New Site: Any problems? Post here!

Postby **CrazyEddie** » Sat Jan 15, 2005 11:21

If you have any problems with the new site, please post in this thread. Thanks.

CE.

Emmeran · Postby **Emmeran** » Sat Jan 15, 2005 13:49

I dislike the new forum. Everythings so big, that you have less space for you text and I miss the "search for new posts" link you had in the old forum.

Postby **CrazyEddie** » Sat Jan 15, 2005 14:10

Thanks for the feedback.

With regards to space, would it be better if we lost the panels on the right when the forums are being browsed (similar to what happened at the old site)?

I'll look into adding a feature to allow you to see new posts.

Emmeran · Postby **Emmeran** » Sat Jan 15, 2005 15:29

I think that would improve it.
Maybe there is a plugin for this forum which allows its members to change the style of the forum.

If that would be avaiable, I would personaly remove the panels at the right side, the notifications box at the bottom, I would change the settings to show me automatically flat threads and no tree threads, etc.

And one other thing I critisice is, that the forum has no autologin (or did I just fail to find the button?) I just found: store my name for 1 year, but I had to login again after closing the browser.

fog · Postby **fog** » Sat Jan 15, 2005 15:31

Also, the "mark all threads read" was invaluable to me. And while we are at it, with the new status icons it is a little bit less easy to tell which threads are new.

fog

Postby **CrazyEddie** » Sat Jan 15, 2005 16:17

I'll update the icons; that's an easy fix. Anyone want to contribute a new set?

Auto-login is possible, though it's a security hole. One reason for switching CMS in the first place was to get a little more security.

Mark as read links: I'll try to add this at some stage.

Themes affect the whole site not just the forums. I'll consider enabling this.

It's a shame that links in these forums to old forum content can't be maintained, though think yourself lucky that I took the trouble to migrate the data over at all

Moving to a new domain is always going to break a few links here and there, I do intend to reactivate the old site as "read-only" so, all these links will point to something.

It seems that we're in for an interesting transition period :lol:

CE.

Slicky · Postby **Slicky** » Mon Jan 17, 2005 06:52

Maybe it is just me but if I do a search and then hit the back arrow to see more results after looking at one I get an unable to display page.

Slicky · Postby **Slicky** » Mon Jan 17, 2005 07:01

I can't change my email address in my profile. :hammer:

Postby **CrazyEddie** » Mon Jan 17, 2005 09:53

Thanks for the feedback.

I've not noticed anyhing odd about the search

I'll have a play around later.

I'll modify the settings to allow you to change your profile email address.

I have a few things to play around with site-wise, so you'll likely see some changes and new (requested) features over the coming weeks.

CE.

Postby **CrazyEddie** » Mon Jan 17, 2005 10:01

One request if possible have the forums take the full screen and lose the link panel on the left.

This is possible, though how would you easily navigate to elsewhere on the site without having to use the back-button possibly multiple times?

CE.

NSXEagle · Postby **NSXEagle** » Mon Jan 17, 2005 16:56

First thing I have to say: The new site is really cool!

But I have a serious problem with the new forum: When I read a topic from the old forum, I can't browse between its different pages when it has more than 10 replies!

EDIT:
Ok, I solved my problem... Embarassing... :oops:

Just had to change the view mode to "flat".

stodge · Postby **stodge** » Tue Jan 18, 2005 01:48

The Linux download just takes me back to the main site. I haven't tried the ZIP download yet though.

Postby **CrazyEddie** » Tue Jan 18, 2005 10:07

Thanks for the report; I have now fixed this

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