Game & Forum Merger + Forum Upgrade

qzjul

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Nov 21st 2013, 18:49:49

Originally posted by Marshal:

did sig txt limit rise or not?

Not that I know of...

Originally posted by blid:

Also what's the plan re: merging the game and forums? In-game messages will go to PM boxes? Is that happening at a later time?

Yea, that'll come later

Originally posted by Requiem:

How come the name and post count is above each post and not to the side? I don't know if I like that much :s It takes up more vertical room which I don't personally care for.

Only if you're on the tablet/phone version does it look like that, because of not enough horizontal space

Originally posted by ingle:

The forums looks like crap in Chrome/Firefox. Who the hell still uses IE anyways except for certain places at work??

We *developed it* in Chrome & FF; looks good to me? Can you reset your zoom level maybe? or adjust your browser width?

Originally posted by crest23:

The mobile site is discontinued? Can't play on my tablet now. I like the ability to choose either on my tablet.

You can still use the mobile version! It's still up

Originally posted by blid:

I think the line break takes a bit too much space.

Shouldn't there be slightly less empty space between the above line and this one?

Could do that i suppose? I'll look into it....

Finally did the signature thing.

Requiem

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Nov 21st 2013, 19:47:56

i still use mobile... Don't ever take that down btw... It's great.

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ingle

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Nov 21st 2013, 20:20:48

Thanks qz. Looks like I was zoomed out to 90%.

If you use 100% it's fine, but if you adjust the zoom, then it goes to mobile portal?

Xinhuan

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Nov 22nd 2013, 0:35:24

Originally posted by ingle:

Thanks qz. Looks like I was zoomed out to 90%.

If you use 100% it's fine, but if you adjust the zoom, then it goes to mobile portal?

I think it's more to do with the browser window's width. Try resizing your window size to a really small width and you'll see the same thing happens, but when you change your browser zoom, something funky happens and it thinks your window has a very small width too.

qzjul

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Nov 22nd 2013, 1:22:54

Originally posted by ingle:

Thanks qz. Looks like I was zoomed out to 90%.

If you use 100% it's fine, but if you adjust the zoom, then it goes to mobile portal?

Yea i don't know, I'll have to ask pang about that or read up on it, I honestly never tried zooming out before...

Finally did the signature thing.

Azz Kikr

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Nov 22nd 2013, 14:49:24

one more for ya qz: I appreciate that there are now different colors on a:visited vs a:link or whatever, but for us colorblind folk (there's got to be more than one, i hope) the distinction is not at all clear. maybe revisit the colors a bit more? :)

blid

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Nov 22nd 2013, 15:11:48

I see colors fine and the distinction is incredibly incredibly slight.

Originally posted by Mr. Titanium:

Watch your mouth boy, I have never been accused of cheating on any server nor deleted before you just did right there.

qzjul

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Nov 22nd 2013, 16:10:11

Originally posted by Azz Kikr:

There isn't yet! :) give me a bit for that one

Finally did the signature thing.

Xinhuan

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Nov 22nd 2013, 16:30:02

Pang did add the color change, but as blid said, the color difference is so minor it is incredibly easy to miss. And it doesn't work on the main forum listing to indicate whether a forum has been visited (without new links/threads).

blid

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Nov 22nd 2013, 17:00:29

And it keeps the thread off-color even if there's new posts in it, which wasn't the case before.

Originally posted by Mr. Titanium:

Watch your mouth boy, I have never been accused of cheating on any server nor deleted before you just did right there.

qzjul

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Nov 22nd 2013, 17:30:55

Originally posted by Xinhuan:

I changed it to be the old vlink colour

Finally did the signature thing.

qzjul

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Nov 22nd 2013, 17:31:07

Originally posted by blid:

And it keeps the thread off-color even if there's new posts in it, which wasn't the case before.

That should be fixed now

Finally did the signature thing.

blid

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Nov 22nd 2013, 20:35:49

I don't think the color is changing at all anymore. All my threads the same color even after I click on them and read everything.

Originally posted by Mr. Titanium:

Watch your mouth boy, I have never been accused of cheating on any server nor deleted before you just did right there.

qzjul

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Nov 22nd 2013, 20:46:27

definitely working for me ?

Finally did the signature thing.

Xinhuan

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Nov 22nd 2013, 23:05:21

Originally posted by qzjul:

definitely working for me ?

It's working for me too. Perhaps blid needs a refresh of the css (Ctrl+F5 fully reloads a cached page).

blid

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Nov 22nd 2013, 23:13:50

Still nothing.

Originally posted by Mr. Titanium:

Watch your mouth boy, I have never been accused of cheating on any server nor deleted before you just did right there.

blid

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Nov 22nd 2013, 23:56:06

Oh heh, seems it's because I was clicking the "2" for Page 2 instead of the thread itself. If you click the last page of a thread instead of the main link I don't think it does anything.

Originally posted by Mr. Titanium:

Watch your mouth boy, I have never been accused of cheating on any server nor deleted before you just did right there.

Xinhuan

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Nov 23rd 2013, 2:20:55

Incorrect. The "2" is also in a visited link colour if you visited it!

blid

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Nov 23rd 2013, 3:47:16

Yeah, but not the thread.

Originally posted by Mr. Titanium:

Watch your mouth boy, I have never been accused of cheating on any server nor deleted before you just did right there.

Xinhuan

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Nov 23rd 2013, 4:03:11

Yah it has always been that way. The thread link and the "2" link are different links.

Requiem

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Nov 25th 2013, 18:06:04

Originally posted by Xinhuan:

Yah it has always been that way. The thread link and the "2" link are different links.

Change request.

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qzjul

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Nov 25th 2013, 19:00:55

and how, precisely, would you have it be? heh =/

Finally did the signature thing.

qzjul

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Nov 25th 2013, 20:14:39

I added the handle switcher to the mobile version of the top bar

Finally did the signature thing.

blid

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Nov 26th 2013, 15:39:16

Being used to the new forums is making me like them more, as expected

Originally posted by Mr. Titanium:

Watch your mouth boy, I have never been accused of cheating on any server nor deleted before you just did right there.

Vic

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Nov 28th 2013, 12:10:04

Originally posted by blid:

Being used to the new forums is making me like them more, as expected

Marshal

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Nov 30th 2013, 12:49:14

about weekly-bonus, is it given even if posts with other handle than main?

Patience: Yep, I'm with ELK and Marshal.

ELKronos: Patty is more hairy.

Gallery: K at least I am to my expectations now.

LadyGrizz boobies is fine

NOW3P: Morwen is a much harsher mistress than boredom....

qzjul

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Nov 30th 2013, 16:53:06

Originally posted by Marshal:

about weekly-bonus, is it given even if posts with other handle than main?

This is a good question, I didn't even consider that... not sure

Finally did the signature thing.

qzjul

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Nov 30th 2013, 17:48:53

It should now redirect you on login to wherever you were on logging in (other than main page and the login page)...

Try!? :)

Finally did the signature thing.

qzjul

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Nov 30th 2013, 19:30:36

Added hover tooltips....

Finally did the signature thing.

Marshal

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Nov 30th 2013, 20:50:27

Originally posted by qzjul:

Originally posted by Marshal:

about weekly-bonus, is it given even if posts with other handle than main?

This is a good question, I didn't even consider that... not sure

i hope not since i use other handle for posting to get weekly bonus to new country when set ends on other day than sunday.

qzjul

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Nov 30th 2013, 21:01:50

Updated it to be any handle you own :)

Finally did the signature thing.

Marshal

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Dec 1st 2013, 13:16:40

Originally posted by qzjul:

Updated it to be any handle you own :)

not good.

blid

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Dec 3rd 2013, 21:12:25

Question about PMs:

1) the search box doesn't seem to do anything
2) when messages get threaded/grouped... is there a way to delete or ungroup some parts of the conversation? I want to * a particular PM and it's like 5 deep in a group. Which I guess I can just * the whole group but I was only wondering what the functionality is here.

Originally posted by Mr. Titanium:

Watch your mouth boy, I have never been accused of cheating on any server nor deleted before you just did right there.

qzjul

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Dec 3rd 2013, 21:43:02

1) you're right! i haven't totally forgotten about that, but it's moved down my list a bit

2) uh... i guess not, currently? I could potentially make it so you could just star messages.... i'll have to think about that

Finally did the signature thing.

blid

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Dec 3rd 2013, 22:08:31

2) no problem, I was just wondering what I could do in terms of grouping/ungrouping conversations. if they are tied together permanently I can deal with it.

Originally posted by Mr. Titanium:

Watch your mouth boy, I have never been accused of cheating on any server nor deleted before you just did right there.

qzjul

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Dec 3rd 2013, 23:03:18

Originally posted by blid:

2) no problem, I was just wondering what I could do in terms of grouping/ungrouping conversations. if they are tied together permanently I can deal with it.

They kindof are, I suppose they don't have to be, the problem is that I don't know how I could split it for one user but not another....

Finally did the signature thing.

Hobo

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Dec 6th 2013, 17:10:35

Congrats on the upgrade, gentlemen!

Atryn

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Dec 17th 2013, 13:41:20

The Wiki Alliance Directory used to take a person's forum ID ("forum=2139") and it would convert that into a link ("http://forums.earthempires.com/...ages.php?sid=2139").

Those links still work -- if you know the ID.

However, with the new forums, I cannot determine someone's Forum ID, only their handle. The new system would use a new link structure ("http://www.earthempires.com/...m/inbox/create/Atryn";).

I cannot just put "forum=Atryn" in the Alliance Directory or it creates a bad link ("http://forums.earthempires.com/...ages.php?sid=Atryn") which bombs.

Ideally, we need the "forum=XXX" logic updated to use forum handles and create the new style links. Alternatively, we need backward support for finding the sid for a forum user account.

Thoughts?

I know SoF has run into this same problem since a bunch of theirs don't work now...

Incidentally, Mr. Azure's still has an "sid", but it doesn't work, as if his account is gone? :)

qzjul

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Dec 17th 2013, 18:38:30

Oh, we could probably update the template to take forumid OR handle....

Finally did the signature thing.

Atryn

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Dec 18th 2013, 14:08:11

heh... does "could probably" mean that you plan to, or that I should check back and remind you again later? :)

<3

Marshal

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Dec 18th 2013, 16:53:35

Originally posted by Atryn:

heh... does "could probably" mean that you plan to, or that I should check back and remind you again later? :)

<3

remind.