Gravatars are “Globally Recognized Avatars” and were developed by the folks responsible for Word Press. It works as a third party provider of avatars that allows you to use the same avatar on multiple sites. Because the avatars are useful to help distinguish between members more easily a unique avatar is generated and displayed for users who don’t have a custom avatar with gravatar.com.
To begin using a custom avatar, just go to http://en.gravatar.com/ and upload an image for the email address you use on able2know and it will appear within a few hours.
Note: They cache their images and any changes may take between minutes or hours to show up on their end, but if you still don’t see an avatar change after a day then you may have the old avatar in your browser cache and clearing your browser cache should solve it.
If you submit a report for a post or topic, it will now send an email to the help desk where you can get a response from moderators.
If you want to contact the moderators for anything other than a post report you can also just use the contact us link in the footer of every page.
The previous site logged a user out if they were inactive (no page loads) for 5 minutes. At least it intended to as this didn’t always work. The new site launched with the same 5 minute session expiry but after users indicated they were being logged out too often this was raised to 15 minutes.
Check the “remember me” box when logging in and your session will be refreshed as soon as you visit the site again. Just make sure not to do so on shared or public computers so that others can’t access your account.
Note: the users online totals will be higher because of this change, as users are counted as being online for 15 minutes after their last page load instead of 5.
At launch the default was to show posts with a vertical scroll with the option to expand individual posts. There was an option to show them all expanded that is now the default behavior.
A bug that allowed tags with different case to show up as duplicate tags has been fixed. It was caught early and only a few tags had been entered this way but in order to fix them several user tags were deleted.
A bug that prevented the preference for showing posts with vertical scroll or fully expanded was fixed and the preference should now work.
On August 14th, 2008 we launched the new a2k software we’d been working on for so long.
