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Rob Kendrick |
Message #94276, posted by nunfetishist at 19:16, 26/11/2006 |
Today's phish is trout a la creme.
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Err, it took you most of the day to roll this out? Boggle. |
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Ian Cook |
Message #94277, posted by ilcook at 19:23, 26/11/2006, in reply to message #94276 |
Resident idiot
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Err, it took you most of the day to roll this out? Boggle. Well what do you expect. There's a in the works. |
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Jeffrey Lee |
Message #94283, posted by Phlamethrower at 19:27, 26/11/2006, in reply to message #94276 |
Hot Hot Hot Hot Hot Hot Hot Hot Hot Hot Hot Hot Hot stuff
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Err, it took you most of the day to roll this out? Boggle. That was just a marketing ploy.
It got your attention, didn't it? |
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Chris Williams |
Message #94284, posted by diodesign at 19:30, 26/11/2006, in reply to message #94276 |
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Michael Drake |
Message #94287, posted by tlsa at 19:38, 26/11/2006, in reply to message #94276 |
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I like it. The new AcornArcade looks very cool too.
"We want to leave behind the obsessive-compulsive love-hate relationship with the RISC OS scene, and all the petty infighting and repetitive arguments that plague it." ... "Sites not even worthy of a functioning link - Drobe" |
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Richard Goodwin |
Message #94288, posted by rich at 19:41, 26/11/2006, in reply to message #94287 |
Dictator for life
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A joke, of course. If we didn't like Drobe, we wouldn't have bothered ribbing them. And notice how we finally gave Chris access to avatars and stuff? ________ Cheers, Rich.
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Chris Williams |
Message #94290, posted by diodesign at 19:44, 26/11/2006, in reply to message #94288 |
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The tagging system is quite cool, and I like the big picture plugs on the left hand side. Have you gone through every old article and tagged them? |
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James Shaw |
Message #94291, posted by Hertzsprung at 19:48, 26/11/2006, in reply to message #94290 |
Ghost-like
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Nice work, people, the new look is much improved |
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Michael Drake |
Message #94293, posted by tlsa at 19:50, 26/11/2006, in reply to message #94288 |
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A joke, of course. If we didn't like Drobe, we wouldn't have bothered ribbing them. And notice how we finally gave Chris access to avatars and stuff? OK, cool. Reminded me of UK:R's links.
A few ideas and comments:
Can you Add a TIB link to AA and an AA link to TIB somewhere near the top?
On AA, the "Got news?" bit and featured article on the left side bar are TIB related.
Can you add links to the hosted sites on one of the sidebars? Such as, for TIB: http://compo.iconbar.com http://photodesk.iconbar.com http://ftpc.iconbar.com
and AA: http://picodrive.acornarcade.com http://starfighter.acornarcade.com http://asylum.acornarcade.com
[Edited by tlsa at 00:35, 27/11/2006] |
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Richard Goodwin |
Message #94294, posted by rich at 19:58, 26/11/2006, in reply to message #94293 |
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Subdomains are in the "Hosted sites" list...
But yeah, some more links are probably necessary. We'll probably still be fine-tuning for a while. ________ Cheers, Rich.
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Michael Drake |
Message #94295, posted by tlsa at 20:05, 26/11/2006, in reply to message #94294 |
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I'm not getting links to the hosted sites anywhere. I've tried searching the front page for "hosted" and not found it.
On this page the ^ link images at the bottom right of each comment have broken image URLs.
[Edited by tlsa at 00:31, 27/11/2006] |
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Richard Goodwin |
Message #94304, posted by rich at 20:17, 26/11/2006, in reply to message #94295 |
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"web hosting". My memory is getting terrible.
I noticed the "^" thing, and submitted a bug report, but everyone's easting pizza ATM ________ Cheers, Rich.
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Michael Drake |
Message #94306, posted by tlsa at 20:24, 26/11/2006, in reply to message #94304 |
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Ah, right, OK thanks. I think having links on the sidebar to the subdomains relevant to TIB and AA would be good, though. |
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Richard Goodwin |
Message #94321, posted by rich at 21:03, 26/11/2006, in reply to message #94290 |
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The tagging system is quite cool, and I like the big picture plugs on the left hand side. Have you gone through every old article and tagged them? I think most articles have been auto-tagged, but some older ones probably need a bit of tarting up.
I quite like the fact that we can see all articles about The Vigay just by clicking the dropdown His Appreciation Society could be spruced up now... ________ Cheers, Rich.
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Ian Cook |
Message #94334, posted by ilcook at 21:54, 26/11/2006, in reply to message #94321 |
Resident idiot
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The tagging system is quite cool, and I like the big picture plugs on the left hand side. Have you gone through every old article and tagged them? I think most articles have been auto-tagged, but some older ones probably need a bit of tarting up.
I quite like the fact that we can see all articles about The Vigay just by clicking the dropdown His Appreciation Society could be spruced up now... Speaking of where is he? |
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Jason Togneri |
Message #94339, posted by filecore at 22:05, 26/11/2006, in reply to message #94334 |
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Ugly. Ugly, ugly, ugly, ugly, ugly, ugly, ugly. No offence. I just don't like the new design. It came as quite a shock when I happily clicked on my bookmark and saw... this
Redesigned Acornarcade? I must pop over and take a look...
Edit: I took a look and AA is much nicer. I quite like it. Still think the new TIB is hideous though. Sorry.
[Edited by filecore at 22:06, 26/11/2006] |
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Michael Drake |
Message #94346, posted by tlsa at 23:03, 26/11/2006, in reply to message #94304 |
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When logged into the forums at AA, the little icons for read/unread posts and the flag to indicate I've posted to a thread are the TIB coloured ones, which are far too bright for the dark AA background. |
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John Hoare |
Message #94354, posted by moss at 23:25, 26/11/2006, in reply to message #94339 |
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Ugly. Ugly, ugly, ugly, ugly, ugly, ugly, ugly. No offence. I just don't like the new design. It came as quite a shock when I happily clicked on my bookmark and saw... this
Redesigned Acornarcade? I must pop over and take a look...
Edit: I took a look and AA is much nicer. I quite like it. Still think the new TIB is hideous though. Sorry. I have to say, I know I was involved in some ways with the relaunch - but I didn't do any of the designing or implementing. And I think it looks gorgeous.
Still, what I don't understand is how you can hate TIB but like AA, when all it is is a different colour scheme!
[Edited by moss at 23:25, 26/11/2006] |
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Jason Togneri |
Message #94374, posted by filecore at 06:58, 27/11/2006, in reply to message #94354 |
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Still, what I don't understand is how you can hate TIB but like AA, when all it is is a different colour scheme! You obviously don't understand aesthetics then. AA works only because of the colour scheme - you don't notice it so much. On the main page of TIB is the worst - you see, the blue against white is much more obvious, and with a thick navigation bar down either side and along the top, it makes me feel like I've swapped my nice 19" monitor for a 15" thing and I'm back to 800x600. I liked the wide, uncluttered design of old TIB.
Where AA has the advantage is dark grey and black - it's not nearly a fraction as noticeable. Maybe I'm not explaining it so well and maybe it's just the aesthetic shock of having an unexpected redesign impose itself upon me, I don't know. But my first reaction was "erm... nope". Sorry guys |
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Simon Challands |
Message #94379, posted by SimonC at 10:04, 27/11/2006, in reply to message #94374 |
Right on, Commander!
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I don't like what it appears to be doing to the forums; the messages only fill about half the width of the window because of a little bit of stuff right up at the top of the page. |
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John Hoare |
Message #94380, posted by moss at 10:05, 27/11/2006, in reply to message #94379 |
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I don't like what it appears to be doing to the forums; the messages only fill about half the width of the window because of a little bit of stuff right up at the top of the page. What browser are you using, Simon? It's fine here on Safari and Firefox. |
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Simon Challands |
Message #94381, posted by SimonC at 10:07, 27/11/2006, in reply to message #94380 |
Right on, Commander!
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Stuck with IE at work, it'll have to wait until I get home to try anything else. I was about to edit my post (until I saw it had been replied to already) to point out that that only seems to be happening to these article comment ones; the others are OK. |
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Michael Drake |
Message #94388, posted by tlsa at 10:34, 27/11/2006, in reply to message #94380 |
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I don't like what it appears to be doing to the forums; the messages only fill about half the width of the window because of a little bit of stuff right up at the top of the page. What browser are you using, Simon? It's fine here on Safari and Firefox. Fine in NetSurf too. |
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Phil Mellor |
Message #94396, posted by monkeyson2 at 10:48, 27/11/2006, in reply to message #94381 |
Please don't let them make me be a monkey butler
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Stuck with IE at work, it'll have to wait until I get home to try anything else. I was about to edit my post (until I saw it had been replied to already) to point out that that only seems to be happening to these article comment ones; the others are OK. Yeah, I think IE isn't too hot at table widths if you specify the width of the whole table (100%) and an individual column (172px)
I fixed it in most places - I'll check this evening.
Edit: Just used IE to post that, and didn't see it happening. What version of IE are you using?
[Edited by monkeyson2 at 10:49, 27/11/2006] |
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Andrew |
Message #94397, posted by andrew at 10:49, 27/11/2006, in reply to message #94388 |
Handbag Boi
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So all of the Acorn Arcade postings have been merged into a single forum or have you discarded many? That would be a shame. |
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John Hoare |
Message #94402, posted by moss at 11:00, 27/11/2006, in reply to message #94397 |
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So all of the Acorn Arcade postings have been merged into a single forum or have you discarded many? That would be a shame. They're all merged into the single forum. |
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John Hoare |
Message #94407, posted by moss at 11:10, 27/11/2006, in reply to message #94374 |
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Still, what I don't understand is how you can hate TIB but like AA, when all it is is a different colour scheme! You obviously don't understand aesthetics then. OK, OK, no need to be like that!
I understand aesthetics perfectly well. I just happen to disagree with you on this one, that's all. |
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Simon Challands |
Message #94435, posted by SimonC at 13:38, 27/11/2006, in reply to message #94396 |
Right on, Commander!
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Edit: Just used IE to post that, and didn't see it happening. What version of IE are you using?
Probably something ancient knowing this place - <checks> - 6.0. I've taken a screenshot that I can upload somewhere when I get home. |
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Jeffrey Lee |
Message #94444, posted by Phlamethrower at 14:46, 27/11/2006, in reply to message #94402 |
Hot Hot Hot Hot Hot Hot Hot Hot Hot Hot Hot Hot Hot stuff
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So all of the Acorn Arcade postings have been merged into a single forum or have you discarded many? That would be a shame. They're all merged into the single forum. If by "merged into the single forum" you mean "merged into the Games, Programming, Site comments and Staff only" forums, then yes |
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John Hoare |
Message #94446, posted by moss at 14:51, 27/11/2006, in reply to message #94444 |
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So all of the Acorn Arcade postings have been merged into a single forum or have you discarded many? That would be a shame. They're all merged into the single forum. If by "merged into the single forum" you mean "merged into the Games, Programming, Site comments and Staff only" forums, then yes Oh, I hadn't realised we were than competent |
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