Forums upgrading; Christmas theme

[orudge]

Just to let you know that I've upgraded the forums to phpBB 3.0.6. This is a fairly major update, so if you notice any problems, please let me know. New in this release is the ability to report abusive/malicious private messages, quick reply support, better CAPTCHA support, and a few other things.

I've enabled quick reply in the Forum Games sub-forum, mainly as an experiment. I don't currently intended to enable it in any other forums, unless there is a particular demand for it. I think generally people can manage the extra few seconds it takes to open up a new page to make a reply.

Also, what with it being December now in most parts of the world, it's time to wheel out the ol' winter theme! Regular visitors should know by now to press CTRL-F5 (or whatever the "hard refresh" key in your browser is) to ensure your browser hasn't cached old non-winter images/CSS. If anybody spots any problems - that aren't related to you having old files cached - please reply here.

Enjoy the new version, and the new theme!

Cheers,

[petert]

better CAPTCHA support

What does this mean?

I've enabled quick reply in the Forum Games sub-forum, mainly as an experiment.

It looks great, nice. I just tested it, and it loads much faster than the full editor. Even when submitting the post.

Also, what with it being December now in most parts of the world, it's time to wheel out the ol' winter theme! Regular visitors should know by now to press CTRL-F5 (or whatever the "hard refresh" key in your browser is) to ensure your browser hasn't cached old non-winter images/CSS.

Is this part of the Christmas theme, or is it a bug?

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If anybody spots any problems - that aren't related to you having old files cached - please reply here.

Yes:

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Enjoy the new version, and the new theme!

Thanks Owen for the hard work, cheers and Merry Christmas!

[Chrill]

Strange, that OpenTTD Graphics error does not occur for me

[petert]

It's happening for me in the TTDPatch graphics section too.

[orudge]

What does this mean?

It only affects new users - it's the "enter these letters" thing you see. Alas, reCAPTCHA for some reason seems to be broken for me just now, but one of the others works, so I'll leave it for now.

Is this part of the Christmas theme, or is it a bug?

That'd be snow.

Yes:

Whoops, fixed that in the regular TT theme but not the winter theme. Should be sorted now.

[petert]

That'd be snow.

Oops, sorry.

[orudge]

Hmm, reporting PMs may be broken (or more specifically, there is a lack of a link to the report form) on the TT theme. I'll look into this later/tomorrow.

Also, I've updated the language packs. They were a bit out-of-date, so hopefully they'll now support features from recent versions of phpBB properly.

[orudge]

Oh! And we have RSS feeds once again, which we haven't had since the upgrade to phpBB 3. There are feeds for each forum, as well as a general news feed and an "all forums" feed. Hope you enjoy them!

[XeryusTC]

If anybody spots any problems - that aren't related to you having old files cached - please reply here.

I had to get up way too early this morning could you please fix it so I have to start at a later time?


Anyway, it is quite nice too see the christmas theme back again, I quite missed it

[Benny]

Was about to ask where the theme was, when I realized I had to reload the cache to make it work.

Anyways; woo yay! Christmas tiem! Just switched over to the avatar where Calvin has a christmas hat too.

[Lord Aro]

not really a problem but the amount of white is a little hard on the eyes
plus you cant read the white writing

[Chrill]

The white writing where? Of course it's a little white, you'll get used to it. The default theme is a little green when you've had this for a month

[SHADOW-XIII]

this theme catches me every year, still amazed to see one every Christmas.

[Lord Aro]

The white writing where? Of course it's a little white, you'll get used to it. The default theme is a little green when you've had this for a month

it changed son after i posted

[petert]

not really a problem but the amount of white is a little hard on the eyes
plus you cant read the white writing

I don't think so, the theme is great.

[Jezulkim]

I love the Christmas theme. Snowy/Christmas avatars are go!

[orudge]

it changed son after i posted

Yes, no matter how much I say it in the first post, people still complain that they can't read "the white writing", not realising I guess that they have to do a hard refresh - often your browser will eventually download the new CSS files, etc, but it takes it a while sometimes, and until then you get a mismatch of both themes.

[Gremnon]

Owen, I've been meaning to suggest this for ages, and keep putting it off, but given the technically not quite legal status of the original TTO/D graphics, perhaps it might be worth exchanging them for their OpenGFX counterparts?

Just a thought.

[Benny]

Owen, I've been meaning to suggest this for ages, and keep putting it off, but given the technically not quite legal status of the original TTO/D graphics, perhaps it might be worth exchanging them for their OpenGFX counterparts?

Just a thought.

No. NO NONONONONONONO!!!!

OpenGFX is freaking horrible. (No offence, just don't like it..)

[Gremnon]

Why not? There's really not that much difference I can see.