I've made a first pass at updating the forum.

I did a bunch of cosmetic improvements (some of which I'll probably still tweak a bit), and several features are now enabled, such as Personal Messages between forum users, and you can also mark a message thread as "high interest" so it shows up with a light bulb next to it.

There are a lot more options for filtering the list of threads under the View: dropdown.

Please let me know if you run into any problems with the forum.

- Michael

Police's caracters by default is not easy for a speedy reading ;)
Previous was better

Hi Pilou, I'm not sure about the font but I think it would be nice to give it a try for a couple days or so to see how it works out.

Also I should be able to set up a few different forum styles that have different fonts for them and let you have a choice.

I noticed that in the French forum, the message subject lines seem to have had the accents messed up as a side effect from the upgrade, but the message bodies seem fine. It looks like I should be able to repair the messed up subject lines.

- Michael

Yes accents works fine in body text, but not in the titles ;)
Loading threads seems more longer than previous : is that normal?

Hi Pilou, it does seem to be quite a bit slower. I will be investigating that today to see about fixing it.

- Michael

I'm with Pilou, the new fonts are a little messy to read.

Yeah maybe it is a little too "airy" for denser sections of text.

But I do like other parts about it though, maybe I'll see about using it only for the "UI" part of the forum and have message content in another font...

- Michael

Ok, this is probably better.

- Michael

Yep, this one is more readable :)

The slow display of threads has been fixed!

Next I'll see about fixing the scrambled accents in the thread titles.

- Michael

Personal messages are now enabled again, I had disabled them temporarily to see if they were causing the slow down, but they weren't responsible.

Hi Pilou, I believe I have fixed the messed up accents in thread titles.

Can you please check it out and see if it is ok now?

Also please test creating a new thread with some accents in the title and body and see if that works ok. Thanks!

- Michael

Ok - as far as I know everything is now running smoothly here.

Please let me know if you see anything wrong with the forum.

I'll be doing a few more mostly cosmetic tune-ups tomorrow.

- Michael

Accents in tittle and message : done!
Seems to work like a charm :)

Cool!

I think the most pressing thing now is to enable the formating toolbar for normal messages, so people can directly embedd images with ease - clicking on links doesn't really cut it IMO ;-)

This would be more logical as well, since currently one DOES get the toolbar when editing the posted message afterwards....

Otherwise I like the new font - only the threadlist is getting a bit long...

What I am not totally convinced of is the blue bar on top of the site itself.
MoI has such a nice GUI, but this blue bar looks "suboptimal" - like a preset from a webeditor... ;-)
The website could use a more professional and MoI-like look IMO as well as some really impressive examples...

Well, I'm sure this will grow over time just as MoI did :-)

Thank you!

Thomas

Hi Tommy, thanks for the feedback!

I definitely want to set up an easier insert image method, and also a gallery for the main web site is in the plans as well.

- Michael

why in the forum there's not possible to see the preview of image??
Is my problem?
i use IE7 or Safary for windows
thanks

Hi Daniel,

> why in the forum there's not possible to see the preview of image??
> Is my problem?

It's not your problem - image previews (like a small thumbnail display) don't happen automatically by a browser, it is something that has to be coded into the forum itself, and this forum does not do that right now.

I am going to try and work on something to make it easier to insert an image directly inline into a message instead of only as an attachment link, that should help.

But I assume that here you are talking about images added as a file attachment - can you see the images in this post ok: http://moi3d.com/forum/index.php?webtag=MOI&msg=1361.11

- Michael

Hi michael...thank's for help me

now you update forum if i understand....i'd like to have a forum like a maxwellrender forum, you know?
Is very beatiful and work good...
I hope you understand my english..

Hi Daniel, is there something about this forum that is not working well for you?

If you can let me know what part is not working well for you I might be able to fix it up.

- Michael