New Forums Going Live Tomorrow

[Jason Carr]

Hey all, good news! I have new forums that are very close to ready to go live. We will be going live with them tomorrow. If you'd like to help beta test the new forums, hit us up in the development live stream tomorrow morning at 9:30 AM PST. I will be providing exclusive early testing access to everyone in the live stream on Twitch. https://www.twitch.tv/jasondavidcarr See you guys tomorrow! :)

[Lordmonkus]

Woot woot, can't wait for new and faster forums.

[Zombeaver]

I should be available to help test but I may or may not have access to Twitch at the time :( I'll do my best though.

[Lordmonkus]

9am PST is like 12 noon EST which is still my bed time :P

[Zombeaver]

Yeah it's in the middle of the uh... *cough* work day... good thing I can multitask :D

[CriticalCid]

Finally, some faster forums! I will definitely be there to test it out. :)

[alexis524]

w00t! thanks for the heads up Jason. Looking very forward to the new layout. Thanks for all your hard work

[ALIE]

WOW looking good! 

[Jason Carr]

Thank you @ALIE. I just got everything redirecting so we are basically live now. Got more stuff to wrap up but it's official now.

[Zombeaver]

Any chance of uploaded images in posts being a bit bigger like they were when we were testing during the stream? I thought that looked pretty great.

EDIT: Oh, and thanks for fixing the spoiler tag! I see that it's working now.

Edited August 11, 2016 by Zombeaver

[Jason Carr]

The problem with images that big is that sometimes you can't see the whole image, that and it's disorienting. There is a nice popup now though so that should help. I'll keep that in mind though; we'll see if anybody else agrees and I'm overruled.

[Zombeaver]

Ah okay, gotcha. I hadn't noticed that in the time I was testing it.

 

I just thought since we have all this extra screen real estate now we should use it 

[Zombeaver]

One thing I noticed about the image size after posting a few earlier is that there's actually an option to change the dimensions that they appear as in the post (you double-click on the image in your post and an options box appears), but they're apparently clamped down to a maximum of 500 x 212 resolution (or maybe just 500 x 500 but because of having "maintain aspect ratio" selected, changing the height resolution to higher than 212 would push the width to higher than 500... that's probably it. It actually said "no larger than 212" when I tried it though). I'm not sure why anything would be getting cut off based on what I saw... it has a toggle-able aspect ratio maintain option which is nice.

I actually really like the new image attachment method once I figured out how it worked. You upload the image, click in your post where you want to put it, and then click on the image in the uploads list and it drops it there. Very convenient!

The fact that text formatting follows standard text editor keyboard shortcuts now (Ctrl+B, Ctrl+I, etc.) is great too! 

[JaysArcade]

My first post. Just wanted to say the new forum looks great Jason, and thanks for all the hard work you do for the emulation community. For me, you've made the hobby interesting and fun again.

[Jason Carr]

Thank you Jay! That is really great to hear.

@Zombeaver, that's cool, I didn't know you could do that. I'll take a look and see what I can adjust.

[Soundtrackgeek]

New forums works great! Is there an RSS feature like the old forum had? I could just add a /rss to the threads I wanted to follow and I got it in my RSS reader.

[Jason Carr]

Hi @Soundtrackgeek, each forum does have an RSS feed but sadly I'm not seeing the option available for each topic. There should be a way to create an "Activity Stream" and then RSS off of that, but that might be a bit more work. The RSS link is available in the bottom right on the forums themselves, at least.

[Soundtrackgeek]

@Jason Carr Ah yes, didn't notice that. That'll do me just fine, but is it working? I tried clicking on it in both Firefox and Edge, but nothing seems to happen.

[Jason Carr]

There should be a little menu popup that comes up when you click the orange icon. Is that not happening for you?

[Soundtrackgeek]

Ah yes silly me, one extra click Got the RSS feed, but only seem to update every time a new thread is created and not for each post in the forum. You mentioned "Activity Stream". How would I set that up?