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Offline Erathoniel

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« on: November 13, 2009, 04:16:05 pm »
I just logged on to check the forum, and I found that there's a new layout up.

I like it. What does everyone else think?

EDIT: I kinda miss having a better mecha than everyone, though. Well, at least there is a better indication of rank, though.
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Re: New Forum Layout
« Reply #1 on: November 13, 2009, 04:29:24 pm »
Quote from: Erathoniel on November 13, 2009, 04:16:05 pm
I just logged on to check the forum, and I found that there's a new layout up.

I like it. What does everyone else think?

EDIT: I kinda miss having a better mecha than everyone, though. Well, at least there is a better indication of rank, though.


It's not only the layout. The forum has been moved from the really old and poor minibb engine, to cutting edge SMF 2.0 ;-).

0. OLD LOGIN AND PASSWORD WORKS!
1. Feel free to upload avatars
2. Ask any questions
3. Feel free to request features
4. I need the list of moderators from the previous forum
5. It would be fun is people proposed "post-based ranks" -- the default ones like "Hero Jr." sound stupid.
6. Joseph has full admin status so he can do with the forum whatever he likes. If there's any issues/problems, I'll gladly assist him
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Re: New Forum Layout
« Reply #2 on: November 13, 2009, 04:59:39 pm »
Darn, now I need to think of an avatar. I've gotten a little tired of using Belkar Bitterleaf everywhere, and I don't draw well enough to use my own avatars.
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Re: New Forum Layout
« Reply #3 on: November 13, 2009, 05:00:48 pm »
Was confused when I got redirected and saw something mostly blank with a single post by, uh, that SMF autopost thing, I guess. Nice to see it wasn't something malignant, heh, and good work for getting in setup.


I suppose if you're taking requests, I'd ask if it's possible to skin this thing up so it looks like the old forum. I kinda' liked the look, heh.


Also, is there some switch to flick so we can have that list where you could switch between the most recent replies or topics pop up? The whatsit at the bottom of the main index in the old forum. Was one of the more useful things I've seen in a forum setup...
EDIT: Formatting, argh. I give up. Can't seem to get the thing to decide between single and double spacing, or something.
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Re: New Forum Layout
« Reply #4 on: November 13, 2009, 05:10:27 pm »
Skinning minibb was easy, I did that in a few hours, years ago. Skinning SMF isn't that easy. Try to find a suitable skin on the SMF mod site... : http://custom.simplemachines.org/themes/

Also users can choose the theme they want in preferences.

As for the recent topics list... here you go ;)
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Re: New Forum Layout
« Reply #5 on: November 13, 2009, 05:20:23 pm »
Okay, I also made a really bold move, and deleted all members with zero post count... more than 8000 killed souls... I feel like a mass murderer -_-
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Re: New Forum Layout
« Reply #6 on: November 13, 2009, 06:43:23 pm »
GearHead Wiki, has been updated to the newest MediaWiki (1.15.1)... any features requested, they'll be done if possible -- please post in this topic!
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Re: New Forum Layout
« Reply #7 on: November 14, 2009, 05:41:07 am »
Quote from: Kornel Kisielewicz on November 13, 2009, 05:20:23 pm
I feel like a mass murderer -_-


You're a roguelike developer. You are a mass murderer.

I've been very busy as of late, but I'll see about setting the theme for the forum soon.
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Re: New Forum Layout
« Reply #8 on: November 14, 2009, 01:51:45 pm »
A mass murderer of people, or little characters made up by a computer for explicitly that purpose?

Don't feel bad deleting the 0-posts. They can just rejoin. They're mostly just viagra ads anyways.
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Re: New Forum Layout
« Reply #9 on: November 14, 2009, 10:14:14 pm »
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I feel a great disturbance in the Force. As if millions of voices suddenly cried out in terror, and were suddenly silenced.


 :P

Nice job with the new layout.
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Re: New Forum Layout
« Reply #10 on: November 15, 2009, 05:27:06 pm »
I like it too, though I've said that before. It looks professional.
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Re: New Forum Layout
« Reply #11 on: November 16, 2009, 08:40:38 am »
Quote from: Kornel Kisielewicz on November 13, 2009, 06:43:23 pm
GearHead Wiki, has been updated to the newest MediaWiki (1.15.1)... any features requested, they'll be done if possible -- please post in this topic!

Looks like the account creation process is back to default, a lot of new accounts have been created lately.
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Re: New Forum Layout
« Reply #12 on: November 16, 2009, 08:58:05 am »
All forum image links in the posts are missing...
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Re: New Forum Layout
« Reply #13 on: November 18, 2009, 03:04:33 pm »
Why must people assume that 'upgrading' their website is always an improvement?  ???

Perhaps I'm just a stick-in-the-mud, but I tend to prefer old formats. Like when Excite.com (my favorite search engine before Google) changed format, I left them. And just recently my web email provider "upgraded" to a bandwidth hogging, Java-script heavy format with built-in AOL instant messaging. (Still deciding whether I will stay or not. Changing an email account is such a pain.)

I will admit there were several things about the old forum I did not like. Among them, I missed being able to use an avatar, smilies, and all the traditional BBCODEs.

But as Francisco mentioned, the in-message images are broken. Also, I do not like the way the Recent Posts list is formatted. I much prefer the old option where we could sort by Recent Threads, instead of post by post.

I would imagine the broken images will get fixed. (I see that Simple Machines inserted extra characters into the image addresses.) But I will miss the nice, clean, minimalist look of the old forum.
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Re: New Forum Layout
« Reply #14 on: November 20, 2009, 12:24:14 am »
Quote from: Kornel Kisielewicz on November 13, 2009, 06:43:23 pm
GearHead Wiki, has been updated to the newest MediaWiki (1.15.1)... any features requested, they'll be done if possible -- please post in this topic!


Please re-enable PNG uploads on the wiki!!!

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