Some buttons missing on the forum?

[Pleiadian]

The last couple of days I do not seem to get all buttons on the forum.

Like these two:

Post New Thread

Post Reply

What's happening?

[gingerbaker]

uh oh

This is the new "Velvet Hammer" forum dunning feature. You have not paid your Vdrums.com dues in a while.

Send payment ASAP to RolandUS. Or more than your buttons may be missing. Capiche?

[TomLandin]

Thak God I'm not going crazy!!

Same thing on my PC. I thoght one of my daughters messed something up with thier Sims games (again). I've been reloading Office97 files, Operating software, etc. thinking I didn't have the correct font/image driver. Thats a relief, now I can go back to playing drums!!

[Ranman]

I sorta figured those buttons were stored on a server that no longer allows anonymous access... no, wait, then the buttons would be ads for 25 cent photos.

You think the forum gawds will ever notice?

[szvook]

Maybe the webmaster is on vacation and no one is watching the store. Has anyone emailed them?

[GRRAVEE]

szvook,your avatar scares me.my buttons are gone to but they still get ya here.

[Marc.]

I'm seeing problems too. In my case I'm also not seeing the "Post Reply" Message Icons and a whole bunch of other stuff. red X's all over the place. Perhaps this new interface is about to go ballistic?

[szvook]

Originally posted by GRRAVEE
szvook,your avatar scares me.my buttons are gone to but they still get ya here.

[Boingo]

This button thing has been going on for several days now. Only 9 posts to this thread (ok, 10 now). What is wrong with you people??! Don't you recognize a crisis when you see one?

[Ranman]

This is interesting. I wonder if it works for other folks as well:

a) click the "reply to post" button
b) when the 'Post Reply' form comes up, hit the browser's back button.

For me, the broken buttons are repaired by doing this.

[Raffy85]

Nope, I tried it in both IE and Mozilla. the buttons are still gone. I think gingerbaker is right, I guess we haven't paid our bills lately

[Ranman]

Thats funny. It works every time for me in IE.
(Though NEVER in NN. Oh well.)

[postnuklear]

Nope ... the back thing doesnt work here either... anyway, why should we have to go through such a complicated procedure to obtain our very rights on this forum???
WE WANT OUR BUTTONS BACK!!!!

[Ranman]

Ah, see... I went into settings and deleted all my 'temporary internet files' ... and now that 'back button' kludge no longer works for me, either.

I think the problem is an incorrect path. For the missing items (buttons, message icons (on the 'Reply' page), etc.) they use paths that begin with "../discussion", whereas the ones that work don't.

An example:

One of the "Message Icon" images on the Reply form has the path of: "../discussion/icons/icon7.gif" and doesn't work. It shows as

Whereas, one of the "Smilies" to the left of the Reply form has the path of "../images/smile.gif" and works just fine:

So, any Forum Managers lurking? I hope this helps.

[bcleach]

woops

woops!