Site upgrade - New Features

[mike]

I upgraded the site tonight and just posting this and another message have discovered a couple of new features,
1) being those ugly font colour things to the right, came up real big on my screen. hold down ctrl and press refresh (F5 on most browsers) or shift and refresh. should do the trick.

2) I clicked save instead of submit, save is like a draft of your post. New feature, unexpected but could be good for some of those longer posts.

thats all im going to attempt to find tonight. If you find something new post it in here so we all can see.

the view new posts button is on the right at the top now.

the front page will come back soon with the whats new on the site ie vids, tracks, builds, forum stuff, news, events and forum stuff.

I've turned that pesky captcha check off on the login, it only exists on the register block. Just watch out for spam and if you do find spam use the report this post link in the post.

Internal links wont be working just yet, I will fix those tomorrow.

bed time ZZzzz

[T-Boon]

Lookin good so far mike,

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Aww only 60,000

[Taz]

Lookin good so far mike,

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Aww only 60,000

Thats limiting our freedom of speech!

[curly12]

Looks good Mike. Just finding thou that it is cutting the righthand side of some threads off so you can't read all the postings

[kiwipete]

Looks nice so far Mike although the font colours could not be turned off / removed on my Mozilla Firefox Ubuntu set-up'd PC as per th screen shot.
The txt box to type a message in is too small.
Or am I missing something here?

[Smurf]

Looks Good Mike,

though it does take a looong time for the pages to load on dial up. could just be my connection..

[Jafa]

yer I have the same issue as Pete, monster sized Font colour panels, on Firefox (on xp).
refresh was no help. I cant find the "view posts since last visit" button either.

**edit** Ignore that, I'm half asleep found it

[kiwipete]

Another issue is the email notifications are HUGE, also missing is he "mark forums as read" button.
Now, some of you will say, stop moaning etc. I'm not, just simply pointing out some differences I have encountered.

[SupraLux]

I never knew you were that nerdy Pete?! Next you'll be telling me that PC in your garage connects to your media server so you can play the 10,000,000 songs in your MP3 library while building PC's or 4WDs

Oh, and the colourblock is incredibly annoying - when writing a PM the text window is about 1/3 of the size of the post in the forum one. Also, there is a drupal option to turn off forcing a preview before posting - I had this with 4wdstuff as well... annoyed the heck out of me till I found it. Otherwise the integration is slick... I can see where its going, and while its not there yet, you're definitely on the right track - awesome stuff Mike

Steve

Looks nice so far Mike although the font colours could not be turned off / removed on my Mozilla Firefox Ubuntu set-up'd PC as per th screen shot.
The txt box to type a message in is too small.
Or am I missing something here?

[kiwipete]

I never knew you were that nerdy Pete?! Next you'll be telling me that those PC's in your garage (and in your truck) connect to your media server so you can play the 10,000,000 songs in your MP3 library while building PC's or 4WDs

Ok, I won't tell you that, just everyone else.

[BrentC]

Sorry Mike - just a personal thing - I hate that left side panel taking up 23% of my laptop screen - but thanks for all your hard work

What I see on my laptop


ie the forum posts fonts are smaller than the bullet points on the left making it un-balanced and difficult to read

Rgds Brent

[fweddy]

Takes a while to figure change but everyone adapts after a while.

Couple of comments from me.

The space per thread taken up in the listing of new threads and in the categories is pretty big so you have to do lots of scrolling, a tight tidy list as per before would be nice for quick browsing.

In the submit new message box the smilies take up more of the screen that the side bar and the box you type in goes right off the screen and the font colours thing is out of sight.

Also is it possible to have quick reply on the bottom of the threads rather than going to the special screen???

[skid]

yet again you have exceeded your awesomeness

few issues though

I wanted to quote 2 of the posts in this thread, but I couldn't coz the right side of the screen is cut off.

Also it seems really slow to load pages now (on broadband), before you would click on submit and within 2-3 seconds the next page would be there, now its taking anywhere from 7-12 seconds to load the next page

Also just noticed whilst I am typing this, that the new forum posts etc etc thingy on the left is overlaying the whole page, so its cutting off the smilies and the right side of page is still missing.............

[mudzilla]

So do I have to buy a bigger monitor to read the whole post now ??? or can I glue and of cut of glass to my existing monitor ?? Or better still .. How do I get rid of the crap on the left of the screen ??

[mudzilla]

Oh Crap ,, Cant even edit things cos it's off the side over by the light switch
on the wall !

[mike]

A few issues to sort out but that was to be expected.
thanks for the feedback guys will change a few things over the day.

[SV1K]

Change your screen resolution

and you will be able to see the

right hand side of the

screen, I changed mine and it

worked

[mudzilla]

Feckn comuptr geeks ... I cant drive the feckn thing at the best of times
an then ya change it ! Is it to early for a Hieniken ?

[curly12]

A few issues to sort out but that was to be expected.
thanks for the feedback guys will change a few things over the day.

Awsome Mike

[skid]

Feckn comuptr geeks ... I cant drive the feckn thing at the best of times
an then ya change it ! Is it to early for a Hieniken ?

if its OK for me and my daughter to be sitting here having Ice Cream for breakfast, then it can only be the perfect time for you to crack open a coldie

[missnz]

New layout is great. A lot easier to read and navigate once you get used to it.

[ActyonMan]

What's happened?

It is a new look, but I've got these "boxes" on the left side of my explorer page partially obscurring the posts.

The boxes are my account settings, new forum posts, new forum topics, who is chatting, online forum users.

I can't easily adjust my screen resolution as I'm using a laptop that really only likes 1200*800.

How can I adjust the size of these boxes?

Thanks in advance

[Sadam_Husain]

Shit it dosent like my dialup connection... its like going back to a 1200bps modem

between about 40 sec to 1 min 30 secs to open a thread and about 2 min to 2 min 30 secs to post something

[Swamped]

Yeah the boxes on the left are cutting my view too. Also i can only see half of the posts. alteering resolution or zooming out doesn't work. any ideas??

[mike]

What's happened?

It is a new look, but I've got these "boxes" on the left side of my explorer page partially obscurring the posts.

The boxes are my account settings, new forum posts, new forum topics, who is chatting, online forum users.

I can't easily adjust my screen resolution as I'm using a laptop that really only likes 1200*800.

How can I adjust the size of these boxes?

Thanks in advance

hold ctrl and click refresh or shift and refresh.

[Swamped]

Hopefully this isn't a stupid question but wheres the private messages?? I need contact details out of one of my old messages.

[vvega]

Shit it dosent like my dialup connection... its like going back to a 1200bps modem

between about 40 sec to 1 min 30 secs to open a thread and about 2 min to 2 min 30 secs to post something

yeah its shit slow for me too and we have a rediculiously fast net conection

[vvega]

Hopefully this isn't a stupid question but wheres the private messages?? I need contact details out of one of my old messages.

top left
user control panel / private messages

[Swamped]

Yeah theres nothing there about that. I have 'my account, node locations,create content and logout.'
Screens still being chopped too regardless of refreshing and zoom.

[kiwipete]

Yeah theres nothing there about that. I have 'my account, node locations,create content and logout.'
Screens still being chopped too regardless of refreshing and zoom.

Underneath that grey box is Personal messages "grey box' thats where you look.