Forum Changes

Richard · #1 March 6th, 2005, 02:30 AM

Let me be frank based on some recent commentary. OT posts are always welcome in the SE:IV community. That has always been and always will be the policy of Shrapnel Games on the matter and I thought we had that issue settled.

The sidebars were added for the reasons I specifically stated and no other. They were no form of punishment.

Feel free to block that portion of the site with any 3rd party tool if you would like. Also feel free to post directions on how to do that. Again no big deal.

If you have questions about the official Shrapnel policy on these things feel free to PM any of the current staff members of Shrapnel Games.

Suicide Junkie · #2 March 6th, 2005, 02:33 AM

Yikes...
They're even there in the PM section of the forum!

The sidebars really should be limited to the top few levels of the forum... when you're doing something specific, like PMing or replying to a message, they are totally unnessesary and just get in the way.

Combat Wombat · #3 March 6th, 2005, 02:38 AM

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Richard said:
Let me be frank based on some recent commentary. OT posts are always welcome in the SE:IV community. That has always been and always will be the policy of Shrapnel Games on the matter and I thought we had that issue settled.

The sidebars were added for the reasons I specifically stated and no other. They were no form of punishment.

Feel free to block that portion of the site with any 3rd party tool if you would like. Also feel free to post directions on how to do that. Again no big deal.

If you have questions about the official Shrapnel policy on these things feel free to PM any of the current staff members of Shrapnel Games.

Thank You, This should clear up any confusion.

Sivran · #4 March 6th, 2005, 02:43 AM

Now that they have backgrounds in them they're even more distracting. I may just have to start using Proxo again.

Edit:...yeah. I think I will. Thank you, Shrap.

CovertJaguar · #5 March 6th, 2005, 03:07 AM

Thank you, Richard. I wish more people would have that attitude. I too, think that the sidebar would be fine on the topic and category level, but it is just wasted space in the threads and other areas.

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6) As soon as I get some time, I'll be looking for this Proximitron program. I always thought it was a firewall, not a way to edit out "undesirable" HTML.

Its not a firewall at all. Its an ad-blocker and HTML filter.
Proxomitron

Phoenix-D · #6 March 6th, 2005, 03:20 AM

Ah, readability.

Thanks Covert. Took me a bit to figure out why it wasn't working..I forgot to turn the new filter on.

A bit of a resource hog, but not too bad.

EDIT: of course its also making the top of the area (user controls, banner, announcments..) disappear as well. Oops.

EDIT2: speaking of bugs, even with a non-proxied Firefox, the edit window now has a non-functional button in between "change this post" and "delete this post".

Sivran · #7 March 6th, 2005, 04:53 AM

Yup, noticed that about Covert's filter too. I turned off all other filters, just to make sure.

Fyron · #8 March 6th, 2005, 04:53 AM

Richard:
Are there plans to make the press releases more legible? It is not that it is a bad image, it is just really hard to read the text on top of it.

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Phoenix-D said:
EDIT2: speaking of bugs, even with a non-proxied Firefox, the edit window now has a non-functional button in between "change this post" and "delete this post".

That used to be the Spellcheck button. I can confirm that it is now bugged in Firefox.

Gandalf Parker, please do not post anything if all you are going to do is try to incite flames. Those issues have long since been resolved and you dragging them up does nothing productive. Thank you.

Combat Wombat · #9 March 6th, 2005, 05:07 AM

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Imperator Fyron said:
Richard:
Are there plans to make the press releases more legible? It is not that it is a bad image, it is just really hard to read the text on top of it.

Is you screen really dark or something? they are perfecly readable on my laptop which is half as bright as normal on battery power.

CovertJaguar · #10 March 6th, 2005, 06:48 AM

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Phoenix-D said:
EDIT: of course its also making the top of the area (user controls, banner, announcments..) disappear as well. Oops.

The stuff at the top of the page? the Main Index, Who's Online, and Search stuff? I can see all of that just fine. Don't know what causing it to disappear on your end.

Wait, I see what's wrong. I told you guys to set the byte limit to 10000 just in case, but I had it on 7000. If you set it to 7000 they show up.

EDIT: Fixed the filter so that will only find what is is supposed to even if the byte limit is higher:
Code:

<table width="100%" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" align="center" id="pr">**<tr></tr></table>*\n</td>

EDIT2: Better one:
Code:

<table \w \w \w \w id="pr">*<tr></tr></table>?\n</td>