Tactical Gamer Forums Upgrades!

[DudeMan]

OMG WHAT HAVE YOU DONE to the forumns./...

nahhh dont like them, they look like a step back and well errrrgh

[Apophis]

Just curious, are we going to be able to access our old private messages or are those gone?

Yes! You can access the old forums here:

Old Forums

I will keep that database system online for a couple weeks to allow people to get whatever they need to out of it before it disappears.

[H-Hour]

cc. thanks.

[luna]

OMG WHAT HAVE YOU DONE to the forumns./...

nahhh dont like them, they look like a step back and well errrrgh

Great show of support for all of the hard work they've put into this, Dudeman! *thumbs up*

[Overlag]

its going to take some tweaking. for instance its designed for 800x600 and looks horrible @ 1280x1024.

2nd thing thats going to take time to get used to is having the names and details across the top, is there a way to have them down the side like the old forums? (this is something to get used to, its not really a "problem")

3rd colours (spelt right thank u very much ) again, takes time to get used to.

main thing i want is it to fit my page!

[Overlag]

oh and btw i havnt had to login since the first time i did...something i got kinda bored of doing with the old forums *thumbs up*

[Apophis]

its going to take some tweaking. for instance its designed for 800x600 and looks horrible @ 1280x1024.

2nd thing thats going to take time to get used to is having the names and details across the top, is there a way to have them down the side like the old forums? (this is something to get used to, its not really a "problem")

3rd colours (spelt right thank u very much ) again, takes time to get used to.

main thing i want is it to fit my page!

I'm going to be working on making it designed for 800x600 yet scaleable to whatever resolution you want to run. I agree that it could use with some more flexibility considering the larger resolutions people run in this day and age.

The "colours" need some tweaking. I think it might still be a little too bright to be condusive to a whole lot of reading time. But I'm going to play with that very slowly to really try and get the best fit.

[CingularDuality]

I'm not sure if this is something that you can easily change or not, but I'm always irked when I'm unable to read all of the "unread" messages at one time and then they're automatically marked as "read" after a certain amount of time. Is there a way to remove this automatic marking and allow manual "mark all as read" only?

Other than that, and some of the minor things that others have mentioned, I think these new forums kick arse. Thanks for the upgrade, guys!

[H-Hour]

I second that last comment by CingularDuality, re: manual mark as read only.

[Apophis]

I'm not sure if this is something that you can easily change or not, but I'm always irked when I'm unable to read all of the "unread" messages at one time and then they're automatically marked as "read" after a certain amount of time. Is there a way to remove this automatic marking and allow manual "mark all as read" only?

Other than that, and some of the minor things that others have mentioned, I think these new forums kick arse. Thanks for the upgrade, guys!

Is that an issue with THESE forums or is that an issue with phpBB? vBulletin should be much better in regards to keeping those messages hanging around for you to read.

[CingularDuality]

Is that an issue with THESE forums or is that an issue with phpBB? vBulletin should be much better in regards to keeping those messages hanging around for you to read.

It just happened to me. I started to check out these cool new forums, set up my profile the way I wanted, was called to dinner and guiltily watched NCIS on the boob tube, and came back to forums that had everything marked as read. Frustrating, as this is how I sometimes miss some very important Sandbox posts...

[Overlag]

just noticed im not a Mod anymore :cry:

[Begbie]

Heres something i really like. In the general forum, the thread bently started called :0. When I rest my mouse on that thread name it shows me the first few lines of the thread... i dont see any other threads that do that... Can this be done to all threads?

[CingularDuality]

Heres something i really like. In the general forum, the thread bently started called :0. When I rest my mouse on that thread name it shows me the first few lines of the thread... i dont see any other threads that do that... Can this be done to all threads?

I'm guessing that all threads started in the new forums (as opposed to being imported from the old forums) will have that feature...

[Apophis]

I'm guessing that all threads started in the new forums (as opposed to being imported from the old forums) will have that feature...

Exactly correct. New posts will have some new capabilities that the old posts do not. The new forums actually have the ability to show you similar threads based on content scores at the bottom of the page view for each individual thread. Really handy when doing searches for stuff too.