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[Exor]

Oldie forum all the way

[Kalinya]

I like the new post, a fresh new look kinda fits in with all the new updates!! Good job and thanks to all the staff!

[Rattlesnake]

/me nods in agreement with Matt.

Edit: awwwww.... '/me' doesn't work. Now I am sad.

Edited by Rattlesnake, 21 February 2004 - 11:26 PM.

[Stotic]

It is alright and is faster.

[Mastah_Fluff]

I think my only real problems now are the whole not being able to change the display name and the fact they don't have a quick way for the color beige, I have to memorize the code for it now x.x

[JLH]

i don't want players changing their names all the time

[Mastah_Fluff]

Maybe you should just put tags on us all so you can better keep track of us x.x lol You're taking away our freedom or expression or something bah.

[Rattlesnake]

Look at it this way JLH. Now if someone wants a new name they're going to end up making a new account.

[ice_cold]

i cant say i really like the new colors..but besides that, its all gravy

[Xlithan]

meh, it's a fresh start, i just hope people will start to get along etc, and not post useless posts. i like the new forums except for that skin which is just the default skin, inverted. i now have the medieval skin, which i think is so cool, i might install an IPB board on my server just to have this awesome skin.

Edited by Squiggle, 22 February 2004 - 03:36 AM.

[Stotic]

Is there any way to have the Fast Reply text box appear by default on the bottom like I see on the vBulletin forums. That would be most awesome!

[JLH]

not possible from what i can see unfortunately

[Vodka]

Go to options... its there... I think? I don't know what it does... haven't tried it to see.

[Stotic]

Yes, it is this under board settings. It's no by default. Hooray! My life is complete!

[Vodka]

Go YOU!! lol

Btw, yw...

[Stotic]

It was an implied thankyou of course!

[Dc]

the old one looked better i think. even with the skins the other one is more appealing to the eye. maybe im just not used to it.

[JLH]

Vodka, on Feb 22 2004, 05:29 AM, said:

Go to options... its there... I think? I don't know what it does... haven't tried it to see.

nicely spotted

[Thrice]

This forum actually looks more 1337 now ive got in to it...


Nice work picking this

[Deval]

It doesn't feel like the Nightmist you have always known, that's why it feels alien to you. Alot of people had forum shock on the last change of boards, and it will happen again ^^;;

I'm not giong to vote until I've used it for like a week, then perhaps I'll be able to make a valid judgement, until then... WOO HOO!! NINJA SMILEYS!!!

::goes to find his cat avatar::

[Fusion]

I like how you can type as fast as you want and it gets it all instead of lagging and missing words. Also the format is much better. The postcount should not be visible on the new forums I already see many people trying to get there count up.

[alone]

The old forum lagged as you typed... Is that even possible???

[Maesse]

People always have a hard time with change.

I like the new forum.

And the smilies are too cute!

[Exor]

I like the old one because it just felt so nightmisty.as deval said lol.

but this ones great too.i love this gosu smiley

[Osaris]

Strange 2 areas of my life, Nightmist and the forum we use at work for staff comments both changed to this "php format" in the same week.

More flexible and yet apparantly strange untill we all adjust and simply get used to it. I am sure it will be very intresting to do this same poll in a months time and compare and contrast.

So nightmisty, yes pre the last re-set felt so nightmisty too!! - untill the improvement came along.

[Nocturnal]

Old one for the simplicity.

New one for skins and features.

[Malavon]

Fusion, on Feb 22 2004, 10:12 PM, said:

I like how you can type as fast as you want and it gets it all instead of lagging and missing words.

I still get that sometimes

[Bahashabeem]

It also seems like more information can be stored on one page. I like the new set up and believe they are doing a good job pushing nightmist into the future Next time I post I am goinna have to start workin this stuff above me

[Xlithan]

i don't mean to sound boring and stuff, but a forum is a forum. As for skins, no, YaBB never really had any skins. But look what i did with mine, i practically wrote out the whole template for it.

http://www.squiggleuk.com

There was a REALLY REALLY REALLY long discussion on some weird forum about the best board, man.. it went on forever. Talked about how YaBB SE left it's forum behind, abandonded it, changed the name and everything to Simple Machines, and then how Supermod Boards or something took the YaBB SE code and made it their own with better features, more stability etc. I guess whether or not the forum is the best, depends on how well you handle forums, how good you are at modding and making the forum look good, and how comfortable you are with using it.

But what more do you need on a forum other to post and read posts? The old forums were so much more simple because the whole template wasn't made up of 1000 images, but as JLH said, it was making files for each individual member etc, therefore became slower and what not.

There are too many forums out there to be able to compare, each with it's own unique advantages and disadvantages. A list of the forum software i've heard of, but some i've not used yet....

YaBB
YaBB SE
Simple Machines
Invision Boards
phpBB
Zorum
Supermod
VBulletin

And there are so many more!

I read up on a news post today by SuperMod, and it seems that YaBB SE are lower than i thought. Not only are their developers stuck up and talk to you like crap, they also like to hack other forums. The post can be read Here

[JLH]

just so you know, yabb se is not the same people who made yabb, yabb se creators asked if they could use yabb and convert it to be a database type forum, which they then released.