New features: The all new Stroudgreen.org
  • ArkadyArkady

    OK Photobucket works.  I guess Flickr does't like SG.org.

  • Marquis

    I have IE8 at work and it regularly crashes when I try to look at this site (but not always, strangely). The error message says something about a script that causes IE8 to run slow. Next I get the prompt to stop running this script, but by then the browser's already unresponsive. Just thought I'd let you know. Otherwise all works well on Chrome at home, looks good and is much nicer without the heart.

  • Mirandola

    It's become very very very slow on the antiquated ie I use at work and can't update. Works well on Chrome.

  • andy

    Don't use Internet explorer

  • Mirandola

    I don't where I have any choice. 

  • Ali

    The error message says something about a script that causes IE8 to run slow

    I get the same and it is very slow to type text into.  This at work on alocked down citrix set up

    Still nearly  50% users are using IE  see  http://arstechnica.com/microsoft/news/2011/11/the-end-of-an-era-internet-explorer-drops-below-50-percent-of-web-usage.ars

  • andy

    It really isn't our fault that IE is a piece of shit.

  • David

    I just tested it on IE7, 8 & 9. Looked a bit crappier in earlier versions but worked absolutely fine. I'd suggest its something more to do with specific setups than IE per se. Works fine on Safari, Mozilla, Chrome and mobile phones but give Andy a call and he'll come to your office and see what he can do. I'm sure its stated in the sg.org SLA somewhere.



  • Marquis

    Ok, thanks David. I knew it would get picked up in the right spirit. I wasn't aware there was an SLA for this site!

  • Ali

    Script issue when using IE seems to have been fixed  Thanks my browser no longer hangs

  • Ali

    Strange it seem to have come back when I did the post above !!

  • sophie

    andy, do the announcements-are-the-new-stickies still have to go through you? i can't find an option to do it myself for the book group thread.

    p.s. the site looks wonderful, thanks

  • andy

    yep i will do it.

  • ADGS

    This could just be my monitor, but is anyone else finding that once a thread has split into more than one page, it's not immediately obvious from the numbers at the bottom which page you're on?

  • poxy

    Yup, same here.

  • val

    Help. Please tell me in  one short sentence and words of one syllable how to open a thread. I tried clicking on the star but it does not work for me. I just have a simple laptop.

  • Marquis

    There is a green button at the top right that says 'Start a New Discussion'. You can click on it. 'Button' and 'discussion' exceeded the syllable limit, I still hope this helps.

  • val

    Marquis. Thank you.

  • Rona

    Haven't visited the site for a few months.  I used to get a weekly update by email so I looked at it then but I don't get those any more.  Will have a look at all the new features later, but just for now does it do that Facebook thing (and - shock horror - HOL thing!) of notifying you when someone posts onto a thread that you've used.  I might find it irritating - I'm not sure, but without it I don't check the threads I've been on often enough so I miss it when people answer me.

  • tamsin

    I'm same as rona, used to get weekly update emails but don't any more. I can't find my 'preferences' to hange this.

    Help anyone?! I miss the emails...

  • Misscara

    I don't like that it tells me to go to bed like I've been a naughty girl. I get home from work after midnight 2-3 days a week. I know it was changed to keep the rambling pissheads at bay, but some of us work shifts. I'm often too busy to use it during the day, unless it's my day off.

  • miss annie

    I like that it tells us to go to bed. It's quite comforting in a stern sort of way, it's the way I imagine one would be spoken to at boarding school.

  • ArkadyArkady

    Remember that scene from Jurassic Park when they fail to crack into Nedry's computer?  The little finger-wagging image of Nedry going 'na-a-ah, you didn't say the magic word'?

    It's like that.  Only with Andy's face.

  • miss annie

    Yes, it's just like that!

  • Rona

    Andy - or someone - would you be able to answer about the weekly emails?  Don't you send them any more?  Also does this new site have a facility for notifying you when someone posts on a thread that you've posted on (like Facebook?).  Cheers

  • harpistic

    If you go into your account details then Preferences (on the left), you can select which email notifications you'd like to receive.

  • andy

    @Rona - sorry the weekly emails don't get sent anymore. They were generated by a custom piece of code that isn't compatible with the new setup. We've look at a couple of alternatives, but haven't found anything we like yet.


    @misscara It is a shame, but the quality of post-midnight posts wasn't doing anyone any favours, least of all the posters.
  • Rona

    @harpistic - thanks very much.  I've done that now - useful!

    @andy - also thanks shame about that as it reminded me to look at the site but perhaps you'll find an alternative you like soon.
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