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Eskay · **Posted:** Wed Jan 13, 2010 11:59 am

You'd mouseover the icons to see what they mean: Developer, Kingfisher, Volstoy, Offline.

Calvin · **Posted:** Wed Jan 13, 2010 12:30 pm

WIN

...but where's teh awesome icon?

Chesterfield Taft · **Joined:** Tue Nov 21, 2006 12:10 am **Posts:** 1312

Hmm...I like the direction, but it starts looking a little cluttered.

Eskay · **Posted:** Wed Jan 13, 2010 1:25 pm

Calvin wrote:

...but where's teh awesome icon?

Like this?

Surume · **Posted:** Wed Jan 13, 2010 3:22 pm

Eskay wrote:

You'd mouseover the icons to see what they mean: Developer, Kingfisher, Volstoy, Offline.

Really you only need the first and last one of those. The middle two feel unneeded.

-Surume

Pen · **Posted:** Wed Jan 13, 2010 3:51 pm

Aww, but I want to show off my plane to the world :razz:

But yeah all four icons right there do look cluttered.

Kitteh · **Posted:** Wed Jan 13, 2010 4:16 pm

Not to insist, but you should really change the warning on the new log in for the forum to say "use this link (change password page) to reset your password for the new forum; your old password is acceptable for all fields."
People think they have to go and do all the reset password stuff, which is several times more work than is needed, and would be very frustrating.

Sluor · **Posted:** Wed Jan 13, 2010 6:19 pm

Chesterfield Taft wrote:

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You have some unicode encoding issues going on, as you can see in viewtopic.php?p=82684#p82684. Some people also have borked sigs.

I'm not sure what borkedness I should be seeing in that thread? How are the sigs borked? Images/bbcode not working?

Look at the first character of each line in that post. It looks to me like the data was saved in latin-1 encoding and the new phpbb reports itself as utf8. Yay for utf8, but you'll need to fix the old data.

Chesterfield Taft wrote:

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[EDIT; PS] Also, I'm not sure what everything topic title being bold except ones I've clicked on accomplishes that the standard read/unread icons doesn't.

That's a preference thing. I personally prefer scanning the titles rather than the icons.

That would be fine, if they were synced. They aren't. At the moment I have multiple bold topic titles which show up as read on the icons (I have read them).

Re: the display, I'd like one of these two:

You can do the latter with positioning and transparencies, I think. No need to create variants of the images.

Chesterfield Taft · **Joined:** Tue Nov 21, 2006 12:10 am **Posts:** 1312

Sluor wrote:

That would be fine, if they were synced. They aren't. At the moment I have multiple bold topic titles which show up as read on the icons (I have read them).

Weird! I wonder why that is.

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Re: the display, I'd like one of these two:

You can do the latter with positioning and transparencies, I think. No need to create variants of the images.

I'm really not digging the ENORMOUS GLOBE OF ONLINE STATUS. It sticks out a bit like a sore thumb, and is a bit color-blindness unfriendly. Attaching it to the faction image makes it harder to see, and makes the faction image less clear.

I would almost prefer the same image we have now, but significantly smaller, and perhaps underneath the other fields.

Hmm...

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Pen · **Posted:** Thu Jan 14, 2010 10:01 am

so something kinda like:

?

Eskay · **Posted:** Thu Jan 14, 2010 10:36 am

Ooh, I like that one.

Redstorm Breckenridge · **Posted:** Thu Jan 14, 2010 12:55 pm

Eskay wrote:

By the way, some users are already wrapping to a second line.

I think my name might do that.....

Also I love the faction icon and i like the idea of the plane icon too.

Calvin · **Posted:** Thu Jan 14, 2010 4:08 pm

Pen wrote:

so something kinda like:

?

Yes.
WIN get!

Prince Harris · **Posted:** Thu Jan 14, 2010 6:53 pm

But with the titles about one or two font sizes smaller.

speeddy · **Posted:** Thu Jan 14, 2010 7:22 pm

I like them big and obtrusive...so what if it's size depended on the length of the post?
Edit:oh... titles, I misread it as tiles. The titles should be shrunk a bit.

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