Forum Upgrade

[Autohead]

Bunch of whiners! To me, pale gray text on a dark gray background is a lot easier to look at for a long time than white text on a dark green background (which is what we had before in case you all forgot, yep almost the same thing, light text on dark background).

[doctorgore]

Horrible theme.

[shadowgod]

Somebody please tell me that I still roxxor.

you still roxxor, even though the forums no longer say so.

[Difs]

this is like the new engine: took too long and totally failed
congrats for ruining the forums too, the only place we could have some fun these days

[Neista]

Oh thats a lot better!

[Scottik]

Agreed. This old color theme is much more pleasant. But change the icons as well. Current ones look way too generic. For example this is what I did on our org forums back in 2011 (ignore missing banner). I'm not saying it's perfect, just use a bit more creativity and make them easy to distinguish. Icon must have high contrast in first place, which these don't have.

[Ekarona]

Can't you get some smaller icons for us. The current ones are uselessly huge and annoying...

[Demoder]

I figured I'd make a thread for feedback on how the forums works and/or looks after the upgrade.Here's my bit:

• When visiting https://forums.anarchy-online.com/, it loads content (scripts, possibly styles) from http://forums.anarchy-online.com/. Chrome blocks insecure content on secure sites, and this makes it impossible to log in without manually allowing the insecure content, every time.
• Quick-Search: Defaults to showing results by thread. Is there any way to make it display results as the actual posts which matched the criteria?
• Advanced search: Defaults to a mode which search multiple content types. Such as groups, group messages, visitor messages etc. It might be more practical to default to searching only forum content, i.e. "Search single content type" which currently defaults to searching by posts.
• Text editor: When writing posts, once the main text input field loses focus, the background goes from white to dark green, making the black text nearly invisible.

[ByLogic]

posting..mmm interesting

[hokutonoken]

good to see the most important part of AO is up and upgrade...wtb forum post count again..need to level up meh trolls ^_=

[Mastura]

Bunch of whiners! To me, pale gray text on a dark gray background is a lot easier to look at for a long time than white text on a dark green background (which is what we had before in case you all forgot, yep almost the same thing, light text on dark background).

bahaha agreed. whiny bunch we are. ahaha i dont care either way - most my stuff is white on black. i also welcome this new style ... this middle-ground (? LOL) that looks identical to the old just shinier... but most importantly i like the fact it was upgraded.

One thing is for certain, i'm amazed anything gets done at all AO-wise with the rampant cainophobia, metathesiophobia and general neophobia pathological tendencies all those years of farming and foruming have bred into its playerbase (yes, bittervet is just too kind a description!).

Hahaha Funcom, you can try and try to fix a game/business, but I'm not really sure you will succeed in fixing us players' warped and self-inflicted communal dystopia it seems
Oh lawdy this made me laugh today thank you FC thank you fellow dystopians hahaha 3 times googled something in the forums today and every time a different look hahaha.

[Ophiuchus]

Heh, seems I missed the first iteration of new forums yesterday, and a good thing too! I like the look of it now.

+1 to much preferring light text on dark background. Dark text on white background is way too much brightness that drowns out small lettering detail. It's much easier on my eyes to have dark background with the brightness coming from the things I want to take note of, not look for the holes in.

[Oliveerz]

I was hoping for a more ao-styled theme. Maybe some background screenies/artwork of our game.
Right now when i look at it, it looks like someone just còpy/pasted som random furom... more design, more ao into it!

(Ola forum was very bad tog. )

[schloops]

I'm colorblind and I like it. I also have poor memory of colors and don't remember the old color styles .

[doctorgore]

I'd rather have something better than the old ugly green. It is however better than that black high contrast theme. Still if your going for an upgrade you should make it worthwhile and make something new and pleasing without looking like it has for 13 years. I always liked the coloring they used on aoc forums if you want in house design advise. http://forums.ageofconan.com/index.php?

[Tussa]

Hooray! Glad to see a better color combo!

[Brampfine]

/facepalm to those forums update
/s update ur Homepage !!!

http://www.anarchy-online.com/wsp/an...ent&navID=1142

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Production

Producer: Dave Williams

Game Director: Fia Tjernberg

Lead Programmer: Patrik Persson

Programmers: Sjur Helland, Remco van Oosterhout

Game Designers: Helene Grøstad, Brad L. McAtee, Henry Senger

Lead Artist: Ole Jacob Kielland

Production Artists: Tony Westerlund, Rob Milus, Anton Adamse

Audio: Simon Poole


Quality Assurance

US Office Manager: Edward J Walsh III

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Quality Assurance Manager: Espen Bakken

Quality Assurance: William Sherrill, David Muraca, Beate Hanssen, Michel Kafer, Erika Billowitz, Lars Erik Tollisen

Volunteer Manager: Daniel McCusker

Volunteer Asst. Manager and Exploits: Dennis Douthett


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Operations Director: Ole Schreiner

Lead Database Administrator: Andrew Wilson

Senior System Architect: Torbjørn Lindgren

Operations Manager: Trond Ystanes

System Administrators: Per Kristiansen, Marius Hesleskaug, Mattias Brandt

Product Management: Jørgen Tharalsden, Terri Perkins

Billing Manager: Alex Cowan

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Community Managers: Glen Swan, Johannes Rebhan, Amber Croix Skinner

Community Coordinator: Lars Malcharek


/s remove those multiboxing dancing IDIOTS at Borealis
/s fix the ingame Economy, since last autum at db change is the drop of every lowered
/s lower monthly subscribe

[Mastura]

I'd rather have something better than the old ugly green. It is however better than that black high contrast theme. Still if your going for an upgrade you should make it worthwhile and make something new and pleasing without looking like it has for 13 years. I always liked the coloring they used on aoc forums if you want in house design advise. http://forums.ageofconan.com/index.php?

My sentiments are with you 100%.
If I could upvote you or your post I would.


The white on black looked not 'quite right', even though that theme is what I always use on every device everywhere, specifically so that it doesn't cause strain on my eyes. Perhaps some of the people (also complaining about improved gfx due to upgrading computer) were afraid to upgrade their monitors also, so looking at it with their 1994 monitors may not only cause it to not display correctly, they might actually lose an eye!


It's not that I don't like the "old ugly green that we've used for over 10 years" .. .it's amazingly unique. Emerald Green it's called, its beautiful. And it has cameo appearances in everything from kryptonite in superman to cyberpunk grids in old sci-fi movies (Way before The Matrix!), Emerald City in Wizard of Oz, to The Goonies in the amazingly deep green coloured emeralds/gems and...The Thirteenth Floor... so on.

But yea - that AOC and TSW forums look a lot more like what I personally would have preferred - a lot shinier! They really could take this unique colour and make it our own. Google 'emerald green, superman, gems, grid, sci-fi, cyberpunk, etc)

Having said that, I'm not about to start whining at FC on how this theme or ugly old green has aggravated a medical condition ...geez

[Caloss2]

That's massively better no more pain when using, thanks.

[Krisalee]

Hooray, AO green returns!

If we still have a stylistic issue with the icons, I'd be happy to make an AO-themed set.