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    • CommentAuthorJonathan
    • CommentTimeJan 17th 2007 edited
     
    So we finally got the new forum out on the road and it's visible for everyone.

    What do you all think of it???
    • CommentAuthorHisblood
    • CommentTimeJan 23rd 2007
     
    I miss the games and the sigies but all in all it's pretty good.
    • CommentAuthorJames
    • CommentTimeJan 24th 2007
     
    Eventually we may bring games back. There's no plugin for it yet, so either someone has to make one or we do. And it's not a priority at the moment :( They were fun, though!

    As for signatures, I'll see what I can do. I'm sure there's a plugin for it.
    • CommentAuthorMatt West
    • CommentTimeJan 24th 2007
     
    The lyrics request page will not navigate properly. It shows eight pages of requests. I am able to access three, and they all show as page 1 of 8 .
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      CommentAuthorTFKFM™
    • CommentTimeJan 24th 2007
     
    Personally, I think it looks kind of a bit confusing with the way the whole forum is set. You really can't tell when someone is here nor can you see PM's or anything like that. I think I'm just used to the old one.
    • CommentAuthorJonathan
    • CommentTimeJan 24th 2007
     
    TKFKM: We're going to try implementing a "private messages" system into this new forum so we can gain that old functionality back. I like it too.

    Matt: Hmm ok we'll get that fixed as soon as possible, thanks for the bug update.

    Hisblood: Yeah, we will try to get something for games back on here soon. I'm not so sure what we'll end up deciding about sigies.

    Thanks for your support everyone, we really appreciate your feedback. Please continue to provide feedback. We're here to serve you (the community), so please always feel free to let us know what you think -- positive or negative, we want to hear it.
    • CommentAuthorMatt West
    • CommentTimeJan 24th 2007
     
    I do miss the ability to send and recieve private messages and also profiles etc. The only allowance I can find for even posting a picture doesn't allow uploading. The new forum setup doesn't appear to allow getting to know other members personally like the old forum. More lyrics, less fellowship (that I've been able to locate). I realize the work required to code, but I miss the fellowship and developed 2 personal friendships with the other forum setup
    • CommentAuthorJonathan
    • CommentTimeJan 24th 2007
     
    Matt: So what are some suggestions you recommend to us to make it more personal? We're all ears :)
    • CommentAuthorJames
    • CommentTimeJan 24th 2007
     
    Hisblood: You can now add a one line signature to your profile.

    Matt & TKFKM: Private Messaging is back! On the left menu is a new link to your "Inbox." From there you can send out PMs to other members. Soon we'll make it easier to send PMs, but for now this is what we've got.
    • CommentAuthorJonathan
    • CommentTimeJan 24th 2007
     
    James: It's still a little confusing with the link placement top left for Start new Discussion and Send new message, so we'll need to tweak that and make it easier to see for everyone.
    • CommentAuthorJonathan
    • CommentTimeJan 24th 2007
     
    James: Great! Thanks for adding those few things for us.

    We'll keep working on usability for everyone to make it easier to use and hopefully integrate more things.

    Any other requests?
    • CommentAuthorJames
    • CommentTimeJan 24th 2007
     
    Matt West: Fixed that problem with the Request list. Thanks for pointing it out!
    • CommentAuthorJtownbrat
    • CommentTimeJan 25th 2007
     
    I personally like this new layout. This is the first time I have been on the new site, but as far as I can tell it looks great. On the old site, I had a hard time logging in for some reason and this new site was slicker than a button!
    • CommentAuthorJtownbrat
    • CommentTimeJan 25th 2007
     
    Ok - now that I've been on here a little longer and have looked at the site closer, I have to say that the navigation is pretty confusing. I just replied to a post that is OLD old. And some of the discussions I clicked on came up with an error message and wouldn't show the discussion page. So yeah . . . I need some time to get used to this! How do you know where the newest posts are?
    • CommentAuthorJonathan
    • CommentTimeJan 26th 2007
     
    Jtownbrat: All the newest posts are the homepage of http://www.christian-lyrics.net/community/ Those are the most recent posts.

    How do you suggest we clean up the site to make the navigation easier?
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      CommentAuthorTFKFM™
    • CommentTimeJan 26th 2007
     
    It's ok you guys don't feel like you need to fix all the problems so soon. Just take one thing at a time and we'll be here for you guys. Great job on all the hard work you guys have doing for the site and all. God Bless you all.
    • CommentAuthorJonathan
    • CommentTimeJan 27th 2007
     
    Thanks TKFKM, we appreciate your support. We're just trying to get everything up and running so it works for everyone :)

    We want to make the site easy for everyone and better for everyone too.
    • CommentAuthorMatt West
    • CommentTimeJan 29th 2007
     
    Jonathan, I've taken the time to navigate through the new site. WONDERFUL job. I wish that it was possible to upload pictures and icons to your user profile. I know that I can deal with this by posting on the Web which will be done. Thank you for all of your work, I know from experience how tedious coding is. THANK YOU my friend.
    • CommentAuthorMatt West
    • CommentTimeJan 29th 2007
     
    christian-lyrics.net likes me! It won't let me log off lol
    • CommentAuthorJames
    • CommentTimeJan 29th 2007
     
    Woops! That's something we'll definitely look into!
    • CommentAuthorLeinad
    • CommentTimeJan 30th 2007
     
    I can't find a submit lyrics link anywhere except from the lyrics request pages. Other than that, I love it.
    • CommentAuthorJonathan
    • CommentTimeJan 30th 2007
     
    Leinad: We are slightly modifying how the site functions and we will be having some management meetings (yes, we're an actual company behind the scenes here) about how to process these things.

    We are only licensed by certain record labels to display lyrics, so right now we have closed to free-for-all lyrics submissions. We may open them up in a different manner soon though.

    If you're an independent music artist that doesn't have your lyrics copyright by a legal record label yet, we will be more than happy to post them with a copyright to your name. All you need to do is mail to them: indielyrics * AT * christian-lyrics.net -- but format that like an e-mail address. Once I receive them and we have our meetings, we'll be able to process them accordingly.

    Please put them into a Microsoft Word format and if there's an album to the track(s), please add that as well. Please also make sure you clearly cite the author's name so we know who to copyright the lyrics to.

    Thank you Leinad.
    • CommentAuthormc043
    • CommentTimeFeb 2nd 2007
     
    Only just made it onto the new site.

    On the whole, well done with the changeover.

    Just one small niggle from me: The site is a set width, meaning that it doesn't readjust for browser windows. For me, it's difficult to have my browser the full width of my screen (due to my dock setup) so the edge of the forum gets cut off. I think this may also be a problem for people working at a lower resolution than 1024x768. I f you want it fixed width, that's fine I can live with it. just may be something to consider.
    • CommentAuthorMatt West
    • CommentTimeFeb 2nd 2007
     
    Jonathan, I still can't logout!! I was able to send a private message yesterday but now am unable to find this function. Any suggestions? Things may be more usable for me if I logout and sign back in. HELP!!
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      CommentAuthorTFKFM™
    • CommentTimeFeb 3rd 2007
     
    I have a comment in regards to submitting lyrics. When you submit them how come it stil' displays the request on the list, if one already submitted the lyrics to the song(s)? Is that how it supposed to be?
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      CommentAuthorAimee
    • CommentTimeFeb 3rd 2007
     
    I don't know if this has been said because I read half way down this page and gave up haha (i need to go back to school lol). I think it was sort of half mentioned. I can see that it gives all the "recently" posted topics but it was a lot easier when it just told me what ones i hadn't read. It's just a bit hard to tell what I've looked at, replied to..etc.
    • CommentAuthorJonathan
    • CommentTimeFeb 8th 2007
     
    Hmmm ok Aimee, we will see what we can do to make that a little easier on everyone. Thanks for the suggestion!
    • CommentAuthorJames
    • CommentTimeFeb 12th 2007 edited
     
    Matt West: We're still looking into the logout issue. As for private messaging, there is a problem with the plugin that we're looking into. We hope to have it fixed for the next push in the next few days. One thing you might want to try is clearing all of your cookies.

    TFKFM: Thanks for pointing that out. It should be fixed now.

    Matt: The logout issue has been fixed! If you still experience problems, please let us know.
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      CommentAuthorTFKFM™
    • CommentTimeFeb 13th 2007
     
    Thank you James for checking on that problem there.
    • CommentAuthorJames
    • CommentTimeFeb 20th 2007
     
    Big update!

    We've got Private Messaging!


    It took a while, but we were able to get everything working. If you encounter any problems, please let us know and we'll take care of them!

    Thanks.
    • CommentAuthorMatt West
    • CommentTimeFeb 21st 2007
     
    Everything appears to be working well! I know that the forum shows the latest comments, is there a way to tell which are the newest discussions? I do miss the amount and context of comments that used to be added more than daily by members that I no longer see posting on this forum.
    Matt
    • CommentAuthorJonathan
    • CommentTimeFeb 21st 2007
     
    Matt: What do you mean by the amount of "context" of the comments?

    We can look at improving how the comments are displayed. But if you look to the right, it shows "Last Active" and how long ago. Are you thinking of maybe something like a highlight of the last posts in the past 24 hours or something of that manner? What do you think would be effective?
    • CommentAuthorMatt West
    • CommentTimeFeb 23rd 2007
     
    Jonathan: OOPS, context = content, my fault proofreading voice recognition software before posting! The radio buttons to Format comments, text is understood but I'm not familiar w/BBCode. can you clue me in? Thanks, Matt
    • CommentAuthorJonathan
    • CommentTimeFeb 23rd 2007
     
    Matt: That's a good point about BBcode. We'll modify that soon so it's a bit more clear to everyone.

    It's basically code like [ url = <LINK HERE ] text link [/url] etc etc so you can post links and what not...
    • CommentAuthorMatt West
    • CommentTimeFeb 23rd 2007
     
    everything is going wonderfully with the forum Jonathan! soooo many new comments etc. It's funny, you have but to ask! God truly loves us. GOOD work on our forum
    • CommentAuthorJonathan
    • CommentTimeFeb 23rd 2007
     
    Thank you Matt.

    This whole site wouldn't be possible without God because He brought James and I together so we could work on it. James does all the core programming for it and I work on all the design, marketing, advertising, and future development for it. It's a great team we have that God has blessed us with a mutual interest in this site and this type of website.

    Next month we will be giving away an iPod as a contest prize :) I will update everyone with the contest rules and regulations :)
    • CommentAuthorJames
    • CommentTimeMar 9th 2007
     
    Matt, thanks for the encouraging comments!

    The "Format comments as" options below the post field will be changed soon to a more familiar format.
    • CommentAuthorawayla
    • CommentTimeMar 9th 2007
     
    yea, u 2 r doing a good job. i love the forum, mostly the private messages. lol.
    • CommentAuthorRichie
    • CommentTimeMar 9th 2007
     
    lol yeah...do we have to worry about that spam thing anymore?
    • CommentAuthorawayla
    • CommentTimeMar 9th 2007
     
    lol. would the spam stuff mess up our account????
    • CommentAuthorJonathan
    • CommentTimeMar 9th 2007
     
    We're working on upgrading the software right now but running into a few issues so we're trying to get them resolved as soon as possible so everything will be working again.

    Shouldn't be more than a few days for us to upgrade the software *hopefully*
    • CommentAuthorawayla
    • CommentTimeMar 9th 2007
     
    ok. hopefully it will all work out alright.

    BYE

    awayla
    • CommentAuthorRichie
    • CommentTimeMar 9th 2007
     
    ight, I believe you guys :) lol
    • CommentAuthorawayla
    • CommentTimeMar 9th 2007
     
    lol.
    • CommentAuthorRichie
    • CommentTimeMar 9th 2007
     
    :}
    • CommentAuthorawayla
    • CommentTimeMar 9th 2007
     
    :)
    • CommentAuthorRichie
    • CommentTimeMar 9th 2007
     
    lol
    • CommentAuthorawayla
    • CommentTimeMar 9th 2007
     
    Matt is a very nice guy
    • CommentAuthorRichie
    • CommentTimeMar 9th 2007
     
    :) i know
    • CommentAuthorawayla
    • CommentTimeMar 9th 2007
     
    lol