Aliens Legacy Forum V.2

[Hunterkiller86]

Greetings all,

As we transition to the new board from the old one, I thought I would go over some of the newer options of the forum.

1. Events. One can make events through the forum. The days of us making a thread and then the poster having to update the list as people join, hopefully are over. I am looking to see if there is another calendar option, where it could merge the event and a topic in a forum together, that way you are not having to check back and forth for information.

2. Chat. The chat function is back. If you want to chat, click on the mChat button on the top of the forum. Please keep chats civil and kid friendly. Rules for posting on the forum will apply to the chat.

3. Ability to share posts via social media. If you look at a first post in a new topic, you will see options to share post via facebook, twitter, or reddit. As more versions come out, I assume more social media platforms will be added.

4. Flair. Not a Office Space reference, but options for things like forum accomplishments. I have set them up for if you collect costumes (colonial marine, xenomorph, or Weyland-Yutani employee) with the idea of adding more as more people join. There could also be options for people who are prop makers or collectors.

5. Media embedding. Media players such as YouTube can be embedded in posts, which is more cosmetic than functional, but I feel it makes posts better looking than links to media sites.

6. Ability to add more details, like the Division or battalion you belong to, if you belong to those. I also have the ability to make groups within the forum, as some of you see your Usernames are different colors depending on where you belong. That could be used in the future for emailing certain groups with group specific information, or events.

7. Forum styles. Right now, we have 3 styles you can choose from. The green and black default, the phpbb default prosilver, or the 1970's sci fi themed style simply named, 1978. Feel free to change your style as it pleases your view pleasure. To change styles, go to your user control panel and you can change your style there. Also, you can change if you want your avatar or the right or left side of your posts. (old forum had that information on the left side)


With v.2 up and running, my goal is to make the forum better and more personalized as we get back to using it. There are extensions that I am looking at to make the forum and user profiles more customized, including custom icons that were part of the old forum. Any suggestions for new sub-forums or how to make v.2 better are welcomed!

As with the last forum, The Aliens Legacy will NEVER have ads or ask for donations. This is something that belongs to our members and not a single person or entity.

Thanks

Mike

[Hunterkiller86]

Upgrade #1. I have added the ability to embed mp4 videos to the forum. In theory, you hit the mp4 button, paste your video url in between the brackets, and the video should embed. If that does not work, you can upload the video to the forum ( 10MB limit), right click on the attachment link, then complete the above process.

[Hunterkiller86]

Upgrade #2. You now have the ability to react to a post, without posting on the thread. Much like a "like" on Facebook, you can like a thread without having to respond

[TS826]

Any suggestions for new sub-forums or how to make v.2 better are welcomed!

Personally, I am seeing the purple colored names as hard on the eyes & a bit difficult to read, on the Green/Black forum theme.

[Hunterkiller86]

Any suggestions for new sub-forums or how to make v.2 better are welcomed!

Personally, I am seeing the purple colored names as hard on the eyes & a bit difficult to read, on the Green/Black forum theme.

The GERCM or USCM names?

[TS826]

The color used for the UKCM members.

[necronom]

Is there an option to make the board fill the width? At the moment it's only using half the width of my screen.
Also, in the profile it won't allow me to add a YouTube URL in the YouTube field. It says it has invalid characters.

[Hunterkiller86]

Is there an option to make the board fill the width? At the moment it's only using half the width of my screen.
Also, in the profile it won't allow me to add a YouTube URL in the YouTube field. It says it has invalid characters.

I will look into the width issue. As for YouTube, I assume it is your channel? You have to enter @channelname into the field for it to work. You do not have to add the entire url

[septic]

Personally, I am seeing the purple colored names as hard on the eyes & a bit difficult to read, on the Green/Black forum theme.

Yeah, there's no easy answer for this, I don't think. Whatever forum theme is used, will make it hard for someone to read some of CM colours ... might be better to be boring, and just go with the same neutral colours for all?

[Xhiwar]

I love the new forum, and in the spirit of improvement, this is a list of things I noticed while posting my build threads:

- The search function is a bit useless. When I search for "Smartgun" or "Pulse Rifle", it says:
"The following words in your search query were ignored because they are too common words: pulse rifle."
This is a bit odd for a forum which is mainly concerned with Pulse Rifles and Smartguns.

- When I post images, the thumbnails sometimes are rotated 180°. When you click on the images, everything is fine though, but I can't get the thumbnails to display correctly.

- The old Forum had a browser tab icon / Favicon of the USCMC logo. The new forum doesn't have that.


That is all. I love the new forum and hope that there will be more lively discussions soon.

Cheers!
Roman