Changes to Boards - please read as we go along

[dogscoff]

First: nice to see you back on the Boards, Richard.

Second: I appreciate the work that's gone into the new forum, and it has clearly introduced a lot of features that were seriously lacking. However I'm finding it a little hard to adjust. I'm sure I'll get there eventually, but I have a few small gripes:

- I had trouble logging in after the forum change. I had to request a temporary password because it wouldn't accept my old one. No-one else seems to have had this trouble so I guess it's just me.

-When posting, the box you get to type into is ridiculously small. Unless you are deliberately trying to discourage the kind of long-winded Posts I regularly come up with, please make the text-entry box much, much bigger.

-The ability to review the entire thread (and copy/paste bits out of numerous Posts) was invaluable. I'm very sorry to see it go.

[Mephisto]

Hi Dogschoff,
you can adjust the text window size by going to "My Home", "Display Preferences" and "TextArea columns" and "TextArea rows". I would like to see these options renamed as I never would have found out what they do if not someone had pointed it out to me.

[Suicide Junkie]

Oh, wow! This is much nicer when its big

[Kamog]

- I had trouble logging in after the forum change. I had to request a temporary password because it wouldn't accept my old one. No-one else seems to have had this trouble so I guess it's just me.

I first had trouble logging on, too. It seems that your password is now case-sensitive, AND the case it uses may not be the same as before.

My password used to begin with a capital letter and it didn't work. So, after many attempts, I tried using lower case, and it worked. So you might want to try different upper case / lower case combinations in your password.

[dogscoff]

Woo yeah, much better. Thanks everyone.

[David E. Gervais]

WooHoo! Richard has installed all my nice new icons for the forums. Oops, I guess not all have been done yet, but I'm sure they will eventually relpace the old ones.

That was fun, thanks Richard for another notch on my "Almost Famous" meter.

Cheers!

[Mephisto]

Very nice!

[David E. Gervais]

Thanks, hmmm, I wonder if 'other' icons could be added? (more "Instant Graemlins" ) like a beer mug, Martini, a shovel (for rollo ) or any others. It would sure help make this forum unique. If it can be done I'm willing to make them.

Cheers!

[Mindi]

Richard said to go for it David!

[Baron Munchausen]

A shovel? Why only for Rollo? I'd think anyone could use a shovel in a discussion where too much bull... was being dispensed.

What would be really cute is some SE specific icons. Can you make smiley faces in the style of some SE IV races, like the Phong?