New Forums

[MacRumors]

Lots of new features... I haven't even gone through most of them.

It seems like it's more graphic intensive, but hopefully it'll be worth it.

arn

[eyelikeart]

lots of new features in the reply sections....I really like the font properties now, rather than manual html coding for it....and the smilies on the left margin are a great touch also!

I like it a lot.....way to go arn! :D

[eyelikeart]

the profile manager & calendar are great!

I am really liking the looks of this!

[madamimadam]

I think the new look is fantastic... my only foe is the "browse" button in IE 5.1.2 under OSX... outside of that, though, I am loving it. This really has to be the best set out forum I have ever posted to.

[Falleron]

Good improvement! One question though, from the home page how do you get to the Page that has the main forum types on (Hardware, Software, Article etc) without going into a topic on the right hand side then clicking the link at the top of the page.

Dont know if I explained that very well!

[Falleron]

Sorry, ignore that last question! I found the link to it!

[evildead]

I love the new look and the new features like adding files,Fonts , andcolor

[spikey]

Kool new look and features, it doesnt slow it down for me either.
thumbs up.

But out of interest, why is my member status called "macrumors 6502" ?

[dantec]

A couple weeks ago... I commented about the "old" Macrumors forum style...

You didn't have to spoil us this much Arn! Just a color change would have sufficed... ; )

But don't mistake me... I am loving every bit of this new forum ..! :) :o :D ;) :p :cool: :mad: :eek: :confused:

And one more thing:

Please remove the limit of smileys we can put in posts!

[amichalo]

This is an unexpected upgrade to the existing forums which were great to begin with. THANKS ARN!

That said, why don't you tell us what this is running on. Is it 'powered by OS X' or something? :confused:

(This is a rumor site, perhaps you're running on a pre-production G5 :D )

Anyway, tell us a bit about your system would ya?

[eyelikeart]

has anyone noticed that the colors of the smilies have changed since last night?

does this mean all the smilies & other icons will be the muted yellow that we now see?

[arn]

glad you guys like the new forums...

this server, sadly, is not run on OS X... I've been leasing a server for > 1 year for various web projects and MacRumors happens to be one of them... and it's running a combo of Linux/Apache/MySQL/PHP.

As you guys could tell, it handles daily load fairly well, but MacWorld Expo really drags it to it's knees...

As for the smiley's color - I didn't change anything... so not sure what that's about... ;)

Oh, as for the member "stats"... I'm still playing around with names... but Macrumors 6502 does have some meaning...

arn

[madamimadam]

Originally posted by amichalo
(This is a rumor site, perhaps you're running on a pre-production G5 :D )

I think he is secretly running on of these PBG4 1Ghz that he bought off the band on one of the other threads
;)

[eyelikeart]

ha ha ha!!!! :D

[geephore]

The 6502 was the chip used in the Apple II and, if I'm not mistaken, the Apple I.

[hinkhous]

What's a guy got to do around here to shed his Macrumors Newbie status??

:confused:

[cplmd]

MUUUUUUCCCCCHHHHHH BETTTTTTER
Like this UI
Great work

No problem with the Linux, Apache, PHP, MySql -
heck three out of four are running on my TiBook right now!

:D

[madamimadam]

Originally posted by hinkhous
What's a guy got to do around here to shed his Macrumors Newbie status??

:confused:

Another 9 more posts
:)

[cp21yos]

Really like the new forums... impressed me enough to stop being a lurker and register.

I really like all the stats and editing tools... the GMT time thing is cool to, now if it would only pick up the fact that we are currently in day-light savings and therefore at a psuedo GMT+11:cool:

[dantec]

Why may we not post new threads... or attachments?

[eyelikeart]

Originally posted by arn
As for the smiley's color - I didn't change anything... so not sure what that's about... ;)
arn

it's cool....but all of mine are yellow....early yesterday about half of them were normal color....not sure?

[spikey]

I like the "report this post to a moderator" link. Has that always been there?

[eyelikeart]

Originally posted by spikey
I like the "report this post to a moderator" link. Has that always been there?

I don't think it has....

but I've been wrong in the past on things...

[eyelikeart]

this is the first time I've ever seen myself as the most recent post for every forum! :D

[akuma]

very nice look.

[arn]

Note:

New posts are now not allowed in the "Article Discussions" except by moderators. (so, you will get an error message).

Post in General if you want to post general messages....

arn

[dantec]

Ahhh... oooooooo

You learn something new everyday!:rolleyes:

[dantec]

Arn why has the members page been down for sooooooooo long???

Not that it really matters to me... but... I'm just wondering why?!?:confused:

[eyelikeart]

u know....I've wondered that myself....

but the way I see it we should give arn some time since they have redone the site....it looks killer!

[Durandal7]

I hope that no avatars are provided by the administrators. I feel that avatars should only be custom ones to really set apart users with 500+ posts (I'll get there eventually). BTW the members page is back up.

[arn]

There are no provided avatars at the moment. You guys can be creative. Of course, keep it clean. :)

arn

[eyelikeart]

I have mine ready to go...

he he he... :p

[eyelikeart]

here it is!! :D

[dantec]

the members page is back up... (thanks arn, you are a god)!

I'm the 15th highest poster woohoo! Time to move up the rank... ;):cool:

[dantec]

That now when you click a link from a mail message it acutally opens a new window (IE) instead of using one and destroying the previous page?

Nice feature...:cool:

[Durandal7]

Originally posted by arn
Oh, as for the member "stats"... I'm still playing around with names... but Macrumors 6502 does have some meaning...
arn
How about "Macrumors Entity" or "Macrumors Deity"?

[hinkhous]

thanks for the info regarding my future status...this post brings me to 8 more!!

arn...

love the new look...any plans to make it customizable by user a la "my yahoo" or other?? Not to trash your hard work or anything!! Just curious.


keep up the good work.

[spikey]

Dont do that. It will attract dickheads to the site.

[eyelikeart]

I think making customizable features for users on the site would cause arn and company to have to work overtime...

[GreenLyons]

New to all of this, but a long time mac user. I think it looks cool, ahve been checking in on it fro the last year or so.
Very Cool:D

[Wes]

Looks nice, i say in the next evolution you change in to aqua so it fits into the browser, but then again that's just me.

Keep up the good work,
from saudi arabia, wes

[eyelikeart]

Arn...

I've noticed in the member list that there are several members who have 0 posts since they registered....have u thought about weeding out the ones who haven't done a thing in the year they've been members to tone the list some so it's not so.....incomplete wouldn't be the right word....but I think u can figure out what I mean? It's a lot to go through when there are pages after pages of members with 0 posts....sort of obsolete to keep them on....just a thought....

[krossfyter]

good idea eyelikert.

[MrMacMan]

Ah.. anyone else notuce the *** when people say c l a s s i c ? We are talking about computers not in a secret languge... :o Can you even fix that?

[krossfyter]

classic, jurassic, fantasstic, multitassking, bombasstic, waxassstatic, plasstic....

[krossfyter]

yep they fixed it.

rock on!

[krossfyter]

crap on me

[voicegy]

Originally posted by krossfyter
crap on me

Naw, that would be messy.

[krossfyter]

how you figure?

[voicegy]

Originally posted by krossfyter
how you figure?

er, ah,....*ick*

(waiting for krossfyter's reponse)

[eyelikeart]

has anyone noticed how off the time stamps are on many posts since yesterday?

it's quite confusing when my time shows an hour earlier than ones before mine.... :confused:

[mischief]

I think the server crashed yesterday morning and never had it's clock re-set.

[samy85114]

that is actually possible,
I had some difficulties to get connected yesterday... so you're probably right!