As a special treat we've gone back to the old look, this might be difficult but really, its the same site. Infact as a wise man once said...
Dr Lobster* wrote:i'm sure whatever [it looks like] the end result will be this:
METROPOL IS FIVE
Happy Fifth Birthday to Metropol
As a special treat we've gone back to the old look, this might be difficult but really, its the same site. Infact as a wise man once said...
As a special treat we've gone back to the old look, this might be difficult but really, its the same site. Infact as a wise man once said...
"He has to be larger than bacon"
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Ebeneezer Scrooge
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It was only yesterday that I was looking on web.archive.org to remember what the original look was like - couldn't find it there, but the thought was there!
Thought I'd turn up to celebrate, but I'm noticing a severe lack of party rings and iced gems.
Thought I'd turn up to celebrate, but I'm noticing a severe lack of party rings and iced gems.
Snarky
Here's an idea. I believe it was mentioned previously that all of the main Metropol 'looks' of past are still sitting around on the server and the administration can choose to view any of them at will.
Why not just act the way of many other bulletin boards and provide different skins which users can choose themselves? The option is their in our account setup, we just never have more than 1 to choose from.
Thus those who love the purpleness, the blue hue, the red highlights or even those special people who prefer to click 'Please Respond' rather than 'Reply' would have the option of choosing to view the site that way.
Why not just act the way of many other bulletin boards and provide different skins which users can choose themselves? The option is their in our account setup, we just never have more than 1 to choose from.
Thus those who love the purpleness, the blue hue, the red highlights or even those special people who prefer to click 'Please Respond' rather than 'Reply' would have the option of choosing to view the site that way.
actually that would be quite difficult. those looks were designed for phpbb2 which had a completely different templating system than phpbb3, to get this look working I've been hacking away at the skin for a month. it was actually quite difficult to get it this close and its far from pixel perfect.
secondly, there are parts of the new skin that are done in the language files and therefore look odd when you change skin (this is actually a completely different installation of phpbb).
so basically to do that would involve me having to go and fanny around for months recoding the skins for the new software, and taking into account the troubles I've had with this one (which is the closest to the default phpbb skin, i dread to think how long others would take)
secondly, there are parts of the new skin that are done in the language files and therefore look odd when you change skin (this is actually a completely different installation of phpbb).
so basically to do that would involve me having to go and fanny around for months recoding the skins for the new software, and taking into account the troubles I've had with this one (which is the closest to the default phpbb skin, i dread to think how long others would take)
"He has to be larger than bacon"
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aeonsource
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Oooh, i like this new/old look, its very nice, can we keep it!
:V
Jason aka JasonB @TVF