-style-unhide:no; mso-style-qformat:yes; mso-style-parent:""; margin:0in; margin-bottom:.0001pt; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"; mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";} p.MsoFooter, li.MsoFooter, div.MsoFooter {mso-style-noshow:yes; mso-style-unhide:no; mso-style-link:"Footer Char"; margin:0in; margin-bottom:.0001pt; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; tab-stops:center 3.0in right 6.0in; font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"; mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";} a:link, span.MsoHyperlink {mso-style-unhide:no; color:blue; text-decoration:underline; text-underline:single;} a:visited, span.MsoHyperlinkFollowed {mso-style-noshow:yes; mso-style-priority:99; color:purple; mso-themecolor:followedhyperlink; text-decoration:underline; text-underline:single;} span.FooterChar {mso-style-name:"Footer Char"; mso-style-noshow:yes; mso-style-unhide:no; mso-style-locked:yes; mso-style-link:Footer; mso-ansi-font-size:12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;} .MsoChpDefault {mso-style-type:export-only; mso-default-props:yes; font-size:10.0pt; mso-ansi-font-size:10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt;} @page Section1 {size:8.5in 11.0in; margin:1.25in 1.25in 1.25in 1.25in; mso-header-margin:.5in; mso-footer-margin:.5in; mso-paper-source:0;} div.Section1 {page:Section1;} /* List Definitions */ @list l0 {mso-list-id:677318322; mso-list-type:hybrid; mso-list-template-ids:-298910386 -534993334 1639433 1770505 984073 1639433 1770505 984073 1639433 1770505;} @list l0:level1 {mso-level-tab-stop:.5in; mso-level-number-position:left; text-indent:-.25in;} ol {margin-bottom:0in;} ul {margin-bottom:0in;} -->

1. 

Prepare biga, mix/knead until a smooth ball forms.
Cover and set aside for 12-16 hours.

2. 

Mix final dough ingredients together on speed 1 for 3 minutes adding biga as dough comes together.

3. 

Mix on speed 2 for 3 more minutes.

4. 

Cover and set aside for 2.25 hours, folding after 45 minutes and 90 minutes.

5. 

Preshape if desired, then shape.

6. 

Final fermentation, about 1.5 hrs at 80°.

7. 

Steam, then bake at 415° for 35-40 min.

* If you do not have a sour rye starter, use 15g of rye flour, plus ¼ tsp of yeast.

Eric, try saving your Word doc in .txt format or in Notepad and see how it does......

cannot "copy and paste" into the post area without removing popup blocker.

I clicked to allow the popups from thefreshloaf and now copying and pasting  just a few words  of text causes a popup. I do like that it isn't automatically including all links and styles that were in the original (usually, I'm copying and pasting a small excerpt, or someone's name) but is there not some way that we could copy and paste things directly into the comment window and it would be changed into simple text?

-Elizabeth

When I used Ctrl-V to paste text, I got the pop-up.  When I went to "edit" at the top of my browser and told it to paste, no pop-up and the text was placed.

MSWord has the most awful embedded codes that tag along and the only way to strip them out of the document is to save it as ASCII text - at least, this is what we have to do at my office.

Yes, Word introduces all kinds of "gremlins" into your text, particularly when you are copying from Word and pasting into IE.   Saving as ASCII Text first would work or I think using Firefox helps some. Still, the pop-up sounds annoying, and many people do use Word and IE, so  I'll see if I can figure out how to get rid of that.

I still say "not using Word" is the best solution.  It is a terrible program to use if the destination for your text is online.  But I'm just curmudgeonly like that.

I typed a reply and then my battery cut me off.  When this happens, I loose my entire reply like it never happened.   After I recharged, restarted and returned to my place, the reply was still there!  Fantastic! 

Mini O

the faqs said somthing like click a tree icon to upload a pic but i dont see it. i know the galery is gone for now but is there a way to upload a pic
or are we stuck with
img Src="http://www.my-location.domain"
?

I just found out about being able to upload images here, when making the screenshot of the tree icon! (No fear, Floyd, I won't try to abuse the priviledge.) But I made an error and uploaded the wrong one first.

I cannot seem to find how to delete an image in the Posting Photos FAQ.

-Elizabeth

P.S. I SHOULD have put the screenshot into my flickr account but I forgot... Sorry about that.

Why do I get an "unauthorised" message when I click on some member's names?

Patsy

It's only occasional profiles. Actually, it is something I noticed before the update & it always happened with the same profile. I'll let you know when I come accross one,

Patsy

If I click on the Rich Text Editor all I get is an error on page message at the bottom of the window. Is that suppose to be the case or did I miss something in the post above? I have checked my java script and it seems to be working but I will not bet my life on it.
Eli

Thanks for the response. I realize now that I haven't gotten all the little icons for publishing anything in my "comments" text. I didn't think abou it until just now when I jumped back from another website.

Thanks,
Eli

did not mean to open up a big can of worms with this
sorry

I fixed the javascript error, so most people should see the rich-text editor now.

This text is being copied and pasted from Microsoft Word.  It doesn't have much fancy formatting in it, only a little bold and italics.  That really is about all that should be copied and pasted under normal conditions.

The only issue I saw was that the editor double spaced the text on paste.  That and a quick dialog came up asking "are you sure you want to allow this application to access your clipboard?"  That is a security feature of IE meant to prevent javascript cross site scripting exploits (websites that steal what is on your clipboard and look for SSN or CC #s).  I don't think there is anything I can do about that.

I think there might be a change in the way 'tags' within posts are handled.

A carriage return (new paragraph) now closes (all?) the tags.

This means that a multi line/paragraph quote (as a single 'quote' block) is not possible !!!

Its either new or else just something I've newly noticed !   /rolleyes !!

I think there might be a change in the way 'tags' within posts are handled.

A carriage return (new paragraph) now closes (all?) the tags

This means that a multi line/paragraph quote (as a single 'quote' block) is not possible !!!

I'm not sure, it may.  I just clicked the "Quote" button, then copied and pasted your text.  It put it all in one blockquote.  I also tried pasting first, then selecting the text and clicking "Quote" to format it.  That also worked.  But there may be some different tag clean up going on now... As I said, this is a much different version of the text editor, so it has lots of new features and configurations I'm still wrapping my head around.

When in doubt, there is always the HTML button which will let you copy and paste or edit the raw HTML.

FYI I can't seem to get the spell check feature to work with Google Chrome. I kniw you are probably not to concerned about Chrome but it's fast and I suspect will be gaining market.

Eric

Hi Floyd, I wanted to say a hearty thanks for your work in maintaining (and improving) this site.  I peek in here almost everyday, even though I am a rare poster, and can't even begin to list what i have learned from you all to make me a better baker.   I love the upgrade and the new font, more readable for me which is great. 

I have a request (if not too bold...), one function I miss in the new upgrade is the thing that was called something like "most recent posts" and it resided over on the left hand side of my screen.  It listed hypertext subject lines of the most recent posts in the forum.  i used to click that almost everyday as a glimpse into what people were chatting about.  I don't see it anymore and was wondering if it would be back?  If not, that's ok, this old dog will learn a new trick!  Thanks again for your work and diligence in maintaining this wonderful resource.  Happy holidays and happy baking!

chris

cpmart, the "recent posts" link still shows up on the left side for me.  After I've logged in.

There it is!  thanks again

I no longer receive the notifications in my e-mail and really miss them.  I tried changing the settings and enabling everything, but I still don't receive them.  Thanks, ilovetodig

It sure is working, Floyd.  Thanks for fixing it and letting us know about the time traveling.  When I clicked the first link in the notification mail, it too me to a 2006 post by JMMonkey.

Lots of good reading, inluding MiniO's sourdough facial formula!  :-)

Hi Floyd,

I am starting to receive alerts to threads I haven't responded to or even read before. Sometimes I get alerts to threads someone has just started. Any ideas on what's causing this?

Thanks, as always,

Soundman (David)

Yesterday, I noticed the "comment viewing options" section and chose "threaded list - collapsed". Today, when I hit the "newest posts" link in my profile section, I had no idea which ones were new. I know it's asking a lot but is there any way of putting the "new" tag on the title so it will show up when the list is collapsed?

-Elizabeth

Hi, Floyd.

The text boxes for Subject and Comment seem to be working like the rich text editory, but the link to switch to the rich text editor is at the bottom of the Comment text box. However, when I click it, nothing happens.

The icons for quotes, adding a photo, etc. are not shown. It looks like the page never completes loading. The icons only show when I hit the "go back" arrow (or backspace key). The icons show for an instant before the previous page appears.

I'm using Win XP Pro and IE 7.

I hope this is clear. It's annoying, because I cannot load photos in messages.

David

David, why not try Firefox or Chrome with your Windoze machine?  IE is the Swiss cheese of browsers...

I've been using Firefox for years;  the rich text editor is loud and clear.

While you can't totally dump the IE bloatware, glad to hear you're now driving a sleek, fast, and much safer browser.

Happy New Year!

Lindy

Using the rich text editor, there appears to be a difference between the rich editing  renderer and the final renderer related to the indent function.

In this rich editor, this paragraph is indented italic.

I will bet that when I click [Save] the final version of the para above will not be indented!

sPh

I am using IE on someone else's computer right now and when I go to paste I get a popup message "Do you want to allow this webpage to access your clipboard". If I say "no" then pasting cannot be done using cntrl+v OR by going to the edit tab on the top of the browser. If I say "yes", pasting can be done by using cntrl+v OR by going to the edit tab on the top of the browser. I'm happy to report that there is never an irritating pasting window that pops up automatically when cntrl+v is used for pasting (as occurs with Firefox on my computer).

I do not know if this "Do you want to allow this webpage to access your clipboard". popup message is a feature of this particular computer's security program or if it's something to do with IE. But I thought I'd report it anyway.

-Elizabeth

P.S. I went to edit this page to paste something else in and got the "Do you want to allow this webpage to access your clipboard" again. Is there a way that this can be avoided for the FreshLoaf site? This particular popup window appears to be an IE feature.

That is totally something specific to the computer.

I get similar messages when I try to paste with Ctrl-V. I believe it relates to my "pop-up blocker."

Try disabling you pop-up blocking to test this. For me, it's not a problem to paste using a right mouse click then clicking on "paste."

David

The only problem I'm having is getting the toolbar to appear so I can download a photo or two....or more! It probably is my Apple Computer and outdated Safari though. I'm pretty sure I have Java Script, but how do I check to see if it is enabled? Thank you

this is SO fast!!  i had been having problems logging on in the last 2 weeks. my username & password were consistently not recognized.  now, this is lightening quick.  and it works!! great news.