GENERAL FORUM TALK
• Introductions, Departures, & Birthdays
• Meetups & Conventions
• General Discussion
• Creativity
• Clubs
TOPICAL DISCUSSION
• Entertainment
• (General) Gaming
• The Venue
• Comics
• Technology
• News, Politics, Religion, & Debate
ARCHIVE
• Any other shit we want to keep for reasons™
It turns out that the CSS was saved but the colour scheme and some other customisations disappeared. It's gonna take a while just to get things back to where they were before, which is frustrating. In the meantime I applied the standard dark colour scheme to the theme, so at least most things are legible again.
Edit: Just FYI, as I now have admin permissions, I can see certain areas of Discourse which I can't see on vB. The private feedback forum, for instance. I'm not going to go poking around but I thought I should mention it.
The "reorder categories" feature is kinda broken. It assigns every category a priority (0, 1, 2, 3...) and uses those priorities to determine the order categories should be displayed in. Clicking the "move up" arrow on category 3 should swap it with category 2, but it doesn't; instead it does 3 -> 2 and 2 -> 4, meaning there are two categories with priority 4 and none with priority 2. Trying to type the numbers in manually is obnoxious because categories jump to their new position after each digit you type, even if you were going to type more. And after playing around with it for a while, the whole thing reset itself to an order I never gave it at all. I was hoping to put the categories in the order we have them here on vB for an easy comparison but I think I'll steer clear of it altogether and let other people worry about it.
The "reorder categories" feature is kinda broken. It assigns every category a priority (0, 1, 2, 3...) and uses those priorities to determine the order categories should be displayed in. Clicking the "move up" arrow on category 3 should swap it with category 2, but it doesn't; instead it does 3 -> 2 and 2 -> 4, meaning there are two categories with priority 4 and none with priority 3. Trying to type the numbers in manually is obnoxious because categories jump to their new position after each digit you type, even if you were going to type more. And after playing around with it for a while, the whole thing reset itself to an order I never gave it at all. I was hoping to put the categories in the order we have them here on vB for an easy comparison but I think I'll steer clear of it altogether and let other people worry about it.
So, given that in the Discourse format, Sub-Sub Sections aren't really so much a thing the way that they are here on vB, I was thinking that we could split up that giant clutterfuck of things in "General" into something a bit more logically manageable in that format:
GENERAL FORUM TALK
• Introductions, Departures, & Birthdays
• Meetups & Conventions
• General Discussion
• Creativity
• Clubs
TOPICAL DISCUSSION
• Entertainment
• (General) Gaming
• The Venue
• Comics
• Technology
• News, Politics, Religion, & Debate
ARCHIVE
• Any other shit we want to keep for reasons™
Hey, so I went to test the new discourse forum! Signed up fine. Started to make a post, cancelled the post, and got hit with an alert that went off my screen (I'm on a 13' macbook, chrome, 1280 x 800). I couldn't close it even when hitting back or return, so ended up having to close the tab.
I took a screenshot, but was unable to figure out how to upload it here...
Hey, so I went to test the new discourse forum! Signed up fine. Started to make a post, cancelled the post, and got hit with an alert that went off my screen (I'm on a 13' macbook, chrome, 1280 x 800). I couldn't close it even when hitting back or return, so ended up having to close the tab.
The "Abandon post? No, Keep" pop-up doesn't resize with the window like the default theme.
Out-of-the-box: Discourse already supports [i], [b], [s], [u], [quote], [url], [email] and [code], this plugin fills in some more of the gaps to provide a more “BBCode” ™ experience.
There are plenty of horizontal dividers, just no vertical ones in the default theme, and I haven't added any myself. They're not used much in modern websites. I suppose it's a personal preference. Easy to add later.I don't like the lack of grids/dividers. I know it can't be a carbon copy of what we've got ATM, but it's easier on the eyes.
I've renamed "All categories" to "Choose a category" to make it clearer that it's a drop-down.What's the difference between 'all categories' and 'Categories'?
Discord default. I suppose it's useful to see who's been posting in a thread recently.Why are there user icons on Latest Posts? Seems gratuitous
Something for the distant future, perhaps. As for the static image, it's the same setup we have on our front page at the moment. However, it wouldn't be too much effort to make a spinoff theme without it so that the whole page scrolls down, including the background.I don't like the static image being visible behind the banner. Also having different themes would be nice, but not necessary. Would like to propose Moogle, Gold Saucer and Cosmo Canyon skins.
I believe this is fixed.keyboard shortcuts is obscured by the menu.
The footer from our front page has been added.The homepage feels like there's something missing at the bottom.
This is still the case, and it'll definitely be taken care of at some point. We will probably need some new icons since the current "thanks" button, for example, does not look good on the new theme. The materia ball should be good to use as-is.definitely needs a lot more tweaking to make it feel more like TLS, the materia balls need to be used somewhere. Also the icons for thanks and stuff need to be customised.