Updating Forum Now
Printed From: Pixel Joint
Category: Pixel Art
Forum Name: Collaborations/Challenges
Forum Discription: Submit pixel art project ideas/templates or contribute to an existing pixel art collaboration.
URL: https://pixeljoint.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=2584
Printed Date: 10 September 2025 at 10:35am
Topic: Updating Forum Now
Posted By: sedgemonkey
Subject: Updating Forum Now
Date Posted: 11 July 2006 at 9:10pm
| Just a heads up... I'm updating the forum right now so if you get kicked out just give it a few minutes. |
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Posted By: Psychotic_Carp
Date Posted: 11 July 2006 at 9:43pm
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Is the new theme perm? -------------  got game?
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Posted By: sedgemonkey
Date Posted: 11 July 2006 at 9:51pm
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As you can probably tell, the styles are a bit f**ked up right now although I do like the gray better than the orange monster. I purchased a license for the forum tonight so I plan on modifying the forum much more now that I won't be violating the freeware license. |
Posted By: pixelblink
Date Posted: 11 July 2006 at 10:02pm
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ugh.. gray.. we need to replace gray with awesomeness... I suggest the colours and style of the main site ------------- |
Posted By: Lawrence
Date Posted: 12 July 2006 at 12:44am
He he, souly's secret sig thingy doesn't work anymore !
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Posted By: Blueberry_pie
Date Posted: 12 July 2006 at 3:15am
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Hmm... none of the pop-up windows seem to work for me anymore. Like the smilies, hyperlink or preview window. They work fine in Internet Explorer but not in Firefox. And it's not my popup blocker either. Originally posted by pixelblink ugh.. gray.. we need to replace gray with awesomeness... I suggest the colours and style of the main site Seconded! ------------- |
Posted By: Shark
Date Posted: 12 July 2006 at 3:19am
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Thought i was going mad when i saw this. No offence, but it pretty horrid. ------------- Snark, we love yuu. |
Posted By: jalonso
Date Posted: 12 July 2006 at 4:36am
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:'( We're not in Kansas anymore
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Posted By: Lawrence
Date Posted: 12 July 2006 at 5:03am
I agree, the default site's style would be my favourite choice for the forum.  Anyway, thanks for upgrading the forums sedge  ------------- |
Posted By: Larwick
Date Posted: 12 July 2006 at 5:18am
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It was a lovely/surprising surprise :) I'm sure there's lots more to do so let's give him some room. :O Lol. -------------  http://larw-ck.deviantart.com">
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Posted By: Setzer
Date Posted: 12 July 2006 at 6:26am
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actually I hate the default site style. it's way to bright and ugh for my likes. maybe having different styles could help alot. [I'm a fan of dark backgrounds myself]
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Posted By: alkaline
Date Posted: 12 July 2006 at 7:51am
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To me it is as well. Like a punch in the face. I don't really mind what it is as long as it isn't so jarring.
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Posted By: sedgemonkey
Date Posted: 12 July 2006 at 7:52am
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Why is there a f**king advertisement in my signature line? Argh, this forum needs a lot of work.
I will work on simplifying the CSS so themes can easily be made/applied for the forum. The only problem is that there are so many images on the site.
Oh yeah, sorry to all admins and non-admins for the private Mod section being open to all. Quite an upgrade bug.
@jalonso: You're the biggest scamp this side of the Mississippi -- don't ever change.
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Posted By: jalonso
Date Posted: 12 July 2006 at 8:47am
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Definiton for SCAMP on urban dictionary: 1) Yet another word for a bowel movement. Used by a small group of octogenarians from mid-Mississippi. 2) An insult nickname for a male with bad cleanliness in the bell end region, caused by not cleaning under the foreskin leading to a fishy or cheesy odour (scampet)a person with scamp. ON-TOPIC: The emotes/links/image buttons on the WYSIWYG thingy work fine when "quoting" a previous post. They do not work when making a new post. All the other ones do. ------------- |
Posted By: 0xDB
Date Posted: 12 July 2006 at 9:22am
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I too vote for the default theme of the main page to be applied to the forum. The current red text on gray background is very hard to read for me and makes my eyes bleed. :( ------------- http://www.dennisbusch.de/index.php - 0xDB | https://twitter.com/dennisbusch_de - twitter |
Posted By: Shark
Date Posted: 12 July 2006 at 9:29am
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The old forum was wayyyyyyy better. Everything is soo hard to read here.
Jalonso (scampet of 2006 as he is now known) agrees with me about this. I am not being ungrateful for the upgrade - but was it really neccesary? I think a dark red/purple and white forum would look nice. ------------- Snark, we love yuu. |
Posted By: Monkey 'o Doom
Date Posted: 12 July 2006 at 10:03am
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I just want the old forum look back. This one clashes with the buttons and looks ugly. ------------- http://pixelmonkey.ensellitis.com"> 
RPG is numberwang. |
Posted By: sedgemonkey
Date Posted: 12 July 2006 at 10:14am
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There were a number of reasons for converting the forum besides the design (which is temporary).
I'm working on matching the forum to the default style right now... if you are interested in changing the look of the forum http://www.pixeljoint.com/pixels/profile_themes.asp - you can create a PJ theme and it will eventually be converted to work on the forum as well.
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Posted By: jalonso
Date Posted: 12 July 2006 at 10:21am
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I don't know if this is the place for it? Maybe all these bugs are
already known and may not be needed. I will post any wierd forum
behavior for the admins to be aware of just in case. These will be on
the MACOS. 1- When you change your sig, the "preview sig" option does not work at all. The popup window works but there is nothing to see. 2- Avvys keep disappearing (must go back to main site change avvy and change back) ------------- |
Posted By: Aleiav
Date Posted: 12 July 2006 at 12:35pm
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I like this new style. :P But I do like grey so that may be why. :P
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Posted By: Psychotic_Carp
Date Posted: 12 July 2006 at 3:54pm
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I dont have a proble with grey it lets the images stand out but some of the text is hard to read ( not enough contrast)
The orange buttons are pretty neat with the grey but the black text needs to be white or a bright color, either that or the grey needs to be lightened. The red text is hard to read as well. ------------- got game?
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Posted By: Larwick
Date Posted: 12 July 2006 at 4:17pm
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On my monitor the only thing i cant see well is the orange upon the grey.
I'd like to have slightly different shades for alternating posts again, and i like the idea of having the same skins as the main site, it would keep everything whole. :) ------------- http://larw-ck.deviantart.com">
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Posted By: alkaline
Date Posted: 12 July 2006 at 5:46pm
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I'd only like the same skins as the main site if we could get some good ones for that first...I think I'll for on a css for a theme when I get the chance maybe. Oh and also I don't think the image zooms work. ------------- |
Posted By: sedgemonkey
Date Posted: 12 July 2006 at 6:14pm
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I think I've fixed the avatar bug and a few other bugs. I'm almost done with changing themes for the forum as well. I'll look into the image zoom bug tomorrow. |
Posted By: alkaline
Date Posted: 12 July 2006 at 6:17pm
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Woah, major color revamp. What was the font use earlier? All of a sudden it got bigger. ------------- |
Posted By: Monkey 'o Doom
Date Posted: 12 July 2006 at 6:22pm
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Could you make the <hr> type things similar to the old ones? I took them into account with my sig image, and the top line of pixels were that line. ------------- http://pixelmonkey.ensellitis.com">
RPG is numberwang. |
Posted By: Ensellitis
Date Posted: 12 July 2006 at 6:30pm
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i miss the old one already... time for adjustment
------------- There's a pubic hair on my keyboard. What the f**k?? I "mow the lawn" so it's not mine. Gross. |
Posted By: sedgemonkey
Date Posted: 12 July 2006 at 11:36pm
| By tomorrow night you'll be able to use the themes from the main site. As I mentioned earlier you are all welcome to make your own themes and send them to me if you don't dig the new design. |
Posted By: Blueberry_pie
Date Posted: 13 July 2006 at 1:54am
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He-hey, I like what you've done with the place. Nice skin. Hope you can get rid of all the bugs and ads soon. ------------- |
Posted By: inkspot
Date Posted: 13 July 2006 at 3:25am
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The old orange one was definately better.
Is there any possible way to choose skins for the forum, like I can do in a gallery? I use that brown chocolate theme. Green is now just... a bit plain, makes me feel like I sit in a modern day plain office. ------------- 
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Posted By: Psychotic_Carp
Date Posted: 13 July 2006 at 5:32am
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Originally posted by inkspot
The old orange one was definately better. Is there any possible way to choose skins for the forum, like I can do in a gallery? I use that brown chocolate theme. Green is now just... a bit plain, makes me feel like I sit in a modern day plain office. Originally posted by sedgemonkey By tomorrow night you'll be able to use the themes from the main site. As I mentioned earlier you are all welcome to make your own themes and send them to me if you don't dig the new design. ------------- got game?
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Posted By: alkaline
Date Posted: 13 July 2006 at 7:47am
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The only things I wish we still had was the previously sized font and that the signature lines didn't go all the way to the other side. thanks sedge for workin' on it.
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Posted By: leel
Date Posted: 13 July 2006 at 8:41am
do we still have the zoom feature? It doesn't seem to be working atm, .. i think. Maybe I'm just clicking wrong 
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Posted By: pixelblink
Date Posted: 13 July 2006 at 9:06am
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Originally posted by leel do we still have the zoom feature? It doesn't seem to be working atm, .. i think. Maybe I'm just clicking wrong Originally posted by sedgemonkey I'll look into the image zoom bug tomorrow. ------------- |
Posted By: Monkey 'o Doom
Date Posted: 13 July 2006 at 9:21am
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I find it strange that the post-sig dividers stand out more than the dividers between posts. ------------- http://pixelmonkey.ensellitis.com">
RPG is numberwang. |
Posted By: leel
Date Posted: 13 July 2006 at 9:57am
| oh sorry i didnt see that >.< I just skimmed through this thread |
Posted By: Aleiav
Date Posted: 13 July 2006 at 11:00am
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I like this new layout so far, but it'll be cool once I can use the snazzy gothish theme from the main page! :) edit: eek! I tried Hello darkness but the green still stayed. Is that going to be changed? ------------- |
Posted By: sedgemonkey
Date Posted: 13 July 2006 at 11:15am
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The zoom and themes will be fixed tonight (got it working on dev). I also added "time offset" to the main gallery site. |
Posted By: Aleiav
Date Posted: 13 July 2006 at 11:17am
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ah okie doke. :) EDIT: yay! Hello Darkness works! w00t!   ------------- |
Posted By: Fugitive
Date Posted: 14 July 2006 at 5:27pm
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Messages remain in your Outbox until the recipient deletes the message. Could this be changed so you can empty your own outbox ?
------------- Fugitve is playing on his XBox 360 |
Posted By: Souly
Date Posted: 14 July 2006 at 5:28pm
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Originally posted by Lawrence He he, souly's secret sig thingy doesn't work anymore !
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I am the jesus of PJ. |
Posted By: jalonso
Date Posted: 15 July 2006 at 9:19am
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FYI - Mac related update issue #649 Most java, popup window do not work throughout the forum. Some do so its not my set-up. Mostly these are noticed in the settings, PMs and help sections. EDIT: Today I noticed that the buttons that were below the sigs are now a drop down menu on the member's handle. I think they were much better as they were. Unless you know where they are now, PMs, the gallery and profile will go unnoticed by most. ------------- |
Posted By: Ensellitis
Date Posted: 16 July 2006 at 4:27pm
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Originally posted by jalonso EDIT: Today I noticed that the buttons that were below the sigs are now a drop down menu on the member's handle. I think they were much better as they were. Unless you know where they are now, PMs, the gallery and profile will go unnoticed by most. on my pc, the links are the same color as the background in the dropdown as well ------------- There's a pubic hair on my keyboard. What the f**k?? I "mow the lawn" so it's not mine. Gross. |
Posted By: inkspot
Date Posted: 17 July 2006 at 3:18am
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This system does not work. Themes don't work, every time I visit forums, theme is switched back to default. And it always automatically logs out from the gallery. Something is messed up here.
Cookies should be enabled, since they have always worked and I haven't touched them. -------------
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Posted By: sedgemonkey
Date Posted: 17 July 2006 at 7:38am
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Themes are just stored as a cookie on the gallery site so if you clear your cookies and visit the forum before the gallery the theme will not be working. I will work on fixing this soon. @jalonso: I'll look into how the popup code works -- maybe there's something quick I can fix. As for the lack of "profile buttons" in a thread... I see your point about it not being obvious and I'm open to suggestions on how to fix that, but I would prefer to leave the mess of buttons out if possible. @Ensellitis: I will fix the color bug.
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Posted By: jalonso
Date Posted: 18 July 2006 at 6:06am
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More observations: I am so happy the link/image/emotes work now . The character button is awesome too. I can finally copyright all my comments  I will mention that unlike the older version that automatically deleted the "http://" when placing a link. This new version does not, yet has a side thingy with the "http://" prefix preset. It took me a minute to figure out that you must remove it yourself when linking from Photobucket. I'm all for progress but this seems a step back. EDIT: Other observations: I tried to make some copy in a very light grey color on one thread and scaled an emote to 2x in another, something we all do around here for emphasis. Neither took effect on the post. Post ©jalonso bug report enterprises ------------- |
Posted By: sedgemonkey
Date Posted: 18 July 2006 at 12:59pm
Colors are not working? Doubling the size of these doesn't work either? (testing)
Edit: Well, at least colors appear to be working.
I will work on adding a script to remove the extra "http://" from the link popup.
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Posted By: Shark
Date Posted: 19 July 2006 at 6:52am
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on some themes i cant see the text within a quote box because its the wrong color.
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Posted By: jalonso
Date Posted: 21 July 2006 at 10:05am
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Bug Report #367 I posted a comment with colored type using a theme other than the default. The copy showed up as just grey. I always use themes other than the default so I thought it was this new forum. Someone mentioned the colorful type so its just me. I changed to the default theme and everything works/looks perfectly? It's default I guess. ------------- |
Posted By: inkspot
Date Posted: 25 July 2006 at 5:34am
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Ok, it starts to piss me off now. Why the heck text has to be almost the same colour as the background? And if the sun is anywhere around me, I can't see the text on the screen at all. And don't tell me to turn my contrast bigger or monitor brighter, it is as it should be, normal.
For example, I have this blue-type background, the buttons are orange. Why cant text be orange or something, why does it have to be that blueish colour?
Oh, and that brown theme can remane the same. Just that blue theme needs some touches.
And sorry about being so rude... EDIT: Oh, and one more thing. Today, browsing at the gallery, i found a bug. It seems that wen you zoom the image in firefox so much that it doesn't fit into the screen anymore, all things get twisted up, + - buttons are half dissapeared etc. See for yourself: http://img136.imageshack.us/img136/5601/untitledei4.jpg -------------
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Posted By: sedgemonkey
Date Posted: 27 July 2006 at 8:14am
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I'm going to look into the color bug and the +/- bug today. |