Forum software update

Well everything looks good at first glance, especially the multiple PMs and seeing whos online :)

Jay said:

We'll be playing with the category structure and moving lots of posts in the fan project sections, so please bear with us. It's going to take a while to sort through everything.

I cant wait for this to happen, keep it up Jay!

Awesome Jay!!!!!!!!!

Wow!!

Everything looks so....BIG!!!

Definitely feels cleaner. It is different but different is good.

Well... the ads are gone.  Can it stay that way, please?

I'm not a fan of having the thumbnail images of the people's avatars before the threads, but other than that this looks like it could be a major improvement! :)

I like the changes, the avatars before the threads is kind of weird, and something about the upgrade disabled Vaderios' pictures! I noticed that the HTML never had the filename.jpg at the end, which weirded me out, but you could right click and save them just fine. Something weird about his hosting, or with our upgrade?

I love the fact that we can delete multiple PMs at once. Thank you, Jay! :)

A few observations:

- Hitting enter still puts you down two lines rather than one (holding shift while you hit enter works, but it's still a bit odd). Not a big deal, but this is still the only place I can ever remember posting to that does that.
- 005 mentioned Vaderios' pictures not working. They work for me (in Firefox 3.5), but get cut off at the edge of the box. It won't allow me to scroll to the right to see the whole thing as before, so I'm missing half of his mock-up every time. I'm wondering now if that would apply to any wide picture...
- The avatar beside the thread title thing is unnecessary, in my opinion. It makes things look cluttered, especially when the avatars aren't displaying properly. (some only show as a long white bar)
- All of our avatars are slightly blurry now. Maybe I just need to rub my eyes. Haha. ;)

Oh, and:

- I spilled some garbage juice in the kitchen last night and it still stinks in here.

Ripplin said:


- 005 mentioned Vaderios' pictures not working. They work for me (in Firefox 3.5), but get cut off at the edge of the box. It won't allow me to scroll to the right to see the whole thing as before, so I'm missing half of his mock-up every time. I'm wondering now if that would apply to any wide picture...

"Several topics for several bugs " is why I didn't post there because I didn't want to clutter things up with multiple threads. :p I can if you want, but might be faster/easier for you to just reply to my concerns in one post if you want. I'll defer to your judgment.

doubleofive said:

 

Ripplin said:

- 005 mentioned Vaderios' pictures not working. They work for me (in Firefox 3.5), but get cut off at the edge of the box. It won't allow me to scroll to the right to see the whole thing as before, so I'm missing half of his mock-up every time. I'm wondering now if that would apply to any wide picture...

Actually, the image you are referring to is his newest which is on Imageshack. It won't let you scroll due to something in the forum software, yes. His older images are blank spaces.

 

Oh, sorry, I missed that. Just want to acknowledge that I saw what you're saying so others don't jump on the 'they're all broken' bandwagon. ;)

Looks ok overall. I'm glad to see the light gray / dark gray / blue colors have been kept, as they have always looked great. :) But the forum subject categories ( "Star Wars Fan Edits and Preservation Efforts", etc. ), where you can see all the thread topics, look cluttered with all those avatars stuck on the left side, it would look a lot neater and cleaner if avatars were left inside threads only.

Dunedain said:

Looks ok overall. I'm glad to see the light gray / dark gray / blue colors have been kept, as they have always looked great. :) But the forum subject categories ( "Star Wars Fan Edits and Preservation Efforts", etc. ), where you can see all the thread topics, look cluttered with all those avatars stuck on the left side, it would look a lot neater and cleaner if avatars were left inside threads only.

I'm glad the colors are the same too. Still looks good and everything is easy to read. :) And don't forget that Jay mentioned he'll be adding the ability to turn avatars on and off separately for the topics and thread pages.

Ripplin: Ah, well, if you can turn off the avatars on the main pages that show the lists of thread topics (but still leave avatars on for posts inside the threads), then no problem. :)

Hey Jay,

I see youre hard at work and I saw the new categories, which is awesome....just wanted to give my 2cents on how it could be split up

Star Wars Fan Projects - Fan edits for Star Wars
Other Star Wars Projects and Preservations - Basically all the Star Tours and Deleted Magic and stuff here along with PURE preservations of Star Wars
Other Fan Projects - Just other movies that are edits, say like ADM's Blade Runner
Other Preservations - All other movie preservations, no edits, just pure preservations

Is something like that what you were going for?

Yeah, I never thought of any of my stuff as being a "fan edit".  Not that I have anything against fan edits, but when I first saw the new list of categories, I didn't know where to find preservations.  Actually, I thought that the primary mission of OT.com was preservation, not fan edits.

Great, thanks Jay. One minor point: the words "and preservation efforts" should be removed from the description of forum 11 ("Fan Edits of Other Films").

I will now start moving threads to add content to the new forums - please bear with us while things are being moved, there is bound to be some confusion and "lost" threads at first.

I just wanted to say again, thank you to Jay for the site update, the separation of forums is great! and I love deleting multiple PMs :p

Also thank you Moth for organizing the new forums....going thru and organizing over 2000 threads is no piece of cake and is definitely time consuming, Im sure everyone here appreciate both of your guys hard work

Thanks again guys!