Forum Update - October 5, 2010 - Many Changes/Tweaks

Published on October 5, 2010 By GunslingerBara In Forum Issues

Hey everyone!

I just pushed an update to the forums. This update is a big one, made up of a lot of small changes and tweaks. The most significant change is that we now show which site posts, PM's, and karma are coming from. This is to help avoid confusion and to spread the word of the other forums and sites. Please take a look at the change log below for more info:

Change Log:

In posts, we now show which site the posts and each reply came from.
In each user's karma page there is now an icon to show which site the karma came from.
In your Private Messages page, we show which site the PM was sent from.
In the My Replies page (or any user's replies page, see #6 below), you can change a dropdown to show the replies from all sites.
In a user's a profile, the Karma, Posts, and Replies numbers can be clicked for more information.
You can now view the replies for all users by clicking on the Replies # in a user's profile.
The "Reason for Editing" box for editing posts has been removed.
iPad/iPhone/iPods can now send PM's.
In posts, we now hide the buttons (Quote, Edit, etc.) for each reply until you mouseover the reply. This is to help keep the forums cleaner and to reduce confusion as to which set of buttons belongs to which reply. The original posts' buttons appear by default.
The "Last Reply Info" column in forums, my posts, my replies, and recent posts has been updated visually.
In each forum, you can now see the number of views each post has.
My Posts page (and any user's posts page) is now paginated, so you can more than 1 page of posts.
Lots of changes to the styles and icons to make them more consistent.
Lots of bug fixes.
Better error messages.

Please let me know if you find any issues with the above or in general.

Bara

Comments (Page 7)

RedneckDude

on Oct 07, 2010

WebGizmos

on Oct 07, 2010

Jeesuz...just put the buttons back where they were and be done with it. This was completely unnecessary to do and all it's done is cause problems. You guys should have a practice website to test all these changes on rather than doing them all on here and screwing everything up. And how about this!-----> fix...me <----can that be fixed as well once and for all? I did not create that click-able link and just does it all by itself when I'm typing. Why is stuff like that ignored and stuff we don't need gets all this attention. The buttons were just fine being visible.

So...what is the goal now for this site? What other changes do we have to look forward to. It's bad enough we have to beta test the software and be ignored in regards to features...but the site as well now? And if it really did take a year to create all this as was said...I'm not impressed. I visit other sites that make big changes and I'm never told I need to clear my cache and cookies or anything else....the changes are made and everything works fine....not one single hiccup.

Mumblefratz

on Oct 08, 2010

test

Mumblefratz

on Oct 08, 2010

Hmm ...

Note my reply #93 does not show a link to the forum from which I posted.

It seems there are "secret" forums that allow you to remain anonymous.

Curiouser and Curiouser.

Mumblefratz

on Oct 08, 2010

More strangeness.

To avoid the link to the forum from which you post all you need to do is to reply via your blog at JU or I assume Impulsedriven except for some reason I can't actually seem to reply to this thread via my Impulsedriven blog, it gives me a "Bad Auth" error.

I'm posting this from the Impulsedriven forums (as opposed to from my Impulsedriven blog) so we'll see if that works. I assume it will.

So the question is should there be a link inserted for people that use their blogs as opposed to a forum and why can't I reply to this thread from my Impulsedriven blog?

Daiwa

on Oct 08, 2010

Buttons are now appearing dynamically again. XPP/FF. FYI.

Mumblefratz

on Oct 08, 2010

Still can't reply to this or *any* thread via Impulsedriven.net blogs.

This is with both IE7 and FF 3.6.10. AFAIK this just started happening with this latest update.

Replying from not the last page of a multi-page thread simply hangs. Replying from the last page of a thread gives the following error.

Your comment was not submitted successfully.

Bad Auth

Please try again.

To test merely go to http://gunslinger.impulsedriven.net/article/398498/ and try to reply.

GunslingerBara

on Oct 08, 2010

Mumblefratz

reply 97

Still can't reply to this or *any* thread via Impulsedriven.net blogs.

This is with both IE7 and FF 3.6.10. AFAIK this just started happening with this latest update.

Replying from not the last page of a multi-page thread simply hangs. Replying from the last page of a thread gives the following error.

Your comment was not submitted successfully.

Bad Auth

Please try again.

To test merely go to http://gunslinger.impulsedriven.net/article/398498/ and try to reply.

It should be resolved in a bit, we're updating the machine with the encryption patch now.

Bara

Mumblefratz

on Oct 08, 2010

It should be resolved in a bit, we're updating the machine with the encryption patch now.

Bara

Cool.

Just for information purposes, assuming that's it's not some super secret proprietary information, how many different servers are required to support all of Stardock's forum/blog sites including orphans like the GC2 Metaverse as well as the GalCiv 1 site?

100

GunslingerBara

on Oct 08, 2010

Mumblefratz

reply 99

It should be resolved in a bit, we're updating the machine with the encryption patch now.

BaraCool.

Just for information purposes, assuming that's it's not some super secret proprietary information, how many different servers are required to support all of Stardock's forum/blog sites including orphans like the GC2 Metaverse as well as the GalCiv 1 site?

The forums are on a cluster of 3 servers. The other sites are on their own servers/clusters depending on the traffic the site gets and how it was developed.

Bara

101

Mumblefratz

on Oct 08, 2010

The forums are on a cluster of 3 servers. The other sites are on their own servers/clusters depending on the traffic the site gets and how it was developed.

Here's a picture of Bara trying to debug the forums.

102

GunslingerBara

on Oct 08, 2010

No, actually, here's a picture of Bara trying to debug the forums:

Bara

103

Lord Xia

on Oct 08, 2010

Looks the same to me. Sweet chair by the way. Has more style than my office chair.

104

Orcnbeans

on Oct 08, 2010

Is that a Zune on your desk? Really Bara?

105

GunslingerBara

on Oct 08, 2010

Orcnbeans

reply 104

Is that a Zune on your desk? Really Bara?

Don't be jealous. Zune > iPod.

Bara

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