Just wondering why there is no way of making a topic a announcement or sticky in the latest newbb forum module??

If it was part of the original I would of thought it would of been also incorporated with the latest release!

Is there any way of putting this in the next release or can there be a way of doing it now with this latest one.

cheers
kiwiguy

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Think JD is suffering a blonde moment or a temporal loss of sanity....

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COnsider it added to the FAQ's just waiting for it to be approved...

You could always re send the activation key to all the members you that you require them to authenticate there email address.

You can do this by going to system menu>mail users and send the email to the registered users and include in the body of the message this

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hope that helps
kiwiguy

Hey I have noticed as i had the exact problem with the forum blocks not showing and after a bit of playing around it seemed that it would only work if i selected the default template of xoops...Seems newbb 2.0 is not completely compatable with all themes that have there own templates.tar files.

I could be wrong but this is what I have noticed anyway hope this helps

cheers
kiwiguy

This has been a long term issue and as monty stated thats about all you can do to help reduce the lag time. Hopefully Predator has read the issues containing the lag issues and has something in the pipeline.

But on saying this have a look at the differences between 1.0 and 2.0.1 and you will noitice why there is a lag. You have to wigh up the functionality of the newbb2 which I find amazing and I do not seem to have as much of a lag time anymore after doing what monty stated. If I was to have a choice between 1.0 and 2.0.x I would choose 2.0 even with the lag time as the functiaonality and permissions and security of that forum far outweighs the lag issue reported.

cheers
kiwiguy

Also was informed by predator for this proble that this patch for newbb 2.0.1 would work which it does for me.

http://downloads.xoops2.org/patchfor2.0.1.zip

cheers
kiwiguy

Well.... what have i started here i just wanted to share my frustrations and started a major debate... GOOD... It might be time to see some healthy opinions come out..

Still got issues and done everything that was asked apart from paying a programmer or moving CMS (which I am aclose to doing)

And Monty does this fix the affects it has on my wf downloads blocks that does not display properly my recent downloads that are added or is this a totally different issue??

regards
kiwiguy

Was informed to add this to line 828 of modules>newbb>class>post.php

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Which would change this part from:

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changed to

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But yet this still does not work after updating Nebb module after i made this change.

regards kiwiguy

Brash you have some very valid options and opinions there but i must disagree in the fact that we should try to fix a problem that was not incurred by us (the site owner) in the 1st place.

I do respect and understand that with any program be it software or CMS orientated there are always bugs but in saying that the core development team have taken on the responsibility and the position to develop this CMS further so in turn any bugs that incur during that time should be fixed by the core development team.

If a non developer has a fix for it thats even better and even more helpful to the core development team and yes I support the idea that the members become more involved and independent in fixing problems, but not everybody on here including myself are PHP programmers or have a strong idea on how it works I have tried I have read a lot about it but its something that I personally find difficult to understand as well as some on here.

And finally this is a SUPPORT FORUM where people like me (dummies) can come and get help for things we need help with I do not simply post stuff down if I know how to fix it what would be the point I post stuff here that i do not have any idea how to fix after I have tried myself to do what i can.

So brash please there is no need to be critical on us non php programmers or newbies because we ask to be helped out and are asking for something that should of been done beofore the final release.

As for the roll back to 2.0.7.3 I would love to roll back to that version if I knew how to I have a idea that i just back up the database and then simply overwrite all the files i have with the 2.0.7.3 core files is that correct?

regards
kiwiguy