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Robert Hall

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z28luvr01 Newbie

z28luvr01

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This was what you'd call a "happy accident". My goal was to upgrade a second copy of the site and tease you all with screen caps of some of the new features. So much for being cynical.

I still have some work to do in the meantime, so the site may blink once in a while today. But in the meantime, enjoy.

z28luvr01 Newbie

z28luvr01

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Yeah, sorry about that. The IPB 3 skin templates are completely different and our old skins didn't convert over. I'm trying to figure out the new skin templates so I can change some colors around.

Lamar Newbie

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I like the new Fast Reply box. Saves me a click. :D

However, as of right now "quote" boxes aren't quite there yet. Instead of being separated off in replies like before, they just look like the rest of the body of text now.

Probably just one of those kinks that needs ironing out though.

Drew Dowdell Grand Master

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I like the new Fast Reply box. Saves me a click. :D

However, as of right now "quote" boxes aren't quite there yet. Instead of being separated off in replies like before, they just look like the rest of the body of text now.

Probably just one of those kinks that needs ironing out though.

It's only for older posts.

FAPTurbo Newbie

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I'm a bit concerned about the 'rep points' function. I know this isn't a gaming forum, but you'd be amazed how some people can get angry over a little coloured box with an integer inside of it. It calls to mind the 'Great Rep War' of '08 at a gaming forum I used to belong to. Posts were made. PM's were sent. Profile's were raged in. Ego's were bruised. :P

aaaantoine Newbie

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I'm kinda glad there isn't a "GoogleBot" post at the bottom of every thread anymore.

There's a new format to the RSS feed and so far I can't read any of the new stuff via RSS (although it shows up in my reader). This problem may be on my end though.

Robert Hall Veteran

Robert Hall

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I know a lot of members used the view new posts where it lists all the new posts. How would they do that with the new software?

'View New Content'

Drew Dowdell Grand Master

Drew Dowdell

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I'm kinda glad there isn't a "GoogleBot" post at the bottom of every thread anymore.

There's a new format to the RSS feed and so far I can't read any of the new stuff via RSS (although it shows up in my reader). This problem may be on my end though.

GoogleBot was renamed Tipjar and is still there at the end of the thread.

I haven't even begun to play with the RSS feed settings yet

knightfan26917 Apprentice

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Wow ... what a cool surprise!

I really like this new look ... awesome job. :)

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"Did the trail of yellow brick come to an end?" ... Debby Boone ... 'Are You On The Road To Lovin' Me Again?'

regfootball Community Regular

regfootball

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a refresh is nice. but a few things.

to me the old site read easier. colors and tables had more contrast, the blue and grey thing just doesn't pop from all the white space so much. the fonts and sizes of them were more readable. you have to scroll a lot more now. pages seem to take longer to load. its not easy in a post to see what is a quote. getting the numbers / stats or replies and such is tougher for the eye to pick off vs before.

in short, i guess it looks more modern, and it probably has more features. but right now, its hard to read. i wonder if the red wasn't nicer.

Oracle of Delphi Newbie

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We will be re-doing the skins for the site to address most of those issues. By "we" I mean Dodgefan.....

Hurry Dodgefan, all this blue, silver and white makes me think of winter and that's not a good thought for me ... :smilewide:

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Drew Dowdell Grand Master

Drew Dowdell

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I'll also add that embedded links seem to take you away from this site now, whereas before I think they opened a new browser window and/or tab instead.

should be fixed now.

let me know

Robert Hall Veteran

Robert Hall

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Hurry Dodgefan, all this blue, silver and white makes me think

of winter and that's not a good thought for me ... :smilewide:

Maybe a tan, brown, and red SW theme. Or a classic 3270 style all black background w/ green text.

Camino LS6 Newbie

Camino LS6

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Couple more:

-Page loading has been slow

-"Fast reply" isn't

- And here's a really odd one: Two members were randomly added to my ignore list. I've never put anyone on ignore.

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Intrepidation

Intrepidation

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The first two issues are related to the server, which has a conflict somewhere and we haven't found it yet. The best I can do is reset the server when it gets real slow or stops (which apparently I have to do now) until we find the problem and fix it.

The ignore thing I'm not sure about though.

BigPontiac Newbie

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Strange, the images resized on my end. It wouldn't be a browser issue, would it? I'm using Chrome.

My observations are based on using this thread: http://www.cheersandgears.com/index.php/topic/15564-project-camino/page__st__460

I get the same results using Firefox v3.5.5 or IE v8.0.6001.18702. I also tried Firebox v3.0.10 on a physically separate machine, which also yielded the same results.

Robert Hall Veteran

Robert Hall

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One cool feature I just discovered. I posted a message. PCS posted the next message. I posted the next message. I went to reply to his, and my reply (and his message quoted) was automagically attached on to my last message.

Intrepidation

Intrepidation

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I've seen that feature on other forums. It designed to limit post whoring by people don't just put all of the responses/comments in one reply and instead make 9 separate posts.

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