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Kojack

The Oculus VR forums (I'm a moderator there) moved to Khoros. That forum software doesn't even jump to the last post you saw in a thread. It doesn't tell you how many unread replies a thread has or who made the last reply. Also no dark mode, I had to create my own (using Stylus plugin). Months of annoyed members complaining followed the change over.

Nerdzmasterz

Oculus forums? VR is amazing! And if that's the case, those forums must be a pain.

Kojack

Nerdzmasterz Yeah, it became rather annoying for a while. It even had an annoying setting that moderators (I'm just a volunteer mod, don't work for them) had to manually approve EVERY image posted on the forum. Luckily the admins eventually found the setting to disable that.

VR rocks. Plug in a force feedback steering wheel, put on one of my VR headsets and spend a few hours driving around in Euro Truck Simulator 2. 🙂

Nerdzmasterz

I really need to figure out how to make Godot games for Quest 2. 😎

Kojack

I haven't tried Godot's VR support yet. At work I teach VR with Unity (urgh, their VR support keeps changing and has so many issues). Most of my own stuff is C++ with no VR view (diagnostic tools and a program to use oculus controllers as keyboard/mouse/joystick for desktop software).

Kojack

The clear notification tick has turned invisible in the forum light theme (it's white on white). Still works, just not visible.

Megalomaniak

@TwistedTwigleg

Kojack The clear notification tick has turned invisible in the forum light theme (it's white on white). Still works, just not visible.

Yeah, I noticed it too.

Nerdzmasterz

I can build games in VR with Unity, only because I bought an asset which its creator constantly updates. I never did learn to code it. 😕

I think the asset was called Autohands? And it works very well.

However, I am so over not actually programming the game, myself. My deal is that I don't even know how to make the VR fingers move in Unity- my hands might as well be cubes, or programmed by someone who actually does know what they're doing.

TwistedTwigleg

Megalomaniak I’ll try to tackle this as soon as I can after work 👍

Nerdzmasterz

Now, if anyone knows VR in Godot, it's @TwistedTwigleg.

Nerdzmasterz

Am I the only one who is slightly disturbed by the fact that there is actually an emoji swear? I dunno, but I would imagine we'd basically get banned if we actually used that. 😕

TwistedTwigleg

Nerdzmasterz The swear emoji would depend on the context of how it is used. It shouldn’t be used since we are a family friendly forum, but it wouldn’t be an instant ban or anything - we do bans on a case by case basis.

spacecloud

TwistedTwigleg
Will banned users still have their icons changed, or will it be shown some other way?

packrat

cybereality It's not anywhere else online as far as I know. It was a photo of my cat that my brother took with a shaky camera and cropped.

spacecloud

packrat

(Found on the web archive)

Kojack

spacecloud That's related to another fun thing when Oculus changed their forum software, ban status didn't port over. Everyone we'd ever perma-banned was unbanned, and got email notifications of stuff.
Luckily 99.9% of bans were due to being spammers, they don't come back on the same accounts anyway.

So if there's any regular troublemakers on here, might be worth checking their status.

TwistedTwigleg

spacecloud TwistedTwigleg
Will banned users still have their icons changed, or will it be shown some other way?

Not sure, but I do not think so. It think it adds a little icon that says they are suspended though.

Megalomaniak Kojack That's related to another fun thing when Oculus changed their forum software, ban status didn't port over.

Funny you should say that...

Yeah, we sort of had the same issue. Banned user statuses were not ported, their accounts were just not added at all, but this presents its own issues since theoretically there was nothing stopping them from making new accounts. Like with Oculus, the majority are just spam bots.

I looked through the old forum data manually and applied as many bans as I could that way. It is not perfect, but I was able to apply bans to roughly 80% of previously banned accounts.

Edit: Though to be fair, with bans previously there was theoretically nothing stopping them from making new accounts either. 😅
Banning/Moderation enforcing is difficult because it's easy to change IPs (via VPNs) or use different emails. We do have better moderation tools now though, including some more automation to help reduce some of the manual work.

Megalomaniak

Kojack That's related to another fun thing when Oculus changed their forum software, ban status didn't port over.

Funny you should say that...

TwistedTwigleg

The issue with the check mark icon on the light theme being invisible due to it being white on white is fixed! I also fixed the notification icon being harder to see and disappearing when clicked.

So far I've been doing these changes via CSS overrides, but sometime I need to look at making an actual forum theme for what we need, as then we can further customize it and it should be possible to specify CSS separate for each mode (dark/light) instead of trying to find colors that work on both. 🙂

Edit: Now it should be a bit more compact too - making it easier to read and more like the old forums.

TwistedTwigleg

I had to revert the post size change, as it doesn’t work correctly on mobile. I’ll take another look at it soon though, as I think the more compact view is better.

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