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Join Date: Nov 2012 |
May 17th, 2020 11:36 AM —
The Forum Downgrade
Hey TPK, As we all know the "boards" system never really worked quite right. It's been around for 4 years or so, and as soon as I stopped working on it 4 years ago I didn't really like how it turned out. Well, the launch of TPK Classic made me realize the old forum system wasn't that bad. It just needed some work. So it finally happened. With around 12 hours of development time I was able to press delete on the old board system. So why should you care about the downgraded forum experience? There's a smaller scope to what the forums are trying to do now. I removed several features and needless complexities that have been better handled in the long term by our discord server and in game private message features. It also integrates seamlessly between being able to read while logged out, TPK Blue, and TPK Classic. You'll be showing off your TPK Blue master title banners as well as you post around! My intention is to double down on the idea of the Forums being the best place to keep track of reporting errors and suggesting new features in detail, and I plan to add some new features around that. Already there is some text explaining how to submit errors better when submitting a new thread there. I also have been improving my CSS skills which was even more refined with this update. There are plans to make the artist-only layout editor public in the near future so people can create and share their own layouts. The new forum layout design has been created to make this process of creating a new layout much easier down the road, and I hope people will be doing so in the future. Another benefit of the improved CSS skills is that my ability to create mobile websites is getting stronger. You'll find that all of the pages (there's only 5 though lol) work pretty well on mobile. MUCH better than you would ever have on the old boards. Mobile mode still needs some fine tuning but its in a good enough shape to release. ~B0sh |