DarkeSword Posted October 18, 2009 Share Posted October 18, 2009 Those skins aren't official. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DZComposer Posted October 18, 2009 Share Posted October 18, 2009 One thing really bothers me about this change: the ability to jump to a letter of the alphabet when sorting alphabetically appears to be missing. I looked up New Super Mario Bros earlier, and had a heck of a time finding it in the 60-page alphabetized list. If each page were a letter, it wouldn't be that bad, but Mega Man 2 takes up a whole page (at least) by itself... I like the way this theme looks better, but I feel that there was a loss of functionality. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fishy Posted October 18, 2009 Share Posted October 18, 2009 I have not been getting email notifications when I get pms for a few weeks now. It's all set up correctly still, right boxes ticked etc and I didn't change anything recently that might have caused it. My email is also listed correctly. Can't think of any reason why it's not working. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tex Posted October 18, 2009 Share Posted October 18, 2009 One thing really bothers me about this change: the ability to jump to a letter of the alphabet when sorting alphabetically appears to be missing.I looked up New Super Mario Bros earlier, and had a heck of a time finding it in the 60-page alphabetized list. If each page were a letter, it wouldn't be that bad, but Mega Man 2 takes up a whole page (at least) by itself... Just use the quick search tool at the top right corner of the page and you will be fine. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
djpretzel Posted October 18, 2009 Share Posted October 18, 2009 Quick updates: All mascots are now back in place; clear your cache to get the new javascript if you're still just seeing the first 50 Regarding alpha nav, what I'm hearing isn't necessarily that it needs to come back, but that SOMETHING needs to be added to make things more user-friendly. I'm thinking this will involve one or more of the following: Changing google search on far right to some version of quicksearch instead, making it clearer that you can search games/mixes that way... Moving the "browse" quickstats navigation smack dab towards the top of the homepage... it's still alive but looks fugly at the moment since it wasn't updated >>> http://ocremix.org/browse/ Adding specific quick search boxes to the list pages, so that when viewing the "remix" list there's a big search box for mixes, ditto games, etc. Other ideas? Again, just trying to get away from the alpha since it's not particularly scalable... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KyleJCrb Posted October 18, 2009 Share Posted October 18, 2009 I have not been getting email notifications when I get pms for a few weeks now. It's all set up correctly still, right boxes ticked etc and I didn't change anything recently that might have caused it. My email is also listed correctly. Can't think of any reason why it's not working. I actually noticed this yesterday as well, when I received a PM but didn't get an email notification about it. And actually, I haven't gotten any thread response notifications recently either for a thread that I'm subscribed to, and the thread has been replied to several times. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DarkeSword Posted October 19, 2009 Share Posted October 19, 2009 A couple of people have had that issue. Check your spam folders and the like. OCR's been doing a fair number of mailouts in the past year or so, and spam filters might be seeing emails coming from admin@ocremix.org as spam. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Pezman Posted October 19, 2009 Share Posted October 19, 2009 Not crazy about the new gray... makes it look more depressing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dafydd Posted October 19, 2009 Share Posted October 19, 2009 I agree. It's "sportier", but also less welcoming. But I guess it's just a matter of what you're used to. Another issue I have with it is that on my monitor, if no other, the upper part of the headphones in the logo is barely visible against the slightly brighter gray background. This wasn't an issue with the old colors, and to most people, it probably still isn't, but I still thought I should point it out. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Martin Penwald Posted October 19, 2009 Share Posted October 19, 2009 the upper part of the headphones in the logo is barely visible against the slightly brighter gray background. Heh, that was the first thing I noticed when I saw the new skin. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jmr Posted October 19, 2009 Share Posted October 19, 2009 Heh, that was the first thing I noticed when I saw the new skin.Hmm, the headphones are pretty easy to distinguish on my screen. I don't really miss the functionality of the sidebar (never used it much), but I sort of miss the screen real estate it used to occupy. Feels weird reading threads spanning the full width of a wide-screen monitor. Apart from that, I'm liking the new layout. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
prophetik music Posted October 19, 2009 Share Posted October 19, 2009 i kind of want the sidebar back, i liked using it for navigation purposes. maybe a setting in the user CP to disable or enable it? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jmr Posted October 20, 2009 Share Posted October 20, 2009 I don't really miss the functionality of the sidebar (never used it much), but I sort of miss the screen real estate it used to occupy. Feels weird reading threads spanning the full width of a wide-screen monitor. Hmm... I'm not sure if it's because I'm using a different resolution monitor at school (1680x1050 at school vs. 1280x800 at home), but I like what I'm seeing now. I'll check how it looks at home this evening. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
djpretzel Posted October 20, 2009 Share Posted October 20, 2009 Hmm... I'm not sure if it's because I'm using a different resolution monitor at school (1680x1050 at school vs. 1280x800 at home), but I like what I'm seeing now. I'll check how it looks at home this evening. The forums are max-widthed at 1300 like the rest of the site... at home there should be no change. It does look like vBulletin 4 will be reintroducing sidebars at least on the forum index, and we have been considering using a thing RIGHT column on forums for ads, promoting mixes, albums, etc... we'll see. The whole idea behind the width lock at 1300 is that, while folks with screen supporting larger resolutions shouldn't suffer, reading text that spans the width of the screen can get annoying. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jmr Posted October 20, 2009 Share Posted October 20, 2009 (edited) Ahh, I appreciate the explanation. I'd like to see the max width of forum threads to be a little less than 1300px (like I said, it feels weird reading things spanning the entire width of the screen), but that's just a personal preference and in the end, it's not a big deal at all. EDIT: Holy wow I just discovered Stylish. @-moz-document url-prefix('http://ocremix.org/forums') {div.middle-column-full {max-width:1000px !important}} ...suits me just fine. Edited October 21, 2009 by jmr Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DragonAvenger Posted October 22, 2009 Share Posted October 22, 2009 Sometimes when I view the frontpage I see the competitions section lower than the workshop section. It doesn't bother me greatly, but I figured it was something worth bringing up. I contemplated posting it in the new look thread, but I've seen this before the new looks, so here we are in a new thread. Anyone else see this? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Damned Posted October 22, 2009 Share Posted October 22, 2009 Occasionally. I always thought it had to do with Firefox fucking up how the page is loaded or something. Often, I'd just hit F5 and it would go back to normal. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bahamut Posted October 22, 2009 Share Posted October 22, 2009 I was busy playing a game, sorry DA - looks like you found the right place though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Abadoss Posted October 22, 2009 Share Posted October 22, 2009 IE 8 does this too... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
K.B. Posted October 24, 2009 Share Posted October 24, 2009 i kind of want the sidebar back, i liked using it for navigation purposes. maybe a setting in the user CP to disable or enable it? Please? It's a lot harder to read now with the expanded width and I'd rather not resize my browser every time I come to ocr. The Dreamhost links are dead for the recent Xenogears remixes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Coop Posted October 24, 2009 Share Posted October 24, 2009 First people bitched about it, and now they're begging to have it back. It's like djp's conducting some bizarre behavioral experiment. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dafydd Posted October 26, 2009 Share Posted October 26, 2009 (edited) As an experiment, why don't you make a list of people who complained about the sidebar, and then another one of those who complain about it being gone, and then see if anyone is in both lists? I would like to, once again, propose the smiley window be cleaned up. There's one duplicate, one triplicate and one empty slot. This means another 4 smileys could fit in that same window without changing its size. Besides, the order is messy. Edited October 26, 2009 by Dafydd Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
prophetik music Posted October 26, 2009 Share Posted October 26, 2009 As an experiment, why don't you make a list of people who complained about the sidebar, and then another one of those who complain about it being gone, and then see if anyone is in both lists? why worry about if someone's on both lists? just ban them all straight-up. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DarkeSword Posted October 26, 2009 Share Posted October 26, 2009 Can we get back to discussing actual design issues, instead of making stupid sidebar-ban jokes? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rozovian Posted October 26, 2009 Share Posted October 26, 2009 I liked the sidebar. I want it back in some form. Looks weird to not have something on the left side of the window. Anyway, unrelated matter, where a picture says more than a thousand words, and I am too lazy to write those anyway: http://filesap.com/r/275m/045.png Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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