Follow up to the we're upgrading thread, as promised, we've rolled out phpbb3. It's a lot more powerful then what we were running.

A lot of things are the same but a lot might be different. Please give yourself time to adjust and explore. Use this thread to provide feedback. So we can refine this forum to our needs.

I find the default layout CA Black rather unreadable personally and have switched to good old trusty prosilver. I'm sure others have the same gripe.

I'm finding CA Black a bit unreadable as well, but it's probably just a matter of getting used to it
It looks really nice though, good upgrade.

nice . is it possible that you enable good old zeroSpace too?

Mirio wrote:nice . is it possible that you enable good old zeroSpace too?

It'd have to be completely rewritten.

I'm ok with the new style, gotta try out on my cell too.
Could we have more smiley's too?

I like the new style quite a bit, but I miss the alientrap icons and etc... I cannot tell what state a thread is in at the moment, the icons for it right now are fairly annoying... A key/help page for this would be nice.

It looks cool.

I don't know if my information is useful, but...

I had a private message, when I tried to get it, PHP error appeared instead of message text: "*Parse error*: syntax error, unexpected $end in */home/alientrap/domains/alientrap.org/public_html/forum/cache/tpl_ca-black_ucp_pm_message_header.html.php* on line *38*".

Samual wrote:I like the new style quite a bit, but I miss the alientrap icons and etc... I cannot tell what state a thread is in at the moment, the icons for it right now are fairly annoying... A key/help page for this would be nice.

yeah same.. little legend needed

What does Baidu [Spider] , MSN [Bot] and Yahoo [Bot] do?

C.Brutail wrote:What does Baidu [Spider] , MSN [Bot] and Yahoo [Bot] do?

They are the arms of search engines. They archive pages, update search databases and what not. I think they can be disabled actually but meh.

Mirio wrote:

Samual wrote:I like the new style quite a bit, but I miss the alientrap icons and etc... I cannot tell what state a thread is in at the moment, the icons for it right now are fairly annoying... A key/help page for this would be nice.

yeah same.. little legend needed

I'll look into this on the weekend.

z80 wrote:I don't know if my information is useful, but...

I had a private message, when I tried to get it, PHP error appeared instead of message text: "*Parse error*: syntax error, unexpected $end in */home/alientrap/domains/alientrap.org/public_html/forum/cache/tpl_ca-black_ucp_pm_message_header.html.php* on line *38*".

I've been unable to replicate this error.

What are you doin' too an old man, uncapable of handlling any change in his life? Nah, nice job, really, well done. I appreciate the fact that my old login still works

i wanted to complain like "Well done, mister forum person, You buleted the vrong acconut!", luckily realizing a second after that i changed my username. Teehee!

Lovely new theme.

Wow, the person above me is completely insane.

C.Brutail wrote:What does Baidu [Spider] , MSN [Bot] and Yahoo [Bot] do?

To ensure that Spiders and crawlers (how the search engines index there information) dont effect post counts, views etc etc they have special users designed for them,
when they come onto the forum they have an optimized version for themselves and cannot affect statistics on your board... when you see one of these in your forum the actuall bot is indexing you site, and for admins you can see how many and how frequently they visit

Yeah, I agree with the icons, they are terrible, really. I haven't been on this forum for a while cause I couldn't be arsed to understand which thread is new, stickied, big and whatnot. They are just a jumble mess, made to confuse. The ones who made it should stop smoking whatever the hell it was.

ai wrote:Yeah, I agree with the icons, they are terrible, really. I haven't been on this forum for a while cause I couldn't be arsed to understand which thread is new, stickied, big and whatnot. They are just a jumble mess, made to confuse. The ones who made it should stop smoking whatever the hell it was.

This complaint is made nearly every time I've ever changed a forum theme. Regardless, I plan on integrating a legend and updating the icons soon.

\o/ Hurray! Thanks!

Anyone else got time problems with the revised forum? My profile is set to UTC yet the timings posted are ~50 minutes behind.

That's great news you're going to look at the icons z, they really need changing.
I do miss zero space but after a few days I'm coming round to the new look, excellent work sir.

[-z-] wrote:This complaint is made nearly every time I've ever changed a forum theme. Regardless, I plan on integrating a legend and updating the icons soon.

This may be true, but this time it's really confusing, more than ever IMO. The last theme was a bit confusing at first mostly because the 'new' posts icon wasn't much more visible than the other. Those with certain darker monitors would have a hard time seeing that (mine was rather dark till I got this I have now).
Well, thanks for taking a look at it though!

Are these new buttons better?

[-z-] wrote:Are these new buttons better?

In my Opinion everythings fine, buttons, look etc its common sense understanding what the icons mean, well done good job, its all fine in my eyes

Um, it wasn't the 'post reply' and such buttons I meant. I meant the icons for thread status (new posts, old threads, big threads which are more than 1 page) etc. which are quite confusing.

Like this:

I have absolutely no idea why the two icons for the threads 'Another song' and 'ODE implementation' are different. Both have 2 pages, almost the same amount of views, none of them stickied... so why?
At a first glance it's also hard to see the status, you really have to stop and look carefully on the icons to see what kind of icon it is. Because the 'square' one for the stickys are round a bit it looks round if you don't look carefully enough.
IMO, it shouldn't be that hard to identify the status of threads.

come now ai we arent all that retarded :p

djSupport wrote:come now ai we arent all that retarded :p

Good for you. But I have a very hard time seeing the difference unless I stare at the screen for a few seconds. However, do you know why those two icons for what I can see the same types of threads are different?
At least, if these icons are not going to change make the other theme the default one. This whole theme is very good and more nicer than the other one, it's just those icons...

EDIT: Just noticed there are yet even more different icons for the same types of threads:


Why? Seriously... why are there different icons for same types of threads? I'll tell you... to confuse the hell out of people.

EDIT2: This is how many icons there is:

Seriously, why so many.. whole whopping 13(I may even have missed some)? You need just 5 icons...
1. New post in thread.
2. No posts in thread.
3. Stickied, new post.
4. Stickied, no post.
5. Locked.

This is not 'common sense' and you are not a 'retard' if you don't understand these. Them being so similar doesn't help to ease the confusion either.

I understand what icons you meant. I just haven't gotten around to replacing them. I took similar buttons from another variation of this theme and blended them in. I'm going step by step.

I'll get to those icons when I can, that's going to be more of a process.

I totally agree with ai. Far to many icons with far to little distinction. For me the theme is okish, but far from great (both function and looks, the old zeroSpace one worked far better for me).