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Neil Jones Founding member 14 February 2020 5:40pm

Not sure how/why this was on my old hard drive, but a snapshot of the forum's homepage way back in December 2001 - complete with Windows 98/Internet Explorer 5 surroundings!

“The butchering of Crossroads”? Talk about dramatic.

Wasn't that dramatic IIRC. Hyperbole more likely.

VM

VMPhil 15 February 2020 11:19am

JAS84 posted:

That's the browser frame, yeah (even has the same Birthday Today MSN tab on the taskbar at the bottom), but a different website (the Dalek6388 one I mentioned) had apparently been Photoshopped in.

So the next question is, what Google search did they put in to find that image?

JW

JamesWorldNews 23 February 2020 9:21am

Has TVF changed some of the home screen and main navigation fonts?

It’s gone all Arial for me. (I think).

Unless it’s Reith.

Edit: now it’s back to normal.

Last edited by JamesWorldNews on 23 February 2020 9:34am

VM

VMPhil 23 February 2020 11:22am

The only difference I've noticed recently is that the font used for the forum navigation links at the top of the page is different on the homepage compared to the rest of the site.

JA

JAS84 23 February 2020 2:56pm

Yeah, it's bold instead of regular weight everywhere except the front page.

IT

Ittr 29 February 2020 5:10pm

VMPhil posted:

The only difference I've noticed recently is that the font used for the forum navigation links at the top of the page is different on the homepage compared to the rest of the site.

Pretty sure it's been like this for a few years at least.

AS

Asa Admin 3 March 2020 10:37pm

Yep, nothing has changed there in a long time.

The reason it's different is because some pages use slightly newer stylesheets. For anyone vaguely interested, I give each major(ish) update a different codename - Firecracker was the first while it was being built (there's still references to "FC" all over the code). The next one was Neon (some may remember the beta site at neon.tvforum.co.uk running at the same time as the normal one). Wave is the current one used on some parts of some pages. The new one will be Woodpecker and will replace all the others.

PE

Pete Founding member 4 March 2020 6:38am

Asa posted:

Yep, nothing has changed there in a long time.

The reason it's different is because some pages use slightly newer stylesheets. For anyone vaguely interested, I give each major(ish) update a different codename - Firecracker was the first while it was being built (there's still references to "FC" all over the code). The next one was Neon (some may remember the beta site at neon.tvforum.co.uk running at the same time as the normal one). Wave is the current one used on some parts of some pages. The new one will be Woodpecker and will replace all the others.

And suddenly the reason the beta site was called neon has clicked in my brain...