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Miscellaneous Forums => General Discussion => Topic started by: Qhimm on 2001-09-27 21:22:00
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These forums are a bit temporary, I've still to work out a design for the board. I hope it will prove sufficient for a while, at least.
What's there from the original forums?
- All user records, you log in with your normal user/password.
- All posts up until two days ago. Any posts later than that, tough luck.
- Proper authorizations for the private forums
What's not there?
- The design :razz:
- User ranks
- Email notification can be a bit buggy (and certainly not pretty). Have faith.
Also note that you can't log in directly to the private forums (I have no idea why this doesn't work, but it only produces garbage). You need to log in to the board first, then enter the private forum like normal.
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*phew*
You really scared me Qhimm..
I clicked on the link to my favorite Forum this morning and... ::eek::
*GASP* Thank God it's just temporary~
Well, all the best in setting things up!
Qhimm, a question, why phpBB?
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Whoa!
40 posts behind!
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Geee....quite a lot of new features
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Message.
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At least temp pictures for the reply buttons!!!
Wait, I'll just upload some temp buttons for you :smile:
Hehe, I stole the buttons from phpBB 2's new design :smile:
[edited] 1 2001-09-29 09:57
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Soo, can I report here bugs I found ? Here goes:
there is a icon 'send a private message', and there is allways 'send a private message to mindjoker' in a tip (that is newest member).
All times of last reply are +5 hours. But that is not a problem.
Users web page link is screwed up. Like to mine is added 'nextff.net'
anyhow it is fine :wink:
[ This Message was edited by: mirex on 2001-09-28 07:06 ]
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I kind of like the new functions, shame about the decor ^_^
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Whoa! That looks kinda really new!
As for the functions: I like them :smile:
As for the design: Qhimm, you've got to do sth 'bout that! I really liked the old Board's design...
BTW: Why haven't you just moved the other board?
BTW: Hm, I see new smileys...hehe :lol:
- Alhexx
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had to correct sth
[ This Message was edited by: Alhexx on 2001-09-28 13:06 ]
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:weep: For a moment, I thought that I was colour blind when I logged in the site until I saw that this is temporary...it better be, or else it would be the end of the message board......please retain the original design.....this one sucks like a black and white TV.
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Well, this is a new one for sure.
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Well, as I said, the design is only TEMPORARY. No need to panic.
[edited] 2 2001-09-28 15:35
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Cool, it's all up. I wasn't expecting it to happen that fast, I thought there would be loads of downtime. Anyway, good job Qhimm, and thanks go to the NextFF crew! :grin:
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Yay, I'd rather have a temporary forum than no forum at all. To be honest I wasnt expecting a temporary one until tomorrow, so good work Qhimm.
EDIT: this thing loads fast and I only lost two posts :smile:
[edited] 122 2001-09-28 17:09
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Yeah i like it!!! And some cool new smiles too! :lol:
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hehehe...this board is beginning to rock! :smile:
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Let's try something out:
HELLO THERE!
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Qhimm: It's good to know that the design is temporary, but perhaps you could let those avatars exists. It seems like many of use like this option... (I think, it won't slow down the sites too much :wink: )
- Alhexx
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Ahhh bumhole how'd you make it glow...hmmmm, let's see.
BOW DOWN TO YOUR NEW GOD!!!!!
Cool. :cool:
Alhexx: That sounds good. But I think everyone should choose to have a sig or an avatar, so they can't have both. That should keep things at an ok speed.
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If we are to keep the avatars, I see I'm going to have to enforce a couple of rules... All avatars *have* to be 60x60 pixels. NO LINKING to external large images, they slow down the board like hell! Also, *try* to pick images that don't stand out too much form the board (they wreak havoc with your sense of reading). Tip: don't spend too much work on avatars and stuff before the new design arrives, ok?
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Ok lets test this then
not the best look but itll do for now :razz:
:lol:i like the quick smile function
the avataurs at 60*60 cant fit much in there!!
and hopefully the sig works too...
[edited] 47 2001-09-29 01:09
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Cool. I'm sure everything'll get sorted eventually.
Note: To someone who can do something about this (Qhimm, SaiNt?), is there a way of turning off the "highlight" that follows the cursor on the topic listing? a) It slows things down, and b) If I shift-click on a link (SHOULD open it in a new window) the DHTML intercepts it and opens it in the original window instead, thus I lose my topic view ... I like to keep that open while browsing thru posts in a new window.
No hurry, but thought I'd mention it :wink:
BTW: Avatars *can* slow things down. Currently, I'm on a 56K modem shared between 5 - yes 5 - computers. Yeah. Every KB counts.
On the plus side, I wrote the house an MP3 server this afternoon, so now we can control the house music system from almost every room ^_^
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Ok! This is starting to look good.
So Fice, you load the forums into new windows too, huh? Cool.
As for the time issue mirex was talking about earlier, you can correct that in for profile. (You can set it for your time, and it interperates all the times and dates accordingly.)
Hey Qhimm: can you increase the character limit for the sigs? 255 doesn't fit my whole sig.
Well, that it for now.
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*Edit: added my sig. Didn't do it automatically this time.*
[edited] 135 2001-09-29 04:26
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But I've noticed that my post count have dropped considerably, about 40 posts.
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Whoa! 40 posts behind - StrayWings
Well, as Qhimm said, our posts that are two days back before the 'move' has been deleted..so here we are, with post counts lesser than before~
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I'm very much against allowing larger .sigs than 255 characters. Sigs should only contain crucial information that can't be found in the post description or the user profile. Thus I find little need to allow them at all, but I'll allow 255-character ones for now to see if things work out.
Also, I'm removing the ICQ-online images, since they seem to be the primary slowdown (at least on my computer).
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damn my avatar dont work :razz:
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I don't think my opinion really counts but... for me, avatars are good (it is sinplier to recognize posts done by specific user), signs are not (they can really mess up the board (look on other boards)). And something more, just wondering why is so silent here lately?
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is it me or did i miss the options ? cos im sure i set up my avatar
heeeeeeeeelp!!
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Whoho!
Never saw Qhimm posting SO often :wink: !
Fice: 56K - 5 computers? Uh - and I though my 56K 1 computer connection is slow...
Qhimm: 'bout that ICQ-Pics: Can't you simply upload the pics onto the server? I know that then you won't know if users are online, but it's better than no pic.
(I hope that was all I wanted to answer - sooooo much posts :grin: )
- Alhexx
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Skillster: Did you forget to click on 'Custom Avatar>>>' ?
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I see there's a bug with the 'Get Avatar>>>' Function. No avatars uploaded?
[edited] 169 2001-09-29 22:29
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i did that, i put in the url for a little pic
http://www.sajidakhtar.homechoice.co.uk/cloudx.jpg
the url is fine
but alas it dont appear
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forget it i found the mistake
[edited] 47 2001-09-29 23:34
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Whoo i missed alot! :smile: he he he.. i do like the new features.. the color scheme here leaves something to be desired but it works... :smile: Not bad.. even if it is only temporary its still not bad..
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Whoa i do see what everyone means about the posts going down .. but uh i think everyone will just get them back to normal in no time.. Can you actually delete your own posts on this thing?
[edited] 97 2001-09-30 05:22
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it was there in the old forum too
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Just wondering, will we get our 'Crazy Poster, No Life, etc' status back??
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It is possible to get them back, it just depends if Qhimm's got the time. You can hack phpBB so much more than UBB, just look at the NextFF Forums (http://forums.nextff.net). The SaiNt's done loads.
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I'm quite sure we'll get that statuses back. I'm currently finishing my board, and now I know, too, that it's possible to change (almost) everything.
I wonder if this is going to be a 9-page topic :wink: ?
- Alhexx
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Whops, 'till now, I've had my 128x128 Avatar activated. Hehe...
Now I've changed it to 64x64...
[edited] 169 2001-09-30 20:35
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I am sharing 1 56k modem between 5 PC's but for some weird reason WinXP manages to reserve half the bandwidth so 4 pcs share half the modem bandwidth while the other pc has the other half. The Winxp pc is mine so I am not complaining :smile:
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Ok....I like the avatar but I think that it will make the board look messy....
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Well, currently we don't have any net access (I'm posting this from uni) because we've just installed Win2K Advanced Server on the house server ... problems galore with the modem sharing. Though it's *nearly* working...
On the plus side, by the end of the month we'll (hopefully) have ADSL ^_^
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Interestingly enough we have just had an email from BT offering uss free installation so we signed up for ADSL. We get it on the 16th! Finally I'll be able to download games!!!
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Hey... what about the post count and ranks? I liked those... heh.
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ASDL? No need. Modem Booster made my 33.6k modem as fast as one now!!! Click here to download (http://tucows.internex.net.au/files3/mb251.zip)
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Joey, please don't post (any more) bs. A 33.6 modem is SLOW and there's no getting around it...
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it aint that slow, considering most isps only connect at 43000bps,
so its only say one kilobyte a second behind 56k modem :razz:
and also if u use a good OS then 36k modem can beat a 56k on a windows system.
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Of course 56k modem is the slowest alternative still available without buying second-hand (well, not quite, but getting there quickly)
Side note: Is noone outside of Norway and Germany using ISDN?
[edited] 15 2001-10-02 18:06
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You can get ISDN here but its not very popular as ADSL is faster and easier to set up, also you can use the phone whilst connected to the net which you caant with ISDN if you want full speed
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Skillster: Yes, but Joey was comparing the 33.6 Modem to ADSL :wink:
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Joey: I use Modem Booster on my 33.6K and it's not that fast. With Download Accelerator Plus my standard speed is usually around 3.3KB/sec. I wish I had cable.... :weep:
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Im counting down the days to my 512k modem, but i forget which day its coming :sad:
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Rates, heh? Well, as for Germany and DSL:
Germans mostly have ISDN, b'cause for DSL, AFAIK, you need special copper wires. So DSL is sth like a beta release here...
If anyone wants higher rates here, the ppl mostly buy ISDN - it's available everywhere in Germany and it's not that expensive as DSL.
As for me: I've got only my 56K...
I've also got a cable connection that's able to transport internet data. So I just needed to buy a cable modem and find a provider, but ... it's quite expensive - and I've got to pay my connection costs from my pocket money :sad:
- Alhexx
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Heh, my country has the second most expensive internet connection costs in the world, but there is an alternative. There are 3 or four cable tv that provides internet acces via cable modem (and it's fast- always higher than 2.5 Mbit). And costs? It's only about 17$ per month (cable modem is free until you pay those 17$, wen you don't want it anymore, you just have to give the modem back). Nice huh? I'm using one and there is nothing to complain...
[edited] 152 2001-10-04 11:03
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Qhimm, I have just noticed a bug in the forum, if you hold your mouse over the PM button it comes up with PM darkness no matter whos its over.
Just thought youd want to know in case it made its way to the final design.
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I noticed this odd behaviour earlier and tracked down the bug. It will definitely not appear in the final design ^^