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Kipi · Post by **Kipi** » Sat Oct 03, 2009 1:08 pm

Noticed that the forums have changed so that the left panel and top section (GB Logo, signing in etc) has disappeared. Anyone else experiencing?

Post by **BuckGB** » Sat Oct 03, 2009 1:26 pm

Kipi wrote:Noticed that the forums have changed so that the left panel and top section (GB Logo, signing in etc) has disappeared. Anyone else experiencing?

Yep, now something else broke

. Working on it...

Nightmare · Post by **Nightmare** » Sat Oct 03, 2009 1:26 pm

I'm getting that too, and the forum is stretched to fit the width of my monitor, which is 22 inches. It makes reading posts become an exercise in reading very long lines, instead of paragraphs.

fable · Post by **fable** » Sat Oct 03, 2009 4:31 pm

Nightmare wrote:I'm getting that too, and the forum is stretched to fit the width of my monitor, which is 22 inches. It makes reading posts become an exercise in reading very long lines, instead of paragraphs.

Got that, too.

sesobebo · Post by **sesobebo** » Sat Oct 03, 2009 5:35 pm

Nightmare wrote:...and the forum is stretched to fit the width of my monitor...

I've honestly thought this was a feature

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Post by **BuckGB** » Sat Oct 03, 2009 6:40 pm

I've just went ahead and uploaded the previous forum style until I can work out the problems with the new one.

I apologize for the inconvenience this has caused everyone. Please hang in there

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fable · Post by **fable** » Sat Oct 03, 2009 6:45 pm

Heh. Wondered why everything was suddenly fixed.

galraen · Post by **galraen** » Sun Oct 04, 2009 2:54 am

I thought it looked familiar, nice to have the 'New Posts' feature back. Prefer this forum layout anyway.

It wasn't broke, so why did you fix it?:mischief:

Tricky · Post by **Tricky** » Sun Oct 04, 2009 4:36 am

I'm happy to see the New Posts feature is back, I was just recently getting used to that. I've encountered another little bug on the main page. The flash object at the upper center of the page is always shown as the upper layer of the page, which can obscure the side of the Banshee Network drop-down menu. See attachment.

Edit, using Firefox again, by the way. Latest version. An older version of Internet Explorer shows the same.

Tricky · Post by **Tricky** » Sun Oct 04, 2009 4:38 am

Also, I am not sure if this is supposed to be possible, but I just exceeded the maximum attachment size by three or so kilobytes for that screenshot. Hope the limiter isn't off or something.

Magelord648 · Post by **Magelord648** » Sun Oct 04, 2009 8:13 am

galraen wrote:It wasn't broke, so why did you fix it?:mischief:

I completely agree. The original looked better and is easier to navigate.

fable · Post by **fable** » Sun Oct 04, 2009 8:38 am

Buck, I just tried to use Search, and got the following:

Your submission could not be processed because a security token was missing.

Same with Advanced Search. Something may not have been re-hooked up properly.

Post by **BuckGB** » Sun Oct 04, 2009 9:23 am

Thanks for the feedback, I'll add the problems mentioned to my list.

galraen wrote:It wasn't broke, so why did you fix it?:mischief:

Our previous content management system was so archaic, it practically was broke. Trust me, it was bad.

These changes are happening out of necessity, not because I wanted a fresh look for the website. This project was designed to give me a huge leap in modernization on the site's backend, and when everything is implemented correctly these forums will be up and running just as they always were - with the exception that they'll have a slightly different theme. I decided to go with a new theme because a) the upper right login section has to handle account management differently, b) UGO no longer requires their logo to be within my header, and c) there is new functionality that I wanted to make use of on the homepage (hot news, latest comments, etc.).

Lady Sophia · Post by **Lady Sophia** » Mon Oct 05, 2009 5:20 am

Oh, i was wondering why you decided to change the website. I thought it might have been because you thought it could use a new "lick of paint" as it were.

flix · Post by **flix** » Mon Oct 05, 2009 6:36 pm

I sorely miss the news updates being treated like a regular forum. Having the news updates on the front page is nice and all, but to me it doesn't outweigh being able to have full posting capabilities and a clear sense of when certain news articles have been commented on.

swcarter · Post by **swcarter** » Tue Oct 06, 2009 12:14 am

flix wrote:I sorely miss the news updates being treated like a regular forum.

I agree. I liked the news a lot better as a forum, too. My guess is that with the current format, we're never again going to see a long thread based on the news because people will stop commenting when the news item leaves the front page. Forum threads have a lot more staying power.

SWC

galraen · Post by **galraen** » Tue Oct 06, 2009 1:45 am

I sorely miss the news updates being treated like a regular forum.

Ditto, and as I link straight into the forum, I'm not going to see them, and 'out of sight, out of mind'. That also may be a factor in the significant drop off in posts I've noticed since the forum was changed.

Loki[D.d.G] · Post by **Loki[D.d.G]** » Tue Oct 06, 2009 3:18 am

galraen wrote:Ditto, and as I link straight into the forum, I'm not going to see them, and 'out of sight, out of mind'. That also may be a factor in the significant drop off in posts I've noticed since the forum was changed.

Yeah, I agree with you 100% here. I used to check the news forum perhaps a couple of times a day, now I do it very irregularly mainly because I seem to forget that it even exists now.

Tricky · Post by **Tricky** » Tue Oct 06, 2009 3:36 am

I am logged into the forum, but the main page of GB.com doesn't seem to want to eat that same cookie. Not logged in there by default. Sometimes cookies are stored under a different name if you for example first visit a website without the www at the beginning. While that doesn't seem to be the case here I imagine its name must be slightly varying from the original.

Ode to a Grasshopper · Tue Oct 06, 2009 5:58 pm

I'm getting the missing security token search thingie too. No biggie.

On a positive note, the in-forum search this forum feature is a nice addition, unless it was there before and I just didn't notice.