New Board - Props and Slops

[llamabeast]

As has been pointed out, I guess it's true that we are in danger of running in panicking circles here. I've just been PMing with Mindi and she (like Annette above, and indeed Mindi herself earlier in the thread) reassures me that they're reading everything we're saying and they're taking it all into account, but of course these things take quite a while to implement, even working flat out as the Shrapnel team seem to be at the moment. So I guess we should probably reserve this thread for any issues which haven't already been discussed above, and in the meantime all try to be patient.

[Executor]

I agree with Xietor, I'm 17 and I need my eyes.
But this is being worked on I think from reading Llamas posts.

Edit: Ahh Mindi beat me to it...

[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.

[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.

[JimMorrison]

Originally Posted by Annette

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".

Maybe it's just because you used the word "epiphany", or because I admire women on the internet like most people admire astronauts - but in either case, I am just glad that I found some way to help. :P

Unfortunately, Administrator praise has earned my fingers a presidential pardon, and they've been freed from their box. Woe be to the little people, the Fingers of Doom are *tap* *tap* typing for YOU! O.O

[Annette]

Originally Posted by JimMorrison

Maybe it's just because you used the word "epiphany", or because I admire women on the internet like most people admire astronauts - but in either case, I am just glad that I found some way to help. :P

You may call me Neil

[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?

[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.

[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]

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

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