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CCP Phantom
C C P C C P Alliance
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Posted - 2014.10.09 17:07:00 -
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We are going to improve the EVE forums and give the user experience on the forums a nice boost by making the forums responsive with as little resizing, panning, and scrolling on as many devices as possible.
While the web team already cleaned up the forum back-end code during the past months, it is now time to make more visible changes. In this first of two phases we will remove the EVE Gate header from the forums and move most links there to a nice menu in the navigation bar.
Please read about all the changes, bugfixes and details in CCP raRaRa's latest dev blog Upcoming Forum changes - Phase 1 of 2. CCP Phantom - Senior Community Representative - Volunteer Manager |
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CCP Avalon
C C P C C P Alliance
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Posted - 2014.10.13 13:22:00 -
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Greetings guys and gals!
Now I've gone over all the replies in this thread, and compiled a list of feature requests & issues that have been brought up; that will be presented to the rest of the team. Please understand that we may not be able to abide by every request for various reasons, however there have been some that have sparked our interest and have already received some discussion internally.
That having been said, I would like to address a few of the questions that were not directly feature requests or issues.
Megarom wrote:This is because the link-tag points to the thread in general and not to the right post. The correct link is there in the content, but the reader I'm using doesn't even show the content so my only option is to click something that takes me to the wrong place. I agree, the RSS feed should provide links in the same way as the forum view. I.e. when reading the search RSS the main link should be to the relevant post, not the original of the topic.
Moraguth wrote:One question about that though, is there one button that takes you to the next "important" post, or is there a link for each type of "important person"? I'd much rather have 1 button that works for all of them at the same time (so i don't miss a CSM post in between GM posts for example). The badge links will at this time only bring you to the next post by a person with an identical badge in the thread. Links to the first of each badge may however be found at the top of any topic. See:
Sable Moran wrote:This is what I want to know too. Are you or are you not getting rid of the god awful fixed width forums? While the fixed width won't disappear in phase one, it is something we want to get rid of. And we intend on making that happen in phase 2.
Cynter DeVries wrote:For the web-dev-curious among us: Bootstrap (ugh), Foundation, or Polymer? In strict terms, none of the above. Although what we've been working with thus far relates in some ways to Bootstrap, it may be subject to change. CCP Avalon // Quality Assurance Analyst // Team Webster //-á@ccp_avalon
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CCP raRaRa
C C P C C P Alliance
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Posted - 2014.10.15 10:51:00 -
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Thanks for all the excellent feedback!
We've opened external access to phase one on https://forums.testeveonline.com for testing. Feel free to try it out!
If everything goes as planned, then we'll deploy phase one early next week.
Here's list of new changes that were not included in the dev blog:
- Top bar is now sticky
- Quick search is back on the page, no longer in a drop-down menu
- Back to top arrow is shown on all pages and we've also added "Back to top" link to the sticky top bar
- Time on posts shows how much time has passed since it was posted (2 min ago, one hour ago, 2 days ago, etc) and hovering the mouse over the text will show the timestamp
- Notifications always take you to the relevant post
CCP raRaRa // [url]http://twitter.com/ccp_rarara[/url] Web Developer |
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CCP Avalon
C C P C C P Alliance
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Posted - 2014.10.15 11:38:00 -
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It seems that at some point the test server did not render your portrait correctly, this issue is however bound only to the test server as it hosts its own images.
TQ uses: https://image.eveonline.com/Character/1138016498_128.jpg
Sisi uses: https://image.testeveonline.com/Character/1138016498_128.jpg
Therefore this issue should not occur once we deploy the new forums here. CCP Avalon // Quality Assurance Analyst // Team Webster //-á@ccp_avalon
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ISD LackOfFaith
ISD Community Communications Liaisons
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Posted - 2014.10.15 15:15:00 -
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Pro tip!
Anyone having access with likes, editing your signature, or possibly other bits in the forum interactivity: please try to disable adblock for the Eve forums. It might be blocking some stuff it shouldn't be. ISD LackOfFaith Captain Community Communication Liaisons (CCLs) Interstellar Services Department I do not respond to Eve Mail or anything other than the forums. |
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ISD LackOfFaith
ISD Community Communications Liaisons
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Posted - 2014.10.15 18:53:00 -
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Rowells wrote:ISD LackOfFaith wrote:Pro tip!
Anyone having access with likes, editing your signature, or possibly other bits in the forum interactivity: please try to disable adblock for the Eve forums. It might be blocking some stuff it shouldn't be. will this continue to be an issue after launch or just a current bug/issue? It's not an "issue", really. Certain Adblock filters are "too eager" in what they block, and they appear to have issues with certain bits of Javascript making, for example, the Like button work. See CCP Sledgehammer talk about one of these problems.
The problem is not with the forums; it is with the overzealous filters causing the blocking. There are a few ways to fix the "overzealous filtering" problem:
- Pester the authors of the Adblock filters at fault to fix up their filters to not cause so much trouble.
- Locally edit the filters you have so they don't catch stuff (e.g. CCP Sledgehammer's post).
- Disable Adblock for the Eve forums. There aren't ads here anyway.
It was #3 that I recommended in my previous post. I hope this clears some stuff up. ISD LackOfFaith Captain Community Communication Liaisons (CCLs) Interstellar Services Department I do not respond to Eve Mail or anything other than the forums. |
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CCP raRaRa
C C P C C P Alliance
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Posted - 2014.10.20 20:04:37 -
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Zappity wrote:Top bar disappears when I zoom in with Opera. Still have to scroll left to see who wrote the post. Can you check if it's better now? Thanks!
Salpun wrote: With notifications working correctly no need for a go to last post button in the thread but would be a definite win if added.
Will miss the devblog short cut being in the header. Evelopedia being in the drop down works.
Current version of the sticky header needs more color.
Drop down needs a Dev Developers site access point.
Can we get the thread title first with more text showing in notifications, only last poster is needed or a number of people that has posted lately.
And can we follow individual posters if they post again.
I agree, it would be nice to have "Go to last post" button, we'll think about some neat way to implement it in phase two. Not sure what to do with shortcuts, EVE Universe is already cluttered with many links. I expect most people to bookmark their favorite sites :) But we'll see what we can do. Links in the header drop-down menu are now orange, which adds a bit more color variation to the header.
Sjaandi HyShan wrote:Have you thought of including badges for past CSM, and the forum post originator? I sometimes like to see what past CSM members have to say, or what the original poster says in response to others' posts about the topic. Me likey, we'll look into it for a future update!
On another note, we've deployed a few more changes to forums.testeveonline.com
- Enabled code BBCode
- Top sticky nav is more mobile friendly
- Removed "Back to top" link in top sticky nav, instead the back to top arrow is now mobile friendly.
- New background
- New EVE Forum logo
- Links in header drop-down menu are now orange
We're thinking about deploying phase one tomorrow if everything goes as planned!
CCP raRaRa // Web Developer // Team Webster
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CCP raRaRa
C C P C C P Alliance
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Posted - 2014.10.20 20:17:38 -
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Querns wrote:I don't suppose we could get a fixed-width font for the [ code ] bbcode tag?
Will do!
CCP raRaRa // Web Developer // Team Webster
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CCP raRaRa
C C P C C P Alliance
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Posted - 2014.10.21 08:01:45 -
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Zappity wrote:CCP raRaRa wrote:Zappity wrote:Top bar disappears when I zoom in with Opera. Still have to scroll left to see who wrote the post. Can you check if it's better now? Thanks! Top bar is good in Opera now - very nice. But still can't see who's post it is without panning left or zooming out. Hmm. Can you take screenshot of the problem? Thanks
CCP raRaRa // Web Developer // Team Webster
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CCP raRaRa
C C P C C P Alliance
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Posted - 2014.10.21 11:33:17 -
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Zappity wrote:CCP raRaRa wrote:Zappity wrote:CCP raRaRa wrote:Zappity wrote:Top bar disappears when I zoom in with Opera. Still have to scroll left to see who wrote the post. Can you check if it's better now? Thanks! Top bar is good in Opera now - very nice. But still can't see who's post it is without panning left or zooming out. Hmm. Can you take screenshot of the problem? Thanks It's not a bug, just a design problem. See here: http://imgur.com/rFxW78KThis is how I view the forums. Double-tap the text column and you can't see the portraits any more. So while you can see who authored #103 because of the edit you cannot see who authored #104 without scrolling left to view the portraits. Which is an enormous pain. Some text of who the author is just where the "Edited by" text is would be great. Ah right, phase two will include the responsive update that will make the forums mobile friendly. Phase one, which you're seeing on testeveonline.com, is still fixed width and includes major changes where we're splitting up EVE Gate and EVE Forums.
CCP raRaRa // Web Developer // Team Webster
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CCP raRaRa
C C P C C P Alliance
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Posted - 2014.10.21 12:12:38 -
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Salpun wrote:Deployment still on for today? Yep, still on schedule - 14:00 PM UTC :)
CCP raRaRa // Web Developer // Team Webster
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ISD LackOfFaith
ISD Community Communications Liaisons
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Posted - 2014.10.21 13:19:13 -
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Winthorp wrote:I only await the day we can elect a forum specific CSM to help us battle the tyrannical ISD plague.
> ISD LackOfFaith
> Captain
> Community Communication Liaisons (CCLs)
> Interstellar Services Department
I do not respond to Eve Mail or anything other than the forums.
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CCP Avalon
C C P C C P Alliance
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Posted - 2014.10.21 14:23:10 -
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mr ed thehouseofed wrote:just a heads up it changed my background , went to change it back to another one,saved it . but it loads the default one One background to rule them all, one bg to find them, one bg to bring them all and in the forums bind them.
The team reached the conclusion to remove the custom background option from the EVE forums. All settings relating to the forums now reside in the 'Forum settings' link under your character name. Therefore settings in EVE Gate should no longer apply to the forums.
CCP Avalon // Quality Assurance Analyst // Team Webster // @ccp_avalon
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CCP Avalon
C C P C C P Alliance
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Posted - 2014.10.21 17:47:06 -
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Due to popular demand we'll be reinstating the background selection from EVE Gate. The background visible now will become the default option.
This will now become the known-issues page!
Known issues
- RSS feed for the search fails when looking for Dev/GM posts
- Initial scale of viewport causes undesired zoom for mobile users
CCP Avalon // Quality Assurance Analyst // Team Webster // @ccp_avalon
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CCP Avalon
C C P C C P Alliance
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Posted - 2014.10.21 17:47:44 -
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Rivr Luzade wrote:All the icons on the posts (new posts, no new posts, etc.) in the thread list are gone. A thing that is bothering me for ages now: How do I use the "EVE Universe" drop down menu, where all the EVE sites are listed on a mobile (except for not at all)? When I tap on it, nothing happens; it erratically extends when I hover over it but collapses as soon as my finger moves.
- In UC Browser V 4.0.0.455, when I tap and hold my finger on it, the drop down opens but at the same time the browser context menu with options like copy link appears and covers the list (this is in UC Browser on WP 8.1) and as soon as I move my finger, the list disappears;
- In IE 10 a sort of long tap on the EVE Online either opens the context menu and when I tap on empty space, the list opens.
The icon for "no new posts" (folder) was removed, however the remaining should still be displayed (star, flag and lock) when appropriate.
As for the issue you've been encountering in your mobile device. When attempting to expand the menu, does your link on the page add a '#' character to it's end?
CCP Avalon // Quality Assurance Analyst // Team Webster // @ccp_avalon
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CCP raRaRa
C C P C C P Alliance
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Posted - 2014.10.22 10:05:08 -
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DeMichael Crimson wrote:Lar Elinure wrote:The post date is now shown as how long ago the post was made. Any chance you could add an option to show the date in addition /instead of the time from the post? Better yet, would you give that option to those of us too who don't care to log on every time we want to read the forums? Agreed. The time stamp definitely needs to be reverted back to how it was before. Come on, this is a game based in the future with spaceships and computers, it should list the year, day, hour, minutes and seconds of when it was posted. I hate to say this but having it show "A few minutes ago" or "About an hour ago" or "A day ago" tells me you're doing the same thing to these forums as you're doing to the game, dumbing it down. DMC You can see the UTC time by hovering the mouse over the timeago text. The main reason we did this change is because people have hard time figuring out when a post was actually made because of different timezones.
CCP raRaRa // Web Developer // Team Webster
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CCP Avalon
C C P C C P Alliance
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Posted - 2014.10.22 10:23:54 -
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Could you please provide us with your Chrome version? I'm unsuccessful at reproducing this error using the latest version of Chrome.
As for those anticipating the return of background selection from EVE Gate, we're working on it along with the known issues.
CCP Avalon // Quality Assurance Analyst // Team Webster // @ccp_avalon
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CCP Avalon
C C P C C P Alliance
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Posted - 2014.10.22 13:17:26 -
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Changes 2014-10-22 12:45
- EVE Background options returned, these can still be set in the EVE Gate settings.
- Initial (automated) zoom on mobile devices deactivated
- RSS feed on search for dev/GM posts fixed
- Link to DEV Blogs added to drop-down under forum settings
CCP Avalon // Quality Assurance Analyst // Team Webster // @ccp_avalon
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CCP raRaRa
C C P C C P Alliance
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Posted - 2014.10.22 19:21:14 -
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Oraac Ensor wrote:Dwissi wrote:Oraac Ensor wrote:So, let me get this straight.
If I want to view my previous posts, instead of just looking at my profile page I now have to make a fresh post in some random place and then click my name? On the Eve gate part that still works like before - so you hover over your picture in the upper part in the forums -> Eve Gate Profile and off you go Nope - not any more. Due to popular demand we'll be creating another update that will include forum profiles (phase 1.1). On the forum profile you'll be able to see latest 15-20 posts made by user and other useful information. Hopefully this update will be adequate until phase 2 is released.
We really want to focus on phase 2 that will be introduced soon (complete responsive design, etc).
CCP raRaRa // Web Developer // Team Webster
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CCP raRaRa
C C P C C P Alliance
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Posted - 2014.10.22 20:03:21 -
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Kaaeliaa wrote:Why can't we have the actual timestamp of the posts displayed by default and the _____ minutes/hours/days ago displayed in the tooltip? Same information as we have now, just displayed differently. I'll discuss it with the team tomorrow. I just really like timeago since it gives me rough time when a post was made, instead of having to look at numbers and figuring it out :) Is there any particular reason why people dislike timeago? Twitter, Facebook and many popular sites use it today.
CCP raRaRa // Web Developer // Team Webster
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CCP raRaRa
C C P C C P Alliance
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Posted - 2014.10.22 20:32:30 -
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Kirasten wrote:Every time I open up the forums on my phone since the change the character select drop down box is on my screen covering up the forums and making me choose my character again and again. I was excited about the change, but this is making me miss the old forum.
Additionally, when I click a link with my finger, there is no way to tell if i clicked the correct link or perhaps the link adjacent to it. What mobile device, browser and browser version are you using? Did you also encounter the clicking on links problem on the old forums? Please note that this is phase 1 which doesn't include the responsive design, which will be introduced in phase 2.
CCP raRaRa // Web Developer // Team Webster
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CCP Avalon
C C P C C P Alliance
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Posted - 2014.10.28 17:15:33 -
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Greygal wrote:Have you made the signature character limit smaller? My signature used to fit with the linking code, now when I try to link to my public roams forum in my signature, it does this weird footnotey thing [1], places the link below the signature, and removes the descriptive text for the link because I've run out of characters. Pretty certain we used to be limited to 500 characters in our signature, now it seems like it's limited to 250. My signature is 245 characters (if I remember right), but with the weird linking code, it exceeds it.
Any chance you can up the character limit for signatures, and/or not count formatting/linking code in the limit?
Thanks in advance!
GG The character limit was decreased by half, as the Markdown code takes significantly less characters for styling than BBCode, or 4 characters instead of 12 to form a link. If the markdown helper is taking up too many characters for your taste, please try the following format.
[EVE](http://eveonline.com)
Expected result: EVE
CCP Avalon // Quality Assurance Analyst // Team Webster // @ccp_avalon
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CCP raRaRa
C C P C C P Alliance
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Posted - 2014.10.28 18:02:09 -
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Forum profiles are now available on SISI. Profiles show character's date of birth, last 20 posts, etc.
Feel free to try out on SISI: https://forums.testeveonline.com/ Here's my profile: https://forums.testeveonline.com/profile/ccp%20rarara
We also removed timeago on posts, however timeago is now shown when hovering the mouse over timestamps.
This will be deployed tomorrow if everything goes as planned.
CCP raRaRa // Web Developer // Team Webster
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CCP raRaRa
C C P C C P Alliance
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Posted - 2014.10.29 09:39:07 -
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Rain6637 wrote:interesting thing about the date of birth, it brings some value back to 2003 characters who failed to join NPC corps. (there's debate when those characters are sold, regarding their value, as their employment history shows nothing)
This is a bit outside of the box, but you're reducing the usefulness of the forums as an intel tool (by removing employment history). again, outside of the box, but a move the other way would include bounties or war dec functionality in the forum interface. The notifications are simplified a bit much, imo, but I feel you. The new interface is easier to grope with a smartphone touch screen, and that's just getting with the times. [totally neutral comment, but this burden is shifted to evewho.com/pilot/CCP_Rarara and logging in to the client.]
totally should add a tweet button esp. for dev posts. but also for general spammery because exposure
Hi,
I believe you're mixing up EVE Gate profiles and EVE Forum profiles. The EVE Gate profile still shows employment history while the EVE Forum profile shows more forum related information. Previously you were always taken straight to the EVE Gate profile.
I'll see if we can do something about notifications for phase 2.
CCP raRaRa // Web Developer // Team Webster
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CCP Avalon
C C P C C P Alliance
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Posted - 2014.10.29 19:18:14 -
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Oraac Ensor wrote:Oraac Ensor wrote:DeMichael Crimson wrote:Anyway, just wanna say it's great having option to choose forum background again.
One step at a time, right?
DMC Yep, I'm grateful for that - just keeping my fingers crossed that I no longer have to reset it every few days like before! Oh, dear! No such luck, then. Please, CCP, make it so that our chosen background persists until such time as we choose to alter it. Having to reset it evrey few days is a real PITA. [Edit] Ah, it seems that I need to rephrase my request: Please, CCP, give us back the ability to choose our own background that you appeared to have reinstated but have apparently just withdrawn again after only a few days. The option to set your background is still available, on your EVE Gate profile (as it has been before). You refer to the background resetting after a few days. Which background have you been using and are you finding/moving the option back to 'Default' at some point before the reset occurs?
Direct link: https://gate.eveonline.com/Account/SettingsCustomization
CCP Avalon // Quality Assurance Analyst // Team Webster // @ccp_avalon
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CCP Avalon
C C P C C P Alliance
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Posted - 2014.10.29 20:52:50 -
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Abrazzar wrote:What's up with the old forums? All the links go 404. Are they all gone? If you're referring to external links / links that should provide warning on oldforums.eveonline.com resulting in a 404, we're aware of this issue.
Fonac wrote:Is there a way, to fitler out non-english dev posts? I find it hugely annoying to read german and french. While i do speak german, and can read it fine, i do not understand a word of french.
Only if you specify which forums you wish to receive Dev posts from, regrettably there are no exclusion rules for this search.
Oraac Ensor wrote:How do I get to the screen you have linked other than by using your link?
In the old system all I had to do was click my profile link at the top of the page. Now I can't find it anywhere (except via your link). It certainly doesn't appear on my Evegate profile page.
I have been using the Gallente background, like Salpun, and, just like Salpun, it has switched back to default at some point during the past 18 hours (without any action by me). It has always behaved like this since I first started using the forums. Please allow us to clarify, the background settings are in the same location that they have been up to this point, in EVE Gate. They have at no point been moved from your EVE Gate profile settings. What you're experiencing however is that we've decoupled the forums mostly from EVE Gate with the only setting remaining there, that can affect the forums, is the custom background.
Current route to change background: 1. a) Hover over EVE Universe b) Visit your or any forum profile 2. a) Click on EVE Gate b) Click on "View EVE Gate Profile" 3. Hover over your character name ( EVE Gate header ) 4. Click on Profile Settings 5. Click on Personalize 6. Choose a background 7. Save settings
CCP Avalon // Quality Assurance Analyst // Team Webster // @ccp_avalon
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CCP Avalon
C C P C C P Alliance
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Posted - 2014.11.28 12:31:36 -
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King Fu Hostile wrote:My Like button is gone. If you're using an ad blocker of any sort, it's likely that you have overly zealous filters that are removing the like button. This can happen if you're targeting social like buttons.
Solution: Disable your ad blocker for the EVE forums, or fix the filters.
CCP Avalon // Quality Assurance Analyst // Team Webster // @ccp_avalon
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