Forum upgrades

[Lebon14]

I get a lot of garbage caracthers and those menus opens themselves. If you click on them, they disappear as long as they have focus. When they lose focus, they re-open.

Screenshot:
https://s25.postimg.org/6futdgabz/issue_x.png

Also, we need BBCode.

[Bore]

Yeah trying to figure out why the menus keep opening themselves up. And the database thing is being worked on.... Meh so much stuff breaks when a forum gets updated oddly enough.

[Bore]

It seems the black styles were causing issues with the forum, a whole lot of issues. Will need to rework and figure out what ones to have that won't be as bright as the basic silver one. BBcode should work though! Not sure why it's not if it's being a buttzone.

[Bore]

Humbe fixed the emails, they should work properly now. Also the database thing should be back to normal. Please lemme know if more problems occur!

[Lebon14]

Hopefully Humbe can find a good dark theme for our forum and make it work too. :) (*and I don't like the avatars and stuff on the right :\ )

[Bore]

It has come to my attention that some people aren't getting the bot prevention screen actually like it should be. If you are having trouble logging on with your normal username/password and the forum gives you a pop up asking for your info, it should look like this:
Not sure whether the image turns different if you've got your windows with a different language than English or whatnot, but it's just there to block bots from signing on.

So to recap. That little window asks you to type in guest / guest to get in.

[Lebon14]

I got that when logging in on mobile (Firefox Mobile) but never got it on desktop (also Firefox). I thought it was the actual login page. :\

[#Infinity]

Well, at least I can post here now. I was getting worried for a moment that something corrupted my account and was going to prevent me from being able to sign in forever while everybody else was able to login just fine. I don't think many newcomers will be able to intuitively bypass the bot blocker, though.

[AL19]

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I felt the same. I thought I was never going to be able to login ever again (Which would've sucked, since I joined this site only a month ago), but thankfully, I managed to login literally a moment ago.

[Lebon14]

[quote=#Infinity post_id=58026 time=1488378289 user_id=919]
Well, at least I can post here now. I was getting worried for a moment that something corrupted my account and was going to prevent me from being able to sign in forever while everybody else was able to login just fine. I don't think many newcomers will be able to intuitively bypass the bot blocker, though.
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Yeah, it tripped me up too. I thought it was the actual login prompt because it appeared when I tapped "Login". I think a capcha at login would be less confusing, imo.

EDIT

BBCode broke or something?

[Bore]

Well, at least I can post here now. I was getting worried for a moment that something corrupted my account and was going to prevent me from being able to sign in forever while everybody else was able to login just fine. I don't think many newcomers will be able to intuitively bypass the bot blocker, though.

Yeah, it tripped me up too. I thought it was the actual login prompt because it appeared when I tapped "Login". I think a capcha at login would be less confusing, imo.

EDIT

BBCode broke or something?

Hmmm no clue why it'd be broken. It should work and I double and triple checked whether BBcode is on. Puzzling. Oh... mine works fine.... why... WHY

[M2-EB]

It works on other threads but here, IMO not a problem as long as people can use everywhere else :)

[Lebon14]

Bore, please, for the love of god, increase the number of PMs we can store. 50 is soooooooo 2000. We are in 2017. Storage is cheap. Increase it to an amount where I won't have to deal with deleting some every few weeks (I'm an archivist...)

[Bore]

Increased to 150, ONE FIVE O!
Supermax collection!

[Jinxy]

Yeah I tried logging in which prompted Chrome to ask me for "authentication". I had no idea what it was about so I tried typing in my regular login info but it didn't work. Then I tried resetting my password but it asked for the authentication for that too. I wouldn't have been able to log in without seeing this thread and knowing I have to type in guest/guest for it to let me in. lol

Might wanna announce it somewhere more publicly so people know what to do, for the time being at least. :)

Another thing to note is that seemingly all email notification settings were reset so you won't be receiving emails from thread replies etc. unless you go to your profile settings under "Board preferences" and "Edit notification options" to change it.

Nice to have a more modern forum style, but I hope the new forum is customizable enough so the looks of the old forum design could be recreated to some degree.