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New LAyout

Postby LoS » March 19th, 2015, 10:07 pm

Am I the only one that **** hates it?
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Re: New LAyout

Postby Slade » March 19th, 2015, 10:50 pm

LoS wrote:Am I the only one that **** hates it?

90% of the time I'm using an iPhone 4 and struggling to navigate the site. Biggest issues:
-not showing the latest poster before I click the arrow for latest post.

I'll really use the site before I edit in more. What are your issues specifically? What type interface are you using LoS? I'm assuming prison computer with IE.
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Re: New LAyout

Postby Kamek » March 21st, 2015, 4:05 pm

I like it. I just wish we had better banners that didn't look MSPaint esque, but I can't really complain because I probably couldn't do much better. We need a chatbox and some more activity. When I free up next week, I will definitely try to post a bit more and make some threads.
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Re: New LAyout

Postby LoS » March 22nd, 2015, 8:56 pm

Slade wrote:
LoS wrote:Am I the only one that **** hates it?

90% of the time I'm using an iPhone 4 and struggling to navigate the site. Biggest issues:
-not showing the latest poster before I click the arrow for latest post.

I'll really use the site before I edit in more. What are your issues specifically? What type interface are you using LoS? I'm assuming prison computer with IE.


I think my only real annoyance is that the name/avatar section just seems really oddly out of place off to the right. With it to the left, you can generally just see the avatar/username out of the corner of your eye and know who's saying what. With the tiny little "by <user>" the way it is now, it just seems less obvious/intuitive. In before "wah I have to read on a message board" but honestly its a stupid change that ads no functionality and makes it slightly more annoying to use.
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Re: New LAyout

Postby gsides » March 24th, 2015, 6:23 am

layout is going to get easier to get used to, but i do have the same issue as Slade when i'm on my phone. anyway to fix how the mobile site looks?
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Re: New LAyout

Postby Jesse Smith » March 24th, 2015, 8:49 am

How do these layouts look on phones?

http://www.artodia.com/phpbb-styles/mob ... nloads/3.5
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Re: New LAyout

Postby Vryheid » March 24th, 2015, 5:31 pm

okay so since nobody is bothering to post screenshots I guess I will, here's how the site normally looks on my Amazon Fire:

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Notice how you can't see the latest poster before you open the thread. But if you just turn the sideways you can see it just fine... so what's the **** problem?

Anyways, if you seriously must hold the thing vertical here's how the skins look like when I tried swapping through them:

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This is how the XenForo skins all tend to be based off of. Again, you can't see the most recent poster when viewing the site vertically, but it works just fine if you're in horizontal view.

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The 3.1 themes show the latest poster in vertical, but don't show the thread creator. Arguably not much better.

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The 3.0 themes all manage to fit both the thread creator and recent poster in vertical view, but the column text looks a bit cluttered.

Personally I think the current theme looks of the site looks fine and wish it lwast gets left as an option
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Re: New LAyout

Postby Jesse Smith » March 24th, 2015, 11:55 pm

I can duplicate that on my computer!! That has to do with the width of the browser. As it get's less wide, you start losing stuff, until it's only wide enough to show the topics.
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Re: New LAyout

Postby Vryheid » March 25th, 2015, 12:30 pm

right well I figured that much I just wanted to show you an actual test case so you could see first hand what it looks like
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Re: New LAyout

Postby Yoshi[NX] » March 25th, 2015, 5:02 pm

would like the ability to see what the first post in a thread is by hovering over the new posts arrow. lets me filter out things i don't care about.
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Re: New LAyout

Postby Sigma » April 8th, 2015, 4:44 pm

It looks fine to me, also I came across this site that let's you know what's ok & what isn't.

https://developers.google.com/speed/pag ... vgchat.com
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Re: New LAyout

Postby Jesse Smith » April 8th, 2015, 8:35 pm

er, I enable GZip compression, and Google still doesn't register it!
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Re: New LAyout

Postby Sigma » April 9th, 2015, 5:51 am

Try adding this.

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# BEGIN Compress text files
<ifModule mod_deflate.c>
  AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE text/html text/xml text/css text/plain
  AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE image/svg+xml application/xhtml+xml application/xml
  AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE application/rdf+xml application/rss+xml application/atom+xml
  AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE text/javascript application/javascript application/x-javascript application/json
  AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE application/x-font-ttf application/x-font-otf
  AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE font/truetype font/opentype


  BrowserMatch ^Mozilla/4 gzip-only-text/html
BrowserMatch ^Mozilla/4.0[678] no-gzip
BrowserMatch bMSIE !no-gzip !gzip-only-text/html
</ifModule>
# END Compress text files ]


From Ozzy at ozzmodz:
http://ozzmodz.com/showthread.php/2579- ... a-htaccess
Gets me this result, WebPagetest Test Result - Dulles - 03/29/14 12:49:12

As you can see, it improved the First Byte Time from a D to a C and the Compress Transfer from a F to a A

Pretty decent gain, here is what is happening there:

Apache Module mod_deflate

When a user hits your website a call is made to your server to deliver the requested files.
The bigger these files are the longer it's going to take for them to get to your browser and appear on the screen.
Gzip compresses your webpages and style sheets before sending them over to the browser. This drastically reduces transfer time since the files are much smaller.


The reason gzip works so well in a web environment is because CSS files, JS files and HTML files use a lot of repeated text and have loads of whitespace. Since gzip compresses common strings, this can reduce the size of pages and style sheets by up to 70%!

Gzip has to be enabled on your webserver which is relatively straight forward.
When a browser visits a webserver it checks to see if the server has gzip enabled and requests the webpage. If it's enabled it receives the gzip file which is significantly smaller and if it isn't, it still receives the page, only the uncompressed version which is much larger.
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Re: New LAyout

Postby Xiao » April 9th, 2015, 10:12 am

I don't mind, it lol.

We need something new. The old way was a lot confusing to new players.
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Re: New LAyout

Postby Sigma » April 9th, 2015, 10:18 am

Also Jesse: you will need to have two Apache modules loaded, you can verify by viewing the “Loaded Modules” under “apache2handler” configuration via phpinfo. Ensure mod_deflate and mod_headers modules are there.

If they are not there, you can either re-configure Apache to have them linked statically or load as DSO (Dynamic Shared Object).
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Re: New LAyout

Postby goten72 » April 10th, 2015, 2:12 pm

Sigma wrote:Also Jesse: you will need to have two Apache modules loaded, you can verify by viewing the “Loaded Modules” under “apache2handler” configuration via phpinfo. Ensure mod_deflate and mod_headers modules are there.

If they are not there, you can either re-configure Apache to have them linked statically or load as DSO (Dynamic Shared Object).


wat the heck does that evn mean. wat is apache? ur tryin to hack vgchat i think
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Re: New LAyout

Postby Amber » April 10th, 2015, 5:00 pm

Layout is fine


just posting so I can pm,nothing important.
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Re: New LAyout

Postby Sigma » April 10th, 2015, 8:21 pm

goten72 wrote:
Sigma wrote:Also Jesse: you will need to have two Apache modules loaded, you can verify by viewing the “Loaded Modules” under “apache2handler” configuration via phpinfo. Ensure mod_deflate and mod_headers modules are there.

If they are not there, you can either re-configure Apache to have them linked statically or load as DSO (Dynamic Shared Object).


wat the heck does that evn mean. wat is apache? ur tryin to hack vgchat i think


It's a server software that Jesse is using, if you don't have a hosting plan on a vps or dedicated server, you'll no reason even trying to learn about it.

Also, I'll re-quote this just for you since you asked.

Apache Module mod_deflate

When a user hits your website a call is made to your server to deliver the requested files.
The bigger these files are the longer it's going to take for them to get to your browser and appear on the screen.
Gzip compresses your webpages and style sheets before sending them over to the browser. This drastically reduces transfer time since the files are much smaller.


The reason gzip works so well in a web environment is because CSS files, JS files and HTML files use a lot of repeated text and have loads of whitespace. Since gzip compresses common strings, this can reduce the size of pages and style sheets by up to 70%!

Gzip has to be enabled on your webserver which is relatively straight forward.
When a browser visits a webserver it checks to see if the server has gzip enabled and requests the webpage. If it's enabled it receives the gzip file which is significantly smaller and if it isn't, it still receives the page, only the uncompressed version which is much larger.
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Re: New LAyout

Postby The Phoenix » April 11th, 2015, 7:53 am

I actually like it. I find it less of a cluster **** than before.
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Re: New LAyout

Postby Ant » April 11th, 2015, 6:58 pm

**** thing sucks. can't even see what the most recent thread to be posted in on the index page.
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