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So, what do you think of the all new lucasforums?  

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  1. 1. So, what do you think of the all new lucasforums?

    • Amazing
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    • Good
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    • ...nice, really
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    • Eye gouging in progress
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Are the long load times a temp thing or what? I've got cable and it takes quite awhile to load. Also, the smilies aren't as good as before; they're kinda crappy quality. Also, when it comes to banners, OT and EU > PT and Clone Wars cartoons ;)

 

This is me being nitpicky. Everyone voted this place being amazing and are afraid to voice concern. I was the first to vote just 'good' because of these (minor) concerns.

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Loads are just a temp issue. We're re-indexing the 1.7 million posts into the new search for the new version... and it's really putting a heck of a strain on the processor. That should be completed within a few hours and we'll be back to normal speed. In fact, we should be faster than normal as v3.0 uses better table formatting.

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It looks great, congratulations everyone who worked on it. The front page is the best re-design I've seen so far though :)

 

The only complain I have is, as Katarn07 said, the load times are very slow. Every link I click there's a 30 second delay before anything happens.

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Not benefiting me personally. Had to scrap my new sig because the forum colors don't alternate anymore, and my backup new sig because it was too big due to the transparentcy and got me a pm from kurgan, and just stick with my old sig though I had to optimise it to fit the >50k limit kurgan set for me. The avatars aren't any bigger like I hoped they would be. [Woot, they made them bigger. :D]The new smilies aren't that great. And the name glow, instead of being fixed for firefox, seems to have been scrapped completely.

 

The new look is ok I guess, but it will take some getting used to. And I noticed highlighting to insert tags into a post works now, which is good. Other than that I don't see what's changed. So far, maybe somewhere between "...nice, really" and "eye gouging"? But maybe that'll change over time. >_>

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Absolutely loving it! I'm pretty much going click happy to unlock all the new VB3 goodies... especially loving the click on poster's username to get the options menu :thumbsup:

 

Great Job to all of those invloved, and the relatively short downtime for the upgrade was.. simply put.. shocking! I wasn't expecting it to be up as soon as it was.. but I'm happy :emodanc:

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Love the huge avs as well. What are the 'restrictions' on sig pics? They were supposed to be no bigger than 500 x 90 back in the day. I see most have big ones (some bigger than mine). Is that whole policy gone or not enforced?

 

And will there be alternating banners with each subforum you go into or not? If so, can the collecting people pick what would be on it? Not that anything was wrong with the last one we had, it was mostly stuff none of us collected. Just again, something not too important but something that would be cool to have.

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There are no stone-etched signature limits right now, though unreasonably large ones will be removed. There'll probably be a hard restriction placed upon them at some point, since it's inevitable with a forum of this size that plenty of people will disregard others' viewing quality.

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I say a job well done. Such a heavy duty migration and from what I experienced the whole thing went fairly smoothly. You guys did your homework and got it right. :clap2:

 

As others have stated the new look and features will take a little getting used to but I definitely think the vb3 a big improvement.

 

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I very much like that my posts get an edit time stamp after I edit them :)

I also like the fact that we can have bigger avatars

Like the ability to see what other online forum members are doing/viewing

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There are no stone-etched signature limits right now, though unreasonably large ones will be removed. There'll probably be a hard restriction placed upon them at some point, since it's inevitable with a forum of this size that plenty of people will disregard others' viewing quality.

 

I'll leave them the dimensions I have until then. I only go to collecting (and at the moment here voicing my concerns and complimenting your great work ;)) so it shouldn't be a big problem. What can we expect for the dimensions? 500 x 100 or so? I think that's reasonable.

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