I've been busy lately with the redesign, but it is coming along nicely and you'll all be able to see it soon. I'm going to change the design progressively because it's such a large area of work and each page needs testing to varying degrees.
This means that when I launch the new design it'll look similar to the current one in some respects, but come with added benefits such as mobile responsiveness so you'll finally be able to use the site on your mobile phone and tablet without all the zooming around. I'm also going to start implementing the new design before all the pages are complete so I can gather feedback about the new vs old pages, but I'm definitely going to update the most used pages first so many may not notice the old design creeping in.
Once all the pages are updated to the new front end framework, I'll get to work on actually designing them away from what we already have here with your feedback. Unfortunately during this period the site style switcher will have to go away as it'll have no useful effect on the new design other than messing it up.
For now, here are a few of the updates I have made since my last post:
- Added user card tooltips to the new user mention links
- Removed enemy lists, they were a unused feature by the majority of users and I don't see any benefit in keeping the feature around.
- The forums are now publicly accessible and I've fixed an issue with polls not rendering their content correctly.
- I've just fixed an issue that was preventing new user signup's. Thanks to @nella for reporting it!
- Fixed a bug with the pop-up smilies, there was a missing template causing a white screen error.
- Fixed an issue with the search pages pulling out numbers in place of religion, ethnicity, etc...
- Fixed an issue with the style switcher
- Fixed a bug with the preview profile option. Thanks to @gallifrey_rises for reporting it!
- Reverted the deletion code, the new way was a little buggy and left a few orphan threads, comments and posts around
As always please let me know if you notice any bugs.
Thanks!
Does anyone ever use this website anymore?
The frustration!
Are you alive in there???
@OloElEeee hey you! I think your problem is that your using the site from your phone. I'll do some testing and see. Hope all is well.
@Sunspots, I've added the pagination to the artwork page in the same fashion as the gallery page, I can't do the poetry or blog pages as they would require a lot of refactoring. I've also fixed the bug with the comment reply not defaulting to the private status of the comment you are replying to.
The premium option is mean't to just override the private status to cloaked when checked rather than auto check all comments as cloaked. When the new design is finished and I can start working on changing site features private and cloaked will be merged into one and act like cloaked comments. No need for both nowadays
A way to go through a person's artwork without having to click the back button all the time. Picture galleries have the numbers at the top, why not the same thing for poems and artwork?
It's alright, I'll just get over it. At least the "report person" form pops so it's not an automatic thing.
Suppose I could randomise the order of all the links just to troll people
Can we have the "comment" link on the left of the links instead of the report one? It may be just me but in ALL of my years on GG in which there was a report button, I've almost accidentally reported a LOT of people.
Speaking of... @Dav is there any way to set it up so that if somebody adds you as a buddy, you get notified?
I've fixed the buddies profile picture bug you have spotted so thanks for that. I'll respond to your comments properly when I have more time to properly look into them.
Thanks
And if you don't want to have an actual picture, there is a default image that shows or you can upload an avatar you make on another site.