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Points: 32995 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 21 2006 at 09:27
Originally posted by aapatsos aapatsos wrote:

Originally posted by Snow Dog Snow Dog wrote:

The "Forum Jump" dropdown at the bottom of the page doesn't work.
I use it often too.
 
yes I think this is one of the most important problems
 
I use this all the time Ouch

Its fixed now.Wink
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Originally posted by Snow Dog Snow Dog wrote:

The "Forum Jump" dropdown at the bottom of the page doesn't work.
I use it often too.
 
yes I think this is one of the most important problems
 
I use this all the time Ouch
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The "Forum Jump" dropdown at the bottom of the page doesn't work.
I use it often too.
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let me remind you once again that the changes were not done deliberately. A new version of the forum software is out and Max installed the update because it contains many improvements, most of all in:

  • performance
  • html code cleanup
as a result the design is somewhat out of whack, and it will take some time until the new software is configured correctly, and the various tweaks that Max added to the old software will have to be adapted to the new software, as well as the old design has to be ported to CSS (cascading style sheets).

So please hold your horses, I think that most of the obvious problems with the design and basic functionality will be corrected by Max in the next few days. In the meantime we can focus on new features here, or serious bugs in the functionality.
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Points: 9226 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 21 2006 at 06:41
Originally posted by W.Chuck W.Chuck wrote:

Can you reset the whole forum to the old design?
The new one is quite confusing and unclear.
exactly my point of view
people, I don't like it, is too confusing and full of problems at the moment
colours and fonts are bad... Embarrassed
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Can you reset the whole forum to the old design?
The new one is quite confusing and unclear.

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There are a few things I find not as good
1-Colors , they respect less the original Prog Archives banner , the Purple is now almost gray and the color selection window/box is cut and the lower two rungs of colors are not available
FIXED

2- the quick reply box is too small >> I fail to see the point of this quick reply also. To get a normal box you have to push the reply button in a post: it is next to the quote button which is very confusing and provoke many false maneuvers
FIXED

3- there seems to be a bug in the PMs as I could not reply to a message, saying I had to fill in a text, which was done
???

4- I have yet to check out that calendar option on the top right hand corner
5- I sort of miss the alternance between the white and grey wallpaper of posts
FIXED

6- I am not so sure we will be able to work with the quotes as well as we used to! I have yet to see the [/QUOTE] which made it easy to break up or combine the quotes in a reply
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7- the back to top of page button on the bottom left hand side of everypost is missingCry>> this was extremely useful
WILL CHECK

8- I also think that on the main or general forum page, there was the feature that could show you in which thread it was posted last and by whom >> this was also useful >> Hope it will reappear
THIS WILL DRAMATICALLY DECREASE LOADING PERFORMANCE... Confused
 
 


EDIT BY MAX IN BLUE


Edited by M@X - April 22 2006 at 11:42
let's just stay above the moral melee
prefer the sink to the gutter
keep our sand-castle virtues
content to be a doer
as well as a thinker,
prefer lifting our pen
rather than un-sheath our sword
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done!Smile
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Points: 15585 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 21 2006 at 05:23
Mike, I think if you edit your second post instead, it should remains sticky. I've deleted my previous post.
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Bugs:
  • PM feature disabled (you must click the username , then the PM link is there, Shocked , edit by Max)
  • Search does not find all posts by users (when searching for username)
  • Post editor does not work with Internet Explorer 7 Beta (garbles post html)
  • Images in signatures may be garbled when editing your profile and the signature is close to 200 characters. Don't know why, but somehow the software is adding additional properties to the images (e.g. border="0") and so the sig becomes longer than the max. number of characters.
    Suggestion: Allow more than 200 ... maybe 300. (not sure where to change that Mike ?)
  • RSS-Feed: CSS class div.BBquote needs to be formatted with border and background-color. My suggestion: div.BBquote { border: 1px solid #ddd; background-color: #f0f0f0; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 5px; }Smile  FIXED

Features that are missing:

  • Bullet lists and other buttons are not enabled in the Quick Reply (should be)
  • Forum Jump dropdown seems to be broken FIXED
  • People miss the anchor link to the top of the page
  • Quick Reply: Inputs are missing (e.g. bullet list, image)
The QUICK REPLY is there to QUICK REPLY so , no ENHENCED FEATURE is to be included in that box ?!

  • Maybe with the new forum software the email notification feature can be enabled again?
  • addition to the above request: The "report" button would also be useful. Performance has been much improved, so maybe it's possible to enable it again.


    WHERE IS THE REPORT BUTTON , dam it ... About the EMAIL NOTIFY , i will test it later, thanks to remind me

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(blue = edit by M@X)


Edited by M@X - April 22 2006 at 11:27
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Points: 21806 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 21 2006 at 03:23
Max asked for comments about the new forum software to be sent to him via email ... let's just collect them in this thread and I'll send him a link to this thread, so he can easily see what's happening. Just post your comments, and I'll edit them into the following list, + any comments by Max.Smile


Edited by MikeEnRegalia - April 21 2006 at 05:29
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