The new forum survival guide

Orca

SporkAndrew wrote:

Orca wrote:

May I just say that the stylish script is pretty boss? Only complaint is the alternate blue color is still a tad bright. But much easier on the eyes than the endless white.

I was using a custom stylesheet on the old forums that turned everything black on white anyway to make it less obvious whilst posting at work. I actually like this new muted palette. Why be Denny Different about it?

Because change is bad.

Actually, mainly because I'm reading it at close to 4 in the frickin' morning and my eyes are tired.

Drew-B

http://stereopsis.com/flux/

Legba

Oh hey! You can dismiss threads you don't want to see.

No more glorious edict for me!

Orca

Drew-B wrote:

http://stereopsis.com/flux/

That just turns everything orange.

Orca

OK, I was not expecting that as the smilie for colon X.

Drew-B

Orca wrote:

Drew-B wrote:

http://stereopsis.com/flux/

That just turns everything orange.

More of a softer warm color than orange, and when you get used to it and then turn it off, your eyes will truly cry out in pain

Blake T

How do I know where I have posted in threads?

natek

you can bookmark threads on the right side of the page
it is the opposite of where to look than the blue dot but it still is a marker for threads

I'd Fuck Chuck Lidell Up

Blake T wrote:

How do I know where I have posted in threads?

I think that's what they mean by blue dots are now yellow bookmarks to the right... still figuring this out though

Blake T

I seem to have everything red on the right, maybe I changed a setting.....

natek

you need to manually click the little bookmark tab on the far right
it turns yellow I think
that is your blue dot

Iolo

Schide wrote:

I miss the Subscriptions page where I could just easily keep track of the threads I wanted to and didn't have to wade through all the threads I don't care about.

Oh well.

Is there a way to access one's old list of tracked/subscribed threads? Please (!) tell me there's a way.

Spoiler:

There isn't a way, is there?

Blake T

That is the worst dot natek.

Legba

That's far better than having to infract people for blue dotting a thread.

#pipe

blackpyr wrote:

I am going to allow myself to bitch like a...bitch and say that the font choice is aliased as hell for me. I can't fucking read it without jagged edges popping up. More specifically, the "quote awesome and report" buttons look like they came from an expanded jpg.

Why god, why? Is it my machine that is fucking this up?

The answer is blowin' in the wind.
Edit: I also learned that I was a "User" today, so where is my lightcycle.

you may have, somewhere along the line, used control+scroll wheel which makes text bigger or smaller. It happens to me sometimes and makes for jaggy text.

Drew-B

With the cleaner topic list, I actually haven't really relied on that feature yet, even.

My eyes no longer try to jump out of my skull trying to parse the bolded white text clumped all a clutter, so I've just been clicking on the threads by topic title alone

Nerdgasmic

Iolo wrote:

Schide wrote:

I miss the Subscriptions page where I could just easily keep track of the threads I wanted to and didn't have to wade through all the threads I don't care about.

Oh well.

Is there a way to access one's old list of tracked/subscribed threads? Please (!) tell me there's a way.

Spoiler:

There isn't a way, is there?

no, you have to go back and bookmark everything

natek

Blake T wrote:

That is the worst dot natek.

your dot is now the digital image of a cloth bookmark being pulled over the page of the thread you want to read

#pipe

Iolo wrote:

Schide wrote:

I miss the Subscriptions page where I could just easily keep track of the threads I wanted to and didn't have to wade through all the threads I don't care about.

Oh well.

Is there a way to access one's old list of tracked/subscribed threads? Please (!) tell me there's a way.

Spoiler:

There isn't a way, is there?

there isn't.
But subscribing to a thread is now easier and quicker! just click the little bookmark icon on the right side of a thread.

Sheri

First post on the new forum

Let's see if my av transparency still works

EDIT: Nnnnnnope

natek

hey blake, if you bookmark some threads, it will create a little tab near the top of the thread list for My Bookmarks
click it and it will only show bookmarked threads

#pipe

I like that you can "dismiss" stickied threads

but I wish you could dismiss any thread!

I don't wanna see Phallas or WoW threads or Pony Threads!

Blake T

Bookmarking things is horrible.

BYToady

Oh thank god all my prono link PMs got transferred over.

Raijin Quickfoot

For some reason, when I changed my avatar to the new size, it is no longer animating.

Reigner

Sheri wrote:

First post on the new forum

Let's see if my av transparency still works

EDIT: Nnnnnnope

It's transparent, its just for some reason, Gabes silhouette is behind it

Feriluce

Alright, forum survival. We'll need some flint and tinder, rope, dry rations and a ten foot pole.

BYToady

Feriluce wrote:

Alright, forum survival. We'll need some flint and tinder, rope, dry rations and a ten foot pole.

Wrong kind of survival, think Zombies not Dungeons and Dragons. Rifles and Machetes for everyone.

chrishallett83

Holy shit, on your profile page under the comments tab it lists all your posts. ALL of them.

Blake T

Yeah.

I saw forty thousand posts.

I was all, I'm sure they're all quality.

Dox the PI

Macro9 wrote:

How do I make this infraction notification go away?

It is stalking me.

Click the little cross in the top right

Langly

God, hundred page threads are going to be infinite endurance runs now

101

I wonder if it would be easier to drop it down to 50 pages per thread?

BoredGamer

All this white space. I'm reading this on my phone and it just goes on for ever and ever.

I should have brought more supplies. Goddamn i should have planned for this.

tynic

chrishallett83 wrote:

Holy shit, on your profile page under the comments tab it lists all your posts. ALL of them.

really? it only said 7000 for me, and i know I have ... well, lots and lots more than that

but then it also said I've only made 3 threads so maybe there's some kind of date filtering going on.

Dox the PI

62 is the new 100

Veretas

Nope...nope this bookmarking thing will not do. I just bookmarked like 3 of them and 2 minutes later I have 15 notifications.

Owenashi

Veretas wrote:

Nope...nope this bookmarking thing will not do. I just bookmarked like 3 of them and 2 minutes later I have 15 notifications.

31 for me so far. I turned off the notifications to everything but PMs but I'm still getting a rising number by my name up top. Kinda annoying.

Raijin Quickfoot

I'm not sure about the post thing. I had 59k before the new forums and now I have 16k. It might just that it keeps track of only the posts still on the database.

I'm going to use thae bee for every be I type from now on.

Orca

If you go to your preferences, you can uncheck notifications for bookmarked solutions.