NEWS: Forum Update week of Sept 24th-28th, Downtimes

[pjknibbs]

There's another forum style you can select in your profile, DaMuncha, which has dark blue headers on a white background--you may prefer it (I certainly do). Only problem is that it'll only switch to that style when you log in, you get amber screen up until that point.

[mr.WHO]

I guess I like the look, though the dark yellow headers are a little hard to read against the black.

Can I change the colors of the forum? When I was unlogged it was black-yellow, and when I logged in it changed to white-blue.

Edit: NVM, I found it.

[radcapricorn]

I guess I'm going to be "that" guy... What's the purpose of highlighting the background under the mouse in topic list, if clicking it doesn't do anything? I mean, you still need to mouse over to actual topic name, which will have it's own emphasis when mouse is over it, so... why?

Disclaimer: highlighting implies interaction. There's no interaction capability at the moment for that particular case.

[AkrionXxarr]

Nice! Lookin' good guys!

I guess I'm going to be "that" guy... What's the purpose of highlighting the background under the mouse in topic list, if clicking it doesn't do anything? I mean, you still need to mouse over to actual topic name, which will have it's own emphasis when mouse is over it, so... why?

Disclaimer: highlighting implies interaction. There's no interaction capability at the moment for that particular case.

Well one thing, at the very least, that the highlighting does is allow you to easily connect the left-hand-side data to the right-hand-side data without your eyes accidentally going up or down a row if there happens to be a large gap between them. Useful if you're running your browser as a full screen. Personally I didn't get the impression from the highlighting that it was intended to be interacted with, but I can see how someone would. I like it, regardless of whether I can click it, but it could still be an interesting thing to explore.

[BurnIt!]

I guess I'm going to be "that" guy... What's the purpose of highlighting the background under the mouse in topic list, if clicking it doesn't do anything? I mean, you still need to mouse over to actual topic name, which will have it's own emphasis when mouse is over it, so... why?

Disclaimer: highlighting implies interaction. There's no interaction capability at the moment for that particular case.

Fair enough, we'll take that feedback under advisement. Thanks!

[Tamina]

Even though he is right, it is still convenient but it seems the highlighting doesn't work well with a touchpad on a notebook under Windows 10. When scrolling the mouse disappears and leaves the background highlighted. After some scrolling around multiple topics keep being highlighted. It is a very tiny cosmetic problem only, though.

I like the new look very much

[jeka1900]

New forum is very cool, but where is new trailer and release date?

[nemesis1982]

New forum looks great. Took a few minutes to get used to the brighter yellow though

@jeka1900: Maybe the next forum upgrade then?

[A5PECT]

Browsing the forum on a phone (Android), and it's an improvement in very way I can think of.

[X2-Illuminatus]

New forum is very cool, but where is new trailer and release date?

We decided to not release a trailer for the new forum, and make a surprise release instead. There was a little heads-up from BurnIt! though.

[jeka1900]

New forum is very cool, but where is new trailer and release date?

We decided to not release a trailer for the new forum, and make a surprise release instead. There was a little heads-up from BurnIt! though.

And what is surprise?

[Mycu]

New forum is very cool, but where is new trailer and release date?

We decided to not release a trailer for the new forum, and make a surprise release instead. There was a little heads-up from BurnIt! though.

And what is surprise?

Surprise is the smooth release of new forum layout

BTW - great job with the new forum.
Looks great, works great.

[Tamina]

New forum is very cool, but where is new trailer and release date?

We decided to not release a trailer for the new forum, and make a surprise release instead. There was a little heads-up from BurnIt! though.

And what is surprise?

He is joking by talking about a release trailer for the forum.

[Ketraar]

Quick lesson in X2 sarcasm.

We decided to not release a trailer for the new forum

MFG

Ketraar

PS.: Ninja'd by a cat.

[jeka1900]

We decided to not release a trailer for the new forum, and make a surprise release instead. There was a little heads-up from BurnIt! though.

And what is surprise?

He is joking by talking about a release trailer for the forum.

Exactly, it breaks my heart

[radcapricorn]

Hmm... maybe we need a separate topic for observations?



Firefox 62.0, Linux.

[X2-Illuminatus]

And what is surprise?

He is joking by talking about a release trailer for the forum.

Exactly, it breaks my heart

That's a very strange reaction to a joke. Especially to one that is so obvious, if you talk about a trailer in the forum update topic. An update some of us have been waiting for for about ten years (or less).

Also, I thought we established already that it's not a good idea to release a trailer and announce the release date, thus drawing more attention to the forum, while the forum is still being updated, and may not run as stable as it needs to be.

[jeka1900]

He is joking by talking about a release trailer for the forum.

Exactly, it breaks my heart

That's a very strange reaction to a joke. Especially to one that is so obvious, if you talk about a trailer in the forum update topic. An update some of us have been waiting for for about ten years (or less).

Also, I thought we established already that it's not a good idea to release a trailer and announce the release date, thus drawing more attention to the forum, while the forum is still being updated, and may not run as stable as it needs to be.

I know it and understand, it was sarcasm from me. I'm very glad to see updated forum, it's really cool.

[Miniding]

Very nice look the new forum guys!!! Well done!!

It's a bit tricky to retrieve our uses but what a step forward for X forum!!!

Thank you all!!!

[DaMuncha]

Sarcasm does not translate well over the internet.

An issue for me is that the page number for the threads is over to the right and not under the topic link, leading me to assume there was no pages for the topic untill I realized the page numbers were waaaaaaaay over to the right side of the screen.