The Energon Pub

[Seibertron]

How about seprating the cartoons and comics into 2 fourms or have a sub-forum featuring comics or cartoons?

I had the forums separated like that a few years ago, but neither separate forum was getting a lot of traffic. I merged them to help generate more interest but that still hasn't really seemed to work. There have only been 100 topics posted in since December 21st so I'm not sure what to do with that forum at this time.

I'm open to suggestions and ideas though on how to improve activity in the cartoon and comics forum(s).

[The Legend]

I'm open to suggestions and ideas though on how to improve activity in the cartoon and comics forum(s).

Seperate the forums and have have the staff create a topic when a new issue/episode is released to kick start a conversation. Oftentimes people have thoughts on issues/episodes that they don't feel the need to create their own topic for so their opinions go unvoiced. A catch-all topic to discuss in would be welcome.

[Seibertron]

can we condense some of the announcement. it looks like an aweful lot could be combined. do we need 7 stickied topics? cant we get it down to 3 or 4

edit: i guess its just GD that has the big problem. but cant "Posting in spambot threads", "General warning about trolling, flaming and not respecting others opinions", "Info about our warning and ban system", and "Sig size guidelines" all be put into "**BOARD RULES PLEASE READ** ". all of thoses just seem like they could be in the 1 board rules thread which would de-clutter the top of the forum

This has been a concern of mine for a while. I created a new Subforum, which now appears under General Discussion called "Rules Forum". I moved all of the rules topics into that forum, modified the topic titles, and unlocked the topics in order to allow users to ask questions if necessary.

general-discussion-f14.html
rules-forum-f214.html

Now to create a "Rules" link somewhere in the forum's header.

[Seibertron]

Night Raid and I mentioned this on the Trouble thread, but just in case: the Mark Topics Read button doesn't seem to be working.

The only thing I'd like at the moment is for the Mark Forums Read button to work again.

Edit: Oops, just noticed this has already been reported. Sorry.

Yeah, it stopped working when you made the changes.

Before it would include the session id in the url when you clicked the link, now the sid isn't there, but it still doesn't work even if you put the &sid=123456etc on the url manually.

This should be working properly now. Can you guys confirm?

[Seibertron]

I meant to mention yesterday that I fixed the "quotes" so that they will display properly in the news section and display slightly differently than they used to in the forums.

share-your-ideas-about-ways-to-improve-seibertron-com-s-forums-t63300s20.html

Also modified the smilies and added back in some old favorites. Moved the smilies back to the right of the textarea that we type in, again to help free up some space following the textarea and the submit button.

[Seibertron]

I enabled it so that guests can view inline image attachments. I think this will allow images to be viewed in the news section that were originally an inline attachment from the forums.

If you logout, then go to rare-green-beast-wars-ramulus-t57269.html, you'll see the image attachments without being logged in now.

[Skyfire77]

Night Raid and I mentioned this on the Trouble thread, but just in case: the Mark Topics Read button doesn't seem to be working.

The only thing I'd like at the moment is for the Mark Forums Read button to work again.

Edit: Oops, just noticed this has already been reported. Sorry.

Yeah, it stopped working when you made the changes.

Before it would include the session id in the url when you clicked the link, now the sid isn't there, but it still doesn't work even if you put the &sid=123456etc on the url manually.

This should be working properly now. Can you guys confirm?

That's got it, thanks!

[Tekka]

It's still not working for me. =/

[Seibertron]

It's still not working for me. =/

Can you do a control + F5 on your keyboard and also try a different forum that you haven't visited before?

[Tekka]

The forums that have a "Mark Topics Read" button work, but the "Mark Forums Read" on the Board Index to mark the whole board read, is still broken.

[Seibertron]

The forums that have a "Mark Topics Read" button work, but the "Mark Forums Read" on the Board Index to mark the whole board read, is still broken.

Alright, I think I was able to fix it now. I tested it and it seemed to work properly for me. Can you confirm that it now works for you Tekka?

[Tekka]

That's got it. Nicely done, boss!

[Down_Shift]

You know what else would be nice? If when we all receive an e-mail for a Topic Reply that in that e-mail we get a text copy of the last post" for example:

Hi Down_Shift,

You received this email because you're watching the topic, "Share your
ideas about ways to improve Seibertron.com's forums" at Seibertron.com,
which received a reply since your last visit. No more notifications will be
sent until you visit the topic.

"That's got it. Nicely done, boss!

View the newest post since your last visit:

viewtopic.php?f=214&t=63300&p=1045552&e=1045552

View the topic:
viewtopic.php?f=214&t=63300

View the forum:
viewforum.php?f=214


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Hope you don't mind me using your forum lovin' post in my example Tekka.

[Valandar]

The tiny little "View First Unread" icon before a topic with new replies works with threads that have only one page, but if it's more than one page it takes you to the first post on the first page of the thread, even in a thread you have posted in.

Other than that, I'd like to say that as one of the Great (un)Washed Masses, I really appreciate all the work you're putting in here. Thanks, Seibs!

[kirbenvost]

*whoops wrong topic, deleted*

[Me, Grimlock!]

Some forums aren't listed anywhere. For instance, I can't find the Philosopher's Forum anywhere. Or has it been removed again?

Also, for the different types of forums (TF-related, HMW-related, miscellaneous) is it possible to make each one a different colour in the list to the left? This sounds like a bad idea, but I figured I'd throw it out there to see if someone can turn it into a good one. Maybe icons? Just for quick scanning, you can see where the list of TF forums ends, miscellaneous ones, etc.

Also, do areas like the staff forum or other invitation-only sections really need to be in the list for those users that can't access them? It's just cluttering.

Which brings to mind something else: maybe we can set "favourite forums." In the left-hand list, there can be our most visited forums or ones we mark as favourites in our profile. If we want to visit other forums, we can go to index.php. The downside to this is that users are unlikely to visit other forums as often. Then again, you could divide the list into headers: Favourites and Others beneath that.

[Venomous Prime]

I mentioned it in the revamp thread, but changing the color of links would be amazing. The dark red or whatever that is, is just way out of place and looks awful.

Other than that, I'm liking it a lot

[Seibertron]

I mentioned it in the revamp thread, but changing the color of links would be amazing. The dark red or whatever that is, is just way out of place and looks awful.

Other than that, I'm liking it a lot

Definitely open to suggestions!

[Venomous Prime]

I mentioned it in the revamp thread, but changing the color of links would be amazing. The dark red or whatever that is, is just way out of place and looks awful.

Other than that, I'm liking it a lot

Definitely open to suggestions!

If I could pick any color to change it to, it would be #333366. Which is the color of the navigation bar according to ColorPicker. The hover color could still be the redish color because it looks nice that way. Or the hover color could be a lighter shade of purple.

I think I phrased that all the right way

[Valandar]

The tiny little "View First Unread" icon before a topic with new replies works with threads that have only one page, but if it's more than one page it takes you to the first post on the first page of the thread, even in a thread you have posted in.

Other than that, I'd like to say that as one of the Great (un)Washed Masses, I really appreciate all the work you're putting in here. Thanks, Seibs!

Am I the only one with this problem, by the way?

[The Legend]

The tiny little "View First Unread" icon before a topic with new replies works with threads that have only one page, but if it's more than one page it takes you to the first post on the first page of the thread, even in a thread you have posted in.

Other than that, I'd like to say that as one of the Great (un)Washed Masses, I really appreciate all the work you're putting in here. Thanks, Seibs!

Am I the only one with this problem, by the way?

I don't have that problem but if I click the last read icon for this particular thread I get taken to a page which says it does not exist.

[Zordon]

You know what else would be nice? If when we all receive an e-mail for a Topic Reply that in that e-mail we get a text copy of the last post" for example:

Hi Down_Shift,

You received this email because you're watching the topic, "Share your
ideas about ways to improve Seibertron.com's forums" at Seibertron.com,
which received a reply since your last visit. No more notifications will be
sent until you visit the topic.

"That's got it. Nicely done, boss!

View the newest post since your last visit:

viewtopic.php?f=214&t=63300&p=1045552&e=1045552

View the topic:
viewtopic.php?f=214&t=63300

View the forum:
viewforum.php?f=214


If you no longer wish to watch this topic you can either click the
"Unsubscribe topic" link found at the bottom of the topic above, or by
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Hope you don't mind me using your forum lovin' post in my example Tekka.

i got seiber-mail found the links really useful to view stuff that i might of missed, also it could hopefully bring back more peeps to seibertron. and HMW etc etc

[Forgotten]

I think it would be pretty cool if there was a "live chat" style section. It would be really great to be able to talk back and forth about random things without email/page refreshes/etc.

Kremzeek ROCKS!! Thanks for putting that up Seibertron and for having THE BEST SITE EVER.

[DecepticonRedAlert]

When can we expect to see the galleries up and working again?

[Blurrz]

When can we expect to see the galleries up and working again?

By Tuesday, I believe.