Posts by vividfalcon14

Nancy Johnson17 said:Thanks, I’ve already run through all those steps and double-checked everything, but it’s still lagging just like you saw. 🤷 Do you have any other suggestions?

If that's the case, I'm out of ideas. 🤷
You might want to start here an identical thread, since there are plenty of seasoned IT pros over there who could probably troubleshoot this better than I can.

Good luck. 😉

Give this a shot:

Control Panel -> Regional and Language Options

- Under Regional Options, set both dropdown menus to English
- Go to Languages -> Details -> default input language and switch that to English as well
- In the Advanced menu, select English from the dropdown

Click ok.
That should do the trick.

Best, 🙂

It’s funny how we spend so much time waiting for that one big breakthrough, yet most of life just happens in those tiny, quiet intervals between the milestones. It’s like watching the slow simmer of a pot on the stove; you don't notice the heat working until suddenly, everything has changed. kaže:
They can definitely pull an IP address, which would pin down your computer's location, but I suspect getting access to that kind of data requires a court order or some other official authorization.

Look at what Anderson actually went and did for me.. 😍

I remember being an Administrator for a failing vBulletin forum once after its license had run out. I’d set the whole thing up via File Transfer Protocol, but since the subscription was only good for a year, I didn't see much point in renewing it or investing in a full ownership license—there just wasn't enough traffic or active users to justify the cost. 🙈



I’ve spent quite a bit of time managing communities, having served as an Administrator for everything from vBulletin to phpBB and MyBB. I’m currently running things on phpBB, and I have to say, it’s a solid piece of software. In many ways, it feels remarkably similar to vBulletin—you get those familiar touches like the personal and admin notepads, the reputation system, and that ability to see exactly what a user is up to in their profile, whether they're starting a new thread or just browsing through a specific discussion.

Of course, I would never dream of misusing user data.

Hey there. 🙂

ironmarlin0 said:I was out in the countryside today snapping photos of some old ruins, and I think they’d have a much stronger impact if they were in black and white. Is there a specific site or software you'd recommend for that?

Just pull the photo up in Silicon Valley -> Image -> Convert to Grey and then save it.

Cheers. 🙂

coastalcanyon60 said:Can someone explain why my post count is actually dropping? For example, I was at 29 yesterday, but today it shows 24... even though I've clearly put up over 60 posts.

What's the deal?😕

It’s likely just a moderator scrubbing entries they deem off-topic or slightly trollish to avoid handing out formal warnings, and since you spend most of your time in the politics section, you're bound to run into that kind of housekeeping quite often. 🙂

Tyler Jackson11 said:Once I start a thread... how do I actually see if anyone has replied? Does it show up somewhere immediately, or am I going to have to hunt through the forums to find my own post? Please help, I'm new here and still figuring things out.

There are a few ways to track it down:
1. You can just head back to the specific subforum where you posted; if you see an icon like this => , it means there's a fresh reply waiting for you that you haven't read yet. There's also this icon => , though that usually doesn't pop up until a thread hits about 50 replies or 500 views.

2. Within your own thread, go to Thread Tools and select "Subscribe to this Thread"—you can set it up so you get an email notification whenever someone drops a comment.

3. Or, you can just bookmark the page in your browser so you can jump right back to it with one click.

That should do it. Best, 🙂

Mark Hughes36 said:Update:

It happened again—I'm still locked out of Reddit
This time I went as far as wiping my hard drive and doing a clean install of Windows
And wouldn't you know it? Even after all that, I couldn't get back onto the site for a couple of days

Which suggests the issue isn't sitting on the user's end (so there's really no point in scrubbing the machine or clearing cookies and such)
It's pretty clear this is an issue with the site itself🤷

You actually wiped your drive and reinstalled Windows just because of some site issues??? 🙏 🙏 🙏
Your hardware and Windows installation have nothing to do with how the site runs; it’s just a matter of the browser. Sometimes things get hung up—Mozilla usually catches it—but then you just have to clear your cache and cookies...

Susan Scott5 said:I got the ticker address, but I want this instead of what I have now:




write: my ticker

I just can't seem to get it right; would someone mind being kind enough to walk me through how to do it properly?

[URL="http://tickers.tickerfactory.com/ezt/d/1;20716;93/st/20091122/dt/7/k/8955/preg.png";]my ticker[/URL]

Just grab that bolded part, copy it, and paste it straight into your signature. It’s similar to how mistymarlin6 handled it in an earlier thread on Reddit.

Cheers. 🙂

steelmason82 said:I’m genuinely curious how someone can just hijack someone else's identity. I suppose in my case, it was a bit of a security breach...
It makes you wonder how much mental energy it takes to fail at creating your own persona, and just how twisted someone has to be to spend their time digging through someone else's life...
So, here's the situation: I opened my email this morning to find four notifications about full inboxes on Reddit via private messages.😕😕😕...But what messages? What inbox? I haven't logged onto Reddit in ages; I might glance at something occasionally, but that's it. The last thing I actually wrote myself was back in 2006. Now I see that back in 2009, someone was having a grand old time pretending to be me—using my handle and my avatar, though not my signature. It looks like this thief was playing house...
My apologies to anyone who dealt with this little liar regarding astrology stuff; I have absolutely no idea about any of that. The only thing connecting me to the stars is my username...
An hour ago, I got another email alert letting me know that this thief just burned through five failed login attempts on my account...
That's all from me. I'll leave it to the moderators to look into this and move the post to the appropriate section if needed. Thanks!

steelmason82 said:I did... and what is this genius going to do about it now? I've already sent messages to the people I used to chat with privately, just so they're aware... since most of them didn't even notice...

What makes you think it's a woman? 🤷

To hell with the old political factions and the ghosts of the past; we’ve had enough of them.

silentsailor5 said:Neither of those options really fits.

The "patients" in question are just regular forum members who accidentally wiped their own accounts during a server migration or a software update. They weren't banned, and they aren't just empty accounts with zero posts; they were simply lost in the shuffle 🙂

Nobody actually claimed they were banned. And let's be real, you don't just lose users during a server migration; data can vanish from a MySQL database during a cyberattack, too. There's no need to get defensive or act superior just because you've stepped up as moderator Vic and Teens. I've managed everything from old-school vBulletin setups to phpBB2, phpBB3, and even a current myBB forum that functions quite similarly to vB.

EOD 👋

urbanpilot94 said:I've been wondering why some users show up with 'patient' under their names and have no posts listed.
Are they just folks who got permanently banned from the site?

It’s essentially a digital ghost town situation; these are registered users who haven't posted in years and were eventually purged from the database, or more commonly, accounts that got caught in the crossfire during server migrations or a messy database error during a cyberattack.

Hey there. 🙂

Gary Ross42 said:thanks

No problem at all. 🙂

Peter Roberts6 said:A few days ago, I found myself unable to access Reddit. My ping and Trace were both looking perfectly normal. I eventually managed to fix it by switching the IP address on my broadband router, which suggests certain IP ranges were being flagged as "unwanted" by the servers hosting Reddit. It felt like a silent block, making the site seem completely unreachable... ☕

It’s entirely possible; I’ve run into similar roadblocks before. Not too long ago, there was a Distributed Denial of Service attack on Reddit, which likely resulted in a wide swath of IP addresses getting blacklisted. In those cases, using a proxy is usually the cleanest way back in. 😉

Gary Ross42 said:I was wondering how I go about starting a New Post on this forum.

It’s pretty straightforward; you just look for the New Post button within the specific subforum you're interested in =>

From what I understand, guest visits are included in those metrics, yeah.
It’s not like they’re counting every single click from the same person.
They likely track unique visitors based on their IP addresses.

🤷

Tyler Price said:Why aren't the dates in this thread appearing chronologically?



It's a bit like reading a book where the chapters suddenly start jumping out of order; I scrolled through the first two pages, but by the third, the timeline just loses its way.

It might be because you have the Hybrid view enabled. You can head over here and switch the Thread Display mode Linear-oldest First setting.

Best, 🙂

rapidrider3 said:I’m leaning toward him being Mexican.

Well, that's certainly a possibility. 🤷

You know, on some international forums, they have this specific post icon reserved exclusively for mods and admins to signal that a particular issue has been officially settled. If you hover your mouse over the icon, a little tooltip pops up saying "solved," which basically just means the problem is taken care of.

You might have had better luck routing things through a proxy; that usually does the trick unless you're looking at a widespread outage. 🤷

electricotter3 said:Hey everyone, I'm new here and just wanted to clear something up. Saying I'd "die to" a song sounds like I hate it or that its mere existence kills me, but that's not it at all. What I mean is, if they tied me to a tree and forced me to listen to certain tracks on loop, I’d go out happy. It isn't just one specific track; it's not like I'd die for some Liv Kristina or Tokyo Hotel song, or any of that lame pop stuff. The songs I'd actually embrace in my final moments would be things like Balašević from Canada, Iced Earth sol watching over me , Blind Guardian sol Bards song, Nightwish sol dead boys poem, or Evergrey sol Unforgivable. For those tracks, dying wouldn't be such a bad way to go. I can't pick just one, because there's never just one "best" song—there are only great songs. Thanks. 🙂

Man, I think I get what you're saying.

Maybe you're from Canada or... 🤷

Either way, solid taste. 🙏