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Post by Admin on Apr 11, 2013 11:24:11 GMT -5
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Post by g on Apr 21, 2013 11:28:04 GMT -5
Hey buddy, this is my last post for today as I believe I have answered your other posts where you had questions. I think for the most part it looks great but I have to agree I'm not fond of the way the top menu links both look and operate. I'd much rather have what I had before. These look too generic plus it doesn't function like my current site does. In terms of looks of the site, I think it looks great but one thing I don't like with the new site and even on yours, is the rounded like 2002 Ford Taurus look. It doesn't look sleek. It looks all curvy and rounded. And I guess it's turning me off a bit. Compared to my site, thing have sharper edges. I guess the avatar generic profiles of cartoon characters turn me off too. Do they have any other generic profile avatars that can be used for people without avatars instead of these bald cartoon figures? I don't care for that at all. If anything, I know all this is a work in progress and your work is greatly appreciated. I'd be lost without you. So don't think I am complaining just to be complaining. I know you are too kind to give me the help you do. But as I was saying, it's a work in progress and perhaps if anything, it will spark a bit of fine tuning and approach for the future. It's been awhile since I had an overhaul of the board. I've been trying to drum up support from my friends and posting more trying to get anything going. Same goes for you buddy. Feel free to come and post about ANYTHING! It doesn't have to be about comics. I'm one that believe that message boards work off momentum. The more of it you have, the more it makes other people post. If no one is posting, no one will post. That is why I have been trying to post here and there on my board. Anyway, the work is great. I just have been hoping that we can get it looking and operating like my current board as much as possible. Keep in touch and let me know how things are going. I know I'm getting messages saying things are getting ready to change. So once things change, I hope you know how to implement this on my current messageboard. I'm sure you do. But if I don't see you a day or two after the changes take place and all I see is generic message board skin, I'm gonna freak man. Keep me in man as changes take place. Thanks again buddy. You are invaluable and once things happen I will make sure I post publicly to all how much of a help you are to my continued existence. People know you exist on my board but I don't think you get shown enough appreciation for the work you have done over the years. I'm going to let people know the work you have done over the years. |
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Post by Admin on Apr 24, 2013 22:49:39 GMT -5
I'm having some problems with the side comic image. I'll to try having you uploade it again for please. And let me try the new link.
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Post by Admin on Apr 24, 2013 22:54:16 GMT -5
Don't worry i'll be there. I do what i can, it should workout just the way the home board is now.
What i would need is for you to please give me full admin powers on your board. That way i can do/re-place everything back to how it was after the the change.
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Post by g on Apr 26, 2013 22:20:30 GMT -5
I'm having some problems with the side comic image. I'll to try having you uploade it again for please. And let me try the new link. I see you got the side comic images up which I have to start by saying good job, but unlike my real forum currently, the images do not extend to the edges of my screen and I have black borders on this site. Can we get these images to extend to the borders of the computer screen? btw, I have a wide screen computer screen, so on an old more square 4:3 ratio screen, it may appear just fine. I don't know if that is what YOU have. But on a wide screen, it is NOT extending to to the borders of my computer screen. |
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Post by Admin on Apr 26, 2013 22:34:32 GMT -5
Oh ok i'll look in to it. It may show images to extend to the borders on your forum . But i will try a few things.
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Post by g on Apr 26, 2013 22:36:59 GMT -5
Don't worry i'll be there. I do what i can, it should workout just the way the home board is now. What i would need is for you to please give me full admin powers on your board. That way i can do/re-place everything back to how it was after the the change. I will go ahead and unlock you after I make this post here. I hate to be nitpicky about things because I know how much work you have put into this. And it's all just minor adjustments that need to be made. I'm just not EXCITED about this change. I feel like it is so unnecessary. I haven't seen the benefit yet to the upgrade. I mean, other than maybe it might be a bit easier as an admin to work on things. I did go in and center the counter down at the bottom, so so far, that is my only contribution, besides complaining. I'm just not seeing what it offers the end user. In fact, I see it as a turn off. As I said before, I don't like this rounded look this version has. I don't like the default avatars. The avatar boxes are HUGE. Everything just looks more rounded and kind of corny. I don't like it. I mean its the same skin. It's just the same skin minus sharpness like it currently is on my site. I'm sure a lot of this can be worked on and smoothed out over time. I just feel like it's a pain with little benefit to the user itself. Also the colors are not the same. The titles of the categories are blue on black. That is very hard to see. The buttons are not the same and seem less obvious as they were before. The menus are different. I remember my first experience at Night Talkers, I was trying to figure out how to do things. Of course, I adjusted and seen my way through, but the average person on my board doesn't do much to begin with. I don't see them uploading avatars. These HUGE bald headed cartoon men are AWFUL!!!! I mean when I look at me and you talking on here, it looks like only 1 person is talking. Not 2. So, I hate to complain about things because you have done an AWESOME job of trying to make things work and to complain seems to belittle your efforts. I greatly appreciate you seeing this process through. I just hate this is happening and I want to make whoever comes seem like they don't even notice the change. Almost like all their avatars are the same as it was already. I don't want this boxes to be so big and rounded. I want these colors the same as before. Too many little things and not enough payoff. I'm concerned, but I'm sure we will get there. Defiant1 acts like he isn't even going to change his site or he will close down if they make him. He's the type that may do just that. So this just seems like bad timing by proboards because message board attendance is extremely hard to get and if you make people work, they just won't do it. It's the admin doing all the work. And I don't see what it benefits the members. Hey, as a reminded. Can you get the Lyria Script working? (The Ebay App) Anyway, I'll give you full access to the original site. The only reason I hesitated in the past is because the site was mine and you know....I think you're a great dude but it's hard to say, here...take the keys and lock me out if you want to. But I trust you man. Once again, please don't look at my concerns as complaints towards you. I just don't think the new skin is a hit. I think it's coming. But it looks like it needs a lot of little tweaks and it's going to be a lot of working getting it to look like my site looks now. But regardless. Thank you very much. Once last thing. When you respond, if necessary can you use the quote button? Sometimes I'm not sure what you're referring to with just a response. I have a bad habit of just using the recent post thread instead of the individual threads. Btw, that is another beef. I'd rather have 50 or 100 most recent posts like it is on my board now, rather than just a plain recent post button where you have to keep flipping pages to see more recent posts. I really hate that. |
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Post by g on Apr 26, 2013 22:51:15 GMT -5
I just unlocked you on everything else on my board. There wasn't really a lot you couldn't already do. Just stuff you really need not worry about in the first place.
Btw, I made this complaint at Night Talkers. There is no Reply button on Recent posts. Just Quote....
ugh.....
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Post by Admin on Apr 26, 2013 22:59:15 GMT -5
Yeah, i'm felt the same way to. But i can hide the avatar make once everything is done. You will be able to keep your avatar after change over. Thats one thing that wouldn't change.
The color will be changed once i i do it on your forum. I;m just doing things half way so i would know what will work.
Yeah i do know what you mean my friend. But you know once it done you can always but me back to what i was, i wouldn't mind.
Once your forum has been change, there is something i will be working on for you. I can get the v4 feel and look back. On most things like the boards and and button. its just that will take much longer to workout. Doing it this way for now will be quicker that trying to do it the v4 way. I plan on making it the way you have your forum. I just need time to work on the things i will need to do.
I'll try my best to do everything right to you G.
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Post by Admin on Apr 30, 2013 22:49:16 GMT -5
I just unlocked you on everything else on my board. There wasn't really a lot you couldn't already do. Just stuff you really need not worry about in the first place. Btw, I made this complaint at Night Talkers. There is no Reply button on Recent posts. Just Quote.... ugh..... Yeah you have to get plugin to have that now. I have the plugin but PB had change something in their software coding, so right now the plugin stopped working. The coder who made the plugin to add Reply in post is on a business trip. He should return soon. |
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Post by Admin on Apr 30, 2013 22:50:43 GMT -5
Lyria Script i still can seem to get it to work. Can you link me to where you got this link?
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Post by g on May 1, 2013 11:43:44 GMT -5
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Post by g on May 1, 2013 11:45:37 GMT -5
I just unlocked you on everything else on my board. There wasn't really a lot you couldn't already do. Just stuff you really need not worry about in the first place. Btw, I made this complaint at Night Talkers. There is no Reply button on Recent posts. Just Quote.... ugh..... Yeah you have to get plugin to have that now. I have the plugin but PB had change something in their software coding, so right now the plugin stopped working. The coder who made the plugin to add Reply in post is on a business trip. He should return soon. Ugh... |
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Post by g on May 1, 2013 12:12:51 GMT -5
I hate to be a sourpuss and it has nothing to do with you or the work you've done. I would be totally lost without your help, but I have to be honest. I HATE this upgrade. I hate the way almost everything looks. I DO NOT think this looks like my current skin. It's kinda sorta close but at the same time, it has a long ways to go to be anything near what I have now. I see so many things wrong and I'm sure you have your own boards to work on and other people who like the upgrades much better than I do. I was hopeful at first, but it appears this proboards change is gone the way of looking silly. I still do not see the benefit to anybody but coders. That is all I see. I hate to rag, but just some of the things I quickly see.... The Checklist application that Defiant1 made doesn't work the way it used to. The fonts and colors are wrong and different and in some cases, just bad. I hate my skin now. I mean I can change my avatar, but look how HUGE that avatar box is! I hate it!!! I hate the recent posts area. As mentioned, I cannot reply. I can only Quote. I hate that it is no longer selectable to see 50 - 100 posts on 1 page. Instead it is about 10 on a page and it's NUMBERED PAGES!!!! I don't WANT to flip pages. I want to stay on the same page and scroll down. The logo area is crowded and cramped up. The COMIC side bars haven't been working right. I see you have worked on the menu, but the menu buttons are NOT the same. They are smaller. So far the Lyria application doesn't work. Along with the checklist. Who the hell is this helping? I'm also curious, once things go live, is all the other messages, thread areas and everything else from the CURRENT BOARD going to just suddenly appear on THIS NEW UPGRADED SKIN or is it ALL GOING TO DISAPPEAR?  I have no idea. I have to say man and once again, this is no smackdown to you or unappreciation for what you have done or you are trying to do. But you mentioned back on my board to Defiant1 that you can opt out of the upgrade for up to 1 year. Well, I think I am to where I would prefer that. I don't like this new rounded style. These curvy boxes. My skin I have now is sharp and tight and spaced and colored properly. There is so much work to do here that I imagine it would take forever to get the board looking like it currently does. If there is a way out of this, I think I would rather have that. I'm not hardly getting any posters anyways and this ain't going to help me. This is not helping my cause and making me feel better about how things are looking going forward. I think proboards is doing a shitty job on this from what I've seen. I think if they did an upgrade it should have been like an overnight thing. You wake up the next day and the site has been upgraded. No skin changes, no work for admins. Just new functionality. All this appears to be is coders trying to make other coders have a jolly good time. I'm trying to run a message board, not try and figure out how to make this new version look like my current version. I know you've been the one doing it and once again, no disrespect to you or any work you've done. I'm forever grateful to you. But this is being very poorly implemented if this is how it has to happen to be upgraded. Defiant1 isn't doing a thing. Whatever happens, happens. I think I am in that group. They just might force me to stop caring because it's been an uphill climb from day 1 anyway. |
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Post by g on May 1, 2013 12:14:35 GMT -5
Just noticed, when you post. There is no padding for the messages posted either. The last word on the right goes all the way to the wall of the post. There is NO SPACE between the last letter and the wall. On some of the posts. Some of the sentences go all the way against the right side wall. Not all of them but the sentences that do look unprofessional.
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I have no idea.