The favicon.ico for the BBS is now some eight pointed white star. Perhaps the forum software logo? What was it before? Something yellow?

Maybe the artistic among us could create some alternatives (a tiny tiny empeg?).

Is it possible to disable the quick reply box at the bottom of each thread? We had a discussion about it on the last version, I think, and decided against it, since it breaks threading.

It didn't like the quotation marks. Fixed now. Thanks.

Huh. I have a horizontal scrollbar showing for that quote, despite the fact that there's nothing that's wide enough to cause that.

It's there, inside the post, not on the main browser display. Scroll to the bottom of the image.

Ooh. I like the new "Preview Post". It does it on the same page rather than reloading a new page.

Also, [q] and [/q] no longer work. You have to use [quote] and [/quote].

Also also, the old trick for showing UBBCodes (that is, if one wants to show [quote], entering [[i][/i]quote]) no longer seems to work. I entered this by disabling UBBCode on this post. I don't know if that option even exists for non-moderators, but it's easily possible to want to both use and display UBBCodes.

I'm a non-moderator. Here's what I now do for showing that stuff:
I just put the entire [stuff] inside in bold, like [this].

This will show [quote] and [/quote].

I like the look of the bold inside brackets for displaying the UBB code.
Doesn't a code tag work on this board?

Oooo- it does.
I still like the bold.

This one shouldn't break threading if people use the "Quick Quote" or "Quick Reply" buttons. I know I've seen other boards not activate the quick reply unless someone used one, so I may see about getting that into this version.

[q] is on my list. While version 5 to 6 seemed to change a lot, many things were easy to find and change still. Version 7 feel like a full rewrite, for the better though. It looks like I can do everything through the control panel now, instead of finding random PHP files to hack at.

That might have been me. It was close. One item I remember was what I thought of as improper reuse of css elements.

Different regions of the layout referenced the same css. That couldn't be resolved unless the generation of the html was revised.

Nor could I test my CSS against the whole site as it wasn't available.

Here is what they looked like:
http://gkb.servehttp.com/empegubb7/mainpage.htm
http://gkb.servehttp.com/empegubb7/posts.html

I think the quotation frame is fixed width, putting one inside the other causes the scroll bar.

I created a new thread for CSS attempts.

FWIW.

The BBS seems to now be working fairly well after the upgrade.
It's really good to have up to date s/w under the hood here now.

Thanks Tom!

Thanks for the great work, Tom! I'm sure it's not an easy feat to upgrade a message board like this. I'm impressed!

One question: is the amount of space in-between every post (in flat mode with info on the left) bigger now than it was before? I'm certain that those 10px or so didn't used to be there, but was the bar at the top of each post? I'm sure it must have been, because it includes the post title. Still, there seems to be more scrolling than there used to be. Of course, this could all be style sheet stuff, so I'll wait for things to work themselves out.

Keep up the good work!


(ps- this is a teeny-tiny, unimportant, nit-picky, low-priority request that I'm almost embarrassed to mention: when you click on "Quick Reply," is there a way to keep it from putting in the single space it inserts at the beginning of your post? Clearly this is the last thing you should have to worry about )

There is none. Perhaps that's your browser's default icon?

Yes. A lightbulb. Which matched the theme of the BBS.

No. He (and I) are seeing this one

There is: it's in a <link> tag.

No, that little favicon that's showing up now is *not* my browser's default. Verified locally.

Cheers

Answering myself: yes, there is. But it's a lightbulb.

I wonder where the default little 8-pt star with the "u" in the middle is coming from ?

Brilliant: http://empegbbs.com/images/general/default/favicon.ico

Oh, I see. It's in the theme and the theme I'm using doesn't seem to have one. Typical.

Didn't I just provide that exact same information about 4 posts back?

I guess you guys must have me on "ignore this user."

The thing I currently miss most about our old CSS theme is this:

When viewing messages in a flat mode thread, I didn't need to decipher the visual clutter and look for a tiny icon to determine whether a post is "new" or not. Instead, there was a subtle but clear color change in the post header for new posts. Much easier on the eyes.

I hope for a working version of our old style sheet. I wish I had the time to actually help work on it. Sorry.

On the good side, I like how wide posts don't mess up the width of all the other posts in the thread.

I agree. It's hard to find the new posts now.

Unfortunately, that doesn't seem to be something that can be modified via CSS. On the index page, the threads with new posts have a different style than threads that do not. On the thread page, the new posts do not seem to have a different style associated with them.

There is supposed to be support for modifying the HTML template in this version of the software. I think that would have to be utilized to make this happen. Unfortunately, I don't know enough about the software to say for sure that even that can help.

The good news is that if anything becomes too painful to change here, we are a paying customer, and 7.3 is in active development. The UBB folks seem pretty receptive to feedback and suggestions, so I will be collecting things to go to them with, like the new indicator.

As a stopgap maybe this icon can be stretched to make it more visible.

Naw, I'm looking for LESS visual clutter, not more.

I think the URL transmogrifier is toast.
Just noticed that in the thread "Re: Help with Soup Playlist"
there was post from last year with this link in it:
http://empegbbs.com/ubbthreads/showthreaded.php/Cat/0/Number/168801/an//page/0/vc/1

Links like that appear not to work any more....

I'm missing the 'Skip to New Post' link at the top of the first post (in flat mode). Internet Explorer almost always ignores # anchor refs when you Shift+Click on a link (and I usually do).