Website Improvements

prastle

@prastle its says watching with a bell

Frostion

I can see that my hotmail had the mails set as junk. So it works, but apparently hotmail sees the address as junk per default.

Nice to know what that bell is for.

I have no personal preferences about specific background color of category images, even though I would think that different colors for all categories would look best, and also help people surf more easily. The color choices should maybe based on what color would make the specific picture stand out the most and also not be the color of another category, or at least not another category listed just above or below with the same color.

beelee

@Frostion
This is a great idea imo. I never really knew for sure where I should post questions in the old forum. Even if they were dumb ones : )

prastle

@Frostion Nice additions frostion looks great any thoughts on the links section?

Frostion

I was thinking of making the link section look better. I will have to surf the web and investigate what options there are. Also, do you know why there is code like the following placed in the “Draft Zone” (of https://forums.triplea-game.org/admin/extend/widgets ) that is not showing up? At least not when I look at the website:

<footer id="footer" class="container footer">
<a href="http://triplea-game.org">TripleA-Game.org Website</a>
<div class="copyright">
Copyright 2016 TripleA-Devs | Powered by <a target="_blank" href="https://nodebb.org">NodeBB Forums</a>
</div>
</footer>

Maybe there are some flaws in the code? Or a bug in NodeBB? Did you write this copyright stuff?

prastle

I would ignore that and look at the categories section and maybe drag and drop in the news section and write the links maybe?

If we don't have a lot of news we can pull from the Announcements category? Or hide the Announcements category to Admin Only so it just shows as news?

prastle

@Frostion look here
https://forums.triplea-game.org/admin/extend/widgets

prastle

@Frostion sorry i should have said category not categories in that footer
you can change to what ever

Frostion

There is now added a chat box on the main page. Does it work for anyone else but me? It should only be viewable by registered users. And only last 25 postings should be viewable.

beelee

@Frostion Hmm...didn't see one. Just the stuff off to the right with your post on top.

Did you move the links ? If so, I think they're fine where they're at but the axis and allies board games one should be changed to axis and allies.org. It confused me for a moment

prastle

@beelee @frostion let me login

beelee

@Frostion I like the new Banner Looks pretty cool. Did the default change ? I got a white looking one . I'm on "Darkly" now. Like the greenish added to names etc...

Good work

prastle

@beelee yes all can change their skin to what they wish or use default

Frostion

Yes the default has changed. The look of the forum is now white and bright. The new blueish banner is primarily colored and designed to fit the new white look. This is practical when we have to show unit pictures or other art stuff to each other here on the forum. Also it looks a lot like the style og Github and the TripleA Website. But of course users are always free to change their personal skin. This is how the default looks like:

prastle

@Frostion interesting not what i see. but i did change to the white default but no blue banner

Frostion

@prastle I don’t know why we don’t see the same, but sometimes I have had to log out and clear internet browser temporary files to get to see the changes I made. Or maybe try refreshing browser?

beelee

@Frostion yea I'm not gettin the blue banner either. I find my default doesn't save unless I leave and come back.

Well just came back and it was on default. I saved to Darkly though and it stayed on it, which it didn't do before.

Info only Guys You're all doing a Great job

prastle

@Frostion @RoiEX One thing it would be nice to change is the appearance of the avatar in the recent topics on home page. Atm it shows the avatar of the topic opener. It would be better if the avatar of the last poster in a topic was shown. Ideas?

prastle

@prastle also extended recent topics to 7 from 5 to center things

Frostion

@prastle I don’t think this is possible, or at least not to my knowledge. I think this NodeBB forum software works like the work with the TripleA engine, so maybe issues and requests is supposed to be posted here:
https://github.com/NodeBB/NodeBB/issues
Maybe we can find answers on this forum: https://community.nodebb.org/
A question: Is this forums software always up to date? Do we need to update somehow if the developers implement new options? (I am not talking about the forum plugins, as they clearly can be updated manually some times. I updated three just the other day, so now 0 is “out of date”.)