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Everything posted by Chris
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Welcome to Pride of Nottingham PieHard
Hello, @PieHard. I have to say I like your nick! It's great to see more plays on the word "Pie". Welcome to the Pride of Nottingham, I hope you enjoy being a part of our Notts County community. If you wouldn't mind, would you care to tell us a little bit about yourself, such as your background in supporting the mighty pies?
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Welcome to PON Simon Jackson
Hello, @Simon Jackson. Welcome to the Pride of Nottingham, it's great to be saying hello to you! Feel free to reach out if you need any help, but for now please enjoy being a part of our Notts County community.
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Welcome willallen50
Hello, @willallen50. Welcome to the Pride of Nottingham, I hope you enjoy being a part of our Notts County community. Feel free to share a little bit about yourself, especially after a few of us say hello.
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pon and the new site
Yes, v5 was built from the ground up, which is why there are a lot of issues with features coming from addons being difficult. Plugins are removed, in favour of everything to be applications. The good thing is a lot of hooks are returning, but some will never return. Between major versions, I do try to freshen things up. I spent a while loving the previous theme, but I wanted to try something new. I'll look into the tablet side, if you are able to tell me the model and Android version? It's possible it could be related to the browser, but provided that is still being updated, there shouldn't be much reason for the site to be broken completely. Next time I am at my dad's I will check one of the devices which still works that I cycled down to him (before we brought him a newer device because they were really past it). ๐คฃ It is important I try to see what is causing it, though. I am thankful, there's no "but" in there. ๐
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Have we become too predictable?
I think it's fair to say we are somewhat predictable because how many times do we try to force the play by passing it back, only to focus on going down the left or right wing? Usually the left side, at the expense of the other wing-back becoming a spectator for key parts of the game. I believe it was our final game against Doncaster, when Stuart Maynard finally brought on Will Jarvis, but at the time everything was being focused on coming from Jodi Jones. The spells on the ball that Jarvis got, it seemed like we could create something different, and I don't mean for this to be a criticism of Jodi, as he does superbly well and is skillful enough to bring the quality needed to change the game or create a goal-scoring chance. My point is the predictability. When defences know we won't use the opposition flank, we won't try to attack through the centre of the park. More frustratingly, we insist on trying to tap the ball in by walking into the goal line. Very few efforts come from outside, but a lot of the best goals last season came from a pure bit of magic and a chance from distance when the opposition don't expect it. There's no reason why at times we can't try to mix things up, but I do think teams start to see where the danger is. Then it takes us to have a real quality moment to break teams down, rather than forcing them to make mistakes by switching things up.
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Welcome Miles3659
Hello, @Miles3659. Welcome to the Pride of Nottingham. I hope you find PON to be useful, especially once we get closer to the new season, and enjoy being part of our Notts County community.
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Welcome to Andrew Fairhurst
Hello, @Andrew Fairhurst. Welcome to the Pride of Nottingham. I hope you enjoy being a part of our Notts County community. Please do tell us a bit about yourself.
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Welcome glastoandy
Hello, @Glastoandy. Welcome to the Pride of Nottingham. I hope you enjoy being a part of our Notts County community, please do visit and join in when you can.
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Welcome Stringy Bob
Hello, @Stringy Bob. Welcome to the Pride of Nottingham. I hope you enjoy being a part of our Notts County community. PS. There's a Bob I am familiar with who goes to most away games, who his group call him "Stringy". I don't suppose it is you? ๐
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pon and the new site
I'm looking into this, @Robbie. ๐
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Announcement: Apology, PON annual awards, and Site news - 2nd June
Lightweight theme added, please remember now the themes come with a toggle to quickly switch between light and dark mode. The lightbulb = Light Mode, The Mood Crest = Dark Mode. As for the third icon, that is just the system default.
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pon and the new site
In 4.5, or maybe 4.3, there was a link on the forum index. That would change based on what the default stream was, but a lot of things have been streamlined. There are elements I miss, but hooks are returning and there's always the hope that they'll be able to be returned. My favourite change is the text editor. The previous editor was CKEditor 4, and it was very clunky. When it was first introduced, it was outstanding for the time, but things have become a lot more lightweight and better in terms of functions. I am still working on areas, but I am happy with how far we have come. I'm just glad there weren't any major, major issues. It went remarkably well. When I upgraded a test environment, I encountered heaps of issues, but that is to be expected with betas. I'm always open to feedback, and I only want members to be happy.
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Weekly chat Monday 2nd to Sunday 9th June
I had an issue with my laptop, so I decided to reinstall the latest update to Windows 11. It made no difference, so I undid the update. Same issue, I had already checked online for any fixes, and had roamed the Microsoft support forums. It turns out my antivirus, Kaspersky, had some weird issue, and uninstalling it resolved the issue. Never before have I had issues with an app randomly preventing Windows from operating correctly. I only troubleshooted it because I had turned my internet off. If I hadn't done that, I probably would have had to freshly install Windows 11. Whilst that was going on, I watched a couple of boxing matches on Channel 5. There's something wrong with modern boxing based on what I witnessed.
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Burnley striker
At 22, I wouldn't be against us trying to sign him, but I don't think a loan would be suitable. At 22, he needs to settle in a first-team environment, and if Burnley were prepared to let him leave permanently, it could be a good coup for us. That said, it might trigger those wiki fans who believe the stats on the pages say more about the player than giving them a chance in real life. We might be seeking more experience, mind you, what with the signing of Matthew Dennis.
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Weekly chat Monday 2nd to Sunday 9th June
It's about time @Fan of Big Tone, that you fit me into your suitcase. ๐ I hope you and Mrs T have a wonderful time on the cruise. The Ireland part sounds like a nice way to finish the cruise, not so sure about Liverpool despite all the culture and music scene. I suppose if you haven't been, seeing the connections to The Beatles would be nice. I trust you brought your ear defenders along!!
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Announcement: Apology, PON annual awards, and Site news - 2nd June
There seems to be an issue where the custom CSS decides to go missing. I have taken a manual backup and have so far managed to get round the issue. I am not exactly sure what caused it, but please keep an eye out for things.
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Who do you want for our next manager
If I act quick, I might be able to get my name on the list of candidates by tomorrow. I think the board will be narrowing down their selection, and I don't think it's a bad thing that they are not rushing the appointment. I do hope we end up with someone with EFL experience, but provided whoever comes in can get the best out of the squad and unite us fans. Then the season will only be another rollercoaster of a ride, a favourable fixture start and a good beginning to the campaign, and we'll wonder why we were even fussed. At least the Reedtz don't pick based on the flavour of the month, or whoever is desperate enough to accept the job.
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Weekly chat Monday 2nd to Sunday 9th June
It would be nice to plant a few more flowers in my front garden. Cheeky has done well with the bedding area in front of the house. We have an Acer tree close to the corner of our front fence which is getting bigger. I have always been tempted to put flowers around it, and make it more of a feature. They are a real nightmare, I think Cheeky tends to put off them due to this too. It's a headache when they won't come off, it's why we ended up leaving the ones in the front. Though from time to time, Cheeky does say she wishes they were gone. Her dad once tried to remove them, and gave up due to how awkward they are. That's rust and years of being set in place for us, I think in some cases they are best left because of the damage they can do when trying to remove them. If we ever used ours, they would need to like the sun a lot because we face it from early morning until around 5pm. Doing any gardening in the summer can be a real drain, when the sun is at its highest heat. Though, I do wish we could do something with them. On another point, I have wanted to install lights to the front of the house for some time. We had to make our gardens really private, due to issues with the neighbours, but I do go for the occasional late-night walk and think the house would look better lit up. Flowers and plants make a massive difference. I don't like how hedges are being removed simply because people can't be bothered to maintain them. Likewise with trees, many tall and old trees have been cut down in recent years, and I can't understand why anyone would want their property to be so open.
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Bradford City sign Tilt
They're in for another defender from Kilmarnock, supposedly, at least from what I read. I thought Curtis Tilt looked like a strong leader at the back, but I wasn't impressed with other aspects of his game. When we have played against him, I have always wanted to see a player just take him on, as he tends to be indecisive at times. Organisation-wise, he's very good and should be a good signing.
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Weekly chat Monday 2nd to Sunday 9th June
The father of my brother's friend, who used to own my home. He was obsessed with hanging baskets, it caused quite a lot of damage to the brick walls. We still have two holders stuck to the front of our house, which refuses to move. I had thought about sanding them back to the metal and repainting them. However, Cheeky isn't keen on hanging baskets. I quite like them, and find it to be quite interesting to see someone start from the beginning, as mentioned by @Robbie. I sometimes wonder if Cheeky doesn't think they will grow if we did them ourselves, and that the ones she doesn't like are those already pre-arranged. The back of my house must have had like six different hanging baskets at one point. After I cleared the jungle from the overgrown garden, those were one of the first things Cheeky wanted removing as it did damage the break work. I patched parts up, so it doesn't look that bad. At the bottom of our garden, Cheekt has some flowers at the side of our garage and a raspberry plant.
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Announcement: Apology, PON annual awards, and Site news - 2nd June
Ah, that's because it's linked with the home and article system due to it being a page. Oops, that's a small oversight from me. I'll focus on the articles now, so we can fix that up.
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Announcement: Apology, PON annual awards, and Site news - 2nd June
I think it would have been the dev, Shahed, fixing it. It seems to work fine for me now. Can you confirm?
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Weekly chat Monday 2nd to Sunday 9th June
I'm a little surprised I managed to wake up at 9am. With me working on PON earlier than I intended, it meant I could finish the main part in the early hours of this morning, roughly around 3am. Yesterday, I managed to go see @super_ram. It was nice to catch up with him after my family break. I can't wait to return in October. Especially because he will be joining us. The break has done me a lot of good, but I won't go into that. My focus is to continue with the work now, which is required from the upgrade. I really do hope everyone sees the improvements and comes to like them. Thank you, @Fan of Big Tone and @Robbie for helping with the early stages as I sought to gather feedback.
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Announcement: Apology, PON annual awards, and Site news - 2nd June
I'm pleased to say the site has been successfully updated. However, it's not without some hiccups. I will be trying to get more parts functional, but with the changes being quite big, I need to fix custom parts, templates, and further general maintenance. The home page and article system will remain down until later today, as will the store. These are two areas where I can't just patch things over from testing; I need to spend a significant amount of time fixing and sorting them out. In addition to this, the dashboard page is missing some widgets, and does have an issue with the left side bar not scrolling. I will be speaking to a third-party dev in regards to fixing that. I have a fair amount of theme-related changes, however, I hope everyone likes the new design. The light/dark version will return, as will the old theme everyone is used to. Please bear with me as I fix things. I am working as hard as I can to make sure that the site is back to 100% functional, without any missing features or custom areas.
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New signing Matthew Dennis
I think we have a far more chance of creating chances for Matthew Dennis to score, a lot of goals that aren't wonder strikes tend to be easy tap-ins, or at least quite straightforward. I wouldn't read too much into his wiki, as he's young and players like Dennis need to settle. I have faith in the recruitment team, and as the first signing, I am happy with it. This is a good opportunity for Dennis, as Carlisle is a long way from London, and his previous spell at MK Dons shouldn't be held against him. I hope some fans can reserve their judgement and just give him a chance.