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 Post subject: Re: Upgrade to phpBB3
PostPosted: Sun Jan 06, 2008 3:28 am 
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Its already been stated quite a few times, but I thought I'd put my two cents in.

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 Post subject: Re: Upgrade to phpBB3
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So far, the one thing I don't like is the lack of any sort of button to go back to the wiki. That was very useful...

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 Post subject: Re: Upgrade to phpBB3
PostPosted: Sun Jan 06, 2008 3:29 am 
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Also, user titles are pretty easy to do. I remember how easy it was on SI.

All the SI user titles were given by mods and admins. It would be the same here. We would have to go into your profile, create an entirely new user title, and give it to you. So I doubt we'll want to go to all that trouble.


Huh, I remember being able to change it at my own will (and not on that one awesome day were we were all presidents). Maybe I'm getting senile?

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 Post subject: Re: Upgrade to phpBB3
PostPosted: Sun Jan 06, 2008 3:29 am 
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Nope. You could change your name at will but a mod had to change the title if you wanted.

What's with the sudden demand for user titles? I don't get it, it was never brought up before...

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 Post subject: Re: Upgrade to phpBB3
PostPosted: Sun Jan 06, 2008 3:31 am 
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Nope. You could change your name at will but a mod had to change the title if you wanted.

What's with the sudden demand for user titles? I don't get it, it was never brought up before...

Yeah it was, and it was shot down because of PHPBB2. Now we're in the Era of PHPBB3 and we want User titles.

Also, Chocolate milk must squirt out of my monitor and into my mouth whenever I go into a thread.

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 Post subject: Re: Upgrade to phpBB3
PostPosted: Sun Jan 06, 2008 3:51 am 
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Forum just die for anybody else?

possible tech problem?

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 Post subject: Re: Upgrade to phpBB3
PostPosted: Sun Jan 06, 2008 3:51 am 
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What was all that 404 nonsense about?

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 Post subject: Re: Upgrade to phpBB3
PostPosted: Sun Jan 06, 2008 3:52 am 
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What's with the sudden demand for user titles? I don't get it, it was never brought up before...

Now that phpBB3 distinguishes mods and admins by color already without title, people figured titles could get more widespread. I forgot about the part where they have to be manually set in the ACP tho. So unless there's a mod to install, it's probably a no-go for widespread use. But maybe they could be extended out to exceptional users now.

Technical issue: Speaking of titles, looks like the side box width is different now so my title word-wraps. Dunno if that's true for anyone else. If so, maybe widening the box a couple pixels would be good. If not, maybe I should think of a new title. :P EDIT: looks like I'm the only one actually. Hm.

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 Post subject: Re: Upgrade to phpBB3
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I swore that it was possible to enable custom user titles for all users. If not, then phpBB is really weird.

Some more things (I'll add them to my previous ones):
  • Like I previously said, this Forum looks really slick now. It's really easy to get used to.
  • Was it true that the previous version of the Forum had a 100,000 character-limit? If so, why did it drop down to 60,000? That may impact the amount of information I can hold within the Disk-tionary if it did drop.
  • Are there any plans to add new features, like custom Titles for users? Now that we can tell who the admins and mods are by the color of their names within posts, it seems like having titles wouldn't make it too hard to distinguish between admins, mods, and regular users.
  • Are any emoticons going to be added/changed around? The Stinkoman one under "View More Smilies" would fit perfectly with the other members of the Homestar cast.
  • Is anything else planning on being changed? For instance, will there be any new MODs (modifications; a user got confused on this)?
  • There still needs to be a Wiki link at the very top, but I'm sure you guys have that under control.
  • The search function isn't working for me for some reason. You might want to look into that (it tells me to specify words to search for, despite putting in proper words).
  • As previously mentioned, the old posts with the Strikethrough MOD do not function properly.
  • Quotes should definitely go to the top of posts; it's not as easy to mix up the post you're quoting that way.

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 Post subject: Re: Upgrade to phpBB3
PostPosted: Sun Jan 06, 2008 3:53 am 
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Forum just die for anybody else?

possible tech problem?

Did for me as well. Whats up with that?

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It actually goes to last read post when you click on it!! Yes!

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 Post subject: Re: Upgrade to phpBB3
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I like it. It looks great.

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 Post subject: Re: Upgrade to phpBB3
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What was all that 404 nonsense about?


So I'm not insane!

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 Post subject: Re: Upgrade to phpBB3
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What was all that 404 nonsense about?

I applied to join the Admin group, and Ramrod had no idea what to do, so he hit the "Screw everything up" button on his keyboard and we died for a minute. Keanu Reeves showed up at some point.

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 Post subject: Re: Upgrade to phpBB3
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The Noid wrote:
iKipapa wrote:
What was all that 404 nonsense about?


So I'm not insane!

:-|
Sure, kid.

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 Post subject: Re: Upgrade to phpBB3
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COLA shouldn't even have to apply to the admin group...

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 Post subject: Re: Upgrade to phpBB3
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I also like how it tells you the time you joined at under your Join Date. That is pretty cool.

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 Post subject: Re: Upgrade to phpBB3
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Can the yellow piece of paper on new posts go to the left side of posts? If not, no big deal, just a minor annoyance that I noticed.


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 Post subject: Re: Upgrade to phpBB3
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I also like how it tells you the time you joined at under your Join Date. That is pretty cool.

...I didn't even notice that. Pretty freaking cool indeed.

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 Post subject: Re: Upgrade to phpBB3
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I also like how it tells you the time you joined at under your Join Date. That is pretty cool.


What was I doing up at 5:30 in the morning on a Sunday?

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 Post subject: Re: Upgrade to phpBB3
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2:14. Sounds about normal internet time for me.

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 Post subject: Re: Upgrade to phpBB3
PostPosted: Sun Jan 06, 2008 4:03 am 
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I also like how it tells you the time you joined at under your Join Date. That is pretty cool.

Hhaah! I remember so clearly the day I joined now. I was at the Library with Droideka, we had just finished volunteering at the local Performing Arts center. We usually go to the computers instead of the books, not sure why. Good times...good times...

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 Post subject: Re: Upgrade to phpBB3
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Dice? I don't know. I've seen it on other forums. I guess it would only be used in forum games.

User titles. Please.

New smilies. Sure.

Anti-moron feature. If possible, make it so it doesn't show a topic review at the top. If one really needs to see new posts, they can look at the bottom one.

Text color. This doesn't annoy me much, but you might want to bring back the drop-down color menu. Also,
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colour


That's all I can whip up right now.

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 Post subject: Re: Upgrade to phpBB3
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Yeah, for some reason the only language is British English...

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 Post subject: Re: Upgrade to phpBB3
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Yeah, for some reason the only language is British English...

And I like it that way. Keep it that way. It's my favourite.
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 Post subject: Re: Upgrade to phpBB3
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Anti-moron feature. If possible, make it so it doesn't show a topic review at the top. If one really needs to see new posts, they can look at the bottom one.

Text color. This doesn't annoy me much, but you might want to bring back the drop-down color menu.

These two things would be pretty cool, as well. The color drop-down menu seemed to make the colors brighter than they currently are. Why does phpBB 3 have such dull colors?

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 Post subject: Re: Upgrade to phpBB3
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If we move everything else to the left, then we have PHPBB2 with a bunch of user mods installed.

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 Post subject: Re: Upgrade to phpBB3
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Ah crud, I can't find anything for some reason...

It's so great my eyes hurt! No, not really, but this is cool, but enough so I'll have to get used to it all. Also, strikethrough's back up.

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 Post subject: Re: Upgrade to phpBB3
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DS_Kid wrote:
  • There still needs to be a Wiki link at the very top, but I'm sure you guys have that under control.
  • The search function isn't working for me for some reason. You might want to look into that (it tells me to specify words to search for, despite putting in proper words).
  • As previously mentioned, the old posts with the Strikethrough MOD do not function properly.

  • Wiki link will be added soon. There are a few things on the to-do list that we didn't feel necessitated keeping the forum closed.
  • The search function will take hours and hours to rebuild (when I ran tests, eight hours seemed like a likely figure). I'll have it rebuild the search list overnight soon.
  • Strikethrough seems to be working fine.


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 Post subject: Re: Upgrade to phpBB3
PostPosted: Sun Jan 06, 2008 4:17 am 
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 Post subject: Re: Upgrade to phpBB3
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IDC,

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This is all very painful to watchBRAINS


As of now, old ones don't work.

edit; huh, nevermind. Fixed.

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