Forum Upgraded to v1.2

[Bram Hengeveld]

The forums are now updated with the newest version of the software.

Will post a more extensive changelog tomorrow of what has changed but for now a couple of important things.

• As expected the custom theme I made for the forums that matched our frontpage (which is another software) is broken and needs to be fixed or redone completely (i think the latter is best but takes some days to build from scratch)
• Chat, Videos and the old downloads are (temporary) disabled, will see how many people still use the old downloads otherwise ill remove it completely now.
• Nicely styled postbits for our Premium Members are gone, will have to rebuild them from scratch today or tomorrow. At least asap!
• The downloads system we have been using for the last months is intact and will receive a small upgrade later on to iron out some bugs but all files and thingies are there and working.
• Comments system from the frontpage might be bugged and needs a fix tomorrow morning.
• Frontpage theme and layout will be redone from scratch as well and take some time.

For now the biggest visible change you will see are affecting mobile users. No longer do you have to swipe to make stuff visible as our forum is now 100% responsive and will match whatever device you are using.
For all the old tapatalk lovers that were disappointed with our decisions to remove it recently, now you know why and we hope you are happy with this more modern approach of reading forums for mobile users.

I normally don't ask for donations but in this case we have invested quite extensively into new software and your help would be much appreciated. If you can miss a penny please do chip in as every bits and pieces make a difference to pay for our growing bills.

There have been a TON of changes made and ill do my best to highlight them for you at a later time.

Enjoy this awesome new software and if you happen to run into bugs or you need help with functionality that has changed please drop a line below and ill help you out!

 

[Bram Hengeveld]

Robots are little spiders that crawl the web. Some from Google, others from Bing or Baidu or any other respective search engine company. Its actually a good thing unless they come as a plague and eat up your bandwidth

http://computer.howstuffworks.com/internet/basics/search-engine1.htm

 

[boomer541]

What's with the Facebook, Twitter, etc. icons that are on top of every page?

Need to be put somewhere else, IMHO!!

 

[Peter]

What's with the Facebook, Twitter, etc. icons that are on top of every page?

Need to be put somewhere else, IMHO!!

+1
I accidently liked RD on Facebook because I touched it on my tablet.

 

[JvMr]

The sub forum buttons have gone away again from the bottom of the page. Is that on purpose?
Those are quite useful IMO.

 

[Bram Hengeveld]

What's with the Facebook, Twitter, etc. icons that are on top of every page?

Need to be put somewhere else, IMHO!!

On top of every page? Do you mean those floating share icons all the way to the left?

Can hardly call that on top unless you are using a CTR 800x600 monitor from 1985. If so its time to do a little upgrade on your hardware

Can also put them to the right? These icons are used by many to share great content and the default set that displayed on the bottom of each page took literally seconds to load and got overlooked by almost everybody.

In case of problems guys ad screenshots. Everyone has a different browser pc or tablet and without visuals its pretty hard to reproduce anything.

All looks fine here as it is.

 

[Hampus Andersson]

Is it possible to have the share button on mobile to be automatically hidden?
It takes about 5 tenths to click it away but this is 2013, human beings have gotten lazy

 

[boomer541]

Anyway, those icons are gone now.

A good place to have put them would have been in th black area at the top of each page , to the right of the RD logo, horizontally.

 

[Bram Hengeveld]

thats actually the worst possible place for share buttons on the top of the site.

 

[Earmack]

touch screen ie 11 still dont work on wn 8 tablet or wp8.
suggestion its possible to add age in profle public? Like more profile previosly without msg and likes, ita looks more compact and comfortable

 

[Rupe Wilson]

@Bram Hengeveld
If i look at the forum through internet explorer i usually set the magnify the page to 125% so i can see it without having to strain my eyes. everything is ok
if i do the same in chrome i get the old problem back were the Rupe Wilson, Inbox, and Alerts drop down onto the black band and are very hard to access with the mouse cursor. Yes i know the solution is not to use 125%
but im just pointing it out in case there is a scaling problem or something
side by side internet explorer and chrome at 125%
Chrome at 100% you can see the the Rupe wilson is on the top line and can be accessed with the mouse with no problem
at 125% in chrome it very hard to access the box its a real thin line you have to touch and the Rupe wilson has dropped down one line

if you put your courser over the name nothing is activated.

is it something i just have to live with or is it a problem with Chrome or a problem with ME and what im doing..

 

[Paul Bennett]

@Rupe Wilson have you tried these

 

[Nero Sehovic]

Guys... is there ANY LOGICAL reason for the website changing again and again and again from time to time ??

I am a member for about 8 months now and I think I have seen about 8 different lay-outs by now too

 

[Dinca Andrei]

Some people likes the change....It keeps the forum alive "visualy"
My opinion.

 

[ParkYongLee]

God damn, it becomes more and more annoying. Each day you discover a new great "old" mod and can't download it anymore. So many stuff is lost now because of what? if it ain't broken, don't fix it. Don't tell me there'd have been no way to move the old microdownloads to an active section or let them stay alive as archive a bit longer so people could take it from there and reupload (because the original people mostly don't do or aren't even active here anymore).
Worst case for a modding community is to lose their mods.

Oh and it is me or is the spoiler feature gone?

 

[Rupe Wilson]

Maybe if you could be a bit more specific in the file you are trying to find for download we can help, but just ranting like this, I dont have a clue how i can help you sorry

 

[ParkYongLee]

Just take a look at the F1 2012 section, no matter if it's Ferrar Flat Nose or Wolf Team (ok that he'll reupload soon, hopefully [whenever soon will be]) or the teams from 1997 season, Monster Team, Red Bull RB9 livery (2013 purple who would not want it), Mitsubishi F1, 1983 Williams Tag Team Car, BAR 001, F138 HD and many many more., shall I really make a list of all the cars and teams which aren't available anymore?
Sorry, but I'm afraid that's not our work to do, in my opinion that's within responsibility of those who change the system.

To be honest, I am a bit disappointed about that.

The ironic part is: If there wouldn't've been such a system to begin with, people would've only posted their mediafire & co download-links and people could still use them.

 

[Justin Swan]

Can anybody tell me why some img links are broken now? I have tried to post a picture at the top of the mini Friday skin page. I've tried linking to DROPBOX and SKYDRIVE and just get a little Black box with a cross in it

 

[Yves Larose]

i was thinking, people post video but there is no way to know if someone have posted a new video from the main forum page so i would like to suggest to do something like nogrip is doing here a screenshot to show what i mean. thanks for the hard work guy's

 

[Theo Faull]

am i just imagining things or did we used to have our psn or xbox live names under our real names in the box on the left?

where have they gone?

 

[Radek Zukowski]

Why the forum is so narrow?
16:9, 16:10 monitors are standard now, but this forum is like half of that, really irritating.

Also, will the forum support tapatalk?