OT Testing

[Denny Crane]

Anything is possible. Why is it worth doing?

 

[BBert]

These are the permissions for user BBert:

View attachment 4557

This is what I see in your signature:

View attachment 4558

The tags look in improper order, with two [[ in a row.

Try erasing your whole signature and redo it from scratch. I know images work in signatures - see mine...

To insert an image, click on this button:

View attachment 4559

It should work.

Photobucket gives four choices for copying the link to the photo: "Email", "Direct", "HTML", and "IMG". Because "IMG" uses an "URL", and the insert image function calls for an URL, I chose "IMG". I copied it to a Word doc to look at it, and it does seem redundant. Whatever, it doesn't work.

So I tried it using the "Direct" link: and Voila. It works.

I'd still much rather upload a picture from my computer, but OK.

Thanks.

 

[Denny Crane]

When I've posted in a thread, it shows my avatar and the thread originator's avatar:



That's how I know I've participated in the thread.

 

[Denny Crane]

Photobucket gives four choices for copying the link to the photo: "Email", "Direct", "HTML", and "IMG". Because "IMG" uses an "URL", and the insert image function calls for an URL, I chose "IMG". I copied it to a Word doc to look at it, and it does seem redundant. Whatever, it doesn't work.

So I tried it using the "Direct" link: and Voila. It works.

I'd still much rather upload a picture from my computer, but OK.

Thanks.

On my mac, and only in Chrome, I'm able to drag an image from desktop or any other window with an image in it (another browser, iPhoto, etc.) into the editor where I want the picture and it's there. No need to upload, no need to provide a link.

You can upload images into our media gallery and link to the image from there:
http://www.sportstwo.com/media/
Create your own album

 

[BBert]

One comment:

I think the sig pics, avatars, and text frames are too big. Especially on my iPad, the text is too small compared to all the other clutter and pictures and extraneous stuff on the page. On my iPad, the text is so small it is difficult to read. Meanwhile, there are a lot of pretty pictures and other stuff taking up a lot of room.

My two pesos.

 

[BBert]

On my mac, and only in Chrome, I'm able to drag an image from desktop or any other window with an image in it (another browser, iPhoto, etc.) into the editor where I want the picture and it's there. No need to upload, no need to provide a link.

You can upload images into our media gallery and link to the image from there:
http://www.sportstwo.com/media/
Create your own album

Hmm...Interesting. I'll have to try that. (Copy and paste didn't work, LOL. )

 

[speeds]

Anything is possible. Why is it worth doing?

The MMA forum is mostly comprised of threads I've made and having 900 Bruno Caboclo's on the left side of the page is a bit odd. For events I could use actual fight posters as the thread images which would be more appropriate. For other forums, having say the opposing team's logo in a game thread would make sense. It wouldn't have to be a full-time thing where you have to pick an image but maybe an option to set one (like how we have the option to add a poll) would work?

 

[Denny Crane]

This is what it looks like on my ipad:



The text seems big enough to me.

 

[Denny Crane]

The MMA forum is mostly comprised of threads I've made and having 900 Bruno Caboclo's on the left side of the page is a bit odd. For events I could use actual fight posters as the thread images which would be more appropriate. For other forums, having say the opposing team's logo in a game thread would make sense. It wouldn't have to be a full-time thing where you have to pick an image but maybe an option to set one (like how we have the option to add a poll) would work?

As near as I can tell, it would break the ability to see what thread's you've participated in if you're not the thread starter.

 

[speeds]

So

stops working?

That sucks.

 

[Denny Crane]

Google for a xenforo add on and if you find one, I'll install it.

 

[speeds]

I'll have a look.

 

[speeds]

https://xenforo.com/community/resources/thumbnails-by-waindigo.223/

+

https://xenforo.com/community/resou...go-formerly-last-post-avatar-by-waindigo.266/

?

 

[Denny Crane]

https://xenforo.com/community/resources/thumbnails-by-waindigo.223/

+

https://xenforo.com/community/resou...go-formerly-last-post-avatar-by-waindigo.266/

?

 

[speeds]

Ah shit. Oh well.

 

[Denny Crane]

Read the discussion on that plugin. Maybe he's fixed it. I'm busy doing my day job, but I can look later.

 

[speeds]

Looks like similar questions and requests have not been addressed.

 

[illmatic99]

The beauty of this forum used to be its simplicity. That's what clutchfans and even lakersground have right now.

Now this place looks like the mess at realgm. Way too much text, pictures, clutter. Way too many unnecessary features that people won't use. I get getting ahead of the curve with these things, but was this drastic of a change needed? Bugging me more than I thought it would.

 

[SlyPokerDog]

The beauty of this forum used to be its simplicity. That's what clutchfans and even lakersground have right now.

Now this place looks like the mess at realgm. Way too much text, pictures, clutter. Way too many unnecessary features that people won't use. I get getting ahead of the curve with these things, but was this drastic of a change needed? Bugging me more than I thought it would.

Can you be a little more clear on your concerns? I'm looking over the front page of the forum and if you remove the far right column it looks very similar to what we had previously. What are the unnecessary features you are concerned about?

 

[illmatic99]

Will be easier to do with screenshots. Can do that later this evening when i get home

 

[speeds]

"Important posts" being separated looks good.

 

[Denny Crane]

I cannot tell the difference inside a thread between old and new site.

Here's a screenshot of the old forum:



And the new:



The differences aren't that significant.

The list of moderators and who's online are now in a column on the right.

Instead of all the threads having different colored envelopes next to them: there's the thread starter's avatar, very small.

The OT subforums are displayed on the new site in 3 columns in tiny font. Saves a click to get to Denny's List, for example. The subforums are rendered in a different style than the thread list, but it's perfectly intuitive how they work and the stats and stuff are there.

The thread list looks identical to me, with all the same information. The [1][2][3] jump to pages appear on the new site if you hover over the thread instead of being there all the time. Both vb4 and xenforo have thread prefixes, but xenforo has nice style to them. We just didn't use them in vb4 because they were ugly.

So we have a column on the right and found a way to make more use of it than just the who's online list. Does that right column prevent you from looking at the stuff rendered in the huge left side of the page?

 

[illmatic99]

I cannot tell the difference inside a thread between old and new site.

Here's a screenshot of the old forum:

View attachment 4565

And the new:

View attachment 4566

The differences aren't that significant.

The list of moderators and who's online are now in a column on the right.

Instead of all the threads having different colored envelopes next to them: View attachment 4567 there's the thread starter's avatar, very small.

The OT subforums are displayed on the new site in 3 columns in tiny font. Saves a click to get to Denny's List, for example. The subforums are rendered in a different style than the thread list, but it's perfectly intuitive how they work and the stats and stuff are there.

The thread list looks identical to me, with all the same information. The [1][2][3] jump to pages appear on the new site if you hover over the thread instead of being there all the time. Both vb4 and xenforo have thread prefixes, but xenforo has nice style to them. We just didn't use them in vb4 because they were ugly.

So we have a column on the right and found a way to make more use of it than just the who's online list. Does that right column prevent you from looking at the stuff rendered in the huge left side of the page?

Biggest difference for me is the pics as mentioned before. I had them all turned off. Img codes, tweets, the avatars, etc. Like the pics of avatars on the left of each thread topic.... what purpose does this serve? I liked the simple green light that indicated if I had posted in it. Maybe I just need to get used to it .... hate the inability to turn off pics though

 

[SlyPokerDog]

Biggest difference for me is the pics as mentioned before. I had them all turned off. Img codes, tweets, the avatars, etc. Like the pics of avatars on the left of each thread topic.... what purpose does this serve? I liked the simple green light that indicated if I had posted in it. Maybe I just need to get used to it .... hate the inability to turn off pics though

The pictures make it easier for people to avoid the threads I create.

 

[Denny Crane]

It's not a feature that's built in.

However, I think I may be able to add a plugin that provides this feature.

View attachment 4556

Yup something like that. It was available on the old version. How do I access it?

I have to install it. Later today, like 5PM after work

And I don't control what TapaTalk does. They provide a plugin on the server that talks to the database and to the client on the phone. They've been updating the client program and I think it's taken a turn for the worse. HCP's been complaining about their changes for a while now.

You might try visiting the site in the browser on your phone. I think the experience is better than tapatalk anyway. Several people have posted they like it better than tapatalk, too.

...

 

[SlyPokerDog]

Test

Denny, the forum doesn't understand gifv pics.

 

[SlyPokerDog]

Also, how in the hell do you merge threads?

 

[Denny Crane]

https://xenforo.com/community/threads/merge-threads.15955/

 

[SlyPokerDog]

https://xenforo.com/community/threads/merge-threads.15955/

That's pretty slick but you have white font in a white test box background again.

 

[Denny Crane]

Where?