Forum facelifts (in General)

Overall, very nice.

I'd suggest switching the creator and last poster columns, as your eyes tend to see the creator first, and think that it's the last poster (ok, my eyes). It seems more logical to put the information that will change closest to where your eyes are after reading the thread title.

I noticed the time stamps are gone from most posts. I'm not sure I like that. Is that a toggle-able option?

The "Thread Created" banner is nice... Haven't seen a banner like that since I was a NUB two years ago.

While you're adding things, how about a "Quick reply" box that's now de facto standard on most forum platforms?

Another suggestion -- you could use that banner for all screens that show nothing but a confirmation (like after adding a rental or an auction, or inking a tattoo, which has a broken error page and a very un-good confirmation page.)

Forum stats seem to be gone. Are they accessible somewhere?

Is there any way to make the 'Post Collapse' thing an option? I hate trying to copy something and have it close. Highly annoying.

the Collapsing thing is part of Fex's Script.

Red -- Yes. I forget how, but Verifex put in an option.

Silly question, but how do you create new threads now? :/

The link is in the title:

Recent messages (New Thread)

It's the horizontal line with a red backgorund.

Oh yeah! LoL! ;)

That's a bit inconspicuous.

I like it better that the original post is at the top. It does it's best to remind people what the topic is suppose to be. Otherwise people would almost never read the original post for a thread that has been up for a while. As it is we have enough problems staying on topic.

"I like it better that the original post is at the top."

That hasn't changed.

Nevermind. I've apparently misunderstood.

When you look at a post list, the columns are Title, Author, Date, Last Poster... I was suggesting switching columns 2 and 4.

I want to see Forum stats again.

http://www.carnageblender.com/bboard/statistics.tcl?topic=General&topic_id=1

Looks like they're still there if you know the link...

(And this would appear to be my 100th post.... I should stop, methinks)

Okay, my bad on the collapsing. I apologize. I'd appreciate a CM on how to turn it off. No more posts about it in this thread for topics sake. Thanks in advance.

I agree with NS, it does seem more easy on the eye to have the last poster before the creator, oh Creator ;)

Mmm, posting a reply....I used to like going back to my home page when I confirmed a post. Staying in the thread is good for arguments IMO but not the cheerful posting!

;)

stats are linked from the main Forums index page now

Can you put line breaks in between threads on the active threads list, there's alot there to see who the last poster was in the respective thread. Or maybe it's just me, =P

Just a suggestion....

The border size around the user images should be reduced to 0. This way, images with transparent backgrounds (like mine...) would look MUCH better.

Overall though, the new design is a big improvement. Congrats!

It looks like the border scales to the size of your post.

My suggestion is to remove the border around the image completely.

Talion, that may be a themeable option, no?

I think it'd look korneh not having a border around it. It'd just float there, but to each his own.

NS: I don't know. I only use existing themes. It might be a border style or something. I will try other themes to see what it looks like.

I third NS suggestion of moving the thread creator to the far right. Having the creator show up on the left is driving me nuts.

I agree with the switching of the creator/last reply columns, as well.

thats what i was thinking as an alternative to the line breaks.

Maybe even make "Last reply by _______" and "Last reply at #:##" two separate columns, but I don't want to push things ;-)

"stats are linked from the main Forums index page now"


I'm not seeing this.

found it, with help from JW :)

You had to click on the number of posts to see the stats, I wasn't aware of that.