Site Updates

[Kiyouta]

I don't know what's worse: The messages of a spam-bot, or the inane drivel of people reacting to them.

[MrFlibble]

inane drivel

How very uncouth of you. That was supposed to be a joke :P

[Mernon]

please remind me ways that topic was anyway?

[Andrew]

please remind me ways that topic was anyway?

It's now in the Dungeon. Which only mods can see.

[Andrew]

The spammers are posting more than regular users. Something should be done. New forum software take care of it?

[athanasios]

If it is feasible why not?

Yet we, simple members, should not neglect to do our part: Report.

[Gobalopper]

The forums have just been switched to IP.Board. There are bound to be some issues and learning curve so reply with any questions or concerns you have.

One thing you will have to do right away is update your display name because that did not get converted properly. Other profile settings may or may not have transferred across.

If you are looking for the "mark all as read" option you can find it at the bottom of every page.

Post ranks and such will be fixed later when I have the time to import them manually.

[Dante]

So far all the things I've noticed have been cosmetic. Some colour and formatting tags not working, missing apostophes, a few posts that just randomly didn't show up, only showing "posted on X." The most recent post function seems to be borked, as apparently some forums were last posted in in July, but nothing serious, which is good.

[Edric O]

I've only noticed cosmetic problems so far, as Dante said. The [c] tags haven't been implemented yet. Some search features don't seem to go back further than September 2009. Links to old posts and threads don't seem to work.

Also, I can't find my PMs... it's probably just a learning curve thing, though.

[Rene]

Some posts in "Life, the Universe & Everything: Fenceposts at Dawn" show up blank, but not always the same. ATM this one for example:

http://forum.dune2k.com/index.php?/topic/20871-life-the-universe-everything-fenceposts-at-dawn/page__st__120__p__356085#entry356085

[Edric O]

Many forums are showing random posts from months ago as "the most recent post".

[Gobalopper]

I think the hidden post content is fixed, I believe it was due to the [c] tag not being in the bbcode list. The color isn't working because the format is wrong but I will fix that shortly.

The PM inbox link is along the top bar where it lists your username. The contrast on the icons isn't the greatest so it is easy to miss. It will have a (0) or similar depending on how many unread messages you have.

[veK]

Can I change the design to a more basic one like the old forum? Because I don't like this at all, it looks awful and bloated and also every text and button is way too big.

Also I can't find the option to sort the content of each thread properly. Now the first post in every thread is the oldest one and I'm used to having the latest post on top of the first page.

[Gobalopper]

There is a dropdown at the bottom of the page that lets you change skins. I am going to do some more tweaking to this one as there are things I don't like about it either.

There isn't a way for a user to specify thread order but I will look into getting a mod installed that will allow it.

[SandChigger]

How about a pair of login & password fields as part of the layout, that the browser will actually fill in, instead of the separate floaty pop-up?

LIKE the new ignore feature. :)

[Andrew]

On main forum page I clicked on 'new' button for some reason, thinking it acted like the 'new' button on old forum and turns out it marks all threads as read oops :P

Maybe change the button? "New" doesn't really reflect "mark as read".

Is it possible to get rid of Recent Topics Added and Watched Content column on right side? This way the forums on left side can expand more to right and thus should take up less horizontal space and thus less scrolling down needed?

Or maybe there is too much left/right margin space? I don't have firefox maximized, but it is using most of screen. I wonder how it looks on a netbook screen?

Tried uploading .png file. get Error This upload failed

EDIT:

Better idea is there is wasted space where

* 3,887 Topics

* 65,272 Replies

on left hand side

Also wasted space on right hand side showing the latest post (main forum page, far right inside the boxes)

Example:

* Today, 10:43 PM

* In: Site Updates

* By: Gobalopper

but even the longer ones waste a large chunk of space right of it.

Need custom titles back.

Advanced Member sounds lame. :P

[Gruntlord6]

You bought IPB?

[Dragoon Knight]

Er... alright. Have to say that I'm not really liking this new board. Far too "let's link everything in and have shiny features and buttons". But then that's just my own opinion; I'm sure others will like it.

Here are the faults / quibbles I've noted so far:

- The colour tags (i.e. ['c']) don't work.

- The whole site is slower than normal. Pages take several seconds to load.

- The front screen is cluttered, even on a 26" widescreen monitor - I can't imagine what it would be like on a standard resolution.

- There is no logo up the top left - just the text "Logo", which is a link to the forum index.

- The "mark all as read" button is very well hidden - I'd rather it be next to the "view unread" as before.

- The "upload quota" is borked and unreasonable. I'm currently using 1.95MB of my allowed 500K.

- Some people (e.g. me) might still have their URL pointing to http://www.dune2k.com/forum/ which currently shows as the forums being down for maintenance.

- The pop-up login didn't store my username and password for the site.

- Oh god not Facebook integration as well.

- Rich text editing? What was wrong with the BBCode? Does it even still work?

- There's only a count of how many NEW PMs you have, not how many you have in your inbox in total.

- EDIT: I don't like the edit function, either. What's the chance any of this is going to work on, say, a mobile phone?

- DOUBLE EDIT: Where is the "recent posts" section? I don't care about "recent topics", I want to see the last 5 posts again, regardless of which topic they were in.

- TRIPLE EDIT: What happened to the board names being highlighted in blue when there were new posts? It's a nice visual cue, and I prefer it to the "New" icon, which I normally associate with posts.

That's... all I can think of right now. Things I do like:

- Ability to set our own custom titles. I chose Fedaykin again because it was cool and I don't want to change my sig.

- Ability to set a custom "photo", if not a custom avatar.

Yeah. Honestly, I can put up with the new board if the main problems are fixed, but I miss the old board already.

[Nyerguds]

Another issue: the [ code ] tags contain mostly unreadable black text.

See http://forum.dune2k.com/index.php?/topic/18875-dune-2-exe-editing-programming-issues/page__view__findpost__p__355958

Also, the interface is really too small. The posts themselves aren't even 640 pixels wide, meaning even 2x sized Dune II shots don't show up unresized. There seems to be too much sidebar space and not enough post space, and too much empty space around the sides of the forum.

[Dante]

Wait, custom avatars? Photos?

Those need to go.

[Nyerguds]

Why no custom avatars? I never got that, really. I generally recognise people by their avatar, and MrFlibble just isn't MrFlibble without the deranged fluffy penguin hand puppet. Just like Nyerguds isn't Nyerguds without a green LEGO alien.

It's just part of our online identities, imo.

[Gobalopper]

I will look into the password saving problem, I found it annoying but then somehow my browser was able to save it again.

Andrew, there is an arrow you can click to hide that menu on the right.

Custom titles based on post count should be like the old boards now.

Spacing and layout stuff I am still working on but I wanted to get the new software deployed because there wasn't a lot of feedback.

Upload quota per user should be at 5MB now.

Dragon Knight what URL are you talking about? And what is the image link that your page shows it trying to access? And there is a plugin for viewing recent posts, I will look at getting it installed.

I don't have the rich text editor, I believe it is a setting you can turn on/off. BBCode still works fine.

Code tags should be easier to read now.

You can have a custom "photo" but you only see that when viewing someones profile. The custom avatar upload is only available to staff as they are allowed to have custom dune themed avatars. As for why we don't allow custom avatars... it's just the way we've always done it. :)

[Dragoon Knight]

Mentioned two URLs. For the top-left, I mean this one: http://dungeon.dune2k.com/forum/public/style_images/11_logo.png

See the attached screensnip to show what I mean:

The "Logo" link leads to the forum index, but it's meant to be a picture of the above URL. I get a 403 Forbidden page if I try to access that link manually.

Also, the http://www.dune2k.com/forum URL I mentioned still points to the old forums, which are "down for maintenance".

EDIT: OK, embedded attachments is cool. :P

[Gobalopper]

Ok, both should be fixed now.

[Andrew]

Should I be able to see peoples IP Address? Hmm, I think I can delete posts in general as well (at least the option is there). I presume moderators aren't board specific?

Anyway if I am currently mod of general I'd say leave it so I can remove spam posts that get here, unless this messageboard spam stuff is much better and I'm not needed in General.

Thanks Gob, that small arrow made stuff go away.