Upgrade

  • 81 Replies
  • 23602 Views
*

Freddy

  • Administrator
  • **********************
  • Colossus
  • *
  • 6855
  • Mostly Harmless
Upgrade
« on: May 02, 2011, 11:40:04 pm »
So it seems the upgrade went okay.  We are now on SMF 2.  Please report any issues.

At the moment we just have the forum, I will add the other features to the site over the next week.

I feel I want to review what members want to see on the site.

What features that we had on the old site can you not live without ?

I will be reinstating the gallery, using a new system - all the images have been saved.  That is certain.

What else would you like to see restored ?

Many thanks :)
« Last Edit: May 03, 2011, 12:23:53 am by Freddy »

*

Freddy

  • Administrator
  • **********************
  • Colossus
  • *
  • 6855
  • Mostly Harmless
Re: Upgrade
« Reply #1 on: May 02, 2011, 11:52:31 pm »
Also, I hope people like the new theme or 'look' of the site.

It's designed by a friend of mine called Bloc.  I chose it because I thought it was nice and fresh.  It has some cool features too, like showing avatars in various places.  Also if you go into a board now, if you hover over the subject of a message it will show you the first few lines.

My thanks go to Bloc :)

*

Maviarab

  • Trusty Member
  • **********
  • Millennium Man
  • *
  • 1231
  • What are you doing Dave?
    • The Celluloid Sage
Re: Upgrade
« Reply #2 on: May 03, 2011, 12:12:06 am »
Looks fresh nice indead, very clean and fresh, modern without being bland or boring :)

*

Art

  • At the end of the game, the King and Pawn go into the same box.
  • Trusty Member
  • **********************
  • Colossus
  • *
  • 5865
Re: Upgrade
« Reply #3 on: May 03, 2011, 01:07:26 am »
It has a bold, clean, fresh look.

I liked it at first glance when logging on!!

Good work and tip of the hat to Bloc as well!! O0
In the world of AI, it's the thought that counts!

*

DaveMorton

  • Trusty Member
  • ********
  • Replicant
  • *
  • 636
  • Safe, Reliable Insanity, Since 1961
    • Geek Cave Creations
Re: Upgrade
« Reply #4 on: May 03, 2011, 05:12:43 am »
Sure! Confuse the already addled old Yankee! :P
Comforting the Disturbed, Disturbing the Comfortable
Chat with Morti!
LinkedIn Profile
CAPTCHA4us

*

Bragi

  • Trusty Member
  • ********
  • Replicant
  • *
  • 564
    • Neural network design blog
Re: Upgrade
« Reply #5 on: May 03, 2011, 07:34:28 am »
I like it, looks good. Needs a little getting used to, but it's fresh, nice. :)

*

squarebear

  • Trusty Member
  • *********
  • Terminator
  • *
  • 867
  • It's Hip to be Square
Re: Upgrade
« Reply #6 on: May 03, 2011, 08:38:53 am »
Looking good.
Feeling Chatty?
www.mitsuku.com

*

Data

  • Trusty Member
  • ***********
  • Eve
  • *
  • 1279
  • Overclocked // Undervolted
    • Datahopa - Share your thoughts ideas and creations
Re: Upgrade
« Reply #7 on: May 03, 2011, 10:46:45 am »
Looks like it went very well, congrats :)  and you kept the cool smilleys too  O0

What else would you like to see restored ?

Many thanks :)

Tiny Portal, embedded YouTube videos, SMF site map,

And the spam filters :knuppel2:

*

Freddy

  • Administrator
  • **********************
  • Colossus
  • *
  • 6855
  • Mostly Harmless
Re: Upgrade
« Reply #8 on: May 03, 2011, 12:50:49 pm »
Well for those that are confused you will be glad I didn't choose another one that turned the site into something like a wiki - boy was that confusing, I couldn't find anything.  So I went from something that was not a great departure from the old theme but with a few more modern features.  You will get used to it ! lol

@Data, ok thanks, yes those things definitely need to be restored.  For TP I am waiting on an update at the moment.  YouTube button, yes on my list already and the site map too which I had forgotten about so thanks.

Spam filters too - registration is off at the moment, but that will be in place before it gets turned on again.

*

Data

  • Trusty Member
  • ***********
  • Eve
  • *
  • 1279
  • Overclocked // Undervolted
    • Datahopa - Share your thoughts ideas and creations
Re: Upgrade
« Reply #9 on: May 03, 2011, 01:19:40 pm »
Sounds good Freddy  :)

When I’m clicking internal links on AiDreams they are opening a new tab.

I don’t know if you had it before, but there is a mod that makes internal links open in the same window, personally I much prefer that to opening a new tab or window.   

*

Freddy

  • Administrator
  • **********************
  • Colossus
  • *
  • 6855
  • Mostly Harmless
Re: Upgrade
« Reply #10 on: May 03, 2011, 01:35:28 pm »
As far as I recall it always did that but I will look into it.

Links can be set to open in the same window by using the

Code
[iurl]

bbc tag...

*

Freddy

  • Administrator
  • **********************
  • Colossus
  • *
  • 6855
  • Mostly Harmless
Re: Upgrade
« Reply #11 on: May 04, 2011, 01:52:53 pm »
Everyone finding the new gallery section okay and is it working alright ?

It's the 'media' button up top if you hadn't spotted it yet.  ;)

*

DaveMorton

  • Trusty Member
  • ********
  • Replicant
  • *
  • 636
  • Safe, Reliable Insanity, Since 1961
    • Geek Cave Creations
Re: Upgrade
« Reply #12 on: May 04, 2011, 02:24:45 pm »
Now that it's been pointed out, I did. :) Looks fine, and seems to work well. I like the random image selections.
Comforting the Disturbed, Disturbing the Comfortable
Chat with Morti!
LinkedIn Profile
CAPTCHA4us

*

Data

  • Trusty Member
  • ***********
  • Eve
  • *
  • 1279
  • Overclocked // Undervolted
    • Datahopa - Share your thoughts ideas and creations
Re: Upgrade
« Reply #13 on: May 04, 2011, 02:45:40 pm »
Yeah! I too spotted the 'media' button  last night, had a little look around, some nice new features, took me a while to work out the albums are what was the categories.

Its good, I like it O0 

*

Freddy

  • Administrator
  • **********************
  • Colossus
  • *
  • 6855
  • Mostly Harmless
Re: Upgrade
« Reply #14 on: May 04, 2011, 02:54:30 pm »
Cool.  Yes takes a little getting used too but I think it is better than the old gallery.

I too took a while to figure out I had to click the 'Albums' button to see everything.

I can promote albums to the media home page (where the random images and such like are) if needed, but I am working on other stuff at the moment.

I do like that we can now see recent comments too.  With the old gallery you never knew if anyone commented unless you went through everything all the time, far too time consuming for me.

 


OpenAI Speech-to-Speech Reasoning Demo
by ivan.moony (AI News )
Today at 01:31:53 pm
Say good-bye to GPUs...
by MikeB (AI News )
March 23, 2024, 09:23:52 am
Google Bard report
by ivan.moony (AI News )
February 14, 2024, 04:42:23 pm
Elon Musk's xAI Grok Chatbot
by MikeB (AI News )
December 11, 2023, 06:26:33 am
Nvidia Hype
by 8pla.net (AI News )
December 06, 2023, 10:04:52 pm
How will the OpenAI CEO being Fired affect ChatGPT?
by 8pla.net (AI News )
December 06, 2023, 09:54:25 pm
Independent AI sovereignties
by WriterOfMinds (AI News )
November 08, 2023, 04:51:21 am
LLaMA2 Meta's chatbot released
by 8pla.net (AI News )
October 18, 2023, 11:41:21 pm

Users Online

289 Guests, 0 Users

Most Online Today: 346. Most Online Ever: 2369 (November 21, 2020, 04:08:13 pm)

Articles