I clicked refresh 45 seconds ago to find new posts and all of a sudden the forum changed. It looks great! To whoever did the work - congratulations!
-drin
Yes - new skin and no way to change it.
This is not a whining matter, if you just don’t happen to like the new looks, feel free to do so ;D The change was made to simplify modifications to the board and to keep the voluntary hosting provider/webmaster Twin-x/Jeffrey happy!
Moebius
It’s a new underlying BBS, right? Or was YABB abandonned earlier? I like the skin.
Suggestion: I used to run a very small scale forum, and have a kick-ass smiley pack. Might be cool for the new forum layout? 
Cheers, Alex.
To quote myself: "oooooooooooooooooh! New forums! 
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I love the new look! ;D And the tabs to jump right to the WIKI or the uCapps pages is a big help. BRAVO!!
I love the new look! ;D And the tabs to jump right to the WIKI or the uCapps pages is a big help. BRAVO!!
Agreed, the new look is awesome.
The tabs a very nice! I hadn’t been by in a few days. I did a double take on the URL when it loaded up. haha…Now, I’ve done forgotten what the old board was like. Anyone have a picture?
I notice the MIDIBox Logo is a bit mashed up this morning 
(and there are two of them now) I like the transparency though, I was going to suggest that Maybe the image should have white space where the words are though…Just transparent around the outside of the ‘chip’
Hey I was thinking, you know those tabs up the top, maybe instead of “UCAPPS”, it could say “µCAPPS” or “µCApps”? But now I’m just being pedantic It might look better in all-capitals anyway, as it will match the lettering on the other tabs.
Anyway, for those who care and don’t know, the µ character can be typed by holding in ALT and typing 0181 on your numeric keypad (it won’t work with the other number keys), it’s also known as 0xB5 if you’re into Hex
I am still twiddling around with the graphics etc.
I dont think the mu is possible since not everyone has the same encoding on his or her computer.
Twiddle away!
Yeh good point about the encoding.. I’m pretty sure it’s a standard character, but not all fonts are the same so…
Something I just noticed… If I remember rightly, there used to be text on the top ‘frame’ of the board wqhich referred to PM’s, for eg, there was one that said you had x amount of unread messages or something…
Was that ever really there, or am I imagining things? If it was, is it coming back? If it is, can I help?
Was that ever really there, or am I imagining things? If it was, is it coming back? If it is, can I help?
It’s still there. There’s a tab labeled ‘MY MESSAGES’. When you have a new message it has a ‘(1)’ beside it. If you don’t have any new messages, no number…
-drin
Something I just noticed… If I remember rightly, there used to be text on the top ‘frame’ of the board wqhich referred to PM’s, for eg, there was one that said you had x amount of unread messages or something…
Was that ever really there, or am I imagining things? If it was, is it coming back? If it is, can I help?
Yup - there it was 
hmm.. Twin-x might listen to improvement ideas, so let’s see. But DON’T expect anything to happen fast, as he has other things to do also. ;)
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But DON’T expect anything to happen fast, as he has other things to do also. ;)
Come on mate, it’s ME you’re talking to 
I’m not really the type to rush anyone… I take it so slow, if I went any slower, I’d go back in time and there’d be no MIDIBox yet
When you have a new message it has a ‘(1)’ beside it. If you don’t have any new messages, no number…
Thanks for that drin. I had a feeling it might only appear if there was a new PM waiting… I thought I’d wait and see, but after a few days with no messages ( nobody likes me hehehe) I decided to just ask
Like the new gfx mate
Thank you! But i intended to do it diffrent maybe in the future.
Hey there illustrious moderator/site hosting type dudes
I noticed a behaviour of the forum which I don’t like so much, and I thought maybe I could suggest a possible improvement…
I use the “Show unread posts since last visit” link to make sure I read all the posts to the forum, but I’ve noticed that when a post is edited, although it gets the ‘New’ icon on the board, it doesn’t show up on the list of unread posts.
Would it be possible to mark a thread as unread when a post within it is edited?
Thanks guys!
Would it be possible to mark a thread as unread when a post within it is edited?
The simple answer is no…It would require some coding to an SMF that none of us has time for… :-\
Personally I think after-the-fact post editing should not be an option anyway, as it opens a whole can of worms for people to play revisionist history, and lets people post something that’s not completely thought out.
A perfect example is an exchange I had with a user who proceeded to school me on something he really knew nothing about (brought some agression/baggage with him to the forum that day)…I saw his post minutes after he made it, and spent 15 minutes or so on a correct reply to that post as written.
By the time I posted, he had edited his post to remove everything he was clueless about, including the unwarranted aggression…So what was left was the appearance that I was flaming a newbie without provocation.
I understand some people need to correct a typing error or a mis-typed sentence, but that’s what the preview button is for. Editing a -concept- after the fact just proves you were not ready to post about it in the first place.
This rant brought to you by not enough coffee yet, and I’m not aiming at anyone specifically, it’s just my honest opinion.
Best
Smash
LOL
Yeh I didn’t think it was going to be worth the required investment of time, it’s all good.
Yeh the editing thing is a tricky one…It’s handy sometimes but has large potential for misuse…I wouldn’t mind so much if it went away, but it wouldn’t bug me if it stayed either.
Hey while I’m here, has anyone else noticed the random posts with a long empty space at the bottom? Of course I can’t find one now, but I’ve seen a few this week.