Know Issues - New Forum

Discussion in 'About EntropiaPlanets' started by Lykke TheNun, May 16, 2011.

  1. Lykke TheNun

    Lykke TheNun In Loot We Trust

    Hey all
    We have a few issues with the new forum, which we will fix the next days.

    Unfortunately this cannot be done faster because of real life jobs :) - sorry for that.

    To take an example .. some of you might find, that you are suddenly a part of the forum staff. That might NOT be the case. The forum permissions got screwed up in the transfer, which means that we have to set all permissions again. Because of this we decided to close all private forums until this is fixed.

    Some pictures are missing - and that is because the gallery is gone. Pictures can be uploaded directly in a post instead. If you used to have a picture or banner in your signature, please upload it again. otherwise there will be small red crosses around.

    On a few pages the style went bananas, and there are black text on a black background. All this will be fixed by time.

    It's a very large job, changing from one type of forum platforum to a new forum platform - but I'm sure it will be awesome when everything works as it should again.

    Please, stay tuned and also please notify us if you see something weird going on ^^

    Thanks
     
  2. RAZER

    RAZER Custom title ... uh ...

    looks pretty nice there Lykke, but I have one little thingy. I use the Arkadia skin (but this also goes for the others) and I thin k that the contrast between the light background and the light brownish text is pretty hard to read. Maybe make it a bit darker if possible, that would improve it a lot.
     
  3. Lykke TheNun

    Lykke TheNun In Loot We Trust

    I will look into the issue, Razer :) thanks for pointing it out.
     
  4. MindStar9

    MindStar9 Floating in Space

    I'll add a couple:
    • editing a post makes it disappear, and you have to get the thread again to see the post - seems we have to "refresh" the page to see it again - is this a feature, or a bug
    • trying to interface with FB gives an error
    And some wants/wishes if possible:
    • can the width of the forum be reduced - would show more background and create less white - but I'm not complaining about the white just so you know :)
    • can the default font be changed to Arial, because the numbers don't show up right - Ex: MS9
    • is it possible to get a divider line after the subject title, and well as one to separate the signature area
    • can we get a space between a quote we add and our text
    • in our avatar area on the left, is it possible to have text showing in the "Home Page" part instead of the URL with it still being a link
    That's it for now, if I run into anything else I'll let you know, but so far so good and I love the change BIG time. Thanks for the new environment, and I look forward to more features to come.
     
  5. RAZER

    RAZER Custom title ... uh ...

    Yep after an edit your post is gone, but a refresh (F5) will make it reappear.

    Didn't see the numbers before, but it looks kinda strange indeed. One font I always liked is Verdana (like this text) it feels much more readable even compared with Arial. As you can see it is a text style we can choose, so should not be to hard to make it standard.
     
  6. narfi

    narfi Lost

    I concur, I would also like a darker text background option.

    narfi
     
  7. MindStar9

    MindStar9 Floating in Space

    I agree ... the Verdana is great too, and I think pretty common, so that would work quite well. It does make it easier to read for sure.
     
  8. Lykke TheNun

    Lykke TheNun In Loot We Trust

    Razer, I actually changed a lot of the fonts already in the Calypso Forum to Verdana - because that is my favorite font. I hate fonts (like this one) with 'feet' in it online and I really don't get why that was set as the default font on an online forum.

    Nevertheless changing fonts in all sections with text on all the skins is something which takes time, and I might cheat and ask the xenforo community, if there's an easier way to do it. I went into the main css for the styles, but could not really see if there was one place to do this only.

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    I decided to change two of the forums into 'dark' forums. Those will be ROCKtropia and Cyrene, because they are already dark. This way you can choose what will be best for your eyes. The skins needs to be reversed then, and that might be a pain in the 'ass' because I changed some colors in the css-files - but hey, we won't know until we tried it ;)

    I promise you ONE thing though - it's not going to be tonight - because we had only 5 hours of sleep last night because of the upgrade - and we NEED sleep lol!

    Have fun :)
     
  9. MindStar9

    MindStar9 Floating in Space

    Enjoy your much deserved sleep Hon, and no cattle prodding tonight, mkay! :D
     
  10. MindStar9

    MindStar9 Floating in Space

    Here's something else:
    • on the top right, the Search bar covers up our avatar name where we go to the drop-down menu
     
  11. Lykke TheNun

    Lykke TheNun In Loot We Trust

    that is unfortunately a browser issue, Mindstar, and will be removed if you use Firefox (for example). We had other issues with the other forum with other browsers too and it is just not possible to make a platform fit into all browsers. I do hope they will find a solution for that - but I can recommend using Firefox instead of Explorer at any time (I always used Explore myself, until I found that I had problems with a lot of websites and Peter pointed me to Firefox)
     
  12. MindStar9

    MindStar9 Floating in Space

    Well, the thing is ... I DO use Firefox ... have used it for a long time, so that can't be it.
     
  13. NotAdmin

    NotAdmin Administrator

    Could you post a screenshot, MS? We'll look into it. I just cannot seem to reproduce the error.
     
  14. MindStar9

    MindStar9 Floating in Space

    Sure thing Peter ... here you are! I captured the whole thing so that you can see that I am indeed using Firefox as my browser.

    MS9s-EP-PageError.JPG
     
  15. Lykke TheNun

    Lykke TheNun In Loot We Trust

    that is weird, I use the same skin and do not have that problem on Firefox. I can also see your bg pictures are way more behind the actual forum. Did you try on both your stationaire pc and your laptop? Is this taken from your laptop?

    Thanks
     
  16. MindStar9

    MindStar9 Floating in Space

    This is taken from my desktop PC, the laptop is shut down right now.

    And with regard to the background pics ... it's why I mentioned to Peter about maybe changing the width of the forum, but if this is something unique to my computer right now, then I need to figure out how to fix it.
     
  17. Lykke TheNun

    Lykke TheNun In Loot We Trust

    It depends on how wide your screen is too (the bg picture). About the navigation - I have no clue tbh. I can see it without problems both on Explore at work and on FireFox at home. So it's difficult to find out the reason. But we will look into it.
     
  18. Lerp

    Lerp blind combantant

    My only 'like' is now gone and now everyone knows me and ill never get another.
     
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  19. Lykke TheNun

    Lykke TheNun In Loot We Trust

    I like you Lerp :P
     
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  20. RAZER

    RAZER Custom title ... uh ...

    me to Lerp
     
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