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.

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

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

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

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.

Keeping it simple would be best (IMO)

Thread Starter

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#scAlertWithMessage

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

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

test

Mike

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.

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

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

Should have been trading Silver!

@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

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.

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

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

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

@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

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

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.

@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

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

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!

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...

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.

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?

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.

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.

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

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?

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.