Yay! Letters at the top are now white in dark mode! And we have all our old reactions back!

Maybe I have bad taste, maybe open space scares me or maybe the future scares me, but I always liked UI tight and blocky.

    packrat Yeah, those old forums were a ton easier to follow and had a more natural feel for conversation. This is just the future I guess.

      Some things are nicer on this one. One thing that I never understood on the old forum was the purpose of the points. Now I thought the list of reactions your posts got was smart, like little notices of when you're doing something right, but the points seemed... unnecessary? But that might just be me. 🤔

      I got a notification for an old post that was made before the forum changed and I don't know how to make it go away.

        Wow. Going back to previous post on this thread is going to be a pain. The crazy amount of scrolling up that is required; it makes this feels more like discord.

        Yes. They should have discussions broken down into pages again. I didn't even read everything here because of it. 🙂

        So I just made a draft for a new tutorial, but I need help with naming the section

        00 - Introduction
        01 - Basic Game (Temp)
        02 - User Interface (HUD)
        03 - SFX & Music
        04 - Advanced Game (Temp)
        05 - User Interface (Menus)
        06 - Exporting & Closing

        Section 1 and 4 need better names.

        The basic covers player character, enemies, and basic stuff, like core gameplay and similar stuff.

        The advanced covers boss battle and advanced/complex stuff, like complete/finished game.

        I was thinking of "Core Mechanics" & "Advanced Mechanics", but I'm still thinking of something better.

          Audiobellum To make notifications go away, click the notifications bell and then press the check mark in the top left (if I remember correctly)

          For the UI and spacing, that is mostly theme based. We can adjust this and refine it - right now we’re just using a pre made theme 🙂

          For scrolling, if you look on the far right you can see a scroll wheel that shows the post. If you click and drag that bar on the right, then you can quickly go through the conversation.
          I do not think we can break it back into pages, but I will try to take a look and see if it is doable.

              I'm at least glad we have the original post and now buttons. They're very helpful.

              KanataEXE

              I think I'm just gonna go with "Basic/Core Gameplay" & "Advanced Gameplay".

              Gameplay has multiple definitions, but overall, it's about how to play the game.

                I tried to find your old avatar @packrat but I couldn't find it. I stumbled on something that is close, let me know if you like it.

                  This gonna take some getting used to.

                  Losing backups suck. In a past life we had half-yearly disaster recovery tests where boss would just say "XYZ is dead, recover it" and you'd go restore everything (in a VM) and see A. how long it took and B. that everything restored correctly.

                  Despite having this concept instilled in me, I've never done this for any of my own severs cos it's too much effort XD (and paid the price more than once lol). So while everything I have is backed up in theory... I'm always praying to the old gods nothing actually happens.

                  Fortunately, my server backups are primitive -- just copy the files off. The database that tracks them is a little more complicated. I also use borg backup, but only for my laptop. I've never been comfortable seeing backup files that aren't actual copies of working files, even if they are more efficient.

                  Apropos of nothing, I like the bar that pops out when I mouse left, showing new posts.

                  Yeah, I was using this backup software, forgot the name. It was a local service on my computer. Used it for several years, but then cancelled my subscription. Then recently I wanted to find an old project of mine. However the backups were in some strange proprietary format, and they changed the format on the new version, which means all backups older than like 2 years ago were completely dead. I tried to find some hacks to extract the files, but I think they were encrypted and no one was able to figure it out. Should have been a class action lawsuit but I'm just gonna move on with my life.

                  TwistedTwigleg For scrolling, if you look on the far right you can see a scroll wheel that shows the post. If you click and drag that bar on the right, then you can quickly go through the conversation.

                  I don't see a "wheel", but the scroll bar works. But it's still very cumbersome to go through a long thread such as this one.

                      DaveTheCoder I don't see a "wheel", but the scroll bar works. But it's still very cumbersome to go through a long thread such as this one.

                      You can click anywhere on that empty gray box (it is below the area that says original post). It will jump to a section, but it's hard to say where, especially with this thread where there are over 2,000 posts. In a normal thread with one or two pages it works well though.

                        I don't backup much of anything even with this cloud software. I lose a bunch of old art etc. My financials are on site. Have to get some new passwords. It's kind of a clean start. I don't like it, but it's not that big of a deal. Usually it's because my old computer dies. It used to be hard ordering a new computer but now I have a phone and tablet. If my router goes out I can scrape up an old one if I have to, I think.
                        Does the code insert work from the little menu at the bottom? Was that there before?