07-18-2002, 08:27 AM
|
#1 | | Admin
Join Date: Dec 1999 Location: Atlanta, GA
Posts: 4,559
| Message Board Testing
I've loaded up all members as of 7/17 to the new message board. I'll look to move some of the forum topics over there during the weekend.
Feel free to log into the new board and test out the features. This is the default install, so it doesn't include some items that I'll be putting in for the final move.
<a href="http://www.teamharkins.com/phpbb/" target="_blank">Message Board Beta Test</a>
Craig | 
| | | And now for this message... |
| |
07-18-2002, 09:47 AM
|
#2 | | Senior Member
Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: Gulf Coast Division
Posts: 2,330
| Awesome board!!!! I love the new features and the overall appearance. When do we move?
__________________
--}--------------
I am an exiled epeeist making the transition to sabre in order to alleviate the tediousness of fencing with a toy.
| |
| | |
07-18-2002, 09:58 AM
|
#3 | | Senior Member
Join Date: Nov 2000 Location: Staying in DC
Posts: 1,429
| And just as I was getting used to the old forum. Sigh. Old dogs and new tricks and all that sort of thing. Such is the price of progress.
We have been a busy little boy, haven't we, Craig?
Looks like it will be a great improvement. Good work.
__________________
Remember those who put their lives in danger for your sake.
For your copy of "The Care and Feeding of All Things Fencing" go to http://www.homfencing.com | |
| | |
07-18-2002, 10:51 AM
|
#4 | | Senior Member
Join Date: Jun 2001 Location: Sitting at computer terminal.
Posts: 168
| I must be dense or something.
I just tried to post a test message under my user name. No good. Instead I got an error response: "Sorry but this user name has already been taken." ... Yeah! by ME.
So talk the newbie through the process, please. | |
| | |
07-18-2002, 10:55 AM
|
#5 | | Senior Member
Join Date: Jun 2001 Location: Sitting at computer terminal.
Posts: 168
| Nevermind. I got it now. | |
| | |
07-18-2002, 11:10 AM
|
#6 | | Senior Member
Join Date: Feb 2002 Location: CA
Posts: 407
| Oooh, how exciting!  | |
| | |
07-18-2002, 11:31 AM
|
#7 | | Senior Member
Join Date: May 2002
Posts: 637
| Will other "styles" be enabled via user preferences? The default silver style is difficult to read for some people to the point of being painful.
I'm familar with phpbb and, from a user standpoint, I haven't seen much of a major advantage of it over the type of board fencing.net currently is using. While a few folks usually get carried away with certain phpbb features, most have just wanted to simply read and post.
However from a administrator's standpoint, phpbb can be less of a hassle than some other board systems. So the major advantage to the users of phpbb might be a happier admin  | |
| | |
07-18-2002, 11:45 AM
|
#8 | | Senior Member
Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: Gulf Coast Division
Posts: 2,330
| I guess that different people's eyes work differently because I think that the current silver style if perfect! Still to each his own.
__________________
--}--------------
I am an exiled epeeist making the transition to sabre in order to alleviate the tediousness of fencing with a toy.
| |
| | |
07-18-2002, 02:25 PM
|
#9 | | Senior Member
Join Date: Jul 2000 Location: Redford, Michigan
Posts: 890
| cool, man. very cool.  | |
| | |
07-18-2002, 02:32 PM
|
#10 | | Senior Member
Join Date: May 2000 Location: The Reflecting God
Posts: 3,851
| Kinda fun to read through the members list and see who has come and gone. | |
| | |
07-18-2002, 04:18 PM
|
#11 | | Admin
Join Date: Dec 1999 Location: Atlanta, GA
Posts: 4,559
| I'm planning on working the board templates/styles around what the current ubb style is. I don't know if there will be other styles available since they would all take some coding to get them looking how I would want them.
As to admin - Moving away from ubb because of the amount of cgi resources it likes to consume vs. the resources that phpbb uses. Makes the servers happier!
In terms of mods, other than layout stuff, the one that I'm most likely to implement would be a calendar since my cgi one here had to get cut.
I'm talking to some of the graphically enabled to help out with icons, etc. for the new "look". I'll let you know when there is something to preview.
Cheers,
Craig | |
| | |
07-18-2002, 06:58 PM
|
#12 | | Curmudgeon-in-Chief
Join Date: Jul 2001 Location: Somewhere in your nightmares!
Posts: 22,767
| Sciurus, what did you "get"? I had the same problem. If I left the username block empty it let me post, but as "Guest"---under my own name, I get "that name is already taken".
__________________
Use the Shift key, people! Keyboard manufacturers everywhere are ineffably saddened when you ignore what they made just for you!
| |
| | |
07-18-2002, 08:49 PM
|
#13 | | Senior Member
Join Date: Aug 2001 Location: Hamilton, Ontario
Posts: 782
| It looks okay except there is no Jawa emoticon. | |
| | |
07-19-2002, 07:56 AM
|
#14 | | Admin
Join Date: Dec 1999 Location: Atlanta, GA
Posts: 4,559
| Log into the test board with the username and password that you use here. All the member files have been transferred so that people who are into testing things can test it out.
Craig | |
| | |
07-19-2002, 10:46 AM
|
#15 | | Senior Member
Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: Gulf Coast Division
Posts: 2,330
| also, its worth a look just to see what 355 can come up with at 4:00 in the morning.
__________________
--}--------------
I am an exiled epeeist making the transition to sabre in order to alleviate the tediousness of fencing with a toy.
| |
| | |
07-19-2002, 10:26 PM
|
#16 | | Senior Member
Join Date: Feb 2002 Location: CA
Posts: 407
| Hey, Craig, is there a way to make the "Notify me when a reply is posted" be unchecked by default? It's a nice feature, but I hardly think you'd want to use it on every post you make, especially since the email it sends out doesn't tell you what was said, only that something was posted...
Oh, hey, it's already there... I didn't see it. Cool.
<small>[ 07-20-2002, 03:09 AM: Message edited by: shyHeidi ]</small> | |
| | |
07-20-2002, 04:22 AM
|
#17 | | Admin
Join Date: Dec 1999 Location: Atlanta, GA
Posts: 4,559
| Closing testing. | |
| | | Thread Tools | | | | Display Modes |  Linear Mode | 
Posting Rules
| You may not post new threads You may not post replies You may not post attachments You may not edit your posts
HTML code is Off | | | All times are GMT -4. The time now is 09:36 PM. |
