Author Topic: Forum Upgrade at 6pm Eastern (Read 14930 times)

The Schaef · « **on:** May 11, 2011, 04:57:42 PM »

At 6pm Eastern today (5/11), the forum will be going down to facilitate an upgrade. Every attempt will be made to minimize the downtime, and hopefully we'll be rocking the new version in very short order.

Thank you in advance for your patience and cooperation.

SomeKittens · « **Reply #1 on:** May 12, 2011, 12:38:24 PM »

IT LIVES!

TechnoEthicist · « **Reply #2 on:** May 12, 2011, 12:38:57 PM »

well done! I like the new look!

The Schaef · « **Reply #3 on:** May 12, 2011, 12:40:43 PM »

Forum now upgraded and reopened. This thread is now a place to post feedback, including any issues you may have found that need to be addressed.

Among the new features, you can post a status to your profile - helpful perhaps for people LFG, though I will tinker with this more in the days to come.

Member map. You can tag your location in your profile. Use with care, especially if you're worried a creepy old man may try to track you down.

Links. I'll be populating this soon.

Instant feedback when someone replies to your topics.

Warning system is now folded into the board, but only mods and warned users will see it, unless we decide it needs to become a scarlet letter again.

You can set your region in your profile. Recommend that those who are not actually in the East Central Region go change that now.

I'm also developing some theme variants, so keep an eye out for those.

Post up/downing is coming back soon.

You'll also find a lot of the URL addresses will be much cleaner and easier to read than ?action=x&topic=y&post=#1468486146168146. You're welcome.

Lamborghini_diablo · « **Reply #4 on:** May 12, 2011, 12:54:42 PM »

HEYYYY, it's actually wide on my widescreen monitor now!

I noticed i got a little in-window popup message about a reply to my post when I logged in. Does this happen live or only when you "update the page" by clicking a link or refreshing?

I also have to agree, I like the look as well.

TheKarazyvicePresidentRR · « **Reply #5 on:** May 12, 2011, 01:03:40 PM »

That happens live from what I've seen.

Lamborghini_diablo · « **Reply #6 on:** May 12, 2011, 01:11:39 PM »

One minor glitch I just noticed...

RR's name runs into his post titles.

add new smileys to the list of updates as well.

SomeKittens · « **Reply #7 on:** May 12, 2011, 01:17:10 PM »

Glitch? RR paid off Schaef so that everyone could see his name in all it's glory.

The Schaef · « **Reply #8 on:** May 12, 2011, 01:18:48 PM »

Quote from: Lamborghini_diablo on May 12, 2011, 12:54:42 PM

HEYYYY, it's actually wide on my widescreen monitor now!

I thought you ("you" meaning widescreen users) would appreciate the flexibility of the new theme.

A lot of old themes got trashed but we'll see what we can work out for that. I prefer to stay away from graphics-heavy themes that result in the message "waaah, I can't see teh menu optionz0rz for teh articles" or whatever.

Lamborghini_diablo · « **Reply #9 on:** May 12, 2011, 01:23:06 PM »

Are profile statuses only visible within a persons profile?

Deck Metrics · « **Reply #10 on:** May 12, 2011, 01:30:13 PM »

what happened to Chess? I can't find it, I was in the middle of a game....

The Schaef · « **Reply #11 on:** May 12, 2011, 01:36:53 PM »

I'm still feeling out the whole thing with profile status. I'm also trying to implement a trader rating system but we'll see if that works or not.

Chess is currently down; I will see what I can do about getting it back. It was my impression that hardly anyone played any more.

browarod · « **Reply #12 on:** May 12, 2011, 01:41:20 PM »

Other than the sluggishness of page loading, I like the changes overall.

~~I did notice that Chess is missing from the menu row at the top. Will that be added back soon?~~ Also, when viewing any specific forum post or thread or "recent new posts", etc., there's an awkward yellow box at the right end of the menu row that has the same URL as where you're currently visiting. It's nothing big, slightly annoying perhaps, but not important. Just figured I'd mention it jic.

SirNobody · « **Reply #13 on:** May 12, 2011, 02:04:17 PM »

Hey,

It seems that pages never finish loading. They load but then continue "waiting for www.cactusgamedesign.com..." indefinitely. Which has the annoying side effect that if I ask it to load multiple pages at once, my browser can't do it.

The "Forum" Link is missing from the options at the top of the page.

Tschow,

Tim "Sir Nobody" Maly

Red Dragon Thorn · « **Reply #14 on:** May 12, 2011, 02:06:34 PM »

Also, the ignore user feature is back - So I'mma ignore you all now

I'm pretty sure that had disastrous results last time it got implemented

Noah · « **Reply #15 on:** May 12, 2011, 02:07:25 PM »

It's alot slower then the old one and it's going to take some getting used to. I also couldn't find Trumpet Blast.

SomeKittens · « **Reply #16 on:** May 12, 2011, 02:14:58 PM »

It still exists, I have no trouble using it

Lamborghini_diablo · « **Reply #17 on:** May 12, 2011, 02:20:30 PM »

I believe Schaef disabled the home screen with the Tblast etc in an attempt to figure out what is making it run slowly / crash on occasion.

ACe · « **Reply #18 on:** May 12, 2011, 02:26:47 PM »

looks good!

Lamborghini_diablo · « **Reply #19 on:** May 12, 2011, 02:32:34 PM »

There we go, working a lot faster now. Good going Schaef.

Rawrlolsauce! · « **Reply #20 on:** May 12, 2011, 03:19:33 PM »

What's the buddy list do? I'm going to add everyone but Lambo and Ring Wraith to mine.

SomeKittens · « **Reply #21 on:** May 12, 2011, 03:55:15 PM »

Most of the avatars look washed out to me...

Carl deuty · « **Reply #22 on:** May 12, 2011, 04:00:46 PM »

My Freddy Prinze Junior looks awesome. Also, maybe I'm a dork but I loved manually finding my street on the map for my profile. Now, everyone can see where I live.

The Schaef · « **Reply #23 on:** May 12, 2011, 04:04:47 PM »

Quote from: SomeKittens on May 12, 2011, 03:55:15 PM

Most of the avatars look washed out to me...

They are partially transparentemized when the user is offline. This same effect was in place under the previous version.

JonathanW · « **Reply #24 on:** May 12, 2011, 04:44:27 PM »

It's way to slow

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Author Topic: Forum Upgrade at 6pm Eastern (Read 14930 times)

The Schaef

The Schaef

Lamborghini_diablo

Lamborghini_diablo

The Schaef

Lamborghini_diablo

The Schaef

browarod

Lamborghini_diablo

Lamborghini_diablo

Rawrlolsauce!

The Schaef