Just so we don't have an explosion of 5000 different threads. 
Sorin as an avatar :-)
Some of the buttons don't appear as others do in Firefox.
I would like some sort of theme/option for a somewhat narrower forum. Yeah I know 1024 wide is old tech, but I'm not looking to upgrade anytime soon.
1. The quick navigation menu at the bottom of each site in the old board was a huge help navigating the forums. Please bring it back.
2. New themes that are easy on the eyes. All this white is quite straining.
3. Please let us change our user names in the Profile window. The route over CustServ is too complicated.
Intra-forum links were broken by the update. They simply return you to the main forums page. There should at least be a message explaining that intra-forum links were broken by the upgrade, but really, someone should have taken care to make sure the links remained intact.
1. spoiler blocks!!!
2. All the sub-forums are listed one after another in paragraph format. That is not particularly easy on the eyes and it makes it harder to find the particular forum (e.g. character optimization, defenders, multiclassing, etc.) you are looking for. Can we bullet point them or something similar?
My moniter cannot go wider than 1024, so I have to scroll the website sidways to view it all. Could you shrink it down a little please?
sblock and deck appear to not work anymore... and would there be any way to remove the 'recent topics' and 'most viewed topics' sidebars? Everything seems so... narrow... now.
My post count and subscribed threads are all lost.
In addition to the request (mentioned by someone else in another thread) to recover PMs if possible, I would also appreciate if there were some way to modify viewing options (especially number of threads per page). Also, the current system has the white space of the post the same color as the space outside the post, with no border; this makes it harder to read. Also, when writing a post it doesn't show the last several posts; this also makes things harder and should be changed.
What the heck? One of them even have a "1/4" symbol
1. Option to disable the Recent Topics/Popular Topics sidebar from appearing, so it doesn't eat up 33% of the screen real estate.
2. Page doesn't like up at the bottom (bottom banner is indented)
3. "Insert Photo"/"Insert Video" are dummy links that simply refresh the current page (and deleting your post). It worked once, and now it doesn't. I'm using IE6.
4. Numerous visual-graphic errors that are hideous on the eyes. This includes the "Preview Post" button which is not long enough to contain the text and current appears as "Preview Po". The "Cancel" does not even have a button look to it.
5. Please add an option to select/customize preferences for each Tab view. Preferably for the Forum tab, which is where most of the users have the most investment in.
EDIT: 6. Under the default theme, the sub-forum identifier is White text on White background.
6.b. Some sub-forums have a header text that's literally Size:0. You can hardly tell there's text there.
That pic broke my theme. Not sure if that's happening on all of them though.
That pic broke my theme. Not sure if that's happening on all of them though.
It seemed to break that page only. Previous page in this thread works.
Also, seconding the complaint about line length. Also, spoiler blocks from before no longer work properly.
what i need:
1) different themes. this one is just to hard on my eyes.
2) sblocks or any other means to use spoiler-tags.
3) shortcuts to link to any other thread or post.
4) vbb instead of tinymce html editor.
what are general bugs:
a) all the old posts should be converted if the tags do NOT stay the same. pretty much everything that was ever written in vbb is new SCREWED up.
example: community.wizards.com/go/thread/view/758...
b) signatures did not get converted, as are ignore lists.
c) usernames are displayed all lowercase, with only the first letter in uppercase. that's really an annoyance, users do not spell their upper or lowercase letters by chance.
What the heck? One of them even have a "1/4" symbol
Your sig is too wide and breaks the tiny forum format. =(
My main issue is how much space the recent and popular topics frames take up. It's ridiculous to have those over taking up a third of the screen all the time. It's fine on the forums home page (which they aren't on!) but when I'm deep in a thread, I'd really rather not see them. That space is better utilized for stuff I actually want to read!
I set my posts per page to 40 several times under preferences and it stays at 10. It also sends me back to the uppermost forum page.
The topic feed on the side needs to give some kind of indication what section the posts are in.
I'd really like to see a new feature added that allows people to connect for games and to form groups. Think of it as matchmaking players and DMs in their home cities. If I am looking for a new group, I go to the page, and list myself as seeking a game as a player, DM, either, or both. Then someone else can some in and search for people in their city, and find other people that are looking for games/groups.
Yes, a narrower display please! Some of us don't have giant huge monitors with amazing resolution :p
Navigation links at the top skip the DnD subforum your in.. For example, in this thread, at the top it goes
Classic View > Dungeons and Dragons > Comunity Business > Bug Issues....
It skipped the DnD HQ (and skips DnD fundamentals, etc)
I've got a friend req to a friend that's vanished- both our profiles tell us it's pending, but it doesn't appear to be anywhere when we try and accept it- and when we try to resend it, it tells us it's already pending.
I'd like to see the capability to view sent friend reqs, and manage them.
Also, yeah, I don't know if it's firefox, but the display goes wonky on pages- header bars are too long, and god forbid if I increase the font size too much. Buttons are weird, and things scale wrong so a lot of text goes off the edge.
I also want to second the ability to customize the side feed. I have no interest at all in whats going on in the forums of games that I don't play, so I don't want to see them cluttering up my monitor.
It'd also be nice to customize WHERE the 'forums' link goes, so that when I click forums because I want to go to D&D, I don't have to click through that atrocious picture menu every bloody time.
Where are all the old avatars? And can you implement .png avatars?
Where did the old forum themes go?
Search is not as good as it was.
Where is Quick Reply? And my Quick Edit?
I need Spoiler Blocks. And Font Sizes.
Where is the option to review a thread while writing a new message?
I want the old Smilies back.
Old Quotes look wonky.
A lot of the old functionality is gone. We want it back.
I want the old "View my subscribed threads" section back. It was easy and convieniant to be able to see all my subscribed threads listed AND which ones had new posts in them in one easy-to-access page. The fact nothing like that exists is just mind-boggling.
You dropped the ball Wizards. You really did.
I wish forum codes actually worked, I mean bloody hell, they exist so I don't have tos pend a bajillion minutes clicking everywhere
My name lost its capitalization in the transfer, but I'll bother CustServ with it.
Group profile avatar doesn't update properly. The group's real picture changes but I can't seem to change the profile picture that way. It's over at community.wizards.com/hashhash4e, I deleted the older picture so that might be it.
Please, oh PLEASE let me use a page with lower margins. My monitor is 900px wide and the new forums are nigh on unreadable. The new features are cool (Yay Wikis and Groups!), but not being able to navigate the forums without massive use of side scroll bar is almost a deal killer.
With any luck, I'll be able to greasemonkey the site into submission.
Can we get some basic forum functionality back? Stuff like displaying pages for multipage threads in the thread overview so that we can click straight there rather than having to start on page 1. Or perhaps more importantly, being able to go to the last unread post in a thread. Actually, can I can get some kind of obvious indicator that there has been a new post. That would be nice(maybe there is one, but I didn't notice it earlier). I'd also like size codes back as my compilation thread depended on them for formatting.
-=Edit: Oh and also I would like the option to display 30 posts per page to help me keep formatting straight from the previous forum.=-
I second the request for the ability to adjust forum viewing options. Ten posts per page is way too few for me, and I would like the option of increasing it. Like others, I would like the option to disable the right-hand sidebar. We also definitely need s-blocks back. For that matter, it would be nice to have all of the old vbb tags and smilies back. They are much more functional than HTML in my opinion.
EDIT: My screen-name has been altered in the migration as well. It used to be SkyOdin.
I second the request for the ability to adjust forum viewing options. Ten posts per page is way too few for me, and I would like the option of increasing it. Like others, I would like the option to disable the right-hand sidebar. We also definitely need s-blocks back. For that matter, it would be nice to have all of the old vbb tags and smilies back. They are much more functional than HTML in my opinion.
Look in the upper left, there's a link called Preferences where you can adjust # of posts/page.
I do agree about the codes/smilies though. I hope they simply didn't have them coded in yet and are working on it. Having to click the formatting options everytime I want to use one is poor.
Gerdef
I hate to post just to repeat what others are saying, but seriously: please bring back the brown paper look and kill the recent/popular posts sidebar.
......I just realized they got rid of the twitch and uh-huh smileys. I now know why they got rid of the font sizes, because if they hadn't I would be screaming obsenities as large as possible at them right now. Migrating to ENWorld is sounding really good to me right now.
Everything said above, and...
All that cod-HTML code no longer works. There goes my Handbook...
On the start page, all the buttons for different boards occasionally vanish when you mouse-over them. I've done basic web-page building and that's the first thing I checked before uploading.
Very slow responsiveness, sometimes I hit enter or type, and nothing happens. (Firefox, University internet connection, so normally quite fast.)
Line-spacing in writing a post is too far apart, it seems to be 1.5 instead of 1. And it's even worse in the finished product.
Way too much empty space crowding out post windows. Make them bigger. And please get rid of the side-bar advertising new and popular threads/posts, or make it customizable so it can be either removed and/or limited to boards you're interested in.
Search is worse than ever, without even the option to search thread titles instead of posts, let alone an Advanced Search option.
It's difficult to find forums, as the forum names are small and all run together rather being bulletted. And they're out of order - shouldn't Forgotten Realms General, Forgotten Realms Realmslore and Running The Realms all sit together?
I'm sure I'll find more problems.
My post count and subscribed threads are all lost.
Your post count appears to be back. It says 739.
But where are my subscribed threads?
My post count and subscribed threads are all lost.
Your post count appears to be back. It says 739.But where are my subscribed threads?
I had nearly 2k before this switchover.
postcount? Really?
Feh, I just want sblocks back, and for them to make the site work on different resolutions so I don't have to spend a day scrolling to the side to read stuff. Fixed width is one of those horrible horrible decisions I can't see them actually approving, so I can only come to the conclusion that it was the result of someone being lazy and taking advantage of standardized monitor size in the office.
sblocks.
I know everyone else has said this, but I put a lot of work into my handbook and it is unreadable now. I even have a lot of stuff I was ready to add to it that I will not add until this is fixed because without sblock it is useless.
The white. Seriously. It hurts my eyes.
Also, Pink link text is painful to read, especially over the white. bat move.
and seriously, that was a double return. There should be one blank line, and then this line. It looks like there are four or five blank lines there. WTH.
Need spoiler blocks! Need search functionality! need to ditch that useless 'recent threads' column.
I don't care much for friend or homepage or group options. If I wanted to use facebook, I would go to used facebook. Wizards had one of the best forum setups around. A joy to use, easy to format, easy on the eyes. This was not a trade I approve of.
The option to convert the look back to classic.
postcount? Really?
Yeah, its just a minor complaint. My real issue is the complete disappearance of ALL my subscribed threads.
The white. Seriously. It hurts my eyes....
I don't care much for friend or homepage or group options. If I wanted to use facebook, I would go to used facebook. Wizards had one of the best forum setups around. A joy to use, easy to format, easy on the eyes. This was not a trade I approve of.
Seconded (or is it 942'd by now?). Maybe I'm just an old-timer, but I want forums to be functional as forums, not a "Gamers Singles-dot-com" kind of thing with message capacity tacked on seemingly as an afterthought.
Just off the top of my head that I observed in the first ten minutes of playing around with the new forums:
The choice of a white background is a bit distracting. I'd like something similar to what we had before, or at least options to change it to a classic version (I'm sure they'll have something like this eventually).
The way the forums and sub-forums are laid out is a bit hard for me to get used to. It feels a bit cluttered. I also wish there was a more logical arrangement for the forums. I liked how they were given enough space between each other (at least the D&D ones).
It might be just me (and the fact that this new format will take some getting used to), but I also feel like I have to jump through more hoops to check out some of the forums and threads I used to always navigate to before.
Also, the spacing when I use the carriage return is kinda wonky when I try posting here now.
Hiding sblocks would be nice
ShowHiding sblocks would be nice
Links in quotes don't work either.
community.wizards.com/go/forum/view/7588...
Quote this, submit, then click on the link.
Oh well, -- N
I want the old "View my subscribed threads" section back. It was easy and convieniant to be able to see all my subscribed threads listed AND which ones had new posts in them in one easy-to-access page. The fact nothing like that exists is just mind-boggling.
You dropped the ball Wizards. You really did.
This. This right here. I had over 500 threads subscribed too. They ranged from pbp games to homebrewed content (3.5 and 4th). Guess what? There is nextto no chance I'm ever going to find them. All the conversations or debates I was involved in? I spent most of my time on the forum watching my subscribed threads.
Further, I'm not going to be able to find them. Navigating this forum is a nightmare for me. My PC blows. My screen size is only 640x480 and the white is burning my eyes. It's just a total nightmare. I never thought I'd consider leaving the forum, but I'm seriously considering it now.
I'd like to see a return of viewing the first line or two of a thread when I hover over its link in the forums. It saves so much time when thread titles are ambiguous or lost in translation.
They need to take a look at how the my.yahoo.com page works. I mean it is so customizable. You can grab anything and re-arrange how it looks. They need something like that. Seriously WotC you screwed this one up. You could have just grabbed a fully functional completely tested 'community' site package, but you decided not to, plus there was little or no testing. Seriously spend some money and get this thing working!
(removed complaint) Nevermind.. wasn't logged in at the other page I was viewing in a different window. 
(another removed complaint) Weird... apparently, this has been fixed. Yay! Still... It would be nice to have an "edited at" time stamp whenever someone edits a post. Otherwise, we're going to have some "revisionist history" shenanigans going on in this here forum. That's NOT cool.
Oh, and add to that pretty much almost everything that everyone else has suggested.
Also:
- I lost my UnCon badge (won from the 2008 Previous Editions UnCon).
- Like others, capitalization was lost on my forum name (was MnemonicSV, now Mnemonicsv).
Actually, If I had a choice, I'd lose the SV entirely from my forum name (they're just my RL initials, I only put them in because way back in April 2001, "Mnemonic" was taken). Still, now my forum name just looks like a big typo instead of having any significance at all.
EDIT: Oh, and everyone remember: Any text that appears between the "<" and ">" symbols will not be included in the post when submitted, since the system uses html tags now.
Why is the Running the Realms sub-forum below the Other Worlds sub-forum and not the Realmslore sub-forum?
Where is the little Go to first unread post widgit for the threads?
Where is the title of the last posted thread for the sub-forums?
Why is there air?
Bel
Where is the little Go to first unread post widgit for the threads?
Well, this one I can answer at least, thanks to Dirtyfrank in the Off Topic Tavern. Have you seen that after you read/post in a thread you get a little pink box with the number of new posts in it after someone else posts in that thread? Just click that and it takes you to wherever you last read to in the thread.
Where is the little Go to first unread post widgit for the threads?
Well, this one I can answer at least, thanks to Dirtyfrank in the Off Topic Tavern. Have you seen that after you read/post in a thread you get a little pink box with the number of new posts in it after someone else posts in that thread? Just click that and it takes you to wherever you last read to in the thread.
Ah! That answers that question and another one too boot!
I would offer you a cookie sir, but it seem they forgot to bake any.
Bel
Where is the little Go to first unread post widgit for the threads?
Well, this one I can answer at least, thanks to Dirtyfrank in the Off Topic Tavern. Have you seen that after you read/post in a thread you get a little pink box with the number of new posts in it after someone else posts in that thread? Just click that and it takes you to wherever you last read to in the thread.Ah! That answers that question and another one too boot!
I would offer you a cookie sir, but it seem they forgot to bake any.
Bel
Always glad to help. They'll definitely have to fix the lack of cookies. (Although its low on the priority list, after getting rid of those new/popular thread boxes and a few other things.)
I want the old "View my subscribed threads" section back. It was easy and convieniant to be able to see all my subscribed threads listed AND which ones had new posts in them in one easy-to-access page. The fact nothing like that exists is just mind-boggling.
You dropped the ball Wizards. You really did.
Click 'Preferences' at the top of the page, select 'Thread Subscriptions' option.
They haven't archived our old ones, but at least they're easier to add now (button at the top of every thread, one click does it).
I seriously think that WotC needs to limit what html tags posters are allowed to use in their posts. Near as I can tell right now (as illustrated by my last post), I don't think there's anything that can't be coded in. EDIT: Actually... I just tried playing around with some code, and some WAS removed.
For instance, watch as I insert the code for a signature line, even though I don't have a signature set up (apologies to Narukagami for stealing his sig):
This new forum is terrible. Try again Wizards.
What CAN'T I insert into my posts now?
Things against the ToS.
So... My list of issues and bugs:
-Text on buttons isn't always centered correctly.
-Auto Double line from "Enter" button (carrage return).
-Tabbing doesn't work. Can't paragraph indent.
-Spoiler tags. I don't use them much myself but Keeping stuff hidden or compressed helps a lot.
-Can't view thread you're responding to unless it's open in another window.
-Themes: They look nice, but a lot of forum users literally spend hours a day reading and discussing things on the "forum"(more on that later) the white is KILLER on eyes. It needs to be able to be changed. Personally a solid black background and a few brighter colors for text and box discrimination would be prefered.
-Recent topics and Popular topics: Take up way too much space, they need to be removed, removable or collapsable.
-Thread pages: for quickly going to the end or partway into the thread without having to open it first.
-Forums and sub-forums: Poorly Organized, unless you intended for everything to be Alphabetical and forced to gether in a paragraph format. If the subforums are being kept selecting them should be made easier(one per line, maybe an expandable sub list.)
-Doesn't FEEL like a forum. It still has most of the forum astuff but a lot was changed or removed. It's mostly shock but the second switch to a "community setup" isn't a good sign unless... (see below)
I have a blog, I don't use it often, I have very little to express to the world as the interrnet doesn't care about me making a daily post saying "SSDD" Forcing the Blog, and wiki and photostore and video stuff down our throats is an odd thing but I think I know what it's actually there for and HOPE I'm right. the Electronic tabletop and map functions they said we were going to get when 4E launched. If this is the case, the group funtion of the new "forum" will be simply amazing until then it's only pretty cool, and helpful for a few of the ongoing contests on the forums.
Things against the ToS.
That much I can guess.
As well as anything that would constitute as a "disruption" I imagine.
Oh, but as for the double spacing... hold shift while you hit enter for only one line. Still frustrating though.
HR WIDTH = 40000 (surrounded by "<" and ">")
And just like that I can make the page almost unreadable. Oh yeah, this forum needs some tweaking... badly. Guess that's why it's a "beta."
Additional: Auto double space after a quote, specially after removing them in the actual reply box.
There appears to be no consistency to whether or not updated threads are bolded or not. I log in, check a board for the first time, and one thread is bold, another not, yet both were recently updated.
I do like the numbers telling you how many new posts there have been in a thread since you last read it, and that clicking on them takes you to the first new one - well, usually, sometimes it goes someplace else. But the big pink box is ugly, and I also miss the ability to choose a page (like the last one) before entering a long thread.
I also miss the mouse-over preview of posts.
Oh, and some posts and sigs are leaking over into the f-ing huge sidebar. If nothing else, please remove the portraits from the sidebar, they are completely unnecessary and most annoying.
We need a better FAQ. vBulleten code doesn't work here anymore and I bet most people don't have much experience with HTML. Also there are features all over that people are asking about and don't know how to use or even if they exist.
In addition that column on the right is sometimes too close. It overlaps with text and squashes pics.
1.- From D&D page link to forums (Community/Message Boards) you have to navigate and click a lot to find the forums.
2.- The subforums appear like a continuous text, not line by line. Horrible.
D&D Fundamentals
Sub-Forums (13): 4e Multiclassing, Paragon Paths and Epic Destinies, 4e Rituals, Equipment & Magic Items, 4e Races and Monsters, 4e Character Optimization, 4e Rules Q&A, 4e General Discussion, 4e Character Development, 4e Defenders, 4e Strikers, 4e Leaders, 4e Controllers, 4e Combat: Traps, Terrain and Tactics, 4e Books Errata
3.- You can not see the last thread post of each subforum, only the last poster, who cares???
4.- The sidebar with the recent posts is not interesting, because there are a lot of post, so it is improbable that these posts can be useful for anyone.
5.- There is much less space for text than in the previous forums, you have to scroll down a lot to read the posts.
6.- In this reply, I can not see the previous posts!!!
I've been browsing the forums for 30 mins.
My eyes hurt from all the white.
I had to press shift+enter to actually make that 2nd line single spaced (pressing enter is automatically double space?)
The profile image of Will Fuqua is etched into my brain thanks to the recent/popular thing at the right.
Thanks for putting up the forums before the weekend. I though it would suck having to wait another week to read the forums.
I'll probably not visit the forums for another week. Surely everything will be heavenly by then.
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|Preview Po|
I'll save people some trouble. If it's bbcode then it doesn't work. The new system isn't set up to do anything with it, at the moment. No clue if it can/will be implemented at a later date.
Note quite. They made bold work, and the various colors work.
I could get by without most of the bcode, except I'd really like more documentation of the style sheet, to make it easier to use nice quote boxes.
Also, the "raw html" view strips out white space... so you can't really use that to compose anything in. Just as a paste window. And since I hope to god they are stripping out java script, you can't really do an sblock in HTML.
Give it a couple weeks while they adjust for the influx of users (part of Beta testing). I'm sure we will see things rearranged and changed.
I've been browsing the forums for 30 mins.
My eyes hurt from all the white.I had to press shift+enter to actually make that 2nd line single spaced (pressing enter is automatically double space?)
Shift Enter is equivilent to </br>. Hitting enter is equivilent to </ p>. And their default style sheet has a little extra space between paragraphs.
Probably mentioned already, but meh:
1) Recent Topics covers some text. An option to disable it would be nice.
2) Capital letters in screen names are only used on the first name.
3) It would be nice to get the 'view first unread' option back. It made it really easy to keep up with discussions you were involved in.
So yeah. This is a beta, so we're supposed to say what we think needs to change.
I can make it real easy. There's only one thing you Wotco web techs need to do.
Put the old version of the forums back up, and make the current Forums button point there, so we can get into our old accounts with our old subscription lists and our old PM boxes instead of the current empty ones.
.....
On the other hand, if you didn't keep a backup of those forums which you can now restore, then I suggest you commit ritual seppuku immediately rather than wait to see what the community will do to you for trashing all their PMs and subscriptions.
Here's a fun one:
I just got a network invite sent to my work email. Well, that's not the email I used for my account and it's not listed anywhere. I'd rather not have that sort of thing pop up in my work stuff, thanks.
On the other hand, if you didn't keep a backup of those forums which you can now restore, then I suggest you commit ritual seppuku immediately rather than wait to see what the community will do to you for trashing all their PMs and subscriptions.
!*'?>YXS?`°!!!! I've forgotten about the PMs! Fortunately, I've got most character sheets backed up... I hope...
How about the ability to add/remove the boxes in your profile. And include a box that contains your subscribed threads.
RSS feeds for groups would be nice.
repeating what I said in another thread in this, the main thread:
shortcuts to other forums (Living Forgotten Realms, The Marketplace) like the old boards had.
I really like the new design, but making it difficult to get to the LFR boards has me a bit puzzled.
Quoting is TERRIBLE.
Find the post that I'm attributing to the above author.
Ooooooh boy, arguments with snarky people are going to be the opposite of fun.
Oh well, -- N
Quoting is TERRIBLE.
Eh. I don't think that's a huge difference. [ quote=Bob]something bob didn't say[ /quote] always worked. I just don't understand why they are bothering with the "post=" part, since there's no link I can find.
Edit: And not only did I know that quoting was terrible, I knew that in 1970 before the internet was invented and slightly before I was born. I is Smart!
1) To echo others, please arrange it that the entire page width is visible at 1024 x 768. I'll just end up ignoring the stuff on the side otherwise.
Not sure the People search is functioning correctly. I did a partial name search for myself and got one result that was totally unrelated as far as I can tell.
Request:
Bring back the li'l check mark that showed what threads you posted in. I post all over the place and can't be expected to remember all of the threads I've commented in. 
The check mark was really useful.
Personally Iwould like to see the sblock come back As a regular to COmost of the handbooks are unreadible now.
Bring back the li'l check mark that showed what threads you posted in.
This x1000.
That little check mark was the single best thing about the old forums. I'm basically never going to get involved in any kind of lengthy, in-depth discussion without such an indicator of which thread I've actually been arguing in. My memory for thread titles and locations sucks.
I wouls also like to see the shortcuts to other forums (Living Forgotten Realms, The Marketplace) like the old boards had brought back.
Can we get a list of all threads we have posted in on our profile's "Home" page? It would be better than the "X posted in the Y thread" ten times. Just a simple header of "Threads X has posted in" and a link to the threads, sorted on the most recent post.
Can the Calendar be linked to the RPGA events? If I have entered a zip code and a default distance to search in my profile, can the calendar do a quick query on the RPGA events that are within the distance parameters, and put those events on the calendar? That could be a huge benefit to people looking for a LFR game.
I added an image to my signature. And I could make changes to it fine. But when I deleted my sig and just left the box blank, it said it saved the prefs successfully, but had reverted back to what was in it before I cleared it. In other words, once I had put something in my signature, I couldn't change it back to blank.
How about tags for photos? Kind of sucks looking through page after page with nothing to really navigate by. And as long as we're doing it page by page, can the number of pages available in the pagination be increased. There's 81 pages atm, and you can select 1-6 or 81. And going up pages only gives you the next 2 in the count. So for instance, clicking 6 in the above example adds 7-8 in the list. Just lay em out 1-9, then every 10 after that.
Suggestion: REMOVE THE EXTRA BR TAG
That's what is really causing the massive amounts of white space between the paragraphs. The editor is formatting the HTML correctly, but on display it is adding an extra BR tag after each actual line break in the HTML Code.
That means the displayed code is showing up as (substituting parens for angle bracket):
(p)Here is my first paragraph of text. But at the end of it the display function is adding an extra line break tag.(br /)(/p)
(p)Then my second paragraph effectively has a double space between.(/p)
Enjoy!
can we have sperate lists for sub formes...so we know what is what...
Friend request isn't working right. I got a request and accepted it. But still shows request pending although there's no requests on that page. Also the person isn't showing up in my list of friends.
-edit- The friend just showed up in my list. Not sure what's going on.
I just noticed that the Subsections are now each treated as a Forum. This means that all the subsections like D&D HQ and D&D Fundementals can each have threads posted there. This seems counterintuitive, so if the code can't be changed CM will will probably need to lock those subsections.
Change paragraph spacing from 1.5 lines to .5 lines.
Make it so alternating posts have altnerating background colors/color schemes.
Allow us to choose some color scheme other than "white and light blue". This is a terrible color scheme, and it looks awful. Alternatively, change the white to off-white for everyone. I'm not talking about the stuff off on the sides, I'm talking about what actually matters - the actual stuff under what we read, as well as the buttons at the bottom of the response page.
Separate out the forums to their own lines with their own little description of what the forum is about.
Move D&D general back to the top, where it belongs. Hiding it makes it much less user friendly. Yes, people post in the wrong forum all the time. That's not nearly as much of a problem as putting people off because they can't find a place to post at all.
Less White
Less White
Try the FireFox + Stylish script in my sig.
Most of us don't use Firefox. And we shouldn't have to write our own scripts in order to provide basic functionality.
I'm sure he understands that but if you're interested in fixing the problem instead of just whining about it, that will work for now.
The issue with the black on white format has been brought up repeatedly over the last 24 hours so rest assured, WotC knows that forummers think this is an issue. In the meantime, you may want to give an actual fix a try if the site is hurting your eyes that badly.
Most of us don't use Firefox. And we shouldn't have to write our own scripts in order to provide basic functionality.
Well, you should use FireFox, and AdBlock and NoScript and TACO. I mean, that's just basic self-preservation.
(And actually, as of July, 47.9% of web surfers do use FireFox, according to this report. That's almost half the market, and significantly more than those who use IE.)
Secondly, you don't have to write your own script, because I wrote it for you. Enjoy!
Is it just me or the Recent Topics/Most Viewed Topics sidebars are mostly gone? If that is so, then thank you for listening, Wiz.
One unrelated suggestion: I hope we won't be allowed to put pics into our sigs. This is just annoying as more than a few people think that their sig is supposed to be their whole personal web page.
Is it just me or the Recent Topics/Most Viewed Topics sidebars are mostly gone?
Well, they are and they aren't. The sidebar seems to be gone in the lower levels of the forum hierarchy, but is still there higher up.
But really, I don't think anyone had a problem with the concept of the side bar. What many, many of us objected to was the massive amount of space that it takes up and the pathetically tiny width that it forces the actual forums into.
And while the sidebar may be gone, all that has taken its place is more blank white space. When the change the forum to be twice as wide and use that space then we can thank them for listening.
Is it just me or the Recent Topics/Most Viewed Topics sidebars are mostly gone?
Well, they are and they aren't. The sidebar seems to be gone in the lower levels of the forum hierarchy, but is still there higher up.But really, I don't think anyone had a problem with the concept of the side bar. What many, many of us objected to was the massive amount of space that it takes up and the pathetically tiny width that it forces the actual forums into.
And while the sidebar may be gone, all that has taken its place is more blank white space. When the change the forum to be twice as wide and use that space then we can thank them for listening.
One thing at a time. The sidebars are gone from where they were the most aggravating, that's what I'm thankful for. There is still a ton of issues (like the forum lacking most of the features of a... well, a forum), but I'll hold on the torch and pitchfork mobbing until I see a clear tendency to do nothing about it.
I'll just add my critiques to this thread in hopes that the size of this thread will attract WotC's attention.
1) White background - This hasn't bothered me as much as it has apparently bothered others, but I'm not a fan of it, so add me to the "Less White" crowd.
2) sblocks - This has been brought up many times by many people, and I'm just adding my vote to get our sblocks back.
3) Previous Posts in Replys - I like being able to refer to what the most recent posts said, and I can't.
4) Page Numbers - I LIKE (yes, this is POSITIVE) that the number of pages in a thread is kept within the thread, not on the board; it keeps things looking clean.
5) Side Bars - The little updates of what's going on would be a LOT better if it stuck with the specific forum . For example, I'd much rather see the latest posts and activities in the D&D Fundamentals sub-forum while on the Character Optimization board as opposed to the current goings-on of the M:tG board.
6) Webpage titles - When I first get on the boards, I usually open a bunch of threads at once in different tabs and then go through them. Also, when I am making a new character, I'll regularly bring up a few different build guides from the CO board. Since the switch, though, all of my tabs are "The Wizards Communi..." I don't know if it's possible to fix this, but I'd appreciate it.
7) Word Processing - I feel like a lot of issues with spacing and formatting could be fixed if we were just given more control over the word processing. I can't imagine that it would be hard to add a few more options to the top of the new thread writing space.
That's all. And I can't emphasize this enough: sblocks.
Would it be possible to add a link at the bottom of the page that links back to the forum that you're in. Perhaps I am doing things the hard way. Right now, what I have been doing, is scrolling all the way back to the top of the page (I use a 40 post view - so that's quite a long way) to hit the link to the forum that I am in. If it were also at the bottom of the page, I wouldn't have to hit the scroll bar.
If there is an easier way to do this that I am not seeing, please let me know. Hitting the backspace key (or the back button) is useful only when I have only looked at one page of a thread or have not posted in that thread.
Thanks!
Two suggestions:
1. Icons or pics next to the forum categories, not a huge deal but it was easier to navigate when you knew you wanted a particular forum and you knew it was the one with Yoda's face next to it.
2. A sub-forum for members that have creative output (beyond modding and painting minis), such as D&D, Star Wars, etc. themed artwork, fanfic, and such. I think it would a great addition, and a good in-house alternative to posting on other art sharing sites.
...Plus, WotC can troll the posts for new game artists. ;)
Site admin has royally screwed over my D&D forums experience 
With the volume of posts on this site I need some way to immediately tell which posts are new.
And I need a "mark read" button.
And wants... I want things back to sorted oldest first and a "go to newest post" back in thread list. But wants I can live without... For a while anyway.
Not happy Jan I think I'll just keep hanging out on enworld until it's fixed... If it ever gets fixed.
Quote buttons are above each post rather than below, so it's easy to click on the button for the post below the one you wanted. Placing them below would be more logical ("I've done reading this post and wish to repond...").
Even though its been said a hundred times, I'm just going to say it again--how about a theme that doesnt make my eyes explode? Ideally it would be a customizable theme, but I'll take presets too just so long as I can look at the screen for more than 30 seconds at a time.
Moving buttons to the bottom of the quotes.
Is sblocking available under this new system? If not, it needs to be.
I liked the layout of the gleemax where under each forum you could see the sub-forums laid out so each had its own line instead of being all lumped together. Made it easier to find what you were looking for.
Bottom navigation links. Seriously, this is like UI 101 stuff...
Also, as so many others have said: less white please. It's hard on the eyes.
I suggest separating the Report Post buttons from the quote button. It's irritating to hit the wrong one.
I also point out that in most user interfaces a greyed out button means it's disabled. Having every button looking like it's turned off is also annoying.
Toooooo wiiiiiide. Why do I have to scroll horizontally on a 1024x768 display just to view a forum post?
Toooooo wiiiiiide. Why do I have to scroll horizontally on a 1024x768 display just to view a forum post?
More to the point, why doesn't it just do what any normal person would expect and scale to fit the available screen size? I've got a wide monitor, high resolution, and inches of wasted space on each side of their pretty picture.
I have mostly one complain: Bring back the ARCHIVES!
seriously... so many good homebrews and handbooks and tons of other stuff is gone...
I have mostly one complain: Bring back the ARCHIVES!
seriously... so many good homebrews and handbooks and tons of other stuff is gone...
I was told they saved the archive and they are bringing it back soon, but I don't know how accurate that is.
Cool...
Hope they will bring it back soon then...
And then I have an other request... Please make the posts in the archives easier to read as it was very hard earlier because of all the white, etc.
I miss that when writing a response to a thread we no longer get a copy of all previous posts lower down the page. That was really really really useful to carrying on a proper conversation, to check other's statements when you refer to them. Now one must go back and forth to check.
And I hate that going back and forth then checking erases what you had written of the post.
So, we have to copy-and-paste each time, or open up the response page in a separate tab or window.
Please get rid of double spaces between paragraphs.
It's horrid. I do notice that we can delete our posts. Cool.
Heh. We can also report our own posts. That's brilliant! :D
Ok, so I got the hang of this 'shift/enter' business, but it still seems like an unnecessary hassle for a questionable benefit. Could 'shift/enter' be this paragraph break thing and 'just enter' be a plain old regular return?
Also, I'd like to second the 'fit it to the viewer's screen' bit. now that the extra column is gone on the lower forum levels it looks ok on my regular screen (well, apart from the white, which has already been complained about enough), but I usually view these forums on a television screen, sitting several feet away, and so to read the text I need to zoom in considerably, which with the current configuration results in me needing to scroll back and forth to read text.
I'd like to second the 'fit it to the viewer's screen' bit.
Try the Stylish script in my sig. It should make the forum part fit your window.
Cheers, -- N
Just so we don't have an explosion of 5000 different threads.
Perfectly reasonable, but it seems the explosion (a small one!) has begun anyway.
I took a brief jog through all the complaints this morning and I don't think I've anything constructive to add at this point.
So I'll stay silent.
Oh ... I can verify that Nifft's kind suggestion does work. Thank you, young fellow -- I'm much more a hardware person than a software person.
Heh. We can also report our own posts. That's brilliant! :D
I shall never report my own posts.
Frankly, I am a bad man to cross.
One major request I have:
The boards are missing a tier at the top. For instance, if I'm in Eberron Lore and want to go to Running Eberron, I SHOULD see the following
Classic View>Dungeons & Dragons> D&D Worlds> Eberron Lore
With the above set-up, I can click on D&D Worlds and then click on Running Eberron.
However, this is what is here right now.
Classic View>Dungeons & Dragons> Eberron Lore
With the current set up, I have to click on Dungeons & Dragons, scroll down half a screen to get to D&D Worlds, then either carefully click the link to Running Eberron admist all the other links crammed together, or click on D&D Worlds at the top to bring me to a better organized list of all the D&D World forums.
That's entirely too much work.
Dunno if it's been mentioned already, I can't stand reading through this horribly formatted deal to check, so I'll report it (again, if need-be).
I want the message editor to stop pre-formatting my posts. I want it to stop inserting linebreaks or paragraph breaks every time I press Enter. I'm smart enough to properly format my own post.
Quote formatting is broken and ugly.
These all contribute to a post that takes up half a page for maybe 10 lines of text. BIG improvement. Kudos to the web team!
Maybe it's part of the overall plan? Frustrate enough people to drive them away?
Edited-to-add: Oh, and the sub-forum display listing? It sucks. Too condensed, everything runs together, and red sucks.
And there's too much white on the screen to the point that I start to get eye fatigue. I can accept that old themes/visual styles will be updated, but of the new ones, there's far too few, and they're all hideous.
I seem to be lacking a how-to (or tutorial) kinda thing for the wiki syntax (and the forum syntax) ... I google how its done on wikipedia and hope the same things apply here.
(someone PM me if I'm mistaken, and overlooked it)
very important: on the wiki, we can't type [W]. (square brackets are used to generate links... and [W] generates a link to a wikipage called W)
[W] is one of the most important 'symbols' (if you can call it that) of DnD 4e !
Also... isn't there any way to restore the previous syntax (and use the same syntax (preferably the old one) over the entire community (forums, wiki, ...) ? I personally prefere
[indent][b][i]text[\i][\b][\indent]
(reversed slashes as apparently [b] and [i] still work (?) )over
:'''''text'''''
any day of the weak (not to mention ... I have no clue how to indent twice in the new syntax)
Oh yeah, and the this new forum editor thing needs getting used to (hard enters to generate 2 line endings, soft enters generate one line ending)
oh, and remind the devolopers to re-add the list of imoticons :D (not urgent, but would be fun)
well, double indents in wikipedia are just that -
::
as for the other stuff, wikipedia has some kind of escape tag that can be used to deal with various tags and quotes and brackets alike - but this seems not to be the case with wotc wiki.
Sorry, was messing with sig...I hate the new forums.
Give me the option to browse the forums using the old interface. I do not want any of the other things you have here.
Also, go back to soft returns instead of paragraph breaks.
Well, you should use FireFox, and AdBlock and NoScript and TACO. I mean, that's just basic self-preservation.
You don't need random crap to prevent malicious code from acting on your machine and, moreover, blocking ads on websites is highly unethical.
(And actually, as of July, 47.9% of web surfers do use FireFox, according to this report. That's almost half the market, and significantly more than those who use IE.)
From the website you linked:
W3Schools is a website for people with an interest for web technologies. These people are more interested in using alternative browsers than the average user. The average user tends to use Internet Explorer, since it comes preinstalled with Windows. Most do not seek out other browsers.These facts indicate that the browser figures above are not 100% realistic. Other web sites have statistics showing that Internet Explorer is used by at least 80% of the users.
If by "almost half" you mean "precious few".
A few have been said often and need repeating, but others are not being said enough.
Bring. Back. Smilies! Not those horrid AIM ripoffs we have now, the ones on the old boards that were among the best and most useful/versatile I've yet seen. Please, for the love of all that is holy, tell me the ones there now are just beta place fillers that will be killed with fire as soon as the devs get to it.
The Enter Key -> new paragraph thing needs to die too. Hitting enter twice to get a new paragraph is a simple thing that we have to do in any other program I know of, so it's a habit that is not something that needs to be "helped" with automatic line breaks. I'll just hit it again when I want to, thank you very much.
vbbcode. Bring it back. We know it. We like it. It worked. [sblock] was a godsend. Why did it need to be replaced with easily hackable HTML code? I don't know HTML code, and I'm pretty sure I have lots of company. vbbcode was simple to learn and use. At very least, why not make both available? Please?
The post options (edit/quote/etc) need to go back down on the bottom. Seriously. Right now. That is beyond aggrivating.
Drop the coding for fixed window size. SOON. Having the window size to my monitor instead of the other way around works much better.
LESS WHITE. The basic paper look with gold/yellow/tan colors was very easy on the eyes. Once Gleemax hit, I waved my torch and pitchfork at that godawful colorscheme and switched it back to the "classic" view just as soon as I learned how. At least that had a black background. This one just hurts.
The Preferences link is very missable. I'm glad I'm not the only one who couldn't find it for an hour.
Overall, as a PbPer, I have to concede that the group/wiki functions show a lot of promise in streamlining the process. I find the calendar of very limited use right now, but maybe I'll think of something as it comes along. Being able to post maps/pictures/etc will also help as a DM.
THAT SAID. I do not and will not concede that turning this into a social networking site with forums as the redheaded step-child is or ever will be a good idea. I know how marketing works. Someone said "this is the 'in' thing right now. All the kids love it." Sadly, the "in" thing is often considered garish and unnecessary to those who do not worry about being "cool" (see: typical RPGer. Being this and getting respect from "cool" people is not gonna happen). Adding community aspects (like the groups/wikis, or the ability to post maps and whatnot for games within the site) to the established forums is fine, often very useful and helpful. Taking the forums and making them the subset of a myspace/facebook competitor is none of these.
New Request...Please correct me if I just am not seeing it. I used to be able to click view previous - view next thread. I don't see that anywhere now. Every time I want to go to another thread I have to scroll all the way back up to the top and click the forum link for the one I'm in and then go to the next thread.
So far, the only thing I do like about this new forum is the hot pink number after the thread name to tell me how many new posts to that thread since the last time I viewed it. That's it. It's the only feature I really really like.
Please put the navigation buttons at the bottom of the page as well as the top. I swear my right ring finger can't take the mouse wheel any more (and yes, before someone complains to me about using the scroll bars, that's what I have to use because my finger can't take the mouse wheel any more).
Give me the option to browse the forums using the old interface. I do not want any of the other things you have here.
Also, go back to soft returns instead of paragraph breaks.
What if I made a forum site that simply parsed these forums into a more acceptable format. I wonder how many people would use it?
Please add a listing of what html is and/or is not allowed in our signatures. Or heck, the forums in general.
I tried creating a scrolling box in my signature to house an image which was causing display issues for other posters, but the code that would cause the box to grow a scrollbar when overflowed kept getting edited out when I saved my sig. I'm certain there are other html tags which are not allowed; a list of these (or a whitelist of whichever ones we can use) will be massively helpful. The "HTML allowed" note below the signature edit box made me think any and all html was allowed, but apparently not.
And one more request for making the signature-editing Preferences (seriously? there're like 3 options there!) link much more obvious.
I would like to see Date Joined and Location brought back next to the poster's avatar. Not a deal breaker, but i like seeing when someone joind the forums or where they are from without having to click all over the place.
and bring back the old emoticons.
Give me the option to browse the forums using the old interface. I do not want any of the other things you have here.
Also, go back to soft returns instead of paragraph breaks.
What if I made a forum site that simply parsed these forums into a more acceptable format. I wonder how many people would use it?
No takers? If I can get enough people to work with me on this I just might do it, then WotC can steal all of our formatting ideas and make the forum worth using again.
Give me the option to browse the forums using the old interface. I do not want any of the other things you have here.
Also, go back to soft returns instead of paragraph breaks.
What if I made a forum site that simply parsed these forums into a more acceptable format. I wonder how many people would use it?
No takers? If I can get enough people to work with me on this I just might do it, then WotC can steal all of our formatting ideas and make the forum worth using again.
Well, I would say that would be wonderful. But there are inherent problems. I would still have to come here to post and that leads into what my biggest issue with the new "social networking" aspect of the site is ..that content will be spread over so many different groups and wikis and blogs, instead of being in the forums, that I will be forced to check multiple places to get the information I used to get just from the forums. This of course leads to the fact that there is a whole lot that I will miss out on, since I won't be going to groups, wikis and blogs for information.
Although I am absolutely sure you can make a better site than this, if I wanted to participate in the fourms, I would still have to come back here to do so. It unfortunately only solves the problems for people who read the forums..not for people who post. Unless you can find a way for your site to interact with this one.
Actually, come to think of it, since this forum came up I've been looking for a new one. ENWorld is great, but isn't (understandably) D&D focused. I wish I could find a forum that was well traffic-ed, easy to use, simple in it's delivery and focused on 4ed. I don't think I will ever find that again.
"Thou shall not lose caster levels."
"And thou shall never report your own posts either."
:D
As a non-US poster, I would like an option to be able to set the date to day/month/year. For example, 1 May 2009 should be 1/5/09, but it appears as 5/1/09, which looks like 5 Jan 2009.
I also can't find where to change my timezone, and all the times are 5 or 6 hours out.
Well, you should use FireFox, and AdBlock and NoScript and TACO. I mean, that's just basic self-preservation.You don't need random crap to prevent malicious code from acting on your machine and, moreover, blocking ads on websites is highly unethical.
Oh lawdy.
I don't know if this has been mentioned by anyone else but I think I have found an odd glitch.
I received an invitation to join the d20 modern group and accepted yesterday. Now, if I go to my "home" page, the d20 modern is listed under my groups. However, it is not listed under my groups when I view my "profile" page. The two pages have a different list for the groups I belong to. This also makes me wonder if such a bug is limited to only this or if it may occur in other pages where things are matched and such.
There is another completely minor annoyance. Once the red highlighting comes up to show new posts in a thread that has previously been viewed it completely wipes out the "author" whose name is also listed in the same color to denote it as a link. The name can be read if highlighted using one's mouse but it is still annoying and should probably be fixed.
If anyone is interested I was able to salvage around 90% of the old emotes. Should I post them up in the photos section so everyone can hard link to them?
If anyone is interested I was able to salvage around 90% of the old emotes. Should I post them up in the photos section so everyone can hard link to them?
Yes!
Did this work with those that "move"?
When I said 90% I meant 90%. That includes the moving ones. Unfortunately, I'm still missing a few but I think 106 isn't bad.
I'll put them up shortly.
Edit:done
And that's all of the ones I could find.
Hundred of smileys, cut for sanity.
That was hideous!
Oh lawdy.
The single best thing about the internet, IMO, is that it reminds me daily that there are people out there whose world-view is radically different from mine (or from that of anyone I've ever met in the real world).
Bug issue: On several occasions, I have had the text and option bars within the forums starting on the normal place of the screen, yet continuing off the right side of my monitor, which is bothersome, due to that I have a wide screen monitor and it gave no option of side scrolling.
Maybe this is an issue that can be fixed. If it can, I thank you very much.
Hundred of smileys, cut for sanity.
That was hideous!
I wasn't going for it to look good, it was just a list.
I'll Sblock it once they add that function.
My apostrophe has gone all hyphen-y!
So my profile display name was “Kord’s Boon” prior to the transfer, now Its gone all non-possessive. Whom can I talk to in hopes of getting this corrected, I'd like to avoid restarting an account, but it just looks terrible.
Perhaps I should have know better then to put a apostrophe in my name.
there seems to be a big bad caching or delaying mess to be going on here.
1) you can have posts without views but replies,
2) your profile is not updated instantly, but sometimes within like 10 minutes
3) your PMs or various other notices arrive later than you'd ordinary see them.
also, i still get no group update messages in my home - i need to check them manually if there is a forums-change or not.
on the upside: the url-bbcode works now.
Fix load times for main pages. Individual threads seem to be ok, but going to the Forum index or Home index takes too long.
there seems to be a big bad caching or delaying mess to be going on here.
1) you can have posts without views but replies,
2) your profile is not updated instantly, but sometimes within like 10 minutes
3) your PMs or various other notices arrive later than you'd ordinary see them.also, i still get no group update messages in my home - i need to check them manually if there is a forums-change or not.
on the upside: the url-bbcode works now.
There seems to be some sort of more widespread weirdness - the time signatures on the various forums have only a tenuous relationship to reality (as far as I can tell): you'll get last posts times linked to the wrong people, last post times that get shorter instead of longer - I don't know how they determine that (and I've noticed it's gotten better), but it looks like the database isn't always sure when something happened.
It would be nice of the vBulletin URL commands worked in signatures.
I have to find the standard HTML command to get links to work in mine.
[edit]
Also the search button at the top of the pages is non functionsal.
Give me the option to browse the forums using the old interface. I do not want any of the other things you have here.
Also, go back to soft returns instead of paragraph breaks.
What if I made a forum site that simply parsed these forums into a more acceptable format. I wonder how many people would use it?
No takers? If I can get enough people to work with me on this I just might do it, then WotC can steal all of our formatting ideas and make the forum worth using again.
Well, I would say that would be wonderful. But there are inherent problems. I would still have to come here to post and that leads into what my biggest issue with the new "social networking" aspect of the site is ..that content will be spread over so many different groups and wikis and blogs, instead of being in the forums, that I will be forced to check multiple places to get the information I used to get just from the forums. This of course leads to the fact that there is a whole lot that I will miss out on, since I won't be going to groups, wikis and blogs for information.
Although I am absolutely sure you can make a better site than this, if I wanted to participate in the fourms, I would still have to come back here to do so. It unfortunately only solves the problems for people who read the forums..not for people who post. Unless you can find a way for your site to interact with this one.
Actually, come to think of it, since this forum came up I've been looking for a new one. ENWorld is great, but isn't (understandably) D&D focused. I wish I could find a forum that was well traffic-ed, easy to use, simple in it's delivery and focused on 4ed. I don't think I will ever find that again.
I see you don't really understand what I mean. I'm talking about using something called innerHTML tags and javascript to take the forums...er...community site and reformatting them so that everything is where we want it. It would be like reskinning it. You would not have to come to the actual site to post, because the actual site would be parsed into the site I created.
Ahh..you're correct, I didn't quite understand you. And yes, that does sound really great.
My Significant Other is a database programmer and about 2 seconds into any discussion of how his day is I am completely lost. I'm a Network Engineer and about 2 seconds into any discussion about my day he's lost. I have had my head in hardware since the days of Basic and the only thing I did in Basic was copy (and then massively debug) a character creator program that came in Dragon Magazine. So I know not of this web programming thing of which you speak.
I hope there is more interest in it than just me.
I see you don't really understand what I mean. I'm talking about using something called innerHTML tags and javascript to take the forums...er...community site and reformatting them so that everything is where we want it. It would be like reskinning it. You would not have to come to the actual site to post, because the actual site would be parsed into the site I created.
Wouldn't it be a bit easier to just make a new CSS for this website and inject it while browsing?
The "remember me" check box apparently doesn't work, and the login timeout is depressingly short.
And I would like a low-bandwidth theme for Mobile.
All right, my eyes hurt too much to bother trying to read all the way through this thread. In addition to all the myriad other problems I've noticed, the Wizards account has been added as my friend. So I have a freind activity box that shows every member that joins and a whole slew of other useless info. I personally would like the feature erased, but assuming someone did want it I imagine they'd want to see their actual friends activities and not the mountain of white noise caused by the Wizards account running the forums.
You can delete Wizards as a friend.
You can delete Wizards as a friend.
Hm... It said there was an error when I tried it, but since my friend list is empty I guess it worked anyway. Well so long as it's gone...
The "remember me" check box apparently doesn't work, and the login timeout is depressingly short
This may be an issue with your browser/cookie settings. I only had to log in once after the move to set up my account under the new system and it's kept me logged in since.
One bug I've encountered is that I apparently can't enter my real postcode (that's what we Brits call a zipcode). I entered it correctly when I set up my account, but it's defaulted to '0' and I get an error when I try to save any changes to it. I suspect the system may only be set up to accept US-style zipcodes, but this needs fixing for the 'find gamers near me' function to actually be of any use to most of the world. There are few things more guaranteed to piss off a company's international customers than this sort of thoughtless US-centrism.
EDIT: That's odd. It works today. Either WotC fixed the bug since yesterday, or it was just some temporary glitch that was preventing me from saving changes to my profile and nothing to do with the zipcode field.
Well, I found out by accident that if you click on the last reply's poster's name it takes you to the newest post, even if you have not visited that thread previously.
Bel
Feature Request: Fix the code Wiki marker to not mangle Character Builder summaries. Better yet: Get it to propery highlight them.
But I'd be happier to start with if it just actually acted like it's supposed to, and left them properly formatted. That it's attempting to apply wiki text in the middle of a code block is rather ... poor.
I've got a feature request...well, 2 actually.
1. Maybe I'm overlooking it, but I don't see an option that allows the user to see all the topics he/she has created, or an option to see their posting history to see which topics they've posted in. Would be a nice thing to have IMO. I bounce around to different forums a lot and can't always remember where or what I last posted to.
2. Background color options please. This white is DESTROYING MY EYES.
I've got a feature request...well, 2 actually.
1. Maybe I'm overlooking it, but I don't see an option that allows the user to see all the topics he/she has created, or an option to see their posting history to see which topics they've posted in. Would be a nice thing to have IMO. I bounce around to different forums a lot and can't always remember where or what I last posted to.
click on they guy on the left of your username. search for all your own posts. -> done.
I've got a feature request...well, 2 actually.
1. Maybe I'm overlooking it, but I don't see an option that allows the user to see all the topics he/she has created, or an option to see their posting history to see which topics they've posted in. Would be a nice thing to have IMO. I bounce around to different forums a lot and can't always remember where or what I last posted to.
click on they guy on the left of your username. search for all your own posts. -> done.
Oh...sweet! Thanks. Now if they could just get rid of all this damn white.
Fix Request: Please allow users to separate their Forum/Community/"facebook-myspace" account from their D&DI account. It should be an option not a mandate.
I know it's been said.
Sblocks, and Emotes.
Oh, and bring it back so that I can actually read posts in the thread as I'm writing a post.
And the Quote system is terrible and pretty much non functioning now in comparison to what it used to be.
Something other than Snow White for background would be nice too.
Working HTML and URLs for Sigs.
Ahh..you're correct, I didn't quite understand you. And yes, that does sound really great.
My Significant Other is a database programmer and about 2 seconds into any discussion of how his day is I am completely lost. I'm a Network Engineer and about 2 seconds into any discussion about my day he's lost. I have had my head in hardware since the days of Basic and the only thing I did in Basic was copy (and then massively debug) a character creator program that came in Dragon Magazine. So I know not of this web programming thing of which you speak.
I hope there is more interest in it than just me.
That's cool. I hope to one day find a significant other that likes computers, instead of these models that keep wanting to date me.
Well if I had the time, I'd start on it now, but I don't so if this place is still this bad when I graduate, I'll work on it then.
I see you don't really understand what I mean. I'm talking about using something called innerHTML tags and javascript to take the forums...er...community site and reformatting them so that everything is where we want it. It would be like reskinning it. You would not have to come to the actual site to post, because the actual site would be parsed into the site I created.
Wouldn't it be a bit easier to just make a new CSS for this website and inject it while browsing?
A new CSS would help with the formatting, things like the white background and the size of text, heck you might even get rid of some of the spacing, but it wouldn't solve problems like trying to find the newest post in a subscribed thread, or viewing the most recent threads by mousing over their titles and other features that pretty much everyone want back.
Feature Request: Fix the code Wiki marker to not mangle Character Builder summaries. Better yet: Get it to propery highlight them.
But I'd be happier to start with if it just actually acted like it's supposed to, and left them properly formatted. That it's attempting to apply wiki text in the middle of a code block is rather ... poor.
Better yet allow us to post characters in our profile. Then pull up everything in a formatted page that looks just like a character sheet.
I've got a feature request...well, 2 actually.
1. Maybe I'm overlooking it, but I don't see an option that allows the user to see all the topics he/she has created, or an option to see their posting history to see which topics they've posted in. Would be a nice thing to have IMO. I bounce around to different forums a lot and can't always remember where or what I last posted to.
2. Background color options please. This white is DESTROYING MY EYES.
There is an option to see all the topics that you subscribed to, however it takes about 10 steps which I posted in another thread I can't find because I'm too lazy to find them. Do a search for my name and you will probably find them.
I'd like the subscription history to show the latest threads I'm subscribed to that have been posted in since my last viewing. Just like they do in the category view with the number that tells me how many posts since I last posted. I'm not holding my breath though that would require quite a few lines of code to accomplish.
I've got a feature request...well, 2 actually.
1. Maybe I'm overlooking it, but I don't see an option that allows the user to see all the topics he/she has created, or an option to see their posting history to see which topics they've posted in. Would be a nice thing to have IMO. I bounce around to different forums a lot and can't always remember where or what I last posted to.
click on they guy on the left of your username. search for all your own posts. -> done.
You know that just brings up posts right? That means I have to wade through 400+ posts that may be in the same thread. Cmon' WotC you can do better than this.
Fix Request: Please allow users to separate their Forum/Community/"facebook-myspace" account from their D&DI account. It should be an option not a mandate.
They did this so that people won't have multiple accounts, which means less space wasted. They also plan on doing things like have playtests and other things done in the DDI group which can't be accessed by non-DDI community members.
I suggest you just ignore the features you don't want to use. That's what I'm doing. Hey I got a question?
Can I add you to my friend list and get you to read my blog? Oh wait you said you don't like that stuff...
I know it's been said.
Sblocks, and Emotes.
Oh, and bring it back so that I can actually read posts in the thread as I'm writing a post.
And the Quote system is terrible and pretty much non functioning now in comparison to what it used to be.
Something other than Snow White for background would be nice too.
Working HTML and URLs for Sigs.
I like the quote system. Multi-quote actually works. Quotes have embedded quotes that work correctly so I can see what the person I'm quoting was quoting which annoyed me to no end in the last forum.
Now I agree on the read the posts as you reply part. I think they need to have a scrolling textbox where you can select the text you want to quote and you can hit a 'quote selected text' button and it will put the selected text into your reply with the proper quote and poster info.
Don't know if this has been addressed or not:
1) So far, only one e-mail notification has actually taken me to the thread when I clicked on the link therein. The rest have taken me to the main screen, leaving me to have to go to the forums and fish through the jumbled sub-forum paragraphs repeatedly until I find the thread I was looking for.
2) I saw a thread that was showing 45 replies but 0 views. Just thought I'd mention that. How does this site know if we are typing with our eyes closed? ;)
Fix Request: Please allow users to separate their Forum/Community/"facebook-myspace" account from their D&DI account. It should be an option not a mandate.
They did this so that people won't have multiple accounts, which means less space wasted. They also plan on doing things like have playtests and other things done in the DDI group which can't be accessed by non-DDI community members.
I suggest you just ignore the features you don't want to use. That's what I'm doing. Hey I got a question?
Can I add you to my friend list and get you to read my blog? Oh wait you said you don't like that stuff...
If you follow along on this thread: community.wizards.com/go/thread/view/758... you'll find that your community account is apparently tied in with onesite.com
EDIT: Must have bumped something and posted too early...
Its fine that they want to use the community site for community functions but as a D&DI subscriber there is already a way to give me exclusive content via the main site. It should be an option to tie your D&DI account with your community account. Especially since your community account is tied in with a third party website. Your D&DI account has a credit card and billing information on file.
Most sites just auto-adjust to the settings of the moniter and horizontal adjustment doesn't have to be made. Please make this site 1024 or less friendly.
Also, please do something about all this annoying white.
Fix Request: Please allow users to separate their Forum/Community/"facebook-myspace" account from their D&DI account. It should be an option not a mandate.
They did this so that people won't have multiple accounts, which means less space wasted. They also plan on doing things like have playtests and other things done in the DDI group which can't be accessed by non-DDI community members.
I suggest you just ignore the features you don't want to use. That's what I'm doing. Hey I got a question?
Can I add you to my friend list and get you to read my blog? Oh wait you said you don't like that stuff...
If you follow along on this thread: community.wizards.com/go/thread/view/758... you'll find that your community account is apparently tied in with onesite.com
EDIT: Must have bumped something and posted too early...
Its fine that they want to use the community site for community functions but as a D&DI subscriber there is already a way to give me exclusive content via the main site. It should be an option to tie your D&DI account with your community account. Especially since your community account is tied in with a third party website. Your D&DI account has a credit card and billing information on file.
If its any consolation I'm sure they keep the financial data separate.
Most sites just auto-adjust to the settings of the moniter and horizontal adjustment doesn't have to be made. Please make this site 1024 or less friendly.
Also, please do something about all this annoying white.
So your saying you want the site to be less friendly? I want it to be more friendly.
How about using "size=100%" or less instead of "size=1224"
He meant "1024-or-less" friendly.
As for size, the background images are (as far as I can tell) 1224 px wide for all the themes, and it is my assumption that's what dictates the site width; so size=100% aren't gonna do it (or at least, not without screwing up the pretty pictures :D).
Profile Privacy Setting:
Favorites Privacy:
Won't allow me to change the default.
Additionally, I do not want City, State, or Zip to be viewable by anyone.
He meant "1024-or-less" friendly.
As for size, the background images are (as far as I can tell) 1224 px wide for all the themes, and it is my assumption that's what dictates the site width; so size=100% aren't gonna do it (or at least, not without screwing up the pretty pictures :D).
Actually images can be resized the same way "width=100%" or something like that.
2. Background color options please. This white is DESTROYING MY EYES.
maybe put your gamma-rating and brightness of your screen below 250%...
Actually images can be resized the same way "width=100%" or something like that.
Good point. But if it's only width (since height is going to depend on thread length), would it not distort the image (meaning they'd still have to have an image capable of scaling properly)? I don't do much CSS layout work, so I'm not sure.
Yeah, you get distortion. But the pretty background pictures should be secondary to usability. Even in a marketing context.
Sorry if this has been mentioned but I would like to see subscriptions accessible as a link from "Home".
Yeah, you get distortion. But the pretty background pictures should be secondary to usability. Even in a marketing context.
They could also break the background up into TWO images, and anchor one to the upper-left corner and the other to the upper-right corner. Then everything would look nice, but it would actually work on different resolutions.
This is web design, not rocket science.
Cheers, -- N
This is web design, not rocket science.
Cheers, -- N
it seems that for some people, this distinction is not as easy to make.
Not sure where this should go, but here is my feedback on Groups. This is done as a response about LFR using Yahoo Groups currently, but some admins saying they will move to WotC groups. I'm all for that, but some things need to be fixed first:
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I've posted on the 'desired functionality' thread for groups, though that thread is now deleted. I'm not sure where to best provide comments now.
To replace Yahoo groups, the WotC groups have to provide equal or better functionality. Otherwise, we can just make new Yahoo groups (maybe WotC can shut these down, but they can't force people not to use Yahoo groups).
Messages:
> They do not, inherantly/currentl y support delivery of the messages directly into member's inboxes.
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> It's possible to subscribe to a thread or, I think, even an entire forumwithin a group, but at the moment that only gives you a notification of when posts are made.
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I don't see any way to subscribe to a group as a whole, or to a group's comments, or to a discussion within the group (a Blog). There seems to be no way that even a moderator would know what is going on in a group, outside of the general alerts you see for what friends do. It certainly fails as a mailing list. Insufficient notification and no easy way to get to the latest changes/posts.
I've only recently began to work with my group's Forum. I see I can create a category and then forum, but I don't know if that Forum exists only for the group or in some public space. I can't seem to find a way to subscribe to everything, so it changes things from a mailing list to a 'must visit group to see what has changed on the forums'. You can get updates on particular threads, but not on new topics or on unsubscribed topics.
> The site is in Beta, however, so there's still time for things to change/improve.
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Agreed. I'm not trying to be unfair. I like the idea of a better tool. Let's look at the other features:
Files:
There is no way to add files. You can link to one, if the file is somewhere on the Web, but that's a step too many.
Photos:
You have photos, though the interface is a bit clunky. Beyond the one click too many issue, you have some differences in views that make it less than ideal, but nothing is a big deal. We can probably call these equivalent.
Links:
You can use a Wiki for this. Though, as a general wiki gripe, I would like a top-level wiki page that would be the front of the group's wiki, so everything could really be connected. And they need to fix a lot of the wiki programming stuff.
Database:
You can use a wiki for this, though we need table support.
Polls:
Unclear instructions, but there are polls. I haven't used them to see if this can be done by anyone or just moderators, and whether you have the same options.
Members:
There are issues. You can't have a 'screen' group (which in theory would allow your moderators to screen applicants). There is no way for people to ask to join a screened group. If you get a private message from someone wanting to join, you then can invite them, but it requires first going to their profile, then inviting them. Lots of clicks vs. the Yahoo 'one reply' method. 'Invite only' seems to be essentially the same currently, and 'Open' is just asking for spam and won't work for anything like an AdvCo group.
Calendar:
Has issues where only moderators can make entries, plus (I understand) functional issues.
I'm sure this has been mentioned before, but......dear God please fix the search function!
We used to be able to search for threads by user names. I could search for my own username and tell whether any replies had been posted to keep up with ongoing discussions. Now all I get are posts that have quoted me.
And having previous posts not be visible when replying is just terrible!
I have a problem with the boards, as of right now.
And it's not what most people are complaining of.
I can deal with the weird overblown size. I can even deal with no sblock and the all white radiant blinding effect it has. After all, it's a new switch, so there's bound to be a few bugs.
What I can't deal with is, when I make a group, I can't even access the group. I made the group "PbPHouse", for the website I'm always on that plays a decent amount of PbP games involving 4e. But every time I go to click on it, I either get, "The service network has not been properly setup. Please contact the administrator", or it takes me to the forum homepage. However, I can't get to customer service because all of their links don't work for me for some reason. That's just...irritating.
If someone knows how to fix this...please let me know.
@ Dmsdelight, try this thread: Trouble Accessing our Help System Post here
OK, after some experimentation, it seems that forum themes take precedence over how we actually format our own posts. That means nobody can know how their post will actually look to anyone using a different theme to them, so using formatting to make a post clearer (such as making a homebrewed power actually look like a power, with correctly-coloured title bar etc.) is an entirely wasted effort.
Example: while posting some powers in the 'Chaos Champion' thread in '4e Multiclassing', the titles of the daily powers were dark grey (i.e. the proper daily power colour) in the 'post reply' page (which is supposed to be WYSIWYG), but were showing up as red in the actual thread page for those using the D&D theme and blue for those using the WotC default theme. Only in the MtG theme did the titles actually show up as grey.
Themes should not be altering the content and formatting of our posts depending on who is reading them! The only exception should be that, if a dark-background theme is eventually introduced, the default text colour should obviously change from black to white for that theme.
Also, there needs to be a way of setting font size without having to use the drop-down styles box (which seems to be what gets altered by the theme setting). Other than having to edit raw HTML, I mean. This really should be obvious, but not all of us know HTML, and even those of us that do would prefer a user-friendly UI that actually works the way it's intended to.
Bug: links don't show up as links on profile edit page...
The profile edit page has the following button choices (with capitalization): basic information, about me, dungeons and dragons, magic: the gathering, axis and allies, and star wars.
In most systems when the mouse cursor is over nothing you get an arrow of sorts, when over text you get an "I" shaped cursor, and when over links you get a hand. When moving over the different "buttons" listed above on the edit profile page you get the "I" shaped cursor rather than a hand.
I first moved the cursor over one with intent of choosing a different category but thought the function was not enabled when I received the "I" cursor rather than a hand. However, I later tried to access it any way and it worked.
When I have previously visited sites that were "under construction" there were often links that were not yet enabled. They would be a different color (not appearing as a hyperlink, usually black like the ones on the edit profile page) and would not work. Despite working, the ones on te edit profile page (at least on mine) give the appearance of not being enabled.
That can happen when you use the onclick property to create a clickable object that isn't actually an anchor.
That can happen when you use the onclick property to create a clickable object that isn't actually an anchor.
ROFLMAO!
Sorry, when I first looked at this quote, the font made the "c" and the "l" of "onclick" and "clickable" run together and look like one letter, a "d". That made the sentence read very...odd.
19 pages. I have my doubts whether any of this will ever be read or implemented.
Feature Requests:
First, that my friend(s) be able to join this community. You can read more here:
community.wizards.com/go/thread/view/758...
Second, that there be a combined "Invite to Group/Invite to the Community" feature or form. It's a bit unusual for a web community to require people to be members before you can invite them to content.
community.wizards.com/go/thread/view/758...
Bug Reports:
The "Edit Group Details" link does nothing:
community.wizards.com/go/thread/view/758...
I almost forgot:
Rabble, rabble, rabble!
ROFLMAO!
Sorry, when I first looked at this quote, the font made the "c" and the "l" of "onclick" and "clickable" run together and look like one letter, a "d". That made the sentence read very...odd.
LOL indeed.
I can't change the basic information in my profile. Every time it tells me that something went wrong while saving the changes. I'm entering the correct username and password. Is anyone else having this problem?
Is anyone else having this problem?
Yep. Happened to me a couple of days ago when trying to fix my postcode. I tried again the following day and it worked fine.
Is anyone else having this problem?
Yep. Happened to me a couple of days ago when trying to fix my postcode. I tried again the following day and it worked fine.
I tried yesterday and thought it'd be fixed today, but I'm still having the problem. :/
Now it just says there's a problem accessing the page.
I was having an issue logging in yesterday as well. Try clearing your browser cache and history.
Minor glitch: Userpics will not remain in their set resolution. Despite that MY userpic is 100x100 pixels, as is the display window for it; however, it zooms the pictures of everybody in, as so to make it nearly unrecognizable.
Additional glitch, slightly more major.
I was trying to post in this to post my prior glitch, but the text would not locate itself in the text window, as I instead found myself typing in the "Cancel" button at the bottom. Yet, when I tried to delete the text, I wound up deleting all of the buttons down there as well, along with the Check box with the "Notify me of new messages posted to this thread." next to it. Then the browser swiftly prompted me back to the prior page.
Now it just says there's a problem accessing the page.
I've got a similar problem. I've been trying to change my email address but a message saying "technical error has occurred" keeps popping out each time.
Now it just says there's a problem accessing the page.
I've got a similar problem. I've been trying to change my email address but a message saying "technical error has occurred" keeps popping out each time.
After seeing all of these problems, I wonder what WotC was thinking when they switched from the old boards?
Bug list:
1) "Page 1 of 4 • 1 2 3 4 Next" does not show the current page in black, but as a blue link like all other pages.
2) Forum preferences cannot be reached from the Profile menu
3) Wikilinks to a page in a namespace are broken (Example: )
4) "Recent topics" break out of their box (Browser: Stainless / Mac / Webkit)
5) Impossible to reply to threads on iPhone: Textbox does not bring up keyboard (iPhone OS 3.0 / Mobile Safari)
6) The forum text editor puts a (br) at the end of every (p), which creates an empty line at the end of each paragraph.
7) On the page I am writing this (Firefox 3.5, Win XP) there is a weird box on the left side behind the edit window.
8) When you click "send message" on a user's home page, you land on the "send message" page of your own homepage, but the name of the user you wanted to write to is lost.
9) In the "Home - Profile - Inbox" menu, "Inbox" has a small white letter next to it, while the other menu options have no icon. This looks weird.
10) The forum editor does not understand (size) and other bb-Code
feature request:
changing of background color to non-white.
ouch.
thanks!
AKW
Not sure if others have experienced this or if it's just something I'm doing, but it seems that the Multi Quote function has some trouble when you're quoting posts from multiple pages. Twice I have attempted to quote at least one post from one page and at least one more from the next. When I finally click Reply, only the quote(s) from the last page are listed. I'm not certain whether going back to the page with the first quoted posts and clicking Reply there would fix this or not, though. Still, seems like a bug to me.
I also ran into an issue when trying to paste info into one of my posts. The first went through a-ok. I then went to another tab I had open to quote a url I wanted to include in the same post. When I returned to my post and tried to paste, it simply didn't work. I tried twice to make sure it wasn't just me screwing up the copy or something and the problem happened again. I then posted my post, used the Edit function and the Paste worked fine. Kind of annoying to need that li'l bit of extra work.
As long as we're tossing out requests I might as well add this one. I'd like the ability to Fork threads the way you can on the ENWorld forums. Too often we see two or more individuals discussing a tangent and moving a thread completely off-topic. While forking doesn't eliminate the problem entirely, it does help the situation quite a bit.
Nice to see a light gray background for the post box, much easier on the eyes, but I still miss the old parchment background. However I can be patient.
Bel
Bug list:
1) "Page 1 of 4 • 1 2 3 4 Next" does not show the current page in black, but as a blue link like all other pages.
2) Forum preferences cannot be reached from the Profile menu
3) Wikilinks to a page in a namespace are broken (Example: )
4) "Recent topics" break out of their box (Browser: Stainless / Mac / Webkit)
5) Impossible to reply to threads on iPhone: Textbox does not bring up keyboard (iPhone OS 3.0 / Mobile Safari)6) The forum text editor puts a (br) at the end of every (p), which creates an empty line at the end of each paragraph.
7) On the page I am writing this (Firefox 3.5, Win XP) there is a weird box on the left side behind the edit window.
8) When you click "send message" on a user's home page, you land on the "send message" page of your own homepage, but the name of the user you wanted to write to is lost.
9) In the "Home - Profile - Inbox" menu, "Inbox" has a small white letter next to it, while the other menu options have no icon. This looks weird.
10) The forum editor does not understand (size) and other bb-Code
The BBCode thing is because they switched from BBCode to maimed HTML. Most of the rest of the problems is because they took the default package and just threw it up without thinking.
How about the ability to set a default font and color? That way we don't have to change it manually each time we post.
Way
to
much
white
space.
We don't need to double space by default.
This is somewhat better. I'm less irritated and maybe I won't go blind now from trying to read.
I know it hurts your eyes or whatever but you aren't going to go blind. At worst you'll get some eye fatigue after about thirty minutes.
Or were you making a joke?
I would suggest turning your brightness down a little and turning on a lamp in your room. Ambient light will help the situation.
Wiki Bug: Tab spacing breaks the wiki code. That is all text after a tab space is left with the wiki code untranslated like the nowiki tag is supposed to do.
Feature Request: It would be nice to get the wiki links to work on the forums. Like [article_name] rather than having to type out the full url.
I've noticed when you rate anything (clicking on the stars) the max value is 3.7 instead of 5. What this might mean is that there are values for half stars or quarter stars but when you click you only get the first 5 values with the max being 3.7. So that's a bug.
Feature request. I'd like the ability to annonymously rate someone based on multiple criteria (using the star system).
- Clear communicator
- Troll (gets angry and expresses it very quickly, or just to make others mad)
- Nice and open and good natures (or something along those lines).
This would allow other people to immediately see based on the number of people that rates someone what that person is generally like. (with one rating per person).
Wiki Bug: Tab spacing breaks the wiki code. That is all text after a tab space is left with the wiki code untranslated like the nowiki tag is supposed to do.
Feature Request: It would be nice to get the wiki links to work on the forums. Like [article_name] rather than having to type out the full url.
The links do work provided a proper naming convention is used. for a link , use two square brackets. With a single bracket you were likely getting a link that was a number, or a link that contained everything after the first space linking to a page named everything before the first space. Do note however, colon's ( in the pagename will break any attempt to make a link with it. I've updated the wiki page for making links with the correct information (The wizzo in charge will be updating the information for asthetics once additional wiki functionality is added to better allow her to format the help pages.)
My additions are after the image... Wiki help
Not sure if it will help, but you can attain a tablike workaround with a single colon (... nested versions don't work at the moment though
I'm not reading through this entire thread, so pardon if I duplicate already known bugs.
1) Whenever I get an email telling me about a new post to a thread I've asked for notification on, I have to open the link twice, because the first time I click on it, it just opens to the front page of the forums, with zero connection to the actual thread or post it was supposed to be opening to.
2) When I open it a second time, it goes to the proper thread, but just dumps me onto the first page of the thread, not the newest post and I have to then find the new one manually.
3) Text still doesn't fit into the proper boxes. For instance the "Submit Post" and "Preview Post" text don't fit into their respective buttons, and they're getting cut off.
The posts have gone all white again.
I have several other observations. I suspect that some of these may have been made by others, but I'm putting them down here for the powers that be in case I have anything unique.
First, I would welcome having, as on the old boards, to ability to mouse over the thread title to see a few hundred words of the first post.
Second, I would like to choose for myself whether or not I'll get an update of the number of posts on any given thread I've viewed before. I like the concept of the little pink boxes, but I'd prefer to elect which posts I'd like to keep up on.
Third, I would like the threads in the forums to give me the opportunity to go directly to the page I'd choose, rather than having to go to the first page first.
Fourth, I would like an easier way from the home page to go to my posts or my favorites, or the forums that interest me. It just ends up being a lot of clicks and I don't care for most of the "junk" that comes up on the first page.
Fifth, I would recommend creating an option for, say, me to post a page, but that it would be kept private until I was ready to unvail it. That is, I could still work on it, see how it will look and then release it publicly when I'm ready. Often, I find on longer posts that I can get interrupted by my leife and end up having to ditch what I've done because I'm not yet ready to publish what I've written.
Sixth, I would really love to get my old subscriptions and private messages back (I know I've mentioned this before).
Seventh, it would be delightful if I did not have to scroll left and right to see/read material on the screen. Many webpages are sensitive to the screen settings; it would be great if we could get the new website to be more responsive to individual user settings about the screen.
Eighth, I miss the ability to print or easily link to an individual post.
Ninth, the prinint is just dreadful. It comes out so tiny--largely because of all the white space on the pages now, that it makes printing almost useless. While I realize that it's a wireless world, I'd still like to be able to print and use paper.
Tenth, I'd love to be able to select more posts/threads per page. I know we can select up to 40 posts at the moment. That's OK. But I'd welcome being able to set the threads and posts higher.
Eleventh, consider the ability to add sub-queries to the results of a search query. For instance. Moreover, a solid advanced search page would be great.
Twelfth, one feature I miss is the ability to see prior posts as I'm replying to a thread or editing my own post. On the old page, I could scroll down below the data entry box to see prior posts in reverse order, which I found very useful.
Thirteenth, the paragraph breaks and line separations are too large. While the pages certainly don't need to be cramped, I'd go back to similar spacing as was on the previous boards. Now there is too much real estate taken up with needless separation of text.
I know there are a lot of comments here, I'm sure I'll think of more. I do appreciate the efforts being made to address concerns and hope that the board will be much improved in the end. While they have a long way to go to be user friendly, I do see progress.
Thanks. --ShriekingDrake
I have several other observations. I suspect that some of these may have been made by others, but I'm putting them down here for the powers that be in case I have anything unique.
First, I would welcome having, as on the old boards, to ability to mouse over the thread title to see a few hundred words of the first post.
Second, I would like to choose for myself whether or not I'll get an update of the number of posts on any given thread I've viewed before. I like the concept of the little pink boxes, but I'd prefer to elect which posts I'd like to keep up on.
Third, I would like the threads in the forums to give me the opportunity to go directly to the page I'd choose, rather than having to go to the first page first.
Fourth, I would like an easier way from the home page to go to my posts or my favorites, or the forums that interest me. It just ends up being a lot of clicks and I don't care for most of the "junk" that comes up on the first page.
Fifth, I would recommend creating an option for, say, me to post a page, but that it would be kept private until I was ready to unvail it. That is, I could still work on it, see how it will look and then release it publicly when I'm ready. Often, I find on longer posts that I can get interrupted by my leife and end up having to ditch what I've done because I'm not yet ready to publish what I've written.
Sixth, I would really love to get my old subscriptions and private messages back (I know I've mentioned this before).
Seventh, it would be delightful if I did not have to scroll left and right to see/read material on the screen. Many webpages are sensitive to the screen settings; it would be great if we could get the new website to be more responsive to individual user settings about the screen.
Eighth, I miss the ability to print or easily link to an individual post.
Ninth, the prinint is just dreadful. It comes out so tiny--largely because of all the white space on the pages now, that it makes printing almost useless. While I realize that it's a wireless world, I'd still like to be able to print and use paper.
Tenth, I'd love to be able to select more posts/threads per page. I know we can select up to 40 posts at the moment. That's OK. But I'd welcome being able to set the threads and posts higher.
Eleventh, consider the ability to add sub-queries to the results of a search query. For instance. Moreover, a solid advanced search page would be great.
Twelfth, one feature I miss is the ability to see prior posts as I'm replying to a thread or editing my own post. On the old page, I could scroll down below the data entry box to see prior posts in reverse order, which I found very useful.
Thirteenth, the paragraph breaks and line separations are too large. While the pages certainly don't need to be cramped, I'd go back to similar spacing as was on the previous boards. Now there is too much real estate taken up with needless separation of text.
I know there are a lot of comments here, I'm sure I'll think of more. I do appreciate the efforts being made to address concerns and hope that the board will be much improved in the end. While they have a long way to go to be user friendly, I do see progress.
Thanks. --ShriekingDrake
please fix the frontpage redirection so it doesn't do that when I click on an email notification, preferrably NEVER.
The ghosts of relocated and merged threads are appearing in the very final pages of each forum (well, the Forgotten Realms boards, anyway). They have zero posts in them, though they aren't locked and can be posted to. The real versions can be found in their proper places.
Feature Request: Default quoted text to an sblock.
Scrolling through 50 lines or more of repeat quoted text just to get to an "I agree" response is the most extreme example of the frustration the current quoting habits of many members present. Throw in the current line spacing quirk and I find myself scrolling for more time than it takes to read the reply.
Feature Request: Hide Blocked Members Post Display
Although we can block other members, all this does is substitute their post for a big red text notification that their content is blocked. Is there any way we could have the block result in not even seeing that they posted in the first place? Hiding signatures effectively removed all reference to a signature. Blocking a member could operate the same way.
('Cause face it. Most of us get frustrated just knowing the poster we are trying to ignore posted right before or right after us. Of course, that's our problem, not theirs.)
Feature Request: Hide Blocked Members Post Display
Although we can block other members, all this does is substitute their post for a big red text notification that their content is blocked. Is there any way we could have the block result in not even seeing that they posted in the first place? Hiding signatures effectively removed all reference to a signature. Blocking a member could operate the same way.
('Cause face it. Not too many of us have the willpower to not click on the "view this post" message when it is sitting right in front of us.)
Your talking about me right?
Seventh, it would be delightful if I did not have to scroll left and right to see/read material on the screen. Many webpages are sensitive to the screen settings; it would be great if we could get the new website to be more responsive to individual user settings about the screen.Eighth, I miss the ability to print or easily link to an individual post.
Ninth, the prinint is just dreadful. It comes out so tiny--largely because of all the white space on the pages now, that it makes printing almost useless. While I realize that it's a wireless world, I'd still like to be able to print and use paper.
I know it hurts your eyes or whatever but you aren't going to go blind. At worst you'll get some eye fatigue after about thirty minutes.
Or were you making a joke?
I would suggest turning your brightness down a little and turning on a lamp in your room. Ambient light will help the situation.
It was a joke.
But I see that they got rid of the off-color white background. My eyes hurt again. Why the Hell did they remove it? I'm sick of the 'sterile' feel of these damn forums. :/
Some form of forum hierarchy navigation at the bottom of the page so we don't have to scroll back to the top to navigate the forum hierarchy. It can be a duplicate of the hierarchy links at the top of the page or a drop-down menu or whatever else you can think of that would provide that functionality, but please, something.
I've noticed when you rate anything (clicking on the stars) the max value is 3.7 instead of 5. What this might mean is that there are values for half stars or quarter stars but when you click you only get the first 5 values with the max being 3.7. So that's a bug.
I was about to start a thread complaining about this, but I'd thought I'd do a search first. (Hey, at least search works!)
I was wondering how my blog entry could have a 3.7 with only one rating, and why it didn't change after two more ratings. I guess they were all trying to give me fives. 
This was ecplained by one of the devs in one of the first days.
To avoid one person being able to rate a blog as a 1 or a 5 right off the bat, they are given an initial score of 3 (as opposed to no score). Thus, that score of 3 is included in all further averages. Thus, only blogs that are truly horrid or great will end up at the extremes.
It would be ideal for the standard mailboxes, such as Sent and Trash, to be visible when you click on Inbox. Instead, you have to do something else to then see them (in half-hidden font color) in the lower-right, much lower than messages. Actually, I now see them when clicking on inbox (perhaps a recent change?) but still in the bad font color (red on gray).
Still need fixes to permissions for forums and calendars on groups. Yahoo groups are still a better option.
Making a poll is somewhat confusing. We need features to be explained, or a link to some help document. Polls are hidden away under Blog. I thought I would need HTML view in a blog to add the poll, but it actually only worked in the display view.
The double-clicking is unneccessary. When we click on any one section (Messages, etc.) it should go ahead and take us to the main page for that section, instead of requiring a second click.
This was ecplained by one of the devs in one of the first days.
To avoid one person being able to rate a blog as a 1 or a 5 right off the bat, they are given an initial score of 3 (as opposed to no score). Thus, that score of 3 is included in all further averages. Thus, only blogs that are truly horrid or great will end up at the extremes.
How much of a bias are we talking? will it take 100 5 star ratings to move it to 5 stars or would it take 1000? Really they shouldn't have messed with it. Even if one rating got something featured, as soon as people started seeing it, they could rate it as bad which would drop it down pretty quick.
Some form of forum hierarchy navigation at the bottom of the page so we don't have to scroll back to the top to navigate the forum hierarchy. It can be a duplicate of the hierarchy links at the top of the page or a drop-down menu or whatever else you can think of that would provide that functionality, but please, something.
I can right click the bar on the right and slect "top" from the options.
So depending ob your brower it might not be a problem.
Errr....is there a checklist somewhere (besides the 23 pages of this thread) of issues raised and addressed??
The biggest complaint for me is the automatic double spacing when you hit enter in a post.
It's
infuriating
imho.
Errr....is there a checklist somewhere (besides the 23 pages of this thread) of issues raised and addressed??
The biggest complaint for me is the automatic double spacing when you hit enter in a post.
It's
infuriating
imho.
There was but it got locked for having more than 1,000 posts in 24 hours...
So, is anyone from WotC monitoring this thread, or is this just a rant thread?
Well, there have been some posts by the VCL's in this thread (just 6 posts above yours), so there is at least some eyes on it. Not sure how influential the VCL's are, but I suspect they have a means of channeling the feedback to someone if the devs aren't lurking themselves (which I know they are.).
I know that I would welcome some more responsiveness from WotC. I know that they must be as frustrated as we are, but as so many of us have invested so much in their games and boards, I would love to see some more transparency. it's just good business. I'm happy to continue to bear love with the construction, but I would appreciate a shout back every now and then.
I know that I would welcome some more responsiveness from WotC. I know that they must be as frustrated as we are, but as so many of us have invested so much in their games and boards, I would love to see some more transparency. it's just good business. I'm happy to continue to bear love with the construction, but I would appreciate a shout back every now and then.
I'd be happy with a list of bugs submitted and a list of bugs fixed. There might even be one somewhere, but I can't find it. That way we can see for instance why the white background hasn't gone away.
I don't think most individuals have any problem with a white background. Sounds like a problem on the user side for some, perhaps old or faulty monitors or systems.
I don't think most individuals have any problem with a white background. Sounds like a problem on the user side for some, perhaps old or faulty monitors or systems.
Nope, its a visual problem. White on black hurts the eyes. After a few minutes you just don't want to look at the screen. Has something to do with the brain not being able to see both spectrums at the same time, and having to switch back and forth.
Oh, its a visual problem? Then maybe I should go get my eyes checked out for them inventing this gray background - not white. Working fine for me, sounds like your problem.
I've been having trouble with search. If I search a forum, I see a hit for the post I want. If I open that link, it will take me to a page other than the one containing that found post. So, I have to note the date, open the link, then use the page numbers to guess at the one that will have the date range for the post I want.
Oh, its a visual problem? Then maybe I should go get my eyes checked out for them inventing this gray background - not white. Working fine for me, sounds like your problem.
I never said you didn't have grey. I said I don't have grey. Are you using IE or Firefox or maybe even Chrome?
Yeah there's something wrong on your end. Are you sure you're not running a proxy? Maybe a custom style sheet?
A proxy might be cacheing pages. A custom style sheet might be overriding the changes.
How do I access my newly subscribed threads? I haven't found the feature anywhere.
There appears to be a problem with the blogs, clicking on the title brings up
"Sorry, there was a problem.
No blog posts were found which match the given criteria."
However I can edit it through the manage blog option or view if I click the blog posts header. This is no good however since I really don't need to read my own blogs but prefer others to be able to view without faffing around,
How do I access my newly subscribed threads? I haven't found the feature anywhere.
Subscribed threads are found in the preferences (link in top left corner)
How do I access my newly subscribed threads? I haven't found the feature anywhere.
Subscribed threads are found in the preferences (link in top left corner)
...but their just about useless because they don't show when new posts were made or that new posts have been made or anything really, except the title of the thread.
They are showing me when new posts are posted in a subscribed thread.
Despite having my preferences set to hide signatures, they are, as of today, showing up.
I have tried setting it to show sigs, and then chang eit back to hiding sigs, but no luck. Ironically, it even shows the sighs of folks I have blocked. That gets really annoying when the blocked member posts every other post in almost any thread, usually with lines of whine (which is why I blocked that person in the first place!)
I don't think most individuals have any problem with a white background. Sounds like a problem on the user side for some, perhaps old or faulty monitors or systems.
Nope, its a visual problem. White on black hurts the eyes. After a few minutes you just don't want to look at the screen. Has something to do with the brain not being able to see both spectrums at the same time, and having to switch back and forth.
I don't have an issue with it all *Shrugs* It doesn't hurt for me to look the black on white
You guys not having a problem does not change the fact that it is one of the more difficult color schemes to use. Of course, I am sure that someone could put two colors together with some effort that are harder but that does not change that something easier on the eyes than this should have been chosen as the default.
I use IE and I have cleared my cookies and browser history, logged outrestarted logged back in and have the same scheme. I have tried various deviations to the above with no effect.
Put bluntly, it sucks.
I don't understand what you guys are discussing, perhaps since I am not experiencing it. These forums are very easy on the eyes for me - and I've got horrible eyesight so that is saying something.
I don't understand what you guys are discussing, perhaps since I am not experiencing it. These forums are very easy on the eyes for me - and I've got horrible eyesight so that is saying something.
Do you have the gray background?
I don't.
I don't understand what you guys are discussing, perhaps since I am not experiencing it. These forums are very easy on the eyes for me - and I've got horrible eyesight so that is saying something.
Do you have the gray background?
I don't.
nope,plain ol white background
They are showing me when new posts are posted in a subscribed thread.
the subscribed threads link inside the preferences link that you get to from the top of the forums doesn't show anything on my computer except the name of the thread.
Now if I manually go into the sub-forum and look to see who posted where, I can see the little number box and tell its been updated.
This of course means that the only use the subscribed threads link has is to unsubscribe which would be better implemented by a button on the thread or a little 'x' on the subforum page next to the thread name, but that's would just be a neat feature I'm more worried about things like my [overexageration]bleeding eyes[/overexageration] at the moment.
I don't understand what you guys are discussing, perhaps since I am not experiencing it. These forums are very easy on the eyes for me - and I've got horrible eyesight so that is saying something.
Do you have the gray background?
I don't.
I've had the gray background since just a day or two after the beta went live.
I don't understand what you guys are discussing, perhaps since I am not experiencing it. These forums are very easy on the eyes for me - and I've got horrible eyesight so that is saying something.
Do you have the gray background?
I don't.
I've had the gray background since just a day or two after the beta went live.
I had it for a day or two at that point, then it went back to blinding white.
For what it's worth, when they introduced the grey I had it for a day or so, then it vanished, then a few days later it came back again. I've got no idea why since I didn't change anything at my end. Firefox 3.0.13 (at the time, I've updated to 3.0.14 since) using the D&D theme.
I had the color flip-flop as well. It is currently on gray after relapsing once.
From another thread I will add this but maybe it has already been done.
When one "replies with quote" the quote tags contain both a long user number and a long post number. The post has a link to the profile of the user but not a link to the post. Since both numbers are contained shouldn't we bwe able to link to the post? Or, is the system designed to not do so in order to not need to have a gazillion links?
I'd like to request that the way page titles are generated be changed. Specifically, that "The Wizards Community" not be included, or be placed at the back instead of the front.
It's only a cosmetic change, but it would make tabbed browsing much more useful. At the moment all I can see of each title is "The Wizards Community > Thread -..", with at most two characters of the thread or forum title (assuming I've only got 5 or less tabs open, it's even worse with more than that).
Some newer threads in FR (all three subforums) have 0 views for some time. What's going on? I know people are viewing them because you have ex. 6 answers, and I looked at them too...
It's too bad that it seems like progress on the site seems to have waned.
Maybe they have come to their senses and are about to use the most recent version of vBulletin? Much more stable and tested out of the box.
As copy and paste now cautches links I would like it to be able to propery copy and paste a thread title with a working link.
Currently it does this: ..."return oneroute(this,'thread','view','/75882/19975925/Bug_Issues_and_Feature_Requests_thread');">Bug Issues and Feature Requests thread
I'm not going to go into too much detail, since I don't want people figuring out what it is... but it would pretty much let me edit other people's posts. Reporting.
Also is there a way to do images without hotlinking? Inline linking is bad manners and has resulted in at least one guide not being maintained to end up with this image in its first post.