Website Improvements

[Frostion]

Actually, I dont think there are many limits to how a NodeBB website can be set up in regards to layout, features and stuff. But this would require us to make our own custom NodeBB "theme", and this would again require one of us to have advanced knowledge in html/css coding and a lot of free time. Right now we "play it safe" using one of three (as I understand) themes that are still worked on by NodeBB devs (I think our theme is among their theme creations). I would think requesting features at the dev site would be the way to go. And if we give reasonable requests, that would benefit all websites, they might comply, for example "show last poster avatar instead of original poster".

[prastle]

@Frostion agree and cool that your on your phone if ya want to request a widget that pulls from online users its fine by me.

https://forums.triplea-game.org/users?section=online

[prastle]

@Frostion Yes our theme is the persona theme which is the main one they support.

[prastle]

@prastle Found a Widget that should work for who is online etc. Ideas on where we should place it? @ all

Also @RoiEX I cleaned all of my playing with the other plugins from a few weeks ago that we are not using. Ideas on ones that are left that we should remove? Do we need Active Users still? Can we make the Categories Title etc match @Frostion font size and color without customizing the widgets?

[Frostion]

I would suggest it replaced the widget above the chat on the categories main page. Even if the shout box chat was to be removed some day, then the information about who is online would be nice to have on the main page. If chat was removed, then it could be placed at the very top of the "sidebar".

[Cernel]

I suggest all the "Active Users", "Who's Online", "Visitors Today", etc. being at the bottom of the home page, or at least below the Categories; the Categories at top, before anything else but the banner.

[Frostion]

I have tried to rearrange the widgets. The categories are at top as they should be. I renamed “Recent topics” to “Recent Active Topics”, as the first name was misleading. At least I read Recent Topics as Recent / New Topics, but the widget actually shows topics that has recently had activity. The “Who's Online” widget is moved down below the categories and just above the chat. I think that it the most relevant place for this info to be. I hope this makes sense. PS: I see the website in 1080p and judge the looks from this:

[beelee]

@Frostion
Yea I like where you have stuff.

[prastle]

@Frostion It works for me frost. I am glad i found one that we didn't have to build .

[prastle]

Wish List for New Forum / War Club

(feel free to add Peeps!)

• 1 A ladder / competition module (check this link here perhaps we can use in the meantime until they incorporate into the engine)
  http://www.casesladder.com

• 2 Working PBF - Roi has a fix but the update would mean all need new triplea dl

• 3 Working Database - So user management can occur again for the lobby. ( Unbanning random bans etc)

• 4 Working PayPal donations link - So that all can contribute that wish to.

• 5 A new engine release that posts the EV version in the lobby - This way all know that they have the same engine version (example 1.9. x instead of just 1.9)

• 6 Notification that a map needs an update - this way you dont have to check periodically if it becomes outdated.

Feel free to add ideas to the list

[beelee]

@prastle

1. not familiar with but sounds good
2. We'll all need to update sooner or later
3. back at #1
4. Good idea
5. Thought this already was ? Guess not.
6. Thought this already was as well ?

Anyway, good stuff you're doing here prastle. Think this site will Rock pretty good.

[prastle]

@beelee Thxs Also i reopened this under a pinned topic to keep improvements separate from wishes.

https://forums.triplea-game.org/topic/70/wish-list-for-the-lobby-and-the-new-forum

[Frostion]

Just want to inform about that I just added new icons to some of the categories.

Just a question: Who is the “Admin” category supposed to be viewable and accessible by? Also guests? Is it a place for sensitive info? Just asking as it seems that I can see the category name when logged out, but I cannot see the bunker category name when logged out. Would it not be best if it the category name was like the bunker, meaning hidden for guests?

Anyone with authority please change this to what is most appropriate.

And can someone fix the emojies?

[prastle]

@Frostion nice icons! also i added you to the gitter thread for the server for future

[prastle]

@Frostion I Fixed the permissions so guests cant find the topic either.

[Frostion]

So, someone finally centered the donation button I have been thinking about doing that for a long time. Never got it done. But, it is a nice improvement!
Question: Is the donation category meant to be a visible category on a permanent basis? Or is it meant to be hidden some of the time of the year?

[prastle]

@frostion @redrum Thought it would be a good idea to leave it up permanently since we seem to be averaging a donation every two weeks.

[RoiEX]

@frostion The donation button was bugging me for quite a while now

[Frostion]

@all Am I the only one not recieving email notifications any more from this forum's threads that are being "watched"??? Even threads that I once got notifications from do not send anymore.

And does this issue have something to do with the introduction of something that looks like thread tags??? (Like NEW MAPS 1 PROJECTS 1 IDEAS 1) I can't see what tags should be good for here at the forum. But tags would be very welcome for the ingame download.

[RoiEX]

@frostion Funnily enough I got notified about your post via a notification email.
Since we switched email providers, it could be the case that emails are being sent to your spam folder, please check that first.

And tags have nothing to do with it.