I did them all coan, and all sorted now, thank you, sorry to appear so thick lol

Adaptable Ali: Things to try:

Restart the browser
Restart the computer

Try do a "hard" refresh (hold down CTRL key & hit F5) or (hold down SHIFT key & hit F5) - this will make the browser refresh everything.

Clear out the browser cache (usually under Tools, option)

Please please please, i really need some help here, can not continue my games i have red dots as icons, and at the bottom of the page it keeps saying "Transferring data from brainking,com" and the green bar isnt fully across, it has been like that for about 20 minutes now.

gawd, got no smilies now either

Fencer: there was nothing for me to block fencer :o(

Adaptable Ali: http://brainking.info/archives/543-How-to-unblock-blocked-BrainKing-images-Firefox.html

FENCER, i think i have the same problem as before, all my icons and chips on boards are red dots, i cant remember how to resolve it, please could you let me know, many thanks

I have red dots everywhere cant get rid of them, unable to play any games, this has only happened since the site went down, need some help please.

yay ! back to normal, thanks !

Charles Martel: like who? There are other countries who have similar flags to the US which some users might have chosen instead of the US. If you give me an example, I will be happy to look.

how about others from the U.S.flag icons?

Charles Martel: Looking at my profile, the American flag on it looks normal.

Fencer , has Nirvana staged a coup in the US??

the american flag sure looks different on this site today

Roberto Silva:
that must have been what happened... thanks for the help with understanding it...

andy99: in the 'castle' style (which you can chose on the most top line of this site) there is a column with flags on the most right side of this site .. click on the flag of the language you want to use

another way would be to change the url (the website address) in the address bar of your browser .. the address of this board ends with '/Board?bc=1' just before that is the language code .. for me its 'nl' (dutch)
'en' would be english, 'xx' is unreadable (keycodes), 'es' is spanish (i think), etc.

LionsLair: if they are a knight or a rook the moment they submit their move, it will still count, even if they become a pawn before that round is over and the moves are calculated

andy99: try logging out, the bottom link in the left column. Then on the loginpage click on the flag you wish.

My page has gone into a foreign language and I do not know how to get b.ack to english.What do I do?

LionsLair: But, when he moved, he may have still been a rook. I know his membership just ended in the last few days. The system would not let him bid if he was a pawn at the time of his bid.

LionsLair:

Hmmm  looks like they moved and they shouldnt have 

rod03801:

well they moved! I purposely made my move counting on them to not be able to move and they did....
is it a bug?

Area 51 #3

LionsLair: and even if they are in the pond, they cannot play. It will not let them bid in the pond. If the pond is just starting, their bid will be zero. If they became a pawn in the middle of a pond going on, their last bid will be their bid until it causes them to fall in.

have the rules changed about pawns being able to play ponds and I just missed the rule change somewhere?

Show "Yesterdays's most active player" on the main page

Should read Yesterday's

omg

volant:I mean, how many bananers can you eat?

volant: thanks that was what I needed.
I was busy looking for one checkbox saying "disable advertising" or some such thing lol

paully: In the left column click Settings. In the General Tab near the bottom uncheck all the boxes under Show BannerAds Then click save or whatever it says. I hope this works

Now that I am a paid member, is there any way to hide the advertising on the main page?

Thanks for your help

Well since more and more keep adding to poll ideas, a good place to add suggestions is the Opinion Polls discussion board

Since they can easily get buried here - I know for public polls, when I'm ready to make a new poll I always do a quick search through that board to see what pop's out at me.

I don't often use polls, but if they are something that might help the site, I probably would.

Poll 1: What browser do you use for Brainking (IE, Firefox, Safari, opera, other)

Poll 2: What performance do you see from Brainking (very fast, fast, medium, slow, very slow, unusable)

LionsLair: and just to jump in ahead of Bernice:
Add also the counter question (worst, feature, worst game)

I got an idea for an opinion poll but I know i would leave some info out as an answer option and thought I would throw it out there for someone that is more in tune with the answers.

1.) what is the best 'new feature' applied to BK in the last year?
i.e. opinion polls, multi sign up for ponds, hide oponents turn to move, etc,etc,etc.....

what is the best new game added to BK in the last year?

anyone want to run with it....feel free...

I downloaded Safari and have Firefox.. very little difference on my puter between the two regarding speed.. as for the add ons.. I just use it plain since I still use IE for my other web browsing.. I have it set for IE as the default browser.. 

Rose: thanks for this tip

(it might explain why i have no problems, i am using IE at work and an older version of Firefox at home with very little addons)

Bernice: I have used Safari before, and still have it on here

I have just been comparing them in fact, and Safari is faster at loading games pages, but very little to choose any any other pages i tried.

Apart from the speed reason, like coan.net and others, i love the huge amount of Add-ons available for Firefox. I have everything i need all on one page from resizing text areas to all my email

The only reason i can think off the top of my head that people find Firefox slow is they do not have enough memory for it. It has always been notorious for eating memory up, though the new version is not meant to be as bad as previous one.

I have 30 Add-ons(though only 27 running at the moment), i have no speed problem, so i will be sticking with it

I a playing a game of Cloning backgammon, and autopass is enabled, but it isnt working during this game, does anybody know why?

I'm very interested in this topic, but would love to see it continued over on the Computer Discussion Board.... in which it might help others also.

http://brainking.com/en/Board?bc=52 - please check it out, would love to talk more about the topic over there.

Snoopy: Ya i don't get why its so fast.. maybe its the lack of add ons. FF has sooo many scripts, add ons etc.. Maybe thats why its sooo darn laggy lately.
All I know is safari is simple, basic, not pretty but WOW she's fast!

Rose: I know that Mad Monkey is a firefox fan, and I wonder what he would think of Safari....my god it is unbelievably fast...I cant get over it....Firefox is certainly dead here for good...tried it and dint like it and went back to IE, but it is Safari now for me..........

Bernice: Unreal how fast the site is using safari. Pretty weird since being told that this is a firefox preferred site. I don't get it. Using any version of firefox just took ages to get through one single turn.. Ive been down to 40 games for months due to not being able to play many games .... unreal

my god..........what a difference Safari...thanks Rose......have just whizzed thru everything..........WOW...I recommend that

Bernice: Ya it was to the point that I was ready to stop playing due to the slow speed. Today is the first day in weeks that i can literally zip thru my turns. Unbelievable. I think the last firefox update was when everything started to lag for me.. I even got the latest beta 5 and still slow as molasses in January. This safari has actually made a huge improvement in playing.

Rose: thanks Rose....might have to do that....it is beyond a joke isn't it.

Bernice try safari.. I installed it today after getting the latest firefox beta 5 which was slower than my old firefox. I can actually play my games in a reasonable time now. Can't hurt to try it. Go to apple.com and download it.

Bernice: what if there is no solution to speed up your connection ?

speed lasted about 10 minutes....back to the "all day wait" bit....I wish someone would admit to problems and stop trying to fob people off with fancy talk of "yew bewt" servers etc....that are going to improve the USA connection....crap...there is a problem and it is all over.......admit to it, and lets get on with it.................
I'm ( along with a lot of others) are sick of the excuses and blame.

FGS fix it and lets all play on.

but will admit to about 5 secs at the moment

dare I say it.............4 minutes 22 secs to load......with the message
"waiting for "http://brainking.com/en/Board?bc=1"