Forum Upgrade

[Kosta]

Just a short announcement. The forum will be upgraded to the latest stable build in the next couple of days. There will be short outages, and the skins might look broken until everything is fine tuned so I will ask you for a couple of days of patience. The new forum is better optimized for large databases like the one abandonia has become, and it will also be more feature packed so I hope everyone will welcome this addition.

[Bobbin Threadbare]

It will still look quite similar, right? Just extra options etc.

[Tulac]

Me roots for an arcade :P

[Kosta]

Yeah, I'll modify the skins so that they suit the new version! You'll be able to configure the rest yourself, shouldn't be too much of a shock :)

[SupSuper]

Ohhh, so you'll finally be upgrading to the paid 2.0 version of IPB?
Thumbs up from me, I love it's features, like multi-quote, attachments in posts, etc. :D If you need help with the new skin just ask.

[punch999]

We should have a forum rpg too. Like my old site.

[Braindead]

Originally posted by Bobbin Threadbare@May 20 2006, 02:01 PM
It will still look quite similar, right? Just extra options etc.
the look of ipb 2.1 is a bit more rectangular than ipb 1.3, but you get used to that. :D

[Tulac]

You can check how it will look on Reloaded forums, they were the guinea pigs :P

[BeefontheBone]

Pioneers, I think you'll find :P

Incidentally, multiquote is evil!

[Bobbin Threadbare]

Originally posted by Tulac@May 21 2006, 07:57 AM
You can check how it will look on Reloaded forums, they were the guinea pigs :P
Ah, ok. Fairly similar. More blocky though.

[ReamusLQ]

Originally posted by BeefontheBone@May 20 2006, 03:09 PM
Pioneers, I think you'll find :P

Incidentally, multiquote is evil!
what the heck is multi quote?

What's so bad about it?

[win98]

Sweet sounds good does it mean we lose our post count and have to re register though.

[#BlakhOle#]

I dont think so that would mean we lose all our muds and vips and that would be too much of a problem to fix in the end, so i reckon we'd be ok with that in the start. Am I right!?:w00t:

[SupSuper]

It's just a upgrade, not a restart, so everything should remain the way it is. Aside some issues, like AR is having. :P

And why do people hate multiquote? Getting to quote multiple posts at once is bliss! :D

[Reup]

Eek. I just visited Reloaded. Seems the upgrade was allready done there. Take's a little time to get used to :whistle:

[win98]

That is good to hear.

[Kosta]

Originally posted by Reup@May 21 2006, 05:19 PM
Eek. I just visited Reloaded. Seems the upgrade was allready done there. Take's a little time to get used to :whistle:
How about the spiffy new shoutbox we'll get here after the makeover? :w00t:

[wormpaul]

Hopefully also some new smilies :angel:

[win98]

New shout box woot! :ok:
:band: :beer: :kosta: :king:

[a1s]

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(#Alex# @ May 21 2006, 12:43 AM) 231490</div>
We should have a forum rpg too. Like my old site.
[/b]
'xplain.

[Danny252]

IT BE UPGRADED!!11!!!ONE!!!2!

Now all Kosta has to do is get it to work right ^^

[guesst]

Seems to work okay to me. I think it just needs to look right.

[Tulac]

Yeah it's still on the default skin, and no shoutbox :(

[The Fifth Horseman]

Looks nice, but I hope you'll return the old color scheme... I got sick of Blue-and-White enough with Librarium Online.

BTW: Braindead ...is ...alive?

[Nick]

Brilliant design! I like it! :ok: :ok: :ok:

Returning to my recent past...
Don't know now, how dial-up men are. Has they lost in speed?

[Kosta]

Sorry for the blue look, I'll get on it right away :P It might look funny while I'm switching the colors but be patient today. SupSuper is working on the red buttons... by today evening, everything should look how its supposed to ;)

[Office_Monk]

Icy blue is somehow... weird, for abandonia. Otherwise ok, I guess... :D

[wormpaul]

Hmm..

Maybe it need to work out but so far it looks so ugly :angry:

[Kosta]

Ah, here we go again :D You don't wanna know how many AR members were initially disgusted with the new look of AR forum, but with time they got used, so will you ;) When we switch it back to abandonia theme and remove unnecessary elements, it will be grand trust me!

[wormpaul]

Alright, i just need patience probally :P


This night i wont be online anymore but when ill wake up tomorrow i hope things will look better and better :) :)


At least good luck with all Kosta (and all those other unknown people)

[Kearnsy]

Just after winning the best interfaced site (something like that)!

I trust you guys, cant wait.

[troop18546]

Actually - I think this sucks. This skin is just too "modernly-corrupt" as I call it.
Too many sites use this skin and I've grown to hate it. The last skin was more tidy and stuff, this one just plain sucks IMO. :(

[Kosta]

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(troop18546 @ May 26 2006, 03:53 PM) 232409</div>
Actually - I think this sucks. This skin is just too "modernly-corrupt" as I call it.
Too many sites use this skin and I've grown to hate it. The last skin was more tidy and stuff, this one just plain sucks IMO. :(
[/b]
khm, I said we're in the process of upgrading it... patience :P

[Tom Henrik]

Take a look on AR's forum, if you don't have a clue at what the finished look will look like.

[The Fifth Horseman]

A little rough on the edges, maybe, but nearly the same as it used to be - great work, guys!

[Kosta]

Soon we'll get new abandonia-red buttons from SupSuper, and I'll polish up the remaints of blue and it should be as good as old, or perhaps even better :P

[Danny252]

It be abandonia-ed! Yay ^^

[U-Boat Commander David]

As i returned to this Forum and i wasn't logged in i thought Someone Nuked me!

What a Shock! :tomato: <_< LOL

BTW, this new Style... :wallbash:

[natas]

Just a minute ago I saw everything in BLUE and no Abandonia logo ...

Help, where am I? Then, when doing refresh, nearly everything looks like it used to ...

Only some of the blue is left (the squares with the page links).

Don't confuse your users that much, hehe ;)

[BeefontheBone]

"Topic has attachemnts"? Don't like that :P

[Danny252]

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(BeefontheBone @ May 26 2006, 07:33 PM) 232452</div>
"Topic has attachemnts"? Don't like that :P
[/b]

What he said.

[win98]

Nice new fourm. :ok:

[Kosta]

New buttons are up, thanks to SupSuper for the fantastic work on them :brain:

[SupSuper]

To prevent the same confusion as in the AR forum:

- The new Quote button is for multi-quoting. If you want to quote multiple posts, just press the Quote button on the respective posts and hit Add Reply.
- The Reply button acts the same as the old Quote button.

[a1s]

wow this is great, collecting many qoutes used to be a bit of work (because the forum engine didn't allow forpreviewing of posts with no new content)!

however I would still like to know what a forum rpg is. (maybe I should just PM #alex# about it...)

[Kosta]

New shoutbox is in place :ok:

[Dino]

Even though new look requires some time to get used to it, it looks really good!

Same for the shoutbox. It also seems a lot faster!

[Danny252]

*splat*
So goshdarned red o.O

[guesst]

Hmmm, just a quick thing. The Abandonia banner on the top doesn't go to abandonia, it goes to the front of the forums. There is a link to Abandonia up there, but it doesn't open a new window any more.

I don't know if this is better or worse in people's minds. Maybe a poll would be necessary to decide.

[Bobbin Threadbare]

Now I have to click in a different place for my :unsure: thing. It still looks great. More posting options too.

[#BlakhOle#]

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Bobbin Threadbare @ May 27 2006, 03:07 PM) 232520</div>
Now I have to click in a different place for my :unsure: thing. It still looks great. More posting options too.
[/b]

Do you mean the emoticons? Coz i always make it my business to learn emoticons off by heart. Saves time see :D

EDIT: Good job by the way on the new forum. :ok: Its always nice to have a change of scenery :)

[Nick]

How can I view if there are new posts in my assistant "my last 10 posts"? There are no icon near the title of topic anymore.

[Grinder]

Still getting used to the new interface. Been using it since 5 minutes and I can already see the improvements over the old one. One thing, though: If you really go through with the fast reply, make the box where you write stuff permanent. So you don't have to click on "Fast Reply" everytime.

[U-Boat Commander David]

The New interface and Shoutbox is Feking Genious. Thanks for that!
The new Style looks way more Modern IMHO. And that red color always Remembers me of the Soviet Union :ok: LOL

[win98]

Well I just have to say that the way the new fourm version is has made it alot faster same with the shoutbox.

[Mighty Midget]

I like this. Much better, says me eyes. A 'softer' look, and bye-bye to those buggery page numbers. Those new buttons are much better imho.

[SupSuper]

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Grinder @ May 27 2006, 05:19 PM) 232566</div>
Still getting used to the new interface. Been using it since 5 minutes and I can already see the improvements over the old one. One thing, though: If you really go through with the fast reply, make the box where you write stuff permanent. So you don't have to click on "Fast Reply" everytime.
[/b]My Controls > Board Settings > Open Fast Reply automatically when available? > Yes.

Kosta: The Quote boxes are still rather bluish. ;):bleh:

[Danny252]

So..?

[Iron_Scarecrow]

Yes... thankyou lord for quick edit.

[Raasted]

Layout - fine
Design - fine

but those things really don't matter - the speed the forum is loading at is simply :kosta:

thank you :ok:


/Raasted

[Quintopotere]

Well, I still prefer the old design... but I have to admit that there are some good improvements :)

[Shrek]

h?m... are the attachments working?

I'm asking this because I tried to attach a file at the translator's forum and got a message saying:
"The total filespace required to upload all the attached files is greater than your per post or global limit. Please reduce the number of attachments or the size of the attachments."

And the most bizarre is that I was trying to edit one of my posts where I keep an attached file with the current progress of the Portuguese translation and under it says "You have used 171.84k of attachment space for this post. You have -4057560bytes left for this post."

What the heck?! :blink: isn't 4057560bytes something like ~3.87 MB? How can I have -3.87MB left for a post if my attached file is only 171 kB?

[Kosta]

There, try now....

[guesst]

Okay, now I feel like I'm nit picking, but with linking the games to the AW list the forums aren't automaticly updated so the "Review and download/buy/nothing" link reflects the proper state. Albalon is a recent example of it automaticly changing ESA status but not forum tag.

My proposed solution would be a simple search and replace to change "Review and blah" to just "Read the Review"

[The Fifth Horseman]

Not sure... that would involve having a bot-script with mod-level powers, and might cause a potential security threat.
How about just using "Review + Download (if ailvaible)"

[Data]

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(the_fifth_horseman @ May 29 2006, 07:06 PM) 233062</div>
Not sure... that would involve having a bot-script with mod-level powers, and might cause a potential security threat.
How about just using "Review + Download (if ailvaible)"
[/b]
well I think the php scripts can do that as well.
Although it requires a bit of mysql + php magic to get it running correctly

The download(if available) thing is a nice solution.
Although the task of updating all forum openers isn't fun. (although it could be scripted though.)

[Shrek]

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Shrek @ May 29 2006, 04:08 PM) 233036</div>
h?m... are the attachments working?

I'm asking this because I tried to attach a file at the translator's forum and got a message saying:
"The total filespace required to upload all the attached files is greater than your per post or global limit. Please reduce the number of attachments or the size of the attachments."

And the most bizarre is that I was trying to edit one of my posts where I keep an attached file with the current progress of the Portuguese translation and under it says "You have used 171.84k of attachment space for this post. You have -4057560bytes left for this post."
[/b]


<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Kosta @ May 29 2006, 05:01 PM) 233051</div>
There, try now....
[/b]

Still doesn't work :crybaby:
(this (http://www.abandonia.com/forum/index.php?act=ST&f=20&t=7314&st=0#entry150433) is the post were I was trying to attach my file - only visible to "translators" :bleh: )

[Icewolf]

I think I need a bit time to get used to the new style and I think it's :ok: .

BUT:
Where is the banana?! Give me the dancing banana back!!! :titan:
And the apple as well!

Pleeease...

[Kosta]

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Data @ May 29 2006, 08:26 PM) 233093</div>
<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(the_fifth_horseman @ May 29 2006, 07:06 PM) 233062
Not sure... that would involve having a bot-script with mod-level powers, and might cause a potential security threat.
How about just using "Review + Download (if ailvaible)"
[/b]
well I think the php scripts can do that as well.
Although it requires a bit of mysql + php magic to get it running correctly

The download(if available) thing is a nice solution.
Although the task of updating all forum openers isn't fun. (although it could be scripted though.)
[/b][/quote]
While you were chitchatting I made the script and updated all topics :P Let me know if there are any left! ;)

[ReamusLQ]

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Kosta @ May 30 2006, 06:41 AM) 233278</div>
While you were chitchatting I made the script and updated all topics :P Let me know if there are any left! ;)
[/b]

just please tell me you didn't do those all one by one by hand :ok:

[Kosta]

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(ReamusLQ @ May 30 2006, 03:32 PM) 233294</div>
<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Kosta @ May 30 2006, 06:41 AM) 233278
While you were chitchatting I made the script and updated all topics :P Let me know if there are any left! ;)
[/b]

just please tell me you didn't do those all one by one by hand :ok:
[/b][/quote]
Oh god no.... scripted, 15 minutes of work ;)

[Ioncannon]

It look ok, but the grey boxes really look funky.

[heLL0]

I like it very much this way. :ok:

[Havell]

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Kosta @ May 30 2006, 03:35 PM) 233297</div>
<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(ReamusLQ @ May 30 2006, 03:32 PM) 233294
<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Kosta @ May 30 2006, 06:41 AM) 233278
While you were chitchatting I made the script and updated all topics :P Let me know if there are any left! ;)
[/b]

just please tell me you didn't do those all one by one by hand :ok:
[/b][/quote]
Oh god no.... scripted, 15 minutes of work ;)
[/b][/quote]

Couldn't you have scripted them in the first place? Instead of getting mt to do it for all 400 game that were on the site at the time.

[Danny252]

*Pats Havell's head*
Now, now, don't get upset. Online, we dont have laws against abuse of manual labour...

[Kosta]

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Havell @ May 31 2006, 04:49 PM) 233479</div>
<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Kosta @ May 30 2006, 03:35 PM) 233297
Oh god no.... scripted, 15 minutes of work ;)
[/b]

Couldn't you have scripted them in the first place? Instead of getting mt to do it for all 400 game that were on the site at the time.
[/b][/quote]
Ah, that was different. The script simply did search & replace. In your case there was nothing to do a search&replace on

[Shrek]

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Shrek @ May 30 2006, 09:47 AM) 233183</div>
<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Shrek @ May 29 2006, 04:08 PM) 233036
h?m... are the attachments working?

I'm asking this because I tried to attach a file at the translator's forum and got a message saying:
"The total filespace required to upload all the attached files is greater than your per post or global limit. Please reduce the number of attachments or the size of the attachments."

And the most bizarre is that I was trying to edit one of my posts where I keep an attached file with the current progress of the Portuguese translation and under it says "You have used 171.84k of attachment space for this post. You have -4057560bytes left for this post."
[/b]


<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Kosta @ May 29 2006, 05:01 PM) 233051</div>
There, try now....
[/b]

Still doesn't work :crybaby:
(this (http://www.abandonia.com/forum/index.php?act=ST&f=20&t=7314&st=0#entry150433) is the post were I was trying to attach my file - only visible to "translators" :bleh: )
[/b][/quote]
AHAH... Now I get it... this new "forum" sums the length of all the attachments in all my posts - and apparently I have around 4 MB of attached files in all of them - and it only allows me to have 200 kB for the entire forum... so I'm almost 4MB over my "attachment quote"... Isn't it possible to increase this number a little bit? I understand I should erase most of the "junk" (if each one of the 7000 members had 4 MB of attachments on their posts, there would be around 28GB of "stuff" in the server that hosts the forum), but I think 200 kB is a little bit to small... :blink:

[Jordan]

Wow, I have missed a lot since my last visit. :) I love IPB 2.1.x