New phpBB - Any Comments?

[Michael Kaudze]

Hello Forum,

Just wondering if anyone has some comments or suggestions about the new board?

Thanks!

[philba]

so far so good. I think there is a little too much eyecandy. the buttons don't exactly look like buttons - shouldn't the shadows be on the bottom? (especially in the post or edit pages)

[Chris Smith]

Other than a lack of color, and too much to digest for now, ...still no “post a simple pic hereâ€

[Mike]

I like how I was finally able to change my login from that long set of random, impossible to remember numbers to just Mike.

That's a plus.

But I don't really care for the theme of the site. I have to say that the plain style that comes with phpBB is much easier to read. Just a slight modification with a logo as I have done on my electroNET website would be much better in my opinion.

Heres my board as an example:

http://electronet.dyndns.org/electronet/ebb.htm

Maybe you could offer that basic forum theme as an option?

[JPKNHTP]

-JPKNHTP

[Chris Smith]

Pics don’t need to be active, thus they can be free.

Archive steering to a host computer bank at T&L can be the archive for pics, with a simple link of “click hereâ€

[dyarker]

Not enough difference between the off-white no new posts icon, and the pale green new posts icon.

I'll see if I get used to it for a days before making more comments either way.

[jimandy]

In the old forum kept the "view active topics" as my bookmark Can't seem to find a button to do that. What are those three buttons at the bottom do? And jeez, are we gonna start having avatars now?

[MrAl]

Hi there,


Would be nice to add a little color to the theme.
Nice style though.
Would be VERY nice to be able to select a non-proportional font
for showing table data (when measuring a circuit, etc).
It's going to take me a little time to get used to the very small font
this message is being shown in as im typing right now.

Take care,
Al

[dr_when]

I like it

[Sambuchi]

whats the blinky thing and the doohickey next to the binky thing...

[Robert Reed]

Michael
How do I know which are new topics? My icons are all the same--pale white.

[Externet]

Hello and thanks for the efforts on the new forum appearance and features.

¿Has it been tried, how safe is this site from robots collecting our addresses everywhere on the net and filling us with spam later?
PLEASE do not make them accesible to the infestation we already have with spyware and advertisementware and more crap.

Miguel

[Dean Huster]

I notice that Mike had an active link in his post, but you didn't know it was active until you brought the mouse pointer over it. Upon close inspection, there may have been a slight change in the font, but ..... Maybe making those links stand out in another color would be nice.

Otherwise, I like the board. Others are using this engine and it appears to be very versatile .... like I have the smarts to utilize all that it offers. Right.

Dean

[Mike]

Hello and thanks for the efforts on the new forum appearance and features.

¿Has it been tried, how safe is this site from robots collecting our addresses everywhere on the net and filling us with spam later?
PLEASE do not make them accesible to the infestation we already have with spyware and advertisementware and more crap.

Miguel

I thought the same. All you have to do is click on the profile of a person and theres their email. Not encrypted, not anything.

Sure you have to log in, but what prevents a spammer from registering, or posting a login they create on a site like bugmenot for other spammers to get in and get our addresses.

Theres a way around this though - Just hide your email address in your profile. Unfortunately, though, the only way to contact each other privately is Private Messaging. Until our addresses are at least encrypted, I'm hiding mine.