Author Topic: Welcome to the next version of the tech forum. (Read 7815 times)

GrimJack · « **on:** January 01, 2008, 01:44:39 pm »

Everything will look a little different for a bit, until I can get some of the old decorations back up.

Other than that, you should have all your usual features - posting, private messages, etc, etc.

If you have any questions, send me an email (grimjack@idriders.com) a PM here, or connect to one of my IM services, I'm on AIM, ICQ, YIM, and Meebo. Or call me, for that matter, as long as you don't mind footing the long distance bill!

kiwi · « **Reply #1 on:** January 01, 2008, 05:36:17 pm »

looks great dave!its even eassier to delete bogus registerees than the old one....just a couple of wee nit picks
I liked how in the old version the stickies were sort of seperate from the main body of posts,and is there any way to visually seperate the post a bit more clearly?

other than that fan bloody tastic

Willie_B · « **Reply #2 on:** January 01, 2008, 06:29:07 pm »

Gotta learn some new icons but this looks GREAT. Thanks again.

Willem · « **Reply #3 on:** January 01, 2008, 06:29:24 pm »

This is great. Thanks for all your hard work keeping this alive through the years.

On the rare occasion when this has gone down, it struck me just how important this group really is to me. My daughters call you guys my "imaginary friends," but even they know what a great group you are. (And when they met Simon in England they thought his kids were cool, too.)

Looking forward to meeting more of y'all in the coming years.

Will

GrimJack · « **Reply #4 on:** January 01, 2008, 08:07:39 pm »

I agree with you on the stickies, I'll see what I can figure out. I thought it would be easy to change the colours, but looks like it's harder than I thought!

By the way, for all you folks that like Quick Reply at the bottom of the thread:
- Click on your profile
- Select Look and Layout Preferences
- Near the bottom, change the Use Quick Reply on topic display to your preference

GrimJack · « **Reply #5 on:** January 01, 2008, 08:56:26 pm »

Woot! Only a few missteps along the way for the sticky separation. Seems to be working for me now though!

shovelon · « **Reply #6 on:** January 01, 2008, 10:01:04 pm »

This looks really great!

Thanks a bunch,
Terry

kiwi · « **Reply #7 on:** January 01, 2008, 10:08:19 pm »

wow that was quick....I am gonna use a new forum function on you Grimjack!

kiwi · « **Reply #8 on:** January 01, 2008, 10:36:32 pm »

Quote from: Willie_B on January 01, 2008, 06:29:07 pm

Gotta learn some new icons but this looks GREAT. Thanks again.

the icons are very very similar to the old forum.....I know they didnt work though....hover your mouse over each icon and it will display some text,most are pretty straight forward

the tables are the hardest to figure out...they are for creating a table in your post

a1	a2
b1	b2

disregarding the square brackets the "code' for the above table is
table tr td a1 /td td a2 /td /tr tr td b1 /td td b2 /td /tr /table
start table entry with table tr is new row td is column /td is end of that column entry repeat for as many columns as required then end that row with a /tr and start new row with tr...and so on end last row with /tr then /table

is teletype
insert your text between the tt /tt,square brackets ignored again

is list

line one
line two
line three

code for above list(again no square brackets shown is
list li line one /li li line two /li li line three /li /list

in all examples the spaces are not required
hope this helps!!!

GrimJack · « **Reply #9 on:** January 02, 2008, 12:41:38 am »

Things are going to be a little slow for a bit - Google just discovered the change, and their spiders are running through the place now. They don't seem to be running a ridiculous amount of load, kindly enough, but it's still noticeable.

asylum_inc · « **Reply #10 on:** January 02, 2008, 03:54:51 pm »

Looks good...new year - new board

GrimJack · « **Reply #11 on:** January 02, 2008, 04:20:15 pm »

As an extra added bonus, the server load went from ~25-40% on average to something so small it's not even measurable.

I guess the old forum's method of storing each user / post / pm as a separate file on the hard drive really doesn't compare well to anything with a proper database back end!

Douglas_Johnston · « **Reply #12 on:** January 02, 2008, 04:24:03 pm »

wow this looks awesome!Thanks to everybody!

Matno · « **Reply #13 on:** January 02, 2008, 05:10:37 pm »

I gotta say..."Kudos to DAVE!!!" This site is unbelievably faster than it was. I used to have to wait close to 20 seconds sometimes for the forum to load up (and in the mean time, I couldn't go to any other websites as my whole browser would be "preoccupied.") Now it's almost instantaneous! Love it. I also love that I can see multiple messages in my inbox at the same time. Nice touch... Can't wait to see the Galleries up and running again!

Matt

GrimJack · « **Reply #14 on:** January 02, 2008, 05:12:55 pm »

Quote from: Matno on January 02, 2008, 05:10:37 pm

Can't wait to see the Galleries up and running again!

Ya, me too!

Oh... wait... I'm the one that has to set that up, right? Err...

/ducks behind the flagpole and sneaks off...

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Author Topic: Welcome to the next version of the tech forum. (Read 7815 times)

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