Minecraft Forum Beta Ending Soon - Help Us Test It!
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If you recall, we have been hard at work getting the new, improved Minecraft Forum up and ready to go! Loaded with improvements - ranging from post editors that don't eat your formatting anymore, to improved load times, layouts, and more - we think you will really enjoy them! However, we need your help putting the final touches on everything.
Ideally, we want the new forum format to go live next week, but just to be sure everything is in order, we would like you to help us test everything out! Make posts! Edit posts! Report me, and everyone else you see on the beta forum! Anything and everything you can think of to help us make it the very best it can be when it goes live is greatly appreciated. Even better, constructive feedback (positive or negative) could earn you a custom title on the new forum!
Checking the "Invisible?" box under preferences in your profile removes the green dot from your avatar all together.
I'd rather see maybe under our avatars if we are online or not, but I guess a green dot is okay for now. I gave my own feedback on it a few moments ago before replying.
Ah, I see.
And yes, I'd have to agree that it really doesn't seem like the best system to use. An indicator isn't much help without any clear indication of what exactly the indicator is supposed to indicate.
Javascript truly is a pervasive presence on the Internet. You should have it disabled by default, not disable it here simply for the improved performance you'd see. It's not screwing yourself over to set it so you have to give various sites permission to run potentially-intrusive programs when you visit their websites, and you're always able to give specific sites - or even specific resources sites are pulling from elsewhere online - permission to run their scripts.
For example, you should probably not allow twitter, facebook, and google to run scripts on nearly every site you visit. They pretty much do, unless you're using something to keep them out.
We must frequent different forums. I find this site to be the exception in my expectation of choice in the colors displayed on my screen provided by the site itself so that they don't conflict with the site's standards.
... And it is stupid to have. Such an indicator only encourages chat-board behavior on a site intended to have a slower, better-formatted and more-considered, post-rate. Hurry up and get a response to this posted while I'm online - though I'll probably not notice the response and log off without seeing it anyways...
Sorry, we've been reporting bugs in the current forums for how long? How many of us have just given up because things don't get fixed?
Where the bleep is the bug tracker for the new forum, anyways? I did not even see a "click here to report bugs".
So right away: Bug:
I had notifications -- a big star with a number on it. Clicking it shows me where people have posted, presumably in things that I want to know about.
When the poster has an avatar, things look fine.
When they do not, then I see the name starting on the left, such as "so-and-so-username", and underneath it, "avatar".
But then, in the middle of the name, is the start of the notification -- and the username is on top of the text of the notification, making the text unreadable.
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Neither searching for "Extra biomes" nor "extrabiomes" turns up the proper thread.
However, "extrabiomesxl" does.
The search is case insensitive, but requires an exact match on a full word.
** INSTALL "No-Script" NOW. **
Get yourself Firefox. Not Chrome, not Safari, etc. Firefox. And get NoScript.
Javascript is a massive security hole. It says "Some unknown site, that at best claims to be who I think I'm visiting, and might even be some ad server from some unknown place, or worse, un-sanitized user input, will be allowed to run almost arbitrary code on my system that cannot be made secure or checked before it runs".
Noscript really does make things better.
It blocks everything by default.
And most things continue to work just fine.
What are the things most likely to fail? Simple. Those that say "Hey, you must have scripts or I won't work" -- yet 50% of the time for me they do anyways.
Or, those that actually need scripts to run -- but I can enable those when I want the site.
Or, those that use the scripts for garbage I don't want -- and presto, with the scripts off, the main part of the site works just fine.
Yes, it takes some work to get used to it, and to tune what runs or does not.
Yes, it means you have to pay attention while surfing, rather than just clicking on anything.
Those are not negatives.
In the platforms sections, being able to tell if a user who is hosting their world is online or not easily is a major plus when looking through servers or games to join.
I personally don't see how making your status visible on forum posts is going to encourage "chat boards". People were already able to, and will be able to still, get notifications when someone replies to you, or a topic you follow. I see no difference in posting habits. There is an option to turn off the indicator,
You're entitled to your opinion though. If you don't like something, or have your own suggestion be sure to let the developers know on the beta forum.
Chill out dude.
If you're fine with sites allowing 3rd party JavaScript to run willy-nilly whenever they want, that's your call. Personally, I find that many sites abuse the heck out of JavaScript, using it when it is not really needed because they want every single thing to be 'responsive'. It has absolutely nothing to do with the ability of the computer to run JS or not - I just don't like unknown parties to be able to run unknown scripts on my computer without me knowing about it.
As an example, right now, on this site as I'm typing, there are 12 websites trying to run scripts due to links and such throughout this page's code. Do I really need all 12 of those website scripts running to view the content here? Certainly not. So I now have the option to enable just minecraftforum.net and curse.com, and the other 10 sites and their scripts can sod off while I browse the specific site I requested. It's really absurd how many 3rd party scripts try to run on every single website, and web developers should be ashamed of themselves for writing such crappy code. JS is not the answer to everything, and disabling it most certainly does not "screw" anyone over.
Back on topic:
Agreed about reporting bugs. For one, Mojang has not made it easy to report bugs, either for the website or for Minecraft (who wants to make another account just to report a bug? Why can't they be submitted from in game or in the launcher? etc.), and there are so many bugs that DO get reported but never get fixed, it's pretty discouraging.
In regard new site, it's really just the complete lack of texture on the navigation bar that looks bad to me, but I'm glad to see that texture has been added to other features on the site.
It's using Cobalt, a custom forum software platform developed for Curse sites.
It was bound to happen since that's the latest design craze, although I don't think it goes real well with Minecraft honestly.
Is it supposed to be a forum to show your support for minecraft? Do we need premium for that?
Or a forum to get support for minecraft? Cause if you have to have a premium account for that we will be getting a new minecraft forum soon.
It means that by purchasing Curse Premium, your purchase will go into supporting the website (server costs, maintenance, etc.)