Site Updates

[SUPERCOACH]

I just finished installing a bunch of site updates that I have been working on.  The biggest one is the improved support for twitter.  There is now a Recent Tweets box on the right side.  You can also embed tweets within the forum now.  All you have to do is paste the link to the tweet, and the site will take care of everything else.

Literally paste in the link like this:
http://twitter.com/#!/carsontink/status/185872604631011328

When you do, instead of showing "Click here for link" the web site will convert it into the actual tweet like this:

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Besides that, here are some other improvements:

1)  The new member list has been changed over to a New Posters list.  It will only show people who have made a post.
2)  I added some code to make linking to youtube easy.  Now all you have to do is paste the link and the web site will figure out it is going to youtube and embed the actual video instead of showing "Click here for link".
3)  I fixed the issue were automatic links with an exclamation point in them would not work correctly.  This is what caused the cbssports.com links to not work most of the time unless you explicitly put them inside a [url][/url] tag.

[SUPERCOACH]

By the way, the embedded tweet will show "This account is protected.  Only confirmed followers have access to Tweets." while it is loading from twitter.  It will also show this on the post preview window since it will not actually attempt to load it for the preview.  But when you post it, it will load the actual tweet.

[Hannibal Lecter, MD]

Very nice, SC!

[SUPERCOACH]

Jamos has reported that he was receiving an error message saying that the site was running scripts that may cause his computer to be unresponsive.  I changed the recent tweets block to show them as a simple list for now.

If you see anything like that, please let me know what operating system and internet browser you are using.

[SUPERCOACH]

Very nice, SC!

Thanks.

[Old Tider]

Bravo, Super, for such attention to detail. If you had been captain of the Titanic, everything would have been okay.

[SUPERCOACH]

Jamos has reported that he was receiving an error message saying that the site was running scripts that may cause his computer to be unresponsive.  I changed the recent tweets block to show them as a simple list for now.

If you see anything like that, please let me know what operating system and internet browser you are using.

I've had a couple of reports of this issue.  It appears to happen with Internet Explorer on Windows XP.  It is a known issue according to Microsoft.  They have an article explaining how you can fix it by changing a setting in the registry on your computer.  However, I don't want everyone that comes to the site with Windows XP and Internet Explorer to see this issue so I am working on something to try to resolve this on my end.

[SUPERCOACH]

Bravo, Super, for such attention to detail. If you had been captain of the Titanic, everything would have been okay.

Thanks.

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