New Board - Props and Slops

[llamabeast]

Gandalf, while that is a solution (assuming you can edit the text file), it will be markedly less user-friendly than being able to edit the post directly.

I should say being able to edit the first post only would be reasonable. Not ideal by any means, but okay.

[Gandalf Parker]

There might also be a way to have it display directly in the message the way we used to do with images.
I might get a chance to play with it later, or someone else can try.

[Kristoffer O]

Ha!

I finally made it to the reply box!

At first I couldn't log in. Had a new 'space' in my login name. And something (don't know what) was missing in my profile ???

I'm having some trouble finding my way around, but that will probably change now that I am logged on.

Considering there is a picture gallery available now, I can't see why avatars and PM's should be limited. Hmm, it might be bandwidth related when I think about it. At least the avatars. Which reminds me, I need a new one.

I'm a bit concerned about the editing stuff as well. Editing the first post will probably solve the MP problem. The mod threads might be another issue. Editing the first post will probably cover most problems, but I imagine there might be instances where attachments are added by several people developing a mod and each ned to edit their own post to make their addition up to date. If the first poster administers everything it might work anyway.

Hmm, I'd better poke around some more to lessen my initial confusion.

[Mindi]

Originally Posted by Kristoffer O

Ha!

I finally made it to the reply box!

At first I couldn't log in. Had a new 'space' in my login name. And something (don't know what) was missing in my profile ???

Was your username and login name different on the other board? We could only import one name so we went with username since that's what all the user's see.

Considering there is a picture gallery available now, I can't see why avatars and PM's should be limited. Hmm, it might be bandwidth related when I think about it. At least the avatars. Which reminds me, I need a new one.

Well the picture gallery will allow people to put pictures through their Usercp rather than uploading everything as attachments in posts. At least we hope that's the way users will use it because then those pictures won't be so hard to find. Avatars, size wise, is limited because of space issues.....as you can see people are already complaining because we are allowing 80x80 avatars instead of the previous 48x48. File size wise, we thought 20k is a big file allowance for an 80x80 pic. Do you disagree?

I'm a bit concerned about the editing stuff as well. Editing the first post will probably solve the MP problem. The mod threads might be another issue. Editing the first post will probably cover most problems, but I imagine there might be instances where attachments are added by several people developing a mod and each ned to edit their own post to make their addition up to date. If the first poster administers everything it might work anyway.

Still thinking on this one, I need to do some searching for possible solutions. Right now I'm working on the font size issue some people are seeing in the reply box.

[BadCompany]

I like this new look.It has some issues but remember site conversion sticky thread,they are still working out afew things.Be happy that the forum is up because like Mindi said,they could have just waited til everything was perfect(I missed the forums).

[llamabeast]

Endoperez is, I fear, merely saying what many of us feel.

Not to worry though, early days and all that. There have already been a huge number of improvements since the preview version I saw as a moderator, and no doubt that preview version itself took a massive amount of work to set up.

[Dedas]

Great post Jim! This is exactly my feelings as well.

[Executor]

Like Kristoffer said his username was changed as was mine, that really troubled me for a while, first I thought I was deleted becouse I have a brother around here and I had my account almost deleted once before, but that problem is solved.
Anyway, been looking at this new forum, and the thing that is bothering me is, can't find the right word? It isn't reviewable ( pardon my English )
I do appreciate the effort to upgrade the forum and many thanks for putting it up before you made "everything perfect", but I guess that was the point for putting it out before it was done, to see how people react on it and to change it according to suggestions and complaint.
As far as I go, It's a little harder to link on other conversations and to follow up on the threads and I think that will cause people to lose interest a little, at least I have, and there are far less threads on the forum and only the first page gets full attention, so my opinion is that should be changed along with a little more PM's
Hope to see a new even more improved forum up soon.

[Mindi]

Originally Posted by Executor

Like Kristoffer said his username was changed as was mine, that really troubled me for a while, first I thought I was deleted becouse I have a brother around here and I had my account almost deleted once before, but that problem is solved.

Again I ask, did you have a different login name than display/username? If so this was posted last week that you would no longer be able to use both and would be using the username/display name as your login name.

Anyway, been looking at this new forum, and the thing that is bothering me is, can't find the right word? It isn't reviewable ( pardon my English )
I do appreciate the effort to upgrade the forum and many thanks for putting it up before you made "everything perfect", but I guess that was the point for putting it out before it was done, to see how people react on it and to change it according to suggestions and complaint.

Actually the main point of putting it up before it was finished was not because we didn't have a path to getting finished, it was because we wanted the users to have as little downtime as possible. However there's always going to be little things that need fixed (functionality of some sort actually broken) during an upgrade of this level. No conversion like this is every perfectly smooth. That doesn't mean we won't take opinions and suggestions into consideration...to imply otherwise is insulting...but the site's been up for less than 24 hours and we're still tweaking things from a broken functionality standpoint. I suppose we could have been down for several more days and had everything absolutely perfect but we thought the users would prefer being able to use the forum over it being absolutely perfect on launch.

[llamabeast]

And exactly mine too. Good work Jim.

I do sometimes get the feeling that we are considered annoying punks who criticise things, get in arguments with each other and abuse those privileges we are granted. We are in fact an exceptionally mature, intelligent and productive community. An incredible amount of good stuff is churned out on the Dominions 3 forums. There have been numerous studies done which show that when people are trusted and given privileges, they tend mostly to behave well. When a lack of trust is implied and privileges withdrawn, they have a far greater tendency to abuse whatever privileges remain, because the feeling of mutual trust has been broken (not, you understand, that I'm implying that is in danger of happening here, but it illustrates a general principle). Of course, because of your positions as staff you will tend to hear a great deal about anything that does go wrong, for example the guy who deleted all his posts when he left the forum. You are much less likely to notice the large quantity of useful stuff that goes on, the lists of things which are constantly maintained, posts edited to provide links to later posts which solved problems and so on.