look what I see here...

[simon snowflake]

look what happend, I'm gone for well let's say 15 day's and they changed everything in here.

Did I miss something interesting in the day's I was gone?

ps: how long does it take to understand these forums? I mean the new layout and functions and all?

[flatmatt]

Originally posted by simon snowflake
ps: how long does it take to understand these forums? I mean the new layout and functions and all?

A couple days. Or a week, I couldn't find the quote button just now.

[bobo]

i think this new "interface" is purty confucing. i havn't gotten used to it yet. welcome back simon btw

[simon snowflake]

and what's that with that button

[zorpidus]

Well I must say i took quite some getting used to, but now you know where everything is, the forums have become even easier to use and have more features.

The buddy list works as follows. Just click the buddy button on the post of someone you wanna add to your buddy list. Then go to "My Control Panel" and you can see a list of all your buddies. You can send Personal Messages (PM) to them via that screen, or you can just click the pm button under someone's post.

[chiquita chad]

the buddy button, from what i have concurred, allows you to make a list of your buddies... when you click the 'my control panel' button, you can see a list of your buddies... this allows you to quickly send a PM to someone on ur buddy list, rather than searching for a post by this person and clicking the Private Message thingamaroo...
and isnt kinda odd that sarge's website has a link directly on the message typing thingamaroo box?

[Lucid DM]

No. It's kinda cool .

[Mr. Bojanglez]

i hate these new forums besides the speed, but wait, it still goes the same speed for me...

[simon snowflake]

an other thing.
didn't MR J say that the post counts would be gone?

[Mr Jones]

Originally posted by simon snowflake
an other thing.
didn't MR J say that the post counts would be gone?

Could still be, lots of levers and switches to play with on VB2, the admin and mods are just seeing how everything works at the minute, it's a bit like the secret forum.... oh I said to much

[Forevever]

This forum does run a hell of a lot faster on my machine than the last one. Simon? It'll take you just as long to get used to this mess, as it would take you to get used to any other basic, windows based program.


I don't know about all this stuff... Profiles, buddylists, "personal messages (pm)"....
its starting to hit way too close to my AOL spot....

.. the downfall of AoL was that it became too easy to use, enticing the morons, immature children, immature adults, freaks, weirdo's, and people who think its "OK" to harm themselves and others.
Anyone else remember when AOL was a rich man's toy?

its bad enough our skin sections are flooded with frightening displays of skinner.exe skins... I hope the forum doesn't attract "as much" attention.

[Namelessv1]

Does anybody know why we arent allowed to use avatars?

[Mr Jones]

Originally posted by Dawg4Life2K1
Does anybody know why we arent allowed to use avatars?

Cos avatars are bleh and cluter the place up, they were voted out backstage, bleh, bleh and once again I say bleh !

Besides if you want a funky avatar stick it in your sig line

[simon snowflake]

and there was a open discussion in general where most people say: "or a avatar or a sig" and not both.

[cyana]

<uhm> what's an avatar, anyway ???

[Mr Jones]

A funky little image that lives under your name next to your post, go look over at deviant art, they have them over there. There was some talk about putting some official avatars on the board for people to chose, but hey why bother, if you want a funky image, you can do that in your sig line, least in there you can choose to turn it on or off on every post, avatars would have been on every single post you made, slowing up the board, and making it look , ick.

[cyana]

seems it's just an uncustomizable sig or something like that ? Don't think I would have need for that

BTW - I like the quotes in your sig, they are really funny

[Mr Jones]

Originally posted by cyana
BTW - I like the quotes in your sig, they are really funny

Sad thing is they are all true, don't you just love fan mail?

[cyana]

can't tell ya 'cause I have none

ok - gotta leave now will be back tomorrow evening ...

[simon snowflake]

seems like a good idea to put some of those in my sig aswell.
problem is i want it to change every time, and i guess that would mean a java script.

[Mr Jones]

Scripting in sigs is I belive disabled in VB2, security reasons.

[Lucid DM]

I suppose you could link to a picture that is changed at certain intervals from a different site. Or every time it's acessed? Can you do that?

[simon snowflake]

that would be cool, but i don't know if it can be done. And if it can be done i don't know how.

[The Only Lynx]

me either.. was thinking of such sig.. but i dont know how.. since your sig cant be some sort of webby.. was thinking of a sig with diff color bg every time.. but not possible with just a jpg or gif or png

[Mr. Bojanglez]

you could have a random content script that displayed a random image each time,

[Mr Jones]

That's true, and would work on a web site with the code embedded, I have such a script somewhere, but you would still stuggle I think to call it remotely onto here, the [img] tag, only allows for known image formats to be used, the old trick of sticking a url to a php generated image no longer works.

heh, you could have an animated gif with a 24 hour time delay between frame changes I suppose, that way it would change at least once a day, don't think the time change add's anything in the way of size to a .gif. Make a 30 frame image, with a time span of, oh god I dunno whats 24 hours broken up into milliseconds and image link that.

Extreme way to do it I guess.

Or another way you could do it is, ummmm upload a shit load of image to a server, and errrr, go edit your profile at the start of each day to change the image link, would take what , about 30 seconds ?

Either would work, have fun , I can't see image sigs any longer, should try turning them off the boards look lovely and clear without them on

[simon snowflake]

Originally posted by Mr Jones
Either would work, have fun , I can't see image sigs any longer, should try turning them off the boards look lovely and clear without them on

have you seen my sig the last 6 weeks?