Questions About The Site

I love me some Calvin and Hobbes, but you know.... New site, new look, you know?

As more people show up, I wanted to start a thread (unrelated to the topic, but necessary) to explain how these clubs work. They act as mini-websites inside a website. When you join, you enter on the overview page. It shows you the latest activity in that particular club from new threads, forum topics, members, etc. (There isn't yet a lot of activity here because we started small.) The black bar above shows you the topic forums for the club. In this club you have Overview, Politics and Human Rights, Non-political world events/crises and Members. That's it ... for now. Wanted to see how this worked before adding more. To start a discussion thread, you need to go into one o…

I notice this new site has a hamburger menu in the top right corner. This is of course quite offensive to vegetarians on the site. I am not a vegetarian myself but I can only imagine the pain this causes them. Yes there are many ways to fight spam but forcing a hamburger on every page seems a bit much. Sometimes a spam sandwich can be tasty and we should at least have the option. I also notice there is a trail of breadcrumbs below the hamburger menu. Clean that up!

Hopefully, someone can get to work to delete the Coinbase and other Spam-Orama on the Blog Section here at TD. Meanwhile, I sure hope Josh Donaldson does NOT bat 1.000 with and OPS of 2.000 this season.

I noticed when I posted a long comment that the software eliminates any more than one space after periods. I know that some style manuals are now preferring one space rather than two, but to me, maybe it's the font, but I think that's much harder to read here. Any option on that? Thanks.

I’m not sure why, will follow up with the other mods. It could be a technical issue. You can still post about that article via the forums. Happy to help navigate there

The Sports Bar is a sad, desolate place.

Not sure who or where this goes but maybe one of the great mods can work on it. We have a link for a lot of frontpage articles but I was hoping we could move the prospect lists into the minor league forum as well after a day or two on the front page list. They get lost and I'm used to discussing the minor leaguers in that forum so I've missed some of the updates - which is my fault of course but for ease of using the website I think TDs minor league prospect ranking should also be in the minor league forums.

Is anyone else encountering crashes of the Firefox browser (Windows 10) when viewing Twins Daily? It happens randomly so I am suspecting the ads play a role. I'm not having the problem when other website are being viewed. Just thought I'd bring up the question before anoth

In the last couple of days, Nick Nelson wrote a very loosely based Twins article relating to the Astros scandal, which turned more into an Astros conversation. Ted writes another article about the Astros buzzers. I created a thread and have compiled more information over the last 2+ months than the 2 Front Page articles combined. This isn’t the first time it’s happened... I thought the mission of this site before was it you post blogs, forums, etc. even YOU can get moved to the front page? I don’t see any of our community members with promoted blog posts to the front page. For the record, I don’t actually want the money. A simple acknowledgement of other po…

They constantly bash Twins players and prospects. They try to get unfair trades sent to other teams. If you post anything against their agenda or it was pro-Twins, it is immediately deleted. Case in point, I had a message in the Sandy Alcantantraz trade thread that read as follows: “Let’s be realistic here. He is worth mid prospects at best. Not top 10 players in the deepest farm systems in the majors” When I asked why this post was deleted I am greeted by a contentious post from RiverBrain saying I broke the rules and then he LIED and said he messages me!! I never received a message for why that message was deleted. A total sham! Luckily one admin was nice e…

Why does nearly every forum topic need to have "Front Page" in front of it? At the time of this post, 17 of 20 topics start with 'Front Page.' I'd guess you're trying to highlight articles that are written by TD writers, but there is the 'Recent Articles' tab in the RH column. Just would think there is some other way of identifying these "official threads."

I’ve noticed this too and assumed it was because the writers probably use the article comments and not the forums. This is a good question for Brock Beauchamp our owner/IT/guru-extraordinaire.

I suspect this is only me because of some of the settings I have and the permissions I have with the server but I just want to make sure it's isolated to me, as it has been happening for a week but only on specific devices and only on my personal network. Again, the error seems specific to Chrome and it's: DNS_PROBE_FINISHED_NXDOMAIN (and before anyone chimes in, I already know the solution on a personal level, I just want to make sure it's not widespread)

So what’s TD’s policy on hate speech? There are a couple of threads (you probably know the ones) that are slipping towards that slope. If there isn’t one specified in writing yet, this would be a great time to come up with one. Thank you.

TD seems to be trying to download stuff. Chrome. Both my PC and phone..... I've blocked it, I think... But it keeps trying.

So, I have a blog written, but I don't know how to make the table function work. I pasted from word, and it looked great, until I hit preview.......

I started a draft discussion thread and it appears it was removed. Would love to know why?

I'm using Chrome, and starting a few minutes ago, seeing the list of threads in a forum is broken. The titles are much larger, and overlap the links and stuff. Also, there now appears to be a popup add at the bottom. Yuck.

At one point, there was a way to change the display name; I remember doing it about a year ago. Now I can see a dialog for display name history, but nothing to change the name itself. Is this something that's only allowed once a year, and if I wait a few more weeks can do again, or has the option been turned off altogether?

Any reason why "Not Secure" is preceding the site name in my browser?

I added a couple of obvious troll users to my ignore prefs, but their posts still show up on the mobile version of the site. I'm logged into the mobile site, so I would assume that the same settings would apply. It's working fine on the full site. Is there something that I'm doing wrong?

It would be very cool to be able to hide topics that we simply don't want to see. For example, I never want to see this one ever again: http://twinsdaily.com/topic/32382-recent-comments-by-buxton/ It's very rare, but there have been a couple of other threads in the past where the OP keeps them alive forever. I don't care if others want to keep talking about something, but I'd be happier if I could just hide a topic and forget about it.

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Please explain why a post with a satirical poem about President Trump called Trumpty Dumpty is allowed to exist in the Sports Bar, but referring to Congressman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez as Occasional Cortex results in a deleted post and warning points. Both posts are poking fun at politicians, but only one is allowed.

- Using Chrome When I post a comment from my computer, if I use more than 1 sentence, I hit the space bar twice after the period. It looks correct when I edit my comment. But when its posted, the spaces after my period goes away and it looks like a typing error. If I hit the edit button to fix it, both spaces are there. But then hit submit and It looks like this: Gol darn it, no Yu Darvish.I wish he didn't waste my whole offseason.What a jerk. All other spaces are there, it only shows up after a period. I make my fair share of typos and I am not stickler for grammar/punctuation. But for some reason this really bothers me. I see a few other comments have the sa…

What's up with that? SSL certs are not that expensive.

1. How does one become a moderator? 2. How long a term is this for? 3. How many moderators are there? 4. Who on the website keeps the mods in check as they do with "regular" posters?

The last two or three days I'm getting redirected to a weird page trying to sell me something. The link that I got routed to is below: http://www.aliexpress.com/item/Unprocessed-Brazilian-Body-Wave-Virgin-Hair-Weave-4pcs-Lot-Mix-Free-Shipping-Cheap-Brazillian-Virgin-Hair/1008022919.html?source=%7Bifdyn:dyn%7D%7Bifpla:pla%7D%7Bifdbm:DBM%7D&src=google&albch=display&acnt=612-979-4274&isdl=y&aff_short_key=UneMJZVf&albcp=629414132&albag=30011839463&slnk=&trgt=&plac=twinsdaily.com&crea=97153324343&netw=d&device=c&mtctp=&gclid=CPyg4Lyopc4CFYY0aQodL4gPyA

There are periods where this site is completely inaccessible for a few minutes to an hour at a time. When this happens, traceroutes are dying at some webhosting provider called privatesystems.net, which is one hop out from TwinsDaily.com. Why not just use godaddy, where you bought your domain anyway? They are reliable and cheap. Anyway, if you moved to this provider in the past couple of weeks/months, they're crap and you should move away from them. If you've been with them forever, give them a call to ask what's going on. If you have been looking at traffic logs lately and are wondering why traffic is down, this is why.