futures io site changelog and issues/problem reporting

userque · (login for full post details)

Big Mike

If anyone has a suggestion on a better visual icon to represent 'thread starter' or 'original poster' than the microphone, let me know. Open to suggestions.

I'm also still working on the other suggestions.

Mike

Rather than 'starter' or 'op' or 'original poster,' think 'first' or '#1' instead. Icons for 'first' or '#1' work better, imo.

A google image search for either will show what I'm referring to, but a 'first place ribbon icon' comes to mind.

Big Mike · (login for full post details)

userque

Rather than 'starter' or 'op' or 'original poster,' think 'first' or '#1' instead. Icons for 'first' or '#1' work better, imo.

A google image search for either will show what I'm referring to, but a 'first place ribbon icon' comes to mind.

OK, but let's use a journal as an example where other members ask questions, but the primary poster is the thread starter.

Does it make sense to see "#1" next to his posts as the owner of the thread?

Mike

userque · (login for full post details)

Big Mike

OK, but let's use a journal as an example where other members ask questions, but the primary poster is the thread starter.

Does it make sense to see "#1" next to his posts as the owner of the thread?

Mike

Doesn't that question also apply to the 'mic' icon?

My understanding is that they both represent 'thread starter.'

Or am I missing something?

But to answer your question, it makes sense to me ... since he started the thread.

The original issue was that the mic icon does not intuitively cause a reader to think, "Ah! s/he must be the thread starter." IMO, that intuitive response would be more like if the icon were one of a first place ribbon, or something along those lines:

Again, let me know if I'm misunderstanding something.

(BTW, my other choice was an icon of an arm/hand shooting a starter's gun)

Big Mike · (login for full post details)

From the "improve" thread:

Help improve the FIO community

Enhance "Follow" thread button (at top of thread) so it respects default value of Subscription type for member (instant, daily, weekly). Currently it is forced to Instant only. They can be modified by user after the fact, but it should default …

Big Mike

Enhance "Follow" thread button (at top of thread) so it respects default value of Subscription type for member (instant, daily, weekly). Currently it is forced to Instant only. They can be modified by user after the fact, but it should default to whatever the member has as his default. It isn't an easy enhancement which is why it wasn't done the first time...

Mike

This is now done. Please report any problems, and it would be great if you could also report that it is working correctly for you.

Basically, it should follow your existing subscription preferences now. If you had no subscription, no email, daily, weekly etc, it should respect that.

Mike

TopGunNote · (login for full post details)

Big Mike

If anyone has a suggestion on a better visual icon to represent 'thread starter' or 'original poster' than the microphone, let me know. Open to suggestions.

I'm also still working on the other suggestions.

Mike

Keeping it simple would be best (IMO)

Thread Starter

bobwest · (login for full post details)

My problem is that I can't think of a picture that unambiguously conveys the idea of "Thread Starter." This may not be a case of a picture being worth a thousand words.

If an icon is not already in wide use, I think it usually is not all that understandable. Think of all the computer system icons that are familiar and second-nature to us. Except for a very few, they probably meant very little until we got used to them (Exceptions: hourglass or the current twirling circle for "wait".) If there is no standardized icon for something, it gets tough to think of one, which means that probably users would find it hard to recognize if they saw it.

Bob.

userque · (login for full post details)

bobwest

My problem is that I can't think of a picture that unambiguously conveys the idea of "Thread Starter." This may not be a case of a picture being worth a thousand words.

If an icon is not already in wide use, I think it usually is not all that understandable. Think of all the computer system icons that are familiar and second-nature to us. Except for a very few, they probably meant very little until we got used to them (Exceptions: hourglass or the current twirling circle for "wait".) If there is no standardized icon for something, it gets tough to think of one, which means that probably users would find it hard to recognize if they saw it.

Bob.

Agree. OTOH, using an icon that is already used by Google, phone apps, and others to mean 'record,' as something other than that, is the other side of the coin.

But there's hope. The 'gear' icon is now well-known to mean 'settings.' That was learned, and not really intuitive. Same with the '3 lines,' or 'hamburger' icon ('menu'). Mike will just have to start a 'thread starter' icon trend.

Big Mike · (login for full post details)

This has been implemented:

Help improve the FIO community

Automatically select your journal thread based on the newest thread you create in journal section(s). Many members leave the profile field blank because they don't know it's there. Determining it automatically will help others find the journals …

In addition, you will receive an automatic direct message letting you know this action has been taken.

All of this is triggered upon viewing your own journal. I worked to implement this today to make it a better experience for our February Journal Challenge, located here:

FIO Journal Challenge - Feb 2021 w/Topstep

Hi guys,

Continuing in the tradition of encouraging journals on FIO, I am announcing a new Journal Challenge for February 2021, sponsored by Topstep.

Prizes -- the top three trading journals will each receive:

1 month $150K Trading Combine …

Please report any problems.

Mike

MrTrader · (login for full post details)

TopGunNote

Keeping it simple would be best (IMO)

Thread Starter

Sent using the futures.io mobile app

Trembling Hand · (login for full post details)

This site for some reason truncates urls if you just paste the url into the text box rather than use the "insert link" button if they have a # in them. All of SierraChart docs links for the ACSIL functions and methods have urls with this # in them so its has been hard to point users to the function you are trying to direct them to until I just noticed that the button doesn't shorten the link!

for example,

2021-01-30 14_19_24-ACSIL Interface Members - Functions - Sierra Chart

The above url gets posted here if I use the insert link button as,

https://www.sierrachart.com/index.php?page=doc/ACSIL_Members_Functions.html

but like this if pasted directly into the text,
https://www.sierrachart.com/index.php?page=doc/ACSIL_Members_Functions.html

Which is strange?!

Big Mike · (login for full post details)

The journal challenge is a recurring event here, and I am proud of it - because of how much it can help traders!

I've now completed the feature that will allow real-time updates for the journal challenge:

As you browse our community threads, you'll see this real-time list updating. Follow along in the journal threads and make your voice heard by voting for your favorites -- using the thanks button -- so that journal authors can win!

You should also start your own journal, for your own chance to win!

Mike

Big Mike · (login for full post details)

Trembling Hand

This site for some reason truncates urls if you just paste the url into the text box rather than use the "insert link" button if they have a # in them. All of SierraChart docs links for the ACSIL functions and methods have urls with this # in them so its has been hard to point users to the function you are trying to direct them to until I just noticed that the button doesn't shorten the link!

for example,

2021-01-30 14_19_24-ACSIL Interface Members - Functions - Sierra Chart

The above url gets posted here if I use the insert link button as,

https://www.sierrachart.com/index.php?page=doc/ACSIL_Members_Functions.html

but like this if pasted directly into the text,
https://www.sierrachart.com/index.php?page=doc/ACSIL_Members_Functions.html

Which is strange?!

Are you saying the below URL doesn't work?

https://www.sierrachart.com/index.php?page=doc/ACSIL_Members_Functions.html#scAlertWithMessage

Test:

https://www.sierrachart.com/index.php?page=doc/ACSIL_Members_Functions.html

Mike

Big Mike · (login for full post details)

Big Mike

Are you saying the below URL doesn't work?

https://www.sierrachart.com/index.php?page=doc/ACSIL_Members_Functions.html#scAlertWithMessage

Test:

https://www.sierrachart.com/index.php?page=doc/ACSIL_Members_Functions.html

Mike

Interesting, I see what you mean. I'll need take a deeper look.

test

Mike

Big Mike · (login for full post details)

Big Mike

Interesting, I see what you mean. I'll need take a deeper look.

test

Mike

@Trembling Hand

So what you can do as a workaround for the moment is the following:

[url="https://www.sierrachart.com/index.php?page=doc/ACSIL_Members_Functions.html#scAlertWithMessage"]my url with fragment[/url]

When you mark it up this way, it maintains the URL fragment in the href.

Mike

Big Mike · (login for full post details)

YouTube URL's will now automatically be converted to YouTube player, without needing any bbcode markup. Simply post the URL and nothing more.

Existing posts are being converted now in the background, it will take a few hours. New posts should reflect the change immediately.

Please report any problems.

Mike

bobwest · (login for full post details)

Mike, a question, but depending on the answer it may lead to a suggestion:

Suppose I tag someone with the "@" sign, and it's the wrong person. But it's a valid user so the system finds a match and sends out a DM.

Then I realize the mistake and go back to my post and edit it to put in the user I really meant, and the system finds a match on it.

Does the edit trigger a new DM to the corrected user, or is that only done when I did the original post?

If it doesn't send a new DM, do you think it should, and is it worth whatever effort it would take to change it, if so?

(I just did exactly this mistake/correction, and I wondered if the newly-corrected user would be notified of the mention.)

Bob.

Big Mike · (login for full post details)

Made a change to prevent new post subscription emails for going out for the "Introduce yourself" thread.

The reasoning being that each new post triggers thousands of emails, and it can be overwhelming -- especially for new members.

I have a suspicion that we actually lose a lot of good potential members here because they end up getting "spammed" with introduce yourself emails, and perhaps they hit the Unsubscribe button and accept the links -- which is to remove all emails of any kind going forward (so they never hear from us again).

Another possibility is that they simply mark the whole range of "introduce yourself" emails as spam in their email software, which automatically triggers an unsubscription on our side from all emails as well.

If any of you are subscribed and currently receiving emails to that thread, would you please kindly tell me whether or not you have stopped getting them as of now (going forward from this post).

Mike

Big Mike · (login for full post details)

bobwest

Mike, a question, but depending on the answer it may lead to a suggestion:

Suppose I tag someone with the "@" sign, and it's the wrong person. But it's a valid user so the system finds a match and sends out a DM.

Then I realize the mistake and go back to my post and edit it to put in the user I really meant, and the system finds a match on it.

Does the edit trigger a new DM to the corrected user, or is that only done when I did the original post?

If it doesn't send a new DM, do you think it should, and is it worth whatever effort it would take to change it, if so?

(I just did exactly this mistake/correction, and I wondered if the newly-corrected user would be notified of the mention.)

Bob.

The edit will in fact trigger a mention for the new (corrected) user, which will trigger an email to them if they have not disabled it.

Mike

Big Mike · (login for full post details)

Big Mike

Made a change to prevent new post subscription emails for going out for the "Introduce yourself" thread.

The reasoning being that each new post triggers thousands of emails, and it can be overwhelming -- especially for new members.

I have a suspicion that we actually lose a lot of good potential members here because they end up getting "spammed" with introduce yourself emails, and perhaps they hit the Unsubscribe button and accept the links -- which is to remove all emails of any kind going forward (so they never hear from us again).

Another possibility is that they simply mark the whole range of "introduce yourself" emails as spam in their email software, which automatically triggers an unsubscription on our side from all emails as well.

If any of you are subscribed and currently receiving emails to that thread, would you please kindly tell me whether or not you have stopped getting them as of now (going forward from this post).

Mike

Oops. It isn't working. Figuring that one out today...

Mike

Big Mike · (login for full post details)

Big Mike

Oops. It isn't working. Figuring that one out today...

Mike

OK, I think I got it now. So no one should be receiving "Reply to Introduce yourself thread" emails any longer.

Mike

Big Mike · (login for full post details)

Updates to the editor toolbar, to drastically reduce the number of confusing icons.

With the updates I've been making to the site, these buttons simply aren't necessary any longer. The system should automatically figure out what you are wanting to do.

Mike

Big Mike · (login for full post details)

Spent the morning optimizing some thread caching routines. Found a couple of areas for huge improvements, like 100x over increase after I applied some techniques I've learned to old routines.

End result, thread display should be significantly faster. I've noticed most threads are loading 40-50% faster, for example in 90ms vs 140ms.

Speaking of milliseconds, I've modified the footer of the site to display page load time in milliseconds instead of seconds.

Mike

SMCJB · (login for full post details)

Big Mike

Spent the morning optimizing some thread caching routines....

Should have been trading Silver!

Big Mike · (login for full post details)

SMCJB

Should have been trading Silver!

LOL, all of my spare time this week has been devoted to learning some new Cryptocurrencies. The things these new tokens are coming up with in DeFi and the blockchain are just amazing. Far more interesting than Silver.

How did you do this morning trading it?

Mike

SMCJB · (login for full post details)

How confident can you be on some of these new DeFi opportunities without personally auditing the code? That's what really scares me about DeFi and has kept me away.

The day was good. Silver spreads don't trade enough so difficult to make it a really good day, So lots of odd lots when in NG or CL it would have been 100s of spreads. Can't complain though. HK had a 50c range, KN a 30c range, NU 17c range and UZ a 20c range. Pretty crazy for a commodity that has a hard storage cap on spread values!

Big Mike · (login for full post details)

Cleaning up another item:

You still zoom the image like normal, but this outdated "warning" is no longer useful and it has been removed.

If you are still seeing it, you'll have to wait for your javascript css cache to expire (up-to 7 days), or you can force it right now by doing a Ctrl + F5 or Ctrl + (reload icon) in your browser.

Mike

Trembling Hand · (login for full post details)

Big Mike

@Trembling Hand

So what you can do as a workaround for the moment is the following:

[url="https://www.sierrachart.com/index.php?page=doc/ACSIL_Members_Functions.html#scAlertWithMessage"]my url with fragment[/url]

When you mark it up this way, it maintains the URL fragment in the href.

Mike

Ok so just testing now that the url button has been removed.

my test url

bobwest · (login for full post details)

Big Mike

If anyone has a suggestion on a better visual icon to represent 'thread starter' or 'original poster' than the microphone, let me know. Open to suggestions.

I'm also still working on the other suggestions.

Mike

On the Thread Starter question, currently this only shows if the person starting the thread is an Elite member. Non-Elite members may start a thread, but they are not designated that way.

I was reading a trade journal this morning, and I couldn't remember if someone who made the post I was reading was the person whose journal it was. I had to go back to the first page to check that.

There may be reasons to not have the other icons for non-Elite users, but I think that marking the "Thread Starter," whether Elite of not, would add clarity and would be useful.

Bob.

Big Mike · (login for full post details)

bobwest

On the Thread Starter question, currently this only shows if the person starting the thread is an Elite member. Non-Elite members may start a thread, but they are not designated that way.

I was reading a trade journal this morning, and I couldn't remember if someone who made the post I was reading was the person whose journal it was. I had to go back to the first page to check that.

There may be reasons to not have the other icons for non-Elite users, but I think that marking the "Thread Starter," whether Elite of not, would add clarity and would be useful.

Bob.

Agreed, that is an oversight that needs to be fixed.

Mike

Big Mike · (login for full post details)

Big Mike

Made a change to prevent new post subscription emails for going out for the "Introduce yourself" thread.

The reasoning being that each new post triggers thousands of emails, and it can be overwhelming -- especially for new members.

I have a suspicion that we actually lose a lot of good potential members here because they end up getting "spammed" with introduce yourself emails, and perhaps they hit the Unsubscribe button and accept the links -- which is to remove all emails of any kind going forward (so they never hear from us again).

Another possibility is that they simply mark the whole range of "introduce yourself" emails as spam in their email software, which automatically triggers an unsubscription on our side from all emails as well.

If any of you are subscribed and currently receiving emails to that thread, would you please kindly tell me whether or not you have stopped getting them as of now (going forward from this post).

Mike

I noticed this morning that my change is only working for instant thread subscriptions. Members that have daily or weekly subscriptions are still receiving updates for the Introduce yourself thread.

Made a change, will monitor.

Mike

Big Mike · (login for full post details)

Small backend change for cached images. Previously pointed to bmcharts.com domain, now pointing to futures.io.

If you see any problems with images in posts not showing correctly, please let me know. This is the feature that takes images from non-FIO domains and grabs them, stores them on our server, so that they are cached. This not only makes the images load faster in the future, but most importantly it ensures the images are always visible should they be unavailable or deleted in the future from the original source.

Mike

Big Mike · (login for full post details)

Should the followers of a thread be visible? (list their names)

Would this be useful? For thread starters especially, but visible to everyone (once clicked)?

Mike

bobwest · (login for full post details)

Big Mike

Should the followers of a thread be visible? (list their names)

Would this be useful? For thread starters especially, but visible to everyone (once clicked)?

Mike

I can't see why it would. But I also can't see any big negative in it either. I don't expect it would get much use, off the top of my head. Perhaps some thread starters might care, but probably not the average reader.... Just my initial reaction.

Bob.

Silver Dragon · (login for full post details)

Big Mike

Updates to the editor toolbar, to drastically reduce the number of confusing icons.

With the updates I've been making to the site, these buttons simply aren't necessary any longer. The system should automatically figure out what you are wanting to do.

Mike

@Big Mike

Any chance of bringing back the hyperlink button? While the the system does recognize that I am entering a hyperlink it does not format it to allow for the friendly link. We are left with the big ugly link vs something which is something more descriptive and useful.

SPRE Info
vs
https://smallexchange.com/products/spre

The display formatting between the two is completely different. So there is little chance of remembering how to format it without going to look it up.

Robert

bobwest · (login for full post details)

Silver Dragon

@Big Mike

Any chance of bringing back the hyperlink button? While the the system does recognize that I am entering a hyperlink it does not format it to allow for the friendly link. We are left with the big ugly link vs something which is something more descriptive and useful.

SPRE Info
vs
https://smallexchange.com/products/spre

The display formatting between the two is completely different. So there is little chance of remembering how to format it without going to look it up.

Robert

I think I agree with this. I was thinking that I would just remember the proper syntax for the link that substitutes a text string for the normal url, as Robert illustrated, but the fact is that I would not. I also, frankly, don't want to learn it if I can just have a tool to do it with.

So my vote is also to bring it back, or otherwise provide the functionality.

Bob.

Big Mike · (login for full post details)

Silver Dragon

@Big Mike

Any chance of bringing back the hyperlink button? While the the system does recognize that I am entering a hyperlink it does not format it to allow for the friendly link. We are left with the big ugly link vs something which is something more descriptive and useful.

SPRE Info
vs
https://smallexchange.com/products/spre

The display formatting between the two is completely different. So there is little chance of remembering how to format it without going to look it up.

Robert

Yes I will.

Mike

userque · (login for full post details)

I say this light-heartedly:

Reading the recent posts made me recall having political discussions at work many years ago.

I recall thinking, "People should research why certain governmental programs were started in the first place, before simply just calling for their removal."

Big Mike · (login for full post details)

Hi everyone,

I want to welcome @Rrrracer to the FIO team today, as Webinar Host. I asked Shane to come aboard and help our community by taking over as much responsibility with the webinars as possible, freeing up my time to focus on development of the site in other areas.

Terry @tturner86 is transitioning to his new Marketing Strategist role, where he is also going to focus on all things Marketing in order to take as much responsibility as possible off of me in this area, so I can again focus on development of the site in other areas.

I am excited about these new changes. It is my strong belief that this will help catapult us forward to new excited times

Today's webinar with the CME Group about Ethereum futures will be Terry's last as Webinar Host. Shane will start beginning next week! Please give him some time to ramp up, it's a lot of work!

Mike

LastDino · (login for full post details)

Big Mike

Hi everyone,

I want to welcome @Rrrracer to the FIO team today, as Webinar Host. I asked Shane to come aboard and help our community by taking over as much responsibility with the webinars as possible, freeing up my time to focus on development of the site in other areas.

Terry @tturner86 is transitioning to his new Marketing Strategist role, where he is also going to focus on all things Marketing in order to take as much responsibility as possible off of me in this area, so I can again focus on development of the site in other areas.

I am excited about these new changes. It is my strong belief that this will help catapult us forward to new excited times

Today's webinar with the CME Group about Ethereum futures will be Terry's last as Webinar Host. Shane will start beginning next week! Please give him some time to ramp up, it's a lot of work!

Mike

A great addition. Congratulations and godspeed with new role @Rrrracer

Daytrader999 · (login for full post details)

Welcome @Rrrracer to the FIO team, get the party started and best of luck for your new task!

SMCJB · (login for full post details)

SMCJB

Not sure if this is me/my browser, or something to do with the way the email is formatted but this is what I am getting.

Big Mike

@SMCJB thank you. Took a look, it happens when the first few lines of the post include a quoted reference to another FIO thread. The logo image embedded is a big vector image, which resizes properly when viewed in a web browser because the browsers respect the CSS class definitions.

However, email service providers are not loading external CSS files and therefore are discarding the important class information for that image, which includes the max height/width attribute.

I've modified the inline CSS for the notify template to include it, so external loading is not required. I'm going to try and trigger the same "error" again by writing the same post again, and let's see if it is resolved.

Mike

Just FYI, this is still happening. Not sure if you thought it was fixed.

Big Mike

Updates to the editor toolbar, to drastically reduce the number of confusing icons.

With the updates I've been making to the site, these buttons simply aren't necessary any longer. The system should automatically figure out what you are wanting to do.

Mike

I was looking for the image button the other day. Thought I was go crazy that I thought there was one but couldn't find it!

Big Mike · (login for full post details)

SMCJB

Just FYI, this is still happening. Not sure if you thought it was fixed.

I was looking for the image button the other day. Thought I was go crazy that I thought there was one but couldn't find it!

Ctrl-F5 or Ctrl + Reload icon to force reload cache. I've put the URL and IMG ones back.

Mike

Big Mike · (login for full post details)

Discovered an issue with my script logic for the webinar popups.

In the event that you registered for the event via email, prior to visiting the website, you could potentially see the popup even though you just registered for the event via email.

I modified the logic so this should no longer happen. Will need further testing to confirm, please share your feedback.

The webinar events popup should only appear:

- 48 hours or less prior to event
- You haven't previously registered

And a side note, yes I am working to make the popup less obtrusive. I am currently working on new functions that I am building to handle event popups site-wide including new @ mentions, new direct messages, and webinar events.

EDIT: damn, moments later I had to disable it. We exceeded our API request limit with Google, I need to do some caching.

Mike

Big Mike · (login for full post details)

Change made for outbound emails that contain quoted content, thanks to @kevinkdog. I've been trying to get outbound emails to not contain quoted content, because it messes up formatting most of the time. It should contain only the post reply itself.

Hopefully with the most recent change, this behavior is working. The last change I made was a few days ago.

Let me know, look at the thread subscription emails.

Mike

SMCJB · (login for full post details)

If you look at this post here...

SMCJB

What your really looking for is probably OTA/Order Ticker Algo's
but I'm not sure if they work without ADL. A hidden cost with TT can be MAP fees. In the fine print at the bottom...

There is no end line/return/whatever you want to call it after the "Algo's"/URL link. The /URL tag appears to be adding an end line/return/whatever you want to call it character.

SMCJB · (login for full post details)

Big Mike

Change made for outbound emails that contain quoted content, thanks to @kevinkdog. I've been trying to get outbound emails to not contain quoted content, because it messes up formatting most of the time. It should contain only the post reply itself.

Hopefully with the most recent change, this behavior is working. The last change I made was a few days ago.

Let me know, look at the thread subscription emails.

Last several days I have been getting notification emails that include the quoted text but not the quote tags. Makes reading the notification emails far less clear what is a reply and what is a quote.

LastDino · (login for full post details)

This is more of a question since its possible that this functionality is already there somewhere, but is it possible for user viewing FIO to have some kind of timer (displayed on home page/main site page) to upcoming webinar set in accordance with their local time?

//I have no idea how forum programing works, or how difficult this could be, so please forgive if this requires lot more than what I'm thinking with my silly brain atm.

Thank you and regards ^^

Big Mike · (login for full post details)

LastDino

but is it possible for user viewing FIO to have some kind of timer (displayed on home page/main site page) to upcoming webinar set in accordance with their local time?

Absolutely. This is coming very soon. I already have it working for admins:

It counts down in real-time, and is based on your local time of course.

Mike

Big Mike · (login for full post details)

SMCJB

Last several days I have been getting notification emails that include the quoted text but not the quote tags. Makes reading the notification emails far less clear what is a reply and what is a quote.

Can you please evaluate starting from today forward and then let me know how it is?

Mike

Big Mike · (login for full post details)

SMCJB

If you look at this post here...

There is no end line/return/whatever you want to call it after the "Algo's"/URL link. The /URL tag appears to be adding an end line/return/whatever you want to call it character.

Here is the raw text in the editor:

The issue is you have a newline embedded inside the URL bbcode. I will edit to remove now, let me know if this is what you are referring to?

Mike

SMCJB · (login for full post details)

Big Mike

Can you please evaluate starting from today forward and then let me know how it is?

Big Mike

The issue is you have a newline embedded inside the URL bbcode. I will edit to remove now, let me know if this is what you are referring to?

So user error! Sorry for wasting your time then.

Big Mike · (login for full post details)

SMCJB

The quotes look right to me? So I think it is fixed? Please let me know if not.

Mike

SMCJB · (login for full post details)

Looks good.

Big Mike · (login for full post details)

Today was @Rrrracer's very first webinar as Webinar Host, and Shane did a great job!

That also means that today marked @tturner86's last webinar as Webinar Host, and I wanted to thank Terry for his time & great work over the last 5 or so years he has been Webinar Host! Terry is not leaving FIO, he is just transitioning into a Marketing Specialist role where he will be helping to expose our community to new people!

Mike

Big Mike · (login for full post details)

The Site Rules, Disclaimers, and Terms and Conditions have been updated:
https://futures.io/disclaimer/

Mike

Big Mike · (login for full post details)

Small update to the automatic journal setting feature, that sets your journal in your profile field automatically. It will now also consider the last post date/time if you have multiple journals, before updating your profile field.

Thanks to @Rrrracer for pointing this out.

Mike

sherekhan · (login for full post details)

Hello,

Is it possible to convert the following webinar video? When I go to the webinar page I get a message indicating : "You have no Flash Plugin installed"

Webinar: Cumulative Delta Volume Trading Techniques
Topic: Cumulative Delta Volume
Date: Thursday January 20th 2011
Presented by: Christopher @ FulcrumTrader

The link to the webinar page is: https://futures.io/webinars/jan20_2011/cumulative_delta_volume/

Thanks!

Big Mike · (login for full post details)

Hey guys,

Now you can post any image link, and the system will automatically embed the image for you. No need to wrap it in bbcode (IMG), or download it and re-upload here, etc. No need to even link it.

Today is first day with this feature enabled, so I am needing feedback. Please take a look at your threads and journals for any strange behavior. If something has changed (for the worse) please report it (use Report button, or link the permalink here). That way I can take a look at your exact example.

I purged the cache when this change was made. So page loading times may be slightly slower while the cache rebuilds for the next day or so.

Mike

bobwest · (login for full post details)

Hi Mike,

I just edited the title of a thread to fix a spelling error, and it took the change OK, except the original spelling is still shown in the heading at the top of the page. Everywhere else, it is fine.

Explained in this post:

Time and sales coding in ACSIL

FYI, I just fixed the title of this thread, from "Time and sales coding in ASCIL" to read "Time and sales coding in ACSIL." (Switched the order of the S and C.) I kept wondering what was bugging me about the title, until I said it out …

Bob.

Big Mike · (login for full post details)

bobwest

Hi Mike,

I just edited the title of a thread to fix a spelling error, and it took the change OK, except the original spelling is still shown in the heading at the top of the page. Everywhere else, it is fine.

Explained in this post:

Time and sales coding in ACSIL

FYI, I just fixed the title of this thread, from "Time and sales coding in ASCIL" to read "Time and sales coding in ACSIL." (Switched the order of the S and C.) I kept wondering what was bugging me about the title, until I said it out …

Bob.

It's updated once a minute until I make the time to make it more efficient

Mike

Big Mike · (login for full post details)

Found a bug thanks to @the edge whereby if you had undelieverable email, received the notice from our system, and updated your email address to a different email prior to resetting/clearing the notice by following the link, you would not be able to clear the link at all.

Corrected!

Mike

bobc635 · (login for full post details)

Hi Mike, I get private message notifications every day for a message that I cannot change status as already read... Any suggestions??

Thanks
Bob

Big Mike · (login for full post details)

bobc635

Hi Mike, I get private message notifications every day for a message that I cannot change status as already read... Any suggestions??

Thanks
Bob

Can you please give me a screenshot, I am not fully understanding.

Mike

bobc635 · (login for full post details)

Hi Mike.... I hope that this helps.....

Thanks
Bob
Private Message

SMCJB · (login for full post details)

Similar issue. Tells me I have one new message but I can't find a new message.

Big Mike · (login for full post details)

bobc635

Hi Mike.... I hope that this helps.....

Thanks
Bob
Private Message

So are you saying that the "D3spotter" private message doesn't get marked as read?

You click on it, and then what happens?

Can you please click on it and then copy/paste the URL for that message? It will give me the exact message ID so I can examine it in the database.

Mike

Big Mike · (login for full post details)

SMCJB

Similar issue. Tells me I have one new message but I can't find a new message.

Can you help me better understand -- where is it telling you there is a new message? Screenshot?

Mike

bobc635 · (login for full post details)

Hi Mike, when I click that message, it will not open... It just remains unread ... Here is the URL to the message right next to it, if that helps....
https://futures.io/private.php?do=showpm&pmid=1111069

Thanks
Bob

Big Mike

So are you saying that the "D3spotter" private message doesn't get marked as read?

You click on it, and then what happens?

Can you please click on it and then copy/paste the URL for that message? It will give me the exact message ID so I can examine it in the database.

Mike

SMCJB · (login for full post details)

Big Mike

Can you help me better understand -- where is it telling you there is a new message? Screenshot?

Mike

User error. Appears I do have a 3 month old unread post!

Big Mike · (login for full post details)

bobc635

Hi Mike, when I click that message, it will not open... It just remains unread ... Here is the URL to the message right next to it, if that helps....
https://futures.io/private.php?do=showpm&pmid=1111069

Thanks
Bob

Try this please:
- On the right side, click the checkbox for that message
- Scroll all the way down to bottom and select 'Mark as read'
- Click go

Let me know please. Still, it's an odd thing to be sure.

Mike

bobc635 · (login for full post details)

Oh Yeh... That fixed it... Sorry , I should have seen that....

Thanks
Bob

Big Mike · (login for full post details)

bobc635

Oh Yeh... That fixed it... Sorry , I should have seen that....

Thanks
Bob

No problem, that should not be necessary obviously. Not sure why this was happening to you, but I haven't heard of the issue before so I do hope it is isolated.

Mike

Big Mike · (login for full post details)

Thank you to @SBtrader82 from the suggestion thread:

Help improve the FIO community

Try this and let me know if I've misunderstood.

Then you can see all Bookmarks here in your UserCP:

Mike

Hi Mike
no this is not exactly what I meant, yes I know that I can access my journal by clicking to the journal button on one …

This change has been made as a result:

Top of each page next to your username, this icon will appear if you have a journal:

On the homepage, this also appears:

I will endeavor to improve this a bit. I want to show recent posts or thanks here, and also find a better icon. But this was a quick-n-dirty hack to get it there.

Mike

SBtrader82 · (login for full post details)

Big Mike

Thank you to @SBtrader82 from the suggestion thread:

Help improve the FIO community

Try this and let me know if I've misunderstood.

Then you can see all Bookmarks here in your UserCP:

Mike

Hi Mike
no this is not exactly what I meant, yes I know that I can access my journal by clicking to the journal button on one …

This change has been made as a result:

Top of each page next to your username, this icon will appear if you have a journal:

On the homepage, this also appears:

I will endeavor to improve this a bit. I want to show recent posts or thanks here, and also find a better icon. But this was a quick-n-dirty hack to get it there.

Mike

it looks great!! thanks a lot for the quick implementation, great job!

Big Mike · (login for full post details)

A tweak to the expanded links feature -- previously, when you wrapped the URL bbcode in a description, example:

[url="https://ninjatrader.com/download"]Download NinjaTrader![/url]

Then the expanded links feature would ignore the URL entirely. Which is the desired effect, most of the time. But there are a lot of user errors due to not completely understanding how bbcode works.

Example errors:

[url="https://ninjatrader.com/download"]https://ninjatrader.com/download[/url]

[url="https://futures.io/feedback-announcements/2497-futures-io-site-changelog-issues-problem-reporting-post835441.html#post835441"]https://futures.io/feedback-announcements/2497-futures-io-site-changelog-issues-problem-reporting-post835441.html#post835441[/url]

In these two examples above, the wrapped text is just a link itself -- not a description. What would happen prior to today is that only the text would be displayed. So if it was a YouTube link, a Tweet, a FIO link, then none of our enhanced link features would work.

But after the change today, we are now scanning the text and if it begins with http, then we assume it's a link and will treat it as such -- instead of treating it as text.

That means that this:

[url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wK8dDwUZaxs&t=1s]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wK8dDwUZaxs&t=1s[/url]

Becomes this:

And this:

[url="https://twitter.com/futuresio/status/1360349280666611716"]https://twitter.com/futuresio/status/1360349280666611716[/url]

Becomes this:

Please report any problems.

Mike

Big Mike · (login for full post details)

Hey guys,

A bug fix to report. For a long time (years?) the top-right search box has not always functioned 100% of the time, sometimes you would try to click it and it would never popup.

I hope this is now fixed! But I need you to please test & confirm, and also please report any new issues.

Mike

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