Timothy, do you have ideas to improve that forum, add features and change a few things?
Personally I would run that vBulletin forum for more then a month, add some features and tweak it.
I’ve checked it out and if you want I can make a list of things what could be improved, changed or added.
Right now the current forum has some things I really like when I compare it with vBulletin, but well a forum can be tweaked.
If you find it a good idea I can make a that list of what could be changed and post it in here, but I need more then a few days to think about what I should add and not.
I have eye for webdesign and I know quite a lot about php, javascript, html and css.
One of the first things that catched my eye was the way how to insert smileys. Maybe because I use them a lot, and I didn’t like those that are included with the forum, but I can pixelart a few new ones in the style we have now and make them more advanced or add even more of them.
2th was the way how to post, insert possible code, quotes, images and links. I’m missing those things, but I like the rating that’s included.
Ah I haven’t set the moderator permissions properly yet. The nicer editor should be working, if not it may also be a permissions problem I have to look into, or it could be that your browser + platform is not supported. But most are. For instance firefox + OS X (my setup) is fully supported.
Since I caught this thread pretty quick I thought I would go through a few of the more mundane tasks to make sure everything works. Maybe wasn’t needed but I did it anyway.
Here are all the things I did, and they all worked:
Logged in with VividHazE
Viewed PM’s and sent/delete PM’s
Registered new account and logged on.
Posted reply to active thread.
Created a new thread.
Edited a posts content.
Changed Avatar picture.
Attached file to post.
Included an image in the post.
Gave the post a rating.
EDIT: My setup is FireFox 1.5 with Windows XP SP2.
Those pages you get when performing certain actions (such as signing in or unsubscribing to threads) that say “Thank you for blah blah blah, please wait to be redirected or push this button to proceed” are very irksome to me. Is there a way to disable that?
I have to say that I don’t like it at all. That forum almost got me a headache. Is it possible to change the interface a bit more cleaner with less graphic stuff? It feels like I have to search the whole site to find the links because of the BIG shiny icons. :-?
Glad to see some work being done here… question: will all the old elysiun hyperlinks be redirected or edited to refer to the new urls for the threads etc? It’d sure be a shame to lose all the interconnectivity of the links in the forum database… its what makes it such a great resource to find info/help…
I’m sure it’ll be handled… just my obsessive-compulsive-worry-node kicking in…
I just noticed that my post count is off by about ~70, does that have to do with the database you used to import the users from? I don’t really care about the number, but I want this to go off without a hitch, if ya know what I mean.
EDIT: Just looked at my post count and it’s more like a hundred. %|
EDIT2: It also looks like you can post in the old BF forum (I just did).
It worked fine for me. I like report bad message, minimum of 10 characters, who’s online page, reason for editing/deleting and some more things. That will make it a better forum. I found no problems. Though I didn’t like the small paper icon where the message titel is placed. I liked it more in the header above it. Usually nobody fills it in.
That is not a permanent interface. Timothy is just testing the db and php base right now to get functionality. Then he will add the inteface to comply with all themes and such.
