New Board - Props and Slops

[JimMorrison]

Originally Posted by AgentZero

I'm one of those dicks with dual monitors

Somehow I doubt that YOUR name is Richard. :P

I humbly request that I be able to say bee itch, if someone can call themselves a dick.

[llamabeast]

Hahaha, you really took out the calculator.

What do you take me for? Certainly no calculator came near!

It was like one of those physics problems, like "estimate the mass of cheese in the UK", where you go "okay, let's say everyone in the UK has half a kilo of cheese. And let's say about half the cheese in the UK is owned by individuals, while the other half is in warehouses, shops etc. And the population of the UK is about 60 million. So... 60 million kilos aka 60 thousand tonnes". I love those things!

Edit: Can't believe having started to write out that inane example I actually followed it through! What a geek!

[BadCompany]

Originally Posted by llamabeast

What do you take me for? Certainly no calculator came near!

It was like one of those physics problems, like "estimate the mass of cheese in the UK", where you go "okay, let's say everyone in the UK has half a kilo of cheese. And let's say about half the cheese in the UK is owned by individuals, while the other half is in warehouses, shops etc. And the population of the UK is about 60 million. So... 60 million kilos aka 60 thousand tonnes". I love those things!

Edit: Can't believe having started to write out that inane example I actually followed it through! What a geek!

I like those things too,but I have like 2 weeks of summer vacation left I don't want to think about that kinda stuff til september.

[Kristoffer O]

This thread is growing remarkably quick.

It made me wonder if there is a way to go to last read post like before. When I opened the thread I started at the beginning, so I went to the last page, and turned the pages back one at a time to find my own last post to know where to start reading again. A bit annoying.

Edit: Hmm, now I need to remember at what page I wrote this. I'll be gone for 3 days. No way I'll find the answer when I get back

[lch]

Originally Posted by Kristoffer O

When I opened the thread I started at the beginning, so I went to the last page, and turned the pages back one at a time to find my own last post to know where to start reading again. A bit annoying.

I've always done it this way. You mean to tell me there was an alternative before? You're telling me this NOW?

[BadCompany]

Originally Posted by Kristoffer O

This thread is growing remarkably quick.

It made me wonder if there is a way to go to last read post like before. When I opened the thread I started at the beginning, so I went to the last page, and turned the pages back one at a time to find my own last post to know where to start reading again. A bit annoying.

Edit: Hmm, now I need to remember at what page I wrote this. I'll be gone for 3 days. No way I'll find the answer when I get back

I'm a afraid that by tommorrow this thread will be at page 20 or more.I'm saying this again,this thread should be a sticky.

[lch]

Originally Posted by BadCompany

I'm a afraid that by tommorrow this thread will be at page 20 or more.I'm saying this again,this thread should be a sticky.

If it's being replied to as much as it is now, it doesn't need to be stickied. As if something in the Shrapnel general forums could possibly go out of sight in under half a year...

[Richard]

So I think we've listened to folks, and their complaints, and the be honest I think we've already started making some changes that are resolving some of the issue people brought up.

To make this a little easier to manage I am going to suggest that going forward all suggestions for changes and such be handled the way we did this during the last forum upgrade, through PM's. Going forward please PM Mindi with any issues you see and we'll add them to the list and consider them.

Like all adults we're going to agree and disagree on how best to do things so my guess is some things folks want to see happen will happen and some won't and in the end we'll have a better forum experience.

The staff at Shrapnel Games have spent the last 6 months carefully planning this board upgrade and running literally the entire process through a test board over 10 times to ensure we minimized impact to you are customers. We've all spent many hours during this weekend, adn during the last week have gotten very little sleep, to ensure that you were impacted as little as possible. I have seen a lot of forum moves, iinlcuding previous ones we have run, and for the most part this has gone very smooth;y. In recent months some of our competitors have done similiar moves and have been without functionality for weeks. We have worked VERY hard to ensure that you guys were not impacted.

When we also planned this board move out we looked at what a lot of other forums do, and what our software did before it became broken a few years ago, and we implemented what are very liberal policies compared to most forums on the Internet. Mindi and I have started a number of communities, many of them larger than this, and have been very careful to keep those experiences in mind when planning out policies and procedures for the new board.

We've also went to long extremes to add functionality that had been requested by many of our users and to bring this board to a more modern standards when compared to other Internet communities. Some folks aren't going to like the new features, or changes, or new rules. But you know what I don't like every single one of them. Mindi doesn't lik every single one of them. Tim and Annette don't like every single one of them. But in the end we're all adults and we try to reach the best compromise possible.

So going forward please forward any functionality or bugs to Mindi via PM. As far as the site design those issues can be forwarded to Mindi but the site design was done by Tim so we'll have to run those items by him to get changed. Again some things will be addressed, some won't, but that's what happens in the real world when folks have differing opinions.

We have gotten very little sleep in the last week and we need a break. Again please PM issues to Mindi and this weekend we will look over the list and decide how to move forward. And with the new PM export feature it will make it even easier to manage .

[llamabeast]

If you use the edit buttons like bold/italic or smileys now, it actually changes the things in place, or what you have selected. AWESOME!

Ooh, that is awesome!

It made me wonder if there is a way to go to last read post like before.

There's a down arrow appears just to the left of the thread name. That'll take you to the first unread post. Not especially obvious, but it works well.

[Kristoffer O]

> I've always done it this way. You mean to tell me there was an alternative before? You're telling me this NOW?

That was automatic as far as I know. If you clicked on the thread name you got to your last read post. Where did you click ???

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Another topic: The bug shortlist in the dom3 forum looks sad. I hope there is a way to make it look nice without having edi edit all the posts there. It is a very useful thread and I wouldn't want it to be lost.