Please use this forum to ask any questions or raise any concerns regarding the new forums. Keep an eye on this topic in the administration section for official responses. I may respond here, or I may not. :)
Thanks,
--Joel
Woohoo! Looking beautiful. 
The new smilies are… Different. 
Not sure how I feel about that, yet, but we'll live. 
They also don't appear to be working?
The editor looks pretty good and will take some getting used to. I'm creating this with the "Filtered HTML" Text format to see how that does.
(I'm going to try posting with the other formats, now…)
It's an exciting, new world! 
(Using BBCode for this one.)
I currently don’t see the Admin/Moderator forums. I’m assuming those were brought across?
Trying out an emoticon to see if it works: 
Hmm… Nope. 
And now plain text…
Just noticed that it makes our first line into the subject if we don’t provide one.
Is there anything available to help us figure out how to set up our accounts? For example, where do we set up our forum signatures?
Ok, the subject line issues are resolved - they'll all default to the subject of the primary topic.
Yeah, the smileys are weird. Not sure about all that. This is just pre-day-1 stuff for now. We need to start making a list of things we like, things we don't like, and things we don't see at all.
It's a new forum, everyone! We can make it do what we want, we just have to figure out what that is! I know change is hard, but it's worth it!
Besides, look at that gorgeous site! Great job, Joel!
Seriously, yes - the site is awesome! Many thanks, Joel! :-D
I'm noticing the new forum is recognizing the migrated posts as "unread", it doesn't seem to be consistent in how it's setting them to "read", and I don't have (or can't find!) a way to just tell it to count all posts as read. Apologies that I don't have more time tonight to play with it - will look at it more closely tomorrow night...
Yes, this is an unfortunate side effect of the migration of the posts. They all look "unread" to everyone.
To mark all posts as read: Use the "Forum Tools" drop-down at the bottom of each of the topic list pages (e.g. http://sentinelsofthemultiverse.com/forums/general-discussion). Choose "Mark all topics Read". So if you want to mark EVERYTHING as read, then you'd need to do this at most about a dozen times.
Looks like the pagination is a bit ugly, but at least its wrapping properly now.
I've adjusted the fonts a bit, so at least the list pages look a bit better. And, for some reason, the icons on the forum list page looked nothing at all like those on the topics list page. So I added new ones.
*UPDATE* Oh! You can hit that same drop-down on the list of all forums, too. That's convenient. :) Look for the drop-down at the bottom of: http://sentinelsofthemultiverse.com/forum
Regarding the BBcode vs. Filtered text formats… Filtered gets you the WYSIWYG editor and more of a view of how your post will look. Personally, that’s pretty much all I use.
The smileys, yes, I know. You do get attached to them . Whether they appear or not is up for discussion. I’ll keep looking around.
–Joel
UPDATE: Aug 19 2012 You can now use BBCode in the “Filtered Text” inside the WYSIWYG editor. There should be no need to switch.
Oh, Christopher, I figured out what the Facebook frame in the home page wasn't loading when we were looking at it: I wasn't logged into Facebook. 
:-o (I generally stay logged out of FB so it's not tracking everything I do. ;-) ) When I am logged into FB, it loads as expected.
(The emoticons are still not loading for me. For example, there are two in the paragraph, above that are the images followed by text versions. The text versions appear as text and the images don't load at all. This is using the Filtered HTML format - might be something wrong with that?)
Thanks for the tips, Joel!
Drat. I just realized the time zone is all wonky. I think it's on UTC or something.
Phooey.
*UPDATED* I set my timezone in my user preferences. You should do the same. Everyone will now be reminded to set their time zone when logging in, otherwise the boards will all be in UTC (despite a global setting of US/Chicago as the time zone)
Good to know. Any way we can set the forum to Central time? If not, no worries. Just seems odd.
Things are shaping up!
Probably worth noting that anyone who had bookmarked greaterthangames.info is still seeing the old site (and denied forum access). If Adam hadn’t tweeted about his new blog post earlier today I never would have known about the shift.
Same here, about the change in URL. Also, pages are loading very slowly for me.
We will be moving that URL over and shutting down the old site tonight.
I don't think the icon that's supposed to indicate that a section has new posts is working properly, at least not for me. On the main forum page, I see a couple of sections that are showing the "nothing new" folder icon, but I can plainly see from the last-updated date/time that there is new stuff. And when I go into the section, I can see the new posts marked properly.
While we're on that subject, the thing that marks something as new is pretty subtle. My vote would be to make it bold, uppercase, and red. The new stuff is the only stuff I'm here to consume, and I'd rather that it jumped out of the page at me.
Maybe I'm just stupid for not finding it, and I read above that it's not registering them correctly, but how do I get the "view unread posts" functionality like we used to? Is that "View Active posts" now?
And how do we search the forum for a post or topic? I'm not seeing a search box.
EDIT: nevermind. Looks like that Search box at the top of the page searches the forum (I thought that was just for site-wide search or something).
RSS feed?
No idea if it's a bug or not but I don't appear to be able to delete my own posts.
And I can't seem to find a way to search the forums, am I just not looking in the right places or is it not here yet?
EDIT: I'm too stupid to live! It's at the very top of every page, I was just looking at the forum tools. AND that very question was asked in this self same thread!