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Upcoming Changes
« on: July 14, 2015, 06:06:12 PM »
Hey all! Thought I'd give you all a heads-up about some coming changes to the forums.

A few weeks back I realised that it had been four years since our last real update to the forums and though we've probably all grown accustomed to the look and feel of the forums to the point where we don't really think about it, I felt it was time for a shake up! To that end, I've spent the last few weeks working on creating what I'm hoping will be a welcomed theme change.

The new theme will bring a bit of a different feel to the forums, making them brighter and hopefully even more enjoyable to use. Not to mention, it'll have that 'new forum smell'* which is always in such great demand. At launch, there will also be at least three variants to chose from. All of you will initially be set to the new forum default theme but then you can choose whether to continue using that one or one of the other variants, this will all be done via your profile so you can change back and forth at any time. For those of you who are set in your ways and opposed to any sort of change, the current theme will remain available too if you wish to switch back to it.

The update should happen either late this week, or early next week. Provided everything goes to plan haha. During the update the forums will be placed into maintenance mode so as to prevent any errors being caused by people trying to access the boards or make posts while I'm moving files around and what not. With any luck it shouldn't take more than a few hours of down time though and it will hopefully be worth it!

*the new forum smell is a lie

Here are some teaser shots of the new theme.

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Re: Upcoming Changes
« Reply #1 on: July 15, 2015, 05:11:48 AM »
:o change! :compsmash:

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Re: Upcoming Changes
« Reply #2 on: July 15, 2015, 06:18:56 AM »
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1TtGQnyPZ6g

in all seriousness though, cool news, looking forward to it :)
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Re: Upcoming Changes
« Reply #3 on: July 15, 2015, 09:17:44 AM »
Why yes I did think you'd spoil it with a full sized screeny. I NEED IT!

Can't wait :D
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Re: Upcoming Changes
« Reply #4 on: July 15, 2015, 12:07:05 PM »
:o change! :compsmash:

:lol: You will adapt!  :borgassim:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1TtGQnyPZ6g

in all seriousness though, cool news, looking forward to it :)

Love that scene! Also, how young do they look there! I feel old...

Why yes I did think you'd spoil it with a full sized screeny. I NEED IT!

Can't wait :D

Hehe, well you'll just have to wait. It'll be worth it :P

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Re: Upcoming Changes
« Reply #5 on: July 22, 2015, 03:43:08 PM »
Needless to say, this got delayed a bit.
I had forgotten how much I had on this week with a friends wedding, my brother coming down, niece's birthday... So yeah, hopefully this weekend haha.

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Re: Upcoming Changes
« Reply #6 on: July 22, 2015, 04:19:01 PM »
cool, as long as we're staying with smf, most other platforms suck.




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Re: Upcoming Changes
« Reply #7 on: July 22, 2015, 09:00:29 PM »
Still staying with SMF yeah. I've looked at about a dozen or so different open source forum systems and none are as good.

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Re: Upcoming Changes
« Reply #8 on: July 27, 2015, 03:29:38 AM »
Out of curiosity... how many people here use Firefox?

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Re: Upcoming Changes
« Reply #9 on: July 27, 2015, 03:41:38 AM »
don't use firefox but i use google crome and xbox's web broswer.

isn't there a script for smf telling admins what broswers people use when posting? or the most common broswer etc?
« Last Edit: July 27, 2015, 03:43:04 AM by Siro »




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Re: Upcoming Changes
« Reply #10 on: July 27, 2015, 03:45:38 AM »
If there is, we don't have it. We can only see what browser somebody is using when they are online.

I was just curious because I decided to go and test the new theme in Opera and Firefox (I already use Chrome myself so knew it was ok there). Opera was fine, but Firefox has some issues because they don't use the latest CSS standards.

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Re: Upcoming Changes
« Reply #11 on: July 27, 2015, 04:32:03 AM »
Nope, chrome here
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Re: Upcoming Changes
« Reply #12 on: July 27, 2015, 04:54:03 AM »
Good good, let's hope the trend continues haha.

The issues aren't huge or anything, I'm really just checking to see if it's something I need to worry about right now or if it can be dealt with later. /D

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Re: Upcoming Changes
« Reply #13 on: July 27, 2015, 05:25:36 AM »
oh ok fair enough :D,




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Re: Upcoming Changes
« Reply #14 on: July 31, 2015, 09:06:22 AM »
...well?
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