Hey everyone - I've been asked to move all threads with complaints and suggestions about the new site to the Feedback forum.
Please make any further complaints, comments about the new site, bug reports, feature requests, etc. etc. over there. If you make them here, I'm just going to have to move them, so please save me the trouble, okay? 
Thanks - here's the link: http://www.harmonycentral.com/t5/Feedback/bd-p/Lau
They actually listen to some complaints over there. I complained about tags being removed (especially harmless tags like husker du) and they reinstated a few.
They still haven't fixed whatever problem is preventing me from posting my favorite peacock gif though.
http://peendubya.freeforums.org/images/smilies/bir
edit: i guess i can just load it directly from my comp. success!!
Originally Posted by ben_allison
Phil O'Keefe wrote:Hey everyone - I've been asked to move all threads with complaints and suggestions about the new site to the Feedback forum.
Please make any further complaints, comments about the new site, bug reports, feature requests, etc. etc. over there. If you make them here, I'm just going to have to move them, so please save me the trouble, okay?
Thanks - here's the link: http://www.harmonycentral.com/t5/Feedback/bd-p/Lau
nch_Feedback
Done. 
skr3ddy wrote:
Phil O'Keefe wrote:
Hey everyone - I've been asked to move all threads with complaints and suggestions about the new site to the Feedback forum.
Please make any further complaints, comments about the new site, bug reports, feature requests, etc. etc. over there. If you make them here, I'm just going to have to move them, so please save me the trouble, okay?
Thanks - here's the link: http://www.harmonycentral.com/t5/Feedback/bd-p/Lau
nch_Feedback
Done.
Thanks Marc - we appreciate your input. That goes for all of you - good or bad, please let us know what you like and what you want to see changed. Now's your chance to have a say... and to have it heard.
lefort_1 wrote:
...wow Phil, I sure do wish there was a bug-reporting system like I used to have bitd when I did this stuff for a living... oh well.
Supposedly someone at GC is compiling and prioritizing things based off what they see posted in the Feedback forum. It's not visible to the public, but they have a spreadsheet that is going to the Lithium folks, HC Admins, etc. with the list of issues to be addressed, although it hasn't been updated for a couple of days. They're probably off for the weekend. Must be nice.
goodhonk wrote:
Phil, the forum still has some tweaking, but I like the new format. It was a good move.
Thank you sir! It's definitely going to need some refinement, but we knew that going in. While we really wanted it to be perfect, or as close to it as we could get at launch, we felt it was better to get here early and then polish (even though we knew we'd catch hell over the incomplete design and setup) rather than make people continue to have to suffer through the timeouts, page hangs and database errors that had made the old site all but unusable.
Please do keep that feedback coming folks - it's important, and it will make a difference! 
1) the thread titles on the main page can't be 3 lines long. please. just let them stretch out longer and fit into one.
2) no need for HUGE thread titles on every post in the thread. just take them out completely, we know what thread we are in
3) each page in a thread needs to contain more than like 7-8 posts. at least 10, or whatever the old forum was
4) what is this, a forum for ants?
5) PLEASE remove the bald 'rockstars from the sidebars.
6) make avatars bigger
7) make the new message (PM) notification bigger/more noticeable
8) if possible add simple [img]url[/img] htmls **bleep**
9) get RID of the **bleep** bleeps! **bleep**!
10) bring back old smileys like :thu: :cool: 
hil: :vuvu: :eek: ...and so on
other than that great work everyone.
macadood wrote:
1) the thread titles on the main page can't be 3 lines long. please. just let them stretch out longer and fit into one.
2) no need for HUGE thread titles on every post in the thread. just take them out completely, we know what thread we are in
3) each page in a thread needs to contain more than like 7-8 posts. at least 10, or whatever the old forum was
4) what is this, a forum for ants?
5) PLEASE remove the bald 'rockstars from the sidebars.
6) make avatars bigger
7) make the new message (PM) notification bigger/more noticeable
8) if possible add simple [img]url[/img] htmls **bleep**
9) get RID of the **bleep** bleeps! **bleep**!
10) bring back old smileys like :thu: :cool:
other than that great work everyone.
Great list, but unless you post it in the Feedback forum (link's in the OP of this thread), the people who most need to see it will probably never know you said anything...
The bald rockstars in the sidebar are me... 
I've personally requested / suggested that the thread title field be lengthened. Make the type font for the replies, new author, kudos latest, and post smaller so that there's more room for it, but I absolutely agree - it needs to be wider, and to not cut off thread titles of average and reasonable length.
I mentioned that the avatars were way too small very early in the development process, but apparently someone thought they knew better than me about what you guys would dig. Let them know you want that via the Feedback forum if it's important to you.
The bleeps were supposed to be fucking shut off already, and I don't know why the bloody hell they weren't. :mad: (It's good to be the king. ) However, there will be a very strict no cursing in thread titles rule in place, as we've always had, and probably some limits on what we can have in sigs too, but the filter is supposed to be shut down. Come on - if your name is Richard and you're not a mod, and you want to use a common nickname for your name (Dick), you can't do it without getting bleeped. As I've already said, that's just ridiculous.
The last item on your list is something I've looked into. The phil stuff was done by friends of mine, and I have permission to use those, but everything else we had was vB, and all of those are under copyright. I looked into licensing them, but vBulletin only allows their use on vB boards, and refuses to license them. We supposedly do have someone working on alternatives, and I'm looking into whether or not there are other packages that could be licensed, and whether or not Lithium could substitute or add them if indeed we are able to find something that everyone likes - and yes, if it's up to me, we'll be asking you guys what you think and which ones you prefer before making a final decision.
I have not messed with any colors or fonts, but man are the margins fixed on my personal browser, and there's no "Top Tags" box taking up the right margin of the message index either. I don't mean to step on anybody at GC's big plans to make money on ads from this forum or anything, but we could be looking at a trend here. Chrome browser->Stylebot extension...
div.hc-header-ad {
display: none;
}
div.lia-content {
width: 96%;
}
div.lia-quilt-column.lia-quilt-column-08.lia-quilt
display: none;
}
div.lia-quilt-column.lia-quilt-column-16.lia-quilt
width: 100%;
}
I made a post the other night with several swear words to test whether or not the smut filter had been turned off. Of course, as we all know now, it wasn't yet, but because I'm an admin, apparently it thinks I can say whatever I want, and nothing was bleeped. It was probably the most popular post I've made since the switchover. And while I rarely curse here, "doesn't do doesn't mean doesn't know how."
There are definitely ways around the filter Doc, which is part of what makes the whole idea so silly, but don't bother yourself with it. Sure, we want to keep the site PG-13, but if you're under 13, you're not supposed to be here anyway, and anything really egregious, we're going to slam down hard on it. Oops, I said "hard on" - those words might trigger the smut filter...
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