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Uh, all my personal settings are gone. My links especially are missed. It was so nice to keep ENWorld my homepage since my links were right there and I could jump back and forth and still keep an eye out for news updates and catch the things I missed. Now I'll have to go back to a personal homepage. Is there a way to bring back the customized news page with an add-on or some scripting? Please?
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You lost me there, Harlock! What links do you mean, exactly?
I know the new news page isn't going to please everyone, but when we have just once application on the server running in place of four (3 instances of PostNuke and one of vBulletin, now all run off the single instance of vBulletin), the server will generally be much happier! There is some loss of functionality (although I'm working on adding new features/re-adding old features), but hopefully there will be a notable stability increase to make up for it!
Sorry Morrus, I was referring to the preferences section of the former newspage. You could set a custom menu using html to code links, etc. It made it very easy to pick one of my favorite places that I check, but still hit the home button and go right back to the news page where I could check updates or just click another of my custom set links and then come back again. Rinse, lather, repeat. I was quite used to browsing that way.
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Sorry Morrus, I was referring to the preferences section of the former newspage. You could set a custom menu using html to code links, etc. It made it very easy to pick one of my favorite places that I check, but still hit the home button and go right back to the news page where I could check updates or just click another of my custom set links and then come back again. Rinse, lather, repeat. I was quite used to browsing that way.
Vbulletin allows you to set up user notes under your profile. Might be able to find a hack to display them on the news page for logged in users...
I dunno about the new news page. It can't conform to the width of my web browser window. I had to hide the Favorite frame on my MSIE 6.0. The same applies to the Sci-Fi & Fantasy news page.
I prefer the previous news page with each news entry have their own box and the page DOES conform to my web browser window with the Favorite frame on.
Sorry, Morrus.
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Dunno, I had EnWorlds old style news on my site's starup page and I liked the formatting that seemed to remain relatively consistent. Now I tried setting up the new news script and its just not the same. Subject heading/Titles can be rather ambiguous and I liked the old way of the link with a small description of the article/topic. I know you gotta do what you gotta do but I just felt compelled to voice my opinion.
I am referring to the syndicated news feed and not the news pages themselves, sorry for not clarifying that.
Last edited by irondm; 13th March 2004 at 09:58 PM..
My links especially are missed. It was so nice to keep ENWorld my homepage since my links were right there and I could jump back and forth and still keep an eye out for news updates and catch the things I missed. Now I'll have to go back to a personal homepage. Is there a way to bring back the customized news page with an add-on or some scripting? Please? 
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