Wip forum upgrade

[Lt_Kettch]

You cannot retrieve your password since the image verification is borked.

Also very annoying, when you click on a thread, the first page of the thread is loaded and not the last with all the new replies.

 

[Beskar Mando]

Also what the **** does the bar mean below "member" and above join date & posts. It's blank, filled or partially filled with orange bars? Any ideas as to what it is. (also sorry if this is a stupid question but I'm stumped on it.)

 

[Yoshiro]

It is the forum reputation system (something we turned off on the older board awhile ago).

 

[Kittenmittens]

It was a holiday weekend guys. Most people in the US had a 4 day weekend for the 4th of July. That's probably partly why they asked for our patience.

 

[Lorkenpeist]

Gotta say I love how the new forum is mobile friendly. My only concern is I can't see who last posted in a subforum/thread or when, so I have to enter each subforum manually to see if there are any new posts. Works fine on the desktop site though.

 

[mrnok14l]

It is just me or the new URLs under the forum domain is rather lengthy? Really, you're very dangerously close to summon long cat for a url like this.

 

[®omano]

That's a pretty url, with the title in the url it is best for search engines.

 

[Yoshiro]

Moved over to the WIP forums as they have progressed far enough and should be similar in theme to our old one.

 

[Devil_Inside]

One of the basic rules of design is to never use pure black and pure white colors.

 

[Lemonater47]

It's got red and black.

Also the mobile version has got these horrid borders on the sides of the threads. No likey.

 

[taiiat]

damn son, that's... a lot of red.

Also very annoying, when you click on a thread, the first page of the thread is loaded and not the last with all the new replies.

that's how Forums tend to work.

• clicking on the primary link to a Thread goes to Page 1.
• going to the last post can be done by clicking the timestamp under the name of who made the last post.
• going to the first unread Post by yourself can be done by clicking the arrow inside the circle, bubble, thing. (which is how you did it previously on this Forum anyways)

being able to skip to a certain page from the Forum Section is missing, however.

with the title in the url it is best for search engines.

indeed.

One of the basic rules of design is to never use pure black and pure white colors.

generally true, however it isn't pure Black depending on where you're talking about, technically. the background of the entire page is 0,0,0 but the background of posts is technically 4,4,4.
:^)

more seriously, a very dark gray rather than almost black, sure. (and again that's a lot of red)

 

[®omano]

No Title

Ok now it is more in the moo d of TWI.. but image on top header seems not good place(2)/size (1)

Where is forum collapsing feature (3)? we can not collapse forums and have full list.

 

[NorthDumpling]

Thats a pretty badass forum now, but its too much KF2 style, stil lcant swip right to the last page, also issues on mobile appeared, some weird borders as Lemonater mentioned.

 

[Lt_Kettch]

damn son, that's... a lot of red.


that's how Forums tend to work.

Well maybe, but with the old forums you could choose if you wanted to open the first or last page of a thread. Going to the newest post is awkwardly clumsy at the moment. Also I never got why every forum has the page selection only at the bottom of a thread.

And white writing on black background, literally makes my eyes hurt. Not liking the wip-ness of the forum at all.

 

[NorthDumpling]

I also think, that reputation system needs to be removed or add an option to dislike posts, as its not really representative if a man have registered back in 2008 or smth like that and have max reputation .

 

[®omano]

http://forums.tripwireinteractive.com/member/14855-®omano/subscriptions white on white text.

Also attachment are a mess, it saves tiny images and you can not insert them correctly inside post.

 

[DMN666]

http://forums.tripwireinteractive.com/member/14855-®omano/subscriptions white on white text.

Man, now seeing DL text is going to be a ass :/

 

[taiiat]

looks like URL's are displaying as the same color as the rest of the text, meaning they'll be hard to find.
i guess colors not being quite as extreme to each end of the spectrum would help with that.

And white writing on black background, literally makes my eyes hurt. Not liking the wip-ness of the forum at all.

inversely, Black Text on a White background makes my eyes hurt. because my entire monitor is lit up like a christmas tree. the entire thing is lit up as bright as it can go.
even on my previous Monitor that was before the age of LED backlighting, i still felt the same way, despite the more 'mundane' brightness of Fluorescent backlighting.

for tracking the attention of humans, it makes sense for more important page content to be a brighter color than backgrounds and unimportant parts.
our eyes are naturally drawn towards brighter colors. so the text being the lightest shade on the entire page, makes sense on a Website. that doesn't mean it needs to be 255,255,255 on top of 0,0,0 - absolutely not.
this is also why Advertisements have highly saturated, bright flashing colors. because that gets the most attention, is most likely to draw eyes to, Et Cetera.

 

[morticore]

New layout is a step into a good direction

 

[®omano]

Maybe having a good looking theme in these current colors can be a better starting point, it is affordable for a company like TWI http://www.bluepearl-skins.com/forums/store/ for example

http://www.bluepearl-skins.com/forums/uploads/packages-0072358001381406409.png

http://www.bluepearl-skins.com/forums/uploads/packages-0741523001381406157.jpg


Then you modify it to change little things instead of creating a whole theme. Just my two cents but seeking for a good theme then modifying it would be better. Maybe paying a company to create a custom forum theme could be a good option