Welcome to the New Forums!
DB Heather
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Greetings Captains!
Welcome to the brand-new and improved Disruptor Beam forums!
For our veteran community members, you’ll see that we have many of the thread categories you’re used to, so we hope you’ll feel right at home. The new forum software also brings added functionality to improve your experience, including increased spam management. Your username details have been carried over, so you should be able to login with your old forum details without issue.
Please note that our old forums will remain live here until 10/5/2017 (tomorrow), after which they will become read-only, but all new posts should be made here.
If you encounter any cookie-related issues when trying to visit these new forums, you may need to remove all DisruptorBeam.com cookies to remedy. And, if you encounter any other technical issues or have specific feedback regarding the new forums, please post to this thread
We’d also like to remind community members to check out and follow our Community Participation Guidelines. By following these guidelines, it will help our new forums to grow into a happy, productive and safe place for all players across all of Disruptor Beam’s games. You’ll also find our Privacy Policy and Terms of Service here.
Thanks for participating. Thanks for playing. We hope you enjoy these new forums and we look forward to seeing many of you here in the weeks, months, and years to come.
~DB Heather
Lead Community Manager
Welcome to the brand-new and improved Disruptor Beam forums!
For our veteran community members, you’ll see that we have many of the thread categories you’re used to, so we hope you’ll feel right at home. The new forum software also brings added functionality to improve your experience, including increased spam management. Your username details have been carried over, so you should be able to login with your old forum details without issue.
Please note that our old forums will remain live here until 10/5/2017 (tomorrow), after which they will become read-only, but all new posts should be made here.
If you encounter any cookie-related issues when trying to visit these new forums, you may need to remove all DisruptorBeam.com cookies to remedy. And, if you encounter any other technical issues or have specific feedback regarding the new forums, please post to this thread
We’d also like to remind community members to check out and follow our Community Participation Guidelines. By following these guidelines, it will help our new forums to grow into a happy, productive and safe place for all players across all of Disruptor Beam’s games. You’ll also find our Privacy Policy and Terms of Service here.
Thanks for participating. Thanks for playing. We hope you enjoy these new forums and we look forward to seeing many of you here in the weeks, months, and years to come.
~DB Heather
Lead Community Manager
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Agreed. This new format is an improvement over the previous one in that it is easier to read. I prefer the new background as well. Navigation to/from threads also looks to be improved.
PM for details.
So long and thanks for all the fish.
Haven't been accused of being spam not once yet!
Try logging out and logging back in please.
We know this can happen and we are looking into it.
"When the people around you are all one way and you're not, you can't help feeling like there's something wrong with you." -B'Elanna Torres
"Simulations can't prepare you for the real thing. Nothing can." -Dr. Julian Bashir
"There's no room in justice for loyalty, or friendship, or love. Justice, as the Humans like to say, is blind. I used to believe that. I'm not sure I can anymore." -Odo
"Sleep, there's no such thing. It's just an old space tale like Sparkle dancers or Klingons with a heart of gold. " -Montgomery Scott
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DB: Do Better.
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Jim
Finally, a responsive forum! Huzzah! I can read it on my mobile without having to faff zooming in! :chuffed:
Nicely readable
The bad
BBS code rather than rich text editing... Hopefully that will change in the future.
The smiley feature. Maybe it's just me, but it feels a little meh.
The ugly
Mostly vanilla bootstrap. I know it's dead easy to use, but it's also dead easy to skin.
Overall, thank you for the new forums, as someone who uses mobile a lot, it's appreciated I can lurk more easily! :chuffed:
It has been taken care of.
Thank you SO very much...i was starting to get a bit worried!
The other format was crazy on my ipad. I would log in and the page would go into a feedback loop of page refreshing.
~· Fly with the Subspace Eddies! ·~
Yep, why would we want originality and individuality in a forum. Why would we want self expression. Spoken like someone who lives a bland, conformist life. Way to be an enemy of individuality. You have already been assimilated.
Most of us, on the other hand, would like to be able to advertise our fleets, or other game pursuits, unlike you, Mr. Borg Drone. Sorry that our individuality threatened your collective world view.
The fact is, the new forums **tsk tsk**. Bland, no originality, no signatures. A group of 7th graders a week into a coding class could do a better job. Way to show that DB DEFINITELY does not mean "Do Better" because you are doing worse and worse all the time.
New background? There is no background, just a plain white page.
Easier to read? Tiny black text on a white background that is painfol to look at is not an improvement.
I didn't think navigation had been affected either way until I clicked the link to quote your post and reply: the link didn't appear to do anything, and only when I gave up and read down to the bottom of the page did I learn it had been filling a reply box with copies og you quoted post. What do you normally do when you click a link that doesn't seem to work? I usually click it again. So I had to delete dozens of quotes because the board didn't behave normally and didn't explain what it was doing.
The entire forum looks like the default settings for the software except for the Disruptor Beam logo and just screams "we've put in the minimum effort to get this up".
With a strong undertone of "go away".
2) removing the ability to have signatures is not a step in the right direction.
3) Yes, things take time. In fact, my main complaint with the new forums is that they look unfinished.
I have been on forums that had to do a complete software change before, and both fan-run and company-run sites would get the new site looking much mire polished than this before making the change. We shouldn't have to wait for a darker theme that hurts less to look at, we shouldn't have to wait for a pretty coat of paint to replace the bare walls. Things like login problems are inevitable, and there's no real way to test how the software will work under full load without giving it a full load. But we shouldn't have to wait for basic features to got turnrd on: if they aren't ready then the SITE isn't ready, and you aren't ready to shut down the old forums.
What was the rush?
Uh, you can still have signatures (as you'll notice below this reply). You can't have images in them anymore, however.
Could you please continue the petty bickering? I find it most intriguing.
~ Data, ST:TNG "Haven"