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Forum Fixes
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Hi all,

Some small changes:
- if you have an unread private message(s), you should now see a little blue circle after your username with the number. So like, "Welcome Rappstar (1)" or something like that. This was in response folks really missing the notifications here.

- friendly-URL forwarding is back working. So if you get an email alerting you that you have a PM and go to read it on a computer that you are not logged in on, you'll be directed to the message after logging in. Likewise if you go to reply to a post and aren't logged in; after logging in, you'll be redirected to the reply screen.

- if you use the advanced search, and you use the "Fields to Search" category and choose "Username," this IS case sensitive. So if you type:
Search String - "slowman"
Fields to Search - username
you'll get zero hits. If you type "Slowman," you'll get the appropriate #. By contrast, "only show posts by" is NOT case sensitive, so slowman or Slowman works here. It would require an entire re-indexing of the search index to modify this behavior (which is UNCHANGED from the old forum), so we just decided to leave it. It doesn't seem like it's something where people were running into big problems. (Except renorider, who is a stalker...Wink)

- if you noticed the forum was slow yesterday, it's because we were checking - and fixing - errors in the database tree that manages post relationships. This is why that "Official ITU Thread" wasn't bumping. And we wanted to check for other, similar errors. But that's a big check with like 6M posts to check one by one... (I did it by hand... on the trainer... not really...) But the tree is fixed (why the ITU thread is now unsticky). If anyone sees a bug like this again, please let me know.

There are some other quirks and such we're still working through - and thank you to everyone for bringing them up. And we're continuing to work on fixing them. Will post another update when we've gotten more stuff fixed, though the number of issues is now pretty small by my tracking...

As far as FEATURE type stuff - one common request was the ability to make the forum "less white," we're working on that too. The goal is to be able to allow you to choose from white/off-white/very-light-gray/dark-gray (roughly) to make it easier on the eyes. Don't have a definitive timeline on that yet.

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The private message indicator works. Thanks

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