Time to make that sidebar work

[Denaes]

ExtremeVB has the same forums and their "Programming Tips:" bar actually works.

Any way you can ask them how they did it and make ours work as well?

Or maybe at least allow people to collapse it and have it stay collapsed instead of popping back out again on future visits?

I think its even funnier that weve had Macromedia news on a .Net forums for like 5 months

 

[Volte]

Believe me, weve tried to get something done about this (as it is out of our control) but it seems to be futile. Xtreme VB Talk and this forum are owned by the same people so if they really wanted to update the sidebar they would.

 

[Denaes]

ExtremeVB Talk and you guys use the same forums - same owners, right?

Well theirs works. They get microsoft feeds and are current as of Aug 7. Cant you ask them how they got it working or copy their settings or something?

 

[Volte]

Well the problem is that the feed is stored in the source code to the forum, and no-one but the forum owners (who seem to be missing in action at the moment) have access to change that.

 

[wyrd]

Surely theres a forum option (in the admin view) to disable the sidebar, no? Id hope that the admins here at least have access to that. If its not providing any useful information, then its a nuisance and should be removed. No reason to have useless info. cluttering the screen.

 

[Denaes]

I wouldnt say it provides no usefull information. It tells you if you have instant messages. Because Im unpopular, thats about never for me

I didnt realize it was beyond setting settings and in something that you guys couldnt control yourselves. I just saw that the other forum had theirs working and with relevent information... kinda. Its like the XP SP2 news ticker

Its now that I realize I couldnt be a journalist. Not only would I be hardpressed to make a multi-page article out of it once, there are like 90 5 page articles on it and its just comming out.

 

[Volte]

Weve been told not to disable it. It makes the site conform to the look of numerous other sites in the iNET network.

 

[Derek Stone]

INET Non-interactive as I like to put it.