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Published on February 18, 2008 By Zoomba In GalCiv II News

Huzzah!

We've completed our work for the night and the forums are back up and running.  You'll notice a number of visual changes, and you'll hopefully notice improved speed and general performance.

Please post any issues you run into here.  We've done a lot of testing this past week and tonight, but if something slipped through we want to know so it can be fixed quickly.

Thank you all for your patience.


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on Feb 18, 2008
Site does not remember where in a thread you last visited either. Refers you to page one constantly.
on Feb 18, 2008
Not sure if its my mouse or this new forum but my wheel only partially works. If I actively rotate the mouse wheel up and down, the screen will scroll up and down accordingly. But on those really long pages where I like to "click" the mouse wheel to get that little up and down arrow thing that makes it move faster, well that doesn't work on this website anymore. Anyone else having this problem?
on Feb 18, 2008
Mine works fine.
on Feb 18, 2008
Nice neat and sexy. Also holy crap I got in here faster and loged in quicker too great work. My you guys must out do yourselfs on everything you do. Keep it up!
on Feb 18, 2008
One thing i am not liking (and so far its the only one that annoys me) is that the 'sticky' posts are inverted by date with the newest one at the bottom? Looks strange and means updates are easily overlooked.

Other than that a nice upgrade


WOW! Fast fix Thank you

on Feb 18, 2008
I'm noticing that the in the My Replies section, the post times for the "Last Reply" and "My Last Reply" are the same even though in the majority of cases I am not the most recent post.
on Feb 18, 2008
I would like to comment that the text is not actually smaller. I did a couple of print screens (I have one before changes) to compare text, and they all look the same when you compare the letters.
on Feb 18, 2008
Seems to be still a work in progress. I checked in earlier and saw the tiny reply box problem. That seems fixed now. However I simply tried to go to the metaverse forum and got the we're sorry IE had to close issue but tried it again and it seemed to work. This is with IE6.

There still seems to be an issue if I click on Enlarge editor where the editor only shows up on the left half of my screen with the mostly obscured posts in the right half.

I'm sure this will all resolved shortly, the text does seem "crisper" and the double vision mouseover on the medals is fixed. However I did prefer the black backgound of the medals as opposed to the grey but that's not a big deal.
on Feb 18, 2008
Ah. Looks good. Well, the text telling you that you are not logged in, when attempting to reply while not logged in, was Dark Blue on a Black Background. That's not very easy to read. ( Using Firefox BTW. ) Not very important, but that's all I found...

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on Feb 18, 2008
AOL Expolrer tiny reply box and not tracking posts i've visited. Would go into more detail, bot that box is too small
Scincerely,

Scintor@aol.com
on Feb 19, 2008
I'm noticing that the in the My Replies section, the post times for the "Last Reply" and "My Last Reply" are the same even though in the majority of cases I am not the most recent post.


What browser are you using? Firefox 2.0 here.

Also, confirming earlier comments that the threat titles aren't showing old vs. new posts (check your colors for new vs. visited links, guys). I'm also not getting the jump to unread posts feature that was here, in the prior version.

P.S. just mentioning again that the SPEED of the forum is a mega improvement. That's really nice. Now fix the way we actually read information here (larger font size, more emphasis on the text info, less on the graphics flash), and it will be perfect.
on Feb 19, 2008
My reply #41 started by hitting the Quote key for message #37:

"I would like to comment that the text is not actually smaller. I did a couple of print screens (I have one before changes) to compare text, and they all look the same when you compare the letters."

That's what I saw in the editor, when writing. But the actual post is now showing a quote from message #36, the prior message.

on Feb 19, 2008
Well, as to the text not being smaller - it is harder to read if nothing else.

The 'print screens' may show a similar text size, but to my eyes it is smaller by at least a couple points.

The text size is smaller in the reply box as well.

I get eye-strain with this current font. And it should not be that difficult to set it to what it was before.
on Feb 19, 2008
I don't know if anyone has mentioned this or not but I sure am getting a lot of problems using IE6. I do find scrolling through a thread far more painful than it used to be.

Mostly it's some kind of "can't perform operation" error that doesn't crash IE but does take you to a page unavailable screen but you can navigate back to where you were and try again and it mostly will work the second time.

I also get a good handful of "we're sorry but IE has encountered a problem and has to close" and then IE closes down.

Any operation in a thread seems to take you back to the beginning of the thread. Which is annoying because scrolling through the pages of a thread are what's likely to give me the "can't perform operation" error.

Also the reduction to 25 replies per page increases the number of pages. I prefer the 50 replies per page that we used to have.
on Feb 19, 2008
And the problem of not remembering the last read post, so you always start at reply #1, is also annoying.


There are problems to be worked out, to be sure.
And I am confident that the devs will do so.

But it seems some of the problems are with specific browsers, which are even harder to fix.
The 25-per-page I am not so concerned with, even though I prefer 50 as well.

I am using IE7, by the way. I don't get the errors that Mumblefratz is getting.

I still can not edit a post.
Perhaps Mumblefratz could try that operation in IE6?
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