Forum re-organization.

[Llava]

I've touched on this before.

I'm totally hot.  And I will be totally hot for the rest of my life.  I will age like a fine wine.  Or David Bowie.

[Signe]

David Bowie goes to Switzerland twice a year for virgin monkey piss injections administered facially and warm coffee colonic irrigation to keep him looking young. 

[Llava]

Beauty isn't cheap.

[Signe]

Or pretty.

[Shockeye]

Or pretty.

Never look behind the curtain.

[Shockeye]

Is there a way to indicate new posts in the child forums from the main page without dechilding them?  Maybe make the color of the link change color?

I will look into making the link color change when I get back from Austin.

I'm downloading a current copy of the website at the moment and will start playing with some things as soon as it finishes.

[Shockeye]

Ok, as you'll now see on the main board index, child boards light up when there's a new post since the last time you visited that board. The check mark will only appear on the main board index when there's a new post in a main board that you haven't seen. New posts in child forums will no longer cause the main board to light up, just the child board name.

[Cheddar]

That is totally rad sir.  For your accomplishment I present this cheerleader for you to use. 

[Signe]

Those are the saddest pair of pom poms I've ever seen.



There!

[Samwise]

Ok, as you'll now see on the main board index, child boards light up when there's a new post since the last time you visited that board. The check mark will only appear on the main board index when there's a new post in a main board that you haven't seen. New posts in child forums will no longer cause the main board to light up, just the child board name.

You're my hero.

These two cheerleaders are fighting over you!

[Paelos]

Yes!

Shake it, madam!

Capital knockers.

[Llava]

You are a god among insects.

[Cheddar]

Caution: slippery when wet!

[stray]

I'm not seeing the yellow check when child boards get updated.

Apologies if someone already brought it up.

[Llava]

Intentional change, child boards links should now highlight and no longer trigger the yellow check.  The parent board itself will have to have a new post to trigger the check.

I, however, cannot see the yellow highlights on the child links.  Or, at least, I can't see it on Firefox.  It works fine on IE.  I may be missing the appropriate plug-in to make it work on Firefox.

[Llava]

Woah, okay, suddenly it works.  If you changed something, that fixed it.  If not... hooray for magic!

[Shockeye]

Woah, okay, suddenly it works.  If you changed something, that fixed it.  If not... hooray for magic!

I was sleeping when it started working. Magic indeed.

[Morfiend]

I don't think I like the new layout. More forums and subforums makes stuff harder to get to. "PC / Console game discussion" didn't have much traffic to being with, now it's got right around zero.

I'd keep the child-boards, but one section for game discussion, one for development - like it was before I guess.

I agree with this. I find that its like one new post per forum or so. More clicking to find what I want to read. I think you should merge the MMOG forum and the gaming forum, and leave the sub forums as sub forums. Also, the gaming release forums are turning in to the general gaming forum. I think those should be just in the gaming forum. But thats just me. Otherwise I like the redesign.

[schild]

For a long time I've wanted a roped off area for one thread each week for each new game worth talking about. It helps me gauge what people want to see and read about. It only takes a glance to see what generates interest and what doesn't. If we clump it into the regular PC Gaming Forum, it won't be anywhere near as easy to follow. I guess the Weekly Release forum could be dumped into PC/Gaming at the end of each month though. That might be more reasonable. Though it'll be neat after a year to see how many threads are in the weekly release forum and to merely glance to see what the most "popular" game of the year was in 2005 or whatever.

[Morfiend]

Mainly what I was talking about was the MMOG forum joining the Gaming forum, and having all the sub forums of mmog be sub forums of gaming.

[schild]

Mainly what I was talking about was the MMOG forum joining the Gaming forum, and having all the sub forums of mmog be sub forums of gaming.

One of the reasons we kept it seperate is that the child boards in Gaming, if we did that, would almost go past the fold. Way too many.

[Shockeye]

Mainly what I was talking about was the MMOG forum joining the Gaming forum, and having all the sub forums of mmog be sub forums of gaming.

One of the reasons we kept it seperate is that the child boards in Gaming, if we did that, would almost go past the fold. Way too many.

Yep. If all the child boards were put into general gaming, it would be terrible for navigation. Way have WAAAY too many WoW and CoH/CoV posts to not be in their own child boards. The only other option is no child boards ever. To me that's ugly.

[Trippy]

The setup as it is now works for me. I also use the Show unread posts since last visit link so the overall organization doesn't matter that much too me. The only oddity for me if I was to nitpick is that discussion for Battlefield 2 is under the Game Server child/sub forum when it's mostly discussion about the game itself and not the f13 BF2 server.

[Sky]

I never post from home, but hanging out today I logged in. I can now see how child boards light up, I always wondered what folks were talking about. Apparently it's not working on Safari on OSX 10.3.9 (not sure the version of Safari, the latest). At home I'm using WinXP/Firefox and it works fine, pretty cool. At work it works like it always has. No biggie, just FYI.

[stray]

Irrelevant, but I'd just like to use this as an opportunity to request that...

You get rid of postcounts. 

Who needs them?!

[Signe]

You're just embarrassed because you have nearly 500 more posts than me and I've been here a month longer.  You are a Chatty Cathy! 

Don't listen to him.  Not only should we keep postcounts but they should be in a bigger font.  We should have a star rating, too!

[Shockeye]

I never post from home, but hanging out today I logged in. I can now see how child boards light up, I always wondered what folks were talking about. Apparently it's not working on Safari on OSX 10.3.9 (not sure the version of Safari, the latest). At home I'm using WinXP/Firefox and it works fine, pretty cool. At work it works like it always has. No biggie, just FYI.

It's all done with CSS so if it isn't working on Safari, Safari isn't parsing CSS files correctly.

[Shockeye]

Don't listen to him.  Not only should we keep postcounts but they should be in a bigger font.  We should have a star rating, too!

It's all going to be about user levels. Each 1000 posts will ding you a level. However, before you are allowed to "level up" you will have to get trained by a more senior level poster. Also, because of the sliding scale we're going to be using, very few people will ever make it to the top echelon of poster levels.

[stray]

You're just embarrassed because you have nearly 500 more posts than me and I've been here a month longer.

Not sure if you're just trying to be funny or not, but you're right on the money. LOL.

[Signe]

I wasn't kidding, actually.  Look at schild's postcount, too.  He's heading quickly towards 10K, at which time he will be retired to a rest home and we will erect a statue in his memory after he finally passes away.

It'll be fun.

[schild]

I'll erect a statue when the city becomes a metropolis.

[Cheddar]

I'll erect a statue when the city becomes a metropolis.

That stupid statue was impossible without cheats.  YOU ARE A CHEATER.

please dont ban me

[Signe]

He's just being silly.  He knows he can't erect a statue to himself, anyway... that would be like posting your own welcome thread.

Oh wait....

[Cheddar]

He's just being silly.  He knows he can't erect a statue to himself, anyway... that would be like posting your own welcome thread.

Oh wait....

Or your own birthday thread.

Oh wait...

[Llava]

Each 1000 posts will ding you a level.

No no.

It has to be 100, then 500, then 2500, then 10000, then 500000, etc etc.