Airline Mogul => General Chat => Topic started by: StephenM on August 07, 2008, 02:20:22 pm
Title: New Forum
Post by: StephenM on August 07, 2008, 02:20:22 pm
It was decided to update the forum and in the process switch to SMF. This change will allow users to in the future change the theme of their Airline Mogul pages and the forum pages to what they want. Along with this, I also hope to offer alliances their own sub-section of the board.
Change is not always a positive thing for some people, but I hope in the grand scheme of what can be offered, everyone can appreciate it.
On a note about the forum signatures, the first character disappears during the conversion. Don't forget to update your signature to make sure it works correctly.
Title: Re: New Forum
Post by: nwadeltaboy on August 07, 2008, 02:43:02 pm
What? The style changed? When? I haven't noticed anything different :P
Title: Re: New Forum
Post by: czhang on August 07, 2008, 04:26:28 pm
Damn it, the forum doesn't load at all for me (always says "waiting for stephenm.org") unless I use a proxy, and some links lead to a "not found" page!
edit: i also despise the default theme, switched to another one that looks like vBulletin for familiarity although i also hate that one...
Title: Re: New Forum
Post by: Crow on August 07, 2008, 04:46:08 pm
Great work indeed crew! You guys really deserve a cookie!
Title: Re: New Forum
Post by: czhang on August 07, 2008, 07:06:27 pm
OK the look I'm getting used to now. A couple problems though, emoticons don't seem to be in line with text and the text itself is a bit small. Its fine on my XGA resolution laptop but it would be very hard to read (or so I imagine) on my 19" standard desktop monitor.
edit: problem connecting to the site also seems to have fixed itself
Title: Re: New Forum
Post by: Lord Voldemort on August 07, 2008, 11:33:35 pm
How do you change the theme? I can't seem to find anything...
EDIT: Nevermind, I got it... Idk, but it might be a good idea to change the default to something else, since what's set now is really different from the old theme, and I'm guessing that that confuses people...
Title: Re: New Forum
Post by: zenmen5 on August 08, 2008, 03:53:49 am
hmm new,this style confuses me ill change it :P
Title: Re: New Forum
Post by: XeniaAirways on August 08, 2008, 05:55:24 am
I like how you can personalize the forum now, but it seems like there is now a message limit... maybe I just didn't notice it before... but that 20,000 character limit is rather annoying.
Edit: Confirmed - it's a new limit.
My post, which I was trying to edit, contained 40,448 characters before the edit. I was told that the limit is 20,000 with this new forum. >:(
Title: Re: New Forum
Post by: MrOrange on August 08, 2008, 02:33:00 pm
I like how you can personalize the forum now, but it seems like there is now a message limit... maybe I just didn't notice it before... but that 20,000 character limit is rather annoying.
Edit: Confirmed - it's a new limit.
My post, which I was trying to edit, contained 40,448 characters before the edit. I was told that the limit is 20,000 with this new forum. >:(
Removed the character limit.
Title: Re: New Forum
Post by: czhang on August 10, 2008, 06:38:55 am
Uh, the forum is running really, REALLY slow for me. It took about 25 seconds to load this page...and its just this forum, too. AM, the non-forum section of StephenM.org, and most everything else is fine. Is it just my internet connection? Or is it to do with some type of script on this forum causing it to slow down?
Title: Re: New Forum
Post by: MrOrange on August 10, 2008, 02:31:07 pm
OK the look I'm getting used to now. A couple problems though, emoticons don't seem to be in line with text and the text itself is a bit small. Its fine on my XGA resolution laptop but it would be very hard to read (or so I imagine) on my 19" standard desktop monitor.
edit: problem connecting to the site also seems to have fixed itself
Everything fixed I think. Increased font size, lined up emoticons (and all images, for that matter).
Title: Re: New Forum
Post by: czhang on August 11, 2008, 08:51:12 am
That's great, but the forum is still quite slow...might be my ISP's problem though.
lol, it took so long to post this that the session timed out while it was posting the message...
Title: Re: New Forum
Post by: Shawa on August 11, 2008, 08:58:18 am
I have a problem with the show unread posts function. If i'm gone for a few hours, it won't list any threads, even if there is lots of unread posts.
Title: Re: New Forum
Post by: Chavaquiah on August 11, 2008, 09:49:25 am
I have a problem with the show unread posts function. If i'm gone for a few hours, it won't list any threads, even if there is lots of unread posts.
I have the same problem. However, you may notice that when that happens, there is link with the text "No unread topics found since your last visit. Click here to try all unread topics." Using that link will show all messages still unread.
Title: Re: New Forum
Post by: Shawa on August 11, 2008, 12:00:30 pm
Didn't notice it thx
Title: Re: New Forum
Post by: Tiger In Training on August 11, 2008, 05:58:41 pm
May already be mentioned but, the "Mark all as read" button on the forum home page does not work.