RWO site issues, disruptions, suggestions, announcements

[dejavoodoo44]

Thanks for alerting us to that. Dan has created a pretty good spam filter that has been reliably stopping these getting through. They arrive at a rate of around a couple a day. Don't know why this one wasn't picked up as it seems to have all the same features of those that have been picked up. We'll have to keep an eye open for any others that sneak through.

There's a button at the bottom of each post called "flag". It's equivalent to the old "report post' button. If you hit that (and use 'spam' as the reason), a red flag arrives at the top of my screen. I'm more likely to see that if I pass by the site in a hurry than a post in this thread. I do try to keep an eye on those flags because we still have a few rare occasions of legitimate posts being caught by the spam filter, and I try to attend to those as soon as I see them.

Okay, will do: if the need arises.

[liz]

Thanks for alerting us to that. Dan has created a pretty good spam filter that has been reliably stopping these getting through. They arrive at a rate of around a couple a day. Don't know why this one wasn't picked up as it seems to have all the same features of those that have been picked up. We'll have to keep an eye open for any others that sneak through.

There's a button at the bottom of each post called "flag". It's equivalent to the old "report post' button. If you hit that (and use 'spam' as the reason), a red flag arrives at the top of my screen. I'm more likely to see that if I pass by the site in a hurry than a post in this thread. I do try to keep an eye on those flags because we still have a few rare occasions of legitimate posts being caught by the spam filter, and I try to attend to those as soon as I see them.

[dejavoodoo44]

Looks like there's a bit of phishing in the Swans News Feed section. God knows what's behind the link, but I'm certainly not going to click on it.

[dejavoodoo44]

No big deal, but sometimes new responses don't seem to register in the menu. That is, the red chevron to signify a new post doesn't appear, the response count remains the same and in its current manifestation, if I push the icon that should take me to the last post in the list management thread, it goes to page 80 instead of page 82.

[KSAS]

Understood. Thanks again Liz.

[liz]

I've approved your post.

There's no need for you to post an alert in this thread. When I visit the site, the first thing I see is alerts at the top of the page warning me if there are posts waiting to be moderated. I'll see that alert before I scroll down and see any post in this thread.

Of course, it might still mean it takes a while before a post is approved (or deleted if it truly is spam) since I have to visit the site to see alerts. Today I was out and about (at a Magritte exhibition at AGNSW).until late afternoon.

[KSAS]

Hi Liz, it's happened to me again in my latest post in the List Management thread even though i have no links inserted & just responding to my earlier post. Sorry to bother you again!

[KSAS]

Thankyou Liz!

[liz]

I've approved that post. Have no idea why random posts are identified as spam. There are a lot of actual spam posts correctly identified as spam (and dealt with) - far more than the occasional valid post that gets caught by the filter. So the filter is definitely of value (to me, having to deal with the actual spam posts).

[KSAS]

Hi Administrators, my recent post in the 2025 fixture thread included a club 2017 link which has been deemed as a possible spam & requires Admin approval. It won't let me edit my post. Can you please attend. Thanks.

[Thunder Shaker]

I have diagnosed the issue with "remember me" not working.

As I mentioned earlier, I was logging in with https://www.redandwhiteonline.com. After logging in, the site was redirecting my browser to "redandwhiteonline.com" (no www). The login was not valid for the latter website, so I had to log in each time.

I edited my bookmark to remove the "www" and this fixed the problem for me.

[Danzar]

Apologies for that downtime, I overlooked setting up an auto purge of the database archives so ran out of disk space. That sent the website down. All fixed and properly set up now.

[Meg]

I have no idea what you're using to view the forum, but control-+ increases the font size in Firefox. Perhaps there's a similar setting that's available for your browser or software?

Woohoo, thank you TS. I use Safari on my Apple devices. I had poked around in Safari settings earlier, but your reply led me to take a closer look. And lo and behold there is Page Zoom setting which I have now increased from 100% to 150%. Problem solved!

[Thunder Shaker]

2. is there a way to increase the font size? I find it seriously challenging to read at the font size that appears for the forum on my iPad.

I have no idea what you're using to view the forum, but control-+ increases the font size in Firefox. Perhaps there's a similar setting that's available for your browser or software?

[Meg]

Grateful if someone could tell me:

1. what the black triangle with an exclamation mark inside it, next to some thread names, means.

2. is there a way to increase the font size? I find it seriously challenging to read at the font size that appears for the forum on my iPad.