WHOA! What the heck happened to the Pinside?

Nicely done over all. Around the avatar the text is hard to read because of color contrask. Darker font or background around the avatar would be my suggestion,
thanks Robin!

#4 13 years ago

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nutshell79

Inactive member

Geneva, IL

14y 60,400 1,038 7 10

Robin - thanks for your hard work. This site just keeps getting better!

#5 13 years ago

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robin

Thanks for the comments! I have made the text a bit darker around the avatar.

#6 13 years ago

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Bill2626

Inactive member

Santa Ana, CA

14y 30,150 550 3 6

Wow... When I first loaded the Pinside page I thought it failed to properly load. Its different, looks cool! It will take a little time to check out all the new changes, but so far so good! Thanks for your efforts Robin!

#7 13 years ago

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coasterguy

Pinside+ Frequent

13y 133K 9,581 9 1

It looks great!

#8 13 years ago

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stangbat

KC Pins

13y 86,900 3,111 19

Great work. I hate Flash, so I'm happy there is none of it left. And I love being able to see location information.

#9 13 years ago

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robin

Yeah I especially like the way the new media (YouTube) section turned out (e.g. http://pinside.com/pinball/archive/twilight-zone#media ). It still uses flash on browsers that support it (that's beyond my control), but now also works on the iPad.

#10 13 years ago

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HELLODEADCITY

Inactive member

15y 72,650 5,822 8

Yes Very nice

#11 13 years ago

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donjagra

Pinside member

14y 72,100 3,402 10 34

Thank you for all the hard work Robin. I love the dot matrix font and the new overall look.

#12 13 years ago

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robin

I forgot to mention these new inhabitants of the Pinside forum:

#13 13 years ago

NimblePin

Pinside member

13y 121K 5,415

I forgot to mention these new inhabitants of the Pinside forum:

GoneFishinLvMsg is NOT going to be very happy about this news...

#14 13 years ago

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bugray

Inactive member

Basingstoke

14y 54,650 697 97

Oh I see, me thinks I will use these a LOT.

Looks good, it was a bit of a surprise though, my eyes feel funny now...

#15 13 years ago

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The_Dude_Abides

Pinside Moderator

Northern California, CA

14y 137K 9,468 151

Thanks for the hard work Robin much appreciated!!

#16 13 years ago

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Bronzelion

Pinside member

13y 49,400 313

This web site just keeps getting better!

#17 13 years ago

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guymontag451

Wedgehead

Portland, OR

13y 92,800 1,006 25 170

You're the best Robin! Site gets better all the time.

#18 13 years ago

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mykquillion

Inactive member

Wheaton, IL

13y 21,900 275 1 221

Thanks for the hard work, but the "Splash" for all games indicates that they were made in January of 1970.

#19 13 years ago

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glilly-BOA

Pinside member

Port Orange, FL

13y 44,900 465 10 60

Definitely more eye appealing (and better readability).

#20 13 years ago

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ruairidh

Inactive member

Unknown City

13y 18,400 279 5

very nice robin. so much work that all will appreciate, good job. with so much and so many hours being done on the site, it's hard to ask for something else. but i have to say it would be really great if when we quoted text from a previous post, that the authours name would pop up as well... just a thought. but that would seem bottom of the barrel now after seeing all the work that was done. kudos!

#21 13 years ago

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robin

Thanks for the hard work, but the "Splash" for all games indicates that they were made in January of 1970.

Uhm.. Well..

Fixed it now.

#22 13 years ago

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robin

It would be really great if when we quoted text from a previous post, that the authours name would pop up as well...

Great idea! Will add this soon!

#23 13 years ago

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Brokedad

Retired Pinside hero

14y 3,138

Nice mods .. you might want to correct this:

Signed out

You have succesfully signed out.
The coin door's locked, it's save to go!

Should be "The coin door's locked, it's safe to go!"

#24 13 years ago

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Bazzman

Inactive member

Takapuna

14y 21,500 37 4 12

I Like... Great work, good changes

#25 13 years ago

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jrrdw

Pinside member

Thanks for the comments! I have made the text a bit darker around the Avatar.

Yes that is much better, thanks!

#26 13 years ago

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PinWiz17

Pinside member

Aurora, IL

14y 56,900 1,197 5 130

Great job "robin" thanks for all the time and work you put in to this site for all pinheads can enjoy. With out this site I dont know what I would do. My wife calls it my porn site,because im on here so much The best pinball site on the net! Thanks again and keep up the good work.

#27 13 years ago

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ruairidh

Inactive member

Unknown City

13y 18,400 279 5

Another note. maybe it was just my login, maybe not. I received a PM from another member but it didn't show up in my inbox. I was able to read it via the email notification I had a message. Also, the little bouncy mail icon didn't show up either.

#28 13 years ago

GWT

dirtrider

Inactive member

Colorado Springs, CO

13y 23,650 377 1 10

I like the new look, Robin! Thanks for all the work! Seems like you could make money designing websites!

#29 13 years ago

KWD

v8torino

Pinside+ Frequent

14y 74,550 1,531

Very Nice,Definitely keeps getting better,This site is IT!!! Thanks,Robin

#30 12 years ago

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robin

Quoted from ruairidh:
but i have to say it would be really great if when we quoted text from a previous post, that the authours name would pop up as well

Well as you can see in this post, I just added this functionality. The old way also still works, just remove the cite="nnn" part of the blockquote.

Quoted from ruairidh:
Another note. maybe it was just my login, maybe not. I received a PM from another member but it didn't show up in my inbox. I was able to read it via the email notification I had a message. Also, the little bouncy mail icon didn't show up either.

Let's keep an eye on this. I got some PM's today and no problems. Maybe it was a temporary glitch?

#31 12 years ago

VON

Pro_Antagonist

Inactive member

Gurley, AL

13y 21,250 2 2 14

Clean and professional looking website. That's why I prefer it over IPDB.

#32 12 years ago

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jrrdw

Pinside member

The "Quote selected text" button wont work for me.

Robin Wrote: "Let's keep an eye on this. I got some PM's today and no problems. Maybe it was a temporary glitch?"

This has happened to me, but at the time I thought I accidently deleted the PM. It hasn't happened anymore, it was approx 2 weeks ago.

#33 12 years ago

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Brokedad

Retired Pinside hero

14y 3,138

The pinmail notification seems to be gone. You now have to go into it to see if you have a new message by actually going into the pinmail section. It would be nice to have this back on all the places. Thanks. I know you are busy watching all the Royal wedding stuff over on that side of the big pond

Maybe I was wrong or you just fixed that .. thanks Robin as I just now got that back at the top of my login.

#34 12 years ago

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SuperDaveOsbourn

Inactive member

Saskatoon, SK

13y 33,550 407

Very nice changes you have made, thank you for all your hard work and dedication.

#35 12 years ago

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robin

Quoted from Brokedad:
The pinmail notification seems to be gone.

This is all a bit weird, if anyone can put a finger on what's happening, that would be great. Because nothing changed about the notifications icon, except that I placed it on the right... To be investigated!

#36 12 years ago

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shock_me

Pinside member

14y 71,800 2,490

Robin,

I'm having a real problem with the forum part of the site. Once I open it up, the scroll bar dissappears, and I can't navigate down past the stickies. I only see the first forum topic, and if I open the topic I'll only see the first post. Very strange, and it seems like no one else is having this issue.

Pete

#37 12 years ago

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robin

Pete, sorry to hear that. Which browser are you on? And which version of the browser (this can often be found in "About"). And could you try and hold shift while clicking the refresh icon of your browsers navigation bar?

#38 12 years ago

PNM

shock_me

Pinside member

14y 71,800 2,490

Thanks Robin! I refreshed with the "Compatibility View" button on my browser, and all is right with the world now!

Cheers
Pete

#39 12 years ago

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jrrdw

Pinside member

Robin Wrote: Because nothing changed about the notifications icon, except that I placed it on the right...

Maybe you placed the notifications icon out of page parameters, try moving it back...

The 'Quote selected text' button still wont work for me, it worked fine before you added the members name to it.Has anyone else experienced this?

#40 12 years ago

JLW

jrrdw

Pinside member

<blockquote="jrrdw">TESTING, TESTING

Trying to add the name manually but I don't know the code your using and the back tag
(< / blockquote> disappears when submitted.

This forum uses a different language/characters. Spudfiles quotes like [quote="jrrdw"]TESTING, TESTING[/quote] would come out like "jrrdw Wrote: TESTING, TESTING". Same way with Airbrush Technique Magazine, Theopia and Techsupport Forum.

Robin, what do the tags look like when the name is added here on Pinside?

#41 12 years ago

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robin

It looks like (blockquote cite="post-id")The quoted text(/blockquote). Where the round parenthesis are the pointy ones. Mind you, you're not quoting a person, you are quoting a post. I will soon add a post-id somewhere in the post meta bar so you know it. You could save a lot of trouble by using another browser than IE. I recommend Chrome or Firefox. But I will try my best to fix it soon for IE users.

#42 12 years ago

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SealClubber

Pinside Moderator

14y 127K 11,060 246

I was having the same scroll problems at work using IE. Will have to do the test on Monday to see if it fixes it.

#43 12 years ago

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jrrdw

Pinside member

OP
Quoted from robin:
I recommend Chrome or Firefox. But I will try my best to fix it soon for IE users.

Yup works fine with Firefox.

#44 12 years ago

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robin

I just did some digging and found a strange height descriptor in the site's stylesheet. This may be the cause of the problem. I removed it, could you please check if the scroll problem is gone now? I will do some more testing on IE later. I'm really sorry that these problems occurred, I though I tested the new design rather well but it turns out there are still some glitches.

As for the quote issue, it's quite difficult to get this working in all browsers. Getting it to work proeprly in IE is gonna require some more time. In the meantime, you can simply use the code <blockquote>The text you are quoting...</blockquote> and it will work like it always did. The only thing the new quote button does is add the value cite="[post-id]" to the blockquote tag.

#45 12 years ago

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jwwhite15

Pinside+ Frequent

13y 105K 2,706 1

Robin, everything is looking GREAT! I was wondering though if it is too much trouble to make the top bar (Logged in as _______ (sign out), search, contact, help, and donate) can be a little darker. I have logged in at a couple of different computers and the text seems to be a little too close to the background color, hard to see, thanx. Other than that I am loving it!

#46 12 years ago

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robin

Thanks for the feedback. You're right, I made the bar a tad darker and the text a bit lighter, it's much more readible now.

#47 12 years ago

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jwwhite15

Pinside+ Frequent

13y 105K 2,706 1

Perfect, thanx robin!

#48 12 years ago

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udo

Inactive member

Unknown

16y 22,400 67 8 7

#49 12 years ago

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cevans82

Inactive member

Westminster, CO

15y 28,150 108 2 41

great job pinside staffers!

#50 12 years ago

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robin