I made some adjustments to the forums recently.
First, the normal shoutbox view should now have timestamps on its messages.
I've also updated the menus at the top to link to the Portal (which I just set up), the place to change your Shoutbox Settings (there's a good reason I abbreviated it "SBox Settings" but I don't feel like explaining), and the IRC chat. I took out a couple highly unused links like the Help menu and the War Grounds (that's right, no more archaic text-based Army System anymore...
).I also took out the phpBB and IPB 2.0 skins. They're too generic and bland and the skin list was a bit cluttered. I'm not a huge fan of clutter and quantity isn't really quality in this case (personally I think Lethal is like, the best looking skin, straight-up).
Regarding the SBox Settings, you can change it so that when you view the full shoutbox, you view it normally, as an iFrame (not suggested), or a "pop-up" (it says pop-up but it didn't actually work like a pop-up for me, though ctrl+clicking might help with that...). You can also change a few other settings or hide it entirely (though that would make me rather sad).
Anyhow, the idea is I wanted to promote chatting in the shoutbox a little more is all. People are also free to down the refresh time or use the IRC chat if they need faster-paced chatting.
Lastly, I'd like to work on getting a lot of new "smilies" AKA emoticons but I was hoping someone could help me here as this is far from my field of expertise. Even something simple would be appreciated.
I may have more updates soon so let me know what you think of these and stay tuned.
- Blazer
