Bugfix and balance mods by some people...

Fixing some forum issues by some people...

I'd say that GPG has to hire the forumgoers

hehehe. my take on that is GPG has a habit of taking on things that are just too big for them to handle with their small staff. the community is the best thing to fill the man-power void.

in any case; we're spotting bugs, ITninja is squashing them. all is good with the world.

The character limits are still present.
The search returns items now, however only posts that were posted since Monday. Any ideas when it will finish the indexing?

Btw. this is one very quick example of how I would style the forum to be a bit more visually appealing and easier on the eyes (for me at least):

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/2309215/gpgforumstyle.jpg

I like, I like a lot!

that's not bad at all; I'd prefer a shade darker, but I wouldn't cry over not having that.

I still want the borders to be black.

Some of the CSS blocks have hilarious comments above them.

Example.

/* HACKY MCHACKERSON WAS HERE, THIS CHANGES SUBTOPIC HEADERS TO WHITE */

I would add that the styling is horrible. It looks like you just changed the background and the borders and some buttons and it all clashes really bad with the old black style.

And the huge images on the front page are all over the place. They look pretty good but there's something.... off with the placement of them I think, but I can't really put my finger on what it is.

It just looks like it's half finished and half baked I guess.

Good catch, although a defining class within the "a" link itself should override a global right? Which every link inside the forum body itself has a class tag of "postlink" but for some reason this global a class overrode that one.

Either way, thanks!

This has been fixed, I've edited your post because I don't want that email address out there =P




Looking into this.

Sorry, didn't mean to ignore this, I had meant to reply at some point but got caught up in other things. These are screens from the old forums.

This might need a bit more work on my side, I can easily change the character limits (what amounts would be more acceptable?) As for the indexing... The type of MySQL tables required for fulltext indexing is innodb and they are currently running myisam, I would need to schedule another downtime to change this. (mid-next week is most likely)

Thanks!

Is it me or is the button to delete pm's missing?

EDIT: It is me, its on a drop down now.

From the PM inbox, check the box next to the ones you want deleted, then the from the dropdown menu at the bottom chose "delete marked" or something along those lines.

Appreciate your efforts. I realize you're working within a framework designed for corporate image consistency. Sometimes utility or legibility takes a back seat to branding. It's not how you feel, it's how you rook.

already ninja edited my post

OP edited with new image/signature allowed sizes.

Forum software will now auto resize larger images and become a link that will allow you to view the full size image.

Where can I find these?

Also, the signature height that FunkyKong allows in Off-topic is 200 pixels. Perhaps that's a good rule to put in, aside from the 680 px width.

Unfortunately it's a global setting for both inline images and sig images, so if I enforced 200px height all the images in regular posts would look rather silly.

CSS can be found here

It's still rather messy from me hacking random stuff in from the www.gaspowered.com site.

Seems to be an issue with the top of the forum on the Search Results page:



Compared to:


Using Firefox.

Also, I seem to remember the old setup having a link towards the top on the search results page to go to the index. Would be nice to have this (or something similar) back rather than the little thing at the very bottom.

Another thing I've noticed, in the old setup you could click on links and they'd open up in a new tab. I haven't changed any settings with Firefox and since the new forums came up now all of the hyperlinks (but not the resized pictures) causes the new page to open up in the current tab (thus leaving whatever I'm looking at). I liked it the other way. Is there an option somewhere for this?

Last thing, and I guess this is just my own personal taste, when conducting a search, it defaults now to showing results as posts rather than threads. I know it's an easy click to solve before hitting search, but I did like it the other way. I think I might be in the minority there, though.

Other wise, all looks good and GG on your work for fixing the issues.

A few of the options in the Company and News & Press dropdown menus are not supposed to work yet or..?

good catch, fixed shortly. fixed