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hey hackers, nerds, and other ridiculous types that dominate this group. phpbb has grown long in the tooth and is making our hosting provider send derrick angry flaming bags of e-poop.
many of you know that for a while now (oh, 6 months or so) we've been "working" on a new forum based on bbpress rather than phpbb. i'm happy to say that it's not quite ready yet but definitely ready for some heavy testing before we probably move to it permanently along with a new hosting provider in the new week or so.
i'd love it if you testery/nerd types could go hit up: http://point83.com/bb/ and let me know what things you find wrong with it. we have a migration script that in theory should have moved over all of the posts, users, etc. but i'm sure it's got glitches and you can help me find out what they are.
also appreciated would be any help tweaking and fixing the templates and other gui bits, we've done some work to make it look kosher and as similar to the current format as possible but it's got a bunch of new features and hopefully we can even improve the functionality.
REMEMBER: the new forum is in a testing phase right now. with your guys' feedback i'll be tweaking the import script and blowing away any of your changes by reimporting over them. the phpbb forum will stay online for at least a while longer.
if you want to provide direct programming help or have any suggestions for other plugins or features you want, let me know!
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derrickito
Posted: Wed Oct 17, 2007 11:59 am
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ill be able to get in there and work up the style sheets to match everything up (or in some cases improve).
the dreaded ben
Posted: Wed Oct 17, 2007 12:17 pm
Grumpy GreebJoined: 20 Aug 2005Posts: 5329Location: flavor country
derrickito wrote:
ill be able to get in there and work up the style sheets to match everything up (or in some cases improve).
it's gonna look like a kosmo bag, isn't it.
derrickito
Posted: Wed Oct 17, 2007 12:19 pm
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either that, or im going to put supergo logos all over it.
Foo
Posted: Wed Oct 17, 2007 12:20 pm
Joined: 27 Jul 2007Posts: 583
Well, here's what I dun seen so far:
(using Exploder - I'm at work)
All the forums seem to have merged into an unholy mass. The forum listing below only lists the photo forum.
Every other post is highlighted in pink(!).
Stickies do not seem to be sticking.
In the forum posts themselves, the quoting formatting isn't working and other formatting in general seems to be either gone or gravely amiss.
On the plus side, it looks like the data carried across fine.
the dreaded ben
Posted: Wed Oct 17, 2007 12:26 pm
Grumpy GreebJoined: 20 Aug 2005Posts: 5329Location: flavor country
it seems to have an overall lack of humor.
and salt.
TrikerTrev
Posted: Wed Oct 17, 2007 12:27 pm
Joined: 23 Oct 2006Posts: 2303Location: FOCO, MOFO!!!
wouldnt take an img tag
reminds me of what derricks bathroom musta looked like after his ass 'sploded
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jeff
Posted: Wed Oct 17, 2007 12:29 pm
SOC pussyJoined: 05 May 2006Posts: 4501
Pink background with white text hurts.
the dreaded ben
Posted: Wed Oct 17, 2007 12:34 pm
Grumpy GreebJoined: 20 Aug 2005Posts: 5329Location: flavor country
jeff wrote:
Pink background with white text hurts.
that's just for you jeff.
Happy Stick Person
Posted: Wed Oct 17, 2007 12:41 pm
Joined: 20 Sep 2006Posts: 1168Location: Leschi
links back to the forum at the bottom of the page would make me do a little dance...
mork the delayer
Posted: Wed Oct 17, 2007 12:41 pm
Joined: 06 Apr 2006Posts: 548Location: Providence, RI
When you have the ignorer on, it seems that any thread the ignored users have posted to is invisible. I call that a bug. Just block their posts, please.
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henry
Posted: Wed Oct 17, 2007 12:44 pm
somewhat piggishJoined: 05 Aug 2005Posts: 5415Location: on porch with shotgun
Joined: 06 Apr 2006Posts: 548Location: Providence, RI
There should be a link to the forum list, and a way to see the contents of each forum individually.
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mork the delayer
Posted: Wed Oct 17, 2007 12:46 pm
Joined: 06 Apr 2006Posts: 548Location: Providence, RI
mork the delayer wrote:
There should be a link to the forum list, and a way to see the contents of each forum individually.
I mean, other than editing the address bar like a geek.
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joeball
Posted: Wed Oct 17, 2007 1:07 pm
Joined: 24 Jul 2005Posts: 6037Location: Ether
Which forum is for the newbs? Will .83 silver have its own area?
MyNameIsJeff
Posted: Wed Oct 17, 2007 1:13 pm
BOOSH!Joined: 17 Jul 2007Posts: 2042Location: Nearest bar.
the dreaded ben wrote:
it seems to have an overall lack of humor.
and salt.
Bacon salt?
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TrikerTrev
Posted: Wed Oct 17, 2007 1:32 pm
Joined: 23 Oct 2006Posts: 2303Location: FOCO, MOFO!!!
can't preview
overall uninteresting...like myself
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Foo
Posted: Wed Oct 17, 2007 1:53 pm
Joined: 27 Jul 2007Posts: 583
I dunno, I thought it was interesting.
As in, "Interesting, the new forum looks like something that got squeezed out of a cat's anus. Huh."
rlotz
Posted: Wed Oct 17, 2007 2:12 pm
Joined: 23 Jan 2006Posts: 311Location: Capitol Hill
In no particular order...
The forum index in the new forum doesn't provide an easy to way to jump to the last page of a thread. I don't know what phpBB is capable of, but if it would auto jump to the last message I viewed that would be great. At the very least I'd like to see a few page numbers and maybe the word "last". A word gives a larger link target for those nerds using iPhones.
Also, there are too many caps, I don't need the forum to yell at me how long ago a post was made.
I don't really know why I would care to view topics with no replies or no tags.
The bold of "blah wrote" is not that recognizable with the other light text. Make it stand out or make the quotes block indented perhaps?
Also, make an iCal feed I can subscribe to for all the .83 events.
henry
Posted: Wed Oct 17, 2007 2:19 pm
somewhat piggishJoined: 05 Aug 2005Posts: 5415Location: on porch with shotgun
Foo wrote:
All the forums seem to have merged into an unholy mass. The forum listing below only lists the photo forum.
wierd ... this seems to vary. I get all the forums, and then reload and get just the photo forum ... but it's random.
1337Joined: 22 Jul 2005Posts: 6705Location: right over
dennyt wrote:
Quoted text has the same style as normal text.
ah. hopefully that is better now?
lantius
Posted: Wed Oct 17, 2007 2:51 pm
1337Joined: 22 Jul 2005Posts: 6705Location: right over
Foo wrote:
Well, here's what I dun seen so far:
(using Exploder - I'm at work)
Every other post is highlighted in pink(!).
Stickies do not seem to be sticking.
In the forum posts themselves, the quoting formatting isn't working and other formatting in general seems to be either gone or gravely amiss.
On the plus side, it looks like the data carried across fine.
what version of IE are you using?
i'm not seeing the pink in firefox.
stickieness isn't being imported, but the functionality seems to work.
i fixed the quoting formatting but i'm not sure what to do with some of the other screwy formatting. do you have some specific examples i can look at?
Foo
Posted: Wed Oct 17, 2007 3:03 pm
Joined: 27 Jul 2007Posts: 583
Internet Exploder 6.0.2900.2180
As far as I can tell, italics, bold, etc aren't showing up as well as any text color. I haven't looked to see if img tags are working.
lantius
Posted: Wed Oct 17, 2007 3:07 pm
1337Joined: 22 Jul 2005Posts: 6705Location: right over
rlotz wrote:
The forum index in the new forum doesn't provide an easy to way to jump to the last page of a thread. I don't know what phpBB is capable of, but if it would auto jump to the last message I viewed that would be great. At the very least I'd like to see a few page numbers and maybe the word "last". A word gives a larger link target for those nerds using iPhones.
Also, there are too many caps, I don't need the forum to yell at me how long ago a post was made.
I don't really know why I would care to view topics with no replies or no tags.
Also, make an iCal feed I can subscribe to for all the .83 events.
last page link added. i'm not sure how to get the page numbers in there, and i'm really not sure without looking further how to get the state for the last viewed message in each thread or pull out pagination data.
i'm not sure how to style the post footer. opinions? mockups? i think we really need it to float to the lower right of the container it's in as well before it drives me batshit insane. any css gurus want to tackle that one?
i agree that the views link is pretty useless. removed.
the calendar events feed is actually something that this will break, meaning we actually need to get a decent little calendar script. maybe we could make a plugin that builds/manages google calendar objects and ties them to forum threads?
lantius
Posted: Wed Oct 17, 2007 3:19 pm
1337Joined: 22 Jul 2005Posts: 6705Location: right over
Foo wrote:
Internet Exploder 6.0.2900.2180
As far as I can tell, italics, bold, etc aren't showing up as well as any text color. I haven't looked to see if img tags are working.
evilmike will remember the sad refrain from the days of working at autoadvisor: fuck you ie, in other programs we would have to work hard to make it look so shitty.
Foo
Posted: Wed Oct 17, 2007 3:20 pm
Joined: 27 Jul 2007Posts: 583
Huge freakin' screenshot!!!!one!
Now the overall page formatting has exploded as well.
Happy Stick Person
Posted: Wed Oct 17, 2007 3:21 pm
Joined: 20 Sep 2006Posts: 1168Location: Leschi
stickies look like toothpaste...
Happy Stick Person
Posted: Wed Oct 17, 2007 3:23 pm
Joined: 20 Sep 2006Posts: 1168Location: Leschi
lantius wrote:
Foo wrote:
Internet Exploder 6.0.2900.2180
As far as I can tell, italics, bold, etc aren't showing up as well as any text color. I haven't looked to see if img tags are working.
evilmike will remember the sad refrain from the days of working at autoadvisor: fuck you ie, in other programs we would have to work hard to make it look so shitty.
is that zelda just wallpaper or do you have something awesome?
lantius
Posted: Wed Oct 17, 2007 3:25 pm
1337Joined: 22 Jul 2005Posts: 6705Location: right over
Happy Stick Person wrote:
is that zelda just wallpaper or do you have something awesome?
just wallpaper, but i had a crazy idea of making a zelda game where the whole map is loaded all the time and enemies respawn over time. you'd be small but it'd look pretty cool on big monitors, wouldn't it?
Foo
Posted: Wed Oct 17, 2007 3:25 pm
Joined: 27 Jul 2007Posts: 583
Dude, what the hell do you have as your background, Ultima 4?
[edit]Nevermind!
langston
Posted: Wed Oct 17, 2007 3:28 pm
Joined: 25 Jul 2005Posts: 5547Location: Columbia City
Foo wrote:
Dude, what the hell do you have as your background, Ultima 4?
[edit]Nevermind!
that's Zelda ! The original for NES!
Happy Stick Person
Posted: Wed Oct 17, 2007 3:30 pm
Joined: 20 Sep 2006Posts: 1168Location: Leschi
forum looks fine in ie7 btw...
Happy Stick Person
Posted: Wed Oct 17, 2007 3:32 pm
Joined: 20 Sep 2006Posts: 1168Location: Leschi
Happy Stick Person wrote:
stickies look like toothpaste...
in firefox 2.0.0.7
lantius
Posted: Wed Oct 17, 2007 5:06 pm
1337Joined: 22 Jul 2005Posts: 6705Location: right over
lantius wrote:
i'm not sure how to style the post footer. opinions? mockups? i think we really need it to float to the lower right of the container it's in as well before it drives me batshit insane. any css gurus want to tackle that one?
new post footer is in along with a bunch of other styling changes, at least in firefox. comments?
derrickito
Posted: Wed Oct 17, 2007 5:11 pm
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for users that have avatars in the new system, the avatar is showing up first, then the name below that.
can you switch it so it's name then picture?
ill get in there and help out with some css later tonight. gotta go get some food or im gonna pass out
Foo
Posted: Wed Oct 17, 2007 5:30 pm
Joined: 27 Jul 2007Posts: 583
OK, I'm home and I don't have to deal with Microsoft's abortion of a browser anymore. In Firefox it doesn't look like cat turds anymore.
Something the cat pooped on, perhaps but at least there's a theoretical path visible to less suckage.
lantius
Posted: Wed Oct 17, 2007 6:11 pm
1337Joined: 22 Jul 2005Posts: 6705Location: right over
derrickito wrote:
for users that have avatars in the new system, the avatar is showing up first, then the name below that.
can you switch it so it's name then picture?
ill get in there and help out with some css later tonight. gotta go get some food or im gonna pass out
flipped. let me know when you're done eating your corndog split. (like a banana split but instead it's a corndog with scoops of refried beans drizzled in nacho cheese sauce.)
anyhow, it's alot nicer to work with than phpbb, that's for damn sure, but there are a few tricky bits. the stylesheet you want to change is in /my-templates/point83/style.css
Happy Stick Person
Posted: Wed Oct 17, 2007 6:20 pm
Joined: 20 Sep 2006Posts: 1168Location: Leschi
ummm how to make it go gooder? like the linkses and pictures of derricks mom?
ripper
Posted: Wed Oct 17, 2007 9:44 pm
evilmikeJoined: 19 Apr 2006Posts: 640Location: Capitalist Hill
face it, there's a lot of work to be done on the interface.
first, the tag cloud has GOT to go. it's absurd and I highly doubt anyone will use it (we're not dealing with a huge corpus that needs sifting -- plus, I don't trust about 1/2 of .83 to tag adequately.)
there's no way "back."
interface elements aren't distinct nor consistent (link color, emphasis, etc are all the same color, -- for instance, the location navigator `[westlake center >> <post title>]` needs to be clickable, all the same style)
dividing line between poster and post left-to-right, like a border-left:1px solid black; on the main post category. I assume derrick is going to step in and make this pretty and possibly usable.
otherwise, I'm excited about a new platform and RSS feeds.
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