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How about making this a sticky (or start one of your own) so we have a place to go and let the powers that be know if we find something that needs attention, like they don't have enough to do already.
My first one is about the "Latest Activity" button. How long does it take for a post to come up there. Right now the latest I get is one from about 6 oclock this morning yet I can find at least 5 or 6 posts since then.

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I always hit the Mark forums Read button at the end of each session. I also sighn in for each session. So far, everytime I go back in the site again, the unread posts come up as bold font. The previously read ones are not bolded.

Eric
 
Yes I had noticed the bold font on the unread ones and I don't even hit the Mark forums Read button. I just thought it would be nice, and there aught to be a way, to hit one button and get a list of all the latest posts from the whole site. Then you could skim down them and click on and read the ones you were interested in. I have figured out that if you hit the "Latest Activity" button from the general forum index page you will get just new topics that have been started, but if you hit the same button after you go to a forum, "General Discussion/News" for example, you will get new topics and replies.

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P.S. just to let you know your above reply was the first to get me an e-mail notice, Good Job.
 
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Tap talk is not updating like the website, missing posts. Is there any way to set your time zone? Dan scratch build patrol #243
 
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I use taptalk on my iPad. on other forums that I visit, such as pilots of America, I have a tab that allows me to read all new messages. that does not exist on the bearhawk forum. I think that it is a server side setting not a local setting for me. also photo show up but attached files do not. I do not remember having that problem on other forums but they may not allow attached files and are just attaching other links.
 
I've been working with the Tapatalk app and settings to try and resolve some of the questions. As best as I can tell, the time zone settings from Tapatalk are derived from the time zone settings here on the forum. Go to your user profile, then click on the account tab to adjust. Once you install the app and get logged in to see the message board, I've the best results with the "timeline" feature. When you get to the menu that has the picture of Dave's blue Bearhawk at the top, you'll see options like "subscribed", "particpated", "convos", etc. Select "edit" at the top , and then you can drag the items around to change the order. Place "timeline" at the top, and it will be the default when you start the app. Once you are in that timeline display, it will show posts from all of the categories in one place. It seems like those posts do have some "unread" handling, where you can see which ones are new and which ones you have already seen. Try it out and see if it works the same from your end. Thanks again to everyone who has been patient with the changeover. Keep pointing out things that aren't going well so that we can try to track them down.
 
Thanks I found the timezones, taptalk is weird some threads are right up to date others are days old and missing posts.
 
When I click the Mark All Forums Read or Mark All Channels Read (not sure what the difference is) links the contents of each forum are marked read as I expect but the forum itself still shows as new posts available. What I am referring to are the quote bubbles on the title line for each forum (such as Bearhawk General Forum) staying blue indicating new meessage as opposed to gray indicating no new messages (like the empty Product Reviews forum)
 
I have been using Firfox and it works flawlessly for me. I had problems with Internet Explorer, not only with this forum, but with other webpages. I find Firefox and Chrome to be overall superior to IE.
 
I have been using Google Chrome and it wasn't letting me sign out (or post) until I cleared my cookies and cache. Seems a real pain to do each day.
 
Time line not working in Taptalk. Taptalk HD doesn't work..says restricted access, comtact forum the administrator
 
I had troubles with the forum tying up my cpu. Tried installing Chrome again, seems successful (no crash this time). Forum seems to work much better, I'll see if this post attempt is successful. Thanks Again for all the efforts!!
Mark J
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There seems to be a fairly long running script when you first access the site. That may be what you are seeing.
 
I've just stumbled on something to try if you are having cookie-related problems. if you are using Chrome, try using an "incognito window." This mode has a different cookie handling that seems to work with the message board software when the regular mode gets jammed up. Firefox has a similar feature called a "private window." If you get stuck to where the software won't let you log out and won't let you post, this should get you back into business.
 
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I've just stumbled on something to try if you are having cookie-related problems. if you are using Chrome, try using an "incognito window." This mode has a different cookie handling that seems to work with the message board software when the regular mode gets jammed up. Firefox has a similar feature called a "private window." If you get stuck to where the software won't let you log out and won't let you post, this should get you back into business.
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That's becasue Incognito/Private Browsing opens a window with no persistent cookies being read, so no session will be resumed. When you close the Incognito/Private Browsing window, your cookies are destroyed and your session is lost. You will have to login again. It's tantamount to clearing your cookies before opening the website, and clearing them again when you're done.

I experienced the long script/corrupted cookie issue the other day and deleted my *.bearhawkforum.com cookies, which fixed things, but definitely not convenient.
 
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Taptalk HD is now working. Pictures are not coming through. Mark M. Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk HD
 
FYI Some website links posted are abbreviating to the main website domain not the link posted.
 
Why do I keep getting a question if I want to open a *.json file everytime I try to do something?
 
For sites I have to visit for business, I recently had to upgrade to IE 11 about two weeks ago. I hate doing the IE updates for no reason as I usually end up with glitches for a while. Since then I am having issues with a few sites including this forum. I cannot upload files, doesn't 'un-bold' previously read pages, and when I try to post, it pops up for me to 'save' or 'download'. I have to refresh to see that the new message is posted. If I switch over to Chrome, everything is fine. I haven't tried Firefox, but my son told me it's his failsafe browser. He does research for NASA so I usually listen to his tech advice.
 
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Thanks John. That's exactly what is happening to me. It helps a little to know it's not just me.
 
Welcome Russ, I'm not an expert, but I have cobbled together a few websites over the years and have taken various online courses for web design and HTML programming. One constant throughout a number of courses are statements about taking special care when programming certain items for IE due to "this change or that update." These statements almost always end with....." At least until Microsoft makes another change or update with IE, which they will once again not inform the web design community about".... Microsoft is known for expecting the web design community to follow their lead. However that is starting to change the past few years with the community working towards a common HTML programming/language guidelines. MS just hasn't yet thrown in the towel.
 
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How come when I hit the "post reply" button I get a message asking if I want to "open or save 71fc0381.json from bearhawkforums.com" I cancel that message and the PC just sits there, a little "working" message up top but not doing anything. Then if I refresh, my message is posted. This site did not used to do that.

Doug

P.S. its not always the same file name but is "xxxx.json"

P.S.S. Sorry. I thought I was still IE10 but it is IE11 as stated in earlier posts. Any way to fix or work around it yet.
 
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Hi Doug, unfortunately, I don't have any good news. The problem seems to be a bug with the forum software and Internet Explorer, particularly IE11. The best answer that I can give you, and it's not a good answer, is to try a different browser, perhaps Chrome.
 
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Either Chrome or Firefox are VERY good answers to Internet Exploder. -- Bearhawk
 
Pinch zoom doesn't work on this site, but does on others. Samsung Galaxy Tab2 7, no Tapa talk. Any easy answers? Thanks!
 
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Mark, thanks for pointing that out. I was able to reproduce the problem, and fix it, I think. Please let me know if you are unable to zoom now.
 
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Is ther a way to improve the search function of the website to include an option to search for two words included in a thread? For example all threads that both London AND Paris?
 
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Please stand by for a reply in the coming days if not sooner. I'll need to do a little research.
 
Bcone1381 said:
Is ther a way to improve the search function of the website to include an option to search for two words included in a thread? For example all threads that both London AND Paris?
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Brooks, from reading the documentation, I gather that the search function is supposed to handle each word in the box as an AND search. So if you type London Paris in the search box, you should get all posts that include both of those words. If you want to have the phrase "London Paris," then you would search in quotation marks, but that does not appear to be working as advertised. Until I can figure out why, you can also use Google to search this site by going to google.com, and entering your search term followed by site:bearhawkforums.com. That will instruct Google to only return search results from this site.
 
Getting this today: Fatal error: Call to a member function hasAdminPermission() on a non-object in /home/bearhawkforums/bearhawkforums.com/core/vb/api/wrapper.php on line 172


Seems to have cleared up for now.
 
Thank you, the database errors have been most frustrating. I've been working on various things to try and fix it for the last three weeks or so, and the message you got yesterday was related to the host moving our databases to a different server to try and see if that will fix the problem. So far the error rates have gone down, though there was a bit of downtime during the move. Sorry about that!
 
Thanks Jared, that makes sense. I appreciate your work on this site. I'm the admin on my EAA chapter's site, so I feel your pain!
 
I've been having trouble with tapatalk and for about a month. When I post I get a "System Unavailable" error that says I the post couldn't be completed. The post usually does work and sometimes double posts. I'll try to capture a screen shot text time.
 
Please do. We are up to date on all of their stuff, and very frustratingly, even though I pay them a $5 monthly ransom to keep away their annoying popups, there have been two times in recent months when I have seen the popups anyway. I'm about 85% done with them, but I know it is still a useful tool for some folks that we'd like to keep around.
 
I'm about sick of them too. I "upgraded" to their pro version a long time ago to avoid ads and a few other things; all that has gone away and I can barely stand how their most recent version.

Here is the error I get but my reply still gets posted and sometimes it's double.
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Would it be good and usefull to take all the questions that Bob and co. have answered up to now-- and put them in their own subforum ? i wouldnt care if they were even organised or not---
i would just like to browse through them. maybe they could be loosely segregated by where they are on the plane--- wings- flap - aerolon-- horizonal stab-- tail wheel --
you havnt all ready done that and I just dont know how to find it ????? Some of these forum interfaces aernt that obvious --- this one seems simpler than most. (thank-you)

Tim
 
Would it be good and usefull to take all the questions that Bob and co. have answered up to now-- and put them in their own subforum ? i wouldnt care if they were even organised or not---
i would just like to browse through them. maybe they could be loosely segregated by where they are on the plane--- wings- flap - aerolon-- horizonal stab-- tail wheel --
you havnt all ready done that and I just dont know how to find it ????? Some of these forum interfaces aernt that obvious --- this one seems simpler than most. (thank-you)

Tim
 
Https://Bearhawk.tips has all of those things categorized in a searchable database. If you’re a Beartracks subscriber, I believe you have access to it. It’s essentially all of the newsletter articles and content nicely indexed and sorted. jaredyates has done a great job of maintaining that for the community.
 
The Beartracks content at bearhawk.tips is stuff that Bob has approved through the Beartracks process, which doesn't include lots of other Bob quotes. Access is available for purchase, with prior purchases of Beartracks years being credited towards the price. The intent is to ensure that Beartracks subscribers don't have to pay twice.
 
I often get 'Invalid file specified' when selecting a posted link. It happened today when selecting the link muleyman posted for his tailwheel design. I normally use Chrome but tried Firefox, which I am in now, with same results. Happens on Android and Windows. Any ideas?
 
Thanks for that Ed, is it happening intermittently on the same pictures, all the time on certain pictures, all the time on all pictures, etc?
 
Not entirely sure but seems like all the time on posted links. Some posts have pictures that come through without a link. It has been happening for quite a while and I had hoped it would sort itself out.
 
I just checked the tailwheel post again and a thumb of picture was where the link had been and it opened fine!
 
Sometimes when I post the forum doesn't seem to recognize it. It doesn't show me as the most recent contributor to the thread or list the thread in the "Today's Posts" section. Hopefully I'm not shadow-banned :)
 
Does the post show up in the thread itself, and just not update the recent contributor and such, or is it losing your post all together?
 
I wrote a post today about aircraft ignition systems and it does not seem to be showing anywhere. Did I break a rule or do something wrong?

John "Burgerilla" Caulkins
Bay Village, OH
 
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Fresh post.
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It definitely looks like the post is not present now. Did it show up as a post on your end? The software does do some auto-saving, so it could be that if you start a new post today, a little prompt will pop up that says "restore previous content". If that pops up, try it and report back if that doesn't work please.
 
"Fresh Post" comes up on the auto restore, but I will keep trying. It occurs to me that this could be my fault - I am not very adept at computers and still think my abacus works just fine when my slide rule will not suffice...
 
Has anyone noticed Tapatalk not updating? Started yesterday for me and I get no unread notifications and the forums don’t show up. I’m on an iPhone/iPad and did just update to iOS 13. Also, backcountry pilot forums seem to work, so it seems maybe exclusive to bearhawkforums?
 
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Has anyone noticed Tapatalk not updating? Started yesterday for me and I get no unread notifications and the forums don’t show up. I’m on an iPhone/iPad and did just update to iOS 13. Also, backcountry pilot forums seem to work, so it seems maybe exclusive to bearhawkforums?
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I think know what the problem is, and hope to fix it by tomorrow.
 
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Has anyone noticed Tapatalk not updating? Started yesterday for me and I get no unread notifications and the forums don’t show up. I’m on an iPhone/iPad and did just update to iOS 13. Also, backcountry pilot forums seem to work, so it seems maybe exclusive to bearhawkforums?
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Is it working again as of now?
 
I'm not sure if others have found this, or if it's just me, but the links for 'Forum' and 'Builder Map' (at the top, the little page tab links. Up there is 'Forum, 'Builder Map', 'New Topics', and 'Today's Posts') link to bearhawkforums.com/, not https://bearhawkforums.com. Because of this, it takes me to an HTTP page, not HTTPS and logs me out of the forum. I then have to go back to https://bearhawkforums.com/ to log back in, or at least add the 's' to the end of the 'http' in the URL to be back in as a logged in user on those pages. I'm not sure if they're hard-linked or not, but if anyone else has that issue it may be helpful to just add the 's' to the http part of the link. Hopefully that makes sense?
 
John,
I can confirm that the "Forums" and "Builder Map" headers at the top of the page do appear link to the non-secure version of the page. However, they do NOT log me out of the site – it's just that the non-secure page does not know you're logged on, like a secured page would.

Having said that, it looks like the other two links ("New Topics" and "Today's Posts") are indeed linked to the HTTPS pages. And when I click on one of those links, it takes me to the "secure" page, and it shows I'm still logged in. (I DO however, have the "keep me logged in" checkbox selected on the login page, so once I login, I'm good for the session.)
 
Thank you so much for pointing this out John! I think I have fixed it. Please refresh, and if the problem persists, send me the URL and I'll investigate further. In the early days we didn't use https but Zane talked me into it. That has been a couple of years ago, so that means those links have been erroneous for a long time.

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I'm not sure if others have found this, or if it's just me, but the links for 'Forum' and 'Builder Map' (at the top, the little page tab links. Up there is 'Forum, 'Builder Map', 'New Topics', and 'Today's Posts') link to bearhawkforums.com/, not https://bearhawkforums.com. Because of this, it takes me to an HTTP page, not HTTPS and logs me out of the forum. I then have to go back to https://bearhawkforums.com/ to log back in, or at least add the 's' to the end of the 'http' in the URL to be back in as a logged in user on those pages. I'm not sure if they're hard-linked or not, but if anyone else has that issue it may be helpful to just add the 's' to the http part of the link. Hopefully that makes sense?
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Thank you so much for pointing this out John! I think I have fixed it. Please refresh, and if the problem persists, send me the URL and I'll investigate further. In the early days we didn't use https but Zane talked me into it. That has been a couple of years ago, so that means those links have been erroneous for a long time.
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Perfect, looks much better! Thank you, sir!
 
Bugs? Whenever I visit the page I am not shown as logged in, and prompted to log in. But when I try I am unable to. Then if I refresh the page, or navigate to another forum page I am miraculously logged in.
 
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Bugs? Whenever I visit the page I am not shown as logged in, and prompted to log in. But when I try I am unable to. Then if I refresh the page, or navigate to another forum page I am miraculously logged in.
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Hey Battson, this last one hopefully fixes that (unless I’m wrong). I would get logged out also because it switched from a secured site to an unsecured site (HTTPS to HTTP, not sure how technical you are, but that’s a pretty normal thing). Then it would show “Can’t display page” on the login drop down because of that. Hopefully this fixes that issue.
 
I know the "tech support" guys always say "clear your cache and history", and it never seems to work, but... This sounds like a case where it might actually work. You'll have to login again afterward, but if your browser was caching one of those non-secured pages, clearing the cache might actually work!
 
No morning Bearhawk social media fix this morning. The Bearhawk group doesn’t show up on Taptalk...search for Bearhawk returns no results?
 
I think Jared posted several days ago that he was considering dropping support for Tapatalk, and asking for feedback. The consensus was the Tapatalk wasn't used by enough people to justify the ever-increasing cost to Jared to support it. (They charge him a fee to suppress the ads that are very intrusive.) There was pretty minimal feedback from Tapatalk users, so I suspect he went ahead and dropped the support.
But don't worry, the forum works pretty darn well using just a mobile browser... Just have to scroll down bit more than you're probably used to in order to see the content...
 
Mark Moyle said:
No morning Bearhawk social media fix this morning. The Bearhawk group doesn’t show up on Taptalk...search for Bearhawk returns no results?
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I was an avid Tapatalk user, and have slowly migrated to the forums now (not as easy and well coordinated, I followed multiple forums in Tapatalk and my morning routine included checking new messages in the forum. Now the process is longer for the Bearhawk forums). It isn’t too much more difficult, and I basically went to the New Topics tab on the bearhawkforums.com main page and created a homepage link on my iPhone (the little square with an up arrow, then “Add to Home Screen”). Now I have a little icon on my phone to see updates. Hopefully that helps some, as it probably isn’t worth $120 a year (plus whatever else Jared has to pay for) to keep it up and running on Tapatalk. Plus, this way, I don’t miss out on the comments people put on posts!
 
As Jim said, they recently doubled the price that they charge to turn off their annoying pop-ups, bars, etc. We've been reluctantly paying them monthly for a long time now, but with fewer members using the service, it seemed like a good time to go. I know it's frustrating when the routine changes, and the desire to keep things from changing has been what's kept us paying them this long. There are several good ways to get the info directly, and hopefully we'll be able to keep you around.
 
For the past few days I've been getting an "internal server error" when posting. The posts are going through but I have to acknowledge the error, refresh the browser, acknowledge changed data will be lost, but the data isn't actually being lost. Happens on my phone, Safari, and on my desktop, Chrome.
 
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For the past few days I've been getting an "internal server error" when posting. The posts are going through but I have to acknowledge the error, refresh the browser, acknowledge changed data will be lost, but the data isn't actually being lost. Happens on my phone, Safari, and on my desktop, Chrome.
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Jon, I think I have found the problem and fixed it, could you try again and let me know if it persists please?
 
There is a link at Bearhawkstore.com for plans and engineering questions.
I hesitate to click on that link again just to confirm I wasn't hallucinating.
If I saw what I think I saw, then that link should probably be fixed. :eek:
 
When I try to send a PM to someone, it says "You are not authorized to make this post". Is there a reason I am getting this error?
 
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When I try to send a PM to someone, it says "You are not authorized to make this post". Is there a reason I am getting this error?
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Yes, after 5 posts the system upgrades you to allow PMs. I've manually processed the upgrade now, please refresh and try again.
 
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