new planetz background color sucks

[ChampionSound]

I'm using Internet Explorer 7 on XP, It worked fine before the change.
Thanks anyway for your effort, John

[John Cooper]

Wow, it looks simply terrible in IE!
Wonder wassup with that.

I'll try to figure it out, as we go.
-john

[John Cooper]

Jeez, IE sucks. I've spent the last hour or so trying to figure out why it looks crappy in IE. There is no reason for those white bars over the Logout/FAQ/Search area, nor above/below the Forum/topics/posts/last-post title.

My recommendation? Download firefox!

Meanwhile, I'm still trying to figure it out.
-John

[Neutron]

you can even have nice planetz colors on other sites like i do

[John Cooper]

Hahah! That's too much Neutron!

Ok, so I think I've got IE going ok, tho in the end I'm not sure what fixed it- i changed so much stuff...

-John

[garyb]

yep, looks great!

[the19thbear]

what happened to the devices section??

[ChampionSound]

Yes! The layout looks good now here on IE! Thanks John

@ the19thbear: Can't you find the Devices section? Go to "Board index" or "Pulsar Files" (or isn't that the problem you mean?). Now it seems that there's an extra path created compared to the old phpBB.

Board index :all the forums
Discussion: all the forums except the "music, devices, modular patches, presets and tools, projects"
pulsar files: music, devices, modular patches, presets and tools, projects, without the rest of the forums.

[John Cooper]

Cool, I think it's finally all settling down

I still think IE does things poorly. On the main page, you can see the title bar of the forums-list flash orange before it changes to blue. Weird.

Firefox is much better!

Incidentally, the firebug add-on to firefox rocks for debugging these kinds of css property inheritance issues. This cleanup would've taken forever without it.

-John

[John Cooper]

what happened to the devices section??

Did you find it yet?

Sometimes I do think we have too many forums. Maybe we should combine some....
-John

[FrancisHarmany]

Sometimes I do think we have too many forums. Maybe we should combine some....
-John

Good idea.

How about merging into something like:

Technical Discussions
- Tech Talk
- Problem Solving


Working with Scope
- Scope Study
- Scope Creativity
- Tips & Tricks

Synths & Samplers & Effects
- Modular Talk
- STS Talk

Gr. Frans

[FrancisHarmany]

Yes might be smart to have seperate problem solving.

Technical Discussions
- Tech Talk
- General Scope Talk

Working with Scope
- Scope Study
- Scope Creativity
- Tips & Tricks

Synths & Samplers & Effects
- Modular Talk
- STS Talk

Soniccore Hardware
- ASB
- XITE
( cards, IO, ... )

Unchanged:

Scope Development

Problem Solving

Device & Module Wishlist

Announcements

Offtopic

[Immanuel]

On the other hand, I would love to see devices split into:

- Stand alone devices
- Modular Modules

[Shroomz~>]

Sometimes I do think we have too many forums. Maybe we should combine some....
-John

Combining the problem solving, modular, music or devices forums would be a big mistake imo. Maybe I've missed a worthwhile forum or two, but at the end of the day if you just want a chatroom, then make it so. I don't think anyone here would want forums to be a burden on you after all. As far as I'm concerned though, you've played a major part in the continuation of Scope through keeping this site running, so thanks a million for that.

cheers,
Mark

[FrancisHarmany]

Combining the problem solving, modular, music or devices forums would be a big mistake imo. Maybe I've missed a worthwhile forum or two, but at the end of the day if you just want a chatroom, then make it so.

Maybe even add more sections to the current Pulsar Files section....

it be neat if we could tag post depending on content. are such systems availible for phpBB ?

[ChampionSound]

One thing I always wondered is: What is the proper place to put general questions about Scope (about certain scope devices, scope hardware or other scope related questions to be answered by other members)? I always felt that a question doesn't fit in the Problem Solving Forum as there is no actual problem, and it's not intended to start a Scope Discussion either
It might be a good idea to combine some forums, but I thought maybe it would be nice to add a sort of Q&A forum? Just a crazy idea here... Or is the Discussion forum the right place for this?

[Immanuel]

If you want to discuss Scope, and you don't have an actual problem at hand, then most of the time, the 'Discussion' area is the place to go.

[basati]

thank you John Cooper

for the forum.



i like this "old"-new layout very much.
Great.

[John Cooper]

it be neat if we could tag post depending on content. are such systems availible for phpBB ?

Back before phpBB2, I had heavily modified the phpBB 1.4 code to support my own tagging system for planetz files, complete with custom search filters, etc. When I upgraded to phpBB2, I asked everyone how much they used that stuff, and nearly everyone said they did not use it. So I abandoned that custom code.

Being less customized makes it easier to upgrade when they release newer versions of phpBB...

-John

[valis]

I vote for the easier to maintain route as phpbb's popularity makes it a big target for automated attacks on the web. I would hate to see planetz being slow due to its use in DOS attacks, or to see it used as a vector to distribute malware.