Rarek Posted March 2, 2012 Share Posted March 2, 2012 Much to my delight and, hopefully, the delight of the people using it, this site is now getting near-properly used. I hope to get as many people as I can interested so we can all help make this a proper gaming community! That is of course a team effort. The use of the forums is already blindingly brilliant and the place immediately has a really good feel to it - we just need to get even more people interested. Grab everyone you can - everyone you play games with or talk to on a regular basis. We'll get this place used so we can all help, share and create! On top of that, it's important to note that this site is barely in its infancy. It's sitting on a brand new forum software named XenForo and, through the use of various PHP hacks and a hell of a lot of CSS, looks how it looks today. There will be errors. There will be grey text on grey backgrounds and transparent blocks where no transparent blocks should be. If you see anything you think needs to be changed - tell me. Take a screenshot if you have to or just explain the problem. The above even stretches to improvements and suggestions for the site. Do you want to see something implemented that isn't already? Or something that you think could be done better? Things like trophies and awards, application systems or even a gallery of default avatars. If you think of it, suggest it. As a final word - signatures appear in the majority of forums and most people like them. The idea of the layout of this site, however, is to keep it as clean as possible. Huge signatures bursting at the seams with BBCode and images would only serve to ruin a currently-clean-looking set-up. I have thought of allowing, like the status updates, 140 characters or so for a motto or a favourite quote. Even that however would distract from the content. What do you think? UPDATE: Please post all problems in the "Help & Support" forum and all improvements and suggestions in the aptly-named "Improvements & Suggestions" forum. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GarethJoiner Posted March 5, 2012 Share Posted March 5, 2012 when you create a thread, you can scale images as you write it, unfortunatly however you scale it is completely ignored when you actually post, Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rarek Posted March 5, 2012 Author Share Posted March 5, 2012 when you create a thread, you can scale images as you write it, unfortunatly however you scale it is completely ignored when you actually post, The scaling will just be a feature of the browser - not the forums. Seeing as the posting area has different dimensions to the final thread view, flexibly resizing the images wouldn't produce the desired output anyway. How about the ability to give custom dimensions to your images that would keep the aspect ratio? That may well be possible and would be more viable than flexibly resizing in the definitely-not-WYSIWYG editor. GarethJoiner and Nanashi 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jaz Posted March 7, 2012 Share Posted March 7, 2012 Much to my delight and, hopefully, the delight of the people using it, this site is now getting near-properly used. I hope to get as many people as I can interested so we can all help make this a proper gaming community!That is of course a team effort. The use of the forums is already blindingly brilliant and the place immediately has a really good feel to it - we just need to get even more people interested. Grab everyone you can - everyone you play games with or talk to on a regular basis. We'll get this place used so we can all help, share and create! On top of that, it's important to note that this site is barely in its infancy. It's sitting on a brand new forum software named XenForo and, through the use of various PHP hacks and a hell of a lot of CSS, looks how it looks today. There will be errors. There will be grey text on grey backgrounds and transparent blocks where no transparent blocks should be. If you see anything you think needs to be changed - tell me. Take a screenshot if you have to or just explain the problem. The above even stretches to improvements and suggestions for the site. Do you want to see something implemented that isn't already? Or something that you think could be done better? Things like trophies and awards, application systems or even a gallery of default avatars. If you think of it, suggest it. As a final word - signatures appear in the majority of forums and most people like them. The idea of the layout of this site, however, is to keep it as clean as possible. Huge signatures bursting at the seams with BBCode and images would only serve to ruin a currently-clean-looking set-up. I have thought of allowing, like the status updates, 140 characters or so for a motto or a favourite quote. Even that however would distract from the content. What do you think? Yes James Marks and Nanashi 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nanashi Posted March 7, 2012 Share Posted March 7, 2012 Yes You sure? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jaz Posted March 7, 2012 Share Posted March 7, 2012 yep.. also on a serious note, maybe have a browse freature for attatching pictures James Marks and Nanashi 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nanashi Posted March 7, 2012 Share Posted March 7, 2012 Just because no one wants to like you posts... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rarek Posted March 7, 2012 Author Share Posted March 7, 2012 maybe have a browse freature for attatching pictures How so? You mean being able to browse your computer for attachments and then uploading them? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nanashi Posted March 7, 2012 Share Posted March 7, 2012 Yeah, there was only a link for Insert when she tried it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rarek Posted March 7, 2012 Author Share Posted March 7, 2012 Yeah, there was only a link for Insert when she tried it. Aye, that'll appear when you just click the "Insert/edit image" button above the text area. Use the "Upload a File" button below the text area to browse for files. The one you were using is mainly for inserting web images. I'll make the distinction clearer. EDIT: Now changed the button you were using to use the tooltip "Insert / Edit Image from Web (URL)". Nanashi 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jaz Posted March 8, 2012 Share Posted March 8, 2012 oki doki, sorry I'm just blind James Marks and Nanashi 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
James Marks Posted March 8, 2012 Share Posted March 8, 2012 hi Jack theres an bit of a bug with the points system because for example if i intergrated my steam account with the website it would give me a point but it hasnt. could you look into this for me please thanks;) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jaz Posted March 8, 2012 Share Posted March 8, 2012 DON'T GIVE HIM ANY POINTS Nanashi and GarethJoiner 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
James Marks Posted March 8, 2012 Share Posted March 8, 2012 DON'T GIVE HIM ANY POINTS looooooooooooooooooool very funny you love to take the mike dont ya. dont make me unlike all those comments to make you lose those points;) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nanashi Posted March 8, 2012 Share Posted March 8, 2012 Another problem is the font color of the text when i hover over a member in the 'registered members' page is white, which doesn't show up on the page. On a similar note, could the background in these entry areas be lightened to a lighter grey? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
James Marks Posted March 8, 2012 Share Posted March 8, 2012 could the background in these entry areas be lightened to a lighter grey? i argree this background clour is very hard to see what your typeing could you change this please or give us the option of changing it ourselfs for example in word a change background clour tool. also could you add the spell checker option in aswell just it would improve the website aswell Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rarek Posted March 8, 2012 Author Share Posted March 8, 2012 James - I'm aware of the issue regarding the Steam Association trophy. While the trophy is still active the actual code that does the check is commented out and not being used while I fix it. It will be working shortly and you'll get your trophy as soon as I integrate it. Ciaran - Good spot. I'll edit the CSS later today and give a quick update when I'm done. If anything I'll just give the pop-ups a border, a bit of drop-shadow and black text. In terms of the entry areas - are you talking about where you input text? Mine is pure white with black text. UPDATE: Tried on a couple of different browsers and I can see the problem. Should be fixed now. Nanashi 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nanashi Posted March 8, 2012 Share Posted March 8, 2012 Currently mine is pure white with black text, however earlier it was a dark grey (French Grey 90% I believe), making it difficult to see what we were writing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rarek Posted March 8, 2012 Author Share Posted March 8, 2012 Currently mine is pure white with black text, however earlier it was a dark grey Yep that's fine - I've just changed it now. A CSS "!important" switch wasn't being used where it should've been. Also, the issue regarding the hover-over pop-ups has been fixed too. They'll be fully opaque after I flush out the forum's cache. For now they're about 40% transparent with black text - I'll flush out the cache later today. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
James Marks Posted March 8, 2012 Share Posted March 8, 2012 jack could you add in a spell checker tool and background changer tool as me and jazz were talking about it, could this be made possible Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rarek Posted March 8, 2012 Author Share Posted March 8, 2012 could you add in a spell checker tool I'm sure it's very possible - I'll just need to look at where to grab the dictionaries from. It's not an oft-used feature these days as the majority of modern browsers will spell-check text inputted by default. and background changer tool Do you mean a background colour changer for the text-input box? A background changer for individual posts? For the forum as a whole? Which background do you want to change? Nanashi 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
James Marks Posted March 8, 2012 Share Posted March 8, 2012 i mean the text input box and have for all formus Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nanashi Posted March 8, 2012 Share Posted March 8, 2012 Another problem I have is that I (and I presume others in the Team Member group) can't edit my (our) own posts. It comes up with an error message saying that the time limit of 0 has expired. Edit: thanks for the fix jack Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rarek Posted March 8, 2012 Author Share Posted March 8, 2012 Try one more time Ciaran. Nanashi 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rarek Posted March 9, 2012 Author Share Posted March 9, 2012 UPDATE: Please post all problems in the "Help & Support" forum and all improvements and suggestions in the aptly-named "Improvements & Suggestions" forum. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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