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OMFG, what have you done to the forums?!
Author: Tim SmalleyPublished: 7th November 2008
Thank you to those of you who took part in the beta.
The most obvious change you will have noticed is that we’ve separated out a few of the forums to give you a more refined experience in the forums. There was a lot of feedback on this when we rolled out our last major forum upgrade and that feedback came up again in the beta.
bit-tech Site Discussion and Feedback have been separated, as have Hardware and Software, General and Serious Discussion and also the For Sale forums (for those with enough posts).
There are also some more subtle changes as well – they include native support for thread prefixing, thread tagging, tag and search clouds, image galleries and user reputation.
Currently, user reputation can only be handed out by the forum moderation team (so be nice to them and you never know, they may give you some cheesecake) although we may roll it out to a larger group of users in the future. We tried user reputation once before and it was abused, but we think it’s a valuable feature if used properly which is why we’re taking a more cautious approach to it this time around.
Finally, for those of you looking for the "dark" theme, it's selectable using the drop down box in the bottom left hand corner of every forum page – it's directly above the site footer where it says "Score Guide".
If you spot any bugs, or just want to share your thoughts on the changes, please do so in the forums!
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Comments (196)
Please bring back a "classic" or just a "dark" theme. I'm not asking for the entire forum to change permanently, just an option like on the previous two versions of the forums.
If this is in works, just not implemented yet, please accept my apologies.
Edit: cheers for merging my thread into the official one, as this thread hadn't existed yet when I made this post :p
There should be the option to change the forums colour scheme using the drop down box in the bottom left corner, just above "Score Guide" in the footer.
If you're still having problems, post away... ;)
Ah, didn't even see that, went looking the hard way through "User CP" and didn't find an option. Hadn't even thought to look down there!
My eyes thank you.
Takes some time to get used to the new look (even though it's not vastly different), but i quite like it.
There, no no-one else can post that since they'll be copying me and everyone hates copycats.
I take it you've let Jamie go back to bed now?
PS: Joe - L4D isn't all that
Love the new tubes.
Opera
V.9.52
Build 10108
XP SP2
Good job. Much more logical. When I get used to it I'm sure to love it.
I think the dark theme could be a little... darker - there's not that much difference between it and the light one now.
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are those Rep. markers I see?They ARE rep blobbies...)Just a shame it didn't happen about 3 days after tags were introduced :(
And 100 posts per page.
What you need to do is fix the size of the first column that has the bit image in and instead put the thread tags in it so that it looks nice and cleanly layed out when you click new posts even when there is no thread tag, rather than the what it is now, or an additional column for the thread tags (and perhaps slightly less wide thread tags?)
All in my opinion of course.
Everyone who requested a invite to the beta was given one. If you wanted to improve the forum why didn't you participate?
Not quite sure on the icons though :\
no one told me bout no beta
See its gone back to the UK and USA seperate which is better IMO :) but dont like it that the icons at the top of a forum section are gone :/
ps: i can see the FS. section. If you're feeling kind great! - If not, thought i'd give you the heads up
Obviously never saw the post?
My post sounds harsh reading it back, sorry about that, comes across a bit blunt :o , just trying to offer some feedback.
EDIT: Doug beat me.
Keep up the great work!
...Not sure about the category tags
Looks ok tho!
Well done guys, The site rocks now :) it will always rocks no matter what happens :D
Otherwise, good effort.
Can with have this as an option and just make the viewed threads darker?
Bit-Tech Cheesecake :D
http://img135.imageshack.us/img135/1018/picture1copyfe4.jpg
Those :B
I don't see the need to split them up... That just feels like we're going backwards.
EDIT: That's actually the right one... forums.bit-tech.net/favicon.ico
Maybe you need a hard refresh (CTRL +F5)
Just bm'd, cmd+shift+r'd and still got the ones shown in the screenie :(
Have you CTRL+F5'd? Looks a bit b0rked.
That's me fixing it, getting rid of all the colours, I can't be the only colour blind person who doesn't want to relie on colours to know which post is which;
I mean what the hell -> http://img222.imageshack.us/my.php?image=borkedag8.jpg
Give me shade please, not all different colours :(
There's an option to disable thread colouring in the userCP - it's under "Edit Options" :)
That was because people expressly complained the tags were too visually intrusive before so we simplified them :(
a shame. mainly because that's why i liked them -- i found threads caught my eye a little better.
still, loving the changes anyway!
The rest of it is a bit ...... too colourful for my taste. I agree with people suggesting different shades of a colour rather than the fireworks :p we have now.
Dark theme 4tw :)
I'll try and explain, I browse with my browser set to only show images that are cached and not to load flash, basically cuts down on bandwidth when using 3G which I do alot.
When I visit a new site I load images I want this puts them in the cache and then each time I visit a site all images are loaded from cache rather than downloaded, this has worked for every site I visit even old bit-tech, now though each time I come I have to load the new posts/edit/quote images and things like that, any ideas why?
Strangely its not consistent, some load some don't, really odd?
In fact, the reply buttons are too!
awesome.
Looks nice, but can we add tags to existing threads? And is there some more info on the reputation system except that short piece in the FAQ's? I have a score to settle