Pete Posted July 15, 2003 Share Posted July 15, 2003 Well I'm guessing that everyone's noticed the complete change of colour in the forums (and hopefully that it's an upgrade and not my personal choice of colours ). In a little over an hour and a quarter, I've upgraded the forums twice (don't ask why it had to be twice, but it did) to the latest sparkly version, jam packed with new features. Some features need turning on or off yet, so bear with us and dtry not to take advantage of the forum's official "shaky as heck" status. Still... it's not crashed yet and that's a good thing Any and all feedback welcomed! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Strong Bob Posted July 15, 2003 Share Posted July 15, 2003 Yargh! My eyes! Bring back the black backgrounds quick! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tammy Posted July 16, 2003 Share Posted July 16, 2003 The Queen with a maximum of fifty PM's? What's up with that? Otherwise, the "no crashes" thing is nice. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fox Posted July 16, 2003 Share Posted July 16, 2003 Looks good, finally the HTML buttons are worth something! Will we ever get the black background back? My eyes are hurting... :o Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ion Mage Posted July 16, 2003 Share Posted July 16, 2003 given the wet paint sign at the top, we probably will, thankfully. My eyes DO hurt... argh... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jman4117 Posted July 16, 2003 Share Posted July 16, 2003 Bring back the black background!I've felt kinda stoned for the past 8 hrs. Just remember..................WHITE TEXT. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Slaughter Posted July 16, 2003 Share Posted July 16, 2003 Keep up the good work Pete! As for the black background people, Pete have to modify the old skin to fit the new version of the forum software. Or make a new skin... Anyway, until that is done, you'll have to live with this slightly...brighter existence . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MicahDG Posted July 16, 2003 Share Posted July 16, 2003 Has anyone noticed the "Fast Reply" button at the bottom of a thread? It's quite convenient.... You also now have a "Sent PMs" mailbox and you can press alt-s to send both PMs and posts, and though nobody probably cares, I like the lighter default skin Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NKF Posted July 16, 2003 Share Posted July 16, 2003 I rather like the lighter background. But, the colour scheme could do with a little twiddling. I think the sudden jump from a light on dark setting to the complete opposite can be rather a shock to the system. The wink smiley looks a little odd. Keeps reminding me of Columbo (Peter Falk) for some reason. - NKF Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bevan Posted July 16, 2003 Share Posted July 16, 2003 ohhh the colours... dont love it dont hate it Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Strong Bob Posted July 16, 2003 Share Posted July 16, 2003 I dunno... The username avatars look pretty weird against a white background. And it doesn't emulate the X-COM atmosphere very well. Me like black background better. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pete Posted July 16, 2003 Author Share Posted July 16, 2003 Well you'll be pleased to know you won;t have to live with this skin forever... but I am on holiday from Saturday for 9 days, so you'll have to live with it for at least that long Slaughter's right... it's a complete start from scratch job on the skin, as I intend to work in the new layout I've been fiddling with for the main site anyway. Should look cool, but could take a few weeks. No alternative sorry. had to stop the crashy crashy stuff Final note to Tammy... dunno what happened there. It said my inbox was full and I had about a zillion PM's. I'll sort that out right away Babe Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tammy Posted July 16, 2003 Share Posted July 16, 2003 That's my Pete! Enjoy your holiday, sweetie--I'll miss you! I'll be gone myself for a week starting the 24th, so I won't talk to you for a while. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ego Terrorist Posted July 16, 2003 Share Posted July 16, 2003 Oooo!! New features!!! yay! Cool, well I'm not to bothered either way, a lighter background would be okay, after all it'ud make a change, but if the black background returns then that'll be just as good. Either way as long as the forum is stable I'm not gonna complain what colour it is! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crazy Photon Posted July 17, 2003 Share Posted July 17, 2003 Like Neo would say: Hmmm... Upgrades! Good work there Pete! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jman4117 Posted July 17, 2003 Share Posted July 17, 2003 Ahh. Much better. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NKF Posted July 17, 2003 Share Posted July 17, 2003 Just out of curiosity, is anyone else experiencing any trouble when viewing some of the threads? Like the thread ending with an empty post with nothing else after it? This seems to be happening to some threads, but other threads are alright. In most cases, the posts are there when I check the source, and I can see the last few messages when replying to a thread -- although I did notice in one case that one of my posts was attributed to another forum member... Have I gone off the deep end this time or is anyone else experiencing something similar? - NKF Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Strong Bob Posted July 17, 2003 Share Posted July 17, 2003 I think the board may have swallowed one of my posts in the XCAS forum. Could've been a bad connection or something but I'm certain I posted in the Roleplaying thread at about noonish yesterday. (EST) Was there some kinda downtime at that time? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jman4117 Posted July 17, 2003 Share Posted July 17, 2003 Sometimes the avatars aren't there (like now). Edit: Now they're back. Strange. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pete Posted July 17, 2003 Author Share Posted July 17, 2003 When the board crashed, it would affect a different topic each time, making it all lose count. In some cases this leads to empty threads and in other cases they may have been re-counted incorrectly. All appropriate memebrs names should be with the posts though... If a post isn;t there and you satrted typing whilst on the old skin and then I switched to the new skin, then it should have thrown up an error message. Also, a message may have been moved to another forum if it was inappropriately placed Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Strong Bob Posted July 17, 2003 Share Posted July 17, 2003 Sometimes the avatars aren't there (like now). Edit: Now they're back. Strange. It doesn't look like Guests can see members Avatars, that's probably why. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pete Posted July 17, 2003 Author Share Posted July 17, 2003 Indeed. So... don't logout Another problem solved Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ego Terrorist Posted July 17, 2003 Share Posted July 17, 2003 Hmmm, thus never signing out would mean that we are trapped for all eternity on XTC's boards!! ...cool. (No I am not that ignorant, I do know that you can leave XTC if you tell the board to keep you or remember you) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pete Posted July 18, 2003 Author Share Posted July 18, 2003 Crashy crashy... Techno-experts are on the job. Fear not, as I'm staying well out of this one! I shall loiter long enough to find out what the problem is and relate the tale back to yourselves. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Slaughter Posted July 18, 2003 Share Posted July 18, 2003 MSN ASAP please Pete... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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