Some suggestions/questions

Is there any way to make the PM system work better? There's no reply button on the messages and I'm sick of taking the name of the person, copying it, and pasting it to another whole message.

Also, no offense, but I don't like the forum provider for this forum. Have you ever thought of moving the forum to another forum provider? This one just seems primitive to other forums I've been. Obviously, not the content (I love the content here), but the actual forum attributes. It's kind of a turn off and makes posting a lot slower.

Just some thoughts.

I'm not sure...

Although I do agree with you about the forum provider. I don't think we should have moved from Forumotion, and Invision is really awful, you don't get half the features Forumotion gives you.

I think we can actually implement the same graphical changes in Forumotion (this new theme). We could move it back to Forumotion, but keep the graphics.

Any ideas?

Sonic Adventure 2 wrote:Is there any way to make the PM system work better? There's no reply button on the messages and I'm sick of taking the name of the person, copying it, and pasting it to another whole message.

Nothing I can do until Forumotion restores my founding account. I screwed up some of the code so there's no reply button.

Sonic Adventure 2 wrote:Also, no offense, but I don't like the forum provider for this forum. Have you ever thought of moving the forum to another forum provider? This one just seems primitive to other forums I've been. Obviously, not the content (I love the content here), but the actual forum attributes. It's kind of a turn off and makes posting a lot slower.

Just some thoughts.

We already have another site under construction that's been paid for, full domain name and all. The staff is currently working on ideas for it, I'll post updates when necessary.

What's wrong with forumotion? xD
Also, I'm pretty sure adding a universal button from picture managements would work... (it won't change with skins). So if you're willing to sacrifice aesthetics for functionality, that's the way to go ^^
And databases can't be controlled/transferred in forumotion, so moving means losing all the posts, and all the members =/

karkooshy wrote:What's wrong with forumotion? xD

No database access.

karkooshy wrote:Also, I'm pretty sure adding a universal button from picture managements would work... (it won't change with skins). So if you're willing to sacrifice aesthetics for functionality, that's the way to go ^^

You mean right now? Why didn't you mention this earlier? /retarded admin

karkooshy wrote:And databases can't be controlled/transferred in forumotion, so moving means losing all the posts, and all the members =/

See:what's wrong with Forumotion?

Shade wrote:I'm not sure...

Although I do agree with you about the forum provider. I don't think we should have moved from Forumotion, and Invision is really awful, you don't get half the features Forumotion gives you.

I think we can actually implement the same graphical changes in Forumotion (this new theme). We could move it back to Forumotion, but keep the graphics.

Any ideas?

...This IS Forumotion, we've always been with them, even since The Sonic Family.

Hushimo wrote:

karkooshy wrote:What's wrong with forumotion? xD

No database access.

Not to mention disinterested staff. Look at the emotions for example. They're letting problems rise up and aren't taking action.

In any case, if you have an idea to fix it, karkooshy, you and Zezima need to do so ASAP. Like SA2 said, the PM system is really annoying.

The Freedom Fighter wrote:

Shade wrote:I'm not sure...

Although I do agree with you about the forum provider. I don't think we should have moved from Forumotion, and Invision is really awful, you don't get half the features Forumotion gives you.

I think we can actually implement the same graphical changes in Forumotion (this new theme). We could move it back to Forumotion, but keep the graphics.

Any ideas?

...This IS Forumotion, we've always been with them, even since The Sonic Family.

Yeah... but it's kind of... different.

I mean, what we were like back when we had a statistics page, and a top 20 posters list.

I liked that version better...

Hushimo wrote:
No database access.

You wouldn't need database access if you stayed on forumotion... Not encouraging you to stay on it or anything, if you got a paid domain and are working on a new site, that's amazing! You can even start making some money out of your efforts :)
Just concerned about all the lost members and posts....

Hushimo wrote:
You mean right now? Why didn't you mention this earlier? /retarded admin

I'm pretty sure I have! o.O
Super sorry if I haven't xD
I think you have a universal image on the "compose new PM" button:


Just move that to the reply to PM field... and it should work... hopefully xP

OR, remake both skins, or more accurately, the buttons for both skins to be universal. So all that changes with the skin selector is the header, footer, background and colors :) <- (makes it so much easier >.>, until we find a better solution that is)

karkooshy wrote:

Hushimo wrote:
No database access.

You wouldn't need database access if you stayed on forumotion... Not encouraging you to stay on it or anything, if you got a paid domain and are working on a new site, that's amazing! You can even start making some money out of your efforts :)
Just concerned about all the lost members and posts....

Hushimo wrote:
You mean right now? Why didn't you mention this earlier? /retarded admin

I'm pretty sure I have! o.O
Super sorry if I haven't xD
I think you have a universal image on the "compose new PM" button:


Just move that to the reply to PM field... and it should work... hopefully xP

OR, remake both skins, or more accurately, the buttons for both skins to be universal. So all that changes with the skin selector is the header, footer, background and colors :) <- (makes it so much easier >.>, until we find a better solution that is)

Can you still do the skin selector and all the other stuff on the version of Forumotion we had earlier?

Just wanted to know...

Shade wrote:
Can you still do the skin selector and all the other stuff on the version of Forumotion we had earlier?

Just wanted to know...

You mean Phbb2? Yes. Template editing was enabled then :)
Punbb is just easier to work with/code on. It's got more variables available for editing and is just simpler to work with.
The skin selector can be enabled on any version with extra hard work xD

karkooshy wrote:

Shade wrote:
Can you still do the skin selector and all the other stuff on the version of Forumotion we had earlier?

Just wanted to know...

You mean Phbb2? Yes. Template editing was enabled then :)
Punbb is just easier to work with/code on. It's got more variables available for editing and is just simpler to work with.
The skin selector can be enabled on any version with extra hard work xD

Oh..

Well, I think we should go back to Phbb2.

I think it's a lot easier to use and stuff (as a forum), and it must be possible to work the same graphical changes there, I'm sure...

Shade wrote:

The Freedom Fighter wrote:

Shade wrote:I'm not sure...

Although I do agree with you about the forum provider. I don't think we should have moved from Forumotion, and Invision is really awful, you don't get half the features Forumotion gives you.

I think we can actually implement the same graphical changes in Forumotion (this new theme). We could move it back to Forumotion, but keep the graphics.

Any ideas?

...This IS Forumotion, we've always been with them, even since The Sonic Family.

Yeah... but it's kind of... different.

I mean, what we were like back when we had a statistics page, and a top 20 posters list.

I liked that version better...

That's because we changed the site up, but Zezima lost his account before we could refine it further.

The Freedom Fighter wrote:

Shade wrote:

Yeah... but it's kind of... different.

I mean, what we were like back when we had a statistics page, and a top 20 posters list.

I liked that version better...

That's because we changed the site up, but Zezima lost his account before we could refine it further.

Oh, right...

So we can't actually go back to that layout, then?

But you have an admin account? Does it need to be the founding admin?

Statistics:
https://sonicommunity.forumotion.com/statistics


All time top posters:
https://sonicommunity.forumotion.com/memberlist?mode=overall_posters


All the pages are there, just the links have been edited out of the footer. They can be easily added again :)
And yes, founder account needed to change versions xD (if it still matters xP)

karkooshy wrote:Statistics:
https://sonicommunity.forumotion.com/statistics


All time top posters:
https://sonicommunity.forumotion.com/memberlist?mode=overall_posters


All the pages are there, just the links have been edited out of the footer. They can be easily added again :)
And yes, founder account needed to change versions xD (if it still matters xP)

Oh, right.

It's just it's a lot easier when it's in the phbb2 layout, and it's a lot easier to find, too.

It's also a lot easier to understand.

We're not changing from PunBB, and we're not abandoning TSC, the paid site will be an extension of this one, so it's beneficial both ways.

What's wrong with zetaboards?

Are we going to lose posts?

TSC won't.

Update: the private messaging's reply button has been repaired.

Hushimo wrote:TSC won't.

Update: the private messaging's reply button has been repaired.

So does that mean you got your founder account back?

No, I just had to make a compromise with what I could do with this account. It works, just not the way I had intended it to with the skin selector. It's a bit complicated.