How do you quote somebody else's post?
And I can't get underling to work, it appears in the quick post bit, and in the post when you are editing it, but not in the post itself (unless one you guys can see one of the words in this post underlined, then it's a problem on my end)
Nope - no underlines, Matchstickman. :-(
Also having issues finding how to quote another post. Looks like we can use Blockquote and copy and paste, thus:
How do you quote somebody else's post?
But that's kinda annoying when the editor doesn't show us the blockquote and the norm is a button on a post that automatically creates the blockquote for us. :-\
And yeah, also having all kinds of issues with the "New" functionality not working consistently.
2 more things to add to the list.
The front page of the forum is not updating to tell me when a section has new posts within it (if I visit a section it does have the little green note next to the individual topics). EDIT:Ah! It appears to notify of new topics but not new posts.
And I know this isn't and bug and that you're actually doing it to taunt me but if you click on unanswered topics from the front page it shows topics from all forums, even ones I do not have access to i.e. the Infernal Releics Playtesting forum (though I am denied access if I click on the topic header (as I should be)). This taunting is becoming unbearable!
This seems like the right place to post this kind of observation: In the Multiverse area, on the details of a hero, villain, or environment, clicking on the art fails to open the image.
This seems like the right place to post this kind of observation: In the Multiverse area, on the details of a hero, villain, or environment, clicking on the art fails to open the image.
Mrh? Are you talking about the portraits on the character pages e.g. the picture on the right of Absolute Zero http://sentinelsofthemultiverse.com/multiverse/heroes/absolute-zero
it opens for me. I'm using Chrome.
EDIT: So do the pics at the bottom, and they're awesome!
Hi everyone,
Keep talking in here, especially about the forums, but also about anything else you find. Things I see from quickly scanning this list:
Thanks for your feedback and patience.
--Joel
*UPDATED* Oh, look, my bullets aren't indented properly! Sigh...
Keep in mind that the Forum can't tell you what's new if you are not logged in.
I don't see a way to tell the forums to keep me logged in. You don't mean that I have to re-login every day (or every couple of hours? how long does it keep you logged in?) do you? That will almost be a dealbreaker for me, since it would mean having to either memorize my purposefully obscure password or going back to 1Password every day, which is a pain. Please tell me you don't mean that.
Mrh? Are you talking about the portraits on the character pages e.g. the picture on the right of Absolute Zero http://sentinelsofthemultiverse.com/multiverse/heroes/absolute-zero
it opens for me. I'm using Chrome.
Interesting. I'm on IE (at work), and having variable results. For example, AZ's image loads, but Ra's images do not. Bunker's top image doesn't load but his bottom image does. :-\ Fanatic's don't load at all, and neither do Citizen Dawn's or Insula Primalis. Baron Blade's "Mad Bomber Blade" image loads but the other two don't. (Sorry I don't have time to go through all of them. :-( )
But yeah, I love that we can see the enlarged images! :-D Great stuff!
I don't see a way to tell the forums to keep me logged in. You don't mean that I have to re-login every day (or every couple of hours? how long does it keep you logged in?) do you? That will almost be a dealbreaker for me, since it would mean having to either memorize my purposefully obscure password or going back to 1Password every day, which is a pain. Please tell me you don't mean that.
I haven't had to re-login at all. I logged into the site Sunday at home and Yesterday here at work. When I got home last night, I was still logged in. When I got to work this morning, I was still logged in. As long as the upper-right corner says "My account", we should be logged in, I think?
If we have cookies blocked, though, that might prevent the site from seeing us as logged in? Just a guess - haven't tried it. :-\
I'll add a vote that new posts in old topics (I believe once you get into the forum, they are noted as updated instead of new) do not show up on the forum as having new posts. After waiting a few hours refreshing the main forum page, I saw no new posts. But when I clicked on a forum, I notices many updated topics with new posts. It would be nice if there was an indicator on the main page for when a forum has new posts to existing topics (I believe someone mentioned that it does indicate if a brand new topic is created). That, and I need my Alt + S for Save, and Alt + P for Preview (though I don't use the latter too much).
Oh, and, appearently, there is no warning if one is posting to a topic which has had new posts added while one was making the post. As, while writing this, Rabit had not yet made his post, yet when I posted this, his post was before me, and there was no warning that he made a post while I was still writing this.
I had to re-login this morning, but I'll keep an eye on it to see if I need to do it again.
Regardless, the icons are definitely not showing me when there's something new. I come to the main Forum page, dejectedly see that there's nothing new, but then notice that a few last-updated dates seem suspiciously recent, and when I click into a section I see that indeed there is new stuff. No bueno.
I don’t know if it’s just me, but the new forum design seems a lot more clunky for mobile users. The text and links are much smaller, the interesting parts of the page are larger, and I have also noticed the ‘new post’ buttons to be less often correct, to parrot Spiff. I really liked the thematic feel to the old forum too… is that eventually going to return?
Shouldn't be much more than updating a CSS to mostly get it to look like the original (at least enough to end any complaints).
The search function currently returns results to which I do not have access (e.g. the playtester forum) and there's no real way to narrow down a search (e.g. by forum or poster), just a flat word search.
To expand on matchstickman's post, it looks like the search function returns results to which I don't have access, but when I click on them, it correctly tells me I'm not authorized to view them. But of course, I should never even see the topic titles in the search results.
Just noticed it doesn't show how many views a topic has, they are all stuck at 0.
Spiff Wrote:
I don't see a way to tell the forums to keep me logged in. You don't mean that I have to re-login every day (or every couple of hours? how long does it keep you logged in?) do you? That will almost be a dealbreaker for me, since it would mean having to either memorize my purposefully obscure password or going back to 1Password every day, which is a pain. Please tell me you don't mean that.
The site is set to keep you logged in for three weeks inside a single browser session. If you are switching computers/devices that would have an effect on that. :) also, if you clear cookies when quitting your browser, or use incognito browsing, that would also affect it. Generally, I stay logged in if I visit the site once a day and never log out.
Rabit Wrote:
Interesting. I'm on IE (at work), and having variable results. For example, AZ's image loads, but Ra's images do not. Bunker's top image doesn't load but his bottom image does. :-\ Fanatic's don't load at all, and neither do Citizen Dawn's or Insula Primalis. Baron Blade's "Mad Bomber Blade" image loads but the other two don't. (Sorry I don't have time to go through all of them. :-( )
I haven't done extensive testing on IE (which version are you using?) There's no reason that one image should load when another doesn't. Is this consistent? If you can get a chance before i do to review, let me know what you find. (PM Me)
Spiff Wrote:
Regardless, the icons are definitely not showing me when there's something new.
I just had an idea on what might be going on, but generally as I've gone to the forums a couple of times today, the "folder-star" icon appears in the main forum list to show me that there is new activity there. See the screenshot on the right.
Reply to dragonlordged: I can say that there are plans for a more mobile-friendly site. Please bear with us while we continue to work on things. Also, yes, there is more to do in terms of CSS and styling the forums. Right now, this is the best we had out of the box, so to speak, but we can do pretty much whatever we want.. eventually. :)
Reply to everyone: Thanks for your input. We'll take a look at the search and see if we can properly exclude things. (I guess they guys who wrote the forum code didn't think that far ahead, eh?)
View statistics for a topic are something I will ultimately look into. I think it's an integration thing. I've made a setting that might affect it. Time will tell.
The Private Message feature is a bit hosed. The tab doesn't appear on your user profile page. I'm still investigating. (we admins can see the tab, but we're special and I am surprised that you aren't seeing it.)
Please keep in mind that some of these changes will take days or weeks to appear. Some features may never appear. We're trying to prioritize on what is most important and has the greatest impact. A forum migration is never fun (I think this is my 12th or so) and we know that the users get attached to how the system behaved before. We were not able to keep nor integrate the old forums into the new site, and we opted to migrate them entirely in order to consolidate things under one user login. (Messages, Forums, Playtesters, Orders, Newsletter Management, etc)
And lastly... the smileys are hideous. I will be looking for new ones. Y'all have any suggestions? :)
--Joel
BOOOOM! The topic views are updating again. I'm going to bed now. (Maybe one day we'll update the total view counts, eh?)
I just had an idea on what might be going on, but generally as I've gone to the forums a couple of times today, the "folder-star" icon appears in the main forum list to show me that there is new activity there. See the screenshot on the right.
Sorry to be a pain, Joel, but that's not what I'm seeing. (Can't speak for anyone else, of course!)
For example, this morning when I checked, the stars didn't show up on the left of the list and there were no indications of new posts. Because I knew when I last came onto the site, I checked the "Last Post" times and found a couple that were newer. When I went into those forums, I then saw links to new posts. (I'll try to take screenshots when next time I first go in - unless someone else beats me to it.)
It looks like it's working for you but not for (at least some of) us? :-\
Y'all have any suggestions?
Will have to go looking... I think it would be great to (eventually) get emoticons representative of Sentinels characters, though! :-D It would be great to have Unity or Haka as the big smile, Blade as the look of evil, and AZ as the sarcastic look... Although the latter might be hard to get for new-comers. ;-)
Well, I have screenshots, but because I'm at work and we can't attach anything to a post (looks like images have to be hosted someplace else to be included?), I can't get them up here. :-(
I'll try to get them up when I'm home, but timing is not likely - I'm off to GenCon stuff as soon as I'm out of here... :-\ Sorry, Joel!
Any chance we'll get the ability to add attachments at some point?