[Lt.Cannonfodder]

Cool update, but it will take some time to get used to the new colors and everything. I can't yet say if I like it or not.

[Desert Ease]

Great update, lovin the new look.

[Setekh]

Cool update, but it will take some time to get used to the new colors and everything. I can't yet say if I like it or not.

Not to worry, you'll have plenty of time to get used to it. To be honest, most of the changes are under the bonnet, to be honest - security, speed, the new server and domain, etc. Glad you like it for now.

[ChronoReverse]

So can you describe what's your exact problem, Chrono? Is it with the disappearing header or something else?

Most notable is that the striping pattern is missing from Firefox.  In Deer Park Beta (now 1.5 beta) the header graphic is completely missing.  Perhaps it's been fixed now in 1.5 beta 2.  I'll have to check later.

Nonetheless, it's still rendering a bit funny in normal Firefox.

Obviously it's not a serious problem, but I thought you guys might want to be alerted to it.

[Corsair]

Interesting that you should mention that. 3dap.com/hlp redirects to dynamic.gamespy.com/~freespace/hlp; we have that redirecting to www.hard-light.net. dynamic.gamespy.com/~freespace/forums are redirecting to www.hard-light.net/forums - I just tested that out then. Which domain gives you "not found"? We'll look into it.

Linking directly to the old forums. It redirects me from http://dynamic.gamespy.com/~freespace/forums/forumdisplay.php?s=&forumid=19 to http://www.hard-light.net/forumsforumdisplay.php?s=&forumid=19 which gives a Not Found.

[Setekh]

Most notable is that the striping pattern is missing from Firefox. In Deer Park Beta (now 1.5 beta) the header graphic is completely missing. Perhaps it's been fixed now in 1.5 beta 2. I'll have to check later.

Nonetheless, it's still rendering a bit funny in normal Firefox.

Obviously it's not a serious problem, but I thought you guys might want to be alerted to it.

Yeah, it's much appreciated. We'll get to it (likely when Styxx or Sandwich wakes up) eventually. Please have patience for now - and let us know other stuff you see which doesn't look like it ought to.

Linking directly to the old forums. It redirects me from http://dynamic.gamespy.com/~freespace/forums/forumdisplay.php?s=&forumid=19 to http://www.hard-light.net/forumsforumdisplay.php?s=&forumid=19 which gives a Not Found.

Aha, I understand. Probably because it's a straight HTTP redirect; we can fix that. We didn't count on people bookmarking individual forums, but that makes sense. We'll address it soon.

[Unknown Target]

Setekh, I meant that in the user profiles section, you get to have the "User Status" or something or another. It's a custom tag form, I think, but it doesn't do anything, so it should probably be removed.
EDIT: Right there. That's what I meant...look to the right of my postcount. I'm an Orion, but what is the Ravana thing doing there?

Also, please, for the love of whatever Gods you follow, guys...remove the sig image ability. Please.


EDIT: Just a section - maybe you guys should set up a central thread for all forum suggestions, and sticky it at the top of general. That way, you can get a bunch of new things, and you have a greater likelihood of not missing anything

[Setekh]

Setekh, I meant that in the user profiles section, you get to have the "User Status" or something or another. It's a custom tag form, I think, but it doesn't do anything, so it should probably be removed.

Also, please, for the love of whatever Gods you follow, guys...remove the sig image ability. Please.

Aha. We'll look into it.

As for the sig images... we've already been told. About twenty times. Sandwich and Styxx are asleep; when either of them wakes up, it'll be taken care of.

[Grey Wolf]

Setekh, I meant that in the user profiles section, you get to have the "User Status" or something or another. It's a custom tag form, I think, but it doesn't do anything, so it should probably be removed.
EDIT: Right there. That's what I meant...look to the right of my postcount. I'm an Orion, but what is the Ravana thing doing there?

Also, please, for the love of whatever Gods you follow, guys...remove the sig image ability. Please.


EDIT: Just a section - maybe you guys should set up a central thread for all forum suggestions, and sticky it at the top of general. That way, you can get a bunch of new things, and you have a greater likelihood of not missing anything

I believe you were an Orion in the old system, and a Ravanna in the new.

[Fury]

My God... I wake up and the first thing I see is that the whole SQL-server took a hit and now crawls like there's no tomorrow.

[WMCoolmon]

I can't scroll down the page in Firefox. How do you disable the Iframe for siggies?

Shorten your signatures.

It's not my sig that's the problem. It's everyone else's.

But yes, anything over 5 lines is a bit much. Oh, the no new topic when you reply to the topic is nice too.

[CP5670]

Three things: Control Panel > Display > Settings tab > Advanced button > DPI setting. Choose "Custom" and get a ruler that has inches. Put it against your screen and match the DPI setting of the screen so that an inch on-screen is an inch on the ruler.

Next, make sure your browser (what is your browser, anyway?) is set to View > Text Size > Normal (for Firefox) or View > Text Size > Medium (for IE).

Here's a screenshot of a thread about the same font size issue in the staff forum (yes, you get to peek!) in my two browsers for comparison; this is how I coded it to look. Pardon the color dithering - that's not important for this purpose anyway.

This doesn't quite work unfortunately and it's a global setting that affects everything anyway. It causes some things to get misaligned and at least on my laptop, has a weird effect on IE and Firefox, causing all website images to look pixellated.

[Setekh]

It's not my sig that's the problem. It's everyone else's.

But yes, anything over 5 lines is a bit much. Oh, the no new topic when you reply to the topic is nice too.

Yeah, I know it's true. Still, I think we were still firming down the limit. If someone is causing scrollbars on their signature, that's way too long.

I may suggest that we simply move back to a character-limit for everyone's sigs... hmmm.

[Black Wolf]

RAWR!

FIRST!

Third, actually. There were two posts, me and Sandwich, on the other night when it first came up, but they have mysteriously disappeared. Not that I'd feel obligated to name names. I will, however, point fingers.

*Points at Sanger*

And you'd better have fixed the [colour] tags...

What's this? Three days warning and no fixage? Not on fellows, not on at all!

[Setekh]

Third, actually. There were two posts, me and Sandwich, on the other night when it first came up, but they have mysteriously disappeared. Not that I'd feel obligated to name names. I will, however, point fingers.

*Points at Sanger*

Mwahaha! Others getting blamed for my mischief!

Also, you have no idea how comforting it is to hear someone call a sandwich a sanger. Makes me proud to be Australian.

[Kamikaze]

By the way, the reason the header graphic doesn't work in Firefox is because the javascript that displays the google ads in the header doesn't work in Firefox. The browser won't render the background of an empty table cell (it's empty without the google ads), so the header image disappears.

You can verify this by putting some random text inside the header cell. If you put some text in, the header will suddenly reappear.

www.cyberberry.com/kamikaze/misc/hlp3.html <-- Try this. I stuck a non-breaking space into the header cell.

[Black Wolf]

By the way, I find this button amusing, in a HLPesque context.

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[Wanderer]

The webring is really nice, but are you going to add SCP site to the webring thingye on top of the forum? I think it would deserve that

[Fury]

Also, a note to all project leaders: before shutting down the old forums, we requested that all project leaders would submit a list of members who should have access to their respective project internal forums. Unfortunately, this went largely unnoticed by majority of the project leaders. Those hosted projects now only have their forum moderators granted access to their respective internal forums. Project leaders: please post a list of members who should have access to your project's internal forums to the Hosted Sites Support Forum.

Everybody noticed this, right? RIGHT?

[Prophet]

I do not like this!

Well, I do like it, it´s HLP afterall... But I liked the old look better. In the old days the posts were seperated by background color. And it was, how should I say this, easy to look at.

Now all posts have the same background color. And the quote link is brighter than the quote itself! Furthermore, when replying, the reply automatically gets topic (RE: someobvious****), which adds to the useless text on the screen. All this makes the forum "messy" to read. I am already having flashbacks of 800x600 pictures in signatures...

I am I can get used to this new look. But I just thought I should tell my initial feelings...

I like the new options and settings thought. So far everything else is positive, exept the visual look...

EDIT: ****e! It looks like the post topic (subject) is a must. Why is that!