Server migration, technical problems with the forums, bug reports, etc.

[spjt07]

Since this is more of a tip report rather then a bug report it shouldn't really be here but it seems the best place to post this.

You guys need to be more on top of the way competitions are run here. Competitions are advertised but nobody ever hears of them again except the winners and everybody else is left wondering WTF happened.
A while back you mentioned Diablo 3 beta keys were being given out on random or selected replies to an article that was written, never saw any announcement on the winners and only found out by being told by several members of the forum who had won, still no idea if every winner got the beta key.
Again with the recent Immortals dvd comp there is still no announcement or thread on forums or mention on fb as to the results of it.
Please mods/nag reps pick up some slack and get this running properly

[GeometriX]

I'll pass it along, but you should post on the NAG site and Facebook page itself so that the right people can see your complaint.

[Wesley]

Maybe a competition sub-forum would be an idea, some of us don't use Facebook or check the fanpage/discusion group there. Or subscribe to the Twitter feed...

Still, more work for the team.

[Toxxyc]

Not sure if this has anything to do with the move, but I was unable to edit my posts just now. Just open the edit box and grey's out the whole text box.

[Toxxyc]

Double-post: Not "was", "is". Still does it. Other pages, refreshing or retrying isn't proving fixing either.

[Toxxyc]

Triple post FTL!!!

My "back to top" button is MIA.

[maxdamage]

I'm still getting that URL redirect error on various browsers, including a Blackberry.

Also get that message and I noticed this further down at the center bottom of the page:

All times are GMT%1$s. The time now is %2$s.
Powered by vBulletin® Version %1$s
Copyright © %2$s vBulletin Solutions, Inc. All rights reserved.

Still get these errors.

[Wesley]

Okay, these bots ^^^ are ****ing everywhere. People need to stop posting in the threads that they're in and the mods need to get in on this asap.

[wir]

New favicon again. Hm.

Been wanting to ask for a few months, does anyone have the old favicon saved, the capital 'N' favicon? Even a screenshot containing it should be fine.

Unprecedented bump!

Waha!

I found a 5 year old screenshot of the forum on an old imageshack account. Now I have all the old classic favicons I love:


I know no one else probably cares about something like this, but if anyone else wants the old favicon, this is the greasemonkey script I'm using:

// ==UserScript==
// @name           nag.co.za old favicon
// @namespace      blah
// @include        http://*.nag.co.za/*
// ==/UserScript==

var head = document.getElementsByTagName('head')[0];
var icon = document.createElement('link');

icon.setAttribute('type', 'image/x-icon');
icon.setAttribute('rel', 'shortcut icon');

icon.setAttribute('href', 'data:image/x-icon;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAABAAAAAQCAIAAACQkWg2AAAAAXNSR0IArs4c6QAAAARnQU1BAACxjwv8YQUAAAAJcEhZcwAADsMAAA7DAcdvqGQAAADkSURBVDhPpZLLDoIwEEWnBQXbEt1hMNGfMNFP8LHQuNT4/ysXGEAQRG+tcWFofE2aZuicO7cPaDydfDUI9Gq9uX4Qu/0WsBZ8AD+QvwVRf8CIdLdaT5ey8lo+Vk5pbixeHRhxKQPMppwkGfIg6OZZ0SwQQjlum4j7Hakd6itjDlaKomwWAEVZyAAJBiBiDpLcJvA8TykFDkkYhpxjh5KIytLqQEL4xh0ch8098FlV54ZDuy4ndr8lo8EFEXV7+jxpFjcIQJgyIj4ejGY4iqyCZ29b8utLz5eLt70BzBbzh8NXv/cN85vmJddUpSAAAAAASUVORK5CYII=');

head.appendChild(icon);

[maxdamage]

Unprecedented bump!

Waha!

I found a 5 year old screenshot of the forum on an old imageshack account. Now I have all the old classic favicons I love:


I know no one else probably cares about something like this, but if anyone else wants the old favicon, this is the greasemonkey script I'm using:

// ==UserScript==
// @name           nag.co.za old favicon
// @namespace      blah
// @include        http://*.nag.co.za/*
// ==/UserScript==

var head = document.getElementsByTagName('head')[0];
var icon = document.createElement('link');

icon.setAttribute('type', 'image/x-icon');
icon.setAttribute('rel', 'shortcut icon');

icon.setAttribute('href', 'data:image/x-icon;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAABAAAAAQCAIAAACQkWg2AAAAAXNSR0IArs4c6QAAAARnQU1BAACxjwv8YQUAAAAJcEhZcwAADsMAAA7DAcdvqGQAAADkSURBVDhPpZLLDoIwEEWnBQXbEt1hMNGfMNFP8LHQuNT4/ysXGEAQRG+tcWFofE2aZuicO7cPaDydfDUI9Gq9uX4Qu/0WsBZ8AD+QvwVRf8CIdLdaT5ey8lo+Vk5pbixeHRhxKQPMppwkGfIg6OZZ0SwQQjlum4j7Hakd6itjDlaKomwWAEVZyAAJBiBiDpLcJvA8TykFDkkYhpxjh5KIytLqQEL4xh0ch8098FlV54ZDuy4ndr8lo8EFEXV7+jxpFjcIQJgyIj4ejGY4iqyCZ29b8utLz5eLt70BzBbzh8NXv/cN85vmJddUpSAAAAAASUVORK5CYII=');

head.appendChild(icon);

How do you get that to work anyway?

[wir]

How do you get that to work anyway?

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/fir.../greasemonkey/

AFAIK you can use greasemonkey scripts in Chrome too, but I wouldn't know how.

[Toxxyc]

My "back to top" button isn't working anymore. It takes me to the start page of the forum instead of scrolling to the top. And this is after I already cleared my browser data, cookies and everything else. Even the displayed link when hovering over it is nag.co.za/forums... :(

[nukehead]

Works for me... using Chrome.

[Toxxyc]

Oh, I should've mentioned, I'm on Chrome as well.

[Wesley]

I'd like to see more colour options for the forums as well as a dark theme. Will we ever see some more tweaks later this year?

Also, how do Junior members figure out if they have 20 posts, since we no longer have post counts under our avatars?

[GeometriX]

Oh lord, not the themes again :P

To be honest, making a colour scheme doesn't actually take that long, it's the huge bloody number of options available that is the reason why I've avoided making more than what we currently have. So if I use green in the theme, then one person likes that green, but someone else wants that green instead, or their links to be this colour instead of that... it's a pain in the arse.

But yes, I did say a while ago that I'd make a dark theme. Is that something that people would want? It's going to be a matter of "take it or leave it" once it's done, though, just to give everyone a warning. Obviously I'll make one for all the weirdos who like their avatars on the right as well.

Junior members automatically get promoted to just "Member" as soon as they've hit their 20 posts. They'll also be able to create threads, which they couldn't do before.

[Wesley]

But yes, I did say a while ago that I'd make a dark theme. Is that something that people would want? It's going to be a matter of "take it or leave it" once it's done, though, just to give everyone a warning. Obviously I'll make one for all the weirdos who like their avatars on the right as well.

I think I'd personally dig something like that and the "green" yuppies with LED and OLED screens will obviously wet their paints with the amount of energy they'd be saving :-P But more to the point, a dark theme that matches the website would be sweet and most of the members here, I'm sure, have gotten used to it.

Maybe we should have that really crazy one you unleashed on the forums when everyone complained about how it looked? ;-)

[nukehead]

Obviously I'll make one for all the weirdos who like their avatars on the right as well.

Pssht, your face is a weirdo.

I'm emo enough for a dark theme, if you'd be so kind. Even though this grey has seeped into me, converting me, bringing some light into my life, time to cull it.

[D34thByCh01c3]

Also, how do Junior members figure out if they have 20 posts, since we no longer have post counts under our avatars?

The amount of posts are seen when your profile is viewed and you go to the "About Me" Tab, you can also see other people's post count

[Zoop]

I still think the theme we had in 2008 was the best. Anyone remember this one?