Hey! The Avatars have moved...
Maddie the Intern
Posts: 81
to the side of the page like in the old forums!
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As we give the IT (one man) crew a little time, glitches and bugs are disappearing like crazy- the forum is quickly working like the old forum with even more new stuff to work with!
Just a thought.
<I think this happened as I was viewing a thread>
As we give the IT (one man) crew a little time, glitches and bugs are disappearing like crazy- the forum is quickly working like the old forum with even more new stuff to work with!
Just a thought.
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I can see why it has been difficult for him. vBulletin has no less than 5,000 configuration options. Finding this one took me most of last night.
Ken Gracey
Parallax Inc.
Hi Ken Gracey (Parallax).
Now You need find LAST READ function istead as it is now LAST POST
I've been able to piece together how big of a project this must be for him from what he's said on different forum threads- it's going to be so beneficial to everybody- it just takes a little time.
But why is so much space wasted between the avatar image and the actual posting?
Also why no avatars on the page when you start entering a reply?
-Phil
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Funny, I didn't even notice! All I saw was the avatars, and life was good. Now the things have been moved, and...
Life is still good!
Not sure about that guys.
"Maddie the Intern (Parallax)" is a very long user name but from where I'm looking its all word wrapped to be the width of the avatar.
Maddie the
Intern
(Parallax)
The text under the avatar is similarly the same width,
But still a huge blank space between the avatar and the post text.
But, yeah, let's go for
Maddie
the
Intern
(Parallax)
-Phil
They deserve to be in a mess.
The font for user names could be half the size anyway.
-Phil
Re heater. (junior member) "Maddie the Intern (Parallax)" is a very long user name but from where I'm looking its all word wrapped to be the width of the avatar.
That may well be true, but it appears to me that she is wielding some sort of nerf machine gun contraption, so if she wants a wide name, then, Yes Ma'am, that is what she gets *grin*.
With 125 psi that gun shoots out paintballs really quickly!
Ken Gracey
You can see it here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jCVa25YvM6I
Doug
However viewing it there does emphasise the huge amount of space wasted between the avatar and the postings text. It's like a big empty column running down the middle of the screen.
Closing that up would help hinv a bit I guess.
As an experiment try shrinking the size of your browser window to see the effect.
-Phil
I think the page looks much better that way.
-Phil
Addendum: I also made the name smaller, but boldface.
Addendum2: ... and changed the colors to something easier on the eyes and narrowed the margins to increase the content area. The "Quick Reply" box somehow escaped the color change, though.
However looking at it on the phone does emphasize that both you and Maddie have horizontally greedy big wide avatars. Where as Sapieha and I have more polite narrower ones:)
The result is there is still a huge wide mostly empty grey streak running down the middle of my page on the phone.
Should there be a tighter restriction on avatar width now?
Also viewing your sidebar test on the phone emphasises the huge, wide, white empty margins at either side of the page. They can go.
Aside from your color choice, I like what you are doing.
Rich H
The default skin can be overwritten by any software updates we apply to the system. That is not the case for any skins we install to the site. We can tweak and tune those as needed without any concern that they will be altered by software updates. We should have one available by the end of the week that will tighten up the stray whitespace. Let's put our design energy into tuning the add-on skins.
I have no power actually to make the change -- just to suggest. I've also toned down the "urine" color to something more of a buff color. (I must say, though, if anyone's urine is of the former color, they should see a specialist.)
-Phil
Found out most of my computers have a color saturation setting!! The bonus is changing that doesn't impact video capture windows.
So, I've turned it down, and there are a lot of things around the net that look a lot better!
Re: Default skin. Yeah, absolutely do custom ones, and set them as default. Anything that lets the update be just a update is a good thing! (because they can and will tweak this one)
a low saturation Internet is highly recommended. Helps with CAD too.
The other adjustment I recommend is a gamma higher than 1.0, or 50 percent, depending on whether or not you've got the "techy", or "playschool" graphics control interface. Most graphics cards have this.
A higher gamma, like 1.2 or 1.3 bends the signal response curve in the middle, without crushing colors on the lower and higher end, like tweaking the brightness and contrast controls do. Crushing is where more than one color equals black, or white. Detail is lost when this occurs.
The PC default is linear voltage changes by value. A gamma of 1.2 will make the middle range "brighter", while preserving detail. A gamma of .8 will darken the middle range, preserving detail.
Gamma is used to adapt the signal to the response curve of the display in use. CRT displays run a bit darker in their mid level response, compared to LCD type displays, for example A really great one is a projector, which requires a very significant mid signal boost, because of how light is generally reflected off of most things. A pro quality screen will present a good display, your wall won't. Gamma is for that.
In the end, you the user, can adjust saturation and gamma to really bend the curve of what is possible to display. Many things are significantly improved with settings that are not default. For reference, the SGI computers generally ran with a gamma of 1.2 to 1.3, and that's the major secret behind their high clarity, easy to look at desktop displays.
I find the lower saturation response very nice, highly recommended. It worked well, even with the original colors.
You might be right, but it's asking an awful lot of the average user to make those adjustments to his system -- let alone even to know what you're talking about. 'Better just to make the changes to the colors at the source.
-Phil
My points were:
-it can be addressed right now
-there are nice side benefits to doing it.
I'm now running at about 80 percent saturation, and frankly, it's one of the best graphics tweaks I've done. Gamma is something I've managed for years. First became aware of it on the SGI computers, wondering why their display quality on CAD was so darn good.
The color management settings are something I've largely ignored. It turns out to be worth similar things as gamma settings are.
Hello!
As a member of a "One Man Band" myself, I know exactly what Jim is going through. He's the Top.
Now Maddie be very careful with that gun. It's got the capabilties to demolish the Nerf version of a T43 tank. Or anything foolish enough to be seen by it. That includes xenomorphs.
Can you find the big important control like the attachment manager and enable posting a photo? I'm really surprised we can't post photos, and that the old forum is now wacked! In the old forum, the photos that previously displayed nicely with the text using