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Move back to HW?
Topic Started: Jul 22 2011, 08:21 PM (853 Views)
dlbalr
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In case anyone's interested, as part of HW's offseason makeover (we've already made changes to the site and Twitter page), we have made some changes to the boards. We're working to get some of the features back up and running but I thought in case anyone wanted an early peek at the new boards, the new look is there now.
 
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What's with the avatars? Are they gonna stay that small? Seems kind of useless, most of them look like 8 bit NES games.
 
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I have to say, the new forums on HW are not very good. No button to take you to the posts you haven't read yet in a thread. No alternate color schemes and the default one has so much white that it makes my eyes hurt. I really hope those are some of the features that are still under construction.
Edited by Fanpuck33, Aug 21 2011, 12:08 PM.
 
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Aug 21 2011, 12:08 PM
I have to say, the new forums on HW are not very good. No button to take you to the posts you haven't read yet in a thread. No alternate color schemes and the default one has so much white that it makes my eyes hurt. I really hope those are some of the features that are still under construction.
I tried to respond to your PM but it's showing as deleted. Yes, there is another skin that's a little darker (blue and black), click Change Theme at the bottom left to see the options. It's apparently a royal pain to add skins so I'm not sure what other ones will be added in time.

As for there being no button to take you to a new post in a thread, it's there...sort of by the looks of it. On both themes, it's in the coloured star. (The threads themselves are also highlighted light blue, with the stars on the left hand side being dark blue; that also represents your view new posts button.) For threads started since the changeover, it appears as a circle. For those started before the change, there doesn't appear to be anything. I'll add that to the list of things we're trying to tweak.

Jets, as for the avatars, I'll add that to the list as well.
 
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Well it's not a huge deal, I was just curious. Size limits that small don't really foster a lot of creativity. They don't have to be the size of ours, I increased the limits as soon as we made the change. But something like the old HW would be good.

Why are most of them deleted? Just part of the change over?
 
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Aug 21 2011, 12:40 PM
Well it's not a huge deal, I was just curious. Size limits that small don't really foster a lot of creativity. They don't have to be the size of ours, I increased the limits as soon as we made the change. But something like the old HW would be good.

Why are most of them deleted? Just part of the change over?
Personally, I pay little attention to avatars so I'm not even aware that some are missing. If I had to guess, it might have to do with image hosting, maybe anything stored on our server was lost on the changeover?
 
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dlbalr
Aug 21 2011, 12:17 PM
I tried to respond to your PM but it's showing as deleted. Yes, there is another skin that's a little darker (blue and black), click Change Theme at the bottom left to see the options. It's apparently a royal pain to add skins so I'm not sure what other ones will be added in time.

As for there being no button to take you to a new post in a thread, it's there...sort of by the looks of it. On both themes, it's in the coloured star. (The threads themselves are also highlighted light blue, with the stars on the left hand side being dark blue; that also represents your view new posts button.) For threads started since the changeover, it appears as a circle. For those started before the change, there doesn't appear to be anything. I'll add that to the list of things we're trying to tweak.

Jets, as for the avatars, I'll add that to the list as well.
Yeah, I deleted them since I brought the questions up over here as well. The only other skin that is available to me is a mobile one.
 
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Ah, I figured it would be the other way around, anything uploaded directly got converted to look like ass and anything hosted by a third party is just gone.

Not a concern though, was just curious.
 
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Aug 21 2011, 02:08 PM
Yeah, I deleted them since I brought the questions up over here as well. The only other skin that is available to me is a mobile one.
That's odd as I know the black and blue skin is working - I'm using it myself instead of the default one.
 
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dlbalr
Aug 21 2011, 04:27 PM
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Aug 21 2011, 02:08 PM
Yeah, I deleted them since I brought the questions up over here as well. The only other skin that is available to me is a mobile one.
That's odd as I know the black and blue skin is working - I'm using it myself instead of the default one.
Sure it's not set to admin only or something? Because I only get classic and mobile too.
 
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Aug 21 2011, 04:45 PM
Sure it's not set to admin only or something? Because I only get classic and mobile too.
Try it now.
 
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dlbalr
Aug 21 2011, 04:48 PM
jetsniper
Aug 21 2011, 04:45 PM
Sure it's not set to admin only or something? Because I only get classic and mobile too.
Try it now.
w00t, there we go
 
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jetsniper
Aug 21 2011, 06:20 PM
dlbalr
Aug 21 2011, 04:48 PM
jetsniper
Aug 21 2011, 04:45 PM
Sure it's not set to admin only or something? Because I only get classic and mobile too.
Try it now.
w00t, there we go
Any better than the original?
 
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Neither are bad actually. If I had to pick one, I'd say classic.
 
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That skin is no better. It's still light gray text on a white background that is very hard on my eyes to read. Need something with black text on a slightly gray background, and with some sort of divider between threads.
 
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