AusGamers Site Updates

Post by trog @ 05:42pm 22/10/08 | 20 Comments

Pretty much every week at AusGamers we roll out a series of changes to the site. Generally these are pretty small - minor tweaks to the interface, little bug fixes, that sort of thing, but sometimes we add some pretty neat things that are worth a mention.

Today's update adds a couple of oft-requested bits to the forum, including new private message notification and a new subscribed threads page which gives you a handy list of all the threads you've subscribed to.

This actually follows a series of big updates to the forums, including an all-new forum-specific interface which removes a bit of the fluff from the page making it easier to use, and combines all the sub-forums into one handy General Chat, which means you can keep track of every topic across the site in one place.

We've also updated the Video Library so that it works with the newly released Flash 10.

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nF
Posted 06:29pm 22/10/08

Oh nice.

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trog
Posted 06:46pm 22/10/08

Just for you nF!

Also, it looks like a new bug crept in as part of this update - commenting on news posts via the news page dumps a fat load of url-encoded text into the page instead of just the text. I'll work on this now and try and manually fix affected posts.

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reso
Posted 06:50pm 22/10/08

You guys gonna do a different colour scheme for the forums on ausgamers.com? One reason I haven't even considered switching is I hate its layout. And also it's kind of annoying to tell which thread/post is which without some sort of alternating colours (this is made worse by me not being able to read too).

last edited by reso at 17:50:14 22/Oct/08

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trog
Posted 06:55pm 22/10/08

You guys gonna do a different colour scheme for the forums on ausgamers.com? One reason I haven't even considered switching is I hate its layout. And also it's kind of annoying to tell which thread/post is which without some sort of alternating colours (this is made worse by me not being able to read too).last edited by reso at 17:50:14 22/Oct/08

Yeh it was on the todo list at some point but it's a little lower on the priority chain now. I thought I'd go mad reading a white and green forum but now I'm completely and utterly used to it and when I go back to the original QGL template I find it really weird.

You say you hate the layout - is it anything specific? Or do you just mean colours?

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nF
Posted 07:09pm 22/10/08

tables are so 90s.

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Saint
Posted 07:39pm 22/10/08

The problem with forums where you allow HTML code is that you need to use tables so bad html doesn't mess up the rest of the forum thread. If you stuff up html within a table cell it contains it to that cell. Unless there's a way to prevent that using css that I'm not aware?

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trog
Posted 07:46pm 22/10/08

test post to confirm how awesome I am at fixing Saint's bugs

edot: awesomeness confirmed

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Boxhead
Posted 08:29pm 22/10/08

Hey just 1 thing...

Your signature upload rights have been removed, you may not upload a signature image.

Why and when? Just asking is all... (i don't want a sig or an avatar, just curious is all)

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greazy
Posted 08:33pm 22/10/08

i've had my name change rights removed. its awesome i will forever be known as greazy not Greazy.

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whoop
Posted 08:52pm 22/10/08

Your signature upload rights have been removed, you may not upload a signature image.

Can you still use a text sig? Mine doesn't show anything about sigs at all just avatar uploads, so far as I can see anyway, not even a message saying its disabled (it is and I know why).

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FraktuRe
Posted 08:55pm 22/10/08

I have a text sig.

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Boxhead
Posted 09:00pm 22/10/08

Can you still use a text sig? Mine doesn't show anything about sigs at all just avatar uploads, so far as I can see anyway, not even a message saying its disabled (it is and I know why).

Nah nothing at all for any sort of uploading sigs or avatars, i did some mucking about to make that bit of text pop up :p

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`ViPER`
Posted 09:01pm 22/10/08

Ive got a question, in the ausgamers forum, there are lots of sub sections, how do posts end up in the sub sections, when they are made on the old school qgl forum and it doesnt have sections?

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Twisted
Posted 10:04pm 22/10/08

combines all the sub-forums into one handy General Chat, which means you can keep track of every topic across the site in one place.

Sweet!

Ive got a question, in the ausgamers forum, there are lots of sub sections, how do posts end up in the sub sections, when they are made on the old school qgl forum and it doesnt have sections?

I've been wondering this too...

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CSIRAC
Posted 11:00pm 22/10/08

Some intern monkey. Thought we went over this in the other thread?!

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Articuz
Posted 11:03pm 22/10/08

I have a text sig.

and how?. It would be nice to stick my xfire mini-profile as a sig...

do you have to have a certain amount of posts?

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CSIRAC
Posted 11:07pm 22/10/08

yes, keep posting.

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trog
Posted 11:12pm 22/10/08

Ive got a question, in the ausgamers forum, there are lots of sub sections, how do posts end up in the sub sections, when they are made on the old school qgl forum and it doesnt have sections?

At the moment they are just manually filed

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FraktuRe
Posted 11:12pm 22/10/08

super secret qgl haxs.

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CSIRAC
Posted 11:14pm 22/10/08

told you!

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