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Hey Guys,

Welcome to the new forum system! 

Couple of quick things:

  • It should be much snappier and more reliable than the last system...
  • There are most likely bugs. Sorry about that in advance. Let me know and I'll get 'em fixed up as soon as possible.
  • There are probably a couple of things missing. I have plans to add a few more features and am easily bribed.
  • If there's anything else I'll be hanging around for a bit to check up on it...
Enjoy!
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 Good luck

Seems a lot snappier, I like that

Print is a bit small, can that be sorted ?

Starting XI
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Ph-ph-ph-ph-f-f-f-aster!

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nice one Nik.

Just one thing that the old site did - under the topic it has a link to "1,2,3,..last post" page (saves lazy people like me from one click :) )

Emoticons?

Listen here Fudgeface
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It feels amazing to use, way faster than what it was before. I like the new editor as well, very sleek. Is there an easy way to add a button to get to the last page of a topic from the active topics page? It's just a small thing that would make it easier to use, but thanks for getting this up and running (without a trainwreck this time). 

EDIT: Feverish beat me to it.

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Hey! I can post! I can post!!! Whoop whoop, shirt off.... now what did I want to say? Thanks wellnik, a thousand thank yous

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Massive credit to WellNik for this. We toyed with a few open sauce off the shelf type options and then Nik went "fuck it, I can write a better piece of forum software with my feet". 

And he did.

Listen here Fudgeface
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Oh wow, so this isn't Vanilla? Nik is a legend.

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I also bullied him into launching it tonight when he wanted to wait for more user testing. I had more faith in his ability to cut code than he did ;)

It's pretty awesome I reckon. This editor is seks.

Listen here Fudgeface
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I really like how we can switch to HTML. Will make posting the league table a helluva lot easier.

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patrick478 wrote:

Oh wow, so this isn't Vanilla? Nik is a legend.


Yeah, I'm a masochist so decided to code my own. Does leave us with a significant Big Red Bus problem but I'll make sure I look both ways crossing Wills St.
For anyone who's interested, it's a Rails 3.1 app running on top of MySQL. We're on a 2GB VPS with OpenHost (thanks Tyson), and I'm using memcached pretty heavily plus a decent amount of database tuning so we're using all 2GB :)
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hepatitis wrote:

 Good luck

Seems a lot snappier, I like that

Print is a bit small, can that be sorted ?


Hey - whereabouts is the print a little small? I think I copied most of the styling from the old site so it should be pretty much the same, but I'm sure it's no biggie to bump it up a bit.
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Is there any 'mark all forums as read' button? At the moment it every topic has new posts on them. Also, is there a page that just shows only threads with new posts?

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Feverish wrote:

nice one Nik.

Just one thing that the old site did - under the topic it has a link to "1,2,3,..last post" page (saves lazy people like me from one click :) )

Emoticons?


Alright, added it to the Trello board.
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Ryans Rovers wrote:

Is there any 'mark all forums as read' button? At the moment it every topic has new posts on them. Also, is there a page that just shows only threads with new posts?


Yeah, I didn't know what to do there as it was a bit of a pain to extract the "viewed" state from Drupal so I basically punted on it... 

Where would make sense for a "Mark All Read" button? There's no page that shows only threads with new posts either, but I can add that - it's just a slight PITA to tune. Consider it on the board!
#1 Drupal Fan
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Oh, and emoticons/smilies are already on the list. If anybody has a creative commons/cheap set that they like let me know...

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Marvelous effort this, so much faster now.


Trophy manager sub board seems to of disappeared.

#1 Drupal Fan
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Seems like post counts aren't updating, that's pretty fail so I'll get on that.

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Azevo wrote:

Marvelous effort this, so much faster now.

Trophy manager sub board seems to of disappeared.


Hurm, that's not ideal - let me look into that. It's definitely still around somewhere :)
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wellnik wrote:

Oh, and emoticons/smilies are already on the list. If anybody has a creative commons/cheap set that they like let me know...


I recommend deviant art smilies, theres a bunch of them.


Edit: Whole category devoted to smiley packs. (Noticed it's a bit of hit and miss with some of them)..


http://browse.deviantart.com/customization/emoticons/packslarge/

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wellnik wrote:

Ryans Rovers wrote:

Is there any 'mark all forums as read' button? At the moment it every topic has new posts on them. Also, is there a page that just shows only threads with new posts?


Yeah, I didn't know what to do there as it was a bit of a pain to extract the "viewed" state from Drupal so I basically punted on it... 

Where would make sense for a "Mark All Read" button? There's no page that shows only threads with new posts either, but I can add that - it's just a slight PITA to tune. Consider it on the board!
Could just have it as text on the top right of the category forums, along the same level the 'Forums' and 'Active Topics' tabs.
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wellnik wrote:

Azevo wrote:

Marvelous effort this, so much faster now.

Trophy manager sub board seems to of disappeared.


Hurm, that's not ideal - let me look into that. It's definitely still around somewhere :)

Trophy Manager is back and it even got elevated to a full category! (that's my way of spinning the fact that we only support 2 levels of category...)
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New card on Trello board: 3 levels of category.

Joking.

Actually on the Trello board: "Nik to tell Smithy he was right about going live."


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wellnik wrote:

hepatitis wrote:

 Good luck

Seems a lot snappier, I like that

Print is a bit small, can that be sorted ?

Hey - whereabouts is the print a little small? I think I copied most of the styling from the old site so it should be pretty much the same, but I'm sure it's no biggie to bump it up a bit.


Dont know if it is my computer or not. will be interested if others say the same. Anyway I am loving this, well done Wellnik  :)


Edit, easy to post an image too  



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hepatitis wrote:

wellnik wrote:

hepatitis wrote:

 Good luck

Seems a lot snappier, I like that

Print is a bit small, can that be sorted ?

Hey - whereabouts is the print a little small? I think I copied most of the styling from the old site so it should be pretty much the same, but I'm sure it's no biggie to bump it up a bit.


Dont know if it is my computer or not. will be interested if others say the same. Anyway I am loving this, well done Wellnik  :)


Hmmm, wanna drop a screenshot? Also try hitting ctrl/cmd+0, sometimes you've zoomed in or out...
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Hehe I'm Back .........................

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wellnik wrote:

hepatitis wrote:

wellnik wrote:

hepatitis wrote:

 Good luck

Seems a lot snappier, I like that

Print is a bit small, can that be sorted ?

Hey - whereabouts is the print a little small? I think I copied most of the styling from the old site so it should be pretty much the same, but I'm sure it's no biggie to bump it up a bit.


Dont know if it is my computer or not. will be interested if others say the same. Anyway I am loving this, well done Wellnik  :)


Hmmm, wanna drop a screenshot? Also try hitting ctrl/cmd+0, sometimes you've zoomed in or out...

Was me, all good now after taking your advice.  Emoticon : slightly embarrased
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Smithy wrote:

New card on Trello board: 3 levels of category.

Joking.

Actually on the Trello board: "Nik to tell Smithy he was right about going live."


It's like Inception, stuff gets slower the deeper you go... 

It remains to be seen if you're right... there are still a few pretty glaring issues that I'm now scrambling to fix...
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This is fantastic. Thanks wellnik you're a champ.

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hepatitis wrote:
Was me, all good now after taking your advice.  Emoticon : slightly embarrased

All good :) Need those damn smilies O_O
Listen here Fudgeface
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The more I explore this, the more awesome it gets. Image posting is a breeze!

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Some smiley packs.. They all download as .rar files with each smiley as individual .gifs or .pngs or whatever. 

http://kissbomb.deviantart.com/art/Smiley-set-162068634?q=boost%3Apopular%20in%3Acustomization%2Femoticons%2Fpackslarge&qo=82

http://sereneworx.deviantart.com/art/the-emoticon-pack-48758881?q=boost%3Apopular%20in%3Acustomization%2Femoticons%2Fpackslarge&qo=20

http://gomotes.deviantart.com/art/damotes-67654552?q=boost%3Apopular%20in%3Acustomization%2Femoticons%2Fpackslarge&qo=105

http://aocom.deviantart.com/art/emotes-one-51111030?q=boost%3Apopular%20in%3Acustomization%2Femoticons%2Fpackslarge&qo=115

I am a noob and don't know how to hyperlink with this at the moment haha.

Listen here Fudgeface
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'The Scoop'
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wellnik wrote:

Oh, and emoticons/smilies are already on the list. If anybody has a creative commons/cheap set that they like let me know...


Would be very cool to have some Nix themed similes for the forum!! I could possibly volunteer some designs if people were interested.. 
Although not sure if itd be worth it
Early retirement
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As the Fever forums come right something else had to give.

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Woof Woof
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Top work Nik.


News, did you walk home?

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playwithFire wrote:

wellnik wrote:

Oh, and emoticons/smilies are already on the list. If anybody has a creative commons/cheap set that they like let me know...


Would be very cool to have some Nix themed similes for the forum!! I could possibly volunteer some designs if people were interested.. 
Although not sure if itd be worth it

Hah, I'll definitely add 'em in if you make some...
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So is this vanilla?

Noice flavour!!


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Junior82 wrote:

So is this vanilla?

Noice flavour!!



This is Siggy ;) Flying elbow to the head of the old system...

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