I must say, I like the new boards. It's going to take a bit of getting used to, but first impression leaves me pretty impressed. Good job everyone.

Hey, avatars! T'ain't the Eyeball of Ancient, but it'll do. Cool beans.

Well... it's different, that's for sure. I have two questions though:

1 - Why did you chose the bright green for all the post headers and buttons? It burns the eyes and contrasts way too much with the dark background. One thing I really liked about the pre-update board was the fact that the colors were complimentary and easy on the eyes, being brown, dark grey and the like.

2 - What is the subscription thing in the 'My Controls' about?

EDIT: Ok, maybe 3 things. It's a bit harder to do a quick look to see which posts have had new posts in them unlike before. Maybe changin the 'new post' icon to a different color than the same as the 'no new posts' icon would help.

Is there anyway to turn off everyone else's avatars and go with a more boring 'text-only' method? Or just to generally make it look less... forumy?

Maybe it's just a setting I can't figure out how to change, but I can't distinguish hyperlinked text from regular text unless my cursor is over it.

Lo-Fi version link at the bottom of the page.

I disagree. I really like the colors and the contrast (although I still say it could use some purple! ), and I don't find it hard on the eyes at all ... even though I stare at the screen all day and all night.

Alright, thank you for the lo-fi board, but why can't I post in that mode??? Isn't that a bit of an oversight?

(Although I do like the ability to turn off everyone else's avatars, while forcing everyone else to see mine!)

Lo-Fi is an 'out of the box' thing. Have to add the checking posting there to my list.

All right everyone. Three cheers for Redjack and his work on our favourite corner of the net.

Hip Hip HURRAY!

Hip Hip HURRAY!

Hip Hip HURRAY!

Could we have a non-green board skin?

My eyes...

Only if the alternate is purple!

More neon! This is Shadowrun!

The new look is ok, but the new logo is... well...

Heh, you guys obviously around way back when we had the Christmas colours. Or the pea/puke green colour scheme.

Having hyperlinks in the same color as normal text is not the best idea.
And I found the old quoting function to be more comfortable.

Everything looks so fresh and new... Thanks for the effort!

Must agree on the logo, though, the old one was cooler.
And hyperlinks REALLY need to be another color when inactive!
Even worse, it seems you cannot color them yourself without overwriting the mouse over effect.

Bye
Thanee

Hell no! I am sick of the old logo. I like this one much better.

What's this about avatars? I keep seeing people mention it, but I'm not seeing any of them...

Hmmm........not too shabby. Must explore again, get used to it.

McQ, You've got to go into your settings and specifically choose to see peoples avatars (and people of course need to choose them) to have them be seen.

Kinda nice actually, Opt-In instead of Opt-Out for a change.

Thanks Vegas!! Glad to see you back online btw.

Go to 'My Controls'

There you can select avatars (Fortune: Gangs are uploaded).

Also, under 'Board Settings' you can choose not to display user avatars, signatures, etc..

Please check your friends and ignored lists.. I thought someone said the upgrade switched theirs...

All in all, given the number of patches it took to upgrade the board.. I'm really amazed we are this functional...

Damn! That was quick! Thanks.



I think you all did a good job.

Wait ... we had Ignore Lists on the last board?
Did they work? Nobody seemed to use them.
And what exactly does a 'Friends List' do?

Yep, overall it seems to run just fine... had to change all my links to my PMs, though, since despite having the same link syntax all the message IDs were different.

Speaking of avatars, will those remain with just the gallery or will you allow custom ones as well?

Bye
Thanee

P.S. is it possible to have two buttons for full and quick edit? Having to select from the menu every time you edit a post could become rather annoying over time...

Also... what is Multiquote supposed to do? It does nothing when I press the button...

It'll send you a pm whenever one of your friends tries to play "that other game"...
"Friends don't let friends play d20!"

Two thumbs up!

Oh, and I see purple links at the top of the page! Yay!

Edit: But now they're gone.

Violet looks really sharp on this background.

Keep looking up at that logo up top and trying to figure out what it reminds me of. After a few hours now the color and font of it remind of a sort of 70's logo....growing on me.

Stock only.


Hmm.. That's built into the skin. I do find it a bit annoying as well.


Seems to be an issue with that. Let me get back to you...

Why does Google.com keep haunting the Active Users list? It's been there off-and-on all morning.

It was me and it moved them to the "PM Block List" (not the "Ignored Users List" which is a different thing).


Weren't search engines turned away from DSF before because of the CPU usage their spidering caused? Maybe this is why some people have reported it being a little slower since the upgrade.


I used it as an address book.

The new version seems to treat the friends list as more of a social networking thing by publicly listing them in your profile. Also people you add are notified and (depending on how the forum is set up) they might have to approve it.

Which is too bad, because I enjoyed being "secret friends" with people.

Won't lie. Miss the old boards. Course I never posted or registered on the old boards but...

Also, not a big fan of the new logo. However I don't have anything to offer in it's stead so I guess I should just learn to deal with it. I'd probably like it more if it wasn't in that gray box.

..I was surprised how soon this happened. I like the new look although the mixing of both the SR general & SR4 forums was a bit confusing at first.

[on bended knees] Oh please let me import my KK avatar. There are none that fit the Bushido Cowgirl (as I already mentioned) I have requested Squinky to do one so if that is acceptable, I will be happy.

KK Avatar

There seems to be an issue when viewing - what I assume are intended to be "recent" posts from the profile screen, due to the Nov 9, 2009 issue that popped up back here, for those of us that posted threads then. Probably a low priority, like the spellchecker (I still have the Shadowrun dat file for this, if wanted).

I like it..
I agree with Prime Mover, the logo kinda reminds me of an old K-tel album"love songs of the '70s " or something ,:0
(great, now Ive got that Jim Croce song stuck in my head) thanks guys,thanks alot.(grin)

We went with Green to match the colors used in the SR4 core book. Plus, I think it's kinda sharp looking, and it stands out a bit to say "Hey, these are a new version of forums".

It does take a bit of getting used to, however



I agree here, and I mentioend something about this to Redjack this afternoon while we were testing the boards a bit before they went live. I think it's on his "To Do" list.



Right now, just the gallery ones. However, we have not ruled out the possibility of allowing users to "earn" a custom avatar down the road, through contests or something. But right now, it's not real high on our To Do list.





Multiquote allows you to select multiple messages and reply to all of them at once. However, the "Multiquote" buttons don't change color or anything when selected (They are "highlighted", but it's hard to tell), so it's not obvious that you have them selected.

When you hit Add Reply at the bottem of the page, it will add in all the messages you selected for Multiquote into your reply box as a set of quoted messages. I did that for this reply (Though I goofed and selected the wrong message for RedJack, so I had to do his quote manually).

Bull

Ah, I see. Thanks for the explanation.

And the link color has been changed... much better now.

Bye
Thanee

I'm also really sure, that I have seen it before, just don't know where...

Bye
Thanee

Liking the new board a lot so far, guys. Kudos to all for their hard work. Love the avatars!

Here perhaps?

Hey, just because the google doesn't post often doesn't mean its not a participating member, lay off!

I'm going to send the google a PM to make sure there are no hard feelings...

As an aside, the quote button used to be on the top of posts, I believe. Now it's on the bottom, plus the border between posts isn't blazing purple or anything. I accidentally quoted the wrong person like three times before I figured out what's wrong. Seems like a simple fix for us oldies, although I'll admit I'm not sure if it's worth the time. I'll catch up eventually...


My kneejerk reaction is I miss my security dumpshock. It's pretty standard when deploying a new, replacement system that the first day it has something like 20% support though. The test is how we feel in a few weeks. I'm thinking, since we already seem to have beaten 20%, there won't be a lot of serious complaints...

Yep, that must have been it.

Bye
Thanee

• You can set up for the forums to automatically launch quick reply's for all you people who want two seperate buttons for quick/full replys.
• I dont like the new spoilers. The old ones saved space, the new ones just mask stuff but still take up space...
• I think there should be a bigger distinction between primary and secondary subject lines. Make the primary subject line bigger text or make the secondary line small, different color.
• The only thread icons I care about on any forum are the ones that clearly show me which threads i have commented on.
• Snapback, topic, and post BB codes don't seem to work. None of them would link back to stuff in the thread i used them in.
• Can we no longer link to other websites in our signatures? I just tried to change the color of my sig and put a | in between the names and it would not allow it talking about unauthorized websites and stuff. (wikispaces)

Those are my only suggestions so far =)

Oh I also wanted to say that i LOVE the color scheme. I love black and green. I think if anyone is having problems with the green being to bright they need to adjust their monitors. Its not that bright. Its kind of bright along the bottom and darker along the top...

I presume the custom titles for the Dumpshocked! members has been dropped? I understand it was always a pain in the butt for the admins. Not a big deal, just asking.

Cain--In My Controls, the profile section will allow you to set a custom title. If you leave it blank, the default settings will show through.

Odd, I don't have that option.

My Controls/Edit Profile Information

There's a minimum post count before that option becomes available.

It used to be a minimum donation amount, but I guess generating large amounts of user content counts for something...

Indeed, thanks! Love the colors, too!