The New Forum Software!

[Gandalf Parker]

There was a poll done. It was in Shrapnel General forum for ages.

Also, most of the changes you dont like are not changes. They are now user options in your profile.

Be nice people. The shrapnel color scheme converted (so at least we dont have the shouts about new colors too much), upload/downloads are back (one of the reasons we shelled out for this. please use the mod forum for mods and probably maps also), the accounts came across (beta's still need some tweaking), the avatars work, the forums came across, the threads survived (THANK GOD), the server is happy with switching to a php/mysql format (knock on virtual wood). All in all, as conVersions go, and sysadmin can tell you this is sweet.

[Vynd]

Yay! Thank you Shrapnel! Now let's see how long it takes me to adjust to reading Posts in the correct order...

[Esben Mose Hansen]

Beyond cool! Kudos to whoever made this. A few points,good and bad:

1. As for the font size, please be a good citizen and use the default browser size --- that is, after all, the one the user has declared he wanted. If that is not possible, please use a relative (e.g, font-size: small; or font-size: 0.8ex instead of absolute sizes (font-size: 10pt or font-size: 12px). The latter sucks for those of us running a reasonable large resolution or those who have actually set the correct DPI-size for our monitor.

2. It appears that one cannot view this forum with the threaded+expanded mode. It just hangs there with "Waiting for reply..."

3. I really love the "all" button on the subjects. Cool!

[Annette]

The new forums will take some getting used to for us all. Personally, I preferred the old style. That may be because it's what I'm used to and it's hard to teach an old dog new tricks...

I'd like to stress, though, that the main problem we had with the old software was the inability to offer you all uploading and downloading files. We saw that as a very real problem, and this is our solution. It's been a long time coming, and we apologize for the delay. We were concerned we would lose the wealth of information you all have shared here and that there would be a great deal of downtime in the conVersion. Hats off to Mindi and Richard for not allowing those things to happen!

We've taken a great deal of criticism over the years for the sorting order of the old style. I know you all have seen the debates. If it were a matter of sorting only, we probably would have left things alone. We preferred to read the new Posts first. We're aware that the only way we may please everyone is to be able to offer the option to sort whichever way the individual reader prefers, and we're working to be able to bring that to you.

Meanwhile, we truly appreciate your patience and your willingness to hang in there with us while we finish up the project. Be sure to go into your user preferences - you'll find many more options than were there previously. I found that my ability to recieve email notifications for private Messages had been turned off. Others may want to check that in their preferences.

Soon we hope you will all find the benefits of the new options a big improvement overall.

[Lepakko]

Thx!!

it looking 3xbetter what Last Forum software

now i can see first post... not the Last one.. it realy help in reading of forum

[tinkthank]

All of the new "features" are good, I think Shrapnel did a great job. Only thing I sort of miss but I am sure will get used to is the old "flavor" and look/feel.

One oddity -- I used to have an awful rating, I suppose people thought (think?) I am an annoying idiot. I was away for a few days (wedding anniversary and other RL stuff) and see my rating is "good". So either people suddenly read all of my Posts in my absence and thought, hey, he is actually trying to be helpful often and isn't such a jerk after all, or this forum has totally randomized the Ratings. Not that I care, just thought I'd say that.

[Graeme Dice]

One thing that would be nice is if the window that we type into could be made a bit larger. It's a little hard to see what you've written sometimes with the small one.

[Gandalf Parker]

One thing that would be nice is if the window that we type into could be made a bit larger. It's a little hard to see what you've written sometimes with the small one.

The settings for that are in your profile

[Thilock_Dominus]

I don't know if this was intended by the admins:

Topic with over 100000 replies or 100000 views

It seems a bit high IMHO

[Arryn]

To whomever changed the font size (Richard?), making it smaller, I have but one thing to say: THANK YOU !!!