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Author:  DarkAngelGirl [ Sun, Apr 04 2010, 7:07 AM ]
Post subject:  New Forums
Just wanna say, its a little different and weird, but I'm totally digging it. Thumbs up, and good work. I pretty much blinked and Amia was back up, so a big thanks to getting everything done quickly and efficiently.
Author:  TormakSaber [ Sun, Apr 04 2010, 7:07 AM ]
Post subject:  Re: New Forums
Um... bad news: Thegame servers actually haven't moved yet, to my knowledge. Just the forums.

Also the new forums feel weirdly way spaced out....
Author:  Nekhy [ Sun, Apr 04 2010, 7:26 AM ]
Post subject:  Re: New Forums
The forums still need a bit of tweaking here and there.
Author:  DarkAngelGirl [ Sun, Apr 04 2010, 8:07 AM ]
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Well, so far so good, appreciate all the work put in.
Author:  Herra Tutteri [ Sun, Apr 04 2010, 8:08 AM ]
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Yah, the forums are fancy. But sure it takes some time to get used to them.
Author:  Jes [ Sun, Apr 04 2010, 8:42 AM ]
Post subject:  Re: New Forums
I love them. Only thing that's bugging me is being unable to tell when new posts start in a thread. >.> I was heavily dependent on those little yellow icons, it seems!
Author:  Sylfwe [ Sun, Apr 04 2010, 8:47 AM ]
Post subject:  Re: New Forums
That looks the same to me, you see no little yellow icons?

Edit: It bothers me a bit there's something wrong with new signatures, as you can see. I also feel some aspects of the layout like a cage, but thay'll probably be dealt with at some point.

Much love for the effort put into this move. <3 <3
Author:  hendrack [ Sun, Apr 04 2010, 8:50 AM ]
Post subject:  Re: New Forums
Hell of a good connection those new forums got now. Can't wait for the server.
Author:  Nekhy [ Sun, Apr 04 2010, 8:51 AM ]
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yeah, the siggies are under work still. They need to be castrated.
Author:  Jes [ Sun, Apr 04 2010, 8:58 AM ]
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Sylfwe wrote:
That looks the same to me, you see no little yellow icons?


No. No little yellow icons for me. :(
Author:  hendrack [ Sun, Apr 04 2010, 8:58 AM ]
Post subject:  Re: New Forums
You have to uncheck "Disable BBCode" in your Profile/Signature settings.
Author:  Sylfwe [ Sun, Apr 04 2010, 9:00 AM ]
Post subject:  Re: New Forums
Thanks! Never noticed, never expected.
Author:  Yurell [ Sun, Apr 04 2010, 11:20 AM ]
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Will there be a cleaning up of the forums? I noticed I only lost 1400 posts ... I think there needs to be a more savage cleaning tbh.
Author:  Nekhy [ Sun, Apr 04 2010, 11:21 AM ]
Post subject:  Re: New Forums
There'll be pruning, yes. Didn't yet get to that part, much of work to do.
Author:  Selvec Darkon [ Sun, Apr 04 2010, 13:00 PM ]
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I hope the resolution stays the same. I like how it looks. Very classy.
Author:  Silvarus [ Sun, Apr 04 2010, 14:00 PM ]
Post subject:  Re: New Forums
One feature bothers me:
A sumbforum on the index page is marked read only if you have read every single topic in the subforum. This bothers me to no end since I do not intend to read everything, but would like to know from the index page if anything new has been written since the last time I checked the subforum.

Also: Images can be 600 pizels high maximum... Bah. I need to resize everything.
Author:  Nekhy [ Sun, Apr 04 2010, 14:26 PM ]
Post subject:  Re: New Forums
There is a mark topics read button in the forums, not just the front page.
Author:  Nekhy [ Sun, Apr 04 2010, 15:16 PM ]
Post subject:  Re: New Forums
Just pruned about 1500 users who never activated their accounts... or maybe more, I did it in batches of 250 and lost count of how many batches I did.

Now pruning the forums. Off Topic is the first to go.
Author:  Merrien [ Sun, Apr 04 2010, 15:43 PM ]
Post subject:  Re: New Forums
Major kudos and thanks - - this is super awesome, and I want to thank you guys for the major amounts of hard work.

*Giant Thumb Up*
Author:  Nekhy [ Sun, Apr 04 2010, 15:54 PM ]
Post subject:  Re: New Forums
A lot more work to come... but it'll be awesome.

No pruning done to the IC forums, btw, just to remind that nobody needs to get a heart attack over lost stories! There'll be no lost stories!
Author:  AlphaWaves [ Sun, Apr 04 2010, 15:59 PM ]
Post subject:  Re: New Forums
I love it!

Something about it just feels more classy.
I can't quite put my finger on it.

Good stuff! <3
Author:  BrainSplitter [ Sun, Apr 04 2010, 16:04 PM ]
Post subject:  Re: New Forums
Sorry for brief forum lag by the wa, guys! Nekhy and I are doing some spring cleaning, and, well...

Look at the threads count for General Discussion and Off Topic to get an idea how much is being cleaned.
Author:  Herra Tutteri [ Sun, Apr 04 2010, 16:21 PM ]
Post subject:  Re: New Forums
So that's why the forums are so slow from time to time...
Author:  Nekhy [ Sun, Apr 04 2010, 16:23 PM ]
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This is the ultimate test of the server. Two people doing industrial strength pruning. But the forum will be lean and neat afterwards.
Author:  Herra Tutteri [ Sun, Apr 04 2010, 16:25 PM ]
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M'kay. Fair enough. Was just wondering whether it was my Internet connection or the worst case scenario, the forums were too "heavy" for some reason.
Though I ought to have known you people know what you're doing.
Author:  Merrien [ Sun, Apr 04 2010, 16:48 PM ]
Post subject:  Re: New Forums
Big ole kudos for all your hard work :) Thankyouthankyouthankyou! :D

I has subscribed with my $5/month... least I can do, and cheaper than my LOTRO subscription, which I didn't use near as often :D
Author:  Dwagin [ Sun, Apr 04 2010, 20:44 PM ]
Post subject:  Re: New Forums
Indeed Kudos for the hard work so far.

Also, siggies being castrated is great, and there are some spacing issues for sure.
Author:  Dev Disco [ Sun, Apr 04 2010, 21:07 PM ]
Post subject:  Re: New Forums
Merrien wrote:
I has subscribed with my $5/month


Bugger off with all your kudos, people. This is the important bit! :P
Author:  Merrien [ Sun, Apr 04 2010, 21:23 PM ]
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Yea! I'm posted up as a good example! *wears proud grin*
Author:  Mr Mago [ Sun, Apr 04 2010, 21:34 PM ]
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There's an image height limitation of 600 pixels for images added to posts.

We don't dig this, atm.
Author:  Yurell [ Mon, Apr 05 2010, 1:01 AM ]
Post subject:  Re: New Forums
Nekhy wrote:
This is the ultimate test of the server. Two people doing industrial strength pruning. But the forum will be lean and neat afterwards.



That's much better! A third of my posts gone.
Good work on the pruning ^^
Author:  Nekhy [ Mon, Apr 05 2010, 1:10 AM ]
Post subject:  Re: New Forums
The member list looked quite amusing afterwards. We sliced some 15k off Disco's numbers and whole lot more from non-DMs. It actually made DMs look like they have posted even more, because the DM forums didn't get a pruning...
Author:  Yurell [ Mon, Apr 05 2010, 1:12 AM ]
Post subject:  Re: New Forums
Two questions - how do I get it to e-mail me when a topic I'm watching is being responded to, and are we going to remove postcounts?
Author:  Nekhy [ Mon, Apr 05 2010, 1:13 AM ]
Post subject:  Re: New Forums
The latter is still under work, like a lot of things. Email server isn't yet installed, I believe, so the emails don't work either.
Author:  Dwagin [ Mon, Apr 05 2010, 1:15 AM ]
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Try updating your email account on your profile Yurell.
Author:  Yurell [ Mon, Apr 05 2010, 4:30 AM ]
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Dwagin wrote:
Try updating your email account on your profile Yurell.



I tried that, did nothing, but if we're still waiting for the e-mail servers to come up I suppose all we can do is sit and wait for the powers that be to make everything magically work again :P Any sufficiently complicated computer stuff is indistinguishable from magic.
Author:  Dev Disco [ Mon, Apr 05 2010, 7:46 AM ]
Post subject:  Re: New Forums
Mr Mago wrote:
There's an image height limitation of 600 pixels for images added to posts.

We don't dig this, atm.


Link instead of show. Anybody posting over that size should have thought twice anyway.
Author:  TormakSaber [ Mon, Apr 05 2010, 7:48 AM ]
Post subject:  Re: New Forums
But how will I post my wonderful 1600x900 screenshots?!
Author:  Dev Disco [ Mon, Apr 05 2010, 8:57 AM ]
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Well, the proper way is this:

1. Make an additional small version of the image
2. Upload both
3. Put the small one on the page as the image and the big one as a link around the image.
4. Type "click the small image to see the big image" below it for bonus points.
Author:  Nekhy [ Mon, Apr 05 2010, 9:05 AM ]
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Many hosting pages offer the same service, btw. A clickable picture link.
Author:  Selvec Darkon [ Mon, Apr 05 2010, 9:09 AM ]
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Photobucket is awesome for this.

The only issue with Photobucket is that they tend to be a bit overzealous about censorship...censoring things that don't need censoring.
Author:  Lascivar [ Mon, Apr 05 2010, 9:18 AM ]
Post subject:  Re: New Forums
Look what they did to my bear. :cry:
Author:  Jes [ Mon, Apr 05 2010, 13:11 PM ]
Post subject:  Re: New Forums
Was the "Mark All Forums Read" button removed or am I just not seeing it? >.>
Author:  Yurell [ Mon, Apr 05 2010, 13:20 PM ]
Post subject:  Re: New Forums
Koragi Mydnite wrote:
Was the "Mark All Forums Read" button removed or am I just not seeing it? >.>


It's there. Top Right of the main page, just beneath the top bar
Author:  Jes [ Mon, Apr 05 2010, 13:43 PM ]
Post subject:  Re: New Forums
Aha! It moved. Grand! Thankies.
Author:  Dwagin [ Mon, Apr 05 2010, 20:04 PM ]
Post subject:  Re: New Forums
Great job on the move and all the effort you have put in.
Author:  Xaviera [ Tue, Apr 06 2010, 14:01 PM ]
Post subject:  Re: New Forums
I find the PM page very cluttered and confusing - looks like a bunch of stuff on the left should be in the profile page, but I expect I'll get used to it. I see new options that appear to indicate we can create new PM folders, though I've not looked at it too closely. Should be a useful function, though.

And is there a way to get the sidebar off the left? Disco had it that you could set your Yahoo IM to 'nopanel', I think it was, but that doesnt seem to have been retained.
Author:  Dev Disco [ Tue, Apr 06 2010, 14:16 PM ]
Post subject:  Re: New Forums
I don't fancy the user panel too much myself, but that's simply how phpbb3 does it. We could have stayed at phpbb2, but I decided against it after somebody hacked one I had running at the Uni. Apparently it's rather easy to do so.

I think I'll make a new style for netbooks which you can select later. First I need to iron out some stuff with this one, though. IE doesn't really cooperate with the layout (no surprise there), for instance.
Author:  Nekhy [ Tue, Apr 06 2010, 14:47 PM ]
Post subject:  Re: New Forums
Oh yes please, netbook style to pick.
Author:  Lascivar [ Tue, Apr 06 2010, 20:58 PM ]
Post subject:  Re: New Forums
Dev Disco wrote:
IE doesn't really cooperate with the layout (no surprise there), for instance.


People use Internet Explorer? :?
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