Forum migrated to xenforo!

[Traitorfish]

That's entirely possible, but the first judgement wasn't made in twelve hours, so the second shouldn't be either. Bit of patience, is all I'm advising, a couple of days, and then damn it to whatever hells you feel appropriate.

 

[Thunderfall]

Forum style will continue to be tweaked and new forum styles will get added. This is an ongoing process.

Downloads will take a little longer to get migrated as the specialist wasn't able to work on it much today due to an appointment.

 

[Takhisis]

The old layout wasn't exactly a looker, we were just used it. Give it a few days before making any final pronouncements.

Don't you dare insult my Black CFC setting, grandad.

And where's my multiquote function, eh?

 

[Synobun]

And where's my multiquote function, eh?

Press 'Reply' on any post you wish to quote and it will be automatically added to the quick reply form at the bottom.

 

[Takhisis]

That's new, an hour ago hitting the ‘Reply’ button just deleted all other posts quoted in the quick reply form. >_<

I still prefer the old system, but we're getting somewhere.

 

[Thlayli]

I suppose one frustrating thing is that the userbase wasn't really given much warning of the change or preview of what was to come. You just kinda...did it.

At least, I didn't notice a site announcement beforehand...

 

[Bootstoots]

It wasn't just the user base: I don't think any of the staff, barring TF himself and one or two other admins, knew. We'd talked vaguely in the staff forum about moving to other software but had no plans to do it. It seems to have been done on the fly as a solution for a problem with malware popups that appeared after a patch about a week or two ago. It also appears to have solved the email problem too.

I think we're working through the associated problems with any abrupt software change and learning the new software fairly quickly. It would have been nice to get some warning but I understand why TF moved us over.

 

[Ozymandias]

Um, I haven't gone through this entire thread, but where's the database? (and I miss the old emojis ... )

 

[Quintillus]

Speaking of which, you could hide forums you didn't want to see - like, Civ3, Civ2 or what-ever - is this going to come back?

Yeah, that's a good call-out; there's a lot of forums so I typically keep the ones I don't follow at all collapsed.

also I need to complain, that no longer a posting can get a headline, so that in a longer thread the topic of the posting is to show up.
Now all postings are similar, very hard to follow a long thread.

Oh yeah, you're right. Would be nice to have it back; I used that in all my Stories and Tales and now they are missing their titles. I did write them down in the table of contents so it's not all lost... but I don't think everyone did that, and I'd prefer to wait till they return if they will than to go edit all the posts to have bold font for the title at the top.

It took me 10 minutes to get to this page on my phone. I'm not happy at all. I hate phone browsers... Any of them. I had to close out twice and read the browser.

Although I never use CFC on my phone, I was curious enough to try it via WiFi just now. My phone's no spring chicken anymore (half a gigabyte of RAM, single-core CPU at 800 MHz or so, Symbian), but with Opera Mobile it loaded up tolerably quickly. Main page was kinda slow, but other than that it wasn't bad. So for what it's worth, Opera Mobile/Opera Mini may be worth a try; the do both somewhat specialize in working well in resource-limited situations. I do also have images off, which may make a difference... I do it to save bandwidth when I am on the road, but it should help with load times too. It's a quick toggle in the Opera Mobile settings.

It looks like there's a new version of Opera Mobile for Android, so I can't guarantee it's as quick now as the older version for Symbian (newer sometimes means more resource-hungry), but it might be worth a try; it's free at any rate.

Um, I haven't gone through this entire thread, but where's the database? (and I miss the old emojis ... )

That's in the process of being restored, hopefully within the next couple days. So are the old smilies.

 

[mogoroth]

Keep up the good work. This has always been my favorite site and I will follow you till the end of my days!!

 

[leif erikson]

Thank you, we'll try to get it sorted out as soon as we can.

 

[Cyon]

I can't get the forum no more via the Tapatalk app on my android phone, do I need to change some setting in tapatalk, or use another app?

 

[Camikaze]

I can't get the forum no more via the Tapatalk app on my android phone, do I need to change some setting in tapatalk, or use another app?

Tapatalk is not currently supported. However, the forums should now be friendlier to access via a mobile browser.

 

[tetley]

Thank you to all the admins for all your work upgrading the forums, so that we would all enjoy it.

I'm not 100% positive the migration from vBulletin was needed, but I'll take your word for it. Security? Was the Yahoo hack the final nudge to make you take the plunge?

 

[BunnyWunny]

Where's the coffee and free donuts? I was told there would be free donuts.

Looks nice guys, very clean. The old one was good, but this I can read easier. Haven't looked at everything, but it's a nice step up.

 

[Troller0001]

It seems that several old smileys have been restored
(And now we wait for the : production:, :influence:, etc. ones)


(Also, is there a way now to make the editor ignore specific smileys and/or blocks/tags(?), such as [CODE ]? We used to have [NOPARSE] for that

 

[Pouakai]

(Also, is there a way now to make the editor ignore specific smileys and/or blocks/tags(?), such as [CODE ]? We used to have [NOPARSE] for that

If not currently, it'll likely be something we put on the list when we're sorting out the other BB Codes that need fixing.

 

[AlanH]

Hi. Table formatting doesn't seem to work in the new system. Is this going to be fixed? Here's an example.

 

[The_J]

Any word on my "go to first unread message" issue? Have they been reset for good, or is the history (or whatever the technical term is for it) going to be updated?

Why the hell are all posts in the last 30 days marked as unread?

That's all just a minor side effect of the move, as it seems.
The "go to new post" works perfectly for me, after I've once accessed a thread.

the changes to the PM system are super unhelpful in usability.

I've had a PM discussion with 2 other people at once, and the new layout is actually a big improvement in this case. The overview is also much cleaner in your inbox.

 

[Troller0001]

If not currently, it'll likely be something we put on the list when we're sorting out the other BB Codes that need fixing.

Nice . I used that feature quite a lot when posting my bracket-spaghetti