Welcome to the new Kikizo Forum

Yeah I'm not saying you should have 0 errors, it's just a good tool to find them
http://www.opera.com/products/dragonfly/
looks like it would be a good tool to help, and there is also a firefox debuger available.

"If you knew how good I am you would think I'm modest."

daylight savings time in the time options would be nice too

"If you knew how good I am you would think I'm modest."

locopuyo


Yeah I'm not saying you should have 0 errors, it's just a good tool to find them
http://www.opera.com/products/dragonfly/
looks like it would be a good tool to help, and there is also a firefox debuger available.

Cool I will check out Dragonfly.
Can you let me know specifically what visual issues there are for you though? I.e. ones that people would notice without looking through a validator if they are using the same browser etc etc as you are?

Will we be using [link] tags (which I have only seen at the old Kikizo) or [url] tags... or both?

Does this forum allow you to add your own customized BBCode (tags)?  If so, I have a few that could enhance things, like embedding of Youtube videos and spoiler tags, etc.  I created the Youtube one specifically for Magicbox.   We should probably get the basic stuff working first.

Joe Redifer


Will we be using [link] tags (which I have only seen at the old Kikizo) or [url] tags... or both?

Does this forum allow you to add your own customized BBCode (tags)?  If so, I have a few that could enhance things, like embedding of Youtube videos and spoiler tags, etc.  I created the Youtube one specifically for Magicbox.   We should probably get the basic stuff working first.

Agreed -- we're working through all issues brought up so far as we speak, hopefully the most urgent fixes will be in place by end of week. Then, custom tagging should be no problem, not on a user basis but on an all-users basis, we have the option to add tags like that, so that should be nice. As for hotlinking, it looks like you can just do it by using the button above but once we work out why only the admin can curently do RTF/tags properly then using both [ link ] and [ url ] should also work fine...

The contact friend's page and the address book page are messed up looking in Opera 9.5  That's the only things I've seen that look out of place in it.

"If you knew how good I am you would think I'm modest."

Hi Adam

Will uploading/displaying pictures into posts work in a similar way to before?

Wow, finally being able to post rocks. The new design looks great and despite that you had some hickups it looks like the most important stuff is working fine now.

locopuyo


The contact friend's page and the address book page are messed up looking in Opera 9.5  That's the only things I've seen that look out of place in it.

Ah right, haven't even checked out those areas yet.

Ornodeal


Will uploading/displaying pictures into posts work in a similar way to before?

Yes, except it should work properly this time...

Ok personally having issues with IE (mind you I am trying to post from work.) I have shifted over to Firefox and it seems fine.

Other than a bit of 'bleed' the forums seem fine. What I mean 'bleed' is where a post is not staying in the frame correctly and spilling into the rest of the page.

Finally , forums are back!

I'll help on the bug reports where i can.

alijay034


Ok personally having issues with IE (mind you I am trying to post from work.) I have shifted over to Firefox and it seems fine.

Other than a bit of 'bleed' the forums seem fine. What I mean 'bleed' is where a post is not staying in the frame correctly and spilling into the rest of the page.

Hey dude could you provide some further details please? i.e. what was the issue with IE, was it 6 or 7?

In firefox, which version, and could you take some grabs of the bleed, is it severe?

By the way everyone since everyone's ability to do pics/code properly you are more than welcome to please email me any screengrabs in relation to visual forum issues at adam@kikizo.com

I'm using IE6 and I don't have the problems alijay has.

So we are back up...and the forums looks well integrated with the rest of the site. Now the circle is complete!
Good job Adam.

You either die a hero or live long enough to see yourself become the villain.

I think the new changes rock. Looks Very Very Sexy.

Can I upload a naked picture of myself and have it as a avatar. Or do the rules still apply.

Oye, looks pretty good so far.  Terrible timing with the changeover happening during E3, although there were few major suprises.

Yeah we decided to be anti E3 this year and pretty much close down not just the forum but the site until it's finished. Well more truthfully it just ended up that way somehow. We're ready for action again now though. We'll probably be making a special "site relaunched" announcement on 1st August and revealing some of our tasty content pipeline. There's some great stuff coming, but you expected that anyway.

i Simply cannot use the quick reply with opera, moreover to use the full version is still hard, the cursor disapear, i'm wrting on a notepad now and i'll past it (hopefuly it'll work)

Mikayed

About Opera:

you can go to previous pages instantly with no to almost no loading

say you visited a page 2 days ago, but you don't remember that damn link, but you do remember some key words, just type them in the adress bar and your link will show up!! now how great is that !

your tabs are saved by default

the quick dial is also a cool feature but you'll need to see that

very stable

great design

soem other stuff you might wanna discover by yourself




- some incompatibilites with some very few websites.

Oooh, very swish. I like this. o_O I just noticed the AJAX (is it AJAX?) popup for full-view message posting. Slick. I've not noticed any real bugs, but then I've only just noticed you guys are back, so will get cracking and see what I can find. :)

Adam Doree
Yeah we decided to be anti E3 this year and pretty much close down not just the forum but the site until it's finished. Well more truthfully it just ended up that way somehow.

You didn't miss much anyway. MS = Look how great we can copy everyone else (although the first half hour with all those sequels was niiiice); Nintendo = [crickets chirp]; Sony = We're going to hide most of our best stuff in 3 minute montages. ^_^

Regardless, I want to go to E3 next year. Hell, I want to go TGS this year...

I'll echo what Loco said though Adam, sometimes checking that Validator thing can help you take out some really stupid oddities in a particular browser. I tell you, W3C is the bane of my life, lol. Many times I've worked on my own site just to find out it's broken by their standards :) I just don't bother with it now, but sometimes I validate just in case someone's getting something odd in Opera and not in Firefox or something.

EDIT: I guess the BBCode's not working yet ^.^

I am with you on W3. Trust me, when we finalised the code for our new design, there were zero errors in the W3 validator. THEN you start putting in functionality. Things like advertising and anything remotely touchy, and you will get errors, it's life. But I know that we started with a base code of the new design that was 100% XHTML Transitional W3 compliant... I can even prove it if you want! The forum was trickier than the main site not just due to its very complex functionality needs but also controlling all the design was different to the main site. This is why some of us are currently seeing some issues we need to iron out, we would not be able to do it if we did not put it live for you guys to test as we don't have a proper test center with all browsers, systems etc etc. :)

I really like the look of not only the new forum but the whole site Adam. Well done.

BTW, what are the reward points?

Most wanted games:

Mass Effect
Assasins Creed
Crysis
Little Big Planet
Drakes Fortune
UTIII
Kane and Lynch
Heavy Rain
Alan Wake

Ok, everyone has mentioned the slickness of the look, but no one has said this yet, so I will... the tone of blue chosen for the letters is very nice, I like it a lot

its cool so far, altough its a little slower than the old forum, work on that and I will be happy.

It would be nice to get the EE and VG fourm quick lings at the top like the old one.

"If you knew how good I am you would think I'm modest."

New forum is great.

Oh by the way, I would drink ya under the table Mass!

Edit: what the hell, so wo rich taxt / tags work for me but none for non admins?!

Yeah, I noticed that too. Maybe it's something to do with the permissions in your Admin panel? I'm not sure how vBulletin's admin works all that well, but I'm sure there's a way to modify usergroups; there'll be an option as to whether non-"Kikizo Staff" users can use HTML/BBCode etc. Maybe that option's unchecked?

EDIT: Also, started using some of the features of the forum and came across some nice design bugs. I don't know what the attachment thing's like on here... heck may as well give it a go to test it out.

Ah, looks like I can't pop my attachments directly into a post (it'll most likely appear after the text here, then).

SNAP1.JPG - Profile page; the bottom of every small container seems to be using the same rounded bottom for a full-page container, making the page stretch off to the right. Because of the background being centred too, scrolling left to right moves the whole page outside of those nice blue bar gradients there.

Oh I guess I can't upload more than one thing per post. Well I put the rest up on Imageshack, so I can link from there too.

http://img77.imageshack.us/img77/1159/snap2xk1.jpg
Profile page again; another example of the rounded bottom of the small container stretching off. I think just changing it to an image that's half the size will do the trick.

http://img521.imageshack.us/img521/117/snap3gx0.jpg
Private Messages; Seems like the folders table is by default placed next to the current message you are viewing - but the tables are quite wide as you can see. ^.^ You could either make the Inbox/whatever folder tables much more narrow so the Private Message can fit on the same page, or move the Private Message box underneath the Inbox folders?

I'm using Firefox 3.0.1 on a Mac platform, by the way. This might not be happening on a Windows platform, but thought I'd throw it out there.

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OK so here is something weird... the code tags not displaying as they should (unless posted by admin)... try logging out and anyone's code tags siaplay as they should when you are logged out! Weird.

So we have about 10 fixes on the way guys.

The Opera issue we are also looking in to.

I'd like it if the Total Posts, Joined, Status, etc. info could be minimized or removed so there wouldn't end up being a big blank space on short posts.  If I really want to know that stuff (which I won't) I can look at someone's profile.

Is it possible to make the message window smaller?  So it doesn't require a scroll bar.  Like throwing out the second and third box and integrate those feature into the main box as buttons.  Or just making everything smaller.  The scroll bar is driving me nuts.  It's especially annoying when I scroll my message box down to post the message and the background page scrolls instead.

Secondly, is there an option to have the message box open in another tab/window like the old forum did?  

Finally, this has been mentioned before.  None of us want to choose where to go after we post our message.  We expect to be brought to the message we just posted.

"This is sad. There's no other word for it. The person who invents a way to punch someone in the face over the Internet will make millions from the demand generated by people like this." Youtube comments

The scrolling on reply window, returning to your message after posting, and info under people's posts are all being worked on. :)

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Adam Doree


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The Man:
"The scrolling on reply window, returning to your message after posting, and info under people's posts are all being worked on. :)"
 
Nice, I'm not a programmer but dealing with all of this must be a real headache.  I guess the worst is over...

EDIT: Changing thread pages while writting a message causes you to lose your message box.

"This is sad. There's no other word for it. The person who invents a way to punch someone in the face over the Internet will make millions from the demand generated by people like this." Youtube comments

Joe Redifer

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Failed. :(

The new forum kicks ass. It's much better than the old one.

But i'm still waiting for my name to be changed to red. Don't keep my hanging on Doree!



Badass! ;)

Nitro


The new forum kicks ass. It's much better than the old one.

But i'm still waiting for my name to be changed to red. Don't keep my hanging on Doree!



Badass! ;)

Wonder if I'm allowed to quote things, seeing people write in red and bold successfully now...

.... Ooh.

Apparently I'm a Ninja Dog. Cool. Can I be a Ghost Dog instead though? ;)

How are you guys getting these side names. Can I have Black Man next to my name .

By the way I'm no Dog.