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I was looking to change my username, but its being used by someone who was last active in 2015, is it possible to request that username?
 
Tibble said:
I was looking to change my username, but its being used by someone who was last active in 2015, is it possible to request that username?
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If that username has posted before then I’m afraid not. If they haven’t posted then drop me a PM and I’ll review :)
 
They've commented on a post a few times unfortunately, but no worries! Thanks anyway
 
The app is a PWA (progressive web app), rather than a native app distributed through the App/Play Store.

To install visit the forum on your phone using your browser, then use the Add to Home Screen option found in the Share menu (iOS) or overflow menu (three dots in the top right - Android). The app will then be ready to use.
 
Out of pure interest @Craig, have you guys made some changes to the forum front end?

I could be imagining things here, but I swear that “UK & European Parks and Attractions” used to be just “European Parks and Attractions”; did you change that?

And have you added/enabled some sort of JavaScript code that makes all the topics in a sub-forum flow down in a rather fancy fashion rather than simply appear? I swear I’ve never seen that happen on here before…
P.S. I originally posted this in your “new season housekeeping” thread, but I decided to report that post and ask for it to be deleted, as I realised that this would probably be a better place for it to go. I apologise for my earlier mistake.
 
Matt N said:
I could be imagining things here, but I swear that “UK & European Parks and Attractions” used to be just “European Parks and Attractions”; did you change that?
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Yes, UK was added for ease of navigation a few days ago. Took longer than I thought for anyone to notice ;)
Matt N said:
And have you added/enabled some sort of JavaScript code that makes all the topics in a sub-forum flow down in a rather fancy fashion rather than simply appear? I swear I’ve never seen that happen on here before…
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Yes there's a few tweaks which have been made :)
 
Craig said:
Yes, UK was added for ease of navigation a few days ago. Took longer than I thought for anyone to notice ;)

Yes there's a few tweaks which have been made :)
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Surprised I hadn't noticed that lol. Makes sense though! :)
 

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With that in mind, we've decided to stick with one dedicated topic. This topic will be locked a day or two before opening day and a new one will be started with the following guidance:

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This is good - this button could be used generally.

Whenever I come back to the forum the first page I often get is asking me to confirm the colour scheme, when I haven’t even wanted to change it. Not sure why it jumps to this.
 
RyanUK said:
Whenever I come back to the forum the first page I often get is asking me to confirm the colour scheme, when I haven’t even wanted to change it. Not sure why it jumps to this.
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We've had this pop up very rarely if cookies expire, but certainly shouldn't be happening every time. If you get it again could you note down the date and time it occurred and chuck it over to me? That should help us try and narrow things down.
 
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If I do a forum search with search titles only ticked, how come "typo" finds nothing but "typos" finds the two threads I was looking for? Is there a way to make the search look for partial matches?
 
Alsty said:
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If I do a forum search with search titles only ticked, how come "typo" finds nothing but "typos" finds the two threads I was looking for? Is there a way to make the search look for partial matches?
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You can wildcard it (typo*) at the end to bring it up, but there's no option to do partial searches by default on Xenforo I'm afraid!
 
Craig said:
We've had this pop up very rarely if cookies expire, but certainly shouldn't be happening every time. If you get it again could you note down the date and time it occurred and chuck it over to me? That should help us try and narrow things down.
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Yes, will do. 👍🏻
 
I see this occasionally but it's because my phone switches automatically to night mode in the evenings. If I open my browser in the evening and a TS tab is already open from earlier in the day then I think that's when I get the message. I get the same thing in reverse in the morning. Presumably ensuring I close the TS tab when I'm done would avoid it but I've not tried it.

I've also seen it when I've been using TS on my phone in night mode but then open TS on my laptop, which only uses the day mode setting.
 
How long are saved drafts held for? I've lost them in the past after forgetting about them. Started writing my Chessy report and I definitely don't want to lose that amount of work lol.
 
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