New Board - Props and Slops

[Mindi]

Originally Posted by Mindi

This is the issue I have been working on.....can you tell me what browser you are using?

Nevermind, browser doesn't matter. I have duplicated the issue and now am working on root cause analysis.

[HoneyBadger]

The size is quite a bit better since I switched modes. Thanks Mindi!!!
I'm guessing there's no way to alter the font size directly, though. But it's workable, as-is.

That's one problem, the second problem is that it still defaults to that ugly dishwater blue, and won't let me change my background within the field itself-atleast until I've actually sent the message itself. Is there help for this? I just want a nice, light grey background. Ideally, there'd be a way to user-define the whole forum colour-scheme, but I don't know if this would be possible?

[Endoperez]

Originally Posted by Tim Brooks

Tell us what you 'really' think, Edoperez.

I told what I didn't like about the new page, and about the new forum. It's still under construction, and I pointed out what I'd rather see changed. In hindsight, using such a harsh tone meant that even if I had a point, it would be ignored because I wrote it in such a hostile way. I apologize for that.

I still think the site could be improved. Perhaps it's just my small monitor, but the blue cd in the frontpage takes up the whole middle section of the new page, and about half of the visible area is blue. Scrolling down or changing into fullscreen improve things a lot, but something of a different colour (like the wizard in Dom3 game page) works better for me.

Besides that first view of the frontpage, I don't have problems with the visual look of the page. Things like images not being links yet or the exact catchphrase above some section are just nitpicks. As I said, I'm sorry my dislike came out that harshly. That's partly because I was shocked at seeing something quite dear to me (I've spent years in these forums) change so much.

EDIT: I just discovered the button for thanking a person for a spesific post, and that's a wonderful "social networking" tool. That's great!

[llamabeast]

Jim,

Mindi mentioned before that the issue with PMs wasn't disk space, but the time taken for database access or some such. It's been implied that the old system was causing them some kind of problems. In any case, probably bringing up this issue again in a couple of weeks' time would be more productive since Shrapnel just have a silly amount on their plate at the moment. Indeed, that's probably the best course for all issues, since we'll probably find most of them fixed if we just don't think about it for a few days.

[BadCompany]

Dam*,like 3 pages of posts in how long?

I was just playing a scenario in winSPWW2,this must be a world record.

[llamabeast]

Busy times!

[Annette]

Originally Posted by Zeldor

Mindi:

But you still do simplest admin mistake - reply to everything. Just go back to your job, let people do some complaining here and do a mass reply in 6, 12 or 24 hours. And you will have some things fixed by then, that is much better than posting replies And nothing bad will happen here.

LOL, good point, Zeldor. Just wait til Scott gets here

Jim, I had an epiphany after reading your post. Once we have all the pages completely functional on the main site and once the forums are tweaked to death (or Mindi quits, whichever comes first), we will be sending out a press release announcing our new "look". I haven't read the release yet personally, but I'm assuming it will be like our others, explaining improvements and enhancements much as we do with a patch announcement. I just realized we haven't given you guys enough information - in our effort to get back up as quickly as we could, we forgot to tell you what we did and maybe a little about why we did it.

So please, give us a few more days to get things the way we want them. We really didn't make these changes in order to restrict your enjoyment, and I guess it appears that was our goal. This was an oversight on our part, for which I apologize.

[Annette]

Originally Posted by Endoperez

I still think the site could be improved. Perhaps it's just my small monitor, but the blue cd in the frontpage takes up the whole middle section of the new page, and about half of the visible area is blue. Scrolling down or changing into fullscreen improve things a lot, but something of a different colour (like the wizard in Dom3 game page) works better for me.

Besides that first view of the frontpage, I don't have problems with the visual look of the page. Things like images not being links yet or the exact catchphrase above some section are just nitpicks. As I said, I'm sorry my dislike came out that harshly. That's partly because I was shocked at seeing something quite dear to me (I've spent years in these forums) change so much.

EDIT: I just discovered the button for thanking a person for a spesific post, and that's a wonderful "social networking" tool. That's great!

What resolution is your monitor set at?

[JimMorrison]

Originally Posted by llamabeast

Jim,

Mindi mentioned before that the issue with PMs wasn't disk space, but the time taken for database access or some such. It's been implied that the old system was causing them some kind of problems. In any case, probably bringing up this issue again in a couple of weeks' time would be more productive since Shrapnel just have a silly amount on their plate at the moment. Indeed, that's probably the best course for all issues, since we'll probably find most of them fixed if we just don't think about it for a few days.

Indeed. Of course, that was the old system architecture, not this new system. It was more a point about priorities and overt user needs, than anything else. <3

I agree that most things should settle out over time. Except the post editing issue. That one is not going to go away, because it's a matter of extraordinary importance relating to so much of the most valuable activities going on in the Dominions forums. But I am sure the Admins are rapidly becoming fully aware of this, so I will try to stop my cursed fingers from making more words.

Bad fingers, get back in your box!

[BadCompany]

Originally Posted by llamabeast

Busy times!

Either that or people just complain alot.I think this Thread should be a sticky,if you ask me.