mike
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| Topic: Site maintenance tonight: 10PM pacific time |
Tue 11/04/08 01:57 PM |
Hi everyone,
We need to take the site down tonight for some site maintenance. Maintenance will begin at 10PM and should be finished by 11PM. The site will be down and inaccessible during this period.
Sorry for the inconvenience. If we can finish sooner, we'll get the site back up as soon as we can.
Thanks for your patience, and hope you are all enjoying the site.
Mike |
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mike
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| Topic: New BBcodes are enabled |
Tue 11/04/08 01:26 PM |
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[color=purple]this is a wonderful feature - thank you
is there any way there could be a link in the reply box whereby we can select the colour/size/bold/etc. option automatically, rather than having to type it manually?
or is it there and i'm missing something?[/color]
We're planning on adding something that will allow that, but for now, you have to type it in manually. |
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mike
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| Topic: New BBcodes are enabled |
Tue 11/04/08 11:45 AM |
| We disabled images in mail. There is too much potential for abuse by the wrong types of members. |
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mike
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| Topic: New BBcodes are enabled |
Tue 11/04/08 10:42 AM |
QUOTE:
[IMG]http://i23.photobucket.com/albums/b369/heybaby_72000/aDSC_0017.jpg[/IMG]
why don't my pictures work?
Sorry Becca, they are case sensitive right now so you need to use lower-case. We will change them to make them case-insensitive shortly... |
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mike
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| Topic: New BBcodes are enabled |
Tue 11/04/08 10:35 AM |
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That takes too much work to insert all of those thingys just to make it cute and pretty. Thanx Mike! Keep up the good work.
P.S. You should keep a list next to the Smiley's for our added convenience.  
We are looking at possibly adding a little text editor where, like Microsoft Word or something, you could just click the Bold button and the text you have highlighted would be bolded. But these new codes will at least give you some formatting options for now until we can get the text editor created. |
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mike
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| Topic: New BBcodes are enabled |
Tue 11/04/08 10:30 AM |
Hi everyone,
I'm pleased to announce that we've added a bunch of new bbcode formatting options to the forums. You can now change the color and font size of your text. You can also insert images into your posts, and make links active with the url tag. Here's a list of the bbcodes we currently support:
Bold face:
[color=bork][[/color]b]Bolded text[color=bork][[/color]/b] makes Bolded text
Italic:
[color=bork][[/color]i]Italicized text[color=bork][[/color]/i] makes Italicized text
Underline:
[color=bork][[/color]u]Underlined text[color=bork][[/color]/u] makes Underlined text
Monospaced text:
[color=bork][[/color]code]Monospaced text[color=bork][[/color]/code] makes Monospaced text
Insert image:
[color=bork][[/color]img]http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7c/Go-home.svg/100px-Go-home.svg.png[color=bork][[/color]/img] makes [img]http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7c/Go-home.svg/100px-Go-home.svg.png[/img]
Link:
[color=bork][[/color]url]http://www.google.com[color=bork][[/color]/url] makes [url]http://www.google.com[/url]
Colored text:
[color=bork][[/color]color=red]Red[color=bork][[/color]/color] makes [color=red]Red[/color], most standard color names will work. Hex color codes like color=#123456 are also supported.
Font size:
[color=bork][[/color]size=big]Big text[color=bork][[/size]/size] makes [size=big]Big text[/size]. Options are small or big, or a number from 8 to 20 for the font size in pixels.
[size=big]IMPORTANT NOTE ON NEW CODES[/size]
We hope you will enjoy these new formatting features. However, we ask you to follow the following guidelines:
URL links that are being used to promote other websites will be removed immediately. No advertising or self-promotion is allowed on the mingle2 forums, and posters who violate this rule will be suspended or banned.
IMG links that link to controversial/disturbing/offensive images will also be removed immediately and the poster will be suspended or banned. No nudity, obscene gestures, suggestive photos, or images of illegal activities are allowed. Images must be PG-13, NOT rated R or X. We will be very strict on this policy, and violators will be treated harshly.
Please use the new codes IN MODERATION. Users who abuse the new codes by using them excessively in an annoying posting style will be warned and could lose their privileges to use the codes or post on the forums at all. We'll be somewhat lenient on this, but we just don't want people abusing the codes to make very difficult to read/annoying posts. Please be polite in your use of the codes.
Most of the new codes will work in your mail messages as well. However, the URL and IMG codes will NOT work in mail messages. This is because we are concerned that spammers and other bad users will abuse the codes, and that they will be more difficult for us to police in mail messages. The other new codes, like font size and color, will work fine.
Thanks everyone! Hope you are all enjoying the site.
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mike
Joined Thu 07/13/06
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| Topic: The Mail Glitch |
Mon 10/27/08 09:40 PM |
| That sounds like a spam filter issue. Don't include a website or an email address in your first email to someone in the past 30 days. If you do, your message will most likely get caught in the spam filter. |
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mike
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| Topic: Get my name off all the connected sites |
Sun 10/26/08 10:48 PM |
When you deactivate your profile, it will eventually be removed by Google. It just takes some time for that process to occur, because Google has to visit our site and see that your profile has been deactivated, and that process can take a while.
I have no idea what the adult friend finders page is - it obviously is not something we did or encouraged. Most likely, it's just someone who has the same username as you on that site but is unrelated to you. It seems like the other heathergobucks is in Bird City, Kansas, so it's clearly not you.
The forums are public and can be viewed by anyone. This is the case with the vast majority of forums on the internet. On almost every forum, you can read the forum without being a member, but you can't post until you join. This is the case with mingle2 as well. You shouldn't post anything you aren't comfortable with anyone being able to read. I would advise that for any forum on the internet that you participate on.
Hope that helps clarify things. |
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mike
Joined Thu 07/13/06
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| Topic: Help! |
Thu 10/23/08 01:57 PM |
| From who - can you be specific? Please send to me over mail - don't post that info on the forums. |
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mike
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| Topic: Help! |
Thu 10/23/08 01:51 PM |
Also, any chance that the messages were more than 30 days old? Messages older than 30 days old get deleted automatically every night.
If not, can you send either Charles or I a message with some more information about the emails you remember, i.e. approximately when you received them, and who they were from? We'll try to figure out what happened to them.
Thanks,
Mike |
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mike
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| Topic: What's happening? |
Tue 10/14/08 05:14 PM |
Is Mingle2 the only site that is running slowly for you?
Also, can you describe in more detail where the site stops loading? For example, if you click on the Community link at the top, does any part of the page start to load? If so, where does it stop on the page before it hangs? |
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mike
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mike
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| Topic: to the owners of the site |
Mon 10/13/08 09:55 PM |
Folks -
We are trying to get rid of this ad. Normally Google is pretty good about not allowing these types of ads, but somehow this slipped through. We're doing our best to block it and will keep working on the problem.
Thanks for your patience. |
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mike
Joined Thu 07/13/06
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| Topic: Singles.net too much |
Mon 10/13/08 09:53 PM |
Folks,
We're trying to get rid of that ad. Normally Google is pretty good about blocking ads like that, but somehow that one slipped through their controls. We're doing our best to block it, and we will keep working on the issue.
Thanks for your patience.
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mike
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| Topic: Lots of Spam Since I Joined Here |
Fri 10/10/08 12:29 PM |
We absolutely do NOT sell your email address to anyone. We have never sold an email address EVER. If you are getting spam to your email inbox, it is NOT from us or any partner of ours.
We hate spam as much as anyone, and we would never spam our users or do anything to cause them to get spam.
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mike
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| Topic: site issue |
Thu 10/09/08 09:42 PM |
Sorry folks, I was working on something and I broke the site pretty badly there for a bit. I patched everything up though and it should be working fine now.
Sorry again. |
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mike
Joined Thu 07/13/06
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| Topic: Anybody Else Getting This? |
Wed 10/08/08 08:08 PM |
| I just tried to fix this - if it happens again to you, can you let me know? |
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mike
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| Topic: You can now edit topic subjects |
Thu 10/02/08 04:19 PM |
By popular demand, we've added the ability to edit the subject of a topic, even after the topic has already been started. The following restrictions apply:
- You can only edit the subject of topics you've started
- Subjects and posts are only editable within 60 minutes of creating the topic
- You can only edit the subject of the original topic, i.e. if a topic has been continued into a "Part 2", etc., the subject of any of the parts can no longer be edited.
Let us know if you experience any problems with the new feature.
Thanks, and hope you are all enjoying the site! |
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mike
Joined Thu 07/13/06
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| Topic: Show your support for mingle2! |
Mon 09/22/08 02:51 PM |
Hey folks,
Are you a fan of Mingle2? Show your support and spread the word by installing one of these badges on your blog, website, myspace, or facebook profile:
http://mingle2.com/welcome/badges
Installing a badge is easy: simply click on the badge you want and a small box with some HTML code will appear below. Copy and paste that HTML code into your website and you're good to go!
If you don't have a website, you can also show your support for Mingle2 on facebook by visiting this page and clicking on "become a fan."
http://www.new.facebook.com/pages/Mingle2/27063894498?ref=mf
Thanks everyone!
-Matt, Mike, & Vanchau
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mike
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| Topic: These new banners |
Mon 09/22/08 01:46 PM |
| What browser and operating system are you using? |
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