Well, one does have to admit it has been a great topic. I'm thankful for all the sharing of useful hints and tips. I haven't emptied my cookies yet since I just ate lunch.

I'm somewhat  late to the thread, but I would like to say that I think that I rather like the new main page: it seems rather more legible to me, and to flow rather better, than did the old.

I'll confess to not be terribly enamoured of the blue colour scheme applied to this site - perhaps I associate blue with technology and the future, and either adventure games or this community (on reflection, perhaps more likely the latter) with a sort of golden-afternoon feeling, and thus with the sandy colours that typified the old look.  Then again, I may simply be falling to a bias towards the state in which the forums were over the changed state.

I'm going INSANE......     Not only do I have to log in every time I visit (way to go of curing me of making quick visits) but when I tried to contact someone from the link on the support page - after logging on btw - it told me I wasn't logged on and directed me to the FAQs.   Who do I have to murder around here? 

Originally Posted By Caroline

I'm going INSANE......     Not only do I have to log in every time I visit (way to go of curing me of making quick visits) but when I tried to contact someone from the link on the support page - after logging on btw - it told me I wasn't logged on and directed me to the FAQs.   Who do I have to murder around here? 

I swear..... the effort I have to go through just to log in and post every single comment...... I actually don't hang around as long as I used to.  Someone has found the perfect pest control.......

Originally Posted By Caroline

I swear..... the effort I have to go through just to log in and post every single comment...... I actually don't hang around as long as I used to.  Someone has found the perfect pest control.......

 

 

ROFL  -please, please just humor me with a little experiment and try logging in ONCE with Firefox?  Then leave Firefox open and see if you have still have to log in every time that you browse through JA.  I just stay logged in*, yay for Firefox!

*or it could be that the staff discovered their mistake and they're giving the rest of us a chance to gain on Caroline...        

Originally Posted By Thaumaturge
I'll confess to not be terribly enamoured of the blue colour scheme applied to this site - perhaps I associate blue with technology and the future, and either adventure games or this community (on reflection, perhaps more likely the latter) with a sort of golden-afternoon feeling, and thus with the sandy colours that typified the old look. 

The old site was always white and light blue in color when I visited. Now the forum is XP-blue on a navy blue or blue-smudged background.

Are you sure you weren't using an option in your JA+ personal settings that loaded a sandy color scheme? The white and light blue was the default.

I don't like the new JA+ homepage because it's sluggish in Firefox on my iMac. It's the only adventure site homepage that has this problem.

Bah, no, you are correct, I do believe - my memory seems to have simply been glitching.  My mistake! ^^;

(And thank you for pointing that out, by the way. ^_^)

Hum.  Perhaps the darker blue is just a little cold for my perception of this forum, then.  (Or, again, it might be bias towards the state that has saliency in my mind.)

(I wonder where I got that sandy colour from, then - perhaps another forum, or some other site entirely?)

yippiddy too dah, yippiddy ayy...  [Caroline does dance for joy]  The log in issue is fixed.  Way to go!!! 

er.... still get the error message when I hit the post button though.....

Several hours later..... must have been a glitch.  I'm back to being kicked out and forced to log on all the time.  [sigh]

Now the site seem to be broken in Chrome. The horisontal top bar has gone vertical and is covering up a large portion of the screen, which makes reading threads impossible. It works fine in Firefox, but that is not my browser of choice

Oh.. my.. gosh.. someone is obviously busy playing with the software.    The forums home, the "recent posts" and the posting window are all looking different all of a sudden and doing wierd things...

This must be the new site that Karla mentioned in her thread up top there.

Originally Posted By Fnord (7 JAN 2012 3:53am)

Now the site seem to be broken in Chrome. The horisontal top bar has gone vertical and is covering up a large portion of the screen, which makes reading threads impossible. It works fine in Firefox, but that is not my browser of choice

argh! what a mess it is indeed in Chrome  , i'm also using firefox now

it looks the devs don't know what they're doing  

good thing the login and posting problems are solved now

edit: hmmm, when i reboot my pc the issues are gone, the site works fine now in Chrome 

Hi all, if you are seeing messed up screens, please try to clear your cache or hit CTRL-F5.

Some of the styles may be cached in your browser and so not show the new design properly.

If you have any issues, just let us know!

Clearing my cache did not solve the issue, but rebooting my computer a second time did. Everything seem to be running just fine now.  And I see that typing out emoticons works again!

Yip, once again we have a different format, but it looks fine for me so far.

And yay, we seem to have more user-friendly emoticons close at hand now.  Spoiler AlertLet's check if the spoiler tags work. 

..and pics.. mmm sadly the "upload images" function doesn't seem to be working anymore, I hope this will be fixed sometime soon?

Originally Posted By Requiem (7 JAN 2012 5:21am)

Hi all, if you are seeing messed up screens, please try to clear your cache or hit CTRL-F5.

Using IE9, I hit CTRL-F5 and it fixed everything.

Perhaps clearing one's cache is the fix for the wanky fields and horizontal/vertical screw-ups.

Now, if we could do something about that "XP blue" that Jenny100 mentions. It seemed much easier on the eyes to have less contrast between the fields. The color scheme when you want to "Reply" is much lighter and more pleasant.

As someone who has just joined & my first post, I will give my observations of the site.

I have looked at this site on & off for many years & although it has been good, one of my pet peeves was the slowness of loading pages, & the fact it would open new screens all the time, which is a personal annoyance. Happily both these issues seem to be a thing of the past & the site although simple looking in nature does its job, & a big improvement all round. I probably made the mistake of joining just before the new year & hadn't realised all these issues, which explains why it wouldn't set me up properly for days, but I seem to be set up properly now.

One thing I have noticed, & know it is either a general problem or mine, is that if you enter any of the forums the only threads are on the first page, & even though some have thousands they have all disappeared, well at least mine have, & I have got it to show all dates. Any ideas, as I was looking forward to reading things that had been posted previously.

I hadn't come on here to moan though & am sure any issues will be sorted shortly, & hopefully talk about adventure issues.

Originally Posted By Zorkman (7 JAN 2012 9:43am)

 

One thing I have noticed, & know it is either a general problem or mine, is that if you enter any of the forums the only threads are on the first page, & even though some have thousands they have all disappeared, well at least mine have, & I have got it to show all dates. Any ideas, as I was looking forward to reading things that had been posted previously.

Oh no... not again!  You're right, Zorkman, all our older threads seem to have gone missing in transition yet AGAIN...  

..at least some things are improving, but we do treasure some of our older threads...

Oh, and nice that you have decided to join, even though it seems to be in a most chaotic time. 

Originally Posted By Mark (7 JAN 2012 9:26am)

Originally Posted By Requiem (7 JAN 2012 5:21am)

Hi all, if you are seeing messed up screens, please try to clear your cache or hit CTRL-F5.

Using IE9, I hit CTRL-F5 and it fixed everything.

 

Perhaps clearing one's cache is the fix for the wanky fields and horizontal/vertical screw-ups.

 

Now, if we could do something about that "XP blue" that Jenny100 mentions. It seemed much easier on the eyes to have less contrast between the fields. The color scheme when you want to "Reply" is much lighter and more pleasant.

 

 

and the glitches were back when i logged in, i do hope one doesn't have to refresh each time they log in ?

Quite frequently i get an error like this when i want to see the latest post, like in this topic for example.

Anyone else having this problem?

500 - Internal server error.

There is a problem with the resource you are looking for, and it cannot be displayed

@ Markonikov:  I used to get that all the time before this very last change, and now I'm not getting that anymore, while using Firefox.

Originally Posted By markornikov (7 JAN 2012 9:56am)

Originally Posted By Mark (7 JAN 2012 9:26am)

Originally Posted By Requiem (7 JAN 2012 5:21am)

Hi all, if you are seeing messed up screens, please try to clear your cache or hit CTRL-F5.

Using IE9, I hit CTRL-F5 and it fixed everything.

 

Perhaps clearing one's cache is the fix for the wanky fields and horizontal/vertical screw-ups.

 

Now, if we could do something about that "XP blue" that Jenny100 mentions. It seemed much easier on the eyes to have less contrast between the fields. The color scheme when you want to "Reply" is much lighter and more pleasant.

 

 

 

and the glitches were back when i logged in, i do hope one doesn't have to refresh each time they log in ?

 

 

Quite frequently i get an error like this when i want to see the latest post, like in this topic for example.

Anyone else having this problem?

 

500 - Internal server error.

There is a problem with the resource you are looking for, and it cannot be displayed

markornikov, I've reported your problems. If you run into any other snags, you can email support@justadventure.com.

I notice that the avatars now appear larger thus making it more difficult to ignore my exquisite beauty. 

On the downside, if your avatar is still hosted at the old limit of 75 x 75 on your chosen photo storage site you may want to sharpen it up with a larger image if your original is at least 100 x 100.

One last thing. I tried using the smilies to the left of the text field but when I do it appears to jump to the beginning of the reply and all the text becomes very small.  

I keep trying to fix this but it just gets worse. :/

And exquisitely beautiful you are, CB.

If you want to report your smilie problem, please send an email to support@justadventure.com.

Originally Posted By Thaumaturge (6 JAN 2012 5:20pm)

Perhaps the darker blue is just a little cold for my perception of this forum, then.

Mine too. I'm not fond of this color combination.

(I wonder where I got that sandy colour from, then - perhaps another forum, or some other site entirely?)

The old Quandaryland site maybe?

***link to a web archive page for Quandaryland***

i'm copying a post from other games in this thread:

Originally Posted By Traveller (8 JAN 2012 4:46am)

Looks like the new site doesn't take more than 22 pages per thread?  ...perhaps the old software wasn't so bad after all...  Well although this post went through, i'm wondering if one can see it from the "other games" home page.  Please excuse this post, I'm just testing.

 

EDIT: It doesn't show up to p24 for me, let's see if anyone else "sees" this post.

yes, i can see your post and i can go to pages 23 and 24.

I'm using chrome again as a browser, apart from the fact that i have to hit refresh when the lay-out is messed up, everything seems to work fine now.

edit: i see the problem now, the latest pages aren't visible when you look at a subsection. In other games this thread only seems to have 23 pages, and 'What games other than AGs are you playing? ' 8, while there are actually 9