Forums are now running SMF 2.0!

[Nalgas]

(Which appears to be either a deformed windmill, or a pile of pudding bearing a crucifix.)

Perhaps it's both: A Pudding Without Wind.

[Cyborg]

Things that would make this new forum better:

-Ability to see markup tags in the  message writing window

Goto: Profile / Look and Layout Preference and untick "Show WYSIWYG editor on post page by default."
Should get the markup tags then.. make sure you click "change profile"

Thanks, this worked.

[x4000]

Cool stuff!  Got the new default theme that Flatline created in there, and the old (new old) theme is also still in place for those who want it.  Will customize the folder icons further tomorrow, when I have more time.

In terms of the new favicon, that's the AVWW icon.   It doesn't reduce super well, at least not in non-transparent format, so I might change that at some point.  But for now that's what it is.

[Nalgas]

Cool stuff!  Got the new default theme that Flatline created in there

Seems to be working fine, aside from a couple minor things.  The way it highlights things like the subject field when you mouse over them when replying to posts is a little disconcerting/weird, and the emoticons look a bit off on a dark background because for some reason people still use GIFs instead of PNGs and don't have proper alpha channels as a result.  Nothing major, though, and those are SMF's fault.

It feels darker than the main page/site, but the colors really are the same.  I think it's just because it's the nature of the forum to have larger blocks of the darker colors without the bright pictures and stuff to break it up.

[BobTheJanitor]

I like the look of that new theme, but I'm going to have to stick with the old one until there are proper 'new post' icons for the new one. I just have to be able to quickly scan a page and see which topics have updates, and just seeing the word 'new' in the same font and with nothing to make it stand out just isn't doing it for me. Hopefully that's on deck for a fix soon, because I think it looks quite snazzy otherwise.

[KingIsaacLinksr]

New topic icon doesn't work on the iPhone's safari browser FYI!

But the new look is nice

King

[x4000]

Okay, awesome -- thanks for all those additions, Flatline!  Those are now in place, as well as I've put in new art for the actual forum index graphics.  Looking good!

[x4000]

It's fine with me -- I wouldn't use it, but I imagine others might.

[x4000]

Nifty, thanks!  I think people will like that -- it's in now.

[BobTheJanitor]

New post buttons. My life is complete. Thanks!

[Nalgas]

Fixed "Code" background and "Hover" on input, see Nalgas post.. attached css file
goes in: http://www.arcengames.com/forums/Themes/arcentheme/css/

Heh.  You work fast.  It's already fixed before I got around to looking for what controls that.

The only other thing I've run into so far is that manually entered links in HTML editing mode like in this post are displayed using the same style as the plain text surrounding them (or at least a visually identical one), unlike the auto-generated links.  I only know that "This one" is a link because it always has been in every other update.

Not that I'm going around looking for more work for you to do or anything like that.  I'm a little surprised you appeared out of nowhere and just did all this, so thanks for that.

[x4000]

That definitely does improve the color of the forums!  Another nice one.

And good tip on the menus, though I actually do like the pull-down style.

[Nenad]

Wow, I just noticed the new look of the forum, it's great! I especially like the pictures for games on the main forum page (although, the AVWW picture looks a bit too dark compared to the background).

And the top with the grey "dunes" is just amazing!

[BobTheJanitor]

Just noticed what I assume is another bug in this theme. When viewing the topic lists for each forum, every topic of multiple pages has a 'next' button next to it, and this button always takes you to page 2 of the thread regardless of how long the thread is. Not sure how that got there, but I assume this is some code that is supposed to go at the bottom of the threads and not in the topic list.

[quickstix]

I thought this place was shinier, and darker, than I remember. Every second forum having the 'blue-text, white background' tends to confuse me when I have a few of them open. Nice work.