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#102 Dec 06 2010 at 1:05 PM Rating: Excellent
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Grand Master Leatherworker ThePsychoticO wrote:
The cancel button for links is still borked for pms.

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The default journal name is currently just blank.

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fcluster/gotopost.pl mouseovers don't work for searches or bookmarks.

These are fixed.
#103 Dec 07 2010 at 11:39 PM Rating: Decent
The reply/edit links always point to page 1 for posts that are hidden because of rating or ignore list.
#104 Dec 07 2010 at 11:49 PM Rating: Decent
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Happens if a new post comes up while mousing over another. It doesn't go away until you mouseover something else.
#105 Dec 08 2010 at 1:11 PM Rating: Good
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JerekDain wrote:
Grand Master Leatherworker ThePsychoticO wrote:
The search box is white now on all skins. Intended?

Also the size problem with letters like q, g, etc is back.

The white is intended, though it breaking the letter fix is not. Re-fixed.


Why is the search box so big? I get that it's the same height as the mouse-over menu below, but both are abnormally large compared to the text in them. Perhaps reduce the height a little, or bold the text (in the WoW classic menu as well) to fill out the space.

I guess it's not really a bug, just a nuisance.
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#106 Dec 08 2010 at 3:22 PM Rating: Excellent
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Grand Master Alchemist Mazra wrote:
JerekDain wrote:
Grand Master Leatherworker ThePsychoticO wrote:
The search box is white now on all skins. Intended?

Also the size problem with letters like q, g, etc is back.

The white is intended, though it breaking the letter fix is not. Re-fixed.


Why is the search box so big? I get that it's the same height as the mouse-over menu below, but both are abnormally large compared to the text in them. Perhaps reduce the height a little, or bold the text (in the WoW classic menu as well) to fill out the space.

I guess it's not really a bug, just a nuisance.


You'd be surprised how many emails and PMs we've received asking why we don't have a search box on our sites. Sounds silly, I know.
#107 Dec 08 2010 at 8:00 PM Rating: Decent
If a post with a poll in it is hidden by filter/etc,the show results link is broken, by pointing to /mid=x;style=mform&viewpoll=1.

Edited, Dec 8th 2010 9:01pm by ThePsychoticOne
#108 Dec 08 2010 at 8:12 PM Rating: Good
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You'd be surprised how many emails and PMs we've received asking why we don't have a search box on our sites. Sounds silly, I know.


Smiley: lol

You should try 'remove-on-click' text in the search field that says 'Search...' or something. Or chalk it up to people being idiots.

Just don't dumb down the site too much. The dumb just get dumber and the smart get irritated. Smiley: tongue

Sorry for the derail, the thread is yours again, TPO.
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#109 Dec 08 2010 at 8:13 PM Rating: Decent
Grand Master Alchemist Mazra wrote:
Sorry for the derail, the thread is yours again, TPO.
It's not possible to derail this thread.
#110 Dec 08 2010 at 8:16 PM Rating: Excellent
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Grand Master Alchemist Mazra wrote:
Nizdaar wrote:
You'd be surprised how many emails and PMs we've received asking why we don't have a search box on our sites. Sounds silly, I know.


Smiley: lol

You should try 'remove-on-click' text in the search field that says 'Search...' or something. Or chalk it up to people being idiots.

Just don't dumb down the site too much. The dumb just get dumber and the smart get irritated. Smiley: tongue

Sorry for the derail, the thread is yours again, TPO.


We did that for a while. Didn't work.
#111 Dec 09 2010 at 10:05 AM Rating: Good
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Grand Master Leatherworker ThePsychoticO wrote:
Grand Master Alchemist Mazra wrote:
Sorry for the derail, the thread is yours again, TPO.
It's not possible to derail this thread.


I'm fairly certain I could, but I won't because it's a good thread.

Nizdaar wrote:
We did that for a while. Didn't work.


Can't make a site fool-proof. You could try by moving the search bar somewhere more visible. I'm guessing most of the "wer r serch?" mails come from people who aren't long-time users and thus are probably referring to the main page of the site. In which case I don't blame them. I'm on the classic WoW skin so the white bar stands out, but the default skin is very heavy on the white.

1st solution: Change the main page's layout to one similar to Wowhead.

2nd solution: Widen the text frame on the main page (it's very, very slim) and put the search bar on the menu bar to the right. Like Wowhead has on every page that isn't their main page.

Latter one probably won't work, because Wowhead is also very dark so the white still stands out. In any case, you should widen the text frame on the default skin. I know it's hot to have a lot of wasted space on each side of the text frame, but with the amount of widescreen monitors on the market and the resolutions we run, it looks sillystupid.

On a 24" monitor, running 1960x1200, the default skin is only using 50% of the page width. What's the reasoning behind this? Expect people to view the site in windowed mode on a laptop or something?
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#112 Dec 09 2010 at 4:00 PM Rating: Excellent
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Grand Master Leatherworker ThePsychoticO wrote:
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Happens if a new post comes up while mousing over another. It doesn't go away until you mouseover something else.

Fixed. And made tickets for the other issues you posted about since my last post in here.
#113 Dec 09 2010 at 11:10 PM Rating: Decent
The PM preview won't show images. Also, the "your signature" thing is a bit silly, though not a bug.

Also, the PM notification also shows up if you get a pm from someone on your ignore list.

Also, also, can you add the smiley drop down to PMs?

Edited, Dec 10th 2010 12:10am by ThePsychoticOne
#114 Dec 10 2010 at 11:59 AM Rating: Excellent
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Grand Master Leatherworker ThePsychoticO wrote:
The PM preview won't show images. Also, the "your signature" thing is a bit silly, though not a bug.

Also, the PM notification also shows up if you get a pm from someone on your ignore list.

Also, also, can you add the smiley drop down to PMs?

The PM system is in need of updates in general to clean it up and make it more in line with forums. We should be getting to that fairly soon, and I made a ticket for that ignore bug.
#115 Dec 10 2010 at 6:07 PM Rating: Good
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All the symbols have disappeared :(.

edit: WoW skin, Firefox.

http://i51.photobucket.com/albums/f377/Vataro/nosymbols.jpg

Edited, Dec 10th 2010 6:10pm by Vataro
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#116 Dec 10 2010 at 7:21 PM Rating: Decent
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I still have them. Maybe you have a bad cache.
#117 Dec 10 2010 at 10:31 PM Rating: Decent
There's no way to delete sent pms.
#118 Dec 11 2010 at 7:39 PM Rating: Excellent
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Grand Master Alchemist Mazra wrote:

On a 24" monitor, running 1960x1200, the default skin is only using 50% of the page width. What's the reasoning behind this? Expect people to view the site in windowed mode on a laptop or something?


Last I checked, an overwhelming majority of our pageviews come at 1024x768 still.
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#119 Dec 11 2010 at 7:49 PM Rating: Decent
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Grand Master Alchemist Mazra wrote:
On a 24" monitor, running 1960x1200, the default skin is only using 50% of the page width. What's the reasoning behind this? Expect people to view the site in windowed mode on a laptop or something?


Last I checked, an overwhelming majority of our pageviews come at 1024x768 still.
Which is why you use a % width instead of a fixed width. Which you do. However you also put a limit on the width, which makes absolutely no sense. It doesn't do anything for people using such small resolutions, as they don't reach the cap, and for people using larger monitors, all it does is gives a huge like xbox amount of empty space on the sides.

Removing
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max-width:1200px;


from
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#wrapper, #header {margin:0 auto;max-width:1200px;min-width:974px;position:relative;width:95%;_width:expression(document.body.clientWidth > 1263 ? '1200px' : '95%')}


from http://common.zam.com/c/global.css is all you need to do to fix it. Not sure why that was ever added in there to begin with.
#120 Dec 12 2010 at 1:41 PM Rating: Decent
Is the linked name on image pages (such as this) supposed to point to their journal?
#121 Dec 13 2010 at 10:59 AM Rating: Excellent
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Grand Master Leatherworker ThePsychoticO wrote:
Which is why you use a % width instead of a fixed width. Which you do. However you also put a limit on the width, which makes absolutely no sense. It doesn't do anything for people using such small resolutions, as they don't reach the cap, and for people using larger monitors, all it does is gives a huge like xbox amount of empty space on the sides.

Setting a max width for the content area is to keep content from spreading out oddly on large resolutions, and gives us more freedom in designing and laying out content to look good without worrying about how it changes at 2000px wide and higher. Having no cap can cause things like paragraphs filling a page width but only on one line (news sites typically use a totally fixed width for this reason). On certain DB pages (not necessarily the FFXI DB, this is a general example) and others of the more precisely controlled pages there can be excessive gaps between objects that don't look good. I realize not everyone will agree with that assessment or just prefer a totally unfixed width regardless, but this is our reasoning for why it was done this way.
#122 Dec 13 2010 at 11:41 AM Rating: Excellent
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Grand Master Leatherworker ThePsychoticO wrote:
There's no way to delete sent pms.

This is unlikely to change for now, but that it was showing delete options in a spot or too when it shouldn't have been is now fixed.
#123 Dec 13 2010 at 1:09 PM Rating: Decent
JerekDain wrote:
Grand Master Leatherworker ThePsychoticO wrote:
Which is why you use a % width instead of a fixed width. Which you do. However you also put a limit on the width, which makes absolutely no sense. It doesn't do anything for people using such small resolutions, as they don't reach the cap, and for people using larger monitors, all it does is gives a huge like xbox amount of empty space on the sides.
Setting a max width for the content area is to keep content from spreading out oddly on large resolutions, and gives us more freedom in designing and laying out content to look good without worrying about how it changes at 2000px wide and higher. Having no cap can cause things like paragraphs filling a page width but only on one line (news sites typically use a totally fixed width for this reason). On certain DB pages (not necessarily the FFXI DB, this is a general example) and others of the more precisely controlled pages there can be excessive gaps between objects that don't look good. I realize not everyone will agree with that assessment or just prefer a totally unfixed width regardless, but this is our reasoning for why it was done this way.
You could use a max width for DB pages, etc and not for the forums?
#124 Dec 14 2010 at 12:15 AM Rating: Excellent
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JerekDain wrote:
Grand Master Leatherworker ThePsychoticO wrote:
There's no way to delete sent pms.

This is unlikely to change for now, but that it was showing delete options in a spot or too when it shouldn't have been is now fixed.


Previously the reason behind not deleting sent PM's was, "they were no longer your property once they were sent." Or that was how it was explained to me...
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#125 Dec 14 2010 at 12:24 AM Rating: Decent
Notifications from followed threads appears broken.
#126 Dec 14 2010 at 12:28 AM Rating: Decent
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JerekDain wrote:
Grand Master Leatherworker ThePsychoticO wrote:
There's no way to delete sent pms.
This is unlikely to change for now, but that it was showing delete options in a spot or too when it shouldn't have been is now fixed.
Previously the reason behind not deleting sent PM's was, "they were no longer your property once they were sent." Or that was how it was explained to me...
That's a bit silly, since all it would do is prevent the sender from seeing it, but whatever, i don't care. Only reason i even mentioned it was because the check boxes were there, but not the delete button, which i figured was unintended.
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