Forum migrated to xenforo!

One good piece of news with the move. We are getting thread update notices again via email.

 

Awesome, the spoiler fix is working, including on old (pre-migration) spoilers. That was perhaps the top remaining formatting issue for me.

Remaining ones I can think of off the top of my head:

- Per-post titles haven't returned. I don't know if XenForo supports these at all or not, but have not yet added bold intro lines to my old posts to replace them in the hope they may return.
- The aforementioned missing smilies, such as and others that have been mentioned, as well as some such as the Christmas tree that have not.
- Some special characters are still shown as codes; for example I have what I believe was a dagger (†) in one post, which is now †. I don't know how feasible that would be to fix since there could be any number of special characters stuck in limbo, but it would be nice if it's not excessively difficult.

My other most-missed feature is the collapseable forums on the main page; it does increase the amount of scrolling noticeably. Although I should probably try subscribing to entire forums and seeing if that view (after I've subscribed to the ones I used to have non-collapsed) is a sufficient substitute.

Edit: Okay, that actually works fairly nicely. For the top-tier forums ones, it might actually be better - I can pick and choose from the Civ III forums, for example, and not include ones that are inactive/I don't follow.

Would it be useful to have a post documenting all the various issues/requests, so they don't get lost, and it's easy for people to find the status of their pet issues (to do undetermined time, in progress, unlikely/won't do, etc.)? I suspect there's at least a few in this thread that, while not showstoppers, might be easy fixes, and it would be a shame to miss out on low-hanging fruit due to poor visibility.

 

Wooo, we can now multiquote!

 

That's odd, since I've been doing that since the forums reopened.

 

Yes, but by using the reply button, scrolling back up to where you were, and so on. Now there's a +Quote button there.

 

Mentioned already a few times, but I'd like to repeat the call for collapsible forum categories. They were a feature on vBulletin and I feel it'd be a helpful addition to the Xenforo CFC even if it's a 3rd party plugin. There are so many forums on CFC that will only increase as years go by and the ability to collapse sections would reduce scroll time on the index significantly. Myself, I only had 3 sections open on the vBulletin version (Support, Civ 3, OT).

 

It's not working for me

I have 'Mafia/NotW' forum as a 'Watched' forum. My 'Watched Forums' list suggests that I have both emails and alerts set up for this forum. There was a post in there today but I didn't get an alert, nor an email.

@Vincour - on the subject of 'Watched Forums', you can use it to replace the collapsible subforums (you can disable alerts and emails). However the thing that makes this less flexible than the latter is that I don't think you can add entire sections to it, so for example, you'd have to add all the Civ3 forums individually to your watched list if you were interested in the whole package of Gen Disc, Mods, MP, Stories etc. So collapsible subs would be nice... or an enhanced watch forums functionality

 

In my case, some forums are no longer watched. They were private forums. What happened to them?

 

Mmm, yes. And to find those +Quotes you'd need to scroll back, I imagine.

 

No, you just click on a button just below the quick reply box that reads ‘Insert Quotes’.

 

Not sure if this has been mentioned yet, but having a "Search the current forum" button somewhere would make it much easier to, well, search specific forums or subforums. Currently, limiting a search to a specific forum/subforum is a bit of a pain due to the combination of small selection boxes and the sheer number of subforums there are.

 

Have all of the Image links been corrected?
Unit images that were Uploaded to the Download Database do not show until the unit is clicked to view the Uploaded Unit where it can be downloaded.
Only see faded gear images in the Database with small user icons.

 

Thunderfall... I have not uploaded a Unit since the Change. Before, the image uploaded after uploading the Unit is what showed in the Database.
Now that same image is only seen when you go to download the unit and the Database shows the faded gear image with small member icon.

 

Thunderfall... OK, I will try a New Upload to see. I will use the same Delivery Wagon Unit named "Test Delivery Wagon" and you can delete it after the test.

Edite... I do Not see where to Upload ... No Buttons or Links in the Database Units?