It's Critter Time!

I'm thinking maybe this thread and Lolo's one about Updates and Fixes should be pinned?

Galuade wrote: Mon Jul 14, 2025 6:02 am I'm thinking maybe this thread and Lolo's one about Updates and Fixes should be pinned?

They're already stickied. Unless you mean have it be an announcement, which would make it visible on every subforum?

Nah, I meant stickied. I could have sworn that one of these threads had fallen down the page earlier

[s]There doesn't seem to be a visual indicator for a thread being stickied either, at least on the new dark theme (which is WIP), unless I'm blind (quite possible)[/s] nvm they're green

Gabu wrote: Fri Jul 11, 2025 12:42 pm suggestion: a favicon? i would suggest a small version of the clock from the logo :3

A favicon would be great to have. I keep a few websites open as pinned tabs, so the lack of an icon for here is especially frustrating!

beeps wrote: Mon Jul 14, 2025 9:19 am

Gabu wrote: Fri Jul 11, 2025 12:42 pm suggestion: a favicon? i would suggest a small version of the clock from the logo :3

A favicon would be great to have. I keep a few websites open as pinned tabs, so the lack of an icon for here is especially frustrating!

Necrotext is traveling this week but I'll poke her for a favicon when she's recovered from flying.

Hey!
I wish we could choose which link to display below our name on boards.
Not all of us are more active on Twitch, so I think it would rock to have the option to link to another website I use a lot more (FA or YT for instance)!

lopodyr wrote: Mon Jul 14, 2025 11:56 am Hey!
I wish we could choose which link to display below our name on boards.
Not all of us are more active on Twitch, so I think it would rock to have the option to link to another website I use a lot more (FA or YT for instance)!

So, the Twitch link being visible on posts is actually a bit of an oversight on my part (still getting used to how Custom Fields work in phpBB ). Basically, because it's not a Contact field, it shows up where it does instead of the expandable Contact menu.

This did provoke a thought that I'm bringing up with the others about a possible solution.

Lolo De Puzlo wrote: Mon Jul 14, 2025 12:11 pm So, the Twitch link being visible on posts is actually a bit of an oversight on my part [...]

Ooooh riiiight I see. Well, it's gone now. Now I want a t-shirt saying "I was there when the Twitch link was visible at all times". Makes me think we need a "salute" / "Press F to pay respects" Smily haha

At any rate, thanks for looking into it

edit: I'm new so I just assumed the contact button would open PMs, that's why I did not consider that it could be a "bug" of sorts.

lopodyr wrote: Mon Jul 14, 2025 12:32 pm

Lolo De Puzlo wrote: Mon Jul 14, 2025 12:11 pm So, the Twitch link being visible on posts is actually a bit of an oversight on my part [...]

Ooooh riiiight I see. Well, it's gone now. Now I want a t-shirt saying "I was there when the Twitch link was visible at all times". Makes me think we need a "salute" / "Press F to pay respects" Smily haha

At any rate, thanks for looking into it

edit: I'm new so I just assumed the contact button would open PMs, that's why I did not consider that it could be a "bug" of sorts.

Yeah that's phpBB's default behavior it seems and it's kind of a real baffling choice. It's confused a number of us.

On the subject of profile/post fields, how 'bout one for fursona species?

beeps wrote: Mon Jul 14, 2025 12:44 pm On the subject of profile/post fields, how 'bout one for fursona species?

Done!

Lolo De Puzlo wrote: Mon Jul 14, 2025 12:50 pm

beeps wrote: Mon Jul 14, 2025 12:44 pm On the subject of profile/post fields, how 'bout one for fursona species?

Done!

Speedy! Thanks!

I don't wanna be the fun police all the time but I would be a little worried about adding too many things to the sidebar and have it be longer than the posts themselves

Maybe regdate could be cut? or the format changed so it only takes up one line instead of two? idk

Also I had no idea that "Contact: [@]" didn't just start a PM to the user, haha

While I'm complaining, this blue is really garish on the dark theme

I don't think we'll be adding more to the profile lines, but if it's one or two lines too long, I think we can deal with that tbh

Galuade wrote: Mon Jul 14, 2025 1:44 pm I don't wanna be the fun police all the time but I would be a little worried about adding too many things to the sidebar and have it be longer than the posts themselves

Maybe regdate could be cut? or the format changed so it only takes up one line instead of two? idk

Also I had no idea that "Contact: [@]" didn't just start a PM to the user, haha

While I'm complaining, this blue is really garish on the dark theme

I definitely think that Species and the Find Me Here will probably be the only ones we'll add.

The blue icons is something that will have to wait until I'm home tonight for me to look at, but shifting the hue to purple shouldn't be too hard.

Should look better using one of the existing purples imho!

That's what I'll be aiming for.

SWZTCH wrote: Sun Jul 13, 2025 6:27 pm also related involving images, unsure if i just missed how to but image resizing would be amazing,, i keep wanting to add images and force them to be small (like 200px by 300px) so no one is getting flashbanged w/ like a paragraph and then a huge image lol

I've only ever seen it back in my Something Awful forum days, which isn't a PHPBB forum, but they had [timg][/timg] which would clamp the image to like 100px tall and expand to full size when you clicked it.

Also in this thread to suggest bumping the posts per page? 10 feels like I'm constantly needing to click to see the rest of the new posts in a thread when it's not actually a super busy thread on a forum of this size.

Sugar Meowth wrote: Mon Jul 14, 2025 5:17 pm Also in this thread to suggest bumping the posts per page? 10 feels like I'm constantly needing to click to see the rest of the new posts in a thread when it's not actually a super busy thread on a forum of this size.

Oh wow, I thought that came in default with phpBB but I guess not? I'll look into it.

Is there a way to hide/collapse the Smilies box that's visible when writing a post? The animations can be a bit distracting when you're typing and aren't planning to insert one.

Galuade wrote: Mon Jul 14, 2025 1:44 pm I don't wanna be the fun police all the time but I would be a little worried about adding too many things to the sidebar and have it be longer than the posts themselves

Maybe regdate could be cut? or the format changed so it only takes up one line instead of two? idk

You'd be able to fit regdate into a single line by switching to a relative date format ("Joined: X days ago"). Besides, everyone's exact registration time can be found on their profile under User Statistics, so there's no need to display it on every post.

Sugar Meowth wrote: Mon Jul 14, 2025 5:17 pm

SWZTCH wrote: Sun Jul 13, 2025 6:27 pm also related involving images, unsure if i just missed how to but image resizing would be amazing,, i keep wanting to add images and force them to be small (like 200px by 300px) so no one is getting flashbanged w/ like a paragraph and then a huge image lol

Also in this thread to suggest bumping the posts per page? 10 feels like I'm constantly needing to click to see the rest of the new posts in a thread when it's not actually a super busy thread on a forum of this size.

So we've upped the count to 25 per page. We wanted to add an extension to give the user choice, but something with it was acting funky so we just hard increased the count.

Galuade wrote: Mon Jul 14, 2025 1:44 pm I don't wanna be the fun police all the time but I would be a little worried about adding too many things to the sidebar and have it be longer than the posts themselves

Maybe regdate could be cut? or the format changed so it only takes up one line instead of two? idk

Also I had no idea that "Contact: [@]" didn't just start a PM to the user, haha

While I'm complaining, this blue is really garish on the dark theme

This also has been updated. Will need to Ctrl+F5

I suppose an option to disable animations or only show the first frame of a GIF would be good, the animations are very distracting.

Also, perhaps the Readable theme could be the default? It was very eye straining to sign up and to find the option to switch themes as Fixedsys is not really a well designed font for readability, would recommend instead Chicago or Terminus if a retro feeling is still desired. Chicago at least is of the same era.