MikeyD Posted September 16, 2015 Share Posted September 16, 2015 Oh my, somebody redecorated! Round avatar pics - looks like I'm going to have to find myself a new avatar picture. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Kettler Posted September 16, 2015 Share Posted September 16, 2015 MikeyD,Seeing the new Forum was a shock, made worse by my initial visual impression the pages would now consist of one post per page. Happily, that turned out not to be the case. Compared to the one from before, the UI seems pretty stripped down. Unfortunately, one of the casualties is the direct delinker now no longer in the toolbar! Sloppy, IMO, on the part of whomever wrote the IPS v4 code. And with the avatars now so large, I may have to finally come up with one. Have absolutely no idea what, though. Regards,John Kettler 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ASL Veteran Posted September 16, 2015 Share Posted September 16, 2015 Round avatar pics fits my avatar perfectly. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blazing 88's Posted September 16, 2015 Share Posted September 16, 2015 Not mine, it looks distorted /cropped now. May tweak it at some point I guess. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A Canadian Cat Posted September 16, 2015 Share Posted September 16, 2015 LOL yeah @ASL Veteran is one that scored a big win with the round avatars, also @Bulletpoint. My new cat had its ear chopped off. One thing you can do is extend the canvas size for your image so that what you want appears in the centre and with a little experimentation you an get the look you want. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nidan1 Posted September 16, 2015 Share Posted September 16, 2015 Mine fits nicely as well. Change is always difficult.John Kettler, not knowing what to use as an avatar is part of the fun. With all the web browsing that you do on the net, something is bound to strike your fancy. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ithikial_AU Posted September 17, 2015 Share Posted September 17, 2015 I think mine works well. Shame it's never really been 'wargamey' though. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Buzz Posted September 17, 2015 Share Posted September 17, 2015 Oh my, somebody redecorated! Round avatar pics - looks like I'm going to have to find myself a new avatar picture. Grabbed a childhood photo for a new round avatar pic... but 'Buss' (my mischief-maker monkey in previous avatar) still flies the Tomahawk 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sburke Posted September 18, 2015 Share Posted September 18, 2015 i want the doody in my cap back. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hash_Slinging_Slasher Posted September 18, 2015 Share Posted September 18, 2015 (edited) hows mine look?edit: not too bad i guess Edited September 18, 2015 by Hash_Slinging_Slasher 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
slysniper Posted September 18, 2015 Share Posted September 18, 2015 It appears it was time to change, so my new look is here. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jotte Posted September 18, 2015 Share Posted September 18, 2015 Stormakt Röd still getting ambushed here 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A Canadian Cat Posted September 18, 2015 Share Posted September 18, 2015 Looking good guys. FYI I am working on a solution that restores the square avatars. I actually don't care about the avatars but the white space over kill and header area screen hogging is driving me nuts. Give me a few days and I'll share. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bud Backer Posted September 18, 2015 Share Posted September 18, 2015 All of those new avatars look pretty nice. Great choices! 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MikeyD Posted September 18, 2015 Author Share Posted September 18, 2015 Okay, I got my new avatar pict - lifted straight out of Strategic Command, actually! 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A Canadian Cat Posted September 21, 2015 Share Posted September 21, 2015 OK as promised. I have found away for Fire Fox and Chrome users to tweak the forum web site. There is an add in called Stylish:For Fire Fox: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-us/firefox/addon/stylish/For Chrome: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/stylish/fjnbnpbmkenffdnngjfgmeleoegfcffe?hl=enWith that add-in installed you can write your own CSS that will be used to style web pages of your choice. I have created a package of CSS styles that reduce some of the white space - every where, return the avatars to square and remove announcements from the topic pages.Here is what the Black Sea forum looked like in my browser before the change:As you can see no actual content is visible because of all the excessive white space in the header area. Now after applying the styles using Stylish the site looks like this:And now you can see the first five topics of the forum.Once you have the add in installed you can add these styles to your experience by clicking the "Install with Stylish" button here: https://userstyles.org/styles/119012/compact-battlefront-forum-ipboardYou can inspect and modify the CSS at any time. You can turn it on and off easily as well so if anything breaks you can get back to the default quickly.Enjoy. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bud Backer Posted September 21, 2015 Share Posted September 21, 2015 Great Stuff, Ian. Now if only you can get signatures to work? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bootie Posted September 21, 2015 Share Posted September 21, 2015 I would just hold on.. Im sure BF know the issues and will get to them in due course. IanL has proposed a good alternative for those who really don't like the new forum layout and cant wait. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A Canadian Cat Posted September 21, 2015 Share Posted September 21, 2015 Signatures are out of my hands for sure. @Bootie I am not sure about BFC working through the issues I have with the forum styling. When they switched to this software the previous version had the same problem (in my opinion) of too much white space and it bothered me but not enough to get me to restyle it. I cannot say for sure but I do not think the BFC Admin has much say in spacing issues. That is down to the software developers of the forum software. I tried to provide my feedback but IP Board does not have a mechanism for customers of customers to give them feedback. BFC have much better things to do than try to get spacing changes made (even if they agree with me which I have no idea). The latest upgrade made things even worse, in my opinion. Again mostly due to the way IP Board is written. This time it was bad enough that I decided to act. Really it is my personal issue but I figured some of us would agree with me. There is a design aesthetics in the UI community that, again in my opinion, overvalues white space. White space is very important. Without white space things become unreadable. I just personally think the current fashion is over kill. There has to be a balance between white space and actually showing content. So, I did this for my own benefit because I reached my grrrr point . I predict that BFC will be spending their time on other far more important things then trying to get a provider to tweak their forum template based on my opinion. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bootie Posted September 21, 2015 Share Posted September 21, 2015 Ah ok.... @IanL I was referring to the things like the signatures etc not the actual default layout of the forum software. In that case credit to you sir for identifying a fix for those that don't like the forum style. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Splinty Posted September 21, 2015 Share Posted September 21, 2015 So what's all this then? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rocketman Posted September 21, 2015 Share Posted September 21, 2015 (edited) Thanks IanL - makes for a great improvement in FireFox.I guess it is hip to be square again Edited September 21, 2015 by rocketman 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A Canadian Cat Posted September 21, 2015 Share Posted September 21, 2015 Thanks @Bootie let me know what you think @rocketman 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A Canadian Cat Posted September 21, 2015 Share Posted September 21, 2015 So what's all this then?Just a little fun with CSS. Try it you might like it. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BadgerDog Posted September 22, 2015 Share Posted September 22, 2015 Still wondering where our signature line capability went .. Plus, when I type a post now, everything ends up double spaced. How to I turn ON single spacing between lines?Regards,Doug 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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