Stardock Forums 2016 changes

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Greetings!

This Fall Stardock began a major overhaul across the board of its community infrastructure.

The first update was of our WinCustomize.com customization site (www.wincustomize.com) to greatly speed it up.

The next update was to speed up our forums across all the Stardock community sites.

This past week, we launched the third major update: Forum community awards.  You will notice on people's posts that there are various little dots and awards by their names.  We will be adding more as time goes on.

Here's where you come in:

  1. What other awards do you want to see? (mouse over them to see what they are, the tooltip is a bit slow right now, fixing now)
  2. What other features would you like to see on the forums that would make you inclined to use our forums more?

We are gradually going around and promoting users so that they get more pips. It'll take a few months for that to get completed. 

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Reply #1 from GalCiv3 Forums Top

I like the changes. They  give each person a unique feel. It feels like you are rewarded (a bit) for being here and being part of the community. 

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Reply #3 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Very nice improvements. Thank you.

Reply #4 from WinCustomize Forums Top

The speed is the thing....

I can't recall a time in our history when it was faster....;)

Reply #5 from GalCiv3 Forums Top

Awesome work :) Noticing the difference already!

What other awards do you want to see? (mouse over them to see what they are, the tooltip is a bit slow right now, fixing now)


Could we get a rare award such as "Liked by a Dev/Mod/CEO" or "MVP award" for any post or comment a dev/mod might find particularly insightful or that they think positively contributes to the forums and community :)?

Also, just going by what some other sites have. A "X Years" in forums awards or "Forum Birthday" awards. Or something like that :)

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Reply #6 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Quoting 00zim00, reply 5

X Years

We have join date.

Reply #7 from GalCiv3 Forums Top

Quoting RedneckDude, reply 6


Quoting 00zim00,
reply 5

X Years



We have join date.

 

Yeah thats what they normally base it off, Get a badge for each year from join date. Sure people can just look at the join date at the left but this would be for Internetpoints! which is what awards are :grin:

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Reply #8 from WinCustomize Forums Top

I would like to see fixed the problem with adding pictures to a post. When I type my text, then add the pic, it shows up above the text. I have to arrow up, move the pic down via enter key, then move the text to the top. Been like that for months and months, maybe even a year or so.  Irritating.

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Reply #9 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Quoting 00zim00, reply 7

Quoting RedneckDude,
reply 6






Quoting 00zim00,

reply 5


X Years



We have join date.



 

Yeah thats what they normally base it off, Get a badge for each year from join date. Sure people can just look at the join date at the left but this would be for Internetpoints! which is what awards are :grin:

 

One problem I see with that idea is that some join dates aren't accurate. Mine, for example. Since I changed my nick.

Reply #10 from GalCiv3 Forums Top

Quoting RedneckDude, reply 9

One problem I see with that idea is that some join dates aren't accurate. Mine, for example. Since I changed my nick.

Maybe that can be fixed then with the site update ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ ?

Reply #11 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Wow. The speed is insane. This was always the slowest loading forum for me until now. Thank you!!

Reply #12 from AshesoftheSingularity Forums Top

I love the speed and the rewards.

What about creating Modding icon for Registered Modders?

Reply #13 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Speed is better than I can ever remember - and that's going back a few years ;)

Badges? We don't need no steenkin' badges...

I do seem to have a few accumulated though - mousing over to see what they are :)

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Reply #14 from LittleTinyFrogs Forums Top

Is it possible to use larger fonts for mobile phone displays?

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Reply #15 from Stardock.net Forums Top

I notice now that i use stardock forever, since i start use stardock skins on my windows.

 This new update its really cool.

Reply #16 from Stardock.net Forums Top

I have now used the forums almost daily for a year. This is a running feedback post. I will collect my suggestions here.

Questions:

  • Where did the unearned badge list go? They used to be visible when I clicked on the badge ellipses...
  • What determines rank?

Bugs:

  • Make stickied posts properly gain bold titles when they receive new unread posts and unbold titles when posts are read.
  • Make new top-level post titles unbolded if the message is viewed. As of now, they only unbold if someone posts to them.
  • Sometimes, new replies are made (and the username of the poster appears) but the reply is not visible in the post for a few minutes. 

Feedback:

  • Add a preview button. Sure, this editor is a WYSIWYG editor, sort of, but quotes don't appear correctly.
  • Retain forum settings (in cookies?) such as when the pinned post section is collapsed.
  • Allow posts to be merged.
  • Allow non forums.stardock.net subforums (such as the hidden Star Control founders forum) to be visible via forums.stardock.net in order to override the custom GUI on those forums.
  • Add negative karma.
  • Allow images to be resized without math by locking vertical and horizontal ratios. Nobody is ever going to post a picture here and reduce the image width by 50% without reducing the height by 50% as well.
Reply #17 from Elemental Forums Top

Of course I'm far too advanced a mind t-ooooh what's that green one? I gotta have it!

Ps. If given a choice I'd prefer to display my founders' badges rather than the others. At least that's something I'm personally more proud of (which is the point of badges, right?),

Reply #18 from GalCiv3 Forums Top

Just a bug that has been happening since the update.

Nearly every time you load a post, after its loaded the contents of the whole page seems to flash/unload for a split second. After which is shows everything correctly.. Its hard to explain so if you cant see it on your end i can record what it looks like when loading. Also im using firefox if that helps

Reply #19 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Quoting Heavenfall, reply 17

Ps. If given a choice I'd prefer to display my founders' badges rather than the others. At least that's something I'm personally more proud of (which is the point of badges, right?),

Good point. You guys with Founders Badges need an award that recognizes that. :thumbsup:

As it is now, you have to go to the members profile page to see them. They need to be visible from the Forums IMHO.

Reply #20 from WinCustomize Forums Top

I have almost the same situation as 00zim00. When I come on to the main forum page, it loads normally. About the time it takes to scroll to the bottom of the page for the new posts, the page refreshes sending me back to the top of the page. When I leave the site and come back a little time later, it doesn't do it. When I leave for several hours, it does it again. It did this before the changes. Right after the changes were made it was normal. Now for about the last week it's been doing it again. This is with both Firefox & Chrome on Windows 10. I haven't tried with Edge yet. 

Reply #21 from GalCiv3 Forums Top

Im not sure if its because they just deleted post or if its another issue. But I have a notification for a post on this thread that wont go away. And the post itself wont show.

  • Says 'heyeyehe123 posted 3 hours ago", i also got an email notification for it.
  • There is no post
  • On heyeyehe123 it says he has posted 0 Posts.
  • It forum post in subscriptions is staying highlighted with a (1) notification.
  • Edit: After i posted this the notification went away, im assuming this i because me being the last post overwrote the notification setting/counter.

hope that helps!

Reply #22 from Stardock Forums Top

It was a spammer that posted and was removed from the site.

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Reply #23 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Most of the time no-one notices the spammers....coming or going.

We're pretty adept at catching them...;)

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Reply #24 from GalCiv3 Forums Top

Quoting Island, reply 22

It was a spammer that posted and was removed from the site.

Quoting Jafo, reply 23

Most of the time no-one notices the spammers....coming or going.

We're pretty adept at catching them...;)

 

Well that explains it :D, dam spammers!

Reply #25 from GalCiv3 Forums Top

Quoting Jafo, reply 23

Most of the time no-one notices the spammers....coming or going.

We're pretty adept at catching them...;)

 

Our heroes! :inlove:   :thumbsup: