VizionEck Forum 2.0 is just a few weeks away, progress report thread

Started by Legend, May 10, 2015, 08:09 AM

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Dr. Pezus


Legend

I think tomorrow I'll open it up for previewing. Let you guys test and break things so I know what to fix. Or let kitler say how much it sucks.



I'm trying to get us upgraded to 2.0 asap. I believe it has the potential to really help with activity here. Mobile design, html reply boxes that take copy and paste, true like system, ultimate user profiles, real friend system, automatic lazy link cleanup, and a spicy new theme all make the forum more user friendly and accessible than ever before.

mustacheman

Looking forward to seeing the results; particularly if they come before E3!

Legend


Looking forward to seeing the results; particularly if they come before E3!


Getting out before E3 is the goal. Probably it'll be out before the end of the month.

Mmm_fish_tacos

May 22, 2015, 02:20 PM Last Edit: May 22, 2015, 08:21 PM by Legend

Dr. Pezus


Spoiler for Image:
<img src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4031/4277351169_34b6f778d0_o.jpg" alt="" class="bbc_img">

looks swedish

Mmm_fish_tacos


looks swedish


I was trying to break the thread,  it said it was a 70 mega pixle photo. Didn't work

Legend


I was trying to break the thread,  it said it was a 70 mega pixle photo. Didn't work


Well we're in forum 1.0 right now so nothing would happen.

In 2.0 it'd just convert the image into a link, since it's 11 megabytes large. Doubt people want to be loading that every time they refresh ahah.

kitler53


I think tomorrow I'll open it up for previewing. Let you guys test and break things so I know what to fix. Or let kitler say how much it sucks.



I'm trying to get us upgraded to 2.0 asap. I believe it has the potential to really help with activity here. Mobile design, html reply boxes that take copy and paste, true like system, ultimate user profiles, real friend system, automatic lazy link cleanup, and a spicy new theme all make the forum more user friendly and accessible than ever before.


happy to report for duty.


Featured Artist: Vanessa Hudgens

Legend


happy to report for duty.


Go ahead!

Spoiler for Hidden:
<a href="http://vizioneck.com/forum2/index.php" class="bbc_link" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">http://vizioneck.com/forum2/index.php</a>

kitler53


Go ahead!




first complaint. when browsing on my ipad (mercury browser from modzilla) the black bars on the side grew about an inch.  content is very squished.


Featured Artist: Vanessa Hudgens

Legend

May 23, 2015, 05:52 PM Last Edit: May 23, 2015, 06:02 PM by Legend

first complaint. when browsing on my ipad (mercury browser from modzilla) the black bars on the side grew about an inch.  content is very squished.


0.9 inches in portrait, 1.25 inches in landscape.

The mobile site doesn't kick in till 720px, and the Ipad is 768 in portrait. Thus on your ipad the content section is smaller than if you had a smaller device.


Yeah I can fix that. Set the content section to have a min width of 720px. Should be done within a few minutes.

EDT: done.
However I would also like to make the percent gradually increase as the screen gets smaller. At 1920px the forum only taking up 75% looks good and helps keep things tidy. At 1000px the 75% width crunches things needlessly.

kitler53


0.9 inches in portrait, 1.25 inches in landscape.

The mobile site doesn't kick in till 720px, and the Ipad is 768 in portrait. Thus on your ipad the content section is smaller than if you had a smaller device.


Yeah I can fix that. Set the content section to have a min width of 720px. Should be done within a few minutes.

EDT: done.
However I would also like to make the percent gradually increase as the screen gets smaller. At 1920px the forum only taking up 75% looks good and helps keep things tidy. At 1000px the 75% width crunches things needlessly.


as is things look much better.

just a note,.. font size is considerably larger.  my old man eyes actually like that but i remember others arguing for smaller when we were playing just after i joined. 

are the front page icons going to return or did no one else like my ideas and they are getting the axe now?


Featured Artist: Vanessa Hudgens

Legend


as is things look much better.

just a note,.. font size is considerably larger.  my old man eyes actually like that but i remember others arguing for smaller when we were playing just after i joined. 

are the front page icons going to return or did no one else like my ideas and they are getting the axe now?


I'm not sure about the icons. The front index at the very minimum still needs some tweeks.

It's hard because we're supporting mobile too this time around. On desktop there's plenty of room to through the icons back in, but on mobile they take up like a fourth of the width.

For the moment I've decided to remove custom colors from thread titles, so that then the color itself can show the information. Normal white means new posts, grey means no new posts, and deepskyblue means a direct action like being quoted or mentioned.




Also I've got the width all sorted out. It's now 85% of the screen width instead of 75%. Then it has a min width of 720px and a max width of 1430px.

Xevross

I don't like how it leaves a bigger gap at the sides but apart from that I prefer everything about the look and layout of 2.0

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