Shadow Fire Posted March 27, 2012 Share Posted March 27, 2012 Welcome, one and all, back to The GCN! I apologise for the time it took to get back online, but this upgrade was quite extensive, plus there was the fact that Zeth wanted me to modify the skin that we have by default.Now, the changes are: Full website intergration. As such, the original URL of http://core.the-gcn.com is no longer valid. Any use of that URL will redirect you to the main domain. You will be logged in entirely, and your user group will determine which pages you get access to. Currently, all users (excluding banned, but including guests) have access to all pages, but this will change as more are added. Internal download system. Community members can upload their own files (2MB maximum), for sharing throughout the community. All files submitted will be subject to approval. In addition, all official GCN sanctioned files, such as administrator projects and other miscellaneous content will also be found within. Support topics are automatically created for each download submitted. A new look. Yes, you will notice that our default look has changed significantly. Please bear in mind that I am still making some slight edits to this skin, so please be patient. I know it's not perfectly colour co-ordinated for the moment, but I am working on rectifying that. Avatars/Photos, as well as profile information and signatures have been reverted. You will need to reset them. This is due to the new system's way of parsing. Social media linking is now more readily available in the default look. You can combine your account with your Facebook or Twitter account and follow us easily. You can even Like a post. Sakura has been reinstated as an administrator. Unfortunately, this upgrade has seen us need to remove a few features, such as the Xbox Live plugin, and a couple of BBCode, but those may make a return in the future, providing upgrades can be made to them. If you find any bugs, simply announce them in the Bug Tracker. You can find it under the More tab. I hope you enjoy the new look! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Conker Posted March 27, 2012 Share Posted March 27, 2012 Looks great, bro; you and Zeth did great with the graphics, and what not. :DI look forward to all of the extra polish, and such. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest sakura Posted March 27, 2012 Share Posted March 27, 2012 Everything looks really good! Thanks a lot for all the time you put in to maintaining this community, everyone really appreciates it. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Conker Posted March 27, 2012 Share Posted March 27, 2012 Everything looks really good! Thanks a lot for all the time you put in to maintaining this community, everyone really appreciates it.I second this statement. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zeth Ryder Posted March 27, 2012 Share Posted March 27, 2012 And for those who don't want an avatar, we have a pretty kickass no avatar pic 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xdaniel Posted March 27, 2012 Share Posted March 27, 2012 Now that I got that font issue sorted out - "Segoe" doesn't exist on XP, copied them over from my W7 laptop; tho I'm still wondering why Firefox decided to fall back onto Lucida Console or whatever it was -, this is looking very nice. Some of the text is a bit dark IMO like the usernames above posts, but I really like how everything, understandably excluding the Ura Project, is integrated into one layout with one theme now. Nice job! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LEepicPOULET Posted March 27, 2012 Share Posted March 27, 2012 I like the new design! Thanks for all the hard work 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gump Posted March 27, 2012 Share Posted March 27, 2012 Wow, the website looks -really- good! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Secant Posted March 27, 2012 Share Posted March 27, 2012 Many thanks and congratulations to you, Shadow Fire and Zeth, for your work on this excellent upgrade. YouTube could learn a thing or two from this. XD 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Okami Amaterasu Posted March 27, 2012 Share Posted March 27, 2012 I find the text to be too small and too dark, but otherwise I like the new look. I haven't gotten to look at everythign yet, but so far I like it. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zeth Ryder Posted March 27, 2012 Share Posted March 27, 2012 The username's text can be adjusted, I do agree its,a little dark. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KevinB834 Posted March 27, 2012 Share Posted March 27, 2012 Love it! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ghost Posted March 27, 2012 Share Posted March 27, 2012 Love it! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DeathBasket Posted March 27, 2012 Share Posted March 27, 2012 Hate to nitpick but there's a missing apostrophe in the logo's text and it's bugging me. The new colour scheme looks nice but as others have said some of the text is difficult to read, particularly quoted text. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xdaniel Posted March 28, 2012 Share Posted March 28, 2012 Btw, anything accessed via http://core.the-gcn.com/index.php (note the index.php) still shows the SOPA-protest-style "upgrade in progress" page, while the same URL without the filename redirects properly. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Conker Posted March 28, 2012 Share Posted March 28, 2012 Guys, I think Shadow said he'd work on the text in the original post.(at least, it looked implied) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zeth Ryder Posted March 28, 2012 Share Posted March 28, 2012 Yeah its implied, we are working on it continuously to make it better, But even still, I'm rather impressed with the look of the site. :3 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Conker Posted March 28, 2012 Share Posted March 28, 2012 I am impressed, as well. It's all looking damn nice, if I do say so myself. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shadow Fire Posted March 28, 2012 Author Share Posted March 28, 2012 New Skin! For those of you who prefer lighter skins, I have installed (and slightly modified) the skin from which the default originated. It is labelled Current (Light). I also fixed a few things in the darker variant. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xdaniel Posted March 30, 2012 Share Posted March 30, 2012 I don't wanna be the guy, but... well, losing signatures and profile information isn't too bad, but our private messages? May I ask that we're informed of such things in advance the next time such an upgrade happens? In fact, I had no idea that we were going to lose anything, come to think of it. Did I just miss the message, was it not planned for that to happen, or what was it? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Conker Posted March 30, 2012 Share Posted March 30, 2012 I wouldn't doubt it if they're backed up somewhere. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shadow Fire Posted March 30, 2012 Author Share Posted March 30, 2012 I don't wanna be the guy, but... well, losing signatures and profile information isn't too bad, but our private messages? May I ask that we're informed of such things in advance the next time such an upgrade happens? In fact, I had no idea that we were going to lose anything, come to think of it. Did I just miss the message, was it not planned for that to happen, or what was it? Oh... I knew there was something I forgot to import. I'll get onto those... Done. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xdaniel Posted March 30, 2012 Share Posted March 30, 2012 Oh... I knew there was something I forgot to import. I'll get onto those...Done.Ahh, I thought they got lost during the upgrade or so, sorry! Thanks for getting them imported again! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mzxrules Posted April 5, 2012 Share Posted April 5, 2012 I sort of doubt this is chrome only, but it appears that a massive number of line breaks have left, causing some posts to be rendered completely messy. I think this may only affect older posts like http://www.the-gcn.com/topic/589-cutscenes/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jason777 Posted April 5, 2012 Share Posted April 5, 2012 ^^ I experience that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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