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Re: TR's Return- Issues, Ideas, and more Thread

Postby PAINKILLƎR » Dec 15th, '13, 21:04

Old layout or switch to vbulletin
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Re: TR's Return- Issues, Ideas, and more Thread

Postby HeySamantha » Dec 15th, '13, 21:07

TRshady wrote:I don't feel there's a need to move away from PHPBB - I'd expect the migration work to be a fair bit of work too. I'm pretty comfortable with PHPBB - and with a good theme, I reckon it'd suffice.

HeySamantha, can I ask for you to take up the role of keeping track of suggestions regarding a new layout, then create a poll once we have a decent shortlist? Unless I have strong objection to the winner - I'll make the switch.

tbh it seems like I'm always the one that actually posts layout suggestions. People either hate change or don't know what they want.

Why not just use something like this, which looks more modern?
https://www.phpbb.com/customise/db/styl ... dark/demo/

Bonus.. a lot of them also come as dark and light combos. This is the light version
https://www.phpbb.com/customise/db/styl ... dark/demo/

Something like that would make people happy and it would be easy to switch back and forth, people could use whatever one they want. The codes are the same so they should translate well between dark or light.
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Re: TR's Return- Issues, Ideas, and more Thread

Postby TRshady » Dec 15th, '13, 21:08

PHPBB is still under active development, the most recent version (which we are now on) having been released only three months ago. Further, it's open source - which I support fully, along with the entire stack behind the server - Nginx, MySQL etc. I'm not against paying for software, but I feel PHPBB have done a great job - and I've never been one for the gimmicks of anything that takes away from the discussion. If there was to be a change, it's be along the lines of the 'Discourse' project that I'd be looking.

Do not that it's PHPBB we're talking about, not PHP, which is the programming language the forum software is written in - which matches that of vBullein, InvisionBoard and many others.
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Re: TR's Return- Issues, Ideas, and more Thread

Postby HeySamantha » Dec 15th, '13, 21:11

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Re: TR's Return- Issues, Ideas, and more Thread

Postby TRshady » Dec 15th, '13, 21:14

I've made a change to the font size, you may need to clear your browsers cache to see this. We will be staying on PHPBB for the moment - I feel no reason to invest time into VB just yet, but rest assured I'll continue to tweak this layout, until a better theme comes along.

I'm going to need to get back to technical issues such as the search and other request omissions. Bear with me for the moment.
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Re: TR's Return- Issues, Ideas, and more Thread

Postby HeySamantha » Dec 15th, '13, 21:15

^ lol the second one matches one of my suggestions!
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Re: TR's Return- Issues, Ideas, and more Thread

Postby Notalius » Dec 15th, '13, 21:17

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Re: TR's Return- Issues, Ideas, and more Thread

Postby SajN » Dec 15th, '13, 21:18

TR, can I in the meanwhile also activate the previous layout, so those who want, like me, can use the other one?
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Re: TR's Return- Issues, Ideas, and more Thread

Postby PAINKILLƎR » Dec 15th, '13, 21:21

Go back to original please
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Re: TR's Return- Issues, Ideas, and more Thread

Postby Notalius » Dec 15th, '13, 21:22

PAINKILLƎR wrote:Go back to original please


this or change it to vbulletin like most are suggesting.
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Re: TR's Return- Issues, Ideas, and more Thread

Postby HeySamantha » Dec 15th, '13, 21:23

I don't understand why we can't have a light and a dark option :unsure:

Why do we need only one layout? We can have lots of options...
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Re: TR's Return- Issues, Ideas, and more Thread

Postby Notalius » Dec 15th, '13, 21:24

HeySamantha wrote:I don't understand why we can't have a light and a dark option :unsure:

Why do we need only one layout? We can have lots of options...


the forum would be a lot slower
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Re: TR's Return- Issues, Ideas, and more Thread

Postby Notalius » Dec 15th, '13, 21:24

Horsebot3K wrote:
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PAINKILLƎR wrote:Go back to original please


this or change it to vbulletin like most are suggesting.

Are "most" suggesting vbulliten, though?


yes, read the backstage section
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Re: TR's Return- Issues, Ideas, and more Thread

Postby HeySamantha » Dec 15th, '13, 21:26

Horsebot3K wrote:
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PAINKILLƎR wrote:Go back to original please


this or change it to vbulletin like most are suggesting.

Are "most" suggesting vbulliten, though?

Not really imo, most want the old one back. They only want it back because that's what they're used to, though. They'd get used to a new one :coffee:


Why don't we just keep this one (the old one that just flipped back) and edit the colours on it?
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Re: TR's Return- Issues, Ideas, and more Thread

Postby SajN » Dec 15th, '13, 21:26

Now it's back to the old one (almost) lol
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