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Points: 1650 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: 28 Feb 2012 at 07:25
Thanks, TC.

Beri, are you referring to tearing? ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Screen_tearing)

This is something older machines will do if they aren't using hardware compositing to render web pages which are rendered inefficiently.  I get it too in Firefox with my secondary monitor, but not in Chrome (the difference being that Chrome doesn't do smooth scrolling) or on my primary monitor (the secondary suffers from performance stutter when it is turned sideways as now).

EDIT: ok, I see what you're talking about, and no, that's not normal at all.  It looks almost like the page is being rendered and then re-drawn with some post-load display changes.  The way it flashes over itself is something I've never seen before.  The background always appears a moment later as well, which could be the same kind of bad caching that makes the town view in-game excruciatingly painful in Firefox.


Edited by HonoredMule - 28 Feb 2012 at 07:29
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Points: 211 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: 28 Feb 2012 at 11:45
Originally posted by GM Luna GM Luna wrote:

The goal of the new forum theme is it bring it in line graphically with not only the rest of the website, but the game as well. 

We can certainly make tweaks as needed (and are still doing so) but going back to black wouldn't really be in line with the new look. The black was a carryover from the very first website and game UI which is not in use anymore. 

Hope that helps.

Luna


I strongly recommend that the forums return to their original colour and format! Angry
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Points: 2157 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: 28 Feb 2012 at 12:56
Originally posted by HonoredMule HonoredMule wrote:

EDIT: ok, I see what you're talking about, and no, that's not normal at all.  It looks almost like the page is being rendered and then re-drawn with some post-load display changes.  The way it flashes over itself is something I've never seen before.  The background always appears a moment later as well, which could be the same kind of bad caching that makes the town view in-game excruciatingly painful in Firefox.
The "social" buttons Twitter, Facebook and Google+ were causing some issues with page load performance due to these third party sites not always responding in a timely manner, so these are added post load. 

The background issue seems to be a browser bug with the fixed position and a script applied background - so we have added this back into normal flow, which resolves it.
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Points: 335 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: 28 Feb 2012 at 23:02
Im not sure what it is doing, but every time i make a post, it automatically centers the text when i start typing, and when I post, it adds some random line of broken code below it.  (see below)

< id="_npwlo" ="applicationpwlo" height="0">
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Points: 380 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: 29 Feb 2012 at 00:15
Liking the new icons based on the game buttons :) They're much cleaner.

One question Is it possible to *EASILY* change the color of the "new posts" yellow star to red, blue or something that stands out better against the icon, or is that set-in-stone by the forum software? By easily I mean "click a button in the backend of the forum platform." Yellow on yellowish-gold color is hard to pick out easily.
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Points: 2042 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: 29 Feb 2012 at 00:20
Yes. I can take a look at changing star colors. :)

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Points: 223 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: 29 Feb 2012 at 04:15
While I like the change of colors, my " Alliance Leaders, Give Us" thread isn't under my control and yet this change has made most of the replies (which make up the information content) unreadable. I don't suppose, Luna, that you could somehow format everything in that thread to black and let each poster change their text to some other color if they take the time to notice and care?  Big smile
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Points: 800 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: 29 Feb 2012 at 13:40
Originally posted by GM Luna GM Luna wrote:

Originally posted by Bonaparta Bonaparta wrote:


Perhaps you should remove custom colors from all past posts.
Unfortunately, there's no easy way to do that. It would have to be done manually.

The forum content exists somewhere, and can be modified.  A script could find all old articles, look for whatever constitutes "set foreground colour x", and replace it by black.  A good test article is the  quest-guide:  Everybody needs it when the wiki is unavailable; and parts of it use a foreground colour suited only for a dark background.

For old read "last modified at a time with a black background", not the creation time -- the bulk update script should not touch any manually fixed articles.
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Points: 14 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: 29 Feb 2012 at 16:42
Hi. I think I found a small problem with the new colour scheme. When searching in the forums it'll look like this, right?
Hot Topic
Topic: Dev Chat Livestream 2.21.12 - Submit Questions!
Forum: News

The problem here is the background of the above text is in dark chocolate, and so is the font colour of the links. The font colour of the words "Topic" and "Forum" are in black, which doesn't make it any easier to read. I'm not sure if it is a problem just on my machine, but I've tested on both Firefox and Chrome, with the same results.
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Points: 350 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: 29 Feb 2012 at 16:43
i don't get it why can we just keep it dark?

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