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]

Oops a well meant sorry to all newly registered RD'ers. Due to an incompatibility issue with our live stream / chat software it wasn't possible to register an account at the forums and you were welcomed with an error message.

Thanks to those that sent us an email about it. Issue is now fixed

 

[Jan-Olov Johansson]

I like the update so far, looks quite good on my plate and displays the pages correctly without the need for a ridiculus amount of zoming i had to do with the old one.Much easier to use on the phone too but i try to avoid surfing with that, a phone really has to small screen to be very useful for any meaningful browsing.
Oh and i'm not sure if it's my plate or the site but the smiles are hard to show. They pop up and then disappear again, took me 4 attempts to get one in this post....

 

[Kjell Eilertsen]

@Bram Hengeveld: Gief email addy for paypal donations!

 

[Rupe Wilson]

I cant access my inbox... my account or alerts

using chrome.

but in Internet explorer 10 i can

 

[Kjell Eilertsen]

Yeah seems somethings borked, im on chrome too, I CAN access alerts but I need to hit that 1pixel tall line at the top of the alerts button.

 

[Bram Hengeveld]

Can you add a screenshot as I cannot reproduce this. Tried ctrl+f5 to hard refresh the page?

 

[Rupe Wilson]

It seems like the hit detection box where the arrow of the mouse courser changes to a hand when you put it over a title box.
when i put it over the premium membership text a box highlight up and you can move the courser over a certain area and it keeps active
if i put my mouse arrow over my Name, Inbox or Alert i have to put the courser right at the point where the background changes form black to grey in order for the box to drop down its a real thin line of detection .

tried to get a screen shot but the mouse courser is not in the screen grab

 

[Bram Hengeveld]

Oooh thats odd. @Rupe Wilson @Kjell Eilertsen With what browser do you get this? WIth Chrome i get a really nice "hamburger" icon that means that other tabs are available as a dropdown menu.

 

[Dinca Andrei]

I see the "Hamburger"!!!!!!

Edit. I have Google Chrome too

 

[Bram Hengeveld]

Omnomnom

Will try to trim the navbar a bit as one bug is a bug too many. Should work for all.

COFFEE!!

 

[Rupe Wilson]

Its working fine now @Bram Hengeveld
i see the premium box has gone
And its all sitting in the grey bar

 

[Bram Hengeveld]

Because i changed it See the racelog dropdown menu.

But with what browser did this happen?

 

[the_sigman]

Looks nice!

 

[Rupe Wilson]

I cant access my inbox... my account or alerts

using chrome.

but in Internet explorer 10 i can

sorry @Bram Hengeveld i was using Chrome


edit
found that duckcapture will the take a screen shot with the mouse courser included

 

[Bram Hengeveld]

Then the error must be caused by something in your chrome browser. Still can't reproduce it with the old navbar settings.

But now with a dropdown menu that problem should be gone regardless what browser people use

 

[Rupe Wilson]

Seems strange that it was happening on 2 pc's in my house and on kjell's pc also
I did do a clean install on chrome i have no apps or add ons working in the install..
it was also a nearly new install of windows..
It was like the black bar was covering the boxes even though you could see the text it was not allowing me to hover over it for it to become active and click on it.
but glad its fixed now

 

[Bram Hengeveld]

probably cache thtat needed to be cleared

 

[Bram Hengeveld]

New feature added: http://www.racedepartment.com/forum/

Sidebar widget with Online Racers Now. Games, mods and amount of drivers currently racing on our servers.

Thanks @Stefan Mizzi for being totally awesome!

 

[Bram Hengeveld]

Well after three days without sleep I think we are almost done. Few things that need to be sorted

• User ranks
• Premium member styling
• Minor thingies

Hope you guys like it!

 

[Rupe Wilson]

Thats a big yes from me