New forums Created 20 years ago2003-09-13 11:26:27 UTC by atom

I'm redesigning the forums. Here's a basic list of what I hope to include with the redesign:

bbcode, much faster loading, better notification of new posts, read posts etc., non-hierarchical view, full thread displayed on one page. So basically, classic forum style.

Should I use continue to use popups for the New Post / Reply to Post forms, or make it all non-popup? Viewing posts will NOT be popup-based.

Any other ideas are very very welcome - reply!

lose the popup srceens dont like it

Maybe a reply box at the BOTTOM of each thread? Will it be properly thread-based like phpBB? Only if it is

AND IMAGES! PLEASE!

is it just me, but..

whats that big gray stripe on the side of them forums?

You don't mean the edge of the site, by any chance?

popups: You sure you don't want them, even just for making a new post (quicker to load on 56K)? I could always make it optional - that's another thing - I hope to create more member-specific options, like preferred number of posts per page etc.

images: okey-doke.

reply box: sure. what do you mean, 'properly threaded'? These are as threaded as you get! But it's not useful threading in TWHL's case, so yeah, the new ones will be phpBB-style.

I have a stripe on the right-hand side, too. Opera, 1024x768. Reply box at the end of each page of each thread (idea stolen from Clanintern.de). Images: hurrah!

I can't wait!

Pop-ups: bad
Images: good
phpBB style: GOOD

Even the default phpBB setup would be preferable to me over the current system. It's not that hard to set up and run and there's a ton of mods and styles for it.

-Ryandor

phpBB is cool... but... do you really want to have separate accounts for the forums? And have to log-in separately? etc. Nah!

I'm not planning to use phpBB, just its style of threading (i.e. a topic, with replies all in one thread, readable on one page).

Yeah, phpBB's okay but a proper specific home-coded one's better!

yea, mekes the site seem friendlier for some reason,
duno why, phbb seems too standart everyone's using it

bbcode is here! lol

that's me, by the way, after being logged-out by the host with it's screwed session gc.

hey, the big gray stripe is gone (for me anyway..)

good luck with the new forums atom, cant wait to give them a right good spamming.. i mean no, try them out....

w00t

Mmm, Brilliant, simply Brilliant. Last night Ministeve and I were looking at vertical orange and white stripes, this morning I am looking at a new forum system that actually works.....

lol