Questions About The Site

As a non-Vikings fan, seeing Vikings Journal article/forum headlines at the bottom of the page in the TwinsDaily forum is super annoying. I'm probably in the minority here as Twins but non Vikings fan, but I thought I'd share my concerns anyway.

In case you haven't noticed links popping up over the past 24 hours, we're expanding into Vikings coverage. The site is live, though we're not promoting it outside Twins Daily until tomorrow morning. http://vikingsjournal.com You can log in using your Twins Daily credentials. Be sure to check out the articles published by MinnCentric's new Vikings team: Bo Mitchell, AJ Mansour, Arif Hasan, and Joe Oberle. They're all accomplished writers and will bring the same kind of coverage you get from Twins Daily to the Vikings world. Also, give our new Facebook page a like! https://www.facebook.com/pages/Vikings-Journal/828110553874365 Or our Twitter account... https://twit…

Is there a way to place a table in a post any more? I can't seem to find that function anymore and since much of my analysis is data driven it would make my posts cleaner appearing, not quite as "you've been crushed by a wall of text".

Brock, Seems like I'm noticing a lot more spamming since the re-design. Lots of little "You said this well, visit my websie at blah, blah, blah" (nothing to do with sports). Is it something with the permissions? Sorry for adding yet another wrinkle.

In the help section, its says you can do that in the profile settings, but once I get to profile settings, the option to change it is not there. Any help?

Hey Brock, Any chance you can make the ads that play audio to do so on mute? Ads the play audio can discourage site visits.

A bunch of you have warning points that carried over oddly from the old installation. I was going to wipe them all out with a SQL command but realized that wasn't the best idea in the world because they're tied to other elements in the database. If you want your points wiped out of the system, respond here with a "HELLS YES." If the system won't let you post, PM me. If the system won't let you PM, email me at brock@twinsdaily.com with your username.

Is it just me? I went to post a blog tonight, but couldn't get past the terms and conditions. My only option was "continue," so I clicked that, but it brought me back to square 1.

and who decides how many stars are darkened? and why?

I'm looking for someone who has a copy of IE11, some free time, and a mind for technical issues. No coding required, just some patience and the ability to describe potential issues with site functionality and display. PM me if you're such a person.

I was intrigued by this tweet from Berardino: Mike Berardino ‏@MikeBerardino 13m See who our new online partners @TwinsDaily @SethTweets selected as #MNTwins top Minor League Hitter for May: http://twinsdaily.com/content.php/3053-Twins-Minor-League-Hitter-of-the-Month-May-2014 … Just a turn of phrase? I was intrigued by the words "new online partners". Something happening with you all and the PP? Any changes with the Strib?

Lee Harvey joke too edgy for these parts? Gimme a break, people need to lighten up.

In my never-ending quest to keep this site running, I have implemented new server-side caching. Hopefully, this will help cure some of the site's woes when traffic hits its peak during game times and between 9am-11am Central time. If you continue to see slowdowns, let me know in this thread. I'll get more aggressive with the settings if this isn't enough to keep the site stable during our busy hours. Forum software is a &^*%. Normally, one would just cache the entire site along with its database tables but one can't do that with a forum, as the database is adding/deleting fields every few seconds.

Hey, I'd like to ask some questions about the TD mobile experience. If you have input on what you like or don't like about the mobile theme (which is the blue/white theme seen on phones and smaller tablets), it will help me establish what to change or add in the future. 1. How often do you use the mobile theme compared to the desktop theme? 2. From a usability aspect, what do you dislike about the mobile theme? 3. What is missing from the mobile theme that you'd like to see added? 4. What mobile device do you use to view the mobile theme? 5. Any additional comments? Thanks!

I'm testing new functionality. Pop onto your profile and add your Twitter username if you want to link it to your forum profile (it now appears under your avatar if you opt to add it). Change it here: http://twinsdaily.com/profile.php?do=editprofile

Is it gone and/or replaced with the "shop" button or has that always been there? Please bring back the "what's new" button.

Lost a few hours of posts due to a server screwup during an upgrade of Apache software. Other than that, everything should be working correctly and I'm going to &^%$ing sleep now.

I have an idea this happens to be the thread I was on when I had it. If it's considered hijacking, let me know and I'd be glad to move it. [Moderator's note: I did move this into its own thread in the About Twins Daily portion of the site.] I just "liked": someone's post, and as you know it now says "This user likes _____'s post and wants to buy him/her a steak dinner." To be honest, I did like the post, but I don't really want to buy him/her a steak dinner. I really think a beer (or a soft drink for those who prefer that) would be more appropriate. It's more social and it's more of a "like" kind of thing. A steak dinner is more than that. We have lots of "like…

I've been combing through the site in various browsers in recent days, trying to square away a few of the niggling bugs I know are out there. Now that this design is ~13 months old, browsers have updated enough where new bugs might have popped up that I don't know about yet. If you see one, post about it here. Please, don't veer this thread off-track. I'm going to sticky it here for a few weeks.

Out of curiosity, how do folks here prefer to monitor and participate in game threads? I've tried during the season's first week, but it seems cumbersome -- I have to constantly manually refresh the page to look for new posts, if I make a new post I have to scroll back to read other posts I may have missed while typing/submitting (and when we all post after a particular event this happens a lot), sometimes I even have to jump back a page if my post went on a new page, etc. Maybe this is part of the game thread experience (and it certainly is a more casual affair than regular forum threads), but this seems like the kind of thing that real-time chat would be good for? I…

Any tips on finding and using photos for blog entries? I know the FAQ says, "Please make sure you are not using copyrighted or licensed images." Besides using personal photos I've taken, what are potential sources for images that I could fairly use? Thanks in advance for any advice.

I usually use Chrome but lately I've been getting a lot of "Unable to load page" messages when I pull it up (TD is my homepage in Chrome). But at the same time I'm getting the message in Chrome, I am able to load TD in Firefox. But also not loading in Explorer (IE11). (Chrome is Version 33.0.1750.154 m and says it is up-to-date). It's just kind of frustrating so I am curious why it is happening. And just happening with TD not other sites. Here's the longer message in Chrome: [h=1] This webpage is not available[/h] Reload Less The server at http://www.twinsdaily.com can't be found, because the DNS lookup failed. DNS is the network service that translates a we…

In recent threads across a range of topics, tangential issues are creeping in again. Examples are 1) the size of the team budget, 2) the past off-season's moves, 3) the quality of the front office. This amounts to thread-jacking, when it pervades the forum. TD moderators will be taking a no-tolerance view of these and similar topics being injected into threads where the relevance is low. As the 2014 season approaches, we will foster a welcoming environment for fans new to the site. Again, we are taking a ZERO TOLERANCE stance toward thread-jacking, indeed all misbehavior, through end the of April. Please refer to the Twins Daily Comment Policy at http://twinsdaily…

Hello, I am a frequent reader and infrequent poster to Twinsdaily.com and was reading a moderator explanation about a topic being locked down recently and the problems with discussing payroll on this site. The discussion of the reasoning seemed focused on the group that feels the Twins are not fulfilling perceived promises around payroll size and did not focus at all on the group that is always looking for the best deal, regardless if a deal is needed or not. Examples of this from the thread that were not called out and seem to have moderator support: “The Twins handled the Santana and Garza situation correctly, IMO. Lowball them late in the offseason and if one bit…

Your crack 3RD staff is aware that many of us got SPAM'd in our visitor message area. Please delete the message yourself. The sender has been banned.

I am curious how to upload one/change mine. I have a picture on my profile when I click on it, but it never shows on posts or forums. How do I fix this?

Chris Parmelee was the Twins' 1st round pick in 2006. He has been in the organization nearly eight years, maybe we could give him the respect of spelling his name correctly. I would estimate I see "Parmalee" nearly half the time whenever there is mention of said player. C'mon guys, it's not like his surname is "Salt-a-la-ralph-macchio".

Been getting this beautiful ad on the right side of the screen yesterday and today. How do you guys know so much about me?

After the issues on the mobile site I might as well throw this one out there too. I went to read Parker's article on Buxton this morning and got bounced with some critical error message that my work computer's antivirus did something with. I don't know what going on lately... but seriously. I don't want to start not even feeling safe visiting the site and whatnot?

Last night on the Talk to Contact podcast, I talked a bit about the origins of TwinsDaily and was asked about its future. What would everyone out there like to see TwinsDaily tackle in the future? Thanks, John