The New Forum Software!

#1 August 8th, 2004, 04:58 AM

Linky times

Arryn · #2 August 8th, 2004, 06:58 AM

It appears that no Posts made prior to the upgrade may be edited by Users, so any of our postings that have bad URLs are going to be stuck that way.

Mindi · #3 August 8th, 2004, 01:34 PM

Hey guys,

I fixed the editing problem, you should be able to go back and edit any Posts you made in the Dom 2 forum. Richard is going to try to find a solution this week to convert the links from the old board into the new board format but this may take several days and we can't give any guarantees that it will work. For now though, you can edit the links to your hearts content!

Arryn · #4 August 8th, 2004, 02:23 PM

Quote:

Hey guys,

I fixed the editing problem, you should be able to go back and edit any Posts you made in the Dom 2 forum. For now though, you can edit the links to your hearts content!

Thanks, Mindi!

However, the in-post HTML/UBB code is broken:

Bold
Large

This line should be centered, but isn't.
This line should be small, but isn't.
This line should be blue, but isn't.

The odd thing is that the Posts that were imported when the forum was upgraded display fine (example: post #252172), yet any that I edit get ruined (example: post #252184).

Arryn · #5 August 8th, 2004, 02:45 PM

As my next suggestion, you might want to significantly raise the number of post views that a thread needs to qualify as a "hot topic". Pretty much most/every thread in the Dom 2 area is now "hot". Personally, IMO, "hot topics" should be based strictly on replies and not how many times they're viewed. Tracking only replies more accurately reflects forum activity, and not just what threads the lurkers are looking at.

Sincerely,

Arryn

#6 August 8th, 2004, 03:07 PM

Alright, yes

There are still some bugs to be worked out and as you can see Mindi and Richard are more than willing to work them out as they can. Though there are certainly going to be some pains in the change.

As for the forum sorting issue. Boron and others, there was a poll, there was not a small fraction of people who wanted the ability to choose the sorting method and this is the step to do so. As of *right* exactly now, there is no way to view the forums like they were (With reversed order), but Richard is over the next few days going to be coding that into the forum so it will be availiable, just when is the question

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I would ask a little paitence with the forum until it can be manhandled (or mindihandled!) into something like it's former glory, but if you find something that doesn't work, please go ahead and post and if it's fixable I will try to alert the people who fix such things

Fyron · #7 August 8th, 2004, 04:21 PM

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As for the forum sorting issue. Boron and others, there was a poll, there was not a small fraction of people who wanted the ability to choose the sorting method and this is the step to do so. As of *right* exactly now, there is no way to view the forums like they were (With reversed order), but Richard is over the next few days going to be coding that into the forum so it will be availiable, just when is the question

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That poll is largely irrelevant because it was _not_ properly promoted to all of the Shrapnel forums. It is a very biased reflection of the forum membership. Not to mention the poor wording chosen on the options in it...

#8 August 8th, 2004, 04:31 PM

That hardly matters now, does it? They bought the software, they installed it and now we have these forums which have the possiblity of making the options of choosing how you'd like it as opposed to having it one way without any options along with a feature that has been missing in downloading.

Gandalf Parker · #9 August 8th, 2004, 05:15 PM

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That poll is largely irrelevant because it was _not_ properly promoted to all of the Shrapnel forums. It is a very biased reflection of the forum membership. Not to mention the poor wording chosen on the options in it...

The fact that forums are often posted as links, and Users come & go without seeing the other forums or shrapnels main page is a subject being worked on.

Mindi · #10 August 8th, 2004, 03:16 PM

Actually, I think we are going to get rid of the hot topic notation all together, Richard just hasn't gotten around to deleting that stuff. As the week, and probably even the next whole month progresses, you will be seeing changes to the forum. Please send Richard any suggestions and we are going to try to accomodate as many as we can provided they make sense for the community and are workable. The most important part of the upgrade was that we will now have file downloads/uploads available again(!) and the board got transferred with basically all the information still intact. Everything else will be straightened out in the next few weeks or so!

Mindi