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Mete
Warnings : 3
Deputy
Joined: 16 Aug 2005
Posts: 1150
Location: Boston
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| erolz wrote: |
I believe the new forum will do this as well, but starting with post that are new to you since the convert. I will make such a new post to the test forum now and hopefully if you view it and are logged on it will be highlighted as having new posts.
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I checked your new post in the forum. Your name was bolded but I still didn't see the yellow thingy I was looking for. Do you see it with new posts?
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What you can do is design ones own style / theme set, controlling how things look. There are 2 sets that come with phpBB3 by default. The one you see and a style that is very similar to the old phpBB2 forum default style (which I have not yet installed on the phpBB3 demo board).
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Are these styles css or something else? I can look into this further once we get more serios about phpBB3.
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hings like the photo album, the portal page and RSS feeds do not have any equivalent in phpBB3. No doubt in time people will produce phpBB3 mods that provide these facilities but that will no doubt take some time before the range of features we have added to talkcyprus will be addable to phpBB3.
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I see. It shouldn't be too hard to port these onto phpBB3 but you're right. I think it's best to wait for these feature to become available. Someone with more time and skills than we do will eventually write these. That's the beauty of open source  |
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erolz
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Joined: 11 Aug 2005
Posts: 4195
Location: Kyrenia / Girne
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Ok done a little experimenting re how phpBB shows 'new topics'.
First just to recap how phpBB2 used to handle this. Basically it would show any new posts in topics and threads SINCE YOU LAST LOG ON. THus if you logged ontot the foruma and 5 threads showed new posts, if you then logged out without readint those posts and returned, they would no longer show as being 'unread' (because they are not new since your last visit).
phpBB3 seems to be working differently to this. Basically it flags if there are posts in tha thread that you have not viewed and it keeps these flagged if you log in and out without viewing them. It flags by using a 'red' icon to the left of threads with unread posts in them, vs a white version of this icon if you have viewed all the posts in that thread. There is also other 'info' contained in these icons. If you yourself have made a post in a thread it adds a little red star to the icon. If the thread has more than 20 posts in it the icon 'scrolls'. |
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erolz
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Joined: 11 Aug 2005
Posts: 4195
Location: Kyrenia / Girne
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| Mete wrote: |
| I checked your new post in the forum. Your name was bolded but I still didn't see the yellow thingy I was looking for. Do you see it with new posts? |
My name shows as being in red because I am an admin. The 'flagging' of read / unread posts on phpBB3 is done via the icon to the left of the thread list / forum area. If the icon is red it means there are posts in the forum area / thread that you have not yet viewed. If the icon is white it meas you have viewed all posts in that area / thread (or used the mark all posts as read option)
| Mete wrote: |
| Are these styles css or something else? I can look into this further once we get more serios about phpBB3. |
I am not really that au fait with this whole aspect of phpBB. As I understand to create a complete style requires more than just modifying the CSS files used. Things like placing the user info on the left for example would not be controled via css files. It would require rewritting the template for the viewing topics page.
| Mete wrote: |
That's the beauty of open source |
Indeed it is. I did not write a single mod that is used on talkcyprus currently. They were all provided by other people. I just installed them. |
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city
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Joined: 15 Aug 2005
Posts: 3337
Location: Larnaca area
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Hi Erol,
first of all thanks for taking the time and setting up the 'new' forum!
Immediate reaction: its ugly
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1. HTML code is displayed on the start page in the 'general Forum' section and the Einstein quote in the header (colour, font etc)
2. PM Inbox seems to be buggy:
Folder is 31% full (310 from 1000 messages stored)
You have 1 private message currently on hold because of full folder.
Release all on-hold messages… they will be re-sorted into the appropriate folder if enough space is made available.
How can the folder be full when only 31% are used?
I then deleted a few and the % decreased to 30 but no 'new' PMs appeared.
3. PM Inbox very strange feature imho that I can mark messages as being from friend/foe 
4. can't find where I could edit my profile
5. good: memberlist can be accessed/searched by alphabet
That's it for starters. In general I don't like it, but might be due to the fact that I am simply not used to the new style and having to search for features and buttons. Or maybe it simply looks too common too average.
On the issue of modifications and add-ons: I would not like having to abandon any of them, just to have the newest version of the SW, even though Mete is right and usually new releases are better/safer etc.
The current forum has been nicely adapted to the members wishes/needs/preferences and I would prefer it being upgraded like it was done in the past i.e. no obvious changes on the look, features, functionalitiy - if that is possible. |
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erolz
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Location: Kyrenia / Girne
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| city wrote: |
| 1. HTML code is displayed on the start page in the 'general Forum' section and the Einstein quote in the header (colour, font etc) |
Yes you can no longer use HTML directly in posts in phpBB3. Allowing such always created security issues and so they have stopped allowing it. The formatting just needs to be changed to BBcode I think.
| city wrote: |
2. PM Inbox seems to be buggy: |
This does sound like a bug with the conversion process , I'll look into it.
| city wrote: |
3. PM Inbox very strange feature imho that I can mark messages as being from friend/foe |
Friend and foe is a new feature in phpBB3. You can use it to automatically not see any posts from 'foes'. I think it has other uses as well.
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4. can't find where I could edit my profile |
You need to go to 'User control panel' - the link is ion the top left of main pages. |
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city
Site Admin
Joined: 15 Aug 2005
Posts: 3337
Location: Larnaca area
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| erolz wrote: |
| city wrote: |
| 1. HTML code is displayed on the start page in the 'general Forum' section and the Einstein quote in the header (colour, font etc) |
Yes you can no longer use HTML directly in posts in phpBB3. Allowing such always created security issues and so they have stopped allowing it. The formatting just needs to be changed to BBcode I think. |
I didn't mean posts - its in the sections description.
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| city wrote: |
3. PM Inbox very strange feature imho that I can mark messages as being from friend/foe |
Friend and foe is a new feature in phpBB3. You can use it to automatically not see any posts from 'foes'. I think it has other uses as well. |
I find it strange in the meaning that you can categorize people...
So its like a spam filter? :-/
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| city wrote: |
4. can't find where I could edit my profile |
You need to go to 'User control panel' - the link is ion the top left of main pages. |
ah, ok, I saw that but thought its only cause I am a mod. It sounds like a mod feature.
But nice options there: manage subscriptions,bookmarks,drafts,attachments......
I still don't like the look. |
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