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If you really want to train for admin so badly, you'll do what I did, and buy a Shake-weight in the form of a ring.

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To wear on your finger and train it for the ban button.

Alright, I'll throw it in here because it only started with the new layout.


A very strange glitch happens when I use the 'link' button in Google Chrome.

So I've decided to demonstrate in video.

Only tried in Chrome (I can't be assed to install whatever version Firefox is up to now, and IE is forever purged), but you can clearly see what happens when I use the 'link' button.

Short version is, when you use the 'Link' button, as soon as you enter a URL and click OK press Enter to finish Chrome will jump to the forum index. My posts are retained when I go back, it's just a very strange behavior.

Ah, looking back on the video and a little testing just now, it's not when you click 'Ok' but if you press enter to finish the URL entry.

Edited, Jun 30th 2011 4:09pm by Raelix

Will the karma changes affect posts from before the changes? e.g. will the post that are currently default be changed to decent if they weren't rated down enough by the soon to be changes?

This is correct. it will only affect posts going forwards.

I still hate the scholar/sage/guru colors as they don't appear much with the background from the FFXI, same for the little kinda bubbles for new threads and such. Maybe keep the color scheme but make them a few shades lighter? The blue and green are really hard to see easily.

It's a habit from dial up/not-fios-dsl. Since it's not something that causes the page to actually load I don't know if it went through or not until anything actually happens. Therefore I'm going to click multiple times after a simple one click seemingly does nothing.

This was the source of some of my double, triple, and 26le posts back in ye olde days.

Edited, Jul 2nd 2011 3:08am by Deadgye

I really like nearly everything about the new set-up. I do have a few minor gripes, and what I think is a HUGE complaint. Minor first:

*Posting location. Put it back.
*First unread post arrow on the forum screen. It was really nice to be able to jump right back into a thread without wading through the crap you already read.
*Put back the thread index link in some capacity. I realize you can click the forum in the bottom left hand corner, but that's just obnoxious.


Fix the mobile version. It now reads the exact same as if I visit the non-mobile version. I realize that changes like this take time blah blah blah, but if it isn't ready to implement, it shouldn't be implemented (including the mobile version). This is not a small gripe either. I use this site mostly only on the mobile version now and you completely broke it. This didn't have to happen immediately. This wasn't making or breaking the site. It has been a huge turnoff to use and I find myself using the site even less than before now due to the utter distaste I have for browsing forums on non-mobile style sites.

If it has already been announced in some way that these are being fixed, I'm sorry. I didn't read the entire thread.

Edit: Should really move "Recent Visitors" back to the top. It makes no sense at the bottom.

Edited, Jul 2nd 2011 7:05am by Paskil

I keep seeing people say this, and I don't see the issue here at all. Having the thread index link was redundant. Is it really that hard to move your mouse halfway across the screen to click a different link instead?

Personally, I prefer a clean, semi-minimalist look free of redundancy, particularly when the alternative isn't all that stressful or difficult to access.

Even more lazy? I already envision you using one of those crippled people scooters when you go grocery shopping.

Fixed. Thanks for the detailed report.


Hm, compared to what menu? Which site are you using?


We'll look in to this.


This still exists in both the forum root (/forum.html) and forum view/thread list pages (/forum.html?cat=#).


What do you mean by this? How did it differ before that it does not now?


If we add an option to disable dropdowns from the paths/breadcrumbs it will be as it's own option.