News Forum revamp coming soon!
- Thread starter Will Flanagan
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...and are more battery-friendly. I read forums most of the times on mobile devices.
I was also thinking the same when I read this
Better than nothing, except:
- Third party site.
- Not particularly convenient. Internal search obviously won't work, so any posts or discussions you remember will have to be tracked down manually. Which brings us to...
- Incomplete, limited mostly to out-of-date forum indices. Try finding this post and thread on archive.org (and no cheating by adding it from the live page; that option won't be available if FD pull the plug). In fact try finding anything in the DDA beyond the one snapshot of the front page circa June 2016.
Maybe if everyone installed a suitable browser extension and began requesting archival of individual forum pages we might get somewhere. But even if vBulletin's PHP doesn't bork it, it's unlikely we'd have it all done by the time the new forum kicks in at the end of March. I don't know about anyone else, but one end-of-March deadline is more than enough for me to be worrying about at the moment.
It would be so much easier if FD could just leave a functioning but static version of the old forums online somewhere. But I understand why that's probably not going to happen. Let's just hope most of the good stuff, especially the development archives and Alec's deep links and similar, are transferred over.
It's technically "Rep", but it's in the form of a post-reaction/like.
Well when you make players such as Alec Turner quit... you really have reached the nadir!
To be honest there was a certain amount of tongue-in-cheekness about my "quit" post. While it's true that I genuinely don't like change, sometimes it can actually turn out to be for the better so I guess I'll reserve judgement until we've had the new forum long enough to get used to it. It will be nice to get notified when someone replies to one of our comments so that's one plus for the new system at least.
Christ I missed that - that's me browsing the forums at work over with then, I depend on the white theme to disguise it!
*shakes fist*
Xenforo2 does allow users to change the style.
Whatever you do though please dont make it black. Black with white text is crazy. Makes me feel sick (im not joking), when i look away all i see are lines for a short while. Thankfuly i found the little drop down to change to a white style. Black styling is hard to pull off. Go with like a dark grey background and an off-white text of around 17px. Its a lot kinder on the eyes.
Came here to say the same - I can't spend one moment reading white text on black, it murders my eyes. So bad that my work firewall prevents changing the theme on the website, so that means I don't read it at work. If the forum has no choice of changing black background to a light color, I can't participate on said forum.
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For this game, i find it more appropriate to rename XenForo to XenoFor.
And of course the change happens just before i hit Elite status... My poor eEgo... Totally destroyed...
Looking forward to the more comfy features and navigation though
And of course the change happens just before i hit Elite status... My poor eEgo... Totally destroyed...
Looking forward to the more comfy features and navigation though
Brett C
Frontier
Didn't see mention of it on all your posts... will current usernames/passwords and posts be ported over to the new forums?
Polls are one of my favourite things about the ESO forum.
I miss them here.
Yeah, but ESO has really strict moderation, and no off-topic sections. That seems to be the case with a large number of game developer forums but not FD for some reason.
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Ian Phillips
Volunteer Moderator
You really do not want Brett to take over coding on the game instead of the forums!