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October 31, 2010, 06:47:58 pm
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Offline delling

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« on: October 31, 2010, 06:47:58 pm »
Heya!

I rolled out some changes to the forum this afternoon. We're now on the latest version of SMF, and we have an add-on called 'Tinyportal'.

Tinyportal adds the boxes you see on the right, and also the RSS box at the top.

It's obviously very rusty at the moment (RSS shouldn't display on every page!), but hopefully it looks OK!

Anyway, if there are features that you'd like, or things moved around, or bugs fixed... now's the time to tell me.
« Last Edit: April 03, 2011, 07:29:57 pm by delling »
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October 31, 2010, 07:10:37 pm
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Re: New forum design
« Reply #1 on: October 31, 2010, 07:10:37 pm »
Looks really nice and well constructed!

Do miss an awesome banner though. It gave the site a unique 'Iron Edge' look tbh.

October 31, 2010, 07:15:33 pm
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Re: New forum design
« Reply #2 on: October 31, 2010, 07:15:33 pm »
I like it a lot!
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October 31, 2010, 07:19:30 pm
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Re: New forum design
« Reply #3 on: October 31, 2010, 07:19:30 pm »
Pretty sweet, but is there a way make the shoutbox bigger, either in general or as user preference? Only seeing the last 1-2 shouts is annoying.

Or mabye just show
Name: bla bla
bla bla

October 31, 2010, 07:21:02 pm
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Re: New forum design
« Reply #4 on: October 31, 2010, 07:21:02 pm »
Remove avatars from the shoutbox, it takes up so much space!
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October 31, 2010, 07:28:51 pm
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Re: New forum design
« Reply #5 on: October 31, 2010, 07:28:51 pm »
Wtf Yoica, i can see last 5 it's even written "last 5 shouts" And u can always open latest 50 if u want. :D I don't see problems with it.
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October 31, 2010, 07:30:15 pm
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Re: New forum design
« Reply #6 on: October 31, 2010, 07:30:15 pm »
Shoutbox posts need to take up far less room... should be able to read them without having to scroll the window...
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October 31, 2010, 07:31:09 pm
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Re: New forum design
« Reply #7 on: October 31, 2010, 07:31:09 pm »
I havent found a function to disable avatars.

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October 31, 2010, 07:40:05 pm
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Re: New forum design
« Reply #8 on: October 31, 2010, 07:40:05 pm »
Yeah, doesn't seem to be an easy way to disable avatars.

And who cares. It's a shoutbox. Click 'show 50 latest' if you REALLY want more shoutbox action...

re: the banner -- yeah, it won't be empty like that for ever.

I'm not sure how big I want the top of the page to be. If we get sponsors, we need space up there. If someone comes up with a cool graphic thing (Archz and Devlin are working on stuff?), then that can go up there.

I don't really want 200-400 pixels of BANNER though.
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October 31, 2010, 07:52:39 pm
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Re: New forum design
« Reply #9 on: October 31, 2010, 07:52:39 pm »
Devlin is probably more skilled than me, I uploaded the raw photoshop file if he wants to use some of the figures :D

(Devlin poke me if you want to work together on it! :D)

October 31, 2010, 10:12:08 pm
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Re: New forum design
« Reply #10 on: October 31, 2010, 10:12:08 pm »
Playing around with the layers, and made the text a bit more dominant


October 31, 2010, 10:31:58 pm
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Re: New forum design
« Reply #11 on: October 31, 2010, 10:31:58 pm »
THAT second line under iron edge is barely readable and it looks even more cluttered now than it was before
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October 31, 2010, 10:34:40 pm
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Re: New forum design
« Reply #12 on: October 31, 2010, 10:34:40 pm »
MAKE THE NAME BIGGER! OMG!
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October 31, 2010, 10:49:50 pm
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Re: New forum design
« Reply #13 on: October 31, 2010, 10:49:50 pm »
I kinda miss quick reply... :-\

Then again, one extra click doesn't hurt too much.

Oh and also, names with special symbols are screwed.

October 31, 2010, 10:51:55 pm
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Re: New forum design
« Reply #14 on: October 31, 2010, 10:51:55 pm »
Oh yeah it seems the site is picking iso 8859 but encoding in utf

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