Adventure Game Studio

Ok, so I've upgraded the forum to the latest version of SMF (the successor to YabbSE, which we were using previously). However, this has meant that previous hacks I'd put into the forum have been lost.

I've put the registration quiz back, but there is bound to be more that I've forgotten about, so feel free to post here to report any missing features or things that aren't working any more.

Incidentally, the "Offer Your Services" feature is now available (go to your profile, in the "Forum Profile Information" section).

So, things to do:
DONE "transferred from ezboard" in date registered
DONE bmp I'm With Stupid thing
DONE locked threads go to bottom in C&A forum
DONE the "automatically edited for txt-spelling" footer
DONE fix underline tags not to be broken by the txt-filter
DONE change Offer Your Services images to use "title" rather than "alt"
DONE hover over username should show actual user name
DONE spoiler tags
DONE remove post count
DONE "BBCode and Smileys" link in the Post screen

please disable the post-count next to the username, to prevent users from repeating something that has been said before only for getting a higher post count.
i liked the way it was before (only shown when posts < 11).

edit 1: and disable the gender thingy, this are no flirt-forums. ;)

edit 2: the description of the "offer your services"-thingy fon't show up, at least not when hovering the image.

edit 3: it doesn't show up, but i'm using firefox. and it's correctly declared as alternate text.. ???
and please bring the old new smilies back. these antialiased don't look that great.

u r gr8 ne1. I wonder if the txt-filter is still here. Whee, looks like it is.

edit: (but it doesn't add that "edited txt-style spelling", it seems)
edit2: Neither does it seem to say "post last edited at ..."
edit3: Maybe this only applies to your own posts
edit4: ah, screw it
edit5: Esseb's edit3 seems to make sense.

Spoiler

santa doesn't exist

[close]

Edit: If you get around to implementing the hide thing again, could you make it similar to the quote only with the colour of the text changed as well?

Quotesanta doesn't exist

Edit2: Ugh, better change the quote bg colour to white again as well.

Edit3: Ghormak: I think it only does that if a certain amount of time has passed since between you first posted the post and edited.

Edit4: It would make more sense if I edited it and fixed the grammar.

Ooh, new smileys! There seems to be diffenrent fonts and text sizes that weren't here earlier and they catch my eye. But also some nice things, like upcoming birthdays.

EDIT: Also some topic icons are changed, I liked old smileys and icons better.

I do like the new Icon for MSN.. The old one was icky.

Whats with the additional options thing?

I prefered when you stayed in the topic after having replied, but it's no big deal.

Also, get rid of the post count, it's really superfluous.
Dunno if you remembered the bmp restriction, thought I should just remind you.

Use the title tag for the thingies below Scuthbert's avatar rather than alt. They only show up in IE and other dodgy browsers now.

Edit: You can turn that back on in your profile Andail.

oooh quick reply \o/

NO! The font is too big, the

Quotelooks ugly!

Aaa!

Cool smileys though....

Bluecup graphics on the sides of posts.

I also dislike the postcount and "quote" display colors.

The recent messages page has wrong font/font colour in title. I can't remember what they were, but they're wrong now.

Post by Andail

QuoteI prefered when you stayed in the topic after having replied, but it's no big deal.

Go to "Look and Layout Preferences" in your profile and there's a check-box for "Return to topics after posting by default".


Get rid of the little icons to the left of the Subject (e.g. this graphic (http://www.agsforums.com/yabb/Themes/classic/images/post/xx.gif)). I don't think they were there before... i can't even remember and it's only been 8 hours!!!!!!1

Quote from: TheDude on Sun 02/05/2004 15:17:39
Get rid of the little icons to the left of the Subject (e.g. this graphic (http://www.agsforums.com/yabb/Themes/classic/images/post/xx.gif)). I don't think they were there before... i can't even remember and it's only been 8 hours!!!!!!1

Quote from: shbazjinkens on Sun 02/05/2004 15:04:33
Bluecup graphics on the sides of posts.

Quote from: shbazjinkens on Sun 02/05/2004 15:21:04

Quote from: TheDude on Sun 02/05/2004 15:17:39
Get rid of the little icons to the left of the Subject(e.g. this graphic (http://www.agsforums.com/yabb/Themes/classic/images/post/xx.gif)). I don't think they were there before... i can't even remember and it's only been 8 hours!!!!!!1

Quote from: shbazjinkens on Sun 02/05/2004 15:04:33
Bluecup graphics on the sides of posts.

Unfortunately they aren't the bluecup graphics.

Bluecup = (http://www.agsforums.com/yabb/Themes/classic/images/topic/veryhot_post.gif)
"icons to the left of the Subject" = (http://www.agsforums.com/yabb/Themes/classic/images/post/xx.gif)

They look totally different to me.

EDIT - Also the "Average posts per week" in the profiles might be nice to have back. I've noticed there's already a "per day" one next to your post count. Also, the "Additional Options" tab should maybe show by default when posting a message.

I really like the new smileys, but I was hoping we'd incorporate Darth's smileys.

Will we be getting back the BBcode (or similar) hyperlink to tell us forum shortcuts/effects.

------- Test-------
[ pre]
^------take out this space

Insert
Ã,  Ã,  Ã,  Ã, your
Ã,  Ã,  Ã,  Ã,  Ã,  Ã,  Ã,  Ã, code
Ã,  Ã,  Ã,  Ã,  here
when your ready to post

[ /pre]
^------- take out this space
--------------------------------------

also not readily known, is the center command
just use
[ center]
[/ center]

----------

okay, both of those still work, and I would hope they are documented in the next edition of a BBcode list. I know the otherone was a general one, but one tailored to us would be best.

Also, will you be adding in the graphics "Attention: Overuse of Sarcasim in this post was used." or the like, to our reply areas as selections?

urgh! it's orrible!

Bring back the good ol' forums!!!

Quote from: TheDude on Sun 02/05/2004 15:23:28Unfortunately they aren't the bluecup graphics.

I'm aware. I was pointing out that you pointed out something which I had already pointed out.

Since it isn't really much of change, it's all well. It'll probably take a while to get used to completely, but again, as the changes are minimal it won't take a long time. However, I do agree that you must remove the post count ASAP, before we get some serious flooding.

Quote from: shbazjinkens on Sun 02/05/2004 16:11:25

Quote from: TheDude on Sun 02/05/2004 15:23:28Unfortunately they aren't the bluecup graphics.

I'm aware. I was pointing out that you pointed out something which I had already pointed out.

As i was saying... they are two completely different things.

One: Missing the help page about BBCode on the reply page. I tend to get stupid and forget silly tags...like was it [hide ] or [hint ]??

Two: This isn't a missing bit but, there are a lot of extra bits. I cannot imagine the kind of bandwidth this forum sucks up (long ago I think you said 4 gigs). With these extra bits I'm just wondering if that will rocket it up more...Perhaps disabling them might be a good idea. Then again, I don't know how concerned you are about bandwidth really...or how optimized the new forums are.

EDIT: How about replacing the post count with a "member since" thing?

later,
-junc

Some of the colors are darker, making it difficult to see some of the text with this monitor.

Thanks for your feedback.


TheDude: you are talking about the same thing. That icon to the left of the posts used to be a blue cup - and I've now restored it so that it still is.

juncmodule: actually, this forum is faster and more efficient than the last one, so bandwidth isn't a problem.

Now, as for the gender image, does anyone else have any opinions on it? I think it can be useful in situations where people have said "he" or "him" when they're actually talking about a woman; but then, it is a bit up-front to have it on all posts.

As for the Edit thing - the "Last edited by:" bit doesn't appear if you make the edit within 90 seconds of posting the post, AND nobody else has replied to your post in the meantime. This is to allow you to quickly correct something that you posted wrong without getting the tag appearing.

I noticed that the locked threads no longer are moved to the bottom in Competitions and Activities

Edit: Now the edit button says "modify"... confusing

and you should hurry up and remove the remove post button thing and

Quoteaddd a border to the quotes

Oh, I just noticed that at the bottom it has the key to what the topics are but the normal topic one is a folder and not a bluecup :D

Also I prefered the old smilies.. They look evil when you highlight them

EDIT: And also Edit is now Modify and we have the option to remove posts.. yey!

Also if people want to post scripts and use something like

GuiOn(8 );  (Without the space)
A weird emoticon comes up...
GuiOn(8);

Boticed that in this thread http://www.agsforums.com/yabb/index.php?topic=13616.0

Gender and posts go...everything goes except the stuff you added to our profile....(the stats)

ALL MUST GO!

I actually like the gender thing. Though it is kind of funny to be called "that DragonRose guy," it does get kind of old.  And I'm sure guys with ambiguous names (WanderLady and Highwaygal, anyone?) get kind of sick of the confusion as well.

But post count can DEFINETLY go.  Just seeing them I'm tempted to spam.

I think that this ICQ, MSN and YIM thing is unneeded. If someone wants to add one to his contact list, he can look at the profile.

The normal topic icon at the bottom of the main forum pages (not the threads) has a little folder icon isntead of the blue cup...

Who did the roger smileys? maybe the other ones can be finished? :P I don't like them.. they look all blurry  :)

Gender icons ok
Old smileys back! but the ones that SMF has, but YabbSE didn't should stay O0
Borders to quotes
Advanced Options on by default, if possible
The "New" icon from topic names and the "New posts"/"No new posts" images seem to be missing

Gotta still see the profile pages though...

Anyway, Looks teh nice

Wanderlady and Highwaygal aren't ambiguous, they have "lady" and "gal" in the names! But hey, their choice.

be sure to post script codes or other stuff in [code ] and [/code ] to preserve formatting and smilies.


blabla... code here
return (8);


Wow, great, new software! Yay, Offer your services! Hmm, I like having a delete option, but Edit sounds better than modify, heh. One thing that bugged me: hovering my mouse over a forum name, I see the number of the member and not the original name (I found it useful to hover a changed name to see the username and not the displayed name).

Also, by using title instead of alt, will t function in the same way?

Anyway, that's all I had to say, and I like the new profile options :).

P.s. The new icons look, umm, blurry? I dunno, I liked the old ones (though Darth's are best imo..).
I think the gender is somewhat useful, as Dragonrose said, but people not knowing your gender is amusing.
Wait, wanderlady is a guy? [insert odd eyes icon here] :P

Also, was there never an option to not include signature or something? Not that I use it, my signature is short for now, but just wondered if anyone ever used it.

Best feature yet: Offer your services in profile! :)

edit: can't find the delete option.. I was going to say it shouldn't be the same place as modify, as it's easy to accidentally delete, rather there should be an option like it when editing: You need to both tick a box to confirm, and then click the delete button. Elimnates possibilty for accidents IMO.

One last thing, which seemed to start as soon as the new website (not forum) was launched, is that because AGS site seems to use frames now (or maybe it's another reason), clicking a link in the forums or the site opens it with the status bar still showing the adress of the site or forum, or alternatively not at all. Does anyone else notice this?

Title shows up the text when you hover the mouse over an image. Alt text also does this on some browsers, but that's not what it's meant for. It's meant to show up assuming the image doesn't load properly.

There's still no 'link to post' feature, that'd be cool. The anchors are already in, it's just a matter of making links to them...

CJ, could you change the quote and hide colours also? They look ugly on light blue posts.

Yeah, I like the new look, but all of the images and wordings are distracting. I had problems just browsing what was said. I say disable the gender thing, or atleast move it some place else. The fast amount of new stuff is mind boggling, and gives me a head ache, but it is really a nice change.

I hate to bring this up, but maybe the blue colour scheme could be due for change? Still blue but different shades.

Quote from: Ginny on Sun 02/05/2004 20:38:36
One thing that bugged me: hovering my mouse over a forum name, I see the number of the member and not the original name (I found it useful to hover a changed name to see the username and not the displayed name).

Good point, it's hard to see who someone really is if they change their name. I'll see about fixing it.

Quote
Also, by using title instead of alt, will t function in the same way?

Should do, yep.

QuoteP.s. The new icons look, umm, blurry? I dunno, I liked the old ones (though Darth's are best imo..).

Where can I see these Darth's icons that people are talking about?

Quoteedit: can't find the delete option.. I was going to say it shouldn't be the same place as modify, as it's easy to accidentally delete, rather there should be an option like it when editing: You need to both tick a box to confirm, and then click the delete button. Elimnates possibilty for accidents IMO.

There isn't one, I've removed it now.

QuoteThere's still no 'link to post' feature, that'd be cool. The anchors are already in, it's just a matter of making links to them...

AGA, see in your post where it says "Re: Forum upgrade: missing bits" - that's a link, right click and copy shortcut and you've made a link to your post.


Esseb: care to suggest a colour? :P


Evil: but teh blue is teh bluecup!11!!11

Just another thing that bugs me. Before when you moused over someones name it would say their regestered name. I thought it was convinent for those ones who like to often change their avaitor and name.

#F5F5F5 seems to look alright if there is no border on the quotes or hides.

#C8DAED works better if you decide to add a black border.

It's not a big deal, but it used to say "transferred from EZ boards" for the date registered of...people who transferred from the EZ boards.

Quote from: Esseb on Sun 02/05/2004 23:39:32
#F5F5F5 seems to look alright if there is no border on the quotes or hides.

#C8DAED works better if you decide to add a black border.

Done and done.

You might need to press refresh to get the updated stylesheet.

Quote from: Pumaman on Sun 02/05/2004 23:57:54
Done and done.

You might need to press refresh to get the updated stylesheet.

Hooray.

Put a border around

bla bla
  Looky my
    indents
    }

([ pre] code)

EDIT: No actually don't...

Testing:

Spoiler

You shou;dn't be able to see this

[close]

( [ hide] code)

EDIT: Yay, at least that looks nice.

Its looking good. No major things that annoy me, basically what everyone else said.
One thing that wasnt in the old boards, but this being a good place to bring up, is a quick reply box at the bottom of threads. That would be very very useful. So if it possible, could that be implemented?

It is there... you'll just need to turn it on from your profile settings...

----- EDIT -----

And, I just noticed, the alt of peoples names shows the real username...

Oh wow, so it is, thanks TK. I did look at those options before, but I guess it didnt stand out...

when you post something, click post, you are taken back to the forum page instead of the thread that you posted in

Quote from: TK on Mon 03/05/2004 07:58:08And, I just noticed, the alt of peoples names shows the real username...

... inside theads, atlast for quests. If you hower Pumaman in the board, you see "View the profile of Pumaman", but doing it inside a thead you see "View profile of CJ"...

Babloyi, that can be changed in the profile too. If you click on the "Additional options..." below the textarea, you'll find a checkbox for it there too...

What is quick-moderation? (In the Profile settings page.)

Never mind, I see the four icons for moderators. I see a trash (delete), a lock, and a sticky icon. Is the bottom-right icon (a blue box branching out to three yellow boxes below it) a move command? Are there alt-texts for the button icons? I am using Safari on a Mac (at school) and it doesn't show.

(http://koti.mbnet.fi/tk-/qmod.png)

Those things...

---- EDIT ----

Oh, you found out... Yes, it is move. They have alt that tell you.

(http://koti.mbnet.fi/tk-/qmod.png)
is that what the forums are meant to look like because mine is still the normal blue???????  :-\ call me stupid if it's a choice of what the forums look like

TK's not a moderator here, so he wouldn't have those icons.... so it must be another forum (probably the one linked in his signature)

Oh ,and Babyoli... you need to look through the new preferences under your profile, becasue one of them determines if you come back to the thread after posting...!

I don't have a link to a forum in my signature... that pic's from a forum I administrate, and am the only member in. I haven't bothered to fiddle the style...

As a sidenote, I've moved Completed Game Announcements and Games In Production together into their own category, since they do really belong together and it was a bit illogical before.

This also now means that those of you who don't use AGS can collapse the Tech category  :P

One step ahead of you.

I find the new forums absolutely amazing.. Great job CJ!

I can't see any of the nice neat buttons that are shown on the BBCode and smileys reference page.  I can add smileys by clicking them, but there are no buttons, I am sad, do I need a new cookie mabye???

Since the "Hints and Tips" are game-related too, I think they belong in a "Games" category together with the CGA & GIP forums (simply renaming "Game Publicity" to "Games").

(http://www.twin-design.com/fafmb/graphics/smilies/smilies_smile.gif)
(http://www.twin-design.com/fafmb/graphics/smilies/smilies_wide.gif)
(http://www.twin-design.com/fafmb/graphics/smilies/smilies_grin.gif)
(http://w1.501.telia.com/~u50109765/RTFM.gif)
(http://www.twin-design.com/fafmb/graphics/smilies/smilies_cry.gif)
(http://www.twin-design.com/fafmb/graphics/smilies/smilies_angry.gif)
(http://www.twin-design.com/fafmb/graphics/smilies/smilies_wink.gif)
(http://www.twin-design.com/fafmb/graphics/smilies/smilies_question.gif)

I think it's better to have all these icons ags-related (well in other words, all drawn as roger for lazy ones) than those mysterious blue squares.

I haven 't read a damn thing that's been posted, but one little tidbit I noticed...

When you search a forum member alphabetically, if you click on, say, "F", you get one half "E"s and one half "F"s.

That's because it just makes the list sorted by user names (which is the default when you click on member lists) and finds the first page with usernames starting with that alphabets, ie, it's not separating the pages according to different starting letter, and I think that's not necessary.

I think what is more needed, is to add a "#" link before "A", so to jump to usernames starting with nonalphabets (clicking page "1" does the same thing, BUT only if the list is currently set to be sorted according to usernames).

CJ, I keep trying to change my avatar, but it doesn't seem to change. On the profile page I'll click "Save changes" and it brings the same page up but without the avatar URL bit this time.

Why won't it let me change avatar?  :-\

Quote from: m0ds on Tue 04/05/2004 15:18:29
CJ, I keep trying to change my avatar, but it doesn't seem to change. On the profile page I'll click "Save changes" and it brings the same page up but without the avatar URL bit this time.

Why won't it let me change avatar?Ã,  :-\

You aren't forgetting to type in your password are you?

He probably is.. That silly m0dsh

There's no place to type the password in that page... or is it this "Personal Text:" box..? Now I know why nothing is working...

Quote from: Akumayo on Tue 04/05/2004 00:08:21
I can't see any of the nice neat buttons that are shown on the BBCode and smileys reference page.Ã,  I can add smileys by clicking them, but there are no buttons, I am sad, do I need a new cookie mabye???

That's just a generic SMF help page; the buttons are disabled here to conserve bandwidth.

QuoteSince the "Hints and Tips" are game-related too, I think they belong in a "Games" category together with the CGA & GIP forums (simply renaming "Game Publicity" to "Games"). 

Good idea, I'll do that.

QuoteCJ, I keep trying to change my avatar, but it doesn't seem to change. On the profile page I'll click "Save changes" and it brings the same page up but without the avatar URL bit this time.

Strange, has anyone else had this?

Quote

Quote
CJ, I keep trying to change my avatar, but it doesn't seem to change. On the profile page I'll click "Save changes" and it brings the same page up but without the avatar URL bit this time.

Strange, has anyone else had this?.

This happened to me when i tried to set an avatar that was bigger than 60x60

Yeah, but it seems people now have avators larger then 60x60.

I am getting some weird reactions when I try to change text sizes. Am I the only one?

Cj, this new forums allows people to post bitmaps! Dammit! I want the 'I'm with stupid' replacement back!

I have dial up and it sucks when people post bitmaps, cause they load hella slow!

It always annoys me when people post bitmaps when , if they would have bothered to pay close attention to the graphics on other people's sites , they'd probably finally "get it" by seeing that most people use .jpg or .gif ...sometimes there are are .png but the most accepted file extensions for graphics are .jpg and .gif  , even when I was crappy at making sites ( yes..there once was a time when I didn't put up copyright info about pics and such. ) , I knew that it's not ok to put bitmaps up .

"Do you honestly think that makes any difference at all?"
Well , I was just stating that part to show that I didn't know back then that I should put up copyrights.
To a certain extent , yes , it does make a difference.
I didn't put copyrights about my stuff and I didn't put copyrights about others stuff , unfortunately there's alot of stupid people out there who assume that anything without copyright blurbs are public domain and therefore free to use for anything , because of my earlier stupidity about copyrights not only did I get in trouble a bit for doing stuff with other's graphics and not crediting people , but somebody stole a poem from me and when I emailed them about it they were like "well you should've made it clear that it belonged to you then!" . *sighs* Another unfortunate thing are the people that _do_ know about copyrights but choose to ignore them and stuff , like the way I used to be back when I was still learning things about the internet. 
So , yeah , and I had to learn the hard way.

Quote from: Queen Kara on Thu 06/05/2004 08:04:47
when I didn't put up copyright info about pics and such.

Do you honestly think that makes any difference at all?

PNG's are a superior format for digital art, as it is a lossless format with similar compression levels. JPG's may be more accepted but the distortions can be terrible. I think GIF files weigh in heavier than both others, so I don't use them for anything but animations.

I can't change any of my profile settings. When I click the profile button my profile comes up. Then when I click any of the modify buttons on the left, I am told that "The user does not exist". Even when I try just looking at the profile of others, I get the message that the user does not exist

Are we going to have rotating banners on the boards?

Just something silly, when, for instance, im leaving the critics lounge, and click on communnity in the tier part, it brings me to just the forums page, starting at the top, but i would prefer to have it bring me to the appropriate subforum, starting at community in this case.
I hope you understand.

One more bug: you can link to bmp files with [img].

Quote from: Pirate Jack on Thu 06/05/2004 07:23:25
Cj, this new forums allows people to post bitmaps! Dammit! I want the 'I'm with stupid' replacement back!

I have dial up and it sucks when people post bitmaps, cause they load hella slow!

Way to go Vel.

ACTUALLY, evil, I have cable, but it sucks people to post bitmaps, for in 99% of the cases they suck and are made in paint.

Hooray for diplomacy! \o/  ;D

Haven't been here for a week or something... but I have to say, cool improvements! I like it, that you see the actual username as tooltiptext!

Great Job!

Right, the BMP filter should now be back in action, let me just test:

(http://www.agsforums.com/notreallythere.bmp)

Oh yes I say, goody hooray!
That does rhyme, oh no the crime!
It is but a habit, this habit of mine!

I remember when I was still a friggin' n00bie n00b to file extensions...I posted a 30meg bmp on my site, expecting people to view it and not realising how just friggin' massive it was...

Right, everything is now back in to the best of my knowledge. If there is anything still missing, please let me know.

Well, I was going to request more signature space, since it seemed to me that last time I didn't have enough to be able to later put in a small banner for a game and a link to my website. But now there's plenty of space, though a little moe wouldn't hurt (I'm talking about number of characters allowed of course).

A small glitch I noticed when receiving messges was that even though I only got one PM, the popup message asks me more than once to open it in a new window. However it's not bothering me anyway, as I can always turn it off if I want, i just like the popup notification. :)

I really love the Quick reply thing, i should use it more.

I've come across the signature character limit too... adding like four links could become a pain if you have long urls to them...

The quick reply thing indeed is execllent :)

The average posts per week is not there!

Quote from: Zor© on Tue 11/05/2004 06:14:01

The average posts per week is not there!

just multiply the daily one by 7

Heh, you get a speical reward when your post count reaches 1337!

Wow...! I missed it, as I passed leet on the old board... :/

 Another thing currently bugging me:

On the un-updated board, when you view a user's profile, the url gives the username:

http://www.agsforums.com/yabb/index.php?action=profile;you=zor

Like so.

Now, it gives the number:

http://www.agsforums.com/yabb/index.php?action=profile;you=1785

The old version was useful since you didn't have to browse the forums looking for a person's name to click to view their profile. You just clicked your own profile, and subsitiuted your name for their name.

Another thing: http://www.agsforums.com/images/
Contains all the images being hosted on agsforums.com!!

EDIT: There! Look at those url's! Forums subsitiuted u for you!

I have an error, I clicked "Adventure Game Studio" on my favourites but got taken to Google!!!!111

PS, I'll try that avatar thing again.

Quote from: Zor© on Tue 11/05/2004 17:06:48
Another thing currently bugging me:

On the un-updated board, when you view a user's profile, the url gives the username:

http://www.agsforums.com/yabb/index.php?action=profile;u=zor

Like so.

You have to use this syntax instead:
http://www.agsforums.com/yabb/index.php?action=viewprofile;user=Zor

QuoteAnother thing: http://www.agsforums.com/images/
Contains all the images being hosted on agsforums.com!!

Yeah, I'm aware of that. They're all publically linked images anyway, so it's not something I'm worried about.

I don't know how to explain it, but ill just post the screencap i took of it.

(http://www.2dadventure.com/ags/whatthe.JPG)


EDIT: to shrink image to stop horizontal scrolling

Yes, I've noticed decreasing number of posts too. There was 254 posts in "guess who" thread, then 257, and then 255 again. Strange...  :-\

read the Missing Dollars thread, last post, bing bing bing

That's bizarre. If you delete a post from a thread, it should decrease the number of posts by one - but a thread should never be able to have "-4" replies - it just doesn't make sense. I'll look into it.

There's a bug in the Quick Moderation feature that causes this when you delete posts. Moderators, could you please delete posts using the "Remove" link rather than the quick-moderation checkboxes for now, until the problem is resolved.

...what quick moderation buttons...?

(http://koti.mbnet.fi/tk-/qmod.png)

The other SMF style in that pic...

I must have them turned off in my profile, since all I see is the good-old text moderation links...

Yea, I'm not using quick moderation either, I selected all the posts i wanted to delete and then hit delete selection

Err, eric ... that is quick moderation  :P

oh i see, i thought i turned off quick mod but apparently i set it to only showing text and no the little buttons

Sorry to bring this thread up again, but...
In the forum page, if you hover over someones name, it shows their current name, not their original name like inside one of the topics. Also in the big main forum page, if you hover over a persons name, you get nothing.

CJ,

Perhaps it is me alone, but the Competitions forum is giving me an error of sorts.
Page 12 has the info from page 1, and page 10 the info from page 5, or what not, and so forth.

i dont know if this has been mentioned, but i have some troubles with the PMs, spec. with the outbox.
Any1 else has something like that?

QuoteIn the forum page, if you hover over someones name, it shows their current name, not their original name like inside one of the topics.

Thanks, fixed.

QuoteAlso in the big main forum page, if you hover over a persons name, you get nothing.

This is a feature of the forum software, it's not something I've really got the inclination to add in.

QuotePerhaps it is me alone, but the Competitions forum is giving me an error of sorts.
Page 12 has the info from page 1, and page 10 the info from page 5, or what not, and so forth.

Hehe, that is wierd. Should be fixed now.

Quotei dont know if this has been mentioned, but i have some troubles with the PMs, spec. with the outbox.

More specifically, your problem is what?

My outbox isn't showing the last few PMs I sent.Ã,  In fact, none since the end of April.

Wanderlady Czar, is that what's happening with you too?

Darth, could it be because the "Save a copy in my outbox" option was disabled during the forum upgrade?
Don't remember exactly, but I think I had to reactivate the option in my profile settings.

Quote from: strazer on Thu 03/06/2004 00:04:16Darth, could it be because the "Save a copy in my outbox" option was disabled during the forum upgrade?

That was it!Ã,  Thanks.Ã,  I should have thought it was something like that ... d'oh!!

Yeah, that option is off by default for some reason. Anyway, that should fix outgoing PM's not being saved.

Another thing. I'm not sure if this is that imortant or can be changed, but I'll mention it anyway.
If you make an edit to your post and then change your name, it still has your old name as the person who edited the post.

I noticed that too, but it's an old problem got carried over before the update already.
I think it's just that the feature wasn't implemented in the forum software (yet).

Sorry to dig this up, but I just see something that may be a bug:
http://www.agsforums.com/yabb/index.php?topic=14886.0

In the initial post the poster posted several BMPs alongside with some description texts, the result was that I can only see one that "I'm stupid" pic and one link created in it (but you can see them if you reply to it, also, seems that when replying you can still see the BMPs, not that "stupid" substitute) so you can only click on one of the links.

(hope the post won't be fixed before CJ read this)

Hmm, odd - the post looks fine to me, it must've been edited to jpg's.

However, I guess it's not too important - seeing the I'm With Stupid logo should persuade people to change their bmp's (as has worked in this case).

I miss the old searching of YABB which presented complete posts as the results. This one just returns partial quotes of the posts with the search terms in it which is just annoying.

Not that it's in any way easy to fix, nor do I expect you to, I just wanted to gripe.

Esseb, have you tried to check "Show results as messages"?
I agree that should be checked by default.

Well, that was a fast fix. Thanks Strazer.

I didn't want to dig this up, but but but...

http://www.agsforums.com/yabb/index.php?topic=15095.msg185488#msg185488


/me HATES TXT style correcting!1!

Heh oops, thanks for pointing that out. Should be fixed now:
palette.r = 10;

Anyway, the forum has just been upgraded to SMF 1.0 RC1. If you notice that anything has dropped off or isn't working properly, do let me know.

the top thingy is now transparent.

 Hey, hX, you have X messages, 0 are new.
10 Aug 2004, 22:25

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Yes, the top thingy looks weird. Also, the links on the top and bottom of thread (AGS Forums | General | General Discussion etc. etc.) get underlined when you move a cursor over it, and it looks bad in my opinion. I also noticed that those links in posts (Reply, Modify) seem to have smaller font than earlier.

Yes:

(http://www.agagames.com/yes.png)

Not like that here.. Opera or IE

Ah got it, for some reason the upgrade started labelling the page as XHTML compliant when it blatantly isn't, which seemed to be causing the problems.

I hope it's ok now.

Quote from: Petteri on Tue 10/08/2004 21:30:50
Yes, the top thingy looks weird. Also, the links on the top and bottom of thread (AGS Forums | General | General Discussion etc. etc.) get underlined when you move a cursor over it, and it looks bad in my opinion. I also noticed that those links in posts (Reply, Modify) seem to have smaller font than earlier.

It used to be like that before the move to SMF 1.0 as well and it was (and is again now) really annoying. Well, the underlining I couldlive with, it is the way all the text shifts to the left when you move over each of them that is wonky. Oddly enough, it works perfectly in here in the reply page. CJ, have you jibbled with the settings as well as upgrading the forum?

Edit: The reason it worked in the reply page was because you'd fixed the XHTML problem meanwhile. It works splendidly now. Carry on.

The text doesn't move around for me when I mouse over the links. And personally I rather like the underlining :P

No, I deliberately didn't change any settings just now, I wanted to make sure the new forum works the same as the old one.

what exactly has changed i dont notis anything new it all looks the same.
???

The entire line got underlined CJ, and the "Topic: " bit and onward would get red as well. Anyway, it's fine now after you jibbled with the doctype.

Quote from: mousemat on Tue 10/08/2004 22:06:43
what exactly has changed i dont notis anything new it all looks the same.
???

you less you notice, the better :)

Quote from: mousemat on Tue 10/08/2004 22:06:43
what exactly has changed i dont notis anything new it all looks the same.

The differences are subtle, but many...

Actually, I haven't noticed any difference either. If anybody does notice any funky new RC1 features, do let us know ;)

Ok forgive me, I'd suggest this to you on IRC but you're not there, hey CJ, how about an icon that appears next to the persons name when it's their birthday?

Suggestions, eh?

How about having the ability to make avatars up to 96 x 96 pixels big? that seems to be the norm these days (well, at least in http://forums.idlethumbs.net/ )

I've always thought the forums could use larger avatars. Like netmonkey said.Ã,  Maybe a max of 100 by 100 pixels.

Shawn

Speaking of avatars, I can't figure out where to change mine now.

Before CJ gets any ideas, I veto the suggestion of bigger avatars. I say we go the opposite way and decrease their size. And the sigs as well. And the er, nick length.

Quote from: Esseb on Wed 11/08/2004 02:41:44
Before CJ gets any ideas, I veto the suggestion of bigger avatars. I say we go the opposite way and decrease their size. And the sigs as well. And the er, nick length.

You know, there's an option that will allow you to not see them at all.

And you use an animation, which is more taxing than a static 100x100 pixel jpg..

I agree with Esseb though, I'm really put off by all the forums that have 100x100 sized avatars as standard now. I like having a neat, little, semi-restrictive avatar - I think it lets people get more creative. On the forum I frequent with people constantly pushing the avatar sizes, the pictures are just becoming peoples favourite large anime images and I think it looks a little retarded. Mind you, all those people really are retards so it's their fault I'm sour on the idea, I suppose.

I too like the current avatar size, anything that can fit a wave of babies (& therefore a popular reference) is good enough for us......

Also:

Quote from: shbazjinkens on Wed 11/08/2004 02:20:20
Speaking of avatars, I can't figure out where to change mine now.

Me neither. I can change personal text, but see no space for personal avatar. And I don't want to be stck on pirate goose forever!

Normally I would be amused that you thought I was being serious Shba, but this time, for some reason, I feel like clarifying: I like avatars, I'm just opposed to increasing their size.

Yeah I'm fine with the size of the avatars. Any biger and they don't look so neat and tidy, and they just take up more space.

Quote from: veryweirdguy on Wed 11/08/2004 11:13:32

Quote from: shbazjinkens on Wed 11/08/2004 02:20:20
Speaking of avatars, I can't figure out where to change mine now.

Me neither. I can change personal text, but see no space for personal avatar.

And me.  I need to change it because I switched servers.  Dang.

It's teh went missing. It was there a while ago, but since I do not use an avatar unless I bloody got to take that one photo, or find a very ready one, I don't mind... but in time, I'd like it back.

Anyways, I guess CJ has a reason for hiding it... or the update did it...

I noticed a new thing....or at least, I've never seen it before:

While I was replying to someone's question in a topic, I clicked 'post' (duh). Instead of taking me back to the topic, it took me back to the "post reply" screen with a message saying something along the lines of:

"While you were typing, someone else posted. You may want to rethink your post"

Someone had already answered the question while I was typing, so I no longer needed to post.

I've never seen that before, & I thought it was quite clever.

Some of the major changes made in this release (compared to beta 6) are:

    * Parse errors in templates are displayed better.
    * A preview column has been added to Edit Forum News.
    * Ban center restyled and now includes an interface to view ban logs.
    * Added "Male to Female ratio" and "Users Online Today" to the statistics page.
    * Added avatar management (in Attachment Manager.)
    * Board themes can now override the user configured theme.
    * If new replies are made between reading a thread and replying, a warning message can be displayed.
    * Admins can now change their member's usernames
    * Viewing members from a group now has a new template, with options to easily add and remove members from said group.
    * Option to upload smileys in the smiley center
    * New smiley manager interface, including an easier admin interface and the option of adding a popup window.
    * Cleaner admin interface with easy links to the most used areas.
    * Search has been optimized for faster performance and many new options added to the admin interface for it.
    * It is possible to set default theme settings for all users, and to force settings on members.
    * Addition of database sessions to enable the forum to work correctly on poorly configured servers.
    * Several new options added to the member's "look and layout" section of the profile.
    * When posting a message, any errors generated will not result in the post being lost.
    * The post screen will now warn you if new replies were added whilst making your post.
    * Many package manager improvements. (it almost works properly now!)
    * It is now possible to add as many options to a poll as you wish with javascript.
    * You can limit the amount of attachments that can be added to a post.
    * People can register with a wider variety of characters in there name, plus more internationalization.

directly taken from http://www.simplemachines.org/community/index.php?topic=14930

Ah, for some reason the upgrade disabled normal members from changing their avatar (I could still do it so I couldn't see the problem to begin with). Hopefully it should be fixed now.

And no, we're not having larger avatars :P

Quote* Added "Male to Female ratio" and "Users Online Today" to the statistics page.

Well, doesn't that just make the whole upgrade worthwhile...

Quote from: Pumaman on Wed 11/08/2004 21:19:56
Ah, for some reason the upgrade disabled normal members from changing their avatar (I could still do it so I couldn't see the problem to begin with). Hopefully it should be fixed now.

And no, we're not having larger avatars :P

Quote* Added "Male to Female ratio" and "Users Online Today" to the statistics page.

Well, doesn't that just make the whole upgrade worthwhile...

Of course it does! It means that your AGS program is too male-oriented! Maybe you should add some sort of feminine touch to it... whatever that would be. :P

Right, well in an effort to level out the ratio, I can now announce that from the next version AGS will be renamed Barbie Game Studio.

Quote* Option to upload smileys in the smiley center

*cough* (http://www.esseb.com/images/lvsmiley.gif)

:= baby.

Oh yeah, baby!

:=

I can't seem to be able to change avatar.

Should be on top of "Forum Profile Information". Works for me at least.

Hmm, not here, there is personal text, then birthdate, location and gender.. perhaps it's the mittens titles thingies?

Oops you're right, it's the mittens titles. Should be fixed now.

we always seem to be having trouble with

[size=20]word up to ya mama[/size]
[size=+20]get down with your bad self[/size]

we wanted this for the beginners faq

You want to encourage new people to post with a big font-size?

You want to encourage new people to use phrases like "Word up to ya mama"?

You want to encourage people?

One thing that I would like to see on these forums that I have seen on others, is having it so if you edit your post in say 5 mins after posting, to like fix a spelling mistake, it doesn't show the edited thing. I think it works well, and does make the posts seem nicer. I don't know how possible that is to implement tho, or if other people think its worthwhile.

It already does that - if you edit your post within 2 minutes and nobody has replied to it, it won't show the Last Edited thingy.

You serious? Heh I didn't know that, cool.

whats this little "posts leet" thing by my name? thats new

Um I don't see it now, but looking at your post count, I'm assuming it was cos you had 1337 posts. :P

Quote from: Scummbuddy on Fri 13/08/2004 16:22:25
we always seem to be having trouble with

[size=20]word up to ya mama[/size]
[size=+20]get down with your bad self[/size]

we wanted this for the beginners faq

[ size=24pt ]

Quote from: auhsor on Mon 16/08/2004 03:46:14
Um I don't see it now, but looking at your post count, I'm assuming it was cos you had 1337 posts. :P

That would make sense, seeing as at time of typing he has 1338 posts.

How cool. I imagine my 1337th post will be my last ever, so I can always stay like that.

the "think before you post" doesn't show up in popular threads at the quick reply field.

Considering that it seems to have no effect when it does appear, I don't know if there's much point fixing this one.

I only just noticed that this existed but I can't figure out how to enter the details.

In your profile there is now a "My Games" section, but there doesn't seem to be any way to enter the details. I thought it would be in your "forum profile information" section, but I can't see it, and I've looked a few times, maybe I'm just blind.

I noticed that some people have their games listed so there must be some way to do it.

Anyway, is this missing from the new forums or is there some trick to it?

there's probably a more recent thread to put this in but this is the one I found using the search feature.

~Tim

I think CJ talked about it somewhere that it would automatically be updated if you had posted an entry in the game section using the same forum login account.

In other words, you can't change it manually.

I had a play around with changing my information on the games page to match my profile but it doesn't seem to work that way.

also note this line "NOTE: don't use important passwords as the admin can see them"

I do have different information for that very reason, maybe it only works with recent entries?

Not sure about it, as I don't have use for that feature... yet. ;D

Anyway you may read the info from CJ's thread (http://www.adventuregamestudio.co.uk/yabb/index.php?topic=17575.0).

When I edited the game entry for JP & Cosmo I was able to figure out how to list those involved in helping with the game.Ã,  However, I do have a suggestion.

When you view the game's pages it says who helped out with the game.Ã,  You have to enter the name the person is registered with; so for me it's, 'darth-mandarb'.Ã,  My username is displayed, 'Darth Mandarb'.Ã,  I would suggest that yes, you enter their name the way it's registered but the game's detail page uses whatever their current display name is instead.

Some people have completely changed their display names so it's not even similar to their registered name.

Since the forum trouble a few weeks back, the "always stay logged in" feature doesn't seem to work. Now I have to keep logging into the forums whenever I've been inactive for an hour or more.

For me it works perfectly...

Quote from: Timosity on Wed 01/12/2004 06:11:42
I had a play around with changing my information on the games page to match my profile but it doesn't seem to work that way.

Go to the Edit Game page, and fill in the box at the bottom of the page. There's fairly detailed instructions on what you need to do.

QuoteSince the forum trouble a few weeks back, the "always stay logged in" feature doesn't seem to work. Now I have to keep logging into the forums whenever I've been inactive for an hour or more.

This is fine for me too. Make sure your browser isn't blocking the cookie -- IE6 seems to like doing that, have a fiddle with the privacy settings.

Thanks Gilbot & CJ, it all makes sense now

Since moving to the new host I haven't been able to stay logged on from sesion to session as I was able to do before (i.e. checking the "always stay logged in'  box on the login dialog).  I have deleted and examined the cookies left by the forum.  They always specify "expires at end of session". 

Is anyone else having this problem or is this by design?   

Since moving to the new host I haven't been able to stay logged on from sesion to session as I was able to do before (i.e. checking the "always stay logged in'  box on the login dialog).  I have deleted and examined the cookies left by the forum.  They always specify "expires at end of session". 

Is anyone else having this problem or is this by design?   

[edit]

Ok, I found the "forum Upgrade" thread in the GenGen forum.  I did a search before posting here and obviously didn't find it til now. 

I also found a thread in the SMF support forum talking abut similar problems.   So I guess that I'm not alone and that eventually this will pass. 

http://www.simplemachines.org/community/index.php?topic=11671.0


PS Moderator,
Please move or lock this as you see fit.  Thanks.

Can you try with IE and see if it works, just to make sure it's not a Firefox issue?

Using IE does the same thing so I don't think it's Firefox. 

Coming to the forum through http://www.adventuregamestudio.co.uk/yabb ? Nowdays the security settings very easily block third party cookies...

when i come to the forums i just straight up type out www.adventuregamestudio.co.uk/yabb, i don't go to home page first, or have it favorited

OK, I got my Firefox working correctly.  I did the following to fix the problem and stay logged on forever using the Firefox browser.

• Enter the forum forum  from http://www.adventuregamestudio.co.uk/yabb/index.php
  
  
• Delete all cookies
  
  
• Delete all exceptions, which I think may have been the problem.  (i.e. Allow, Block, etc) cookies from speciific sites.
  
  
• Option: Allow sites to set cookies
  
  
• Option: Ask me everytime
  
  
• Repeat above procedure until it works