[Severed Hand of Skywalker]

Am I the only one who thinks the new look of this forum is ugly and hard to read?

P.S. and spare the I think I am cleaver replies of "Yes, you are the only one".

[cheerios]

Originally posted by Severed Hand of Skywalker
Am I the only one who thinks the new look of this forum is ugly and hard to read?

P.S. and spare the I think I am cleaver replies of "Yes, you are the only one".

Yes, you are the only one. Give it a few hrs to get the kinks worked out.

[Developer]

Originally posted by Severed Hand of Skywalker
Am I the only one who thinks the new look of this forum is ugly and hard to read?

I wonder why the topic starter is more important than the topic itself.

[Evangellydonut]

the interface needs a lot of cleaning up:

has too much of a PC-esque look to it. I mean at least Aquafy those "Instant vB Code" buttons if nothing else!!!

please disable "email notification" as default on

The msg window should be as wide as the screen resolution, not a dinky small box!!!

NO SHOUTING!!!!!!!!!! (IE LOWER CASE "SIZE, FONT, COLOR" PLS!!!)

fix "stick out tongue" similie...

make all other field uniform in length except topic, so when on bigger monitor, the topics will fit on 1 line, instead of a lot of blank spaces for user name

make all forums' look uniform...

missing icons next to thread

somehow fix posts broken by the HTML code?

[OwlBoy]

Are you guys idiots, the forum is still being worked on, its not done. I dunno if we should even be on it yet!

-Owl

[Jim Paradise]

Originally posted by Severed Hand of Skywalker
Am I the only one who thinks the new look of this forum is ugly and hard to read?

P.S. and spare the I think I am cleaver replies of "Yes, you are the only one".

Completely agree. Such ugliness...... but I'm sure they'll get the layout worked out soon enough.

[putamare]

Eeek, my bulb is on. I feel so... exposed.

[MikeM32]

Nope needs lots of work. This is like a step back 5000 years or something.

Mike

hang tight guys, we're working on everything that's broken

[Amorya]

Here's my suggestions on how to fix those last few nitpicks. (Note I come from a PHPbb background, not a vB one...)

obviously, thread title width needs sorting. Some of your graphics are broken on the thread list too. Personally I'd put replies and views in separate columns, and take the number of votes off the ratings column.

Thread view's pretty good as it is. Maybe replace those "report..." links with an icon? The horizontal width of the author details is a bit large, but that's a small point. Perhaps put the post reply/new topic buttons above the permissions bar thing?

Finally, the links at the bottom of every page are way too big.

All in all, I think the conversion was handled more impressively than on any other site I've seen. Few go to all the trouble of even modifying the user interface to look like the old software! I'm glad we now have boards with a much better search function

I'm liking this site more and more now

Amorya

Originally posted by MikeM32
Nope needs lots of work. This is like a step back 5000 years or something.

Mike

breathe.

[OwlBoy]

Originally posted by Nick


breathe.

hehehe

-Owl

[MikeM32]

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Breathe indeed

and I'm receiving e-mails from MacNN exponentially saying "so and so" has replied to "my" thread?!?

Oh man this is scary lawsuit thresh-hold stuff

That is all.

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Breathe indeed

and I'm receiving e-mails from MacNN exponentially saying "so and so" has replied to "my" thread?!?

Oh man this is scary lawsuit thresh-hold stuff

That is all.

Mike

You were automaticly subscribed to all the threads you ever posted I think!

Remove them in your user center.

http://forums.macnn.com/usercp.php?s=

-Owl

[OwlBoy]

Originally posted by OwlBoy




You were automaticly subscribed to all the threads you ever posted I think!

Remove them in your user center.

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-Owl

Well fine, they JUST removed that, I had threads I posted (just a few). In my user center... now they are gone. nm

-Owl

[nonhuman]

Geez, give them time to get everything up and running. And in the meantime we should have fun playing with the new features (and seeing if we can break things )

[MikeM32]

Okay my apologies OwlBoy. You weren't the only person though. The thing went haywire, and I was getting notifications from like everyone on MacNN. My mailbox was overflowing. There was definitely some sort of problem.

Mike

[Worst. Episode. Ever.]

Originally posted by MikeM32
I was getting notifications from like everyone on MacNN. My mailbox was overflowing.

Mike

If you wouldn't post so much, Mike, you wouldn't have that problem. <--- that's supposed to be a wink smilie.

[OwlBoy]

Originally posted by MikeM32
Okay my apologies OwlBoy. You weren't the only person though. The thing went haywire, and I was getting notifications from like everyone on MacNN. My mailbox was overflowing. There was definitely some sort of problem.

Mike

Salright

-Owl

[Captain Big Trousers]

Expect me to abuse any new font features.

[simonjames]

Sounds like you need to attend an FAA meeting - Font Abusers Anonymous
[COLOR=darkred]

[foamy]

I think it looks just fine and it's fast as all getout to boot.

A transition of this magnitude can't be easy and you guys did (are doing) a fine job.

[mitchell_pgh]

Nice to see that it's almost back to normal...

Good job guys... we all knew that we had to make the move to PHP... and a weekend to debug will help...

[Chris Grande]

It is amazing that most of it is still around, only problems is that some links that I have saved no longer work. Also some of the threads are just a HTML mess.

Still an amazing job that all the threads are still here and all the users made it through.

[IUJHJSDHE]

Originally posted by Severed Hand of Skywalker
Am I the only one who thinks the new look of this forum is ugly and hard to read?

P.S. and spare the I think I am cleaver replies of "Yes, you are the only one".

No. THIS IS UGLY AND HARD TO READ. I MISS UBB

Originally posted by IUJHJSDHE


No. THIS IS UGLY AND HARD TO READ. I MISS UBB

Calm down. Suggest what you want changed, and we'll do our best tonight and this weekend.

[Chris Grande]

Originally posted by Nick


Calm down. Suggest what you want changed, and we'll do our best tonight and this weekend.

That little blue link box, right there -->

[Synotic]

Why don't we all help out by pointing out every little thing that's annoying? I am sure they know most of it as it's fairly obvious, but having it all written down can be useful. A few small things.. The line is too thick in the first post of each thread. The one right above the post and under the blue header. If this is too vague I'll provide a picture.. Another easy one is to add an extra break return after the signature line. Removal of the Subject section, in every forum I haven't really seen it used much and they aren't even displayed here. Then the Message part can be gray so it doesn't look so bright, I like that the message text thing is taller though. Somrt of makes up for the width. BTW a question for anyone who's used a vB and ikonboard.. You know how on ikonboard if someone posts a huge image or link that stretches out a post.. it -only- stretches out that post? I find that particularly useful.. It'd be cool if this board had it too. BTW, with making the buttons more aquaesque.. Well if you're using OS X they should appear as such Though making them images would be nice since IE 9 makes them pure white (since it is the only browser I know of that lets users change the colors of the controls. I am guessing they take a hex number and draw them out) All the Instant vB code would look nice as it did before and the smilies should have more than 3 per row.. as it is now.. my window has to be huge to just see the post message button. Another obvious one is the Insert Dynamic Post Link Here thing and showing the page numbers for multiple pages.. Making old UBB working.. etc... Perhaps the report abuse could be a lightning bolt? I dunno where I got the idea.. But I think it would be appropriate.. Anyone else? Again, I encourage everyone to help contribute to this list, no matter how obvious.

P.S. The bold line I was talking about can be seen in the topic review of every thread, in every post.

Also.. I think it looks not bad for a start

[Big Mac]

There are still some bugs that need to be squashed, and we will need to get used to the new features, but I'm very happy with the transition on the whole. This is probably as seamless a transition as I could imagine. Kudos to the admins.

Thanks Synotic. The bold line isn't as easy to fix as one would think, but we'll try. As for the rest of your suggestions -- they're all helpful. Thanks again!

[cheerios]

could ya take otu that admin options dropdown menu for us lowly users? I keep trying to click it by accident...

[Earth Mk. II]

awww... an I thought I suddenly became an admin...

darn.

[CharlesS]

Originally posted by Captain Big Trousers
Expect me to abuse any new font features.

[edit: it was funny, but way too obnoxious (even for me ).]

[nonhuman]

On the plus side we can put html tables in our sigs, so we can put more stuff in without taking up more space.

[Jim Paradise]

Off topic, but it's really jive that you live in London, Nick. A lot of my friends have moved down there to attend Fanshaw.

[deekay1]

has anybody elese had problems loging in? i can't seem to be able to use my old profile. i'm wondering if this is just a temporary thing, or if my old account is gone for good (mods?)?

oh, also testing ...not a lot of the functions seem to work...will have to check later....

[Scotttheking]

Originally posted by deekay1
has anybody elese had problems loging in? i can't seem to be able to use my old profile. i'm wondering if this is just a temporary thing, or if my old account is gone for good (mods?)?

oh, also testing ...not a lot of the functions seem to work...will have to check later....

What was your old account?

[Arlo]

My main account (Silky Voice of Gorn) doesn't work either
I already emailed support...

[ringo]

Originally posted by Arlo
My main account (Silky Voice of Gorn) doesn't work either
I already emailed support...

I was having problems logging in because my user ID changed to my publicly displayed name (Used to be nullsyn, is now ringo). Try logging in with your displayed name if you had a name that was different before. There was something in suggestions and comments about spaces being removed from names as well.

[scottiB]

TeSt...

[Ca$h68]

Wow, even though I hit reply it wants me to post a subject. Brilliant.

Its crashed IE5 4 times already, and I've been here about 15 minutes.

Real awesome doooods.

Can we go back to the old server yet???

- Ca$h

[juanvaldes]

Originally posted by Ca$h68
Wow, even though I hit reply it wants me to post a subject. Brilliant.

Its crashed IE5 4 times already, and I've been here about 15 minutes.

Real awesome doooods.

Can we go back to the old server yet???

- Ca$h

If you look its' optional. and IE sucks, get a real browser

[gerbnl]

Originally posted by Severed Hand of Skywalker
Am I the only one who thinks the new look of this forum is ugly and hard to read?

P.S. and spare the I think I am cleaver replies of "Yes, you are the only one".

Ok, i looked it up but still dont get it:

Main Entry: cleav�er
Pronunciation: 'klE-v&r
Function: noun
Date: 15th century
1 : one that cleaves; especially : a butcher's implement for cutting animal carcasses into joints or pieces
2 : a prehistoric stone tool having a sharp edge at one end

[agentz]

Can you reduce the width of the user details section of posts? It feels just a wee bit too wide. And yeah those darn admin options at the bottom of the page.... And is it just me or are the 'instant vB code' buttons a bit on the chunky side?

Edited to add: And how come page numbers are missing from the thread listings? Presumably there are still 50 posts/page? In threads that have over 50 replies it seems as though you have to go into the thread first then select the page.

[gorgonzola]

Originally posted by agentz:
Can you reduce the width of the user details section of posts? It feels just a wee bit too wide. And yeah those darn admin options at the bottom of the page.... And is it just me or are the 'instant vB code' buttons a bit on the chunky side?

Edited to add: And how come page numbers are missing from the thread listings? Presumably there are still 50 posts/page? In threads that have over 50 replies it seems as though you have to go into the thread first then select the page.

Yes, we're going to reduce the width of the user details, and also try putting a thin grey line between the user info and the post. It used to be that way in UBB 5, and it might look nice.

We'll be hiding the admin options as soon as we find the damned option in the huge admin panel. =)

You can disable the instant vB buttons altogether (I don't personally use them at all, so now I don't have to look at them anymore). Go to "Options" in User Center.

We're working on the page numbers; someone told us about that yesterday.

And as for any crashing issue, we are working with Microsoft, and we do have some new news on that that we'll be posting about as soon as I confirm a few details.

[Griggsy]

...as it nows SQL based, it's so much faster on my p. poor 56k

thanks chaps

[Worst. Episode. Ever.]

Originally posted by Griggsy:
...as it nows SQL based, it's so much faster

Yeah, the forums seem much snappier� now.

Good job on the transition, guys.

[pliny]

ok the time of posts is set to GMT? is this going to stay or are we going back to EST? uhh

[pliny]

nevermind, time is dynamic, set in user options. neat!

[3gg3]

Originally posted by gerbnl:


Ok, i looked it up but still dont get it:

Main Entry: cleav�er
Pronunciation: 'klE-v&r
Function: noun
Date: 15th century
1 : one that cleaves; especially : a butcher's implement for cutting animal carcasses into joints or pieces
2 : a prehistoric stone tool having a sharp edge at one end

Heh, and I thought he was referring to wally.

Apart from the nit-picks to be addressed, the whole front page looks bass-ackwards somehow. Don't care for it at all.

And I still have to scroll down to "Submit Reply"