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Post by neo » Mon Jan 16, 2012 8:42 pm

looks good very 21st century :D job well done
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Post by Dajazar » Mon Jan 16, 2012 8:50 pm

I like the look but I'm familiar with PhPbb from Autoshite which uses it. My system doesn't process the pages as quickly as it currently does but that isn't a problem really. The point is we can't laeve things as labour intensive for the Mods as they currently are so we've got to upgrade.
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Post by dollysprint » Mon Jan 16, 2012 9:06 pm

No technical input from me as I know buggerall about nowt when it comes to all this, but looks good and thanks for the time, effort and headache of making the site better protected from idiots. Oh and can we have a thumbs up emoticon :D

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Post by CHR15E » Mon Jan 16, 2012 9:07 pm

Dajazar wrote:I like the look but I'm familiar with PhPbb from Autoshite which uses it. My system doesn't process the pages as quickly as it currently does but that isn't a problem really. The point is we can't laeve things as labour intensive for the Mods as they currently are so we've got to upgrade.
We do, we really do. :lol:

It's a pain. God knows how many users we've seen in the last few years.

But the flip side is that we haven't had the same trouble we had on the old forum of dodgy posts all over the place. So it has worked. Unfortunately now and again we get carried away and a few genuine people get chopped as well.

So it will be better all round hopefully.

James - Is it possible for us to look at having tapatalk within the code?
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Post by guru » Mon Jan 16, 2012 9:35 pm

Chris, you read my mind, I'd planned to enable Taptalk on here as I'd also like to use it!
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Post by BlueRover » Mon Jan 16, 2012 10:04 pm

Richard Moss wrote: I think a Nightfire Red/Cream style would be great - then we could set it up for Chris and lock his preferences :)
Other than that, magic!
Image perhaps ?
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Post by SJG » Mon Jan 16, 2012 10:08 pm

BlueRover wrote:
Richard Moss wrote: I think a Nightfire Red/Cream style would be great - then we could set it up for Chris and lock his preferences :)
Other than that, magic!
Image perhaps ?
That looks nice
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Post by Alex SBY » Mon Jan 16, 2012 10:11 pm

Certainly does! Very smart and classy.

Tapatalk... Is that the thing that allows you to look at fora on a smartphone "app"?
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Post by SJG » Mon Jan 16, 2012 10:24 pm

Just been looking at the brew site on my phone, will the site load slower? It does not look as good on my phone I have to say.
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Post by guru » Mon Jan 16, 2012 10:57 pm

Yes taptalk is the smartphone app that makes browsing forums easier!

Simon, it shouldn't make loading any slower. Do bear in mind that at the moment the database engine will still be optimising the new 150Mb database I've dumped on it. We will probably see a temporary slowdown in the live server when we perform the upgrade, as the database is optimised again.
I've tested it on my small army of devices (PC, Laptop, Honeycomb Tablet, HTC Legend, HTC Desire S, Samsung Galaxy S (with Ice Cream Sandwich installed!), Sony Xperia Arc S and on all of those it looks pretty nice. I haven't yet tested it on iOS (iphone) however I will endeavour to dust off my ipod touch and give it a go. Which phone are you using it from? Bear in mind that you can select the old style from your user control panel (Subsilver2) which may help and of course you'll be able to use taptalk which WILL help ;)

Thanks for all the feedback so far, much appreciated.
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Post by CHR15E » Tue Jan 17, 2012 6:34 am

Don't even think about it. :lol:

I like Nightfire so red is fine but I think silver/blue is easier on the eye with forums.
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Post by Richard C » Tue Jan 17, 2012 7:30 am

I had a play on my phone last night looking at the Beta site, no issues at all tried the various 'skins' no problems at all. Looking forward to the upgrade now, 8)
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Post by Very Tall Brad » Tue Jan 17, 2012 9:33 am

I'm with Dave Dollysprint. Ain't got a clue, don't really care as I don't understando.

Whatever makes it easier for the folks operating the switches and pedals.

And we are all grateful for the work undertaken by you James. Thank you.

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Post by SJG » Tue Jan 17, 2012 1:07 pm

guru wrote:Yes taptalk is the smartphone app that makes browsing forums easier!

Simon, it shouldn't make loading any slower. Do bear in mind that at the moment the database engine will still be optimising the new 150Mb database I've dumped on it. We will probably see a temporary slowdown in the live server when we perform the upgrade, as the database is optimised again.
I've tested it on my small army of devices (PC, Laptop, Honeycomb Tablet, HTC Legend, HTC Desire S, Samsung Galaxy S (with Ice Cream Sandwich installed!), Sony Xperia Arc S and on all of those it looks pretty nice. I haven't yet tested it on iOS (iphone) however I will endeavour to dust off my ipod touch and give it a go. Which phone are you using it from? Bear in mind that you can select the old style from your user control panel (Subsilver2) which may help and of course you'll be able to use taptalk which WILL help ;)

Thanks for all the feedback so far, much appreciated.
James, thank you for all your efforts. This forum means alot for many of the regular viewers.

Its a Nokia N8 I am using.
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Post by guru » Tue Jan 17, 2012 3:32 pm

Probably the only phone I don't have access too! My brother had a symbian powered phone but it broke so he dumped it and bought an Android.

Sadly it doesn't look like taptalk is available for symbian so you might have to go through the styles until you find one that suits.
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