Update on emails and avatars

Hi all

Firstly, just a quick update on the problems people have been having with emails. We're fixing everything today and by tomorrow we should have been able to address most of the problems people are experiencing.

The issue with threads that are moved may be more of a long term thing for us to address but we will make sure we leave a proper redirect in discussions when we move them.

And secondly, we've added some new avatars, thanks to some kind donations from flickr users and some suggestions from Community member Dan :)

Here are the new images, along with who we have to thank for them -

bright bird

Bright bird is a painting by flickr user Thaneeya McArdle. You can see her other work on her flickr page - http://www.flickr.com/people/thaneeya/

Landscape

Landscape was painted by Stefan Bottcher. Although not in English I'd recommend checking out his blog to see some of his other works - http://boettcherart.blogspot.com/

Sunrise

Sunrise comes from Brent Nelson. I think it makes a really nice avatar but it's well worth taking a look at the full image on his flickr page - http://www.flickr.com/photos/24471966@N04/2851251413/

Sunset

Sunset is an edited version of a great image from Dryicons, we're really grateful they've let us use one of their images for free. Check out the full picture on their flickr - http://www.flickr.com/photos/dryicons/2676083749/

Tree

Tree taken from Martin Heigan's 'Bushveld Landscape'. Have a look at his flickr page to see some more astonishing photography. http://www.flickr.com/photos/martin_heigan/

And Dan suggested the following public domain images that I've added as avatars. The first four were uploaded by members of the public to http://pdphoto.org - so thanks to whoever you were for providing the images.

Duckling

Duckling

Mud

Mud

Stone head

Stone head

tar

Tar

Wave

Wave

Okay then folks, hope you like the new images and if you've any images you'd like to see added as a Commuity avatar, that are either in the public domain or you have the rights to, please get in touch on:

community.manager@nas.org.uk

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  • Hi all,

    Just an update - we've been finding a few more serious issues than we'd hoped for when improving the emails but we should have them resolved soon.

    We are now looking at a Wednesday AM deploy of the fixes. That's much further away than I was hoping for but we're getting there.

    Just to let people know in detail the fixes and changes will -

    1. Correct edit times. At the moment when a person edits their message it updates the time to right now, producing some confusion in discussions.

    2. Email links. The links in emails will be not be shortened in the current strange manner and this should remove the need to place all the links at the bottom of each email.

    3. Discussions with more than one page. At the moment when a discussion has more than one page the email link redirects you to the first page of the discussion rather than the individual message. This will be resolved.

    Okay, so a few steps forward - thanks again for bearing with us :)

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  • Hi all,

    Just an update - we've been finding a few more serious issues than we'd hoped for when improving the emails but we should have them resolved soon.

    We are now looking at a Wednesday AM deploy of the fixes. That's much further away than I was hoping for but we're getting there.

    Just to let people know in detail the fixes and changes will -

    1. Correct edit times. At the moment when a person edits their message it updates the time to right now, producing some confusion in discussions.

    2. Email links. The links in emails will be not be shortened in the current strange manner and this should remove the need to place all the links at the bottom of each email.

    3. Discussions with more than one page. At the moment when a discussion has more than one page the email link redirects you to the first page of the discussion rather than the individual message. This will be resolved.

    Okay, so a few steps forward - thanks again for bearing with us :)

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