[curiousuburb]

So how about a thread detailing the new bugs *cough* features of VB 3

Tons of new pull downs, text fields, and check boxen.

Smilies (monochrome except for red tongue and yellow blushing cheeks?):


Post Icons... WTF... might be better if others who rate the post could vote on Post Icon...

New fonts to choose from, new colours, (any changes to VB tag formatting?)

Post links to help pages if you think they'll be needed.

[HOM]

AVATARS!!!!

[HOM]

I should also mention that we can now edit the titles of threads already posted. No more begging a mod to fix our stupid spelling mistakes.

Also, you can now open and link to individual posts in a few mouse clicks.

[alcimedes]

yeah, i'd like to see names back on the left-hand side, tighten things up a bit, try to differentiate between posts with some better color schemes.

lots of ideas, it'll just be a matter of implementing them.

[DMBand0026]

I liked the layout of the old AI, but I can deal with this for a while, this forum just took a violent shove into prime time with very little to prepare it.
I'm sure things will all be worked out in time.

[FFL]

Originally Posted by alcimedes yeah, i'd like to see names back on the left-hand side, tighten things up a bit, try to differentiate between posts with some better color schemes.

Yes to both of those - and pages should be longer, before a new page starts. AND - I don't like the grey shading on quoted text.

[Wickers]

Originally Posted by HOM AVATARS!!!!

EWWWWW!!!!!

[DMBand0026]

Originally Posted by HOM AVATARS!!!!

You've got 9 posts, you need 10,000 for one of those.
Start posting!!!

[Wickers]

Originally Posted by DMBand0026 You've got 9 posts, you need 10,000 for one of those. Start posting!!!

not this again...

maybe if the avatars were limited to 15x15 pixals. or maybe the same size as a smilie that way it does not clutter up the page.

[HOM]

One thing I noticed poking around is that each user can turn off display of avatars. Now, I'm not saying that I want them at all, I just thought it was funny that the option was there.

[Wrao]

needs more chocolate

[curiousuburb]

Originally Posted by Wrao needs more chocolate

I think they've closed that directory... redirects to a stop.gif image on a spanish server

[Defiant]

Originally Posted by curiousuburb I think they've closed that directory... redirects to a stop.gif image on a spanish server

They haven't. They just don't like it if you leech from them.

I have a small thing with the forums right now. The color for clicked links is pretty close to the background. Especially notable on the top. But this is all temporary anyways.

[SledgeHammer]

Looks like I'll like Vb3 it's just going to take a little getting used to.

[Ebby]

It would be good to have a close proximity to the other AI, since that is what we are all familiar with. But the new features should probably stay. People who want avatars can have them and those who don't can turn them off. Perhaps if the avatar options were "off" by default, people would be less likely to use them.

[curiousuburb]

minor beef about text colour.

if you edit a post, the "time edited" defaults to white... illegible against the b/g

edit: see?

[HOM]

There seems to be some minor issues with cookies and missing posts. I'm sure it's just growing pains, but good idea to be on the look for them anyway.

[curiousuburb]

the Posting Guidelines link on the top right gives 404

interesting options from many of the links. popup menus abound.

[Towel]

Very nicely done forum. My only suggestion would be to try to use space a little more efficiently. Since the idea is to read all the postings as easily as possible, the less scrolling you need to do, the better.

For one thing, I think the borders on the left & right could be shrunk a bit, maybe by half. On a 1024 wide screen, they leave too much dead space. Then maybe use some of that reclaimed space to move the poster's name and info to a sidebar, next to his post (instead of above it). That lets you put many more posts, more readable text, into the same vertical space. As is now, between the date stamp, poster name, post title, and sig, it seems like I can fit barely one post on the screen at a time.

The layout as it is, I think, is perfect for a "News" page, where the post is a paragraph blurb with a couple of links, and each post lives independent from all the rest. For a discussion forum, I think you want to make the text a little denser.

Edit: Well damn, you made the change while I was writing this. Sweet.

[Ebby]

WOHOO! Info on the left! It is starting to look familiar again! I feel closer to home.

[SonOfSylvanus]

Originally Posted by Ebby WOHOO! Info on the left! It is starting to look familiar again! I feel closer to home.

And you got the same-ole sig...

[Ebby]

If course. I like it. Do you think it is time for a new one? I had a list of possible sigs in a sticky on OS 9. Maybe I'll hunt that up.

[DMBand0026]

Originally Posted by Ebby WOHOO! Info on the left! It is starting to look familiar again! I feel closer to home.

This is home now. Welcome, take your shoes off, hope you aren't allergic to dogs

[Ebby]

Originally Posted by SonOfSylvanus And you got the same-ole sig...

There you go. Temporary until I can find something better.

[DMBand0026]

Just to keep this one a little bit on topic...I had issues with some double posts earlier. And when I tried to edit one to say "whoops" it killed them both.

[SonOfSylvanus]

The bright blue and dark purple of the tiered links at the top of the page blend in too much with the background. Plus the background grey is a bit too dark... feels too heavy, noisy... And the strong contrast of this dark grey with the white 'Reply to Thread' box is tiring on the eyes... Thanks

Like Murbot and a couple other people, autofill botched our registration and now our email address is the member name (or was in my case. I created a new account). If the admins here could help us out in getting our email addresses off of such public display, it would be appreciated. I already get enough spam. I just need the other account killed int he member list as I won't use it, but I'm sure others like murbot would like their user names edited by the admins to kill everything to the right of the "@"

Also:
1) The links on the upper left ("Home," "Forums," "Community") do nothing for me.
2) The color scheme is a bit dark.

I like the "snappiness" of the forums over here. That could change as more people migrate from ai.com, but I thought I should pay the compliment.

[SledgeHammer]

The icon for "thread which you've replied to and has new posts" is showing up as the icon from AI.com When I go over there, most of the icons are replaced by the ones from this forum. I've cleared my cache a couple times and it doesn't seem to be fixing the problem. I don't care if I get the wrong icons at .com, but having all the right ones in at least one place would be nice.

[SonOfSylvanus]

Originally Posted by SonOfSylvanus The bright blue and dark purple of the tiered links at the top of the page blend in too much with the background.

Nice change, the grey of the tiered links looks great... but the light grey of the "Logged in as..." in the top right hand corner of the Reply to Thread page blends in too much with the near white of the background now.

Good work with the smilies... need to fix :embarass and though

[alcimedes]

ok, moving this to suggestions, now that it exists. keep the ideas coming!