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Where's the damn forum! 29 Jan 2012 23:24 #1

Mark_Gough
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Some have expressed concern that they can't find their way around or are having trouble finding the main forum.

Here's the quick instructions to quickly get to the MAIN FORUM PAGE that most of you will recognize.

1. Login at the horseshoes.com screen.

2. Click the tab (Under all the advertising) labeled "Forum".

3. Click the tab (Under all the advertising) labeled "Index".

Voila... you're there!

The "Index" tab presents what most of you will recognize as at least somewhat familiar.

Here's another tip.

If you want really quick access to the main forum page, use the instruction above. Once on the forum page, drag & drop that page from your web browser to your desktop. Now you can just click on that newly created desktop icon and get immediately into the forum page. That does presume that you selected the "remember me" box on the login screen and that you have not logged out. If you log out, use the instructions above.

Cheers,
Mark

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Re: Where's the damn forum! 29 Jan 2012 23:32 #2

cyber steve OFFLINE Owner Posts: 846 Thank you received: 50 Karma: 9	I know you are trying to make this easy to find but isn't this the same thing you have already written in the other threads, let's stay productive please
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Re: Where's the damn forum! 29 Jan 2012 23:47 #3

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Mark_Gough wrote:

Some have expressed concern that they can't find their way around or are having trouble finding the main forum.

Here's the quick instructions to quickly get to the MAIN FORUM PAGE that most of you will recognize.

1. Login at the horseshoes.com screen.

2. Click the tab (Under all the advertising) labeled "Forum".

3. Click the tab (Under all the advertising) labeled "Index".

Voila... you're there!

The "Index" tab presents what most of you will recognize as at least somewhat familiar.

Here's another tip.

If you want really quick access to the main forum page, use the instruction above. Once on the forum page, drag & drop that page from your web browser to your desktop. Now you can just click on that newly created desktop icon and get immediately into the forum page. That does presume that you selected the "remember me" box on the login screen and that you have not logged out. If you log out, use the instructions above.

Cheers,
Mark

Thanks Mark , that helps me out a lot, Thank you.

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Re: Where's the damn forum! 30 Jan 2012 00:05 #4

Mark_Gough
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cyber steve wrote:

I know you are trying to make this easy to find but isn't this the same thing you have already written in the other threads, let's stay productive please

Yes, it is redundant, but I suspect many are no longer following that other thread due to complexity and jargon language. The general discussion forum has historically been the most active and most familiar to many users. Thought it would help to have the instructions here too. I think Dave's reply to my comment makes the point.

Last I checked, text storage is cheap.

Cheers,
Mark

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Re: Where's the damn forum! 30 Jan 2012 00:46 #5

cyber steve OFFLINE Owner Posts: 846 Thank you received: 50 Karma: 9	I stand corrected then, if it helped someone then we are pulling in the same direction.
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Re: Where's the damn forum! 30 Jan 2012 03:40 #6

Eric Russell OFFLINE Senior Member Posts: 431 Thank you received: 19 Karma: 3	maybe this will help...
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Where's the damn forum! 30 Jan 2012 11:18 #7

cyber steve OFFLINE Owner Posts: 846 Thank you received: 50 Karma: 9	Last might I reprogrammed the forum link that is at the top of the page in the menu so it goes to the main forum menu instead of the latest forum posts (that was a change to reduce load when the site was crashing due to traffic). My change didnt seem to work but now it works right from my phone so must have just been a cache issue on my pc.
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Re: Where's the damn forum! 30 Jan 2012 11:32 #8

Eric Russell OFFLINE Senior Member Posts: 431 Thank you received: 19 Karma: 3	did you see the video at the 29 second mark?
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Re: Where's the damn forum! 30 Jan 2012 15:52 #9

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Re: Where's the damn forum! 30 Jan 2012 16:50 #10

cyber steve OFFLINE Owner Posts: 846 Thank you received: 50 Karma: 9	I've changed the INDEX to read FORUM
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Re: Where's the damn forum! 30 Jan 2012 17:51 #11

ThomasRideandDrive OFFLINE Master Equestrian Centre Proprietor, Northumberland, UK Posts: 2514 Thank you received: 2 Karma: 1	I think a couple have been changed in error. Just clicked on forum and was taken to profile
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Re: Where's the damn forum! 30 Jan 2012 17:57 #12

cyber steve OFFLINE Owner Posts: 846 Thank you received: 50 Karma: 9	that is another forum link from within the social area, I cannot find that one to change, the menu I found goes only to the previous tab which was Events so I have turned this one over to the pro. The tab I was talking about was the one in the forums that said index. It now says Forum and will bring you to the whole forum list.
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Re: Where's the damn forum! 30 Jan 2012 22:43 #13

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Steve, just another possible 'bug' to add to the list. I've seen this happen several times in the last couple days.

Everything seems to be working as expected while browsing forum; select 'Community", then "Social Networking" and things go downhill. The screen clears to all white with the following message.

Bad Request

Your browser sent a request that this server could not understand.
Size of a request header field exceeds server limit.

Cookie: www.horseshoes.com/=0.8125,0.8125;

The cookie content is actually much, much longer. I just grabbed the first few bytes worth. Would estimate the total string length was well in excess of several kbytes. Looks like it was stacking browser history in the horseshoes.com cookie.

Any subsequent attempt to access horseshoes.com resulted in the same error message.

Browser is firefox, version 9.0.1.

To correct the issue I simply deleted the entire cookie. Suspect with enough interaction, the problem will return. I'll let you know.

Know you're busy but thought it best to provide the information so you can share with your developers.

Cheers,
Mark

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Re: Where's the damn forum! 30 Jan 2012 22:49 #14

Eric Russell OFFLINE Senior Member Posts: 431 Thank you received: 19 Karma: 3	I've been dealing with the bad request problem for some time now in Joomla. It's an irritating bug that no one seems to know an answer to.
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Re: Where's the damn forum! 31 Jan 2012 00:20 #15

BS-Horseshoeing OFFLINE Master Posts: 1529 Thank you received: 4 Karma: 2	I still have to log in every time I come to the site. I've cleared cookies and the cache several times.
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