Forum software upgrade (for real now)

[Fangu]

[BforBrigitta]

Lex wrote:

lol Yop implementing some test icons

Are they going to be about that size or smaller, do you think?

[Lex]

Smaller. And less square

[Fangu]

Also do the title name for alt (and name) so you can see what title it is when hovering

(Ideally they'd be clickable and lead to a page describing the title, but I guess neither vB nor XF has single pages for titles? Just the giant summary one - although I guess they all could be linked to that one just as well.)

Easier for new members etc

[Cthulhu]

We could add that but we'd need to do a template edit then. Which is fine, it's just a pain when Xf updates its own templates

[Fangu]

Ah, so adding the icons based on titles is built in. Gotcha.

Could save pain by adding it to a sticky or some shit I guess. I love solving stuff using text workarounds instead of programming haxx

[Lex]

I think text on hover is a must otherwise people will need to learn what the icons mean which is counter intuitive really.

[Cookie Monster]

I'm totally late to this. But, I will happily sacrifice any such titles for more Cookie Monster icons. This world just needs more me.

[Cthulhu]

Fangu wrote:

Ah, so adding the icons based on titles is built in. Gotcha.

I'm not sure if I understand you properly, but if I do, then no it's not - I had to hack the icons in there manually. You can set a custom CSS class per usergroup though, which is what I used.

And yeah, setting a sticky or some other "source" (like a patch file) will probably be best, that way we can just hit "yeah whatever upgrade". I think I remember that vB offered a diff system for template upgrades back when, but, I still find diffs hard to read so,

Also once we've moved I think we should make a troll cookie monster skin, for the heck of it

[Fangu]

Ah. So, I guess an alternative is to add the alt with JS by using the CSS class, if there are easy ways to add custom scrips, that is.

[Cookie Monster]

Cthulhu wrote:

Also once we've moved I think we should make a troll cookie monster skin, for the heck of it

*For great justice.

[Cthulhu]

Fangu wrote:

Ah. So, I guess an alternative is to add the alt with JS by using the CSS class, if there are easy ways to add custom scrips, that is.

Yup yup, and since we can edit templates and I'm sure there's one for 'ehh just dump your scripts here' that should be doable. Off course, if we go for that we might as well just edit the template so it renders with an alt tag and shit

[Addy Carver]

Still no clue when the migration is actually happening, have I missed an announcement or something?

[Lex]

No, the date hasn't been decided yet. I've given my availability and kind of proposed the ideal conditions (i.e. Yop actions it overnight and several admin and mods are available the following day when the migration is complete but prior to it going "live" so we can fix issues that need fixing before public access) but it's down to everyone else to give their availability so we can set a date in stone.

I'm available all this week and I think any Saturday/ Sunday in the coming months, all my upcoming social engagements are on Fridays

Just want to reiterate to everyone aswell that while XF is an upgrade in every respect the new forum will be a work in progress when we move for a time so please give us your help (and patience) while we work to implement the features and requests we've been discussing

[Cthulhu]

I think we should just idk, throw a dart at a calendar

I will insist on at least two weeks notice though. Unless everyone's already in a mode where it could happen tomorrow or whatever.