[mikhael]

Originally posted by Shrike
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As for NS screwing up due to vB, I can't help you there - what version are you running?  At home 4.7 didn't have any real problems with vB, except during certain periods, and during those weird periods half the bloody sites on the net crashed NS, vB or no.  And I had problems with UBB and NS as well - not loading long threads properly, stuff like that.  So from that perspective I figured vB wasn't going to make things any worse.

I never used NS6 enough, so I don't have much of an opinion on it.

I'm stuck with NS6. Since my job involves webhosting, I need that stylesheet support. NS4 doesn't handle style sheets properly and its just about the only other browser that will work on my unix machines. I don't run Konqueror or its ilk, because I don't (and won't) install the extraneous crap that they require. Opera completely fails to run.

My problems with NS6 and vBulletin can be found in three places. Editting a post, replying to a post, and submitting a post. During any of these three acts, the form (the one into which I am typing right now) never finishes loading. I suspect an unclosed tag somewhere. During initial submits, this isn't a real problem, just an annoyance. During replies and edits, it becomes a serious problem becuase it never actually submits the data. The only solution is killing the mozilla processes and trying in a new process instance. I have this problem with all bulletin boards running vBulletin and NS6, even on my win2k and win9x machines at home, so I don't think it is unique to just me. I don't have any other problems with NS6 outside of its dubious interactions with vBulletin. That's not likely something you guys can fix, I think.

The other things I mentioned, however, should be easy to do with a little bit of jiggerypokery in the code. They'll take time to sort out, but I expect all the important ones will get done with time.

[Skippy]

Netscape 6.2.1 works fine for me, except for the forms size

[an0n]

The Avatars

Make them gifs. That way you can give them some transparency and stop the 'Black Box' effect on the burgundy posts.

EDIT: And the PM pop-up thingy is cool.

EDIT2: And in the PM window the 'Reply to this Message' button's picture ain't there.

[Fineus]

One step at a time son, one step at a time (personally I want to make sure they're going to work and be used before I spend time making them work as you said).

[Stryke 9]

How in Bob's name do you send up custom avatars?

[Fineus]

You dont. Admin people are the only ones with avater editing access at this stage - you can select one from the public selection or not have one at all - but we aren't going to do individual avatars. If you want one for a hosted project then you'll have to wait untill we've sorted that out - shouldn't take long.

[Nico]

Originally posted by Thunder
You dont. Admin people are the only ones with avater editing access at this stage - you can select one from the public selection or not have one at all - but we aren't going to do individual avatars. If you want one for a hosted project then you'll have to wait untill we've sorted that out - shouldn't take long.

actually, I'd just like me and my staff people (if they want, of course) to have the old OTT avatar no work at all, it already exists
Hmm, in fact, actually, I don't care much.

[Vertigo1]

Since this one actually loads within a decent ammount of time.... I rather like it.

[Setekh]

Originally posted by venom2506


actually, I'd just like me and my staff people (if they want, of course) to have the old OTT avatar no work at all, it already exists
Hmm, in fact, actually, I don't care much.

The thing is, it doesn't let us plug in a URL... it's different. If it were the same, everyone's avs would be back already... pity.

[Xelion]

New buttons look much, much better than the previous

Setekh
We paid for a full version

I'd like to believe that HLP purchased a BB because they cost around more or less Aus$200 and you can only use them for one site there not licensed for more than one!!!

[Nico]

her... damn the :WTF: smiley isn't there yet ...

Thunder: It has now... :wtf : =

[wEvil]

Ive been telling everyone very loudly to go Vbb or PHPbb.

I think its a massive improvement, more complex to get the hang of but in the end it will be worth it.

[Sandwich]

Originally posted by wEvil
...PHPbb...

Agreed.

However, they just got the forums converted to vB, so i ain't complaining - it works, and it works nicely, I might add.

[an0n]

http://dynamic.gamespy.com/~freespace/forums/images/smilies/vacuum.jpg



Very amusing.

[Fineus]

If you find that funny you need help, it's just what the model happens to be named on my computer - it's not like everyones meant to look at the image names anyway

[JR2000Z]

Um...I'm not sure if this has been covered before, how many posts do you need to get to the top 'Member' rank or whatever.

Because I used to be a member,  and of course now I'm a junior member so.....

[Skippy]

You just need 100 posts, if I'm wrong please correct me

[DragonClaw]

He means the top rank you can get before receiving a custom title...

Sandwich has 1300 and he's a "vet"...I have 1600 and am still a vet, so I'm guessing thats the last one, or maybe there's another... Admins can tell you

[Skippy]

Me, I had the grade of Appolyon, though I posted only about 150 messages

[Nico]

Originally posted by Skippy
Me, I had the grade of Appolyon, though I posted only about 150 messages

you were one of the lucky few who had a custom title from the moderators :wink: