Quote from: V M on March 12, 2012, 02:45:03 AM
Have you tried Google Chrome?

I can't run Chrome. I'm on an old machine with an old OS and very little ram.

Lol of course Annah I can't quote you in format because the site functions aren't all available, but yeah. It correlated pretty clearly with some other site changes, so I didn't think much about it before. And it makes it frustrating to post news but it doesn't greatly interfere with access.

Hmmm  Not really sure what is causing this, but what I did was clear my history to eliminate any incorrectly loaded reply pages that may have been cached and I reload the page whenever it doesn't load correctly

It has taken some time but it doesn't happen as often as it use to now

I am almost positive that all that chat extras were taken away to try to control the bandwidth issue. The less frills the site has, the more people who can access it.

I am pretty convinced that it has to do with the site removing things to make more bandwidth than things on our end.

Which is a shame, in my opinion because the posting is severely lacking now. Many of us suggested donations and many of us are willing to donate....but ....i guess no one likes that idea

When I first clicked on "Reply" in order to make this post, none of the formatting options were present. I refreshed the page twice in order for them to appear.

I'm not entirely sure what to make of that. But to me, it seems that it could be a combination of what's happening on my computer and what might be happening at the server.

I think it's a server side bug since it's random when i get the smiley/formatting bar and when it disappears for me

Link to a site with many of the formatting codes.

If you want to manually put in formatting, all you have to do is type:

[ b]bold text[ /b] (without the space between the first bracket and the format code, in this case "b")
bold text

[ i]italics[ /i]
italics

etc....
"u" for underline
"size=#" to change size (1=small, 6=big)
"quote" to quote (you can usually put quotes within quotes, as well)

[ quote]quoted text[ /quote]

Quotequoted text

Quotesecond level of quoted text

Quotequoted text

FYI, hope this helps someone.

Thanks Beth I tried that before but I was trying to do it like regular html, other than the few things I still remembered off the top of my head. Now I see what's going on.