Upgrading the forum

Post by **Aleister** » Sat Sep 04, 2004 5:10 pm

I am currently working on some forum upgrades, so if you notice any intermittent problems, it is probably because of that

Post by **Aleister** » Sat Sep 04, 2004 6:19 pm

I removed the image attachment mod, as no one really used it before and it just took up space on the posting screen.

I also removed the 1000 or so smilies so we are now left with just a standard pack. It was taking forever for all of them to load on some peoples computers

I may go back later and add a smaller pack.

PHPBB and the mods installed have all been upgraded!

As always, if there is a particular mod or feature you would like to see, let me know!

Post by **Aleister** » Sat Sep 04, 2004 8:10 pm

Hm.. red logo up top? Or back to gray ?

decadence · Post by **decadence** » Sat Sep 04, 2004 10:32 pm

I dig the red. that is badass

Adrian · Post by **Adrian** » Sun Sep 05, 2004 1:37 am

Lagwolf · Post by **Lagwolf** » Sun Sep 05, 2004 5:36 am

Yeah very good improvements. This forum seems to tick over fairly quickly as well, which is nice. Its good to see the icons on the side are working too, so often they don't in other forums.

E.A. Lovecraft · Post by **E.A. Lovecraft** » Sun Sep 05, 2004 9:31 am

Personally, I liked the grey logo better . . . but it could just be all this damn, unwanted sunlight pouring into my study and making things difficult to see on my monitor.

Any way you can get the bouncing cthulhu emoticon?

Post by **Aleister** » Sun Sep 05, 2004 2:44 pm

I do want to make the red part look a bit sharper, but I don't want the image to get too big.

As far as the Cthulhu emoticon, certainly! Do you have a link where I can see it? Better yet would be to find a whole lovecraft smilie pack. Please point me to some if you know

Post by **Aleister** » Sun Sep 05, 2004 3:01 pm

Ah! I found two.. they have been added

Lagwolf · Post by **Lagwolf** » Sun Sep 05, 2004 3:41 pm

Oh I do like those two! Very cool.

E.A. Lovecraft · Post by **E.A. Lovecraft** » Sun Sep 05, 2004 4:27 pm

That first one is the one I was talking about. :D

I wonder how difficult it would be to make other mythos smilies.

Post by **Aleister** » Sun Sep 05, 2004 4:31 pm

Not really hard at all. You just have to shrink down an image and save it as a transparent gif. The problem is some images do not look good shrunk down to that level. That's why most smileys are simply handmade pixel by pixel.

Post by **Aleister** » Sun Sep 05, 2004 4:42 pm

Here is one I just made from an image. Really there is no set size for smileys, but smaller is usually better.

:cthulhuplush:

If you have any images you want turned into smileys just send em

E.A. Lovecraft · Post by **E.A. Lovecraft** » Sun Sep 05, 2004 11:48 pm

Aleister wrote:I do want to make the red part look a bit sharper . . .

Either you did just that, or it really was the sun screwing up my view this morning. Looks pretty cool!

Post by **Aleister** » Mon Sep 06, 2004 12:47 am

It is a bit sharper yes

It also is somewhat shorter, but hard to notice I suppose

It was taking up a bit more space than it needed to.