The Campaign Builder's Guild

Quote from: Nomadic

Quote from: Superfluous Crow
Public link to screenshot: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/4664926/screenshotCBG.jpg
See upper right corner.
I'm using Chrome 13.0.782.220 and screen resolution 1280 x 800

Thanks crow, I'll give it a look. From the picture I'm suspecting that chrome doesn't like the use of the width attribute I'll do what I can to solve that for you.

That isn't the problem at all.  :P

I'm running Firefox 6.0.2 at a screen resolution is also 1280x800. I get the same exact issue. Worse, even. However, the issue is actually that the user icons are allowed to be too wide. Mine is 120px x 80px. A smaller icon will fix the problem. They cannot be more than 75px wide.

We should probably force icons to be smaller from here on out, or make the font size in the little top box smaller.

Also, will there be a "keep me logged in" option? I am too lazy to log in every time I visit...

EDIT: I tried uploading a new avatar and I was unable to upload one. I am stuck, it appears.

I haven't been able to access the site for about 2 hours. The page would just load and load but never do anything. I don't think it was a problem on my end since both my comps and my phone were having the same issue. It was probably just some server update or something but... I figured I may as well mention it.

There is a stay logged in button right below the login fields, no? I can stay logged in without having to sign in every time.
Also, can't we just scale the image to fit the size requirements?

Yeah the lack of a "remember me" button has become a little disheartening.

Nom already answered this question when I asked it.  There's another way to log in where you can select to always stay logged in.

Quote from: limetom
That isn't the problem at all.  :P

I'm running Firefox 6.0.2 at a screen resolution is also 1280x800. I get the same exact issue. Worse, even. However, the issue is actually that the user icons are allowed to be too wide. Mine is 120px x 80px. A smaller icon will fix the problem. They cannot be more than 75px wide.

We should probably force icons to be smaller from here on out, or make the font size in the little top box smaller.

Also, will there be a "keep me logged in" option? I am too lazy to log in every time I visit...

EDIT: I tried uploading a new avatar and I was unable to upload one. I am stuck, it appears.

Hmm this is caused by avatar stretching then. I actually have the avatars limited to 100x100 but for some reason it's allowing yours to be larger. I'm going to see if I can fix this for you (and everyone else who is having the problem. Also as I said if instead of using the quick login option you use the login box (click the login link on the navbar) it should keep you logged in. However, since that seems to be an issue I'll see if I can add that button to the quick login area.

As for the unable to access the server problem I got the same issue last night as well as an excess resources email I'm trying to figure out what happened but right now I'm not sure. Note that this isn't unique to the new site it's happened several times on the old and I suspect a cron job is to blame.

Quote from: NomadicHmm this is caused by avatar stretching then. I actually have the avatars limited to 100x100 but for some reason it's allowing yours to be larger. I'm going to see if I can fix this for you (and everyone else who is having the problem.

So I tried a linked image and it isn't just allowing my image to be larger, it is forcing it to be larger. The image I'm using now is 75x56px, but the site is up-scaling it to 121x90px.

EDIT: Looking around at other people's images, it seems to be forcing up-scaling to a height of 90px. Vreeg has a little banner for Celtricia as his icon, but it is being forced up to a height 90px, meaning instead of being only 120px across, it is 400px across.

This forced up-scaling seems to be occurring everywhere avatars are used.

Quote from: limetom

Quote from: NomadicHmm this is caused by avatar stretching then. I actually have the avatars limited to 100x100 but for some reason it's allowing yours to be larger. I'm going to see if I can fix this for you (and everyone else who is having the problem.

So I tried a linked image and it isn't just allowing my image to be larger, it is forcing it to be larger. The image I'm using now is 75x56px, but the site is up-scaling it to 121x90px.

EDIT: Looking around at other people's images, it seems to be forcing up-scaling to a height of 90px. Vreeg has a little banner for Celtricia as his icon, but it is being forced up to a height 90px, meaning instead of being only 120px across, it is 400px across.

This forced up-scaling seems to be occurring everywhere avatars are used.

What I've noticed is that it only does this to jpg images. PNGs seem to be scaled correctly.

I'm not sure if there's something that triggers the difference (i.e. whether you started the thread or someone else did) but I notice that when I click on the front page link to the threads, some of them default to the first post, while others default to the most recent post.

Quote from: Seraphine_Harmonium
I'm not sure if there's something that triggers the difference (i.e. whether you started the thread or someone else did) but I notice that when I click on the front page link to the threads, some of them default to the first post, while others default to the most recent post.

Actually I think I figured this out.  Clicking the name of the thread itself sends you to the most recent post.  Clicking the "New" icon next to it sends you to the first post.  I would have expected those would be reversed.

Quote from: NomadicWhat I've noticed is that it only does this to jpg images. PNGs seem to be scaled correctly.

Tried switching over to a .png version of my avatar and nothing changed. It's still getting scaled up to a fixed 90px height.

Quote from: Seraphine_Harmonium

Quote from: Seraphine_Harmonium
I'm not sure if there's something that triggers the difference (i.e. whether you started the thread or someone else did) but I notice that when I click on the front page link to the threads, some of them default to the first post, while others default to the most recent post.

Actually I think I figured this out.  Clicking the name of the thread itself sends you to the most recent post.  Clicking the "New" icon next to it sends you to the first post.  I would have expected those would be reversed.

Clicking either one sends me to the latest post regardless.

Quote from: limetom

Quote from: NomadicWhat I've noticed is that it only does this to jpg images. PNGs seem to be scaled correctly.

Tried switching over to a .png version of my avatar and nothing changed. It's still getting scaled up to a fixed 90px height.

I have a sneaking suspicion that it is related to the problem with uploading avatars. I submitted a query to the SMF forums and I'm waiting for someone to get back to me about it. Until then we'll have to make due, at least it doesn't impact functionality too much just looks. I actually think I know how to fix the upload issue but I'm going to wait and see what the SMF guys have to say first.

I leave you guys alone for a couple of days...

Hm. another idea, on the front page with the recent posts- at some point could it also state who the thread creator was in addition to who the last poster is? Or at least, could it have a clarification line at the top stating that the poster names at the top of it are the "Last Poster"?

Also, it would be nice if it showed more recent posts. I think it shows less recent posted-in-threads than the previous version did.

I just opened to post a reply here... and noticed that Light Dragon had the exact same request. Namely that it would be nice to see thread author in the recent post list. Really, the recent post list is my most used CBG feature by far! If it is a question of space I'd prefer author's name over date. Since the list is sorted anyway, the relative date is implicit from its position.

I proposed something like the following on the old boards when you were looking for ideas for the CBG 2.0:
What if we had two Most Recent Post lists on the front page? One would be specific to the Homebrew section and the other would be for the rest of the boards. It seems only reasonable that our fair website should give priority to settings and campaigns :)