ZylonBane on 23/1/2010 at 18:44
Why do some posts have different right margins than other posts?
David on 23/1/2010 at 18:48
Quote Posted by David
* The post width problem affects the first and last posts in a thread and is a known problem introduced with vB 4.0.1 and is fixed for the next release.
That's why.
pwyll on 23/1/2010 at 19:43
Where are the Statistics? Where can I find my last posts? I feel so lost in this new design.
R Soul on 23/1/2010 at 19:47
I've just found that the 'search this thread' tool simply returns the thread title, rather than the specific posts. I did try the advanced search, with 'Show Results as' set to Posts.
Stitch on 23/1/2010 at 19:48
Things are looking better every time I check in, thanks for the excellent work, David!
Tannar on 23/1/2010 at 20:03
I can no longer access the Thief Fan Missions forum. I can access all other forums but every time I try to go to the fan mission forum I get the following error message:
Inline Image:
http://i46.tinypic.com/2vb7ajr.jpgFollowing those instructions has no effect.
Goldmoon Dawn on 23/1/2010 at 20:15
The one thing that matters to me the most is that the Forums are still as fast as they were before, perhaps a little faster even? I just hate Forums that take forever for the pages to load up. Nice work guys, another successful operation.
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Tannar on 23/1/2010 at 20:43
It seems to be working now. If you did something to make it work, thanks. If not, thanks anyway. ;)
deathshadow on 23/1/2010 at 21:03
Quote Posted by David
For those who are having font size problems. What fonts and where?
The post fonts are exactly the same size as in vb3.8
On the left is vB3, on the right, vB4.
NO, they are NOT - because theses are declared in px, while the old ones were either declared in PT or %/EM!
Which means for 20-30% of the browsing public, the fonts all just shrunk 25%. See, there's thing option in windows that has gone through many name changes, but it's the same thing - "Large Fonts/120dpi/8514" as opposed to the default "small fonts/96dpi/EGAVGA"
THIS is what your old font looked like to those types of users (like myself, taken from another vBull forums)
Inline Image:
http://www.deathshadow.com/public/images/vBullFont.png(I used that example because I love laughing at some people's Engrish moist goodry)
You'll notice it's a LOT bigger than what you have now forcing me to zoom in 50% to use the forum. With 17" laptops coming along with 1920x1080 displays and 24" desktop displays at 1920x1200, bumping the font size across all software in the OS and 99% of web pages is damned attractive. This is why CONTENT should NEVER be declared in PX, since PX doesn't obey the 'system metric' - the value of what size you want everything on the display. This change in fonts ALSO probably screws handheld users unless they're on a browser like blazer that ignored font size declarations.
PX metric fonts is a miserable /FAIL/ at
teh intarweb ... anyone who knows anything about web development should already be aware of that.
That's just my first complaint - that the forum index is now 91k of markup and some 400k total? Complete and miserable /FAIL/ that means SOMEBODY needs to a beatdown with a wet trout given that the index has only 9k of content... That's just WOW.
If this is ENTIRELY the fault of the new version of vBull and not the skin you happen to have chosen (I figured you customized the skin since it's loading that unnecessary YUI malarkey) then my advice is start looking for another forum software, as this version is so blatently poorly written you'd think we were in the pre-css win98 days.
I particularly love how they 'embraced semantics' by abusing paragraphs and lists on obviously tabular data. (the exact opposite of semantics BTW)
... as to 'faster' - it sure as shine isn't here. It's several magnitudes slower. Gee, 400k forum index (160k compressed) website in 45 files, wonder why that could be...
