Author Topic: Website ideas and suggestions (Read 153836 times)

monbvol · « **Reply #480 on:** 08 September 2012, 16:14:51 »

Ah there it is. Still though it could stand to be better placed and much more prominent because being where I have to scroll for it and mixed in with all those other items makes it obviously way too easily missed.

deathshadow · « **Reply #481 on:** 26 September 2012, 12:12:09 »

Quote from: monbvol on 08 September 2012, 16:14:51

Ah there it is. Still though it could stand to be better placed and much more prominent because being where I have to scroll for it and mixed in with all those other items makes it obviously way too easily missed.

The absurdly undersized fixed metric fonts, illegible use of color contrasts, and 'little stripe' fixed width layout, alongside things like the lack of clear paddings and too short line-heights make it hard to find anything useful of that nature on said site. As I've said for almost a decade, it suffers badly from "WCAG, what's that?" and a complete lack of professional web development work -- instead just grabbing some off the shelf solution and shoe-horning it into an inaccessible skin.

... no matter how 'pretty' it is. Pretty and useless is still useless.

AishaPrince · « **Reply #482 on:** 19 October 2012, 15:41:20 »

I'd like for there to be a MW4RPG topic and also an InterStellar Operations topic that we players can provide input as to what rules we want in these rulebooks.

Kit deSummersville · « **Reply #483 on:** 19 October 2012, 16:22:04 »

There's a thread in this forum about IO and an entire forum devoted to roleplaying, including the fourth BT RPG, A Time of War.

Diablo48 · « **Reply #484 on:** 24 October 2012, 04:19:31 »

Quote from: Kit deSummersville on 19 October 2012, 16:22:04

There's a thread in this forum about IO and an entire forum devoted to roleplaying, including the fourth BT RPG, A Time of War.

Do you mean the IO thread that Herb just locked?

Also, I may be reading this incorrectly, but it looks to me like AishaPrince may have been asking about a rules questions forums, although questions about that could probably be dumped into the general rules questions forum just fine unless there are really enough IO questions to justify a separate sub-forum.

Feenix74 · « **Reply #485 on:** 24 October 2012, 05:49:15 »

Can we have a mobile device friendly version of the BT forum please?

Kit deSummersville · « **Reply #486 on:** 24 October 2012, 08:18:35 »

Quote from: Diablo48 on 24 October 2012, 04:19:31

Do you mean the IO thread that Herb just locked?

My precognition skills are limited.

Moonsword · « **Reply #487 on:** 24 October 2012, 15:48:15 »

Quote from: Feenix74 on 24 October 2012, 05:49:15

Can we have a mobile device friendly version of the BT forum please?

You might try this:
http://bg.battletech.com/forums/index.php?wap2

Feenix74 · « **Reply #488 on:** 24 October 2012, 18:05:10 »

Cheers O0

Diablo48 · « **Reply #489 on:** 24 October 2012, 21:40:07 »

Quote from: Kit deSummersville on 24 October 2012, 08:18:35

My precognition skills are limited.

Well, if that is the case then why are we keeping you around? :D

StCptMara · « **Reply #490 on:** 24 October 2012, 23:46:34 »

Quote from: Diablo48 on 24 October 2012, 21:40:07

Well, if that is the case then why are we keeping you around? :D

Because his Post-cognition skills are excellent?

General308 · « **Reply #491 on:** 11 November 2012, 23:54:02 »

Keep the con listings up to date on the web site

PhoeniX0302 · « **Reply #492 on:** 13 November 2012, 01:43:23 »

Hey,

I am quite sure that somewhere on the old or new forums, I read a statement that making the forums available for Tapatalk users with their tablets and phones is not going to happen, because of security issues. Is this still like this, or has something changed for that it might be secure now?

Cheers

Paul · « **Reply #493 on:** 13 November 2012, 01:45:51 »

The issue is that it requires a mod or plug in. Which we're pretty uninterested in doing if we can help it.

Paul

PhoeniX0302 · « **Reply #494 on:** 15 November 2012, 00:55:09 »

Okay, thanks for the info!

Jesshou Kerensky · « **Reply #495 on:** 08 January 2013, 04:18:36 »

I would like to see a way for people to log in and personalize a background and manu references based on the different Eras, like Succession wars, or the recently finished Jihad Era.
The background would be from the Era you chose, and the menus of books would be limited to the Era's relevance. You would log in with your Forum log in. (if that's possible)

Also an accurate Star Map showed for logged in members Era's Choice. Showing what Factions did exist and their very in-general Territory lines.

Paul · « **Reply #496 on:** 08 January 2013, 10:39:40 »

While that'd be cool, those kinds of functionality are well beyond what we can pull off.

You can find a lot of the info you're asking about manually here though:

http://bg.battletech.com/?page_id=1354

Narann · « **Reply #497 on:** 05 February 2013, 15:06:42 »

In France (and I suppose in many countries) it's hard to find players. A map with all users on the forum and a way to find "near" players could be great. :)

Diablo48 · « **Reply #498 on:** 06 February 2013, 19:58:05 »

Quote from: Narann on 05 February 2013, 15:06:42

In France (and I suppose in many countries) it's hard to find players. A map with all users on the forum and a way to find "near" players could be great. :)

That or some kind of listing of gaming groups, events, and other locations looking for new players with a location search. It might be possible to cut down some of the work on this by taking advantage of Google Maps, however I have never really done anything with that so I cannot say for sure.

Paul · « **Reply #499 on:** 06 February 2013, 23:50:08 »

Just go here and sign up as a player to find people near you.

http://www.catalystdemos.com

No map, but the same info.
Meanwhile, just because someone's on thw forum doesn't mean they want to be contacted. =)

Brown Adept · « **Reply #500 on:** 09 April 2013, 11:57:57 »

The website needs a search engine, by area and by type of search, for finding: opponents, clubs, stores, conventions, etc.

Paul · « **Reply #501 on:** 09 April 2013, 12:31:27 »

Again, to the extent we have that, it's on the catalystdemos.com website.

YingJanshi · « **Reply #502 on:** 18 April 2013, 16:24:46 »

Except you can't contact anyone registered there. Tried to a while back. Was trying to get an area wide group started again. Gave me a list of users in my area but no way to send a game invite. :(

Stinger · « **Reply #503 on:** 08 May 2013, 12:54:23 »

My only website suggestion would be to include the out of print PDF scans into the out of print section. Given that many of the old TROs are available on the battleshop, previews and descriptions would make for easy discovery on the main page.

Thanks!
Stinger

Col Toda · « **Reply #504 on:** 25 June 2013, 03:54:22 »

Forum Post spell check should be fixed so Mechs ; and a lot of proper names for nations
ect . Combat Vehicles ( Vees ) and other common use words are not constantly targeted
as misspelt words . It would save a lot of time on site.

Fatebringer · « **Reply #505 on:** 26 June 2013, 11:24:32 »

With most applications that have spell check, you have the option to add those words to your dictionary by right clicking...

Paul · « **Reply #506 on:** 26 June 2013, 11:40:59 »

Quote from: Fatebringer on 26 June 2013, 11:24:32

With most applications that have spell check, you have the option to add those words to your dictionary by right clicking...

He's referring to the spellcheck function integral to the forums, which pulls off a database on the server. You'll note the 'Spell Check' button next to Preview when you're about to post.
Editing that guy is tricky.
The alternative is using a spellcheck on your own system, so you never care about the forum's option.

Stormlion1 · « **Reply #507 on:** 26 June 2013, 22:35:19 »

I'm curious. Is there any plans to update the Forums to have a more 'battletech' feel? We have been using this layout since the forum crash, what 3 years back?

Paul · « **Reply #508 on:** 26 June 2013, 22:38:27 »

Profile > Look and Layout, click 'Change' behind whatever theme you currently have on.
Have fun.

Stormlion1 · « **Reply #509 on:** 26 June 2013, 23:36:36 »

Thanks, I never would have looked if you hadn't told me. I like the Battletech theme. :)