As most people know by now, the BOTF2 forums recently underwent a major upgrade. These updates are not yet complete however; we do not have a news page etc. yet.

I've created this thread so that Nemitor can get an idea of what sorts of things people would like changed about the forums, any additions, anything removed, that kind of thing. I have already spoken with Nemitor and we came up with a number of changes that we would like to see happen in the near future, such as:

• Create a news page
• Create a downloads page
• Reinstate The Old-Style Site Stats (Click For Image)
  -These new stats will match the theme style that you have currently chosen, they won't be LCARS as in the image
• Reintroduce Coppermine or some type of replacement image repository
• Remove the current default theme and replace it with SFcentar or Acidtech
• Expand the Acidtech theme width so it actually takes up the entire page and not only half of it!

If anyone has any ideas for further changes or simply wants to discuss those listed above, please say so here.

Matress, I don't know what I would do without you.

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Yes, post away - if you don't you won't see what you want to see. Soon (within the next month, I'm going on vacation in two weeks for two weeks), I'll be upgrading lots and lots, so if you dont tell me what you want you wont get it. It's that simple.

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Yes it did Strings. It's all part of the forum updates.

Yep, within the next few days there will be some significant changes, such as the return of downloads and a news page, as well as some minor changes like that widening.

Cool, so it's not Opera being, er, weird.

No, it isn't. The forums are meant to be wierd.

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Here's a new one for you Nem - fix the google analytics so they work for the new forums. I'm still getting analytics reports for the old forums. It's interesting finding out that there were as many as 5 site visits to the old forums last week!

(Which is incidentally wrong compared to the old forum site statistics which show they were almost 6 thousand page views in the last week on the old forums. Why are so many people still visiting them when everything is on the new forums? )

Can do.

I noticed that since the forum got wider, our posts have got fatter, lol.

usually the same holds for the waistbelt and the abdomen...

Nem, if you try to edit a PM that you've already sent, when you click on the send button, a yellow message comes up saying "The submitted form is invalid. Try submitting again." It doesn't matter if you don't even make any changes either; the error message ALWAYS comes up. You have to delete the original PM then copy-and-paste and resend it if you want to make any changes afterwards. Odd glitch.

Hm. Seems like a PHPBB error itself. I'll add it to the bug list and try to fix it - but I try to stay away from PHPBB3 since its vastly complex and it has tons of people who know more about PHP than I working on it.

I would recommend deleting any PMs if you change your mind. PMs weren't designed to be editable, I guess - and seem to somehow work off the same initial code as actual threads. I'll take a look at it if I get time, but I've got tons of allegiance stuff I want to get done this week, nevertheless get the Downloads and News page done.

Oh it's not that important, I just thought you'd want to know. And sometimes glitches are the result of larger problems that you only discover when you look. Hopefully this isn't one of those times.

Nemitor, what version of phpBB is this? I'm looking for info on how to put in the search active topics link at the top of the page.

as far as I know phpbb3 rc7 (the one before the actual final release several weeks ago).

According to the admin control panel, the forums are phpbb3.0.0, which is the latest version, and the database is MySQL 4.1.22-standard if that helps, strings.

We've got the release version of BB3, I made sure to update the minute it was released.

Cool nice one, I was wondering if the View active topics feature is built-in with phpBB3?

search.php?search_id=active_topics

I see it at the top of Acid.

It's at the top of all five of the current forum themes - in slightly different places, but it's there.

Hey Nem! I found some bugs in the forums.

what do I do with them?

LOL better get the bug spray!

Cook em :p

Run

Here. Try some of this bug spray.

What? My shameful Star Wars reference didn't kill this topic did it?

congrats to the admin team here on getting it done! let's just hope now the newly-registered-member problems are gone for good

test test

Looks like the new forum filing cabinet is working.

btw. are we getting our old smilies back? I really liked them (better than the ones we got now )