So, I went to my message box today, and the boxes to select messages are now after the message instead of before. has anyone else noticed this, because I find it annoying that it's suddenly moved...

nodnarbo: Do you mean the boxes on the main message list, to put a tick mark in, to delete or save or whatever? Because mine have always been over on the right hand side of it.

rod03801: um...yea...well...I was kinda afraid of that cause this isn't the first time something like this has happened...I still think they should still be on the left side though

nodnarbo: LOL, yeah, I can't disagree with you. Now that you mention it, I think it would make more sense too. Never really thought about it before.

Puckish: I do get off with Christmas, and I don't have to go to work. Which means, I can play. I don't play from the office - perhaps Fencer should give me 225 extra vacation days.

AbigailII:  I'm in favor of giving you all the vacation days you want, if that will put you in a more generous mood ;-)

AbigailII: Its funny... i think most people seem to play more from work than from home, so a holiday off from work is not a good thing for so many people!

MadMonkey: you could set your weekend to tuesday and wednesday .. that way christmas andthe 1st of january would be covered

personally i think 35 vacation days per year are more than enough .. i even am not in favor of people buying extra vacation days .. although its a good income for brainking it also favors the rich people which unbalances the world enough already :)

it would be a good habit to set christmas as a vacation day at the start of the year already

maybe its a good idea to turn of automatic vacation days .. that way you wont use a whole vacation day to prevent 1 single game from timing out and you might have more days spare at the end of the year which can be used to prevent more games from timing out

as everyone said we had 30 vacation days per year, then christmas became an ordinary day and we got 5 extra vacation days per year .. so in fact we got 3 more days per year (i think)

if we go with fixed holidays again then i want 1 for my birthday as well and for queensday .. as i cant play on those days either :)

Fencer: it is in my favourite boards now .. dont know what went wrong yesterday .. maybe it was my cache (although i never had that problem with firefox) ... it kept giving me the link 'add this board to your favourites' and didnt switch to 'remove this board from your favourites' .. the board didnt show up in my list of favourites either

ah well .. maybe i should have done a manual refresh .. i dont think i tried that :)

its working now .. thats the good thing! :)

Hrqls:  Excellent idea about the weekend.  

Hrqls & alanback: Yes, i never thought of it

I should come here more often

alanback: well coan.net already mentioned it .. but a bit cryptic as he said he had his weekend set to tuesday :)

i always switch my weekend to the days most profitable before i leave on a vacation (this vacation sat. and sun. are the best days for me as i leave early sunday morning and come back on sunday

i always let automatic vacation take care of the first few days of my absence (as my opponent might not have moved .. and that way i save some vacation days :))

I wonder if we could replace the dragon with santa and his raindeer for a few days,or maybe just slip a santa hat on him

Jim Dandy:


Great Idea  

Jim Dandy:

Jim Dandy: Yes, great idea. And who will make this animated picture?

CODEREDCODEREDCODERED!!!!

Fencer: Good question,other than a simple cute and paste,I'm pretty computer illiterate.

Jim Dandy: Go for it.

,Merry xmas an a very prosperous new year 2 u all..

I know it nothing to do with BrainKing, but lets have a little fun and help Santa out on Xmas day

Well, who wants to Help Santa out ???

Come on everyone play Xmas Corner

My eyes aren't great,but I swear our Dragon is wearing a Santa hat

Jim Dandy: LOL, I actually switched to the castle view to look!

Eriisa: He(or she,my eyes aren't that good)is wearing a Santa hat!

Jim Dandy: bless him

MadMonkey: That's great! cuz ever since he was a lil baby dragon,he's just loved Christmas

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ElFyYVsjBY

Andersp: Having a break from it presents keep going down the hole

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Fencer: The addition of Little Boss is a good idea. Thank you for that. I was able to add a board onto a fellowship but not edit it thus only doing an unfinished job, and it would have been useful to be able to do that. Would it be possible for a little Boss to be able to do that, please?

Nirvana: I did ask about that, well similar.

That Little Bosses could be able to edit / delete posts on a DB, but he said no

So i asked if Little Bosses could be added automatically as mods of Fellowship boards (as Big Bosses are), but no as well

Maybe we can think of a compromise

MadMonkey: Well, wouldn't the compromise be manually adding the little boss as a moderator of the board? Nothing is stopping you from doing that.

rod03801: Yep, thought of that, just thought it could be set to do it automatically like all the other options

MadMonkey: I added an additional board to a fellowship but wasn't able to add a link to it on the other boards other than in an actual post or put a descriptive message on it. It would be helpful to be able to do that.

hmmmm someone fill me in, the site is back working, yet it had been down 6 hours when i last tried to get on

When did it come back ?
What about the games that have timed out ? (not mine, but someone mentioned them on BrainKing Google Discussion Board)
No mention of the clock being stopped, in fact no mention on anything

MadMonkey: The blog will fill you in. Soon.

Fencer: Thats good, at least i did not imagine it

OH, and who do i talk to about spending the night at WORK and ACTUALLY having to do some rather than play games

Fencer - Thanks for the explanation - and i can only imagine the frustration of such an event from your point of view - thanks for being so quick with improving the site's ability to detect such a horrific event should it happen again in the future - i suppose its only through time and experience that problems such as these are discovered - but its good to see that you are on top of fixing these things as they present themselves. Thanks again!

redfrog: I second that!!...couldnt said it better myself! 

Fencer: Clinical death:

what about the games that timed out because of it?

Nirvana: and the ponds as well?

Puckish: No need to worry, Fencer will fix it !! 

Is the time out checking process disabled due to the latest already explained problems, or is this due to something completely new and different?

Puckish: You answered your own question Chucky.

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Puckish: why do you keep posting that?  

Its when Fencer offers a two year for the price of one year membership bonus!

Puckish: oh ok...so now we know!!

Sometimes I wish we could have a twin site for BK - without all the bells and whistles, just a site where you play the games. It seems that every time improvements are made, it takes the site several days, at minimum, to recover. For the last week, again, it's been so slow - the pages load in pieces, it takes forever to connect and again there are the darn white pages - "Try again later"...... Of course there will be times when there will be some problems - but this is getting so frustrating. Oh, I know, I'm not supposed to say anything about it anymore, but sorry, I consider it my right as a paying member to bring this up... again...... especially since plenty of other players are experiencing the same thing..... again....

Binabik: I agree, I found since christmas that this site has been painful to attempt to play on it. It takes forever to make a move, it has become a chore for me more then a fun place to come and play. I know we aren't supposed to complain about the speed, but I agree maybe alot of these extras we seem to be getting are really not need, after all its supposed to be a game site, hopefully the speed improves in 2008