Forum Upgrade Coming (4th May)

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By Peter (RL) - 10 Years Ago

Hi Everyone,

We are pleased to announce that we will be upgrading our forum on the 4th May 2015 to the more modern and feature packed InstantForum 2014 software. This new software features RWD (Responsive Web Design). This means people can browse or edit the forum on mobile devices and the layout will adapt to fit their screen resolution and provide a smoother viewing experience.

This long overdue upgrade will also offer better support for a variety of different browsers and allow Internet Explorer 11 to work without requiring compatibility mode to be turned on.

The switchover will take place on Monday 4th May so you may experience some downtime during this move. We hope the process will not cause too much disruption but we do apologise in advance for any downtime you may experience on Monday.

We really hope you will like the changes and look forward to seeing you all on our new forum soon. :)

By Rampa - 10 Years Ago

That's exciting! :) Looking forward to see the new color scheme, whatever it may be. I'm guessing gray and green?

By planetstardragon - 10 Years Ago

I hope we have the same icons :blink:

life wouldn't be the same without :w00t: or :pinch: :crying:

just sayin..... :Whistling:

By RobertoColombo - 10 Years Ago

planetstardragon (4/30/2015)

I hope we have the same icons :blink:

life wouldn't be the same without :w00t: or :pinch: :crying:

just sayin..... :Whistling:

For sure you will still have s00000p to quarrel with :D:D:D:D:D:D:D:P:P:P:P:P:P
Just kidding...

In the meanwhile, I wonder where on this earth Ken Coon disappeared...
I miss his daily problems ( e.g. the refrigerator caused a short with the PC and I lost my latest project ;):P )

Cheers

Roberto

By planetstardragon - 10 Years Ago

if we can only get him to "poop" graphics for a change! :unsure:

By Galfridus - 10 Years Ago

Thank You Peter.

"May the 4^th be with you Luke"

....and all the rest of us.

Geoff.:D

By colour - 10 Years Ago

Hope it's not a Model T job. "You can have any colour you like, as long as it's black":ermm:

By bluemidget666 - 10 Years Ago

Nice one , I hope it's compatable with some of the forum apps out there.:

By Peter (RL) - 10 Years Ago

rampa (4/30/2015)

That's exciting! :) Looking forward to see the new color scheme, whatever it may be. I'm guessing gray and green?

colour (4/30/2015)

Hope it's not a Model T job. "You can have any colour you like, as long as it's black":ermm:

The forum software we use is changing but the color scheme is not unfortunately. :Whistling:

By bluemidget666 - 10 Years Ago

as long as its up and running for the 7th, so I have an escape from the election im happy:P

By Cricky - 10 Years Ago

Galfridus (4/30/2015)

Thank You Peter.

"May the 4^th be with you Luke"

....and all the rest of us.

Geoff.:D

Good One!!

By Vit3D - 10 Years Ago

Hi All,
I have some remarks about new forum looks:
1. All text in posts has a lot of extra empty lines and this made it very hard to read.
2. What with user's avatar pictures? Some of them simply gone...
Hope these issues will be fixed.

Cheers

EDIT: Text format issue presents only in posts made on "old" forum. New posts (like this one) looks normally

P.S. And my wish -- Will be good to have the possibility to switch to alternative, more "compact" forum skin.
By my opinion current (default) new forum skin have some disproportion between text size and big size of UI elements (buttons etc.). Will be good if in "compact" forum skin all UI elements will be smaller :)

By primaveranz - 10 Years Ago

How do I see the "posts since my last visit" now?

By primaveranz - 10 Years Ago

Also, how do I see just the iClone forums and not CTA etc?

By Vit3D - 10 Years Ago

Did not find option "Mark forum as read" which have been very useful...

By Capemedia - 10 Years Ago

Looks good but will take time getting used to :)

By Peter (RL) - 10 Years Ago

primaveranz (5/4/2015)

Also, how do I see just the iClone forums and not CTA etc?

You can choose "Explore" and then select iClone from the tree structure on the right. This will then just display the iClone forums.

By Peter (RL) - 10 Years Ago

primaveranz (5/4/2015)

How do I see the "posts since my last visit" now?

Click "Latest" from the menu at the top and then scroll to the bottom of the screen once the results are shown. There you will find various filters, one of which is posts since my last visit. :)

By Rampa - 10 Years Ago

Peter (RL) (5/4/2015)

primaveranz (5/4/2015)

How do I see the "posts since my last visit" now?

Click "Latest" from the menu at the top and then scroll to the bottom of the screen once the results are shown. There you will find various filters, one of which is posts since my last visit. :)

In addition, if you look under "View" on the right at the top of the message column, you can set to ascending or descending order. With descending, the newest is always at the top. Very helpful for longer threads.

By primaveranz - 10 Years Ago

I don't see iClone in the list?

By primaveranz - 10 Years Ago

Peter (RL) (5/4/2015)

primaveranz (5/4/2015)

How do I see the "posts since my last visit" now?

Click "Latest" from the menu at the top and then scroll to the bottom of the screen once the results are shown. There you will find various filters, one of which is posts since my last visit. :)

Can you restore the link to the top? It is a step backwards to have to scroll down and then set search options instead of just clicking a link.
Cheers.

By primaveranz - 10 Years Ago

Ah. I didn't notice the scroll bar on the right hand side of the "Explore" window. But the colours don't make it obvious and again it is a multi-step process to reach the iClone foums? Seems like another backwards step for the interface.

By primaveranz - 10 Years Ago

And now I notice the Home page has changed since this morning, so I can see the forums as before, thanks ;)

By Cricky - 10 Years Ago

Looks like the UTC timecode was a little off, but it appears the new forum is up and running. It may take some time to get used to the interface, but I'm sure I'll muddle through.

It appears all attachments are now Temporary? All with Time Limits? So older posts are going into archival dungeons even if still relevant? ::blink:

By planetstardragon - 10 Years Ago

Nice emotes!! :w00t:

By Tarampa Studios - 10 Years Ago

I'm really loving this new interface for the forums!

It's so much more friendly than the old version...

Love the "Like" option, which I wish I'd been able to use for aaaages...

Aside from the pop-up window from "Liking" a post (because the pop-up is so horribly obstructive, time-wasting, redundant, frustrating and discourages me from Liking any more posts until I can find a tick-box to switch it off)....

I've just found over 30 brilliant packs by my favourite developers that I wasn't able to find via searches of their stores or by keyword searches in the past year...

Now all I need is a downloader that can handle orders that are longer than a page, and I'll be poor again for another year, LOL

By Tarampa Studios - 10 Years Ago

p.s.
Hey guys, something I've often wondered about these forums...

what is an "achievement"... how do you work out a reputation?

and can we please get hotlinks to more-info pages about these terminologies in the left-hand menus of our profile pages - where the words currently appear?

Oh, and is it possible to switch off the pop-up from "liking or rating a page please? Because that got old very fast, and I checked my settings tab for possible ways to do it, but then I saw something shiny in one of Mark's SmallWStudio videos in a neighbouring window and obviously no human can sit still after they've been inspired so much by him.. LOL

By planetstardragon - 10 Years Ago

the ratings are important. sometimes when I'm in a bad mood, I vent by wrecking someones thread with horrible ratings. I enjoy that very much ♥

It's a necessary evil.

http://robertkaplinsky.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/minime_cover.jpg

By prabhatM - 10 Years Ago

planetstardragon (5/5/2015)

the ratings are important. sometimes when I'm in a bad mood, I vent by wrecking someones thread with horrible ratings. I enjoy that very much ♥

It's a necessary evil.

I guess it's a two way traffic.

By Darren01 - 10 Years Ago

I can't seem to find the user control panel so I can change my forum avatar ?

By vidi - 10 Years Ago

It is now in the top right corner

By Darren01 - 10 Years Ago

ok thanks
I kept clicking my username in the top right corner.
But you have to click the blue panel next to the username to edit profile

By Tarampa Studios - 10 Years Ago

Did I reach a limit on how many tutors I'm allowed to follow?

I followed a few yesterday, but can't click on any today without getting the following error:

Server Error in '/' Application.

Runtime Error

Description: An application error occurred on the server. The current custom error settings for this application prevent the details of the application error from being viewed remotely (for security reasons). It could, however, be viewed by browsers running on the local server machine.
Details: To enable the details of this specific error message to be viewable on remote machines, please create a <customErrors> tag within a "web.config" configuration file located in the root directory of the current web application. This <customErrors> tag should then have its "mode" attribute set to "Off".

<!-- Web.Config Configuration File --><configuration>  <system.web>    <customErrors mode="Off"/>  </system.web></configuration>

Notes: The current error page you are seeing can be replaced by a custom error page by modifying the "defaultRedirect" attribute of the application's <customErrors> configuration tag to point to a custom error page URL.

<!-- Web.Config Configuration File --><configuration>  <system.web>    <customErrors mode="RemoteOnly" defaultRedirect="mycustompage.htm"/>  </system.web></configuration>

By duchess110 - 10 Years Ago

Started today.
Homepage fine but when I select lets say News & Announcements as an example it does happen to all catagories I see a message top of screen clicked to open up and see this server report
Did a refresh as suggested but still errors.

https://forum.reallusion.com/uploads/images/1dab3d3f-4e6b-45c9-b156-54f5.jpg

By wires - 10 Years Ago

I'm getting the same message.
However, we all know that things can go wrong as soon as anyone from RL tries to do anything with an Internet server.:w00t::crazy::laugh::D
Aside from that the new forum look isn't too bad.:cool:

By Peter (RL) - 10 Years Ago

Vit3D (5/4/2015)

Hi Vit,

You will need to add your avatar picture again I'm afraid.

At the moment there are no plans to allow custom forum skins. This was considered but sadly technical issues with old forum posts prevent it.

By Peter (RL) - 10 Years Ago

For those reporting issues with the new forum we do apologise. Unfortunately we are experiencing some teething problems but hope to have everything smoothed out soon. Do let us know if you encounter any other issues. Thanks.

By animagic - 10 Years Ago

I'm using IE 11 and I miss many editing options, such as inserting images, hyperlinks, etc. My interface is just a text box...:unsure:
Also I can't preview (even though I DID NOT use Quick Reply).
EDIT: OK, so now it works in Chrome, but no longer in IE...:crazy:
EDIT2: I had compatibility view enabled for "forum.reallusion.com"...:blush:

By primaveranz - 10 Years Ago

Is it just me or is the posts' font tiny? I have my browser zoom set on 125% just to make it comfortable to read.

By planetstardragon - 10 Years Ago

ya, i have to agree, they are a bit small, it could also be that the forum looks much larger too....I usually hold cntrl / mousewheel to enlarge text.

By wires - 10 Years Ago

animagic (5/6/2015)

Click on "+ Insert" to insert items.
Preview is automatic - just below the Post Reply button.

https://forum.reallusion.com/uploads/images/0f2c1ecf-48f4-4b6b-8eaf-5d5e.png

By animagic - 10 Years Ago

Thanks, Gerry.

I didn't have any of that because I had forum.reallusion.com set to Compatibility Mode to handle the previous forum. Once I changed that, it all worked.

By DELETED2 - 10 Years Ago

Beautiful new forum technologies but............................... the simplifications are annoying.

You've obliterated the means to include basic HTML in our posts at a scripting level and this also denies us the means to self-host images and launch them here hi res inline.
It also means we cannot use tabled image slices for graphic manipulation of link delivery on our signatures and it also stunts the ability to have more than a 1994 dullards graphic as the same.
We cant post segmented animated imagery for self-promotion and so on and on.
Once more the TELEPHONE rules and the polish dulls in favour of delinquent inability.

This also denies animators and modellers to self-script their own hosted videos from their own servers which to me is annoying as I host with the fastest servers in the world and dont intend kissing up to youtube.
You've got about four other scripts allowed except basic HTML.

RWD is nonsense . Responsive web design.
For the first time in TWENTY ONE YEARS someone decides to re-enact the variable parameter so the the page skitters about and suits the browsers technologies.
In 1994 we had simple codes that looked at the users browser, OS and Res and readjusted the website accordingly.
Then it got Sloppy.
Telephones could see the web and suddenly everything became squinched into the middle third while the world bought WIDE screen monitors pointlessly, websites reverted to pre-1994 style.

It's your neck thats bleeding not mine.
You upgraded the cars looks but someone degraded your engine.
Dissappointing.

Armstrong.

By Peter (RL) - 10 Years Ago

I'm pleased to say we have now fixed a number of issues with the forum so you should get a better experience from now on.

Among the fixes are, resolved the spacing issue with older posts, font size has been increased slightly, the forum should be faster, Internet Explorer compatibility issues fixed and a number of page errors fixed.

Please do let us know if you still encounter any other issues with the forum. :)

By wires - 10 Years Ago

Peter (RL) (5/7/2015)

Please do let us know if you still encounter any other issues with the forum. :)

Always happy to please. :)
It would appear that reporting spam items isn't functioning correctly. :Whistling:

By AverageJoe - 10 Years Ago

Personally, I do not like this new forum. Everything is just too big. Too much wasted space with big empty areas, text being much larger than it really needs. I think the older forum, while it could be a PITA sometimes was still much better than this garbage.

By DELETED2 - 10 Years Ago

wizaerd (5/7/2015)

And, dissappointingly, I have to agree. Everything is becoming massive. Take a look at paypal once you've logged in to see how riddicule worthy otheer sites are also becoming.

Regarding updating/upgrading.... what of basic HTML.
I've tried Java, and Perl and cannot table an image in either because your systems obliterate style and other safe code script rendering the code implant useless.

You're clipping peoples wings and rendering the masters as novices again.
It's a crying shame.

By prabhatM - 10 Years Ago

Try Ctrl + - -

.

The format will get smaller.

@Armstrong
Code implant should NOT be allowed.
You are on a wrong track. Java and Pearl to implant an image on the forum ??? They are all server side stuff. Do you have access to RL's Server ?

By Rampa - 10 Years Ago

It does scale pretty well. "Cntrl Mousewheel" scales in Firefox.

The messages adjust to screen width, so just zoom-out your page a bit, and it'll keep the messages set to the window width, but be larger or smaller.

By AverageJoe - 10 Years Ago

Zooming in and out on the page affects the text size, but all that empty space is still there and even looks worse zoomed out a bit. Plus make the text too small and the gray of the text becomes very difficult to read on the black background. I'm keeping to my original opinion, hate the new forum.

By animagic - 10 Years Ago

I would be opposed to making the base font smaller as it was too small with the old forum. It's better now for me.

However, RL should consider the option of different color settings, which is within the capability of the forum software.

By Peter (RL) - 10 Years Ago

wires (5/7/2015)

Always happy to please. :)
It would appear that reporting spam items isn't functioning correctly. :Whistling:

Hi Gerry,

We are aware of an issue with email notifications. We are looking into it and hope to have it resolved soon.

By animagic - 10 Years Ago

I discovered a problem where I could not attach a file to my post. It said that I had exceeded my quota or something. Now I know this not to be true. Also, this was a very small (3k) file in ZIP format.

By Vit3D - 10 Years Ago

I apologize is someone already mentioned this issue ...
Forum does not update Topic status (icon) if new reply added, it always stay "No new replies" is this topic have been read in the last visit. The same happened with the status of sub-forums.
This makes a bit hard to find new posts and replies.
Also I'd like to request "Mark forum as read" as in old forum. Current forum has no such option in "Forum Options" drop down menu.
Cheers,

By jlittle - 10 Years Ago

Even though I have multiple forum subscriptions I am not getting any email notifications of new posts in those forums subscribed to.
Is this working? Is there something new that needs to be set?

Jeff

By primaveranz - 10 Years Ago

When you select "Latest" I wish the column headers showed which forum the posts were from. E.g. I have no interest in CTA so hate opening a post to find it has nothing to do with iClone.

By Christy0 - 10 Years Ago

Yep!! I hate that too.

By primaveranz - 10 Years Ago

I was hoping the new forums would allow you to block the posts of specific individuals. Since there are a few long-established trolls on the forums who frequently hijack other peoples' threads in order to insult others and carry on their own personal agendas. It makes learning iClone slower and less fun. Was it a conscious decision not to have any moderation on the forums? I get most of my useful information from other on-line groups for this reason.

By justaviking - 10 Years Ago

primaveranz (5/15/2015)

When you select "Latest" I wish the column headers showed which forum the posts were from. E.g. I have no interest in CTA so hate opening a post to find it has nothing to do with iClone.

+1
If it listed the thread's path beneath the Topic (title), that'd be excellent.
By "path" I mean something like: Home > Reallusion > News & Announcements > Forum Upgrade Coming (4th May)
(Not much value added by including "Home".)
.....
I also notice a nearly random use of "Circles" (no new posts) and "Dots" (new post) on new posts that I know I have not read.
Has anyone else noticed that, or is it just me?

By Peter (RL) - 10 Years Ago

Thanks for all the feedback regarding the new forum.

We have now fixed some issues including email notifications and spam reporting. Please do let us know if you are still encountering any other issues.

By Peter (RL) - 10 Years Ago

primaveranz (5/20/2015)

If you are having problems with any other forum members, please do let me know by PM and I will investigate. Do try to provide links to any threads where you feel you have been insulted or where trolling has taken place. Thanks.

By primaveranz - 10 Years Ago

I would be happy to Peter, but you have apparently exceeded your mailbox limited so I can't do this.

By primaveranz - 10 Years Ago

Sent you an email instead.

By Peter (RL) - 10 Years Ago

primaveranz (5/21/2015)

I would be happy to Peter, but you have apparently exceeded your mailbox limited so I can't do this.

Apologies about that. It fills up very quickly these days. :w00t:

I have now had a clear out so it should be ok for a little while.

By Peter (RL) - 10 Years Ago

primaveranz (5/22/2015)

Sent you an email instead.

I got it. Thanks for that. :)

EDIT: I will be looking into the information you provided. Thanks for bringing it to my attention.

By justaviking - 10 Years Ago

Peter (RL) (5/25/2015)

primaveranz (5/21/2015)

I would be happy to Peter, but you have apparently exceeded your mailbox limited so I can't do this.

Apologies about that. It fills up very quickly these days. :w00t:

Gee, if only we had larger In Boxes.
(The year 1995 was a long, long time ago.)

By hattori kun - 10 Years Ago

Is there a desktop mode for android or ios tablets?
The mobile version of the forum has some missing features.

By jlittle - 10 Years Ago

I usually use my desktop to view the forum but while traveling I been using the mobile version on my phone.
Issues I've noted so far are:
1) The posts do not say who posted them (i.e. author).
2) When clicking on a link to a latest post it always goes to the first post, not the one indicated.

Jeff

By justaviking - 10 Years Ago

I must have missed the announcement about increasing our PM folder size. Thanks!!!!
It is also easier to delete PMs in the updated forum. Now it can be a one-step operation. Thanks for that, too.

By prabhatM - 10 Years Ago

jlittle (6/1/2015)

You can use VIEW > Flat Descending ....... to see the latest ( in the mobile version )

By bsperan - 10 Years Ago

Myself, I do not like the changes. But, yeah, it will take some getting used to.

So far, my biggest issue is how the forum obfuscates the date of forum posts - or even the date of a member's last activity. Is there some security reason which necessitates giving a roundabout estimate of "6 hours ago" or "Posted Last Year"? To say that such is imprecise would be an understatement. I've participated on a lot of different forums over the years, but I've never seen one that tries this hard to obscure times and dates.

I think it's already confusing some people. I saw a new reply recently to an old thread from last year with the context implying that something announced would be soon. With dates obscured, how can we tell when replying to something would be considered thread necromancy?