ATAR Notes: Forum

Administration => Announcements => Topic started by: enwiabe on June 19, 2008, 03:27:48 pm

Title: Forum Maintenance - downtime.
Post by: enwiabe on June 19, 2008, 03:27:48 pm
The forum will be down for maintenance between the hours of 1 AM and 2 AM tonight for a complete forum structure revamp. You will wake up to a completely new VN forum experience. Enjoy. :D
Title: Re: Forum Maintenance - downtime.
Post by: costargh on June 19, 2008, 03:29:38 pm
NOOO I WAS PLANNING ON DOING ALL MY POSTING DURING THE WEE HOURS OF THE MORNING =(
Title: Re: Forum Maintenance - downtime.
Post by: AppleXY on June 19, 2008, 03:43:09 pm
Sounds exciting, like the Apple Store launch in Sydney :D
Title: Re: Forum Maintenance - downtime.
Post by: costargh on June 19, 2008, 03:50:04 pm
I wonder whats in store/stall (which one is it?) for us apple. =P
Title: Re: Forum Maintenance - downtime.
Post by: AppleXY on June 19, 2008, 03:52:14 pm
I'm making a thread at 5.00pm which is the exact timing of the opening of the Apple Store (gotta run to the formal though at 5.15 lol)
Title: Re: Forum Maintenance - downtime.
Post by: Mao on June 19, 2008, 04:47:32 pm
The forum will be down for maintenance between the hours of 1 AM and 2 AM tonight for a complete forum structure revamp. You will wake up to a completely new VN forum experience. Enjoy. :D

:D :D :D
Title: Re: Forum Maintenance - downtime.
Post by: gta007 on June 19, 2008, 07:25:16 pm
http://www.vbulletin.org/forum/showthread.php?p=1085784

Can we get something like that. It would be cool. :)
Title: Re: Forum Maintenance - downtime.
Post by: enwiabe on June 19, 2008, 07:28:16 pm
Sure, but you foot the $150 bill for vbulletin.
Title: Re: Forum Maintenance - downtime.
Post by: costargh on June 19, 2008, 07:32:38 pm
http://www.vbulletin.org/forum/showthread.php?p=1085784

Can we get something like that. It would be cool. :)

It's too "BOS" style...

I like VN. Any hints on the revamp?
Title: Re: Forum Maintenance - downtime.
Post by: enwiabe on June 19, 2008, 07:33:33 pm
Any hints on the revamp?

Size isn't everything :P
Title: Re: Forum Maintenance - downtime.
Post by: costargh on June 19, 2008, 07:35:31 pm
Any hints on the revamp?

Size isn't everything :P

Your downsizing our servers and sending our load times back to the dark ages of BOS???  :o




any ideas on the hint anyone?
Title: Re: Forum Maintenance - downtime.
Post by: Mao on June 19, 2008, 08:06:12 pm
Any hints on the revamp?

Size isn't everything :P

Your downsizing our servers and sending our load times back to the dark ages of BOS???  :o




any ideas on the hint anyone?

nono, as in display size isnt everything
Title: Re: Forum Maintenance - downtime.
Post by: enwiabe on June 20, 2008, 03:00:57 pm
Well what do you guys think of the new-look forum? :D Put your comments and suggestions in the appropriate new boards!
Title: Re: Forum Maintenance - downtime.
Post by: AppleXY on June 20, 2008, 03:53:20 pm
LOL. So much for 1AM - 2AM enwiabe :D :P
Title: Re: Forum Maintenance - downtime.
Post by: ElephantStew on June 20, 2008, 04:20:21 pm
i'm liking the layout...something different for a change
Title: Re: Forum Maintenance - downtime.
Post by: Mao on June 20, 2008, 04:48:09 pm
oh man, this is SO much better :)

though we could throw ENTER/SAC discussions with VTAC, they're pretty much dealing with the same thing,

and squeeze enhancement together and throw that in a sub-section in tertiary section :P [it appears you have forgetten to do anything about it, they dont have much traffic at all anyways :P]

*on that note, this change coincided with the launch of Firefox 3, double win :D *
Title: Re: Forum Maintenance - downtime.
Post by: brendan on June 20, 2008, 06:45:59 pm
ewww the new layour sucks
Title: Re: Forum Maintenance - downtime.
Post by: enwiabe on June 20, 2008, 06:47:53 pm
Yup the kinks will be worked out tonight.
Title: Re: Forum Maintenance - downtime.
Post by: brendan on June 20, 2008, 06:53:54 pm
i want to be able to collapse certain ssubjects like LOTE etc
Title: Re: Forum Maintenance - downtime.
Post by: enwiabe on June 20, 2008, 06:55:19 pm
You will. That's the main problem with this layout, in that I didn't realise you couldn't minimize specific boards. >_>
Title: Re: Forum Maintenance - downtime.
Post by: excal on June 21, 2008, 05:41:16 am
Talk about low traffic LOTE boards ;P

I don't like it how we've lost the new thread granularity in the new merged 'superforums' directly from the front page...means one more layer I have to go through to see the latest threads.

But, in respect to the whole site, it is a lot less cluttered.
Title: Re: Forum Maintenance - downtime.
Post by: enwiabe on June 21, 2008, 11:18:35 am
An idea I've been tossing around if anyone codes a mod for it is...

Hover over the parent board to instantly get an AJAX popup of all the childboards with the latest posts that you can click. That would be fucking awesome but I doubt it exists :P
Title: Re: Forum Maintenance - downtime.
Post by: excal on June 21, 2008, 03:42:44 pm
Sounds do-able. I'm not that great at AJAX though...it also wouldn't be truly AJAX as you'd be using a database query to grab the childboard with posts, not an XML file. It will be, undoubtedly, slower.

Mind you, if you do set up a script to write an XML file...you can set up an RSS feed...
Title: Re: Forum Maintenance - downtime.
Post by: Mao on June 22, 2008, 10:25:06 am
Nao nao, this is MUCH better

awesome job, enwiabe.