Hey everyone! Tomorrow we'll be pushing an update to the Stardock Forums that will require us to take them down for a short period. The update will happen around 10AM EST and may be down for up to an hour. The forums will be inaccessible during that time. What's new? Design refresh for the stardock.com Forums. Other sites' forums have no changes (or very minor changes). Minor update to the editor, primarily focused on bug fixes. Various minor bug fixes. Major changes to th...

Hey everyone! I recently pushed an update to the forums to make some bug fixes, and figure I'd add a few new features along the way. Here's what changed: 1. You can now give karma to users even in locked posts. 2. For those of you that do not know, you can quote only specific parts of a user's text. It works like this: A. Select the text you wish to quote, then hit the quote button: B. The selected text will then show up in the reply box: If you wish to quote the en...

Hey everyone, we're trying to track down a problem with the forums, but it only seems to be hitting a very small set of users.  Have any of you experienced a problem while browsing the forums where it randomly says "The webpage is not available"?  A refresh or two usually fixes it. Here's an image of the issue at hand: So, how many of you have experienced this recently? EDIT: This week we've been having some server troubles where the above error may appear.  If you h...

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 ...

I pushed a forum update today that has the following changes: 1. Disabled the ads on the WinCustomize forums to try and prevent the "Malware Detection" problems for Chrome and Firefox. 2. Karma is now universal across all sites.  This means that the karma number you now see in each post will be the same across all of the forums, and that giving someone karma means they will get it everywhere.  Let me know if you notice any issues with it. 3. Updated some of our back-end modera...

Just wanted to give you guys a quick update to let you know that you can now post on the forums using the iPad, iPhone, or iPod Touch in the Safari app.   Note that the editor is disabled, and you will only have access to a regular text box for inputting messages, so you will not be able to do any special formatting.  However, HTML is enabled for that text box, so you can type it out manually if you'd like. Bara

Hello everyone, Another update this month, this time to add a few much-requested features.  See the change log below for details. Note: If you notice any of the below features are not available or not working properly, please do a hard refresh (hold CTRL and press F5) to retrieve the latest javascript and css files. 1. Timezones! An oft-requested feature is the ability to set a timezone.  You can do so in your My Account page under Options .  You can also set i...

Hello everyone, The forums were updated today (April 6, 2010) to fix some long-standing bugs, add a few new features, and make some minor changes.  The change log is as follows: Note: If you notice any of the below features are not available or not working properly, please do a hard refresh (hold CTRL and press F5) to retrieve the latest javascript and css files. 1. "Flattened forums" option now available. The flattened forums option is simply another way of viewing the for...

Hey everyone, I pushed an update that has fixed a few annoying bugs, added some new features, and prepared the code for future updates.  This update is also a stepping stone for integrating features from other Stardock apps/websites. The change log is as follows: 1. Updated Profiles A. Now showing the avatar picture instead of the personal picture.  At the moment I don't think we're showing the personal picture anywhere, so I'm up for suggestions on where to place it. B. N...

Hey everyone!  I need your help in resolving some forum loading issues.  Some people have complained that certain pages have failed to load, loaded only halfway, or loaded only specific sections and not others.  Others are complaining that some pages take forever to load or are very slow in general. However, I have had troubles finding a common ground for what may be causing these issues, so I'm hoping you guys can help. For anyone that has problems loading the forums, notic...

Hello everyone! I just pushed an update to the forums with some heavy performance improvements done to the backend by our database engineer.  A lot of things were changed, so I don't expect this update to be perfect.  Please take a look around, and if you notice any problems or any areas that could use another performance boost, let me know here! There were also other, minor changes made to the design and back-end structure of the forums.  Most of these are miniscule, so I w...

Hey everyone, We've had an issue for a while where you could not give karma in the Demigod forums.  Turns out this was a CSS issue with z-positioning. It has been fixed.  You should be able to give karma fine now. Incidentally, reporting posts should also work now too. Bara

The forums have been updated again today with a minor change.  If a user edits his/her post, there will now be a "View Edits" button.  Clicking this button will show a history of that reply/post, along with highlights (red = removed text, green = added text). If you do not see the button or clicking the button does nothing, please do a "hard refresh" by holding Ctrl and pressing F5.  This will clear your cache and force a download of the new image and javascript file. Hopefu...

Hello everyone! An update has been pushed to the forums. There have only been 2 major updates to the forums: 1. You should now be able to update your avatar and personal image regardless of whether you are using Flash 9 or Flash 10. This should also work for any site that didn't work before for Flash 10, but that has not been fully tested yet. 2. Forum search is now working.  We are using Google as our search engine for the time being, but that should provide far better results than ...