Site Updates

[MrFlibble]

It doesn't seem to be much different from the default FED2k skin, except for colours, and the menu at the top of the screen isn't messed up. I'm rather concerned about loading times and page-scrolling lags - I'm pretty sure it's not my PC or browser since another forum that uses the same engine works quite fine for me.

[Hawk]

Now I have the Underground theme.

Still don't like the black though, but that's just me. ;)

[Voodoo Daddy]

Hey Gob, sorry for posting off topic but I need to ask you about something and PM'ing you didn't work. In the past few days you have sent me over 50 PM's asking me to either approve or disapprove some files? I have no idea what to do. They are also showing up in my email inbox. Just PM me what to do and then delete this post.

Thanks,

Voodoo Daddy

[Gobalopper]

Hmm... that must be a bug in the downloads addon of the forum. You can just delete all those messages and I'll try to figure out why they were sent. Thanks for letting me know.

[MrFlibble]

I've read somewhere that Javascript causes memory leaks in Firefox, and after a particularly bad slowdown I decided to check if anything gets improved and turned it off. And, with Javascript off, the scrolling lags here that I've complained about earlier seem to have disappeared.

[Gobalopper]

I've updated the default skin to the newest version so that might help a bit. I still have a few tweaks to get it back to the way it was but should fix the problems with some of the pages not looking right.

[MrFlibble]

Thanks! In the meantime, I switched to Opera, and the lags are gone :) In fact, it works way faster than Firefox for me :)

[Edit] Hmm, is it my new browser, or does the latest version of the skin have smaller font size on the main page?

[Dante]

I like the newer look. Much tidier.

[Andrew]

The "new posts" icon could be a bit brighter. Difficult to see.

[Dante]

I sometimes drop by here while I'm on my lunch break, but since it's a work PC I generally don't sign in. What I saw is in the file attached to this post. It's very... large. And enthusiastic. Not sure if it's intentional, but if most of the people here are like me and only sign in manually every six months or so, it might have been overlooked.

[MrFlibble]

I'm sorry I'm bringing this up again, but is it possible to fix old (pre-upgrade) links to specific posts to make them work? Old links to threads work okay, but links to posts within threads just get you to the main page of the forum.

[Gobalopper]

Example link? Might be able to get the thread part to work but likely won't be able to go directly to the post.

[MrFlibble]

Here are a few examples:

http://forum.dune2k.com/index.php?topic=20441.msg338707#msg338707

http://forum.dune2k.com/index.php?topic=19200.msg345697#msg345697

http://forum.dune2k.com/index.php?topic=20212.msg342350#msg342350

[Gobalopper]

The "new posts" icon could be a bit brighter. Difficult to see.

Here are some possibilities for the thread new icon link image.

[Andrew]

The more yellowish arrow could be better than current dark arrow.

[Lawliet]

I have to say and i don't like the skin of the forum at all. I guess because it's too dark for me, but i also find it extremely dated, even though it's not.

[Dragoon Knight]

[colour=#005FFF]I've noticed over the past few days that the "View New Content" link at the top right of the Forum Index no longer works properly. Even though there are clearly new posts in several different boards across FED2k, clicking the link results in a simple "Sorry, no new content found" message.

I use this area to check up on everything that's been posted since I was last online, so it's pretty essential to how I browse FED2k. Any idea what's going wrong?[/colour]

[Gobalopper]

Isn't working for me either so might be a bug. I'm patching the forum software to a new version once the skin we use has been updated by the author. Hopefully that will be soon and we'll see if it is fixed once that has been deployed.

[Andrew]

In RRT2 thread, unable to view image (1/2 way down thread), and unable to upload files.

I had to upload file to a post of mine in general board.

[Gobalopper]

Should be fixed. The upload permission wasn't set properly on those boards.

[MrFlibble]

Just wanted to say that the bright white/deep blue font colour combo used with the [code][/code] tags (example) isn't very eye-friendly, especially on a dark background. I think it would be nice if this was changed to some more readable, less contrastive colours.

[Gobalopper]

So it looks like it might be some time before the skin we use for IP.Board is upgraded to work with the latest version of the software. Which means I can't upgrade to fix some of the bugs we've been having. What do people think of this skin?

http://www.ipbforumskins.com/premade/uniform/

Colors would be different obviously but I like the look of it.

[MrFlibble]

I think I like it. It seems to be fast, and there are no think vertical borders. Overall, it looks simple but efficient.

[Dragoon Knight]

[colour=#005FFF]I'm still having the issue where there is clearly unread content on various boards, but the link to view new posts since my last visit returns nothing.[/colour]

[Gobalopper]

I've updated the forum software to the latest version and installed a new skin that works with this version as the old one still isn't updated.

You can customize the color by clicking on the little palette icon in the top right. I still have some customizations to work but let me know what you think so far. It does seem a lot faster than before but maybe that is just me.