Admin Rudolf Wagner
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Looks like they fixed it now. You can now see the favourite/subscribe (unsubscribe) links at the top of every topic.
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Hi Thomas,
We learned the hard way that we have a very different taste regarding the ideal bass sound than most bass players. It is almost 180 degree opposite to the development bass sound has taken in popular music.
One of the reasons we like 60s music so much is the bass sound from this era: this humming, pushing bass that you can feel more in your stomach rather than hear with your ears when playing in lower registers. At the same time you would hear lots of infatuating lyrical melody lines. A perfect accompaniment that never interferes with vocals or guitars but supports and enhances the song.
Nowadays basses often get praised for their sustain, how much treble they can produce or how many strings they have. That is perfectly fine when you also want to use them as a solo instrument. Since we care more about how the bass sounds within a song, we usually prefer almost exactly the opposite: a rather short sustain with a distinct and very defined attack, a warm wooden tone. And we prefer short-scale and 4 string basses because of the better playability. We also never missed the only thing you really gain with a 5 or more string bass – the lower notes. If we’d really need a low D we’d prefer to tune the E string down but we never had to.
To answer your questions:
1) As we are not into the style of music where a five or more string bass can shine, like Funk or Jazz/Rock/Fusion, we think it is mostly not the right tool for our purposes.
2) Neither 🙂 It is just not the kind of sound we’re after. Our favourite bass sounds are a great acoustic double bass, a Höfner violin bass, a Rickenbacker 4001 and all with flatwound strings. One of the most important choices regarding sound are the strings. We exclusively use a special kind of flatwounds that have a lot of thump and enough presence to not sound too muddy but still sound like a bass and not like a guitar.
3) He did not bring an instrument but we dimly remember that he might have mentioned his baritone guitar (we talked a lot about instruments).
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Now it works. The developers fixed it.
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By the way, thanks for reporting this, Roger. It’s one of the bugs that keep undetected until someone points them out. So in this case – It’s not a feature, it’s a bug 😉
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After doing some testing I now know where the problem comes from. it is our WordPress theme. There should be two buttons on the page of a single topic for favourite and subscribe. They simply don’t appear when I switch to our theme on a test page. I opened a ticket with their support and hopefully they will fix it soon.
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You are right. I have enabled the “subscribe to forums and topics” function in the backend but it doesn’t seem to appear anywhere on the frontend. I’ll have a look at it.
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Thanks, we are already aware of it and reported it to the software developers of the WordPress theme we use. A certain combination of Plugins with the theme causes a few problems. Video playing twice is only one of them. I hope they can fix that soon.
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I was over enthusiastic in updating plugins without testing them first. Rollback seems to work now.
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I also considered this a nice feature and tried to provide it as long as possible but now it looks like the plugin is no longer supported.
https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/bbpress-simple-view-counts/Until I find another solution I have to deactivate it because the numbers it shows now don’t make sense anymore.
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Hi Jung,
I had a look at it and saw that the plugin that provides this functionality is still active. That means that either updates on the theme or WordPress itself or on the BuddyBoss platform (the basis of this website) made the views disappear.
At the moment we have a very tight schedule to finish all of our most urgent projects. As soon as I have more time I will stage (make a copy of) the site and dig in deeper to find the reason for this behaviour.
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It should work now. On this occasion I also made the formatting button work again to format things in this reply text box.
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Hi Tomas,
I could replicate the error.
Thanks for reporting. I try to fix it as soon as possible. -
Hello Jung,
Sorry for not responding earlier but the problem was much more complicated than what we thought. Too many things did not work and some still are not working as they should. That is also why we could only release part of the whole member communication system and also why it was not possible yet to write complete instructions. I think we could at least fix this problem.
The profile page had a sidebar that should not appear there. That made the messages reply column too narrow to answer. This sidebar also appeared on other pages and the whole template system was not working as it should be.
I hope this is fixed now and also stays that way. Fingers crossed.
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Did you see your comments after posting and did they disappear later or were you not able to post them at all?
corr: Stupid question, I saw you have basically answered it already. They disappeared later.
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Seems like that happened only on the Nowhere Man post. Did you see that problem also on other posts? We’re still digging for your comments in the database. They must be somewhere.