Welcome to the new boards

[Ben Seeman]

At long last, here they are! WOOHOO!

Throughout the first part of this week, you guys will probably notice some inconsistencies in the stability of the site. This is to reflect the stability of my mind. As the week goes on, the site, and my sanity, will become much more stable. Currently, the board, Digital Hero and the online store are being run off of the new server and over the next couple days the rest of the stie will be transfered and our DNS entry finally updated to reflect the change.
Thanks for your patience duringthis entire process.

Ben

[bcholmes]

Yay!

Looks good!

[Simon]

Just a few notes for everyone on the new logins:

The original intent was to setup everything to feed off of the same login. Unfortunately, there were a few issues in doing this with vBulletin (the ugliness of PHP notwithstanding, they also encrypt their passwords in their database, making it very difficult to intercept/forward registration changes to the database that drives the rest of the site).

So, effectively, there are 2 logins for the Hero Games site. One login will be used for the Chat Rooms, Digital Hero, and the Store. The other login will be used for the message boards. (note: there's nothing stopping you from making both of these logins the same).

Hope this makes sense!

[Jerry A!]

The new boards look great!!! Congrats on getting all this pulled together.

Just out of curiosity, could you please entertain one or two suggestions?

1) Please consider installing some other color schemes. At least something that is black on white.

2) Is there any direct URL that will take one directly to the message board only. I understand the embedded frame aspect creates a nice, unifying look. However, on slower connections it does make things a drag as the top & sidebar as well as images are loaded.

But I swear, i really love the new site!

[Simon]

There is no "embedded frameset" anymore. No framesets of any kind

If you're on a dialup, you can set your browser cache settings so that it just uses the cached images rather than pulling them down each time....should help with the speed.

[Hierax]

Good to see the new boards up!

Is the content from the old message boards going to be transferred over to the new boards OR will it be available in an archived format? Will it be available at all?

There's just so much good content there that I'd hate not to be able to access it.

Thanks!

[Yamo]

Thanks!

[Ben Seeman]

Originally posted by Hierax
Good to see the new boards up!

Is the content from the old message boards going to be transferred over to the new boards OR will it be available in an archived format? Will it be available at all?

There's just so much good content there that I'd had not to be able to access it.

Thanks!

Once the site is completely stable I'll be looking to restore the old discussion board threads.

[lemming]

Nice going ben.

Though maybe you want to put a note in the registration email to change
http://www.herogames.com to http://herogame.dans.cust.servlets.net

unless the url is always going to be at servlets.

[EternityShard]

Hmm. Perhaps this is unique to me, and it most certainly isn't a large problem, but on the message board homepage, the New Posts icons don't unset unless I click on the "mark all post as read" in that forum, even if I've read the one post in there.

Is this a setting I'm missing, or is this a problem for anyone else. Though I realize it was a different message board, this was working correctly for me on the Temporary Boards.

[Simon]

It's the way the boards are intended to function. Just a difference in the software being used.

The new messages flag is set by your last login time. Clicking "mark all messages as read" will update your last login time (effectively) and clear the flags.

Logging in again will have the same effect

[Jerry A!]

Originally posted by EternityShard
Hmm. Perhaps this is unique to me, and it most certainly isn't a large problem, but on the message board homepage, the New Posts icons don't unset unless I click on the "mark all post as read" in that forum, even if I've read the one post in there.

Is this a setting I'm missing, or is this a problem for anyone else. Though I realize it was a different message board, this was working correctly for me on the Temporary Boards.

I'm seeing the same thing here. Could this be a cookie mismatch issue?

Also, is there anyway to jump back to the "View New Posts" page once you start reading a thread from there? Currently, it just takes you to the thread proper.

[EternityShard]

Originally posted by dsimon
It's the way the boards are intended to function. Just a difference in the software being used.

The new messages flag is set by your last login time. Clicking "mark all messages as read" will update your last login time (effectively) and clear the flags.

Logging in again will have the same effect

Aha. Good to know it is at least operating as intended, though I assumed it would update as I browsed, like on the temp boards.

[Jerry A!]

Originally posted by dsimon
It's the way the boards are intended to function. Just a difference in the software being used.

The new messages flag is set by your last login time. Clicking "mark all messages as read" will update your last login time (effectively) and clear the flags.

Logging in again will have the same effect

That's pretty counter-intuitive. So all posts will always be marked as unread unless I manually mark them as read, or I log out?

Sorta makes those arrow buttons useless if you plan on staying around or hitting a forum more than once.

[Monolith]

Is there an address for the message boards that is not part of the Hero Games webpage? I would much rather go there to get on the boards than to lose such a large portion of my small screen to the Hero Games borders.