Various Forum Changes / Updates / Additions

[Nyerguds 102]

Psh. Says you. Worldwide Warfare had me drooling as a kid... which is something TUC never accomplished

[Plok 327]

That one had all discs included individually. TFD and TUC were (horribly) reworked and bring coding (and errors) of their own

[Nmenth 291]

No, that just adds the question "why was TFD ever in there"?

I questioned that when it was first added (don't remember if I questioned it publicly though). Anyway, these are just icons for people to display, it really doesn't matter very much.

 

 

("The Arsenal" = Red Alert 1 + The Aftermath. Without Counterstrike )

After playing C&C1 and deciding I needed more C&C, I got The Arsenal. I wasn't even aware of the existance of Counterstrike until years later.

[Inferno 22]

Psh. Says you. Worldwide Warfare had me drooling as a kid... which is something TUC never accomplished

QFT

[Nyerguds 102]

After playing C&C1 and deciding I needed more C&C, I got The Arsenal. I wasn't even aware of the existance of Counterstrike until years later.

And that's exactly why it's the worst collection ever.

[Sonic 295]

Tweaked some of the forum font colours, eliminating a lot of the darker grey colours that aren't technically part of the overall site colours, or colours that have been phased out. Many of the these have been replaced with this blue or just plain white.

[Doctor Destiny 41]

The color changes are not quite as visually pleasing as you'd think...

[Nmenth 291]

They seem strange now, but I'm sure they'll seem normal in a couple weeks.

[Plok 327]

I do not welcome the change of the thread name colour from gold to blue...

[Sonic 295]

I do admit the this blue was coming off to strong. So I've done some more tweaking, looking for a better balance. As I said before I was trying to get rid off the dull grey colours that don't really feature in the main site design any more. Attempting to make sure that anything that's a link is in the gold text. I think it looks better now. If something should be changed feel free to suggest to it.

[PurpleGaga27 40]

I like all the font color changes back to where it were before this. They looked better that way.

Edited June 26, 2014 by zocom7

[Sonic 295]

I disagree. I feel I have achieved a better balance, removing the grey text, cutting back on the blues. There is only a small amount of grey text left for a few things. I even fixed the little share icon in the top right corner of each post , it has always been to big and it bugged me.

[Nyerguds 102]

Huh. So that's what that does. I just right-clicked it and copied the url to get a permalink. Never bothered clicking it.

[Sonic 295]

Updated the Media tag. Vine videos and content from Sketchfab can now be embed in your posts. Some samples below. Just copy and paste links like these and surround them with the media tag.

 

Vine: https://vine.co/v/hOndxbtalUV

 

https://vine.co/v/hOndxbtalUV

 

Sketchfab: https://sketchfab.com/models/7a6cad7d7a0343cf90b8a49cac078d4d

 

https://sketchfab.com/models/7a6cad7d7a0343cf90b8a49cac078d4d

[Plok 327]

The first one is just priceless

Edited July 3, 2014 by Plokite_Wolf

[Sonic 295]

I just wanted to post a sample with a C&C theme to it

[Inferno 22]

The first one is just priceless

Second that

[PurpleGaga27 40]

Vine and Sketchfab into CNCNZ = excellent.

[Sonic 295]

Posts with 5 or more reputation points will now be display with this star icon.

 

Huh. So that's what that does. I just right-clicked it and copied the url to get a permalink. Never bothered clicking it.

 

Thought I better reply to this. The share icon was added during updates to the 3.x versions of IP.Board. Posts where always assigned an ID for a permalink but IPS decided to expand on it some more I guess. So you can still right click to get the permalink, left click on the to get slightly cleaner permalink and various share options.

 

Right Click: http://forums.cncnz.com/topic/16125-various-forum-changes-updates-additions/page-9#entry219781

Left Click: http://forums.cncnz.com/topic/16125-various-forum-changes-updates-additions/?p=219781

 

Either one works the same way.

 

There is CSS bug that can sometimes make a vertical scroll bar appear when you open the share post window.

[Gben 20]

BTW... I like the gold links.

[Sonic 295]

Well most of them have always been gold, but for a long time it was grey text links that bothered me. So I made effort to sort them out. The only links that are different a the pagination links, they are now blue with darker blue backgrounds.

[Sonic 295]

Enabled the "Best Answer" feature for all modding related forums. "Best Answer" feature allows a mod or admin to mark a particular post as solved, hence the best answer to a given question. On the topic view posts will be displayed like this....

 

 

When viewing the topic the "Best Answer" will be displayed at the top the page....

 

 

We have not used this feature much, but its something I felt would be of use moving forward as more and more people seem to asking modding related questions.

 

If you feel this "Best Answer" feature should be enabled in other forums, please let me know.

[Nmenth 291]

"Best Answer" feature allows a mod or admin to mark a particular post as solved

Only a mod or admin? Or can the topic starter do it too?

[Sonic 295]

Only a mod/admin can mark a post as solved. The option is there to allow the topic starter to do it but I think it should a forum staff job.

[Sonic 295]

Tweets can now be embed in posts via the Media tag. Just copy and past the link to the Tweet the same way as you would a YouTube link. Use the Media button on the Post Editor window or just surround the link with media tags. And example link is shown below.

This is how they look....

 

 

You can find links to Tweets from anyone's Twitter profile page. The links are circled in red in this screenshot....

 

 

Right click on these links and copy the link location or left click on them and copy the link from your browsers address bar.