using and improving these forums

rokali · Posted: Tue Apr 13, 2004 8:30 pm Post subject: using and improving these forums

Hi all. This is, I promise, the final installation of the forums. No more lost posts or anything like that.

If you want, you can cut & paste from the ex-forums to this new one, and continue the discussion here.

Please post here any sugegstions for making these forums work, and anything you'd like here that you don't see. The more creative and unexpected the suggestion, the better!

-Rob

soapandwater · Joined: 13 Apr 2004 Posts: 945

When this is eventually linked from the main site, we won't have trouble going back to the main site, right?

Because right now, there's no link to the site. And if you wanted to visit the site outside of the frames, there's no link.

Is that making sense?
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jean · Posted: Tue Apr 13, 2004 9:05 pm Post subject:

go rob.
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rokali · Posted: Tue Apr 13, 2004 10:05 pm Post subject:

I think I understand part of your question. I just added a link to the HipHomeEc.com homepage in the upperleft of the forums.

about frames: um, there aren't any, maybe you can describe the issue a bit more?

-rob

amphoteric · Joined: 14 Apr 2004 Posts: 2 Location: Dublin, Ireland

i love the look of the forums - very clean and distinctive. :D

there's one thing that's really bothering me, though, and i'm reluctant to even mention it. does the line length within posts need to be so long? i suppose i'm used to tighter text wrap, so i'm finding it pretty hard to read posts (particularly short, 1.5-2.5 line ones).

not the end of the world, and i can always resize my browser window to suit if it's just me, but...
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kickarse · Joined: 14 Apr 2004 Posts: 7

I agree with amphoteric, one of my favorite things about the old forums was the narrow column of text down the middle... it made it *SO* much easier to read than most other forums.

Everything looks great though!

twilight · Joined: 14 Apr 2004 Posts: 330 Location: New Mexico

I can't figure something out. There's these little envelope icons to the left of the posts and sometimes they "wiggle". The one next to the roll call post was just wiggling. Do they just do that on the posts I've responded to?
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Karen · Posted: Wed Apr 14, 2004 4:12 pm Post subject:

If you scroll down to the bottom of each forum, you'll see a key:

New posts

No new posts

Announcement

New posts [ Popular ]

No new posts [ Popular ]

Sticky

New posts [ Locked ]

No new posts [ Locked ]

So the wiggle means hot topic.

rratstarr · Joined: 15 Apr 2004 Posts: 92

Looks like this was fixed today, but I'm also at a different computer now, so I thought I'd mention it. Last night I replied to the "roll call" post, and on the screen where I was to type my reply, the text got VERY VERY small. so small that I could not actually see letters, only tiny little dots. I mentioned in my post that I could not see what I was typing, then I saw a similar post from wuzzled. Like I said, I'm not having that problem now, so it seems to have been fixed.

Also, just before I started typing this post, I did a search for the word "tiny" to find wuzzled's post (I couldn't remember her username), and when I read the thread I was searching for, the word "tiny" seemed to be in white on a white background, I guess to highlight the word I searched for? I could only see it because I noticed the big space between words and highlighted it by selecting the text with my mouse. Does that make sense?

-S

rokali · Posted: Thu Apr 15, 2004 5:54 pm Post subject:

These boards are "liquid" meaning that they resize when your browser resizes. We could make them non-liquid, like the old boards, if you like.

About the white-on-white text: I'll see if I can figure that out.

The super-small text issue should be fixed, but please post here if it happens again.

CraftinFool · Joined: 14 Apr 2004 Posts: 809 Location: New England

Hey Jean:

I was wondering if you are considering having articles written by users on the site like the old gc site had?

Just curious. Thanks!

jean

right now, i am unclear about what the heck i'm doing. i'm just breathing and trying to figure it out. one thing, i LOVE these new boards and my number 1 priority is building this new community.

other than that, i am patiently waiting for the path to unfold (not to be so new agey, but it *is* how i feel)
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CraftinFool · Joined: 14 Apr 2004 Posts: 809 Location: New England

Oh, I hope my question about articles didn't come across as pushy or anything. I was just being nosy. But these boards are so new that it's not like anything different has to happen immediately, or at all -

jean · Posted: Fri Apr 16, 2004 2:43 pm Post subject: speak your mind any time!

craftin fool

no, i love your ideas, thoughts and opinions. please do not take offense. i just wanted to be honest with you all that i'm still figuring this all out. getcrafty shutting down took me by surprise and my rebound time is a bit slow.
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CraftinFool · Joined: 14 Apr 2004 Posts: 809 Location: New England

ok, phew. thanks.