Forum layout problem since a few days
By
Aggelakis,
Posted on: 2012-02-10 08:03 in ALL ACCESS Gameplay Technical Issues Bugs
I imagine this change took place when the forum was down for maintenance yesterday.
I find it harder to read also.
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And like past hacks to the web code, this one is horrible because it makes each name bold and white in the coding rather than define a style for the name. So, no easy player-created hacks to fix it.
Not only that, but when browsing the forums, the list makes every name white and bold, but, when searching, then only the Premium names get the white and bold treatment.
NCSoft Seattle HQ Web Services needs to get their act together.
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I also find it hard to read.
I also really want the working RSS feed versions of the dev and community digests back.
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This is a really funny one as well if you read the announcement about the forum maintenance.|
Originally Posted by Zombie Man
And like past hacks to the web code, this one is horrible because it makes each name bold and white in the coding rather than define a style for the name. So, no easy player-created hacks to fix it.
Not only that, but when browsing the forums, the list makes every name white and bold, but, when searching, then only the Premium names get the white and bold treatment. NCSoft Seattle HQ Web Services needs to get their act together. |
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Originally Posted by Beastyle
The forums will be down for maintenance this Thursday, February 9, beginning at 10:30am PST (1:30pm EST / 6:30pm GMT / 7:30pm CET) and scheduled to wrap up by 1:35pm PST (4:35 EST / 9:35pm GMT / 10:35pm CET). This maintenance will set VIP players' forum names to gold by default, and address other miscellaneous issues. Thank you for your patience during this downtime. |
Of course, based on the Web Services team's past track record, I think that last sentence should have been worded as follows:
This maintenance will attempt to set VIP players' forum names to goldenrod by default, and will create other miscellaneous issues.
Once again, the Web Services team has stuck to their usual standard results.
If the game spit out 20 dollar bills people would complain that they weren't sequentially numbered. If they were sequentially numbered people would complain that they weren't random enough.
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Thanks for the explanations everyone, and boo NCSoft web guy. 
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Yeah... apparently you still have to "join" the VIP group in order for the name color to be in effect.|
Originally Posted by Texas Justice
... I look at my name and I see it still white. I see other VIP's names in white. A few are goldenrod, but most are white.
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User CP --> Networking (side menu) --> Group Memberships
If you "identify" yourself as a "registered user", your name will remain white.
It's as if they forgot to un-do what they set up previously. derp.
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I'll third the reading problems. I've switched to doing most of my forum browsing in Lynx (a text-only browser that ignores most formatting) to avoid the problem.
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Originally Posted by Ironblade
I imagine this change took place when the forum was down for maintenance yesterday.
I find it harder to read also. |
I've updated Zombie Skins to compensate.
Mostly by just reducing the size of the font of the author's name.
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I'm starting to think the Web Team is comprised of former FB & Twitter coders, since those two groups seem to be in a competiton of not being able to get their **** together, and pushing out half-***** code that doesn't work right...
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*argh* *argh* *argh*
I wonder if I should go apply to the Seattle web team. Maybe they need help and that's why they suck so much.
-_- I could probably do better than this. And I'm a fairly basic/intermediate web designer.
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I'd find it hard for you to do a worse job than what they are currently doing.
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Originally Posted by Aggelakis
*argh* *argh* *argh*
I wonder if I should go apply to the Seattle web team. Maybe they need help and that's why they suck so much. -_- I could probably do better than this. And I'm a fairly basic/intermediate web designer. |
If the game spit out 20 dollar bills people would complain that they weren't sequentially numbered. If they were sequentially numbered people would complain that they weren't random enough.
Black Pebble is my new hero.
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Originally Posted by Texas Justice
I enlarged the part I find particularly funny. I look at my name and I see it still white. I see other VIP's names in white. A few are goldenrod, but most are white.
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It's weird seeing red names as thread starter or latest post on the forum page. Bolded names on that page is also odd looking.
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This is rather distracting honestly. I load up a page and all I see are red names. It's kinda like paul revere's worst nightmare.
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Originally Posted by Father Xmas
It's weird seeing red names as thread starter or latest post on the forum page. Bolded names on that page is also odd looking.
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I'm not sure what it is exactly, but I think the names are bolded on the topic listing and I assume they weren't before. This makes it extremely hard to browse the boards for me, with names jumping out and blurring with topic titles rather than being nicely understated like (again, I assume) before.
Anyone else seeing this? I'm not even sure if this is a bug or a change on purpose, can't find any thread on this topic. If it is intended, is there any way at the user level to fix this?