Thanks for all the comments so far. It’s been hard to view the site with fresh eyes given how much I’ve looked at it so it’s nice that I’m generally along the right lines and haven’t designed something horrific. I’ll try and get through everything mentioned, apologies if I miss anything.
Totally agree that the ‘extended’ version isn’t necessarily the way to go for a forum but it’s something I thought worth trialling – and there is the classic button on the sidebar to revert to a much more familiar view. I’m still in two minds over it but I have found myself glancing at each summary text when I’ve been visiting.
Unable to delete posts and signatures randomly not showing have been fixed and I’ve added a reply button for those not logged in.
Jump to latest unread is the “Updated” wrapper image (the topic title itself will also go to it in that case too, rather than the first page). Pete’s pretty much right with the DB/cookies not playing nicely. It *should* be running off the database. I will get this fixed once and for all so it will be accurate, regardless of what you’re browsing it on! Hopefully then it’ll help with any confusion.
The Lounge only goes up to Jun 2002 which is probably when it moved from flat-file to database. There’s a handful of threads from when we returned in Jan 03 but unfortunately, as with the other forums, the bits in-between have been lost forever.
Full credit goes to Yusuke Kamiyamane for the shiny new emoticon icons! (Phil, you can manually keep putting the old ones in if you wish!
http://tvfi.co.uk/beta/emoticons/icon_wink.gif)
The change being in June 2011 is a typo and should have course be June 2012…which still ended up being wrong anyway! I’ll amend.
On the homepage if you click the thumbnail then the bigger image itself it’ll take you straight to the post – may add a button as that’s not very obvious is it.
May change the mod/admin/new member status to make it more obvious!
I’ll look into the rating issue Rob, thought I’d fixed that last night. Similarly the issue highlighted by Critique too. And feeds too.
Getting PM notifications by email should return so I’ll put that in.
Happy to move the paging buttons if it’s annoying. Or what if they were inline with the bottom of the final post on the right, with the quick reply minimised?
Pad – have another stab at your prediction. I’ll make it more touch friendly too. Nice to see over 40 members have already put in their ideas for The X Factor this Saturday, good luck!
Videos do seem iffy which is a shame as they were working a little while ago, can’t think what’s changed but I’ll take a look…
Anyone have any preference over the background colour? Is white/grey a bit too bright or should the blue return? An early design kept the blue but it just didn’t look right for some reason. Maybe I should review it again but there seemed something refreshing about having a lighter background.
The calendar is an unfortunate issue in that it’s been fixed on the beta site. Dates are now being saved in the DB as GMT and now pulled out correctly for your timezone/daylights saving. What it means is that whichever site you submit a calendar entry on, the other one will be wrong. If I get chance I’ll probably just fiddle the old site to add an hour and ‘fix’ the old entries which were technically wrong.
Dosxuk – some very interesting ideas! I particularly like the highlighting of the current forum in the menu bar. That’ll please someone who we know isn’t a fan of seeing the forum name in the subtitle
Will have a proper look over tomorrow.
