Just one gripe about this forum, can it be set so clickable links open in a new page, keeps p*****g me off when I forget to hold the shift key when I click on a link.
Right got that off my chest :)

Martin

> Just one gripe about this forum, can it be set so clickable links open in a
> new page, keeps p*****g me off when I forget to hold the shift key when I
> click on a link.
This is not the friendliest of boards to use in a number of respects. Many of us were very concerned at the proposal to close the <a href="http://www.climateprediction.net/board/">main CPDN board</a> [right click :-)] and migrate to this one. The answer to complaints about the current imperfections has been that it is a BOINC standard and if anyone wants to design a better one they are free to try.

I thought I had joined climate predictions not BOINC. not interested in all the rest, just the best way to help climate predictions, if thats BOINC then fine but I dont feel I am a member of the BOINC community but the climate prediction community. This board should still reflect climate prediction not BOINC.
At the end of the day we are helping them with our spare resources, if they have lost track of that then maybe its time I reassed the situation.

Martin

&gt; At the end of the day we are helping them with our spare resources, if they
&gt; have lost track of that then maybe its time I reassed the situation.

To be fair, they have listened to participant objections, which is why you are now offered a choice of boards. The team thought that the BOINC structure was better for newcomers to find technical help and that newcomers, especially from the SETI community, would find it easier to cope with a common BB structure.

I suggest people try both and decide for themselves ;-)

&gt; Just one gripe about this forum, can it be set so clickable links open in a
&gt; new page, keeps p*****g me off when I forget to hold the shift key when I
&gt; click on a link.
&gt; Right got that off my chest :)

I'll add that little note to my personal todo list.
I'm very slowly redoing parts of the forum to support more of the stuff from phpBB (avatars, user desciptions, moderation stuff, beter quoting, general speedup, bb-code etc.)
Already you can use signatures in your posts.

&gt; This is not the friendliest of boards to use in a number of respects. [...]
&gt; if anyone wants to design a better one they are free to try.

This board, as well as everything else related to BOINC at the moment, is a work-in-progress thing. So they are pretty serious about it when they say "Please give us a helping hand" - which is how it should be understood.

The basic idea is to make a board that is easy to use and yet has enough powerfull capabilities to keep the more hardcore users happy.

So feel free to help - if you (the general you - not directed at anyone in particular) can't code then you can still help out by being a bit more positive about it, and perhaps by supplying ideas and suggestions to how things could be done better in the future. =)