Forum Software Upgrade (30th August 2011)

[Harald Ponce de Leon]

Hi All..

 

The forum software has been upgraded to its latest version and introduces a new theme and improved functionality.

 

There is a current problem regarding avatars in the sense that the forum no longer distinguishes between avatars and profile photos ;- there's now just profile photos. Some profiles are displaying a missing profile image which we're looking into.

 

The forum logo is also going to be replaced with a new white osCommerce logo. This should be ready tomorrow.

 

If other problems are encountered, please report them in this topic.

 

Thanks!

[♥kymation]

The PHP tags strip all formatting and blank lines from the code. Makes it pretty hard to read anything more than a few lines of code.

 

Regards

Jim

[Harald Ponce de Leon]

<?php

 echo 'this is a test :)';
?>

[Harald Ponce de Leon]

Hi Jim..

 

Which post are you relating to?

 

Kind regards,

[♥kymation]

This one. I fixed the second code block manually, then gave up. The code was pasted from Eclipse, where indents are done with spaces. It changed all the indents and removed all blank lines.

 

Regards

Jim

 

Edit: I'm also not getting any notification of replies here.

[jhande]

Sorry to step in here...

 

But I can't find a link for our watched topics.

 

Or is that feature gone?

[Harald Ponce de Leon]

Hi Jim..

 

That option is located where your name is on the top right of the page, with the Content I Follow link.

 

Kind regards,

[Harald Ponce de Leon]

Hi All..

 

There seems to be a bug with the notifications. Can others confirm if they are receiving any or not for their watched topics/forums?

 

Kind regards,

[Harald Ponce de Leon]

Hi All..

 

The solution to not receiving notifications can be solved by clicking on your name on the top right of the page, My Settings, then Notifications Options. There you can define which delivery method you would like to be notified with.

 

Kind regards,

[tgely]

Hi,

 

it looks like faster

 

Regards,

Gergely

[jhande]

Hi Jim..

 

That option is located where your name is on the top right of the page, with the Content I Follow link.

 

Kind regards,

 

Thank you Harald for pointing that out.

 

Guess I shouldn't be nervous and just go exploring links...

[Xpajun]

I've lost the dropdown on the bottom of each page for navigation between boards - the quick navigation is very slow to open and when it does you can only access half the boards - the rest are below the bottom of the browser window

 

Quick summary:

Browsing between the forum boards take 2-3 times longer than on the old board

The only way to get to this board is to go back to osC Support forum link then scroll down and click

[♥kymation]

Notifications started working again. Maybe checking the settings is enough, or maybe there was just a delay.

 

Regards

Jim

[Harald Ponce de Leon]

Hi All..

 

The forum software has just been updated again to the latest version which fixes minor bug issues (eg, the forum rules is now displayed correctly).

 

Kind regards,

[♥kymation]

Any chance of getting another theme choice? The faint gray text in this one is unreadable.

 

Regards

Jim

[Harald Ponce de Leon]

Hi Jim..

 

Unlikely. This is the standard theme that comes with the forum software.

 

If you're interested in playing around with the CSS, please by all means go ahead and propose some improvements to make.

 

Kind regards,

[Harald Ponce de Leon]

Hi All..

 

The process that parses profile avatars to profile photos has been run again with the latest update and it seems to have fixed most of the missing photos. If there's a missing photo for your profile, please edit your profile and upload a new photo.

 

Thanks!

[♥kymation]

If you're interested in playing around with the CSS, please by all means go ahead and propose some improvements to make.

You probably want someone who's not colorblind to be making changes to the default theme. I can still do that, but don't expect the results to look good.

 

There are hundreds of themes available here, and many of them are free. It shouldn't take too much time to grab a few and put them up for the users to select from.

 

Regards

Jim

[Harald Ponce de Leon]

Hi Jim..

 

I didn't mean for you to create a new design, but to darken the text colours you find are too light. Want to take a shot at it? It can then be installed as a separate theme titled ForJim :) (as an honor, not as a joke)

 

Kind regards,

[♥kymation]

That I should be able to do. I'll go find the text specs and play with them. Firebug should make this easy.

 

Regards

Jim

[♥kymation]

The changes are available here (the file is too big to post.) Note that this may not work, as Firebug apparently combined multiple stylesheets into one.

 

Regards

Jim

[Harald Ponce de Leon]

Hi Jim..

 

Great! Will take a look soon. I just discovered this site that can compare css files so seeing the changes shouldn't be hard:

 

http://www.alanhart.co.uk/tools/compare-css.php

 

Kind regards,

[germ]

I answered a few posts on my lunch at work and everything was fine.

 

A bit later I couldn't even access the forum from work because of this error:

 

Message: HTML Parsing Error: Unable to modify the parent container element before the child element is closed (KB927917)

I use IE8 at work, IE7 at home.

 

Maybe it's been addressed already.

 

I don't think it was my browser.

 

I'll know in the morning....

[Peper]

Nice work

 

I see the search does not work properly

When inside a topic, enter search word then it returns the same topic you in

[Harald Ponce de Leon]

Hi Jim..

 

ForJim is live :-)

 

I only found 3 differences in the stylesheet you made. For more changes, forward the class name, attribute, and values and I'll add them to the template.

 

Kind regards,