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Kiyouta

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Have to say, I don't like it. There's too much confusion.

There's way too many icons for a start. No-one uses DIGG and all that noise. Remove them! Leave just Facebook and Reddit if you must have them... Also the site is way too CPU intensive in Firefox. Scrolling makes the browser shudder and scream. Too much CSS funk methinks.

And voting up/down posts...? Really? I mean. Really? Haven't we always just talked up/down posts in the past? Isn't that more human? Are we not PEOPLE?

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Gobalopper

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I don't think those buttons really take up all that much space. If you do want a faster load time there are other skins you can choose from.

Things are a bit on hold right now as I've got a bunch of extra work to do in real life that is taking up my free time. Continue to post thoughts though.

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MrFlibble

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I don't think those buttons really take up all that much space. If you do want a faster load time there are other skins you can choose from.

Currently it's only IP.Board or IP.Board Mobile. Any chance other skins will be added? Is it possible to modify the IP.Board skin to make it look like the oldschool FED2k board?

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Gobalopper

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Oops there should also be one called CleanCut but the permissions were wrong, although it's a white background skin like the others.

The idea was to build off of this skin because it was the closest I could find to what we had before. If everyone wants to chip in and get $300 we can get a custom skin made. Otherwise you have to wait for me to have the free time to work on this one. :)

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SandChigger

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Is there a link somewhere for getting a list of ALL new posts since the last time you logged in, like the old version used to have? Edit: I guess this can be fudged using the "active content" link. Meh.

What about replies to your posts?

IMHO this pretty much SUCKS so far. The only good thing is being able to put people on iggy. :D

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Edric O

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[c=#00dd00]I miss the old Statistics page, with its monthly post count. It was extremely useful in judging the level of activity on the forums. Speaking of which, the frequency of posting seems to have fallen off a cliff...

Many posts are still showing up as blank. See this page and this one for example.[/c]

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Gobalopper

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Sorry guys, I'm too busy atm to work on changes to the site, I'm hoping by the end of October I will have more time. The problem with blank posts is invalid characters, the post will show up if you edit it and remove those characters. Eventually I will have a script to fix those posts.

Edric there is a stats program in the admin panel that you should have access to. If you can't find it I can send you a link, its under the forums tab.

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Dante

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I was thinking something similar myself. I realised that, as much as I prefer reading posts in the new board, something about it really turns me off writing them. I'm not sure what it is (possibly slightly slower loading times have an effect), but that's why I've been quieter of late, at least.

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Andrew

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I don't like how on main page there is the "new" icon. It is there forever unless you click on it which marks every post as read. So basically to get it to work for me I need to click on it which could mark threads I havn't read as read. Which I really don't like.

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MrFlibble

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I don't like how on main page there is the "new" icon. It is there forever unless you click on it which marks every post as read. So basically to get it to work for me I need to click on it which could mark threads I havn't read as read. Which I really don't like.

I suppose it sits there if there's at least one unread post in the forum - as opposed to indicating that new posts have been added since the user's last visit (which I think was the case in the old board).

What about the wide margins in the default skin? Anyone else have those? Should this be fixed? BTW, it had just occurred to me that these margins are so broad (117 pixels wide each) as if the forum "body" width was set for a lower resolution, like 800x600.

Oh, one more thing I noticed: not only some of the old posts don't show because of "bad characters", but also old smileys are not interpreted by the new board engine, and appear just as plain punctuation marks.

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I don't like how on main page there is the "new" icon. It is there forever unless you click on it which marks every post as read. So basically to get it to work for me I need to click on it which could mark threads I havn't read as read. Which I really don't like.

This is bothering me too a lot. I also still have those skype telephone numbers everywhere. And I still can't sort the topics backwards so that the first post on the first page is the newest post. I also did misclick quite a few times and hit the wrong reply button. Somehow some personal messages also got totally messed up. And... ah well I don't want to continue with the list. Fact is I haven't been to the site nearly as much as before, not reading as many posts and hardly writing any. In my opinion this new forum sucks and the old one was way better. It was plain and simple and I never really had any problems with it.

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MrFlibble

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Somehow some personal messages also got totally messed up. And... ah well I don't want to continue with the list. Fact is I haven't been to the site nearly as much as before, not reading as many posts and hardly writing any. In my opinion this new forum sucks and the old one was way better. It was plain and simple and I never really had any problems with it.

All too true :(

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