New Forum Layout

Talk about everything else besides Stratovarius here in English. Please try to put more serious topics here, and silly topics in the Spam section.
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Re: New Forum Layout

Post by cliff » Wed Aug 04, 2004 11:53 pm

Administrator wrote: Ok I will do this. I will put a poll concerning this issue now to the Poll Board.
This poll is a great idea.

Personally I do share Twilightsymphony's opinion.
There are so many categories that it's really difficult now to find which topic section is the good one.
Thus, there are all these page scrolling stuffs...
It's better that people don't have to scroll too much if they want, for exemple, to see who is online.
I think the best is "English part" / "finnish part" / "other languages" sections, with in each of these sections "Stratovarius / Offtopic / Musician discussion". Simple but powerful :wink:
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Re: New Forum Layout

Post by Gnosis_and_Life » Thu Aug 05, 2004 12:32 am

cliff wrote: I think the best is "English part" / "finnish part" / "other languages" sections, with in each of these sections "Stratovarius / Offtopic / Musician discussion". Simple but powerful :wink:
I totally agree with it! I think it would be the best way to organize the categories! :D
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Re: New Forum Layout

Post by Twilightsymphony » Thu Aug 05, 2004 11:29 am

Shurik wrote: Edit: I have a problem with signature, for some reason it is not shown and it is less than 150 letters ...
There is an option in the user preference to show the sig everytime, it may be turned off on default.
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Re: New Forum Layout

Post by Shurik » Thu Aug 05, 2004 1:04 pm

Yeah, I changed it, but looks like sig doesn't work in messages I made before the change ...
Well, screw it, you'll have plenty of opportunities in the future to read my sig :lol: :lol:
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Re: New Forum Layout

Post by StratoHeart » Thu Aug 05, 2004 1:28 pm

My number of messages also went down. I had 1090 or something before this change.
WTF?

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Re: New Forum Layout

Post by MAJINDIEGO » Thu Aug 05, 2004 2:42 pm

Shurik wrote:Few questions/suggestions:

3) The aforementioned forum (In Other Languages) says that it is not moderated, but administrator and Liina are listed as mods :) Since the majority of that forum posters speaks either Spanish or Portuguese, wouldn't it be nicer to appoint one Spanish and one Portuguese speaking persons as mods there?
Agreed. And by the way, i decided to announce my name as the Portuguese candidate! All we need now is a Spanish one!
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Re: New Forum Layout

Post by Reaper » Thu Aug 05, 2004 2:56 pm

Also I've noticed that my recent posts, the ones I made right before the change, disappeared... Got lost in the trasition process I think... :?
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Re: New Forum Layout

Post by Shurik » Thu Aug 05, 2004 3:15 pm

One more suggestion - put the Rules part in the top, it's the natural place for such a things ... :)
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Re: New Forum Layout

Post by StragOvariuS » Thu Aug 05, 2004 3:26 pm

MAJINDIEGO wrote:
Shurik wrote:Few questions/suggestions:

Agreed. And by the way, i decided to announce my name as the Portuguese candidate! :D
Please no....i vote for Cristiane :P
Kidding hehehe... :!:
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Re: New Forum Layout

Post by Jaakko » Thu Aug 05, 2004 4:45 pm

Shurik wrote:One more suggestion - put the Rules part in the top, it's the natural place for such a things ... :)
Nobody reads them anyway ;)

But when having a second thought, could it actually be possible to have all the sections but on the index page having only english, finnish, other languages and the rules as main categories and under them the subcategories for each language? Would make the index page to fit on to the screen at once with most normal resolutions.

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Re: New Forum Layout

Post by Cristiane » Thu Aug 05, 2004 5:20 pm

StragOvariuS wrote: Please no....i vote for Cristiane :P
Kidding hehehe... :!:
Nooo! not me... I don't think the portuguese forum needs a moderator cause there're a feel people in there. As we all know each other I don't think we'll start flame battles in there out of nothing...
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Re: New Forum Layout

Post by Taim » Thu Aug 05, 2004 10:49 pm

other schemes are better, but still I miss the old one. The problem is they are not very clear, too messy. The poll's a great idea. For me, strato, off-topic and musician discussions is enough.

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Re: New Forum Layout

Post by NordicStorm » Thu Aug 05, 2004 11:15 pm

Would it by any chance be possible to reinstate the "at least 50 posts before posting a topic" rule?
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Re: New Forum Layout

Post by Shurik » Fri Aug 06, 2004 2:14 am

NordicStorm wrote:Would it by any chance be possible to reinstate the "at least 50 posts before posting a topic" rule?
Everything is possible in this forum ... :)
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Re: New Forum Layout

Post by Cristiane » Fri Aug 06, 2004 1:37 pm

NordicStorm wrote:Would it by any chance be possible to reinstate the "at least 50 posts before posting a topic" rule?
Agreed... I myself have nothing against newbies, on the contrary, but one thing that I think it's irritating is when they arrive here and create topics that have already been posted before.
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Re: New Forum Layout

Post by browneyedgirl » Fri Aug 06, 2004 1:53 pm

I like that we can choose color scheme....i picked Dark Sky--identical to old one!:)
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Re: New Forum Layout

Post by Shurik » Fri Aug 06, 2004 2:17 pm

I chose "subSilver", it's the layout I use on all phpBB forums I visit ... It just looks more familiar this way :)
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Re: New Forum Layout

Post by Lava » Fri Aug 06, 2004 2:25 pm

StratoHeart wrote:My number of messages also went down. I had 1090 or something before this change.
WTF?
I have excactly the same problem... But my lost posts are a bit more than 200!!! :(

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Re: New Forum Layout

Post by Twilightsymphony » Fri Aug 06, 2004 4:55 pm

i´ve lost something like 40... well, can live with that :?
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Re: New Forum Layout

Post by iron_thunder » Sat Aug 07, 2004 9:33 pm

Blah! I didn't mind it when it was light blue for a day or two-- it didn't "match" the rest of the site, but it was easy to read... This thing is TOO dark. It's a strain on your eyes! :x

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Re: New Forum Layout

Post by Moony » Sun Aug 08, 2004 10:35 am

iron_thunder wrote:I didn't mind it when it was light blue for a day or two-- it didn't "match" the rest of the site, but it was easy to read... This thing is TOO dark. It's a strain on your eyes! :x
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