More work on new forum

I posted a new build of the forum with the private message stuff. It's not particularly pretty at the moment, but I think it works. Have at it...

http://beta.popforums.com/forums/

Remember that your existing CB login data (as it stood several weeks ago) works there unless you changed it.

The last big piece to handle is the search, which needs a lot of work. Beyond that, everything else I have planned for it won't be done until some time after I rebuild CoasterBuzz. I want to nail the core functionality first, and make it as crazy efficient as possible. Facilitating conversation is my first priority.

As usual, drop a note here if you find something really wacky.

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I'm having two out of place cursors with the reply box: One on the top border of the box and the other right in the middle. Middle one blinks, top one is solid.

http://img440.imageshack.us/img440/8194/picture69yt9.png

The blinking one in the middle shows through to other browser tabs when it's in the background, too.

Camino 2006122122 (1.1a1+)

Other than that, everything seems to be working fine, haven't run into any bugs or issues, and damn it's fast, none of that lagging up stuff that this one does.

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I'm not planning to support Camino at this point in time.

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Okay - good news on that front: I just tested from the latest stable version of Camino instead of the nightly builds that I normally run, and that problem doesn't happen.

I just remembered that it's been happening on other sites too, so I'm gonna declare that to be a bug in form handling in the current nightlies.

One minor note was I just went to the forum with the second browser, and the online user list had me listed twice.

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I would imagine the only supported browsers would be IE, Firefox, and Safari? Seeing as that's what 99% of the population uses...

Your testing on a nightly build?

That duplicate user thing is annoying. It's pretty rare that anyone would do that normally, but I supposed I need to fix it.

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Is it just a timeout from when it will remove the user? It seemed like it when I tested it a while ago.

I stumbled upon it accidently when I closed the wrong tab in IE7 by mistake, and then went back and saw myself logged in twice :)

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Update with a new build tonight... search is mostly working as best I can tell. See if you get relevant results for stuff...

http://beta.popforums.com/forums/Search.aspx

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A search for "Voyage" returns a lot but a search for "The Voyage" returns nothing?

The same is true of "Son of Beast." It returns no results, but both "Beast" and "SOB" do.

Yeah... that's a fix that I haven't posted yet. "The" is a junk word and is not indexed, so if I don't pull it out, then it gets no results.

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OK, that search fix is posted, as are a couple of minor issues with the PM system.

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Will there still be color options available for members? I've been using the Ocean color scheme and have gotten quite used to it.

Not when it first launches. I can delay until I can do more skins, or launch with new functionality sooner. They will come, it just may take a couple of weeks. I have some volunteer CSS ninjas who may help out.

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More of a question than anything else, but is there a possibility of being fully customizable, or will it be similar to the current setup of pre-set options?

I'm cool with either way, I'm just curious.

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There will be preset options. The style sheets are way too big to leave that to chance.

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