Welcome to the new AP 5.0!

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Re: Welcome to the new AP 5.0!

Postby CommieHunter » Mon Feb 13, 2012 11:01 am

Honestly, it may just be hating the new thing, but the homepage and forum pages look really cluttered/noisy. The clashing colors stand out but it makes it look almost like all the other visually jarring airsoft websites. I don't like the floating sections on the homepage, where there's the same undifferentiated background across multiple sections (latest video, front page posts, poll, etc).

The threads themselves look fine, I don't mind the name on the right.
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Re: Welcome to the new AP 5.0!

Postby Payback » Mon Feb 13, 2012 11:49 am

Will take some getting used to. But overall i like it.

Only issue i have is that i usually lurk on the front page, and it only shows new topics, not new posts, or i may not be looking in the right spot.
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Re: Welcome to the new AP 5.0!

Postby Matt » Mon Feb 13, 2012 12:19 pm

Payback wrote:Will take some getting used to. But overall i like it.

Only issue i have is that i usually lurk on the front page, and it only shows new topics, not new posts, or i may not be looking in the right spot.


Did it used to order topics by the latest reply? I thought so. I just changed it. Makes more sense that way, and now finally all of those old reviews I ported over aren't showing in there.

CommieHunter, sorry dude. Other people told me everything "blended together" too much on the old site. It's something I got used to as well, but in the end, design wise I think I gotta go with the flow and create some contrast.
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Re: Welcome to the new AP 5.0!

Postby Payback » Mon Feb 13, 2012 12:47 pm

Perfect. Much better now.
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Re: Welcome to the new AP 5.0!

Postby Cyph34r » Mon Feb 13, 2012 3:20 pm

The more i use it the more it grows on me. I went from completely hating it for a few hours, to getting really drunk and finding I actually didn't mind it while drunk, and now I dont mind it even while sober.

I want my quick-reply back... seriously, that is one of my favorite functions in a forum, and is incredibly useful when I'm hosting a game and need to quickly answer questions.

Also loving the new BBcodes.
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Re: Welcome to the new AP 5.0!

Postby Shiloh » Mon Feb 13, 2012 3:31 pm

I'm away for one weekend and this happens! :shock:

Great job Matt and the rest of the AP tech team!
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Re: Welcome to the new AP 5.0!

Postby Matt » Mon Feb 13, 2012 3:53 pm

Cyph34r wrote:I want my quick-reply back... seriously, that is one of my favorite functions in a forum, and is incredibly useful when I'm hosting a game and need to quickly answer questions.


I never use it so I always forget about it, I could probably add it back in.
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Re: Welcome to the new AP 5.0!

Postby Ivan Daylovich™ » Mon Feb 13, 2012 4:04 pm

That and the PM issue are the only things I really dislike about the new site.

Like the teams, like the attending events option.
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Re: Welcome to the new AP 5.0!

Postby McNair » Mon Feb 13, 2012 5:36 pm

I just tried to quick replay in an empty gray box that I guess was where an ad was supposed to be. hah.


Pictures getting cut off. It's just cutting them at the fixed size rather than allowing a scroll bar to be created to scroll over.
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Re: Welcome to the new AP 5.0!

Postby Matt » Mon Feb 13, 2012 6:07 pm

Pictures should be resized by CSS. Not cut off, but resized. I did put a fix in for that, but if it's still happening somewhere link me to the thread.
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Re: Welcome to the new AP 5.0!

Postby McNair » Mon Feb 13, 2012 6:10 pm

To me, it's cutting these pictures off:

viewtopic.php?f=5&t=36654&p=638601#p638601

I'm running at my highest resolution, 1366x768
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Re: Welcome to the new AP 5.0!

Postby Matt » Mon Feb 13, 2012 6:13 pm

Not happening here, what device or browser are you using?
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Re: Welcome to the new AP 5.0!

Postby McNair » Mon Feb 13, 2012 6:14 pm

Matt wrote:Not happening here, what device or browser are you using?


My laptop using Chrome.

This is what it looks like to me:

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Re: Welcome to the new AP 5.0!

Postby McNair » Mon Feb 13, 2012 6:22 pm

Looks like whatever you did, it's working now.
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Re: Welcome to the new AP 5.0!

Postby Android » Mon Feb 13, 2012 6:25 pm

I'm getting the same image cropping issues using Chrome and on my iPhone. On Safari and Firefox the images aren't cropped.

EDIT: Looks like flushing the browser cache did the job.
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