Upcoming Site Improvements

inkblot · February 19

Hi guys,

Thanks for providing feedback on the migration. As we all know, there have been some bumps in the road, but we're committed to improving things. Despite the hiccups, I'm happy to report that the migration has succeeded in it's overall goal, which is to improve the site's performance and reliability. The new forums load faster than before and we've eliminated the pesky down times and crashes of our old setup.

Here are some of the improvements we'll be implementing over the next two weeks or so:

In Progress

Restore the recent/hot post header at the top of the forum.
Allow users to delete their own posts
Support for [img] bbcodes
Fixed http://youtube.com/watch?v= bbcodes
Fix the ability to re-show categories that are manually hidden on the front page

Fixed

2/19/2012: Quadrupled the character limit.
2/20/2012: Fix Strategy Zone
2/21/2012: Allow expand/collapse of major sections of the forum front page with the - icon in the upper right of each section.
2/25/2012: Fix redirects from shoryuken.com/forums to forums.shoryuken.com.
2/26/2012: A dark theme, with a selector to choose between light and dark themes. We will fix the white flash when loading the dark theme pages
2/27/2012: Bigger Avatar size, with support for animated GIFs. We will fix the blurry scaling of the avatars.

Thanks for your patience as we continue to iron out the speedbumps.

UPDATE: I'll use this space to keep you guys notified of everything we're working on and check them off as they're completed.

zUkUu · February 19

Character limit not on the agenda? Goodbye combo threads. =(

The Martian · February 19

All I care about at this point is the avatar sizes, and you guys are fixing that.

Thank you Based God.

Louiscipher · February 19

Then fix notifications and basic BBC code functions. I tried posting an image and no go with the [IMG] [/IMG] code.

The Martian · February 19

Oh, and one thing that doesn't seem to be working is putting images into spoilers. Just in case no one noticed.

Louiscipher · February 19

The Martian said:

Oh, and one thing that doesn't seem to be working is putting images into spoilers. Just in case no one noticed.

Yeah, that happened to me.

maxx · February 19

delete post option?

ifbpwnstar · February 19

image notations
character limits expanded
links fixed

These are much bigger concerns. Those other things are nice, but these are NEEDED now.

Mr.PaVy-RD · February 19

Fix the Notification system please

Cisco · February 19

Notifications
the quote boxes
an archive for my great old threads.

Return of Shiki · February 19

Restoring the ability to disable signatures would be nice, too.

SirMixahLot · February 19

Sigs?

Phantom Angel · February 19

Is Tapatalk going to be reintegrated?

ifbpwnstar · February 19

woot much better priority list now

The Martian · February 19

So how exactly do "levels" work?

Huggy Bear · February 19

plz no sigs

not image ones anyway

ThiefZero · February 19

The forum itself is way too stretched out, the header on top is not in centre. It looks weird with the rest of the page sticking out on the far right. Also, on the Forum Page, you are being squashed with the chaotic view of not only ALL the different forums but also all the SUB forums. Figured I'd be able to hide it, I clicked the cog wheel and selected hide. This actually removes the very Forum section!! How the hell do I get it back (couldn't find anything useful in my profile/settings page)? Why not have a clickable section for each game, and when you click it stuff expands. If that's too difficult to implement atleast hide the sub forums (we dont NEED to have ALL the characters listed on the MAIN forum page).

So for example:

Super Street Fighter IV Arcade Edition Forums
-> General Discussion
-> Newbie Dojo
-> Character Discussion
----> All characters contained by Character Discussion above

To clean things up even more, you can have only a header for each game, and have those sub categories expand. Experiment with it. You guys have a lot of games on the forums.

If I have said anything that is already possible in some way, please tell me. I might have overlooked things, but also please understand that browsing this very site has become a nightmare for me. It's very unintuitive and chaotic.

Also, the site is so incredibly white because there is no width limit. It simply stretches out as far as it can. Seeing as how you there's probably a dark background, if you introduced a width limit the side borders of the site would remain solid dark. This would effectively reduce the brightness of the site, whilst at the same time making the forum nicer and easier to browse. Reading text will be nicer because it'll be more stacked as opposed to being huge long lines. Information gets more concentrated instead of being spread out, this reduces the overall chaoticness of the website.

I hope this'll help.

To sum it up:

Clickable forum headers which expand to see sub forums contained. Click again to collapse.
How do you get forums hidden with the cogwheel back? (though this "functionality" might be best removed if you apply the point above)
Set a width limit. (hopefully this will center the SRK Header and reduce overall brightness, if not; Center header and introduce darker elements)
Show how many likes/agrees/disagrees a post has without having to hover over it.
There's probably more, I might add things later.

edit: I'm running Firefox 19.0

P. Gorath · February 19

THANK YOU!

That's all we needed - a little communication.

Everything listed sounds great. The only thing not in the original post that is a big concern is the notifications system which definitely isn't working as it should or needs to have further notification options (currently I DONT get notified when my posts are quoted, liked, agreed/disagreed with).

Raz0r · February 19

Can we add "make sweet love" to that list?

The Duke · February 20

Bring back the old button icons.

Time pants · February 20

I've noticed that when I hit the "Back" and "Forward" buttons on my mobile browser, I am always taken to the very last page of the topic, regardless of which page I was previously on.

Edit: Oh, bringing back spoiler headers would fix a lot of problems the transition caused in the combo/strategy threads.

Mr.PaVy-RD · February 20

see? i got likes from my comment and i wasnt even notified about it

Antonio · February 20

i hope for is that you guys can restore all the youtube videos because so much important information was lost in the transition :(

derryk · February 20

2nded for Tapatalk

M4thaM4tiks · February 20

can we have tapatak reintergrated, have xentrader back, wish there was a more organized way for the forums

TheBlackHombre · February 20

I want keyboard shortcuts to work in posts. Example: ctrl + b, ctrl + i, etc. This should also allow us to open notifications in new tabs by using ctrl + click, or right clicking, and pressing new tab (which doesn't work now). :(

JetpackJesus808 · February 20

Are signatures and other missing parts of the Profile editor going to be fixed soon?

SRKFADC · February 20

need that tapatalk!

<Insert Name Here> · February 20

I'd prefer a notification system like the previous one. When I subscribe to a thread, I don't want a notification for every new post in it. I just want to be notified for the first new post.

Also, bring back old coffee emote.

TRUEB7UE · February 20

Good stuff, thanks for keeping us updated.

d3v · February 20

zUkUu said:

Character limit not on the agenda? Goodbye combo threads. =(

Just start a new thread with the post split into multiple posts. Use this as a chance to organize instead and have individual posts for individual combo types (normal, counter-hit, etc.) or chracter specific combos, and then link to those posts in the first post.

JetpackJesus808 wrote: »
Are signatures and other missing parts of the Profile editor going to be fixed soon?

Siganture editing is disabled for non-moderators until they can figure out how to block images and video embeds in sigs.

TheGamingTool · February 20

Looking forward to these improvements! Thank you! :D

Geese Pants · February 20

Please bring back an old school blue theme...................

Nucking Futs! · February 20

How about bringing back the feedback rating in the Trading Outlet? I've lost ~50 feedbacks (all positive) with the last 2 major overhauls. I'm sure the peeps that have more feedback are more po'ed then me, LOL!

Also a revised notification option so I can choose to be notified once per thread or once for every new post.

savaii64 · February 20

Sweet! Good to see bigger AVs are in the works!

SynikaL · February 20

The ad that plays automatically in the top right corner (currently running the M&M Valentine commercial) is going to force me to quit this site. Is there a way to turn it off in Safari?

d3v · February 20

What about support for [ quote ] tags instead of this < blockquote > nonesense?

Right now it's nearly impossible to break up long quotes to answer to specific questions. The only way it seems is to quote the same message multiple times and delete the unnecesary bits, which is tedious.

EDIT: Any chance we can get this?

http://vanillaforums.org/addon/571/quotes

Also, current quote system also has a bug where link to jump to the quoted post will not appear.

MCP · February 20

Return of Shiki said:

Restoring the ability to disable signatures would be nice, too.

Yea I don't want to see sigs either please.

zUkUu · February 20

Thanks for the character limit increase! Now I can edit my combo threads again! <3

bROG · February 20

Twitch.tv embedding? For streams and such?

Notations / buttons for combo threads.

Youtube embedding.

TAPATALK app integration.

Modding bROG to help out these forums.

Highlandfireball · February 20

Bit of a dislike so far for me. Size is weird, searching for old stuff doesn't work, lost all feedback.... some tool bar buttons none responsive (or just not there anymore).

Won't even know if someone responds...since the notifications don't work either.

Site was cool the way it was.

mason · February 20

Everything is wrong. Layout looks terrible, nothing works, character forums are in the most random places (lol at Lars SFxT character forum), old links are broken.

What was wrong with it before?

The Furious One · February 20

Louiscipher said:

Then fix notifications and basic BBC code functions. I tried posting an image and no go with the [IMG] [/IMG] code.

The last forum this didn't even work properly so why did you start using it now?

LegendaryDJ · February 20

Thank you, thank you, thank you, that you're going to fix the youtube BB codes. It woulda been a huge pain to completely redo the Thor forums.

I hope you also bring back the :atk: :uf: :l: :rdp: pictures, too. Those were useful, and without them, all the combo threads look bad.

Mr. Puppy · February 20

i still cannot believe you all actually paid for this shit

magocyber · February 20

on my selling thread I can't no longer edit my first post, but I can edit the rest of my posts

Pertho · February 20

Mr. Puppy said:

i still cannot believe you all actually paid for this shit

Don't be retarded. All of the forum software which SRK has used had a lot of man hours worth of hacks/mods to make them do the things they used to do. So you can either be happy to have some dedicated people doing this for free or you could stick your head into your ass and block the passage of shit you are posting. Either one works; doing both will improve the community.

SoVi3t · February 20

Please fix quotes, notifications, and spoilers (doesn't show spoiler= info) and I will be satisfied.

zUkUu · February 20

There seems to be a glitch. If I edit the first post of my Paul Combo Thread, it seems I can move it to another characters sub-forum.

yomipower · February 20

What's the point of the Mortal Kombat section still having all the characters on the front page when nobody posts on the forums anymore or even play the game? Hardly warrants such convinience IMO for a dead game, just takes space unnecessarily, even Super Turbo would benefit from it more than MK.

BTW can you get the page selector to the top part of site too? Currently it's only at the bottom so you have to scroll all the way down to choose a page, tedious. Also the custom comments under the user names are still kind of messed up, mine for instance looks silly when it's displaced like that. ALSO also, the "mark all forums read" button could be placed somewhere else than the user control gear over there maybe.

Saitsu · February 20

While I don't agree MK is a dead game, anyone who's worth a damn in MK would likely rather post in TYM anyway.

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