New Bully-Board theme!

[AJ Collins]

Today's changes:
- Switched from using transparent PNGs to transparent CSS colors in certain areas with non-transparent fall backs for older browsers
- Anything under IE8 will be redirected to the older theme
- No background images in the Dillo browser due to compatibility issues
- The My Messages button now has the number of unread messages beside it
- Increased cache storage length

Unrelated to the theme:
- Approved/Rejected the extensive mod backlist
- Upped mod size limit to 64MB

Will work on flags as time permits.

[Black Norton]

Nice theme
i like it 

[Bigfoot]

Haven't been about much due to work constraints, but I do have to agree that the new mod skin looks good.

However, I'm on a 3G connection so it takes its time loading - and for some reason scrolling down a message list is far slower than I'm used to as well.  Perhaps a little optimization might be in order to speed things up & lower bandwidth usage.  In the meantime, I'll be on the old skin, but I'll keep an eye in here so I can check for updates.

[MadmaN]

@AJ

Have you considered falling back to almost all .css for the majority of the colors rather then using images? since this does speed things up quite a bit since there are several members complaining about speeds. I personally am just fine on speeds so I have no complaints about that. Figured I may as well ask. 

[AJ Collins]

@AJ

Have you considered falling back to almost all .css for the majority of the colors rather then using images? since this does speed things up quite a bit since there are several members complaining about speeds. I personally am just fine on speeds so I have no complaints about that. Figured I may as well ask. 

Yeah, that was already the plan and I just rolled out some more optimizations in this regard. But as I've stated, most of the speed problems stem from huge user avatars. The new avatar restrictions do not apply to avatars already set until the member's forum profile page is re-saved.

[MadmaN]

Alrite.

I personally never bothered to even set myself up with a avatar yet....not even after all this time....ROFL

I do have a couple personal requests to ask of you AJ which I would prefer to ask live if you have xfire....pretty sure I also have you on steam since I remember we talked a couple times on steam a long time ago. These requests are mainly for your eyes only due to their nature since they are something I would not want to mention here incase it would "hype up" everyone about something that *might happen* and later turn out not to due to whatever reasons that may be. A couple of these requests I will however state here would greatly help this community out and gain even more members and traffic since due to having done site design and holding admin positions for many years.....I just KNOW what really helps drive a community as well as keep the members new and old quite happy. But since you are the owner....I prefer to just talk only with you regarding this and see what you think and pretty much go from there since in the end...I am just here to help. 

[AJ Collins]

Added some more stuff:
- Posts you have yet to submit will now save in your browser's local storage, preventing loss if your browser crashes, power goes out, chipmunk chews fiber optic cables or you accidentally navigate away.
- Images in signatures are now limited to 351 pixels high
- Flags are back!
- When viewing a board, you can now hover over the title of each topic to get 500 word preview pop-up.

I'll have some more soon, hopefully.

[BloodChuckZ]

That's some pretty cool features, I say. 

Getting more used to this now, it's definitely looking up !

[KING DP]

flags back,Great
I'm the only guy here who is Indian

[DaBOSS54320]

The code tags appear really screwed up...

[AJ Collins]

Code: [Select]

if($bullyboard_broken == true){
fixBullyBoard();
}else{
breakBullyBoard();
};


[WhenLifeGivesYouLemons]

Ha ^ 

[Walter20210]

Damn the messages thingy is gone again D: (I mean the counter if you have a new message)

[AJ Collins]

Damn the messages thingy is gone again D: (I mean the counter if you have a new message)

Still there. Only appears when you actually have a message.

[AJ Collins]

Here, have some snow.
You can turn it off via the "Stop Snowing" button at the bottom of the page. It should remember your setting as long as you use the same browser you stopped it from. You also shouldn't get snow while on mobile devices.