Forums V4 New Changes + Suggestions

[petschko]

.ipsBox {
border: #000 1px solid !important;
}


Borders (AND maybe the line that show where the signature begins), that you can better see which stuff belongs which user... Its a mess because you can barely see the lines... its so bright maybe a littler darker background color (but not to dark^^)


See how it looks:


http://img5.fotos-hochladen.net/uploads/bordersarenicgi53k6v9nc.jpg

 

[MeowFace]

Yeah I miss that on subforums topic list.


Handy for easily determining context of the title.

You can still do that, just need to hover your mouse over the title and you will get a pop up window showing the full top post and the full recent post (unlike v3 you get to see the full post in v4 preview).

 

[mlogan]

@MeowFace Thanks, I hadn't realized we could do that! Still not exactly the same, but it's almost there!


@Rikifive Not sure what to say other than that I see it. You can see in this screenshot, big blue stars v big blue circles.

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Okay, somehow completely missed your statement that you saw it, lol. They don't disappear when there is no new content, they just get really, really light in color and hard to see.

 

[The Infamous Bon Bon]

A way to remove viewed notifications would be nice.

 

[Nathanial]

.ipsBox {
border: #000 1px solid !important;
}


Borders (AND maybe the line that show where the signature begins), that you can better see which stuff belongs which user... Its a mess because you can barely see the lines... its so bright maybe a littler darker background color (but not to dark^^)


See how it looks:


http://img5.fotos-hochladen.net/uploads/bordersarenicgi53k6v9nc.jpg

I like it, but we'll see what other people think as well of course  I applied it for now.


I am going to definitely darken the line between signature and post for sure later. 

 

[Soul]

Suggestion: be able to disable the areas of the forum a new thread pops up in. This way, if a user doesn't care or doesn't have the maker/ability to help someone from a certain place (ie. script requests, any maker sub-area they don't possess), it won't appear under 'Recent Topics'.


Had the idea earlier after almost posting the solution in Ace for another maker, which doesn't have the same fix. Alternatively, include the area a topic is posted in with a recent topic's name and user that started it. I suggest this to limit issues and accidental posts, in case someone doesn't scroll up before posting.

 

[MeowFace]

I like it, but we'll see what other people think as well of course  I applied it for now.


I am going to definitely darken the line between signature and post for sure later. 

The greyed bg is much better than the bright white. But certain text/fonts are too close to the bg color making them hard to read/notice.


Not only the line, the greyed out inactive links like the "report post" the "share post" icon, and the "x" in the signature.


You might want to darken the post counts below the user portrait on the right too.


Well, in fact, have all fonts darkened by one tone shade should work?

Suggestion: be able to disable the areas of the forum a new thread pops up in. This way, if a user doesn't care or doesn't have the maker/ability to help someone from a certain place (ie. script requests, any maker sub-area they don't possess), it won't appear under 'Recent Topics'.


Had the idea earlier after almost posting the solution in Ace for another maker, which doesn't have the same fix. Alternatively, include the area a topic is posted in with a recent topic's name and user that started it. I suggest this to limit issues and accidental posts, in case someone doesn't scroll up before posting.

You can already do that using a custom stream. Just edit the recent post stream and set your filters there, then save it as a new stream will do.


@mlogan You're welcome!

 

[Schlangan]

I noticed that the way to tag people using @ is extremely unstable; Sometimes, the window to get the name list does not appear at all, except if we delete several times the @ and press space again after it. Another problem arises if the user name is quite short, for example "sleepy0". Since several names starting with sleepy exists, it is impossible to select it in the list.

 

[Deceius]

I like it, but we'll see what other people think as well of course  I applied it for now.


I am going to definitely darken the line between signature and post for sure later. 

If you don't mind, Mr. @Nathanial sir.. but to the borders.. It isn't a bad idea, but it somehow looks disturbing. Maybe make it grayish, instead of pure black? I think the dark gray background color of the forums will do.


(tbh it feels like i'm in debugging mode when i see these borders. too much squares T_T)

 

[TheGamedawg]

I really like the new layout so far.  Pretty much my only problem with it is how needlessly spacious everything is.  A good example I think being the homepage.  Before, a little under half the page could be displayed on one screen.  Now the size is nearly doubled and I find myself doing a lot more scrolling than ever before.


Space efficiency is something I take a bit seriously, and I think an option to get rid of a lot of the blank space would be greatly appreciated.

 

[petschko]

If you don't mind, Mr. @Nathanial sir.. but to the borders.. It isn't a bad idea, but it somehow looks disturbing. Maybe make it grayish, instead of pure black? I think the dark gray background color of the forums will do.


(tbh it feels like i'm in debugging mode when i see these borders. too much squares T_T)

Sure^^ I just use black to show that a border would be nice (too see which post belongs to which person) but an other color can it too, as long the border is not to "white" or hidden^^


Some Like this:

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/*SEARCH AND REMOVE THIS LINE*/
border: 1px solid #000 !important;

/*ADD THESE LINES BELOW THE REMOVED LINE*/
border: 1px solid #888 !important; /* Color can another just an example */
border-radius: 10px; /* Round border value can be anouth just an example */

Other Idea:


Is there a chance to install a plugin for BB-Code or something? Its really annoying to do all with the WYSIWYG its a step back in my eyes. I'm going to create a HTML-Page (and simply post a link to it here) for my Ressource Posts instead of having a mess with this editor  =/

 

[NeoFantasy]

I honestly love the signatures, it makes the forums feel more like a community and let's us be more expressive.


The new layout is really nice but I find the borders really distracting and just overall ugly, maybe we can have an option to disable them or have them be softer color?

 

[Soul]

You can already do that using a custom stream. Just edit the recent post stream and set your filters there, then save it as a new stream will do.


@mlogan You're welcome!

This doesn't change the "Recent Topics" for me, even when switched into being my default stream. It also doesn't let me specify the areas of the forum I'd rather see pop up. Both reasons were what led me to suggest what I have in my previous post. Thank you for trying to help though, I appreciate it.

 

[MeowFace]

This doesn't change the "Recent Topics" for me, even when switched into being my default stream. It also doesn't let me specify the areas of the forum I'd rather see pop up. Both reasons were what led me to suggest what I have in my previous post. Thank you for trying to help though, I appreciate it.

In the filer, choose Topic, and hover your mouse over it, there should be a gear icon, click on that and you can further filter which area of the forum you want to read there.

 

[Nathanial]

Other Idea:


Is there a chance to install a plugin for BB-Code or something? Its really annoying to do all with the WYSIWYG its a step back in my eyes. I'm going to create a HTML-Page (and simply post a link to it here) for my Ressource Posts instead of having a mess with this editor  =/

None are available for such a thing. Of course I looked into it. IPS made it out to be like it would be a major undertaking to do with the way the new system works.

 

[petschko]

None are available for such a thing. Of course I looked into it. IPS made it out to be like it would be a major undertaking to do with the way the new system works.

They are crazy or lazy, this is not to difficult to create an bbsystem... May I will start a converter BB-Code to WYSIWYG-Editor... If they are thinking that BB-Code is obsolete and unneeded...


I have no words for this


Greetings

 

[Rikifive]

@Rikifive Not sure what to say other than that I see it. You can see in this screenshot, big blue stars v big blue circles.


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Okay, somehow completely missed your statement that you saw it, lol. They don't disappear when there is no new content, they just get really, really light in color and hard to see.

*gasp* You're right. I couldn't see, because I have my brightness set to high, so it's completely not visible, but when I've reduced it, then I could see them even on my screenshot. So, yes, you're entirely right, thanks for making things clear.


Then suggestion - can it be more visible, live in the previous version? ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

 

[Soul]

In the filer, choose Topic, and hover your mouse over it, there should be a gear icon, click on that and you can further filter which area of the forum you want to read there.

Ah, thank you! Did the trick. Never considered it to be an option when I first checked the stream feature out.


Edit: Nevermind. Are you sure changing that in the stream will change what appears under "Recent Topics", when on the forum index page? The box off to the right-hand side - only visible on the forum index, not the Activity streams. I did mark my custom stream to be my default stream. After editing it, it should not be showing me any maker specific thread other than Ace, aside from the other areas I've chosen.

 

[MeowFace]

Ah, thank you! Did the trick. Never considered it to be an option when I first checked the stream feature out.


Edit: Nevermind. Are you sure changing that in the stream will change what appears under "Recent Topics", when on the forum index page? The box off to the right-hand side - only visible on the forum index, not the Activity streams. I did mark my custom stream to be my default stream. After editing it, it should not be showing me any maker specific thread other than Ace, aside from the other areas I've chosen.

You can't change prefixed filters. That's why you need to save it as a new custom stream. And setting that custom stream to default should make it show up on the top left of the forum.


eg.


http://forums.rpgmakerweb.com/index.php?/discover/7/

 

[AceOfAces_Mod]

Can we have a night/dark theme? It's better in some light conditions.


I do like the color on mobile Chrome's address bar when you enable a certain flag however.