AGS Website Redesign

[Snarky]

I just experienced a problem. I can't post when I'm on a VPN. It gives me a CleanTalk error that I didn't save, but said something about being on a suspicious network. Given that I'm logged in to my account, this seems a bit strict.

(Now I'm getting a different one: " CleanTalk: *** Forbidden. Sender blacklisted. *** ")

Of things still to fix, I'm looking forward to new code formatting; the current "huge white text on a wooden background" is not quite the thing.

I've changed this to another theme.  I chose the brown one mainly because it wasn't white or black, which most of the other ones are; the plugin sillily applies the same PrismJS theme regardless of which forums theme you use.

Thanks, but is it possible to change it so the font size is normal?

Code: ags

  // Example
  Display("This text is crazy big!");

(Also, the code display seems bugged generally. The background doesn't seem to render consistently.)

[AGA]

I'll look into the CleanTalk errors.  It would be a great help if you could please give me as much detail as possible if you see if happen again.  URL, timestamp, post content etc etc.

I dunno about the failed rendering, but I've decreased the code font size. This is the closest to the normal post text size the plugin will allow, the next-smallest is unreadably tiny.  The CSS is delivered by a CDN, so quite awkward to update.

[Cassiebsg]

Thanks for adding the link: 

I'm just wondering, why the header now looks like this:



    

PS: I've also notice that the ">>" symbol that was next to the last poster on a thread, is gone.
I do realize that I can click on the "Last post" link, and go to the very last post in the thread... but the ">>" used to take me to the last one read (? unless I'm remembering wrong)... I miss it, since I used it all the time.

[AGA]

I'm just wondering, why the header now looks like this:

Fixed!

PS: I've also notice that the ">>" symbol that was next to the last poster on a thread, is gone.
I do realize that I can click on the "Last post" link, and go to the very last post in the thread... but the ">>" used to take me to the last one read (? unless I'm remembering wrong)... I miss it, since I used it all the time.

The post header on the landing page (e.g. "Re: AGS Website Redesign"), or last post time on topic listing page (e.g. "Today at 17:14:27") will take you to the most recent *unread* post in a thread.  If you've already read all the posts in a thread it will of course take you to the last (most recently posted) post.

[Cassiebsg]

I just tested it, and it doesn't. It just takes me to the last post... meaning I need to scroll up to find the last msg I read. (I tested it both in topics I usually read as well as in topics that are completely new for me but already have some replies). In both cases, it took me to the very last post of the thread.

[LimpingFish]

After so many years with the old design, it took a few minutes for my eyes (and brain!) to adjust to the new one. Everything seems to be working, though I haven't tried to do anything I wouldn't normally do in my day-to-day usage. Overall, I'm really happy with how it looks.

Thanks to AGA, tampie85, and everyone involved it getting us to this point. As a community, the forums are so important to us, and now might be a good time to remember that you (yes, you!) can contribute to the costs of keeping the forums up and running by clicking on the donate button at the top of the page (the hand/heart icon), should you have the means to do so.

No pressure, just something to think about.

[Snarky]

Unicode characters in old posts are corrupted again. See for example this post, where an m-dash and the ø in Høyem are mangled.

[Sinitrena]

First of all, congratulations on the successful migration of the forums!

I have a couple minor things:

- I love the dark theme, but is the description correct:

The default theme from Simple Machines.

Author: The Simple Machines Team

I only had a few glances at this thread from time to time, but I thought someone here designed it?

- Does the [ imgzoom ] code no longer work? Here it is in an old post:
https://www.adventuregamestudio.co.uk/forums/competitions-activities/background-blitz-dragons!-results/msg636634395/#msg636634395

- On the mobile version, avatars are not visible, while signatures are. I'd prefer it the other way around, if possible. But maybe I'm alone with this opinion, but avatars really help to quickly identify who is posting (while signatures are nice, but hardly necessary.)

[Nahuel]

There's a few things with the text on I Can Help With: that after ' it's adding #codes 

Okay found some more examples about that issue with single quotes, but nothing to worry that much
https://www.adventuregamestudio.co.uk/forums/site-forum-reports/forum-dark-theme/msg636624228/#msg636624228

[Snarky]

@Nahuel, I'm pretty sure that's an instance of the problem I pointed out with Unicode characters being corrupted. Looks like arj0n used curly-quotes in parts of that message.

[Snarky]

Unicode characters in old posts are corrupted again. See for example this post, where an m-dash and the ø in Høyem are mangled.

This also appears to affect member profiles, e.g. https://www.adventuregamestudio.co.uk/forums/profile/Hector%20Bometon/

[AGA]

Yeah, unfortunately the SMF upgrade scripts seem to have mangled the Unicode, as happens so often.  I'll need to hunt them down and fix them.

[cat]

I got a pop-up that I have received a new private message and if I want to show it in a new window but no button to confirm. I could just close the message box.

And I got a PM by user TheTMD that they cannot post in the forum because they always get the error:
CleanTalk: *** Forbidden. Username seems to be spammer. ***


btw, I'm missing a link back to the AGS home page. I usually join the forums directly via bookmark and only navigate to the main page from there but now both, the logo and the home button, lead just to the board overview. I think the logo should link the AGS page instead.

[eri0o]

@AGA thanks for all the fixes!

I have a feeling I would like to share to get others input. The board title bars in blue, I feel their contrast is too great. The blue is too dark in the light theme and too light in the dark theme. I find them a bit distracting as is, would it be possible to tone the bars contrast down a bit?

[heltenjon]

The spoiler tag

Spoiler

does not work anymore.

[close]

We can use

Spoiler

instead, but it messes up a lot of old posts, where the spoilers are now in plain view.

Edit: Thanks, AGA!

[close]

[Snarky]

Couple of more things I've noticed...

The new forum requires embedded YouTube player links to be just the video ID inside of a [ youtube ] tag. This is (a) pretty inconvenient to input, (b) a baffling mystery to casual forum members, and (c) breaks old posts. I recall that the old forums at one point worked this way too, but it was changed. Is it possible to reapply the tweak?

Also, the [ imgzoom ] tag not only does not work, but it prevents other images from showing up too:

[imgzoom]https://i.imgur.com/ZctiD.jpg[/imgzoom]


(There's an imgzoom and an img embedded above)

[eri0o]

@Snarky curiously looking the image you posted using the Browser Developer Tools, the reason they don't appears is their URLs are wrong. So there's something weird with the thing parsing the bbcode.

Code: html

<a data-src="//oom%5Dhttps://i.imgur.com/ZctiD.jpg%5B/imgzoom%5D%5Bimg%5Dhttps://i.imgur.com/ZctiD.jpg" data-fancybox="topic" data-caption="">
  <img src="//oom%5Dhttps://i.imgur.com/ZctiD.jpg%5B/imgzoom%5D%5Bimg%5Dhttps://i.imgur.com/ZctiD.jpg" alt="" class="bbc_img" loading="lazy">
</a>

[InfernalGrape]

Both "default" and "light" themes are too bright and aggressive for my eyes, while "dark theme" is too dark for my tastes.

Older forum look was more pleasing, imho.

[AGA]

Spoiler tag is fixed.  I'll look at the other things when I can find the time!

[InfernalGrape]

Suggestion: make "common" text in posts less tiny.

Maybe it's me having troubles with "dark grey" text insead of "black". Or maybe this font is really "tiny".