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Minor new forum functionality for everyone

Posted by Seibertron May 15, 2010 at 12:48pm CDT 53,435 views
When you edit your profile now, you'll see a couple of new options.

1. eBay User ID Want to share your eBay auctions with your fellow Seibertronians? Just enter your eBay User ID exactly as it appears on eBay. We'll include a link with your posts that goes directly to your eBay auctions when you have items available. This will let people view your eBay auctions directly from Seibertron.com.

2. Allegiance Let your fellow Seibertronians know where your allegiance lies! Choose from Autobots, Decepticons, G2-Autobots, G2-Decepticons, Maximals, Predacons, Vehicons, GIJoe, Cobra, and many more! This was an old fan-favorite feature that we lost a few years ago after a forum upgrade.

Next time you post on Seibertron.com's Energon Pub forums, you'll see these options display in our slightly modified topic post display.

Have fun and enjoy your weekend!

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Re: Minor new forum functionality for everyone (view post)
Comment by Mindmaster May 15, 2010
Now people won't mistake me for an Autobot! Well... No one really guess... :lol:
Re: Minor new forum functionality for everyone (view post)
Comment by Name_Violation May 15, 2010
Yay!
Re: Minor new forum functionality for everyone (view post)
Comment by Editor May 15, 2010
Thanks for getting the allegiance icons working, and I'm sure that the eBay links will be great for some people. But Ryan, (and sorry for harping) could you please spend a bit of time on the HMW issues? At least give the staff access to the back-end so they can work on it as I am sure you are swamped.

Thanks.
Re: Minor new forum functionality for everyone (view post)
Comment by Sabrblade May 15, 2010
I AM A MAXIMAL! *punch* :-B 8)
Re: Minor new forum functionality for everyone (view post)
Comment by vectorA3 May 15, 2010
as u can see, I love seibertron!!!! (& cybertron too). Heck, I've been here a million years!!!!!

thx for update Ryan!
Re: Minor new forum functionality for everyone (view post)
Comment by Highbeam May 16, 2010
Sweet! 8) Nice update!
Re: Minor new forum functionality for everyone (view post)
Comment by Razorclaw0000 May 16, 2010
The allegiance is pretty awesome! I'm very glad it's back, but the Blendtron icon is the worst color :-(
Re: Minor new forum functionality for everyone (view post)
Comment by Seibertron May 16, 2010
Razorclaw0000 wrote:The allegiance is pretty awesome! I'm very glad it's back, but the Blendtron icon is the worst color :-(



What do you think is a more appropriate color? I'm open to suggestions!
Re: Minor new forum functionality for everyone (view post)
Comment by Name_Violation May 16, 2010
Seibertron wrote:
Razorclaw0000 wrote:The allegiance is pretty awesome! I'm very glad it's back, but the Blendtron icon is the worst color :-(



What do you think is a more appropriate color? I'm open to suggestions!

personally i think either red or a darker orange would look good
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and personally I've never been a fan of the pred symbol bein yellow.

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i like that color for it better
Re: Minor new forum functionality for everyone (view post)
Comment by Razorclaw0000 May 17, 2010
Name_Violation wrote:
Seibertron wrote:
Razorclaw0000 wrote:The allegiance is pretty awesome! I'm very glad it's back, but the Blendtron icon is the worst color :-(



What do you think is a more appropriate color? I'm open to suggestions!

personally i think either red or a darker orange would look good


i like that color for it better


For the Blendtron logo, I'd be ok with either a much darker yellow, dark teal, or burgundy.
Re: Minor new forum functionality for everyone (view post)
Comment by Amelie May 17, 2010
Ryan, would it be possible to totally ape the G1 Tech Specs across the top with a line graph instead of being at the side, or is that too much work?
Re: Minor new forum functionality for everyone (view post)
Comment by steve2275 May 18, 2010
thanks
Re: Minor new forum functionality for everyone (view post)
Comment by vectorA3 May 19, 2010
Razorclaw0000 wrote:
Name_Violation wrote:
Seibertron wrote:
Razorclaw0000 wrote:The allegiance is pretty awesome! I'm very glad it's back, but the Blendtron icon is the worst color :-(



What do you think is a more appropriate color? I'm open to suggestions!

personally i think either red or a darker orange would look good


i like that color for it better


For the Blendtron logo, I'd be ok with either a much darker yellow, dark teal, or burgundy.


Ron?

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Re: Minor new forum functionality for everyone (view post)
Comment by Fires_Of_Inferno May 19, 2010
Amelie wrote:Ryan, would it be possible to totally ape the G1 Tech Specs across the top with a line graph instead of being at the side, or is that too much work?



I like the sound of this suggestion, but I'm pretty sure it would be an arse to work out on his end. I like the number system.
Re: Minor new forum functionality for everyone (view post)
Comment by Seibertron May 19, 2010
Fires_Of_Inferno wrote:
Amelie wrote:Ryan, would it be possible to totally ape the G1 Tech Specs across the top with a line graph instead of being at the side, or is that too much work?



I like the sound of this suggestion, but I'm pretty sure it would be an arse to work out on his end. I like the number system.


It's pretty trivial to a programmer like me. What I could use help with is how to make it look good. If we've got any graphics guys out there that want to do a few mockups of how this could look, I'm open to suggestions. I don't want the left hand side of our posts to get ridiculously long. Maybe the Beast Wars style would work best. I dunno. Open to suggestions.
Re: Minor new forum functionality for everyone (view post)
Comment by Fires_Of_Inferno May 19, 2010
I just had the thought that the G1 bio cards on the back of the boxes could fit pretty nicely in the area used for signatures at the bottom of the posts. I mean, I don't have a signature, I don't know html enough to do something with that and I don't have any artist buddies (transformer artist buddies anyway). It could be made so that there's an option for members to go with their own sig-pics or whatever, or they could have bio-cards instead, it would free up room on the left and it really wouldn't change too much with everyone's bio. As the picture that's usually in the bio cards they could have the faction symbol instead, and then they fill in the motto, tech specs, weaponry, and short profile. Of course that's all easy for me to say, I'm not a programmer so I wouldn't have the foggiest idea as to how difficult something like that would be to work up.
Re: Minor new forum functionality for everyone (view post)
Comment by Seibertron May 19, 2010
Fires_Of_Inferno wrote:I just had the thought that the G1 bio cards on the back of the boxes could fit pretty nicely in the area used for signatures at the bottom of the posts. I mean, I don't have a signature, I don't know html enough to do something with that and I don't have any artist buddies (transformer artist buddies anyway). It could be made so that there's an option for members to go with their own sig-pics or whatever, or they could have bio-cards instead, it would free up room on the left and it really wouldn't change too much with everyone's bio. As the picture that's usually in the bio cards they could have the faction symbol instead, and then they fill in the motto, tech specs, weaponry, and short profile. Of course that's all easy for me to say, I'm not a programmer so I wouldn't have the foggiest idea as to how difficult something like that would be to work up.


I get your idea ... I'm just not sure that would look the best in the forums. If I do something, I'd probably just do it ala the HMW style with the bars representing the number.
Re: Minor new forum functionality for everyone (view post)
Comment by Editor May 19, 2010
Seibertron wrote: If I do something, I'd probably just do it ala the HMW style with the bars representing the number.


If it does anything to help HMW, then I'd support it.
Re: Minor new forum functionality for everyone (view post)
Comment by Amelie May 19, 2010
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Heres a test card. If I had the exact dimensions I'm allowed to work with, I could produce something a lot better, but I've just knocked this up whilst waiting for me tea to cool down. It would fit along the top, leaving the side bar space to be used for other posting factora.

The color can be decided by the faction chosen, and we'd still know who was Seibertronian, Maximal or Decepticon ect. Not to mention that the boxes are obviously drawn up by PHP, rather than an actual graphic.

If anyone has anything else in mind, I'll knock up some quickies for that too!
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