The New forums have arrived!

Is this what I'm supposed to see?

What problems are you having? What browser/version number are you using?

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Much better. The pages seem to load faster, too.

Very nice, a vast improvement.

Hmm, I use Netscape 8.1 and had to tell it to display like IE for this thread to look decent. I'll know about the forums in a min. Prior to doing that however the forums were basicly jumble for me. (Kind of like reading something with no puncation.)

By far the best improvement to the website in ages!!

Thanks for allowing the time and resources to do this

Woot, great news!

Now if only it would use Javascript compatible with Opera...   

(But hey, the avatar upload bug is gone. Might have been fixed a while ago, but regardless, it IS gone NOW. Yay.)

Vast improvement!


Excellent work!

Very nice, job well done

Dark-Star,

Thank you for the CTRL+F5 tip for Firefox, it was all looking distorted before that. Now it looks really, really excellent. Now I just miss RSS integration.

Great work!

Now I just miss RSS integration.

Ahh, I'm sure that feature will come Happy to hear things are working out.

We've wished for it, Stardock's done it, once again .

The loading is smooth indeed. Well done!

Ah! Awesome work guys, it's a much needed improvment indeed. No doubt this one's better ( by far... ).

Cheers,
Roz

 though would prefer posts being tagged by empire logo rather than individual logo. gives the empires more oomph.

Looks much, much better! Thanks Stardock for really caring for your customers.

Amazing, kudos on a job well done. How about new Metaverse forum icons however? And a wider, prettier selection?

Looks good; however, why are you writing your own forum software when there is excellent open source available?

Looks good; however, why are you writing your own forum software when there is excellent open source available?

1) Stardock only uses ASP.NET. There's a considerably smaller selection of good free software in ASP.NET as opposed to PHP.

2) Stardock does not want to have to deal with integrating third party updates, fixes, and security patches with their own modifications to whatever software is used.

3) The current system is already deeply integrated with Stardock's customer database, software registration system, etc. Plus the fact that it'd be a nightmare trying to port all the current forum data into some other format, since it's a completely custom-designed system.

Looks pretty good guys!

I like it, good work!

It's faster thank goodness.

thank the lord. i'd been complaining about the forums here since before the game was released if i remember right.

good changes though.

I like the changes too.

Before I deleted the cache, the display was garbage but now it's ok (using IE 6.0... sorry, I am work and they do not want to switch to Firefox  )

One thing I miss: the info box on metaverse medals/awards does not pop up anymore, at least not on my computer.

Your new forum script is... well, less worse ;o)