New Board - Props and Slops

[Zeldor]

Mindi:

No threats intended Just some advices, I did see some online communities collapsing in my life and I really don't want to see anything bad happening with the great thing we have here.

[archaeolept]

Christ almighty.

the forums have gone from being ugly and functional to being ugly and non-functional.

I am assaulted by flashing adds and animated gifs at the side of thread titles. These make it impossible for me to stare at the page. I'm pretty sure it was discovered back in the internet prehistory that flashing objects, animated gifs, and the like are at best extremely distracting and at worst impossible to look at.

I had to block all images from shrapnel in order for me to be able to read the forums

It seems, however, that little things like "reply" buttons (and all the others) are also actually images, and so blocked.

Hence, the whole forum is currently a disaster.

[Mindi]

Originally Posted by archaeolept

Christ almighty.

the forums have gone from being ugly and functional to being ugly and non-functional.

I am assaulted by flashing adds and animated gifs at the side of thread titles. These make it impossible for me to stare at the page. I'm pretty sure it was discovered back in the internet prehistory that flashing objects, animated gifs, and the like are at best extremely distracting and at worst impossible to look at.

I had to block all images from shrapnel in order for me to be able to read the forums

It seems, however, that little things like "reply" buttons (and all the others) are also actually images, and so blocked.

Hence, the whole forum is currently a disaster.

The only addition to the ads is the one on the side. The one at the top of the forums was there before and considering we shrunk the latest news blocks on the side, the ad box takes up no additional space. There is no animated gifs at the side of thread titles unless someone has chosen a animated post icon of which there are only 2.

[Mindi]

Okay, for those of you who found the animated images distracting, I have removed how many of them you can see on the page before clicking 'more' to get additional smilies. I don't know what I can do about the post icons, I will have to look into that one.

[Dedas]

I would also hate to see the more dedicated part of the Dom3 community move to another forum better suited to their needs. That would be a very unfortunate event indeed - for all parties involved. But things like childish advertisement (we are wargamers after all, we like to be taken serious ), a cluttered and hard to use interface and other similar things will go a long way in making that come true.

Most of us are of course patient, especially so soon after the software change. But at least I got a little worried after seeing the new forum, if not chocked.

[archaeolept]

animated icon at the side was a pair of clapping hands. The flashing game ads were previously at the top of the page, and so could be gotten out of the visual space just by scrolling down a bit. the ads now at the left cannot be.

also, thanks for upping pms to 300, but now the sent and recieved seem to have been duplicated... i'm now at over 200 of my 300 used ;p

[llamabeast]

Minor thing on the front page: It says "Please bare with us". This should be "Please bear with us", lest it appears to be an invitation for some group stripping.

[llamabeast]

I was on Standard before and switched to Basic, which I prefer. However, in both cases the text size is very very small. If you fix the glitch with the Standard setting, would you mind fixing it for Basic as well? The current text size is definitely too small. (Just to be clear, I'm talking about the Quick Reply box here, and I think the main Reply box is the same).

[Sniper23]

i'm sorry to say i agree, the writing is to small and the on old board it was way better in telling if there's a new post or not,i have to agree with most thing's they have said but this new board does have the potencial to be better.by the way now i have to download spellcheck?

[Gandalf Parker]

I havent looked into it (distracted at the moment). But other options on the OP and MP thing...
Can we attach a text file and make it viewable?

From some of the comments it looks like some people need to remember that the purpose of these forums differ slightly between Shrapnel, and the users. Not much, but some.

Edit:
OK that seems to work all right for me. It allowed me to open it in NotePad.
So the first post can include a text file with all the changing info that used to be in the first post of the MP games. That is, if we are allowed to over-write the old one with a new one even after the editing time-out. That wont be any harder a routine to get used to than the idea of having the changing info in the first post was to get people used to doing.