Seems the issue in the Statistics page has been solved.
I found however an issue with the ratings in the Download section. I gave an 8 to a VCMI release, and the average rating for it went actually down, from 7.xx to 6.xx. I thought I may have chosen the wrong value by mistake, and I rated another one. But same problem: I gave rate above the current one, and still the new average value went down i/o going up. The good part of it, is that this means in reality the ratings for the VCMI releases must have been way higher, and not what we see now in there.
Could it be browser related? In Safari, the rating doesn’t work at all (I select the rating, I click “Rate File”, but the rating is not updated).
EDIT: I see on this post that the Safari browser is not correctly identified, but it’s shown as Mozilla. I was actually surprised to see there are still so many users of the old Mozilla in the Statistics page. Could it be that many of them are Safari users instead? It would make more sense, considering the fact that Safari is like the 4th browser out there.
I found another browser identified incorrectly - SRWare Iron. It’s build on the sourcecode of Chromium, with the difference that it removes all the automatic uploads to Google, which increases your privacy and makes it a bit faster (so they say, because Chrome already loads almost any page instantly, so I wouldn’t know how to test a potentially even faster browser :p).
So the forum should identify it with the Chromium icon, not Mozilla as you can see for this post.
@Tow: I know you added the Chromium icon for Chrome. Was it an easy change or not really? I wonder if it’s something I could figure out myself how to fix, to spare you the time (though I doubt it can be done with moderator rights).
I’ve attached the icons for Iron & Safari to this post (couple of both to choose from).
Regarding Iron, it could have been included as well at Chrome, as it’s based on Chromium. I find it strange it was seen as Mozilla (which uses Gecko), i/o Chrome, or at least Konqueror, which are based on khtml. Perhaps the site doesn’t actually check the engine of a new browser in an attempt to place it, but just labels any unknown browser as Mozilla.
Maybe you can also check (if you have time), why the Vista & Chrome icons are not visible in the SubSilver layout (forum only, as we can see them in the Statistics page).
Yes, it’s actually the same with the one I mentioned as Vista above
I actually don’t know why I used Vista i/o Win7, as probably most forum users with that icon have Win7, not Vista (or that will be the case soon anyway). Vista was maybe the biggest flop in the history of Microsoft and there’s a good chance it will be forgotten even faster than WinMe was.
EDIT: Strange, now the Win7 & Chrome icons are not visible anymore in the Statistics page also for the Chronicles layout…
Having received several complaints, I’ve finally changed colors of quote and code boxes. I hope they’ll be more readable and better composing with the rest of board theme.
Subsilver icons has been hopefully fixed.
However I hereby declare that SubSilver is deprecated. It takes time to make each update twice. SubSilver never was popular here and having two different themes may be troublesome for users too (eg. when using special colors in the post - text may be readable in one theme but illegible in the second one).
I use SubSilver very rarely. I guess only when my eyes need a change from the regular dark background. So now it’s good to see the buttons are fixed (and also the icons). The issue with the text color is indeed a risk, but only if users go for a color edit. The only real (small) problem I noticed in regards to colors, is that strikethrough line is coded to be white, which makes it not visible in SubSilver. I’m not sure if making it have the same color as the text for that theme (i.e.: black for SubSilver) is an easy change.
On a separate note, I noticed the new browser icons in the Statistics page are png i/o gif. So I am posting here the png icon versions for Safari & SRWare Iron:
Yay… The SRWare Iron icon is added. Probably also the Safari one. Thanks.
EDIT: Correction. The Safari icon isn’t working yet. See this post created using Safari.
Something else that I noticed in the Statistics page, is that since the move to the new server, we had no new instances of IE users, which is a good thing (ppl finally moving on to better browsers:)). Anyway, now that we talk about IE, I’m not sure if a png icon for IE8 has been set, so here is one if you need (to be of course used for all IE versions, not just 8):
And here’s a png for Konqueror:
Let me know if you need any other. I don’t know if we have forumers using other browsers. If the case, they could either let me know which browser, or simply provide themselves a link to a 18x18 png.
I’ve been lurking this place for a while, but didn’t log in. I wanted to download 08 but I had to login for it (I don’t think I needed for the version I downloaded last year). Anyway, I also noticed some mistakes in the message I got when I logged it. Almost didn’t get what it wanted to say (and last part is like from an online translator):
I know not many visit this place as rare as me, but I found it funny… Anyway, I’m going to try VCMI 08 now. Changes look promising. Good luck with the project!
In the hope I don’t become annoying with my reports of insignificant forum issues I’d just like to point out that since the last update of forum icons, all posts using Iron (like this one) or Chrome (here) are now reported as Safari.
It seems there is a general problem with adding attachments to the forum. Some (or all?) users are getting this error, myself included:
“Sorry, but the maximum filesize for all Attachments is reached. Please contact the Board Administrator if you have questions.”
Is this a “bug” or have attachments been disabled, in order to make people make reports only on Mantis? If the latter, than the message should be changed (if possible), because currently it’s confusing for the users.
Not really an issue, but I just noticed the forum has a 1280x1024 size limit for the uploads to the Photo Album. The disadvantage is that we won’t be able to post Full HD pictures. I’ve posted this in shrank format, but it’s pretty unclear due to the compression.
If this can change with no cost it would be nice. But if there’s any risk allowing larger pics might take too much server space, than better leave current limitations.
I’d just like to point out that since the last update of forum icons, all posts using Iron (like this one) or Chrome (