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New forum engine

Posted: Mon Apr 07, 2008 8:53 pm
by Artemio
As you have probably noticed by now, the phpBB engine for the forums was fully upgraded. This was den for security reasons, since there had been some malware attacks on the site and he forums were the source of the vulnerable part that was targeted.

I am sorry for any inconvenience caused by this, although I feel it is for the best. I will miss the old skin that we've been using for 4 years, and I must admit I was quite used to the layout.

Everything should be working in the same way though, and there should be more options available to you as an user. If you find any anomaly please report it in this thread or send me a PM.

The skin might not be the final one, it is the best I could come up with today since I had no time to work on it, neither are my talents in the area any good. So you can suggest themes for PhPBB 3.0 here as well that you might like to be added as options or as the main skin. We'll see if we can accommodate that.

Re: New forum engine

Posted: Mon Apr 07, 2008 10:24 pm
by Marc
I'm loving the new coat of paint. Otsukaresama!

Re: New forum engine

Posted: Tue Apr 08, 2008 3:28 am
by ShinjiPG
I understand the need to change and all, but I really prefered the previous layout scheme :x
It has this retro feeling that suits games like Snatcher or Policenauts. Also, this one has less contrast which isn't so good for the eyes I think.
But anyway, I support your doings~

Re: New forum engine

Posted: Tue Apr 08, 2008 5:20 am
by 87th
It'll take a a bit of getting used to, but I like the bigger JUNKER logo.

Re: New forum engine

Posted: Tue Apr 08, 2008 1:29 pm
by Artemio
I improved contrast a bit, I hope it helps. If you find anything that still has low contrast please notify me.

I also liked the retro feel of the other layout.. but unfortunately it cannot be imported to the new scheme... a whole rewrite would be needed.

Re: New forum engine

Posted: Thu Apr 10, 2008 2:55 pm
by X_Lupin
Might I ask what is the name of the new board software you are using? I was using myBB or whatever it's called on my site and the security holes are endless.

Re: New forum engine

Posted: Thu Apr 10, 2008 9:43 pm
by JimboKudo
I like the setup, but it's REALLY hard to see which topics have new posts (I think the colors are a bit too similar).

Re: New forum engine

Posted: Fri Apr 11, 2008 10:31 am
by Marc
JimboKudo wrote:I like the setup, but it's REALLY hard to see which topics have new posts (I think the colors are a bit too similar).
Threads with new posts have an arrow to the left of them: Image

But yeah, if you're just going by text color, it can be hard to pick them out. Artemio is away for a few days, but I'll mention it to him when he gets back.

Re: New forum engine

Posted: Fri Apr 11, 2008 11:09 am
by 87th
It's still difficult to tell whether or not a stickied topic has a new post or not. I have to rely on looking at the dates.

Re: New forum engine

Posted: Fri Apr 11, 2008 11:10 am
by JimboKudo
Marc wrote:
JimboKudo wrote:I like the setup, but it's REALLY hard to see which topics have new posts (I think the colors are a bit too similar).
Threads with new posts have an arrow to the left of them: Image

But yeah, if you're just going by text color, it can be hard to pick them out. Artemio is away for a few days, but I'll mention it to him when he gets back.
Lol, I'm an idiot. Thanks for the tip about the arrows.

Re: New forum engine

Posted: Fri Apr 11, 2008 2:39 pm
by Marc
87th wrote:It's still difficult to tell whether or not a stickied topic has a new post or not. I have to rely on looking at the dates.
I agree.

Re: New forum engine

Posted: Sun Apr 13, 2008 7:14 pm
by The Prince II
I'm liking the new look alot.

Re: New forum engine

Posted: Sun Apr 13, 2008 10:09 pm
by Artemio
X_Lupin wrote:Might I ask what is the name of the new board software you are using? I was using myBB or whatever it's called on my site and the security holes are endless.
We are using phpBB, Just as before. We only upgraded from version 2 to ver 3, so far we had kept doing small patches. You can download it from the link at the bottom of each page.

I'll be back tomorrow, and see what I can improve in visibility. Working on stuff like that from the cellphone is not a good idea.

Re: New forum engine

Posted: Thu Apr 17, 2008 7:45 am
by 87th
I've had problems changing my signature on the new engine. If I want to include an image I always receive this error message.
It was not possible to determine the dimensions of the image.
If there was an anti-sig-image policy in the JUNKER HQ, I'd happily accept it, but it's never been that way in the past, so I doubt that's the issue at hand.

Re: New forum engine

Posted: Thu Apr 17, 2008 9:04 am
by Artemio
There is no such policy just as you guess. Please post the image here or send it to me in a PM so I can try to figure out the problem. I am guessing it is a problem with the format of the image itself, maybe the forum engine and imagemagik cannot determine it's validity/dimensions.

Re: New forum engine

Posted: Thu Apr 17, 2008 4:30 pm
by 87th
It's just the standard killer7 signature I have at the moment. I wanted to keep it, but edit out my Wii Friend Code and PSN contact details. I also wanted to get rid of the "Who ever heard of "Pussy Snatchers"?" image, but when I tried to keep it (and my killer7 one), I received an error message for each one.

Re: New forum engine

Posted: Thu Apr 17, 2008 5:51 pm
by Artemio
Fixed man

Re: New forum engine

Posted: Thu Apr 17, 2008 10:44 pm
by JimboKudo
I'm having a problem with my pc where half the time I try to go to a new topic, it comes up with the message that internet explorer couldn't find page and all that. I tried it on another computer, and it didn't have that problem, but half the time the pages would load VERY slowly (it would take about half a minute) and I'm on high speed internet. If I'm doing something wrong to cause this then pray tell, if not, then I guess there's probably not much you can do to fix it anyway.

Re: New forum engine

Posted: Fri Apr 18, 2008 6:07 am
by 87th
Artemio wrote:Fixed man
Thanks

Re: New forum engine

Posted: Sat Apr 26, 2008 9:27 pm
by RandommodnaR
What's with the Friend and Foe System? I don't understand what's for.

Re: New forum engine

Posted: Sun Apr 27, 2008 12:12 am
by Artemio
It is a standard feature of the boards. It is intended as a convenience for users. You are alerted of other friends online at the same time from your cp, and foe's posts are not shown I believe. The forum faq has the full description.

Re: New forum engine

Posted: Sun Apr 27, 2008 11:55 am
by JimboKudo
Artemio wrote:It is a standard feature of the boards. It is intended as a convenience for users. You are alerted of other friends online at the same time from your cp, and foe's posts are not shown I believe. The forum faq has the full description.
The foe feature doesn't seem to have all that much of a use here, but I guess it comes along with the friends function.

Re: New forum engine

Posted: Thu Jun 05, 2008 11:21 pm
by JimboKudo
I don't know how it happened but I've stopped getting any emails notifying me of activity on the topics I'm watching. Is there any way I can fix this?

Re: New forum engine

Posted: Fri Jun 06, 2008 12:29 am
by Artemio
JimboKudo wrote:I don't know how it happened but I've stopped getting any emails notifying me of activity on the topics I'm watching. Is there any way I can fix this?
Most probably a spam filter, mailing form the server has been working for me. Do you get mail with PMs? We can try that.

Re: New forum engine

Posted: Fri Jun 06, 2008 9:53 pm
by JimboKudo
Artemio wrote:
JimboKudo wrote:I don't know how it happened but I've stopped getting any emails notifying me of activity on the topics I'm watching. Is there any way I can fix this?
Most probably a spam filter, mailing form the server has been working for me. Do you get mail with PMs? We can try that.
It doesn't really notify me or anything, even about PMs. (if I understood your question.) Maybe my email account's security got boosted up or something. I have a hotmail address. If anyone else has one, then could they please tell me whether they still recieve notifications.