New Forums!

[Agent]

The website has been converted from phpBB 3 to Invision Power Board 4!

General improvements include:

• The entire website (minus the wiki) now uses a single, consistent theme
• A downloads section where you can upload levels, mutators, etc.
• Much more mobile friendly
• You can now actually read your private messages!
• It's not phpBB 3

The website will continue to be worked on over time, including possibly widening the website (done), merging the Leaderboard directly into the website (right now it's a separate website/server), fixing bugs, and other general improvements.

If you find any bugs or have any feedback with the website, please let me know either by replying in this thread or the Feedback & Bug Reports forum so that I can fix them. If you know how, please include any relevant CSS changes with your post.

- Jessica 'Agent' James

[testman]

Is it worth paying 30 burgerEuros per month?
Also, whole previous site was made in phpBB 3? Holy shit.

When I used phpBB 3, it was just to set up forums.

I can't imagine how much code butchering was required to make it into full website.

As freetard, I still think that it would be better to use Joomla or Drupal or Wordpress.

But hey, I am still happy we got new site. Thank you for all the effort.

[Agent]

We're not paying $30/month -- that would be if we wanted them to host the website, which would impractical. I already had a self-hosted license laying around, and the renewal fee is $50 every 6 months for updates and support (which really isn't much).

 

And yeah, phpBB was tied into the front and download pages as well. I didn't even realize that until I put the forums in maintenance mode and nobody could reach the downloads.

[RoundShades]

I like this. Wait... I can actually just click like, instead of posting a reply saying I do. Excellent. Take notes, @DoctorB0NG. We can tag people too. Simply fucking outstanding, @Agent.

[Calvin]

It's amazing goodjob agent 

 

[XD_ERROR_XD]

The forums are looking sexier than ever! But I will miss the old red and black layout for a little while, I got really used to it :<

[Madkill40]

We can tag people??? Like @Agent and @Agent and @Agent  Again and again.

 

Repeatedly.

 

Mwuahaha

[Agent]

And it'll send your target a notification, @Madkill40

[voltex]

!rec @Agent

[Madkill40]

4 hours ago, Agent said:

And it'll send your target a notification, @Madkill40

@Agent has learned how to make me moist

 

 

PS. Disable emoticons, we don't need them here. [Text-based emoticons rule]

Edited September 6, 2016 by Madkill40

[Agent]

 

I cry

[burrito227]

ETA on when SDK download will be available again? Ironically, I went to download it the other day when the website first went down for updates. No rush though.

[RoundShades]

2 hours ago, Madkill40 said:

PS. Disable emoticons, we don't need them here. [Text-based emoticons rule]

What we should do, is allow emoticons, but disable text-based ones, any combination that could be construed as a text-emoticon that doesn't make a picture-one instead. Why have both things, when disabling other people's things is fun? As long as it isn't my things.

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Also, I know it's some work to do, but new SDK plz?

[Agent]

The width of the forums is now described as:

body {
	width: 1200px;
	max-width: 100%;
	min-width: 60%;
}

Which means the forums shouldn't be tiny on, say, 4K monitors (which sadly I do not actually own and therefore can't see how it looks on -- if someone could take a screenshot of the forums on their 4K monitor and post it that'd be really nice).

[Ruud033]

I really like the new forums, great job!

[iTweek.]

 

 

looks very good. But miss the button Edit.
or I do not see merely with old posts

Edited September 6, 2016 by [AoG]iTweek

[Agent]

Hotmail / Live / Outlook users should now be able to receive emails (most notably, activation emails).

As far as I'm aware, every relevant service accepts our emails now.

[Henk]

@Agent I don't have 4K, but I have 2 1080p screens next to eachother, so I do have the correct width when I don't maximize the browser and stretch it to the 2 screens, here's a printscreen: http://i.imgur.com/IuEDind.jpg

[Fffreak9999]

The only thing I find annoying is that the default behaviour of the Unread content is to send you to the beginning of the thread, rather than to the last post you saw or the last post of the thread

[j0g32]

1 hour ago, Fffreak9999 said:

The only thing I find annoying is that the default behaviour of the Unread content is to send you to the beginning of the thread, rather than to the last post you saw or the last post of the thread

True, nonetheless I like the timeline of the unread content, cool feature!

Feels almost like a social media platform :-P

[Fffreak9999]

Guess that is why I don't like the layout as much as before, never was big on Social Media.

 

But the updated stuff kinda improves enough to get over that issue anyway

[SMayhew]

Very nice! 

[TheOlsenTwins]

20 hours ago, Fffreak9999 said:

The only thing I find annoying is that the default behaviour of the Unread content is to send you to the beginning of the thread, rather than to the last post you saw or the last post of the thread

You can click on the blue circle to get to the first unread post

[Fffreak9999]

I know you can jump to it, but like I said the default is to jump to the start of the thread, rather than use such a small circle to go to it.

[Xtractor]

I  open no proplem new forum on mb 4-5 devices ..But I have this Xp PC that wont open it but use to open it (old Forum)

I thought  cleaning the temp int files would do the trick ,but it didnt. My guest is there is a new thing on the new forum (mb a script ..idk) that this PC forbid.

I dont have any message pop up ..only a kind of off line blank webpage ..other sites open as normal ..any ideas ?

 

[Fffreak9999]

Hey @Agent your forum is broke

 

-64k posts

[RoundShades]

2 hours ago, Fffreak9999 said:

Hey @Agent your forum is broke

 

-64k posts

Agent had this problem when testing the beta server, months ago. I forget what exactly caused this... just hoping I ring a memory or two...

 

[Agent]

I'm well aware of the post counts being wrong. That's a byproduct of deleting roughly 70,000 duplicate threads yesterday that were sitting the in news section. You can thank phpBB for that I guess.

I'll fix it soon.

[Agent]

Fixed.

[Fffreak9999]

[Handepsilon]

Sorry I'm late to send the feedback, but apparently all the fancy look and scriptings on the new forum, while nice and all, don't go well at all with my mobile Opera mini browser

Any chance you'd be working on a mobile version?

EDIT : Also, where's the SDK download now? (I didn't use the new installer if it's included there)

[Agent]

The SDK download isn't up yet.

There is a mobile version, and it looks fine on Firefox, Chrome, and Internet Explorer.

[Ruud033]

Have to say the new looks keep to amaze me. They're awesome. Great work. Also lots more functional since I browse the forums a lot with my smartphone 

[Handepsilon]

19 hours ago, Agent said:

The SDK download isn't up yet.

There is a mobile version, and it looks fine on Firefox, Chrome, and Internet Explorer.

Ah alright, thanks for the info Agent

[Madkill40]

 

On 9/14/2016 at 5:30 PM, Agent said:

The SDK download isn't up yet.

There is a mobile version, and it looks fine on Firefox, Chrome, and Internet Explorer.

 

What's the minimum resolution?

 

[Agent]

No idea, however:

lol

[Henk]

15 hours ago, Madkill40 said:

 

 

What's the minimum resolution?

 

I can scale my chrome window down to 296px wide. Everything still works at that resolution.

[Madkill40]

All looks good on my S5 Neo.

[TK0104]

12 hours ago, Madkill40 said:

All looks good on my S5 Neo.

Yeah I noticed that forums are different on Phones. Ty soooo much 

[Jam]

Great work on the new website, I'm happy that old one finally got an upgrade. 

The old website was indeed heavily relying on phpBB,  mainly because we needed a new website after the old one died. The old forum was also corrupted and we needed to find a solution so took the free phpbb, we'd rather spend the little money we could spend on devs! 

During old beta tests we verified connecting players by their Steam accounts which was a bit annoying as we had to keep track of random hex strings (Steam IDs), so we came up with a tool where people could link up their forum profile and Steam account to automate this task. 

The download page was made about 2 hours before we released Black Dawn so we could get an indication of the download numbers and all the devs were on Skype following it which was pretty cool!

Lots of phpBB customisations! I believe there were also heaps of references to peanut butter in that old code...

 

 

[Agent]

Lots of peanutbuttermagic

[Xtractor]

On ‎2016‎-‎09‎-‎09 at 8:29 PM, Xtractor said:

I  open no proplem new forum on mb 4-5 devices ..But I have this Xp PC that wont open it but use to open it (old Forum)

I thought  cleaning the temp int files would do the trick ,but it didnt. My guest is there is a new thing on the new forum (mb a script ..idk) that this PC forbid.

I dont have any message pop up ..only a kind of off line blank webpage ..other sites open as normal ..any ideas ?

 

Not That important But I still cant open the forum with this ^^ PC using Xp and I had try with  Chrome,IE and Maxthon.ProBably something on my side .

Did Reset to Default many things still doesnt work.

Here a Error message from Chrome (sorry its in french)

 

[Cronus]

3 hours ago, Xtractor said:

Not That important But I still cant open the forum with this ^^ PC using Xp and I had try with  Chrome,IE and Maxthon.ProBably something on my side .

Did Reset to Default many things still doesnt work.

Here a Error message from Chrome (sorry its in french)

 

Short and Lazy version because you're on xp

Try it with firefox, XP does not support the new crypto in the SSL Certificate.  Firefox uses its own Store for SSL Certs so it should work still on xp, but IE, Chrome etc, use windows SSL Store.

 

 

[Xtractor]

K thanks will try that

[Handepsilon]

Unfortunately I've come to conclusion that I like the old forum better in terms of the ease of use. I've had a lot of times when reply box (and just about a lot of useful things in forum) just doesn't show up, mostly when I'm using internet at home. Mind you that I tried this on both Firefox and Chrome. In fact I would prefer it if I can have the option for a much simpler reply box.

This also disallows me to use Opera Mini, in which I can't even go to any page aside from topics without retyping the address or opening it from history. I also can't open the box there, and when I tried typing, the box is already turned into a button in the browser, making it impossible to type anything. I always open everything in Opera Mini for the sake of saving data and lightweight browsing, the native browser in my mobile phone is too heavy for me.

The new forum is certainly an improvement in functionality and visual. But the features are a bit too 'fancy' I can do nothing without good connection on a PC computer.

That would be my review.

[Xtractor]

On 2016-11-28 at 10:07 PM, Cronus said:

Short and Lazy version because you're on xp

Try it with firefox, XP does not support the new crypto in the SSL Certificate.  Firefox uses its own Store for SSL Certs so it should work still on xp, but IE, Chrome etc, use windows SSL Store.

 

 

@Cronus   Thanks a LOT !     Work like a charm