Goats Forums 2.0

I couldn't help but make a quick stop in to check out the new forums. They look great! Just on a quick look around though, I noticed one issue with the MetaModerate page. Under the comment that is to be metamoderated - where you make your selections, check the context, etc., the background is now black, however the text that is not a link is also black, causing the reader to have to highlight the text to still read it. The first comment however, had a white background, it was just the remaining comments that were black. Otherwise, I love the changes so far! Great work Guys (and by guys, I mean phillip).

In Response to coolhand (#6239):

I probably missed that page; I'll go in and take a look at it now.

In Response to jon (#6240):

Jon,
Your entire sig is cut off on the right when reading your reply. The message is complete though.

In Response to Rich (#6241):

Rich, what browser, version and OS are you using? Everything looks fine to me on my machine, so it's likely browser-specific.

Also, if you can let me know what your screen resolution is and whether you're viewing in flat, threaded or nested mode, that would help greatly.

Anyone else who spots a display bug, if you could also include that information, that would be helpful and you will be my special friend.

In Response to Rich (#6241):

It looks like there are still some issues with line wrapping of the message content when using threaded view. If I keep my screen at a reasonable width, I can see a partial amount of Rich's message (and I'm betting most people can't see all of this one at all.). As I make my screen wider, the amount I can see gets larger.

It seems to work reasonably well in preview mode, though.

In Response to zamphir (#6243):

If you can let me know what browser, version, OS and screen resolution you're using, that would help immeasurably.

In Response to jon (#6242):

I'm seeing the same thing on IE 6 on Windows NT. Or at least, I'm seeing something.

What I'm seeing is the right hand edge of the message box is chopped flat. It seems to be some sort of frame clipping, because it's a constant line across all messages.

I'm viewing in nested mode, and my screen resolution is 1280x1024.

Hmmm....there seems to be a problem when I add an URL for my avatar. The forum generates a generic error.

In Response to jon (#6244):

whoah...ok, i see it now

It only occurs in nested view (IE6,WinXP, 1280x1024...window resized).

To my html-savy eyes, it appears the indented nested messages are bigger than the master cell they are in, and so get cropped by the cell for the sidebar (the one w/ Diablo at the podium).

In Response to Dynedain (#6247):

it's a IE-only CSS bug; it screws up width caculations when you mix tables and DIVs. I have it fixed (along with some other fixes) on our dev server; and eevrything will hopefully be normal once Phillip uploads the fixes to the live servers.

In Response to Dynedain (#6246):

Can you be more specific about the error? The text of the error would be handy.

Also, make sure that your avatar isn't any bigger than 100px square, and (I believe ) 30k in size.

Also, did you enter a full URL with the http:// prefix?

In Response to jon (#6251):

On first attempt for me, I got an "unrecognized file format" error for a GIF that's 98x100 and 4k. This was highlighted in red on the preferences page.

All subsequent attempts to set an avatar just went to a white page with black, generic text saying that an error was encountered, and it'd be fixed after everybodyy got back from the pub.

Other than that and the side of nested comments being cut off in IE, I really like the new forums. Somebody give Phillip a beer for me.

In Response to jon (#6251):

Well...initially my image was 50x60 and less than 30k. I had changed it to 70x90 to match yours, and was still getting the error. Yes, I enter the fully qualified URL correctly. The error message I was getting was the same one already mentioned (...when we get back from the pub). I just tried again in order to get the exact wording, and strangely, it worked....I didn't do anything different so I assume either you or phillip fixed something.

In Response to Dynedain (#6255):

the Image::Info [cpan.org] module uses IO::String internally, but must "require" it intead of "use" it, so there's no error generated until you try it.

It's fixed.

In Response to jon (#6249):

We have normality. I repeat, we have normality.

Anything you still can't cope with is therefore your own problem.

In Response to jon (#6242):

Jon,
I'm running Win98 SP2, IE 5.5, 800x600, nested mode. (You want to do an auction so I can do a major upgrade?)
It looks like the red line at the top of the page under the word 'forums' is the width of the viewable forum area. I noticed in Ver. 1.0 some of the longer nested items had the right line of the message box missing but thought nothing of it until now. Those messages were still readable.

In Response to Rich (#6258):

Can you email me a screenshot? (dont' post it here; just email it.)

My first impression is that this may be an IE5 CSS bug, and that upgrading to 6.0 would fix it for you, but I'll be happy to take a look.

In Response to jon (#6257):

We have normality. I repeat, we have normality.

Feeling optimistic today? Or merely continuing your quest to redefine the dominant paradigm?

I'd just like to take a minute to thank Jon for the avatar for Lonely Goatherd.

It's much much funnier than a potato with a switchblade.

In Response to zamphir (#6268):

Man, I still have that photo of the yam with the plastic knife rubber-banded to it somewhere....

oh man. it's like sex on a stick except less dripping is involved....

This is part of the plot to stop me doing any work isn't it? I now simply have to spend the day working on an avatar that will sum up my persona and all...

Actually screw that I'm gonna make an interesting avatar instead.

In Response to tor (#6270):

Oh interesting little bug (wheee I get to be a special friend).

When I posted my first post it said (during preview mode) that I registered in June 2003. I assumed that you guys had just dumped a date of now into everyones profile. When it posted however it showed Sep 2000 (which I assume is correct).

In Response to tor (#6270):

That's blatantly offensive - since when have you ever done any work?

In Response to tor (#6271):

Sydney (I tried to think of something funny.. honest)

You did think of something funny... :-)

In Response to tor (#6271):

Oh interesting little bug (wheee I get to be a special friend).

But you didn't include the browser, version and OS you're using. Sorry, no special friend status for you.