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More Forum Changes!

Details: Category: News; Published: Sunday, 30 April 2017 02:56; Written by Aayrl; Hits: 2683

Hello Marble Blasters!

While performing some routine maintenance this evening, HiGuy and I have also gone through the Forums layout templates and made some slight adjustments based on user feedback over the past few months. Some of these were pending issues from the original release of the latest forum platform, and I apologize for not having these necessary changes in place sooner.

If you have any additional suggestions, comments or remarks for the forum layout, certainly let us know in the comments section below so we can investigate any issues further.

Here are a list of changes that went live tonight:

Website Security Updates
Users may now update their Avatar once again.
Changed the Forum username links to redirect to a member's Marble Blast profile instead of their Forum Profile. A link to the Forum Profile is now listed on their Marble Blast profile for ease of access.
Changed the "Quote" styles - The quoted member name is now bold and underlined, and a noticeable quote style and border has been added to the quote block to make them more obvious.
Changed the "Last Edited By" informational text styles to be smaller and less distracting.
Changed the behavior of "Staff Member" or "Blue Posts" - Staff member posts will now only show with a blue background at the discretion of the staff member posting them.
Slightly adjusted the display position of member signatures on forum post messages to prevent crowding of post content.
Fixed an issue with Avatar images being resized incorrectly on certain browser sizes.
Fixed an issue that caused the "Recent Topics" and "My Subscriptions" views to be disproportional on certain browser sizes.
Fixed an issue which caused user details on a message post to scale incorrectly on certain browser sizes.
Fixed an issue that caused the "Attachments" button to overlap other elements when uploading images to a new post or post reply.
Fixed an issue with the "Forum" breadcrumb link which would erroneously send users to the "Recent Topics" section instead of the Forum Index.
Fixed an issue where certain Avatars would cause the web server to timeout unexpectedly. Special thanks to Weather for reporting this issue.

Please Note: Some changes will not be visible until your browser cache refreshes.

Thank you,
~Aayrl

Posts in discussion: More Forum Changes!

HiGuy replied the topic: #1 30 Apr 2017 16:51

We changed around some parts of the CSS and you may have an outdated version in your cache. Try force refreshing (Ctrl + Shift R on Windows, Cmd + Shift R on Mac) and it should pull the new stylesheet. Or if you wait a few days your browser will sort itself out automatically.

Evokrypt replied the topic: #2 30 Apr 2017 13:47

This is good to see, BUT I have noticed this kind of message on every single post:

"Aayrl created the topic: More Forum Changes!" ... for example.

Is this intentional? Or is it even necessary? Seems a bit cluttery to me. And I find it hard to find the start of the post as well.

Forum Changes!

Details: Category: News; Published: Monday, 19 December 2016 03:45; Written by Aayrl; Hits: 5655

Hello everyone,

I am pleased to announce after several weeks of evaluation, we have decided to upgrade our Forum infrastructure to its latest stable version. Our previous forum software had reached its end of life, so it was necessary from a security point of view to complete the upgrade before the end of 2017.

With the new Forum infrastructure comes some exciting enhancements that we hope will make the forums easier to navigate and participate in! Below are some of the most important changes you'll notice:

An all new Forum Template and Layout!
All staff member posts now have a light blue background color in order to assist members with identifying official responses from the Marble Blast Community Staff!
The Marble Blast Community Staff now also have the power to flag community posts as "Helpful", indicated by a light-green color!
We've cleaned up how News Article replies look on the Home Page to keep our front doors super clean! Don't worry, you'll still be able to comment if you head over to the News Feed or Forums!

We're excited to hear your feedback and suggestions for improvements or changes to this new system. Please feel free to leave a comment and we'll do our best to address any issues you may encounter!

Enjoy!

~Aayrl

Posts in discussion: Forum Changes!

Aayrl replied the topic: #1 12 Jan 2017 01:13

Makes sense.

I'll add this to our list.

Thanks,
~Aayrl

Robert replied the topic: #2 10 Jan 2017 09:50

Aayrl wrote:
What do you mean by a button that links the forum profile to the actual profile? A link under the avatar on the forums, perhaps?

Yes, I think that would work too. What I meant is that whenever you click someone's name from a forum post it gets you to his forum profile (marbleblast.com/index.php/forum/user/17582-el-robert). I was thinking about having a button there (under the avatar, sure, why not) that upon clicking would take you to his "actual profile" (marbleblast.com/index.php/profile?disp=browse&user=17582), the one with game statistics, achievements etc. At the moment, in order to see that profile, we need to search the user in the Scores section of the site.

HiGuy replied the topic: #3 10 Jan 2017 03:18

The issue with the attachments button is actually because the picture settings options are supposed to be a modal... Somehow jQuery doesn't have the modal plugin enabled.

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