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Off-topic / Re: Voxatron + others...
« on November 6th, 2011, 07:24 PM »Never seen it or heard of it but likely rather well.
At the time it was running at something like 5 FPS on my computer... :^^;:
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Plugins / Re: Plugins I refuse to do
« on November 6th, 2011, 07:23 PM »
I like the idea of View/Enter Board permissions, btw... Probably more than 'view list of topics in boards you can't access'.
Having the board name show up, without a link, and possibly with a hint about how you can't access it... That could be helpful sometimes.
Having the board name show up, without a link, and possibly with a hint about how you can't access it... That could be helpful sometimes.
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Features / Re: Thought system
« on November 6th, 2011, 07:12 PM »
That's one of the things I hate about the current thought system on Wedge.org, yeah... ;)
I added a css transition on showing the buttons but it's probably a tad too much... Once I commit, try removing the 'transition' line at the end of index.member.css and tell me what you like best.
Also, I'm doing .php_htmlspecialchars() and .php_unhtmlspecialchars() as required, but I'm not exactly a specialist of wedit::preparsecode(), so would you mind looking into it later...? Just to tell if it's best to use it or not...
95% finished.
I added a css transition on showing the buttons but it's probably a tad too much... Once I commit, try removing the 'transition' line at the end of index.member.css and tell me what you like best.
Also, I'm doing .php_htmlspecialchars() and .php_unhtmlspecialchars() as required, but I'm not exactly a specialist of wedit::preparsecode(), so would you mind looking into it later...? Just to tell if it's best to use it or not...
95% finished.
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Off-topic / Re: Voxatron + others...
« on November 6th, 2011, 05:59 PM »
Here's wondering how Outcast would fare on our current gen machines...
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Off-topic / Re: Doctor Who
« on November 6th, 2011, 05:53 PM »
Oh sorry -- I don't watch videos often on my iPod and I forgot to reopen the topic when I got back to my pc. I was so glad I'd found something new I didn't bother to check the topic Eheh.
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Features / Re: Thought system
« on November 6th, 2011, 12:11 PM »
Just wanted to say that it took one more week than expected, but I'm hoping to have the thought system implemented by tonight... Or tomorrow if I'm too tired (only got 5 hours sleep... -_-)
So it's basically what we have on Wedge.org, except that:
- you can edit your current thought or create a new one (on wedge.org, if you want to edit your thought you need to edit it word by word or the site will mistake it for a new thought),
- it has privacy settings (no changes compared to the current SVN though...),
- you can reply to any thought (need to consider whether they should inherit their parent's privacy setting... there's no quote so it's not a BIG deal for now), but you can also delete any of your thoughts (or any thought if you're a global moderator), and edit your own replies.
The code is relatively ugly for now... I had to make concessions and I hope I will be able to get rid of them later.
Also, you can no longer simply click a thought to answer it. You have to click the Reply button next to it -- not because it's impossible, but because it makes more sense to click a thought to *edit* it, and because I don't want to make the mistake of editing a third party's thought instead of replying it (as the admin), I selfishly made it impossible to click directly...
So it's basically what we have on Wedge.org, except that:
- you can edit your current thought or create a new one (on wedge.org, if you want to edit your thought you need to edit it word by word or the site will mistake it for a new thought),
- it has privacy settings (no changes compared to the current SVN though...),
- you can reply to any thought (need to consider whether they should inherit their parent's privacy setting... there's no quote so it's not a BIG deal for now), but you can also delete any of your thoughts (or any thought if you're a global moderator), and edit your own replies.
The code is relatively ugly for now... I had to make concessions and I hope I will be able to get rid of them later.
Also, you can no longer simply click a thought to answer it. You have to click the Reply button next to it -- not because it's impossible, but because it makes more sense to click a thought to *edit* it, and because I don't want to make the mistake of editing a third party's thought instead of replying it (as the admin), I selfishly made it impossible to click directly...
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The Pub / Re: Logo Madness
« on November 6th, 2011, 11:19 AM »
(Please hover the logo in the sidebar to see the old one. I added this so they can be easily compared :P)
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Off-topic / Re: Doctor Who
« on November 6th, 2011, 10:45 AM »
Funny stuff indeed.
This one is, too:
Doctor Who - "The Ballad of Russell and Julie" Wrap Party Special
Found via JMS's FB page.
This one is, too:
Doctor Who - "The Ballad of Russell and Julie" Wrap Party Special
Found via JMS's FB page.
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The Pub / Re: Logo Madness
« on November 6th, 2011, 01:22 AM »I dunno, they just don't quite work for me.Quote - Any opinion on the petals? I'm not sure...?
Dooooooo eeeeeeet.Quote - simple-green works great as a favicon, BTW. So far it's the best result I've had when reducing a logo to 16x16 dimensions.
Do you mean uploading it on wedge.org?
That's my point. The classic g in serif style is out of place in a sans-serif font,
Call it Tea. ;)Quote - I'll keep the sidebar the way it is for now, then. We can always rediscuss it later. Perhaps I'll make a Without Alcohol skin where I'm simplifying the overall style.
To be brutally honest, I'd rather have a clone of 1.1's Core with a few subtle curves than have a clone of Curve.
But I have to say, I haven't seen a Core in a long time... :^^;:
Don't get me wrong, Curve's nice enough but I'm just fed up of it, it just feels way too bland now it's sort of saturated. Core, though, never felt like that to me.
Having a unique site theme would be good, actually. I still miss the theme sm.org had back in 2009 before they updated and put Curve on it.
http://web.archive.org/web/20050617025016/http://www.simplemachines.org/
Anyway...
I've updated the sidebar logo to use Helvetica + a slightly modified logo where the drop shadow is much, much more subtle. The slogan has also been updated to use Helvetica.
Go back to post #722 to compare with the earlier logo if you'd like. I'm taking a couple of days considering this one!
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Features / Re: New revs
« on November 5th, 2011, 06:17 PM »
rev 1149 (desperately looking for a better icon now... -_- Even Fugue has nothing worthy.)
(5 files +2-1, 13kb)
+ Added an icon for thoughts. It's not very good though... But I can't get myself to make a better one. (index.template.php, icons/thought.png, index.member.css)
! Header links needed fixing, especially in the sidebar. (index.css, Warm/index.css)
* Replaced the feed icon with a smaller, and just as good, GIF version. (feed.gif, feed.png, sections.css)
(5 files +2-1, 13kb)
+ Added an icon for thoughts. It's not very good though... But I can't get myself to make a better one. (index.template.php, icons/thought.png, index.member.css)
! Header links needed fixing, especially in the sidebar. (index.css, Warm/index.css)
* Replaced the feed icon with a smaller, and just as good, GIF version. (feed.gif, feed.png, sections.css)
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The Pub / Re: Logo Madness
« on November 5th, 2011, 03:38 PM »
- Any opinion on the petals? I'm not sure...?
- simple-green works great as a favicon, BTW. So far it's the best result I've had when reducing a logo to 16x16 dimensions.
- The Candara font uses a classic 'g' that you'll find in pretty much every Serif font, where the upper circle is smaller and misaligned compared to the rest. This is something I always disliked, and the main issue with that font. I do like how its curves complement the petals, though.
- I wasn't too sure about blocesque. I like its simplicity, but perhaps it lacks a bit of 'soul'. Considering the 'orange wedge' was one of my original ideas... Maybe I just outgrew it. I mostly wanted to make various layouts with this logo (not simply 'logo followed with text'), but nothing struck me as interesting.
- I'll keep the sidebar the way it is for now, then. We can always rediscuss it later. Perhaps I'll make a Without Alcohol skin where I'm simplifying the overall style. (Who am I kidding... I'm already working on that :lol:)
- I don't use Warm a lot either, and that's mainly why I went crazy with it a few weeks ago. Plus, the whole 'sidebar put to the very left' thing was the perfect catalyst to start working on the template skeleton system. :)
- Actually it's Wuthering I like the least... It lacks personality. This is mainly because it started as Curve, then evolved progressively into Wine and I stopped halfway. I should probably make a REAL clone of Curve (perhaps using CSS3 only, like IIRC Fustrate very cleverly did a couple of years ago), and get rid of Wuthering. Then it would give me some extra space to make a 'Very simplistic skin' (à la WordPress default skins -- i.e. mostly white stuff, no backgrounds, no CSS effects, something to use as a base or something), and then another skin that would be used on Wedge.org exclusively. (Basically something halfway between Wine and Noisen...)
- I agree that just using bold on the headers is not enough. Warm not only uses a different color, but also a text shadow. Overall it's not THAT important though.
One of the things that's important, IMHO, is to be able to recognized the two main needs to change an ever-evolving skin or logo:
- actually prospecting ways to improve them...
- and being bored with the current version!
The latter can be tricky, because I've often seen a great design being given up in favor of something simpler that lacked personality. This is often a sign of boredom. It's not forbidden per se, but sometimes we designers need to be awakened :P
- simple-green works great as a favicon, BTW. So far it's the best result I've had when reducing a logo to 16x16 dimensions.
- The Candara font uses a classic 'g' that you'll find in pretty much every Serif font, where the upper circle is smaller and misaligned compared to the rest. This is something I always disliked, and the main issue with that font. I do like how its curves complement the petals, though.
- I wasn't too sure about blocesque. I like its simplicity, but perhaps it lacks a bit of 'soul'. Considering the 'orange wedge' was one of my original ideas... Maybe I just outgrew it. I mostly wanted to make various layouts with this logo (not simply 'logo followed with text'), but nothing struck me as interesting.
- I'll keep the sidebar the way it is for now, then. We can always rediscuss it later. Perhaps I'll make a Without Alcohol skin where I'm simplifying the overall style. (Who am I kidding... I'm already working on that :lol:)
- I don't use Warm a lot either, and that's mainly why I went crazy with it a few weeks ago. Plus, the whole 'sidebar put to the very left' thing was the perfect catalyst to start working on the template skeleton system. :)
- Actually it's Wuthering I like the least... It lacks personality. This is mainly because it started as Curve, then evolved progressively into Wine and I stopped halfway. I should probably make a REAL clone of Curve (perhaps using CSS3 only, like IIRC Fustrate very cleverly did a couple of years ago), and get rid of Wuthering. Then it would give me some extra space to make a 'Very simplistic skin' (à la WordPress default skins -- i.e. mostly white stuff, no backgrounds, no CSS effects, something to use as a base or something), and then another skin that would be used on Wedge.org exclusively. (Basically something halfway between Wine and Noisen...)
- I agree that just using bold on the headers is not enough. Warm not only uses a different color, but also a text shadow. Overall it's not THAT important though.
One of the things that's important, IMHO, is to be able to recognized the two main needs to change an ever-evolving skin or logo:
- actually prospecting ways to improve them...
- and being bored with the current version!
The latter can be tricky, because I've often seen a great design being given up in favor of something simpler that lacked personality. This is often a sign of boredom. It's not forbidden per se, but sometimes we designers need to be awakened :P
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Plugins / Re: Plugins I refuse to do
« on November 5th, 2011, 01:47 PM »
Opera invented speed dial. And pretty much invented tabs. Their mdi model (as opposed to sdi) makes more sense to a Windows user. Click a tab to minimize it. It will switch to the last used tab. Click that tab. Other browsers foolishly switch back to the previous one. Opera switches to the second to last used tab, etc. It just makes SENSE for power users. So I'll just press 4 indefinitely until I reach a recently browsed tab I'm looking for. I can also use 1 and 2 to switch between tabs on tab bar order. Navigating 500 tabs in Opera is easy. I wouldn't do it for anything in the world in another browser. Firefox has some addons that help a bit but it's still not as comfortable.
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Plugins / Re: Plugins I refuse to do
« on November 5th, 2011, 01:25 PM »for me it's like to re-open a page from bookmarks
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The Pub / Re: Logo Madness
« on November 5th, 2011, 01:22 PM »
I should probably mention that one of the alternative skins for Wedge already has a simplified sidebar-- Warm it is.
(Come to think of it -- it might be the first time I'm ever posting a Warm screenshot... ;) As you can see, the top bar is merged with the sidebar in this. And it only took a few seconds to do with the help of our new template system.)
(Come to think of it -- it might be the first time I'm ever posting a Warm screenshot... ;) As you can see, the top bar is merged with the sidebar in this. And it only took a few seconds to do with the help of our new template system.)
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The Pub / Re: Logo Madness
« on November 5th, 2011, 12:45 PM »
What is looking cool, that's the question(s)... :^^;: