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Re: IMPORTANT: AutoPuzzles will be stopped for maintenance!
« Reply #125 on: June 17, 2013, 05:39:41 AM »
The top 15 Puzzle Point getters are now listed in the Stats section of the board.

http://www.autopuzzles.com/forum/index.php?action=stats

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Fascinating!
Since the details in the Member Profile includes the number of points they have, I'm surprised it's not included in the List of Members; if it was then just clicking on a 'No. of Points' heading would sort all members in order of the number of points they have...  Is that something that would be easy to include?

On the stats page there's a Life of Top Karma. Karma equals points
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Re: IMPORTANT: AutoPuzzles will be stopped for maintenance!
« Reply #126 on: June 17, 2013, 07:19:40 AM »
On the stats page there's a Life of Top Karma. Karma equals points

Yes I know, but only the Top 15 points scorers.
If it was a heading in the Members section you could see the points situation of the entire membership at a glance?
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Re: IMPORTANT: AutoPuzzles will be stopped for maintenance!
« Reply #127 on: June 17, 2013, 09:24:15 AM »
The top 15 Puzzle Point getters are now listed in the Stats section of the board.

http://www.autopuzzles.com/forum/index.php?action=stats

Enjoy!

Fascinating!
Since the details in the Member Profile includes the number of points they have, I'm surprised it's not included in the List of Members; if it was then just clicking on a 'No. of Points' heading would sort all members in order of the number of points they have...  Is that something that would be easy to include?

That application doesn't wanna install. Try and make do with this one.
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Re: IMPORTANT: AutoPuzzles will be stopped for maintenance!
« Reply #128 on: June 17, 2013, 09:33:58 AM »

On the stats page there's a Life of Top Karma. Karma equals points
Oh that's what it means - thought it was US-spelling either for Khama (as in Seretse Khama, first president of Botswana) or Kama (as in Kama Sutra) but could seen no relevance in either (or Karma of course). :-\
Why does it have to be in code?
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Re: IMPORTANT: AutoPuzzles will be stopped for maintenance!
« Reply #129 on: June 17, 2013, 12:27:17 PM »

Why does it have to be in code?

Because our Puzzle Points system is based on a forum function called Karma.  For me to edit the HTML and change the new modification to read Puzzle Points is doable, but it is a bit of work and editing HTML has inherent risks that can lead to other, major errors.

Hence, according to one table buried deep on our stats page, Paul Jaray has a lot of good Karma.

Hope that helps.
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Re: IMPORTANT: AutoPuzzles will be stopped for maintenance!
« Reply #130 on: June 17, 2013, 11:28:36 PM »
Will there be a quick reply editor again?

The Quick Reply settings are now controlled individually in your user profile settings under Look and Layout.  You can turn it on for yourself, as well as other features, if you like.
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Re: IMPORTANT: AutoPuzzles will be stopped for maintenance!
« Reply #131 on: June 17, 2013, 11:31:56 PM »
I don't know if this happens to others, too, but always when I post a reply I get thrown out of the topic. I'm on the next level above then (Expert-, Rookie-, Professional board).

Another setting you set for yourself in your Profile/Look and Layout section.
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Re: IMPORTANT: AutoPuzzles will be stopped for maintenance!
« Reply #132 on: June 18, 2013, 03:48:24 AM »
Thank you. Meanwhile I figured it out with support of Ecnelis...

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Re: IMPORTANT: AutoPuzzles will be stopped for maintenance!
« Reply #133 on: June 18, 2013, 10:54:16 AM »
Well folks, I've made lots of changes, big and little, to this site.  Some of you may have noticed some of the new changes like Board notifications and a few others.  Also tried to clean up user info within a post.

This all said, I do believe the board mods are done for awhile now. I continue to turn on people's country flag if they aren't on and it is a requirement for registration now. I encourage the other admins to turn on people's country flags as well.

Ciao and enjoy the AutoPuzzles experience.
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Re: IMPORTANT: AutoPuzzles will be stopped for maintenance!
« Reply #134 on: June 18, 2013, 11:55:10 AM »
It's excellent and a decided improvement.
Good work and well worthwhile!
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Re: IMPORTANT: AutoPuzzles will be stopped for maintenance!
« Reply #135 on: June 18, 2013, 12:04:18 PM »
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Re: IMPORTANT: AutoPuzzles will be stopped for maintenance!
« Reply #136 on: June 20, 2013, 01:27:44 PM »
Inline attachments are now an option for use here at AutoPuzzles.

[attachimg=1]

Read all about it here:

http://custom.simplemachines.org/mods/index.php?mod=2481
« Last Edit: June 20, 2013, 01:57:10 PM by Ultra »
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Re: IMPORTANT: AutoPuzzles will be stopped for maintenance!
« Reply #137 on: June 20, 2013, 03:02:41 PM »
You can even set the width of your inline images so that they fit the screen.

[attachimg=1 width=500]

I think this could be a real boon to the look and layout of the site. 
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Re: IMPORTANT: AutoPuzzles will be stopped for maintenance!
« Reply #138 on: July 10, 2013, 08:27:38 AM »
I'm getting "Database Error. Please try again. If you come back to this error screen, report the error to an administrator." while trying to add a point here: http://www.autopuzzles.com/forum/index.php?topic=25415.0

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Re: IMPORTANT: AutoPuzzles will be stopped for maintenance!
« Reply #139 on: July 10, 2013, 10:24:01 AM »
I'm having the same problem. When I click the "add" button to award a point, this appears:

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Re: IMPORTANT: AutoPuzzles will be stopped for maintenance!
« Reply #140 on: July 10, 2013, 12:24:59 PM »
We all are incl the Admins, but we have a way around it.
Send me the details of who you want to award a point to and I'll do it for you until the fix comes along!
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Re: IMPORTANT: AutoPuzzles will be stopped for maintenance!
« Reply #141 on: July 12, 2013, 07:55:21 AM »
Problem fixed (sorry my brother was travelling and I could only get hold of him now)
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Re: IMPORTANT: AutoPuzzles will be stopped for maintenance!
« Reply #142 on: July 12, 2013, 12:06:17 PM »
Excellent!
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Re: IMPORTANT: AutoPuzzles will be stopped for maintenance!
« Reply #143 on: July 12, 2013, 12:29:03 PM »
thanks for the technical description, it took 2 minutes to fix it
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Re: IMPORTANT: AutoPuzzles will be stopped for maintenance!
« Reply #144 on: August 12, 2013, 10:35:44 AM »
Hello. I'm on my holiday right now and I'm using my cellphone to stay on-line and there is funny thing... I'm getting this message while trying to use AutoPuzzles:

"Sorry Ecnelis, you are banned from using this forum!
This ban is not set to expire."

This message was sent via anonymouse.org so... my mobile operator's IP is blocked (it's 5.60.208.234)?
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Re: IMPORTANT: AutoPuzzles will be stopped for maintenance!
« Reply #145 on: January 11, 2014, 12:09:44 PM »
I already had it sometimes in the past, and it just happened again.  When visiting Autopuzzles (and the forum) the following webpage pops up.  After refreshing a couple of times, the normal pages are present again.  Reason?

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Re: IMPORTANT: AutoPuzzles will be stopped for maintenance!
« Reply #146 on: March 16, 2014, 05:24:16 PM »
Hi,
I posted this in another section but I had no feedback about it... what do you think about adding a "tag" system to the puzzles?
http://www.simplemachines.org/community/index.php?topic=135761.0
This is the only part I understand:
http://mods.simplemachines.org/index.php?mod=579

seems to be quite simple and very useful!
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Re: IMPORTANT: AutoPuzzles will be stopped for maintenance!
« Reply #147 on: March 16, 2014, 05:25:59 PM »
It could be great to classify the solved puzzles...
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Re: IMPORTANT: AutoPuzzles will be stopped for maintenance!
« Reply #148 on: March 16, 2014, 06:26:51 PM »
Just a thought the big problem with tagging stuff (as I know from bitter experience) is when someone adds a tag in which is almost the same as an existing one - I.e. Spelling convertible as convertable. Both tags become valid but the misspelled tag hides the information from search results.

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Re: IMPORTANT: AutoPuzzles will be stopped for maintenance!
« Reply #149 on: July 11, 2014, 12:29:21 AM »
AutoPuzzles will again be stopped for maintenance over the next weekend (19/20 July). Don't panic, it will come back, it is just being moved to a new, faster server
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