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Congrats! A nice surprise to go with my Monday morning coffee.

A suggestion that is site related but not a fault due to the change. Wouldn't it be best to use the local currency when quoting prices? Not all of us think in US Dollars and I am guessing a 30,000 Kip room costs 30,000 Kip regardless of the ups and downs of the US Dollar.
The current surge of the Australian Dollar (or plummet of the US Dollar) for example does change things a lot.

Great Website !

Hey,

Everything looks great. Love that you've made it really easy to click on all the maps you provide - that was the first thing that brought me to Travelfish all those many years ago - my Laos map search.

Updated and looking good.

Thanks all!

@exacto - we'll be doing something with the tshirts shortly...

@5acrefarmer - generally we list the price in whatever currency the guesthouse does. So in Laos some list their prices in kip, others in dollars or baht. Likewise here in Bali, some are in rupiah others in dollars.

@swag can you tell me what browser you're using please? Looking forward to a couple of beers before you hit the Gilis...

@casey some more good map stuff on the way. I haven't added all the new stuff yet what

@lizzy SBE is currently holding up a hammock somewhere in southern Sulawesi - am sure we'll be hearing from her when she returns to civilisation. Yes, the edit works. No more excuses

I'll admit that I check the message board probably once a day - but I miss the longer string of messages on the front page. I feel like there are usually more threads running at any given time and the current string on the front page only allows for the very most recent conversations to be on display outside of the particular forum. For me, the longer string of topics meant I might miss a day and still see every topic that was up, while if I missed two or three days I was probably missing some conversation that sank below the string. Now, I feel like if I miss a day I'll have missed some entire conversations.

just a thought. i should probably focus on my job anyway.

"just a thought. i should probably focus on my job anyway."

Ha! That probably applies to MOST of us!!


I find that when you edit a post, extra lines appear to be inserted in between each paragraph (when viewing in the preview mode) but when you save, all blank lines are removed and all paragraphs run into one. (As has occurred in this post.)

In preview mode, it appears nicely laid out; when I save it, it all runs together. If I insert extra lines between paragraphs (in preview mode), they are removed when I save.

I just tried the Baking - it's not working for either me in Chrome 6 or IE8. I've checked my library but the aren't there. (The ones that I did when testing earlier are still there though)

Pleas try the build guide feature again and let me know if you still have problems with it.

Trying out the para graph problem. chiang mai and ko phi phi.

again

Edited
and again.

Great work on the site. It looks very slick and easy to use

2 points from my side:

- In my last post (Cambodia, Saigon and Siem Reap) it showed the URLs for the names of towns instead of the underlined names. In preview it looked fine though
- Related to my current post. Is it possible to enable "copy&paste"? This is the second time I write this (I mean this actual piece of text). The first time I realised I wasn't logged in and wanted to copy but alas, and lost my text. May be that I'm just silly and missed a way to work around the use of the right button.

the new site is eye openingly good. very professional...not like the last one

and i'm getting a bunch of htlm code showing if you look at the post here - rather than the map and the direct links to places:

http://www.travelfish.org/board/post/indochina/12135_from-china-to-thailand

I'm thinking/hoping that the link coding problem is fixed now. Am keeping an eye on it though.

Please bear in mind that it is a simple system (home baked) and twisting and cavorting back and forward in the preview/edit screens will probably have things go a bit askew.

Other queries:
Homepage post list
Now 30 posts are shown (unless you're on iPhone in which case is still 15)

Blank pages in PDF guides
Tomorrow

@eastwest - can you tell me what browser you use please, 'cause you shouldn't be able to type in the box if you;re not logged in.

Ok, I'm now off to mix myself a serious G&T

OK, it works again. BUT will only work in the Thai language forum (I've disabled the link thingamagig in that forum as that is what is caning the Thai script). The downside of this is you'll probably get some whacky links.

For now, we can't have fancy links and Thai script, soo will need to work around that for now.

Smilies I'll look at tomorrow.

Cheers

/s

OK - link in above post didn't come out at all using the HTML link button. Point 3 relates to my posts here: http://www.travelfish.org/board/post/thailand/12130_how-much-does-your-apt-cost-per-month-#7

Well, Stuart, you've set yourself quite a task here, no?

Thanks for bringing back the message board summary to the home page, btw; I liked that feature of the old site.

This must quite the pain in your posterior just now, but the site looks great. Thanks for taking on the renovation!

No doubt.

@somtam

silly thing is that I don't know which version I use. Just bought a new laptop with windows 7. I guess it's IE 8. Couldn't find it so quickly.
Saw a few posts back that you have sorted it and I tried it and it worked (wasn't able to write). Thanks and great work in general.

Also have the same as busylizzy and sarah regarding being taken back to forum home page

There is a bug with trying to subscribe to the Travel with kids forum through RRS feeds - says this page can't be found when you click on the RRS icon
Regards
Suzi

@Carlton - Thanks!

@swatral - those RSS feeds are fixed now. Thanks

As someone fairly new to the site, I often find myself reading some good information and then wondering how I stumbled onto it. I just realised that a lot of very good travel advice is 'hidden' away on the 'stories' page. Information about Malaria for example is important advice but not really a story. A lot of the information on the stories page could possibly be better positioned on the 'planning' page or elsewhere.

Posted from within Vietnam.

Yes, I agree. It would be great if they could open in another window.

@DLeuk Thanks!

@5acrefarmer re the hidden stuff. The especially useful/popular stuff will become more obvious. Am adding the new design one stage at a time so that I can keep on top of bugs etc.

Re the links opening in a new window. That's a personal preference on my behalf - if I want something in a new window, I use the right click, I don't like the automatic open in a new window approach. So sorry, but you'll need to keep using that right click button

Elaine: The titles that appear under peoples' names is a function of how many posts you've made. As you make more posts, the title changes. In your case, you've already "graduated" from Newbie to Longtail Driver.

PS: as you may already know, a longtail is a type of boat.

And what's wrong with noodle ladies, I might ask ?

And what's wrong with noodle ladies, I might ask ?

There's absolutely nothing wrong with noodle ladies. I've met some very nice noodle ladies. I like noodle ladies, especially ones that make nice noodles. It just didn't feel right being called a noodle lady, even though my noodles aren't too bad. 'Beach bum' might be more appropriate! Actually, I like exacto's tag: 'under-employed'! Maybe I should be 'under-travelled'.

Busylizzy:

I would never demean noodle ladies ...

"Under-travelled" - there you go. Perhaps mine would be Better Late Than Never.

Have just found a bug.
On the page:
http://www.travelfish.org/board/topic/philippines
there is "photo gallery" block on the left. But whe i try to click either on the image or on "view gallery" link i got "lost in space" page

hi somtam, thanks for the great site. the info here has been invaluable.

links for posters websites seem to be broken, mine included. see below

Hiya,
I've just joined so I dont know the difference, but i'd just like to say what a great site very user friendly and all the info I need under one roof......pats on the back all round for the travelfish crew!!
thanks guys, all your work is really appreciated!

LeChron ; )

Two requests please

1. Keep me logged in longer. It gets a bit annoying when I've been writing up a response which might take more than a few minutes (or get interrupted midstream, kettle boils, go to the bog, make coffee, etc and have to come back to my desktop later) only to submit it and find out I'm no longer logged in (argh!) and have effectively lost my work. How about lengthening the timeout metre to something like 1 hour?

2. Automatically open links in new browser window like most sites, so I don't "intuitively" close the window to find I'm right back at the desktop. I think you'll find most users expect new windows to be spawned when clicking url links, not effectively leaving Travelfish.

Cheers if you'll consider these changes.

I don't know if it's my browser or something else but the 2nd horizontal (button)bar is a bit screwed up.

It used to be fine but since roughly a week or so the graphics are simply times new roman and the buttons do not appear as such.
When I move the cursor over 1 of the buttons it becomes a vertical button bar. I can still click and choose but it's a bit strange.
Haven't tested it in depth and it's most likely just cosmetics.

I'm using IE8 and also previously when I didn't have that "problem"

I see that my latest point has been repaired. Thanks for that. Don't know (obviously) if it works for Sarah as well.

Dear Somtam.

I see there's heaps of space for more buttons at the top of the "post messages" box...is there any chance of a photo button so we can put pictures in our posts without having to post them elsewhere and put in a link? It's a bit laborious doing it that way.

Reason: I'd like to post an underwater picture of a very weird looking fish I saw recently ... I've tried looking online but can't find anything that looks like it. I'm pretty sure it's some kind of surgeon fish but it's got a face that makes it look like the fish version of elephant man. Bit hard to describe in words. Thought that maybe someone in the diving branch might be able to ID it if they could see it.

Other people might find it useful to illustrate posts with pics of places they've been etc too.

Posted from within Vietnam.

okay, i think i may have found one. i was logged into the member center. love the listing of forum threads to which i've recently contributed by the way. on that topic, i think i just passed from somtam seller to under-employed. should i be concerned?

anyway, under the "my comments" area is a listing of the 15 or so hotel reviews i made during the last trip. the info says that i can edit those reviews by clicking on the name of the property. but when i click, nothing happens and i get the "error on page" message in the lower left corner.

hope that is useful for you. cheers.

On my computer screen the top of the forum has a white band under the private messages bit which makes it very hard to see the writing saying "private messages".

Also there's a grammar mistake when you send messages. "A messages" is not proper English!

Can I ask questions about sri lanka on forum site . New site looks good

When spam gets deleted all the spammed threads stay put. There are loads of really old posts on the home page at the moment and all the more recent threads get buried.

Probably easily fixed, just a question of adding random commas and slashes to the code I expect.

Don't use the back button

The spam message thing isn't an easy fix unfortunately, and won't be changed in the near future. On the upside most of the spam gets caught so you don't see it at all!

Since the problem with the forum on the home page a few days ago, when using the mobile site it only displays the past 4 threads whereas previously there were a pageful of them. Not sure if this is deliberate or something that's still pending a fix but I do prefer being able to see more recent posts at a glance if it's possible.

Also what's with all the motorbikes in Vietnam posts - is that a spam thing too or just a lot of very keen riders?!

Only a tiny number of TF users are going to be interested in buying/selling a motorbike at any given moment yet that's what the motorbike forum mostly gets used for (especially by users posting from Vietnam). It's bloody annoying and of no interest to the majority of TF users.

Can't the motorbike part of forum be strictly limited to talking about road trips, suggested routes etc? Why are motorbike owners allowed to use TF as a free small ad service to buy and sell motorbikes? I have a used camera and an an old guidebook I don't need ... can I use TF to flog them?

Newspapers make people pay for personal ads....can't TF do that too for all these people selling motorbikes and keep all ads out of the main forum? Anyone looking to buy a bike could easily look at a dedicated "bikes wanted and for sale" section and it would be easier for buyers to compare what's on offer too.

I agree with SBE on this - the influx of motorbike for sale posts is getting bloody annoying!. At minimum, they should be restrained to the motorbike forum. Or create a new 'For Sale / Wanted' sub-forum somewhere where they can sell the bikes, and SBE can sell her old guidebooks. (Speaking of that, I've got a few too!).

Problem is (I would imagine) - that if you charge for it, they will just slip it back into the mainstream forum. Oh well - Somtam will come up with a solution I guess!