Upgrading to phpBB3

What do you want to see here? Some more categories, forums, and mods? Hmm...
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Z-Man wrote:I would do a search for posts by any author to get the latest post, but that doesn't work any more :/
Apart from this: http://forums3.armagetronad.net/search. ... d=newposts which only works if you're not logged in and isn't linked to on the main page.
That works if you're logged in or not logged in and there is a link to it at the top of every page (View new posts) and on the right side of the forum index (View new posts).
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You don't fully understand :)
When I'm not logged in, there is no link to that page. At least none I could find.
When I'm logged in, that page gives only the posts that are new in the current session, as opposed to the last thousand or so it gives me when not logged in. Since the forum's idea of what I have read are occasionally wrong (browser crashed, or I plain forgot to read something, or I get thrown out of a session), such a 'find all recent posts without having to browse through all subforums' is handy.

Edit, another little quibble: previously, if your inbox was full and you got a new PM, old PMs would be deleted automatically. Now new messages are put on hold until you delete messages manually. I liked the old way better. It let me be lazy, keeping all messages around to keep track of current conversations, while still getting rid of old ones and saving those I didn't want deleted. In short, the current system assumes all messages are important until told so otherwise, while the old system assumed all messages unimportant unless told otherwise. The old system matches reality much better.
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I like it :) good job upgrading
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Ok I found something I don't like:
[quote=""when searching""]The following words in your search query were ignored because they are too common words: lag settings.
You must specify at least one word to search for. Each word must consist of at least 3 characters and must not contain more than 14 characters excluding wildcards.[/quote]I was looking for a topic called Lag settings. :(
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Editing a post seems to lag quite a bit. Is there some heavy ECMAScript going on? :(
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Some things I can fix when I get time, but others are things to keep in mind for the new skin. I'm making a list.
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I'm glad the incorrectly-sized lightcycles blue/red lightcycles in the forumoverview are finally fixed :)

@jonathan & wrt; don't you guys get smaller fonts on the majority of sites out there? Just wondering.
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Lackadaisical wrote:I'm glad the incorrectly-sized lightcycles blue/red lightcycles in the forumoverview are finally fixed :)
I only noticed that after doing the phpBB3 style.
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/me misses the "You don't have to put up with this shit!" thing.
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We've also lost camel power. :(
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Would that have something to do with the blow-up of the resolution on this page? Feels like 600x400.

Anyways, nice work on the skin. I always found fiddling with PHPBB CSS to be more annoying than others.
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Paladin wrote:Would that have something to do with the blow-up of the resolution on this page? Feels like 600x400.
What do you mean? Resolution deals with quality. You're saying the page looks pixelized?
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Lackadaisical wrote:@jonathan & wrt; don't you guys get smaller fonts on the majority of sites out there? Just wondering.
Many sites do set the font size. But setting it to some ratio ≠ 1 of my preference (I mean an actual browser setting!) for the main body of text is still fairly uncommon. So Just Do The Right Thing.
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One more (unimportant)thing, the lightcycles displayed inside polls are squished.
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Just remembered a patch I had to make for index.php. That's fixed one minor thing. Also some changes to the css (font size/color) and header (link order/color).

Edit: Poll squishy-ness fixed. Last change of the day.
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