Please don't make me ask anymore.
Take five seconds, click this link, read the post.

Help me out
Everyone do me this one favor.


Erich

EDIT: I lost a file and the site went down.
It's back up now... Files replaced.

Uh, I made a post there that didn't show up. Here's what I said:

1. The colors hurt my eyes. Do sigs have to have that green background color? At least tone it down a lot. The quotes can be hard to read but you can fix that easily by making the text color in them a lot darker.

2. There is no quick reply option. I live on that in these forums. In fact, I'm using it right now.

3. The regular post option doesn't have any options besides adding an attachment. I'm assuming you can use vb code and HTML (I couldn't test it since my post didn't show up) but it's nice to have those buttons for editing.

DMiller Wrote:Uh, I made a post there that didn't show up. Here's what I said:

1. The colors hurt my eyes. Do sigs have to have that green background color? At least tone it down a lot. The quotes can be hard to read but you can fix that easily by making the text color in them a lot darker.

2. There is no quick reply option. I live on that in these forums. In fact, I'm using it right now.

3. The regular post option doesn't have any options besides adding an attachment. I'm assuming you can use vb code and HTML (I couldn't test it since my post didn't show up) but it's nice to have those buttons for editing.

Did you make a title for your post? I won't show up with out a title

Edit:
I made it so posts don't need titles anymore. Do me a favor and try it again.

PS. I'll work on the quick reply. And the system has themes so I'll make some more attractive themes soon.

We have such a small community, splitting posts between two forums is just silly... particularly if one of them doesn't have the archives.

A Black Falcon Wrote:We have such a small community, splitting posts between two forums is just silly... particularly if one of them doesn't have the archives.

Well eventually the TC database archives and all will be imported into my AJAX based forum.

But I need beta testers.
This is your opportunity to help create the perfect tendocity forums software talered to your needs, but I need beta testers first.

etoven Wrote:Well eventually the TC database archives and all will be imported into my AJAX based forum.

But I need beta testers.
This is your opportunity to help create the perfect tendocity forums software talered to your needs, but I need beta testers first.

My needs are already met with the current forum software. Anything else seems extraneous for what should be a simplistic in nature. Remember, less is more.

They key here is lowering the transition between boards. I would recommend modelling the new one as closely to this one as possible.

Etoven did put allot of work into the new forum, My needs are met with the current software on the old forum.

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Sacred Jellybean Wrote:My needs are already met with the current forum software. Anything else seems extraneous for what should be a simplistic in nature. Remember, less is more.

They key here is lowering the transition between boards. I would recommend modelling the new one as closely to this one as possible.

I replied to your post.
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Okay ASM, what the hell?

etoven Wrote:Okay ASM, what the hell?

Not me; Its a gag poking fun at a preacher kid.

Its just random. I realize that! But I felt like it!

Toven and I are both involved in this new version of the board. The concept itself is my idea, something to use here as sort of a test to see if the software might one day be commercially viable. Toven does all the coding, and he's been begging me for months, literally, to give the board a visual makeover. I might even do this one day.

The idea is as such: The message board is, ideally, very similar to vBulletin in functionality, with the added benefits of real-time behavior. It is also to be designed in a way that makes it almost completely modular right down to the individual user's level. The finished version of the board would allow the user to select a style-set, as our board does now... but it would also allow the user to create their own, if they desired. The user would also be able to dictate how the board's layout would appear, as well as which of the (conceptually) many features would or would not be present and active.

Also, the operations would occur in real-time. You could watch new posts appear while viewing the main page, see the Who's Online list populate and de-populate, edit your posts in any thread immediately and without having to trigger anything.

The present version has a long way to go, but I hope that in the end, the board would be no more or no less complex than you would have it look for yourself.

It sounds very similar to the latest versions of vBulletin I've seen on some boards. The real time updating and editing of posts anyway. The real time display of other's updates is new, but here's a key thing I have to bring up.

If someone else updates while I'm scrolling through a page reading a post, will it screw up my view, as in scroll it up or down slightly? That is the sort of thing that should be resolved.

On a small board like this, I wouldn't expect crippling delays, but on busier boards how's the slowdown handled?

Dark Jaguar Wrote:It sounds very similar to the latest versions of vBulletin I've seen on some boards. The real time updating and editing of posts anyway. The real time display of other's updates is new, but here's a key thing I have to bring up.

If someone else updates while I'm scrolling through a page reading a post, will it screw up my view, as in scroll it up or down slightly? That is the sort of thing that should be resolved.

On a small board like this, I wouldn't expect crippling delays, but on busier boards how's the slowdown handled?

In response to your question, AJAX, the technology that provides the real time updates, automatically calculates your new scroll position and applies it, so the page will never appear to jump around. As for the overhead, the server puts all page updates in multiple managed ques, I good server like mine should have no delays.

Quick reply's are now functional on the board!
Everyone check it out and let me know what you think of the design.