RE: Good experience
Thank you for the kind words and feedback
Posted on: 11/19/2009 2:46 PM by Author "RCadmin" in the forum "Suggestions"
http://www.rcuniverse.com/forum/fb.asp?m=9265473

RE: Hangar 9 Twist 3D Part II - Thread Continuation
Comments made against our rules or that are off topic may be removed with or without notice. Members should try to stay on topic and should also not post anything of inflammatory nature. If that happens then posts will be removed. If everyone plays nice (which 99.9% of people do hence the reason why 99.9% of our 9 million plus posts sit perfectly fine here in the forums today) then the posts do not get removed. A few people always insist on trying to see what they can get away with and the mods deal with it. The don't do it for kicks. They do it to make RCU a better place for you, the member.
Posted on: 11/18/2009 10:00 AM by Author "RCadmin" in the forum "ARF or RTF"
http://www.rcuniverse.com/forum/fb.asp?m=9262541

RE: 1.6 Million Pound Bugatti car wash
Could possibly be insurance fraud. Guy probably lost too much on the car as exotic pricing has come way down. he likely had it insured for way more then it was worth now so dumped it in the drink to collect the bigger insurance payoff and recover what he paid vs actual worth.
Posted on: 11/16/2009 9:08 AM by Author "RCadmin" in the forum "Off Topic Forum - Cars, Trucks, Buggies and more"
http://www.rcuniverse.com/forum/fb.asp?m=9257328

RE: WHY ARE THE PICTURES ALWAYS MESN UP?
sometimes a server gets blown. when this happens please find which server you are on and uploading to and PM me right away. a reboot fixes this. go to magazine sectiona nd scroll to bottom of page for server id (i.e. rcu2,3,4) also some people show pics from photobucket fullsize so we have no control over their display size marc
Posted on: 11/15/2009 9:02 PM by Author "RCadmin" in the forum "Forum questions or problems"
http://www.rcuniverse.com/forum/fb.asp?m=9256291

RE: Subscription count.
Ken, People can post to a thread and choose NOT to subscribe to it. Hence the reason howard discovered this. I have posted in many threads but not always subscribed
Posted on: 11/15/2009 8:59 PM by Author "RCadmin" in the forum "Forum questions or problems"
http://www.rcuniverse.com/forum/fb.asp?m=9256283

RE: Subscription count.
Howard - that bug is fixed...it occured if no subscriptions existed. Now it will say zero. Also I am building logic to ONLY show the icon when there are subscriptions. Last, I am working on a subscribe, unsubscribe icon next to the thread title subject on the thread listing page so you can add/remove subscriptions while viewing threads without page refresh.
Posted on: 11/15/2009 7:44 AM by Author "RCadmin" in the forum "Forum questions or problems"
http://www.rcuniverse.com/forum/fb.asp?m=9254794

RE: Subscription count.
[quote]ORIGINAL: Lightfoot Microsoft VBScript runtime error '800a000d' Type mismatch: 'UBound' /forum/whosubscribed.asp, line 38 [/quote] Howard - do you still get this error? need the page and thread title so I can click the icon and try to duplicate.
Posted on: 11/15/2009 7:30 AM by Author "RCadmin" in the forum "Forum questions or problems"
http://www.rcuniverse.com/forum/fb.asp?m=9254784

RE: Subscription count.
I'm adding this feature now. the code is done. just have to place icon on the page somewhere
Posted on: 11/14/2009 7:24 PM by Author "RCadmin" in the forum "Forum questions or problems"
http://www.rcuniverse.com/forum/fb.asp?m=9253910

RE: Asking for sign-in a lot
this is not a hack. we spun up a new server and there are certain folders that the permissions have to be set correctly on. I have been tracking them down one by one and setting them which fixes this user/pass prompt for those. if I missed any and it comes up again please PM me again asap and note the exact page you are on in the PM. my username is "RCadmin". I can look at the source of the page and find the directory requiring permission fix on my new server. if you just cancel the prompt the page should load fine. what would be missing that you won't see is some small image or icon (i.e. smiley) that is in some nested directory that does not have its permission set yet to allow the web server to grab it. sorry for the trouble but this is one of those things that I have to trace where it occurs. our permissions are extremely complex in our server farm. marc
Posted on: 11/14/2009 5:45 PM by Author "RCadmin" in the forum "Forum questions or problems"
http://www.rcuniverse.com/forum/fb.asp?m=9253680

RE: Subscription count.
we do not have a subscribed count feature yet but that is an interesting suggestion!
Posted on: 11/14/2009 5:36 PM by Author "RCadmin" in the forum "Forum questions or problems"
http://www.rcuniverse.com/forum/fb.asp?m=9253662

RE: how to post
Old and new search are available. new is default but if you want old just click old search link at top of new search page new search has filters on left side and a link under the search box to explain how to use more powerful advanced functions and features
Posted on: 11/14/2009 3:07 PM by Author "RCadmin" in the forum "Beginners"
http://www.rcuniverse.com/forum/fb.asp?m=9253419

RE: Is it just me
If you guys see issues just PM me for fastest response. username "RCadmin". please note where you were, description of problem and the server id as described above in this thread. Last couple days I have been doing some maintenance and bringing up a new server along with reboots. Also some db maintenance and security patches today. I've seem some timeout issues on the new server so if that happens copy those errors and email to support (at) rc universe dot (com). leave out spaces and parentheses on that email...it is just cloaked up to avoid spam harvestor bots :)
Posted on: 11/14/2009 2:40 PM by Author "RCadmin" in the forum "Beginners"
http://www.rcuniverse.com/forum/fb.asp?m=9253377

RE: Fox .74
Timeouts can happen for several issues. the most common is that you get server jumped. We have many front end web servers and if for some reason (not typical) you get popped to another server you can lose your session. usually it happens when we restart a service or reboot a server having issues. we did put up a new server and I am debugging a more sinister problem on that one
Posted on: 11/14/2009 12:17 PM by Author "RCadmin" in the forum "Glow Engines"
http://www.rcuniverse.com/forum/fb.asp?m=9253161

RE: Do your advertisers a big favor and...
due to cache busting technology the back button will not work. cache busters are used to not show you the same ad on every page which for obvious reasons would be bad. I am unable to come up with any workaround to this as a result even though it is a good suggestion. The only thing we could do is keep a trailing record of what ads you viewed on recent pages and then have a link like "show me the last 20 banners I viewed". That however may require extensive coding and put undue strain to track this on the system. This is more of an edge type case too so not sure our coding efforts in other areas would pay you more dividends.
Posted on: 11/2/2009 10:34 AM by Author "RCadmin" in the forum "Forum questions or problems"
http://www.rcuniverse.com/forum/fb.asp?m=9222288

RE: Please change the home screen of this website
You can choose all and you can set that as your default if you are logged in. We don't only do it for marketing but since some people ONLY want to see say cars or airplanes we tailor the site completely to those people and this avoids the noise if they have one interest area. the best solution is to stay logged in or choose your pref as you have been. If we can make the selection happen without page refresh though we will look into that.
Posted on: 10/27/2009 3:23 PM by Author "RCadmin" in the forum "Suggestions"
http://www.rcuniverse.com/forum/fb.asp?m=9206504

RE: RC Universe Mobile
At some point we will optimize the site for mobile display. I don't have specific timeline on this project right now though. It will likely coincide with an overall site facelift redesign
Posted on: 10/21/2009 9:41 PM by Author "RCadmin" in the forum "Suggestions"
http://www.rcuniverse.com/forum/fb.asp?m=9192131

RE: post history
Or click the post count near your avatar which is also a link to another fast view of your posts
Posted on: 10/21/2009 9:40 PM by Author "RCadmin" in the forum "Forum questions or problems"
http://www.rcuniverse.com/forum/fb.asp?m=9192129

RE: The lowball shield, Why does rcu not inforce the use of it?
also if we can duplicate any bug in the lowball shield (for official offers...not questions made from the market) then we can fix it. john will try to duplicate this with your help. If duplicated we will leave the items in place for the programmers to look at and find the issue with the code should it exist
Posted on: 10/20/2009 3:38 PM by Author "RCadmin" in the forum "MarketPlace questions or problem?"
http://www.rcuniverse.com/forum/fb.asp?m=9188619

RE: BANNER AD COVERS UP MY AD!
This appears to be an issue in IE7 due to the broken thumbnails on the page that occured when our image server was funky for about 12 hours a week ago (I think on the 9th). the broken images cause the image alt text to spread the image column about 2x normal width thus pushing the display wider then it is supposed to be. This does not occur in firefox or IE8 or safari from what I can tell. Those broken images will be replaced or move off the page and expire shortly so it should fix itself. It really isn't the ad as much as the busted up display of the thumbnail column blowing out the entire page. The page should end where the right side of the header ends but as you can see the image column issue is messing that up for the moment. We don't run an image check at this time and replace with no photo if an image is found missing but that might be something we will look to do as a failsafe down the road. This type of thing is a rare occurence though. That said I am upgrading one of our servers which happens to be the image server so if the migration does not go smooth we may see a few hiccups but I'll be working on it in realtime so it should be short lived.
Posted on: 10/18/2009 6:53 PM by Author "RCadmin" in the forum "MarketPlace questions or problem?"
http://www.rcuniverse.com/forum/fb.asp?m=9183491

RE: BANNER AD COVERS UP MY AD!
[quote]ORIGINAL: rcguy! Google AD banner covers up the right hand side of my ad! MOVE IT TO THE RIGHT Please! http://www.rcuniverse.com/market/category.cfm?catID=214 Dave [/quote] Dave, I would need a screenshot. I have tested this in IE7, IE8 and Firefox 3.x and cannot duplicate. the ad sits completely to the right of all listings 800 pixels from the left side of the browser. Our display keeps all content within 800 pixels and thus the ad was placed to the right of this edge to avoid interfering. If you are using an older unsupported browser you may get unexpected results that the masses do not see.
Posted on: 10/18/2009 6:27 PM by Author "RCadmin" in the forum "MarketPlace questions or problem?"
http://www.rcuniverse.com/forum/fb.asp?m=9183434

RE: CANT USE
is this still an issue?
Posted on: 10/14/2009 12:50 PM by Author "RCadmin" in the forum "Forum questions or problems"
http://www.rcuniverse.com/forum/fb.asp?m=9172697

RE: What does this message mean?
It means your email on that account appears with another account in our system. you must have signed up twice with two usernames at some point
Posted on: 10/14/2009 12:50 PM by Author "RCadmin" in the forum "Forum questions or problems"
http://www.rcuniverse.com/forum/fb.asp?m=9172695

RE: Search engine problems
If you mean the search button from the forums that is separate. you have to go to the classifeids and use the search there. each is customized for its specific application
Posted on: 10/10/2009 12:12 AM by Author "RCadmin" in the forum "MarketPlace questions or problem?"
http://www.rcuniverse.com/forum/fb.asp?m=9160923

RE: Unable to upload photos for new ad
I've been working on this issue and think I found the problem and have it fixed. Please verify if you can upload ok now. thanks marc
Posted on: 10/10/2009 12:11 AM by Author "RCadmin" in the forum "MarketPlace questions or problem?"
http://www.rcuniverse.com/forum/fb.asp?m=9160921

RE: Iphone on rcuniverse.com?
try now. your email was in our system under 2 accounts
Posted on: 10/8/2009 6:50 PM by Author "RCadmin" in the forum "Forum questions or problems"
http://www.rcuniverse.com/forum/fb.asp?m=9157370

RE: RCU Admin wants to know what features you want on RCU and which ones should be improved
[quote]ORIGINAL: badger5964 Posts sometimes get confusing because the reply is not directed at the last post, but one of the earlier posts. I think it would be helpful to somehow highlight that you are directing a reply at a specific post. Perhaps in reply to johndoe,post #XX. THe system only marks it as in reply to writer. Should it be not in reply to last post something a little more obvious. [/quote] this is also a good idea and we can implement this. I'm working on the uploader still but once that is done I'm going down this list and will start working on mowing these all down
Posted on: 10/8/2009 9:27 AM by Author "RCadmin" in the forum "The Clubhouse"
http://www.rcuniverse.com/forum/fb.asp?m=9156085

RE: RCU Admin wants to know what features you want on RCU and which ones should be improved
[quote]ORIGINAL: weathervane I would like to see you return to the page you were looking at when you sign in. I look alot and do not sign in, but when I do sign in you need to back through the threads to find what you were just looking at. Just what I would like to see added to RCU. -Andrew [/quote] this is a good idea and one we will implement. marc
Posted on: 10/7/2009 7:54 PM by Author "RCadmin" in the forum "The Clubhouse"
http://www.rcuniverse.com/forum/fb.asp?m=9154882

RE: RCU Admin wants to know what features you want on RCU and which ones should be improved
[quote]ORIGINAL: larry@coyotenet I would like to see the forums free from unpaid advertising, Have a seperate forum were your commercial posters can post, clearly label the forum as adds. some of the forums, like the gas engine forum, are almost worthless for information because of all the people promoting their products in the form of an answer to a question! [/quote] Please report these when you see them. there are not a huge amount of vendors in rc so if we clamp down on this abuse we can stop this from happening. your reports are sent to moderators and held confidentially. marc
Posted on: 10/7/2009 4:17 PM by Author "RCadmin" in the forum "The Clubhouse"
http://www.rcuniverse.com/forum/fb.asp?m=9154397

RE: RCU Admin wants to know what features you want on RCU and which ones should be improved
[quote]ORIGINAL: jimmyjames213 can you please extend the file upload size to 8mb. that way you can include two camera pics without having to edit them. [/quote] We are working on the upload process now with a new uploader including progress bar, new file limit sizes, multiple selection. We got hung up with all sorts of issues and had to ditch the last set of code and are near the tail end of some new code for this stay tuned...I hope to have it live within a week or so marc
Posted on: 10/6/2009 10:19 PM by Author "RCadmin" in the forum "The Clubhouse"
http://www.rcuniverse.com/forum/fb.asp?m=9152599

RE: Can't edit posts
I have my programmer looking at this now
Posted on: 10/6/2009 10:17 PM by Author "RCadmin" in the forum "Forum questions or problems"
http://www.rcuniverse.com/forum/fb.asp?m=9152596