Suggestions go here (UPDATED!)

[Διμι]

As of present, the forum is far from complete, and is not yet ready to receive new members in full. The forum has currently reached a stage of reasonable completion, and is ready for full use. Thus, I would appreciate it if the members of the old ZSG, as well as passing S.T.A.L.K.E.R. fans shared some input as to how to make this place better.

Thank you.

1/28/10 - UPDATE

After extensive mucking around in ProBoards' coding library, I have made a number of changes to the site to make it more easily accessible. Several of your suggestions were taken into consideration.

• By NatVac's suggestion, the topic summary order has been reversed. Newest posts are now on top.
  
• The Karma feature has been modified. Aside from the minor 'cosmetic' effect, Duty is no longer able to modify it.
  
• Sub-boards in different boards can now be accessed via a drop-down menu, saving space and time.
  
• The main RP has been hidden from everyone but approved participants. Anyone wishing to access it must submit a profile.
  
• I added a "level up" meter, purely for shits and giggles, I suppose.
  
• Avatar size limits have been increased.
  
• A more stalker-themed online/offline message has been specified.
  
• When moving threads, the Archive is selected as a default board choice to move them to. Notifications are also disabled by default, making the process faster and cleaner.
  
• A user legend has been added to differentiate between different staff member types.
  
• A color pallete has replaced the drop-down color picker.
  
• Added a dynamic user profile drop-down menu when you click on a member's username.
  

[Carnageman]

Testing profile display.

[chaosshade]

I'd like to suggest using this map (stitched together from SoC for our map. i38.tinypic.com/14mx2eu.jpg

[Carnageman]

Can I suggest that you brighten up the colours and make them look more like the old ZSG?

[Διμι]

I have created a new skin named ZSGold. It's not exactly like the old ZSG, but it's pretty close. You can choose it as a default for the forum via your own profile.

If anyone would like to modify it for the better, I can give you a 'designer' mod account that grants access to the skins. Just don't mess with the original 'black' skin plox.

[Karcentric]

I wouldn't mind having a look at it...

[Διμι]

The POWER is yours.

You'll want to check this for the color hex codes, as the ones ProBoards gives you are... inadequate, to say the least.

[stormbringer951]

Where's the "new posts" button?

[Διμι]

There is none, which I suppose is an inconvenience to those who did use it.

There's a "last ten posts" option, though, but I never use it either, tbh.

[Karcentric]

I'll have a look and see what I can do, it might take a while. I have POWER!!!! Bah hahahaha!

[natvac]

"Svobodalith" is clever.

You guys need to ask yourself what kind(s) of folks you want to visit and join, and then provide the kinds of things they would want.

For example, while I understand that others like RP and 3-word story threads, I don't have the inclination even if I had the time -- and I don't really have the time. As someone noted, the ones already here were the active ones on ZSG -- but there were quite a few that would join ZSG just to ask about a mod or seek help on a problem.

I suggest adding a technical support subforum, maybe under "The STALKER series" forum, or one in each STALKER game subforum for the different questions; I can't answer any except for the original game.

I'm currently under the impression that the ZSG DNS registration is what expired, not the forum site itself.

Likes	Dislikes
I am amazed that a free forum has support for tables!	I dislike the slow page scroll because of the background image, and the profile choice to hide images doesn't work on that image.
Great editing, better than most of the popular forum software packages.	The lack of new post indications (as far as I can currently tell).
Spell Check is cool, although it is already part of modern browsers.	The oldest posts at the top on "Post Reply" are a bit irritating -- and they go away completely when you preview!

This forum provides a chance to preserve the ZSG spirit.*

I'm not happy with the forum profile management. Of course it might be the auto-complete in my modified Firefox, but the profile supplies the password when it shouldn't, making me delete it every time.

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*You may be biting off a very big chunk, stormbringer951, but there is a lot of extremely valuable info.

[Διμι]

NatVac -

• The background image can be removed by using the other forum skin. You can select it in your profile. It's kind of like the old ZSG, if you would prefer. Karcentric is tweaking it as of now.
  
• New posts should be indicated by board (the radioactive symbol to the left of each board with new posts changes to orange). There's also an option to see the last 20 or so (modifiable amount) posts made on the forum in the info center.
  
• The thread reply list is a bitch, I'll admit. I'm looking around the admin panel right now to see whether I can do anything about it to put it in the correct order, but my memory tells me 'no'.
  

As for your password, I'm not quite sure I understand - do you mean it auto-completes the login dialogues? In that case, I'm inclined to think it is your browser.

A tech support forum seems to be something I've overlooked when making this. Most likely because I hardly ever posted in there. I'll see how I can integrate it.

[Διμι]

updated first post

[Defunct FPX profile]

Excellent, this baby works. Thank you Dimitroff.

[imperialreign]

Question - Is it possible to change up the quotation block a bit? It's a little odd the way it's currently setup, kinda mixes in with the post style . . . get's confusing . . .

I was thinking, perhaps a dark grey, or dark green, with white text? Perhaps to help it stand out as a quote just a bit more . . .