Texas Justice

They can consolidate Community and Moderator positions, not have to have separate (paid) positions for other items on the forums, only one place to post information (no more of the UK boards getting the good news before the US boards) and several other reasons that make a lot of sense for, if nothing else, financial reasons.

You can. Trying to remember how it was stated. It's either here or in the Feedback thread.

Basically, go to front page of forums and log in. Click on English to open those forums (I think that was the step mentioned), set your bookmark/favorite/homepage to that page.

I've finally found a way to get my homepage set the way I want with just my Favorite Threads by having my Homepage by my UserCP page and the Subscribed Forums feature.

I wish now I could remember who it was that got me started on that road so I could thank them properly with Rep. I'll find the post eventually though in the next day or so and get the Rep assigned, unless they disabled it.

Unfortunately, I can think of several places where it might be abused.

I could see lowering it to 15 seconds. Maybe. Unless that gets abused.

As a side thought, it might be an attempt to avoid some of the accidental double-posts, although there may be mods or something that can handle that instead. Unless, that mod is what's causing this. Something to think about at least.

Seen. Reported.

No further comment by me about that action.

I see several tweets today from Positron, BABs, Niviene, TheDarkWatcher and others, it looks like they just forgot to tweet from the CoH_OCR account.






I blame Moderator 08





















EDIT: Oddly, I didn't get that tweet either, but when I look at the CoH_OCR page, I see a message from 7 hours ago Welcoming us to the new forums. The tweet before that we TheOcho making the comment that the new forums are so pretty and then taunting us about us wishing we could see them. Odd. Wonder why those tweets didn't come through like the rest? Ah, found it further in my history. Right after that Niv tweeted that they were down again. CoH_OCR didn't update after that. I still blame Moderator 08.

SECOND EDIT: Welcome to the forums Scorned Demonion.

I'm sorry to hear you are having slow loads on the forums. I currently have 5 different instances of IE 8 open to the forums in different sections, continually refreshing them, opening posts, replying, etc. and I'm getting much faster responses than I did with the UBB forums.

You can turn your ratings off in the UserCP. I've seen at least one poster already that has it turned off. And she's someone I'd have expected to see with a high rating due to how helpful she's been over the years in making avatars, animated valentines, specialized icons for for various uses, being a big part of a large group across several servers (that I won't name to keep her anonymity) among other things.

The saved bookmarks don't work because part of the address of the post on the old UBB forums was ... wait for it .... UBB specific code. These vBulletin forums don't use that UBB code, just as the UBB forums didn't use the vBulletin code. Those were links to websites that no longer exist with that address. The posts may still exist, and if they do you can find them and edit your bookmarks to show the new addresses. I could be really sarcastic and make a comment about how I've never seen a webpage change it's address (often with a comment about updating your favorites or bookmarks), but I'd rather not get modded this soon on the new boards. And sarcasm wasn't the reason for my reply. Otherwise, yeah, I'd go there.

They are still making updates to the system, they got the forums up and going as quickly as they could, now they can start tweaking things and making refinements such as adding Villainous icons, getting all of the additional addresses such as boards.cityofvillains.com and others to work correctly, etc. Give them a bit of time. They pushed themselves pretty hard getting these up as quickly as they could in time for Double XP weekend.

Have a little patience, explore some of the underpinnings of vBulletin, let them get some good mods for vBulletin installed or some new templates, styles, skins, etc. You might just find that there are things you really do like about them.

I'll assume you ARE aware that global channels are handled by a different server from the game servers? And that globals are cross-server? So, if you overload most of the servers, as inevitably happens on a Double XP weekend, the global servers are going to be even more overloaded than usual, right?

I know from seeing some tweets that several Devs (some we don't even have names for) are keeping an eye on the various systems and taking steps as needed to try to keep this as smooth as they can with minimal downtime to fix issues.

I don't use the Back button. Instead, I use the Forum Jump navigation tool in the lower right corner to take me back to the Index to the forums I'm currently reading, or to Jump to the Index to a completely different forum.

I think it's more a case of not really being WYSIWYG but having the quick HTML type editing tools without allowing full HTML code in the posts.

Someone at vBulletin apparently thought that having the Bold, Italicize, Font, Links, Quotes, and other formatting buttons at the top is what it means to be WYSIWYG.

It's probably as close as we'll get since I doubt they will enable HTML code in posts.

Talk about a nightmare. Sheesh.