Note about new forums 7/5 (Updated)

[Izzy]

Can you remove the crappy chocobo icons for the default skin and replace them with the vBulletin default ones Q_Q?

Thanks Sono <3

[Deband]

Just a note - Visual Depth is quite easy on the eye

[Olo401]

......every hour or so I have to re-login. When you're trying to write a somewhat lengthy reply to someone, or you're at work and are jumping between windows, it's a real pain in the ass.

[Xanthe]

Thanks for enabling the server-side topic marking! <3

[Nynaeve]

I second Xanthe's thanks and also <3-ing the Visual Depth skin.

[SephYuyX]

I wanna know too. I wanted to reread some of them and when I entered the section, my heart sank. ._.

Curious: Will Elmer's old posts in his Vana'diel Pointy History forum section be restored? ^^;

I like reading them. However, I only notice a few posts. > <

vb does something wierd and hides old posts.
In the forum, towards the bottom, theres a drop down box in the Display Options section, find the 'From The" option, and select 'Beginning', it should show all of his posts.

[B. Rockius]

vb does something wierd and hides old posts.
In the forum, towards the bottom, theres a drop down box in the Display Options section, find the 'From The" option, and select 'Beginning', it should show all of his posts.

Alright, cool. Looks like that problem corrected itself since it's selected Beginning form default now, but all the same, thanks. :)

New problem though.

.. Where is Elmer's posts? Alot of the his posts are blank now. I tried quoting him to see if I was just loading it wrong, but nothing. Blank quote tags.

[SephYuyX]

Formatting issue moving from PHP to vB, instead of just converting it to plain text, vB decided to just delete what it didnt like. A lot of my pots went bye bye too. No idea if it's fixable or not.

[Xrave]

The issue with all threads being marked as read when you log off and log back on has been fixed. Thanks.

[Xrave]

......every hour or so I have to re-login. When you're trying to write a somewhat lengthy reply to someone, or you're at work and are jumping between windows, it's a real pain in the ass.

CTRL+C then CTRL+V

Should do it for every post that's more than a sentence regardless.

[Sonomaa]

Formatting issue moving from PHP to vB, instead of just converting it to plain text, vB decided to just delete what it didnt like. A lot of my pots went bye bye too. No idea if it's fixable or not.

its not fixable per se, but Im going to try to bribe the server admin into putting back up the old phpbb3 forum for a few days to retrieve the more important posts that got buggered, wish me luck though, this quest has a serious chance of fail and lose (and me getting hit)

[Sykes]

no we cant fix the 1 2 3 ... 7 8 9 like it was, itll be 1 2 3 Last Page until we get a plugin for it

This is a little bit hackish, but you can fix it without a plugin. You can edit the threadbit template (in the Threadbit Templates section of the Edit Templates section of the Style Manager) and replace the default ...

<if condition="$thread['pagenav']">$stylevar[dirmark]<span class="smallfont" style="white-space:nowrap">(<img class="inlineimg" src="$stylevar[imgdir_misc]/multipage.gif" alt="$vbphrase[multipage_thread]" border="0" /> $thread[pagenav]<if condition="$show[pagenavmore]"> ... <a href="showthread.php?$session[sessionurl]t=$thread[threadid]&amp;page=$thread[totalpages]$thread[highlight]">$vbphrase[last_page]</a></if>)</span></if>

... with something like:

<if condition="$thread['pagenav']">$stylevar[dirmark]<span class="smallfont" style="white-space:nowrap">(<img class="inlineimg" src="$stylevar[imgdir_misc]/multipage.gif" alt="$vbphrase[multipage_thread]" border="0" /> $thread[pagenav]<if condition="$show[pagenavmore]"> ... <if condition="$pagesminus2 = $thread[totalpages] - 2"><if condition="$pagesminus1 = $thread[totalpages] - 1"><if condition="$pagesminus2 > 7"><a href="showthread.php?$session[sessionurl]t=$thread[threadid]&amp;page=$pagesminus2$thread[highlight]">$pagesminus2</a> <a href="showthread.php?$session[sessionurl]t=$thread[threadid]&amp;page=$pagesminus1$thread[highlight]">$pagesminus1</a> <a href="showthread.php?$session[sessionurl]t=$thread[threadid]&amp;page=$thread[totalpages]$thread[highlight]">$thread[totalpages]</a><else /><a href="showthread.php?$session[sessionurl]t=$thread[threadid]&amp;page=$thread[totalpages]$thread[highlight]">$thread[totalpages]</a></if></if></if></if>)</span></if>

(there's probably a slightly better way to accomplish the same thing, but this works).

You'd have to do that in all styles. I generally recommend that you make all styles children of the default style that way in most cases you only have to make template changes to the default style and the children styles will inherit them.

[Aksannyi]

This is just nit-picking at this point, but can we force a smaller size on avatars so they don't stretch out the left side of the forums, encroaching upon the space used to write posts? Kind of just bugs me.

[Izzy]

This is just nit-picking at this point, but can we force a smaller size on avatars so they don't stretch out the left side of the forums, encroaching upon the space used to write posts? Kind of just bugs me.

This was a problem with phpbb as well. I just learned to adblock annoying ass avatars.

[Azalee]

I don't have this problem... Trying making your resolution bigger.

[Izzy]

I don't have this problem... Trying making your resolution bigger.

Making your resolution bigger doesn't stop retards from using a 500x500 avatar.

[Aksannyi]

Making your resolution bigger doesn't stop retards from using a 500x500 avatar.

That, and I can't see really small type, which is what I'd get from changing my resolution. I'd have to sit with my face right up to the monitor.

[Guitarman]

Never got a response but, are old topics gone for good? when i try to click the link to old threads i get a 404 message.

[Sonomaa]

Never got a response but, are old topics gone for good? when i try to click the link to old threads i get a 404 message.

are you completely retarded or something?

new forums, the links to old threads dont match up

search is your friend.

[Guitarman]

Not everyone has the experience with forums that you do. Just an idle question, calm down now