Playlouder - Music is the Network

Well as I suspect most people around here have enjoyed the privacy, it's obvious that a few of us Outsiders have been allowed to play around.
So, this is a thread (or whatever Playlouder alternative there is), where us Norms can drop ideas/feedback etc for the new toy.
Here's my first one : The tabs.
Can we please have an option that will allow the user to have a previously designated tab be the default displayed when we visit the site. The current defaulting to the Account tab is probably the least used tab for quick visits.
more as and when ..
and I promise to play nicely.

mark, please send all bugs and feature requests to us by using the Contact Us link at the bottom of the page.

That way it's properly ticketed and in our queue to fix and assess and it doesn't get lost in public chats!

testing avatars, don't mind me

ooh. ok moltov. but i thought this would help, if people are having issues and drop a note here (for example), then those of us who have found and cracked the problem can help and give advise.

everything is useful! did you drop that into the contact form? if you do it will go into the development queue and we'll have a think how we might do it

but if people drop problems into the Contact Us form then we can fx them. ;)

fix

fx it all

I think Fox have that copyrighted

ooh, a new one. an option to edit old posts .. (i'm gonna need that). hq

in chat?

that's definitely on the table already, along with deleting your old articles

we've got lots brewing!

it's against the rules of polite society to edit a chat!

though mark, you know the articles on here now are going to get wiped today or tomorrow when we do a big import from old PL?

Luke said he told you

oh yeah .. he did. i look forward to having the chance to find all the old stuff via this new funk.

so moltov, (sorry - old habits) has the import happened yet ? will this site go offline while its going on ?

we're still cleaning up the data now

as you can imagine, it was reeeeeeeeally messy from a data standpoint

like extracting authors from all the features, and all the different ways people spelled their names

we're hoping to move it across tonight yet. So that'll wipe this database and replace it with the imported PL content

there shouldn't be any downtime, though. things will just change suddenly!

I'm told chats will remain, though

ah ha .. well good luck with it all. overnight data runs. oh the memories, oh the pain. the less said the better.

you can open your eyes now, mark, it's over now

though we've got LOTS of cleaning up to do *sob*

Testy test test - will there be themes? The default orange and yellow and black/white stripes is a teensy bit garish.

yeah, that's definitely in our designs, but it's not a high priority right now

getting all the features up and working first is a bit higher. ;)

feature creatures. you know the main thing is to make it look nice ! BTW - how do I get the chat bot on the control panel back .. I expanded it, but the fragger disappeared and now i cant get it back ? or is this a fault to drop in the list when i get around to it

thanks for that list, mark!

to get this chat into the left bar, click the "Move to control bar" link in the upper right of the page

you'll begin to refret the day .. this is my world (ie dealing with these type of pedantic requests)

re control panel : doh ! of course. thought i had tried that yesterday - all works now .. hurrah.

hahah, I'm already regretting today anyway!

mrk - what browser/OS are you using, btw?

mark, even

IE7, can try stuff on Firefox as well if required ?

update : dragging control panels about aint doing it .. will try in FF now

thanks mark, I replied to your ticket. keep on using whatever browser you wish, it's good to get people finding issues across a bunch of browsers

esp since all us devs are FF fanboys/girls

yeah i would use FF all the time (do at home) - but the intranet @ work is an IE7 only piece of kit.

you poor man. :( but at least it's not IE6 at least

firefox tabs don't work the site, will this be fixed?

yes, that's already been reported by a bunch of people! ;)

maybe we need a "we're working on X, Y, and Z" page or something...

yeah - a "known faults" thread that we can check on ..