A brand new home for SketchUcation

Pixero

Hi Jan,

The system is programmed that once you subscribe to premium membership, you automatically become a member of the Premium users usergroup (his is how we can organize certain permissions on the forums) and this will automatically become your default usergroup as well. But you are still a "Registered member", too (and member of any other usergroups you have added ourself).

Premium members have the possibility to change their default membership however. Please, go to your UCP and if you do not like the striking red (I can understand that), change your default usergroup to whatever you wish. Here is a (reduced) version of my memberships. On the left, select the checkbox and press the button.

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the ad machine... This was a request on the old forums - to make some visual difference between the "real" posters and the ad machine.It's a real co-incidence the colours ended up like this but you are right, it is not very dignified this way so I will find some other colour for that machine.

Now as for "private consulting rooms" - these are not something automated but we set them up as soon as requested. Here is yours for instance. We have already prepared a (growing) list of the available services Premium members are entitled but decided to dump the page at the last minute as new features were added* even yesterday and the whole thing needs to be rewritten.

*e.g. we managed to introduce a new feature - currently only with external plugin authors but this is planned to expand - where Premium members get a 20% discount straight from the developers (purchasing straight through their channels). Note that SketchUcation does not get any commission - it's just something we hope to be useful and mutually beneficial for both Premium membership and plugin authors who we can support this way.

Thanks for your clarifications. I still think the premium banner stands out too much. Surely we don't need this kind of public distinction between users? At least make it much smaller.

notareal

Thank you for the great work done for the sketchup community.

roland joseph

@unknownuser said:

The system is programmed that once you subscribe to premium membership, you automatically become a member of the Premium users usergroup (his is how we can organize certain permissions on the forums)

The new site is a pass but the move to privatize is a step backwards. Good luck with your private forum guys.

Gaieus

Roland, there are people who cannot discuss certain project publicly due to clients not allowing. This is where this "private" forum comes in. We do not intend to "generally educate" anyone in these private forums - that's what the open forums are or SketchUp Training is for (which you - or in fact any other people - are also "locked out" of course as that is also "private").
If there is no "private forum" like this, you will never see those projects or problems being solved anyway because then they simply do not post them at all or things are dealt with in private messages. So all-in-all: you will not lose anything, believe me. This is not something "elitist" here but extended service.

david_h

@gaieus said:

Roland. . . . This is not something "elitist" here but extended service.

Good thing. . ..I would never want to join a club that would have me as a member.
---Groucho Marx

Gaieus

Paul, that's not a spell checker but a "Solved topic" button. Only the topic starter and moderators can see it (true that TS's also should have the permission - will look into this)

Mike Lucey

@unknownuser said:

The new site is a pass but the move to privatize is a step backwards. Good luck with your private forum guys.

Hi Roland Joseph,

Could you please explain why you state New SketchUcation is a retrograde step? I am genuinely interested in understanding your perspective on this.

Mike

wyatt

What is the significance of the Resources and Special Interest forums being locked?

Paul Russam

~~In Chrome I'm not getting the spell checker comming up as I type either in the quick or regular reply windows.
Normally any misspelled word gets underlined as I type and a right click will provide sugestions

Just tried it in Firefox and its working as expected......odd~~
Edit:
Opps its a error in the latest build of the Chrome Beta, not the forum.

Additionally there seems to be a frame around a lot of the smaller graphics:

Paul Russam

Ignore my 'Spelling not working' message, it was Chrome not the forum.

Rich O Brien

@unknownuser said:

What is the significance of the Resources and Special Interest forums being locked?

Locked isn't really the correct term for the Special Interest. You need to add these in your UCP. They don't get added as part of registration.

The resources top level forum is locked as we allow posting within it's subforums to keep things organised.

Nothing sinister here it has always been like this. Just the new icons highlight that there is some restriction in these.

Nothing has changed to the forums in the upgrade. Everyplace remains as is.

Gaieus

Adding yourself in the UCP is only for the foreign languages forums.

Now here the "locked" sign only means that there are no general discussion topics at the top level but only under the subforums.

There are forums with subforums where there are also discussions at the top level (SU, LO, Gallery, Extensions, Corner Bar etc.) They are also "open" at top level. And indeed, this is something we used to have on the old forums, too - only the new icons are a bit more amphysising these things.

Dan Rathbun

Maybe the icon for solved should be a trophy or blue ribbon. (Using a check is confusing.)

wyatt

@rich o brien said:

Nothing sinister here it has always been like this. Just the new icons highlight that there is some restriction in these.

I noticed that access wasn't restricted or anything like that, and didn't suspect anything shady was going on. Just curious about all the new shiny things is all. I haven't explored all the new things yet, but what I see, I like.

michaliszissiou

The UI still burns my eyes! So white!

Gaieus

MIchalis: the old forums had much more contrast between background and font colour.

ArCAD-UK

Still getting used to the new layout, but the thing that is really bugging me is the banners and menu items at the "top" of the page actually fill over 2/3rds of my screen. Any chance they can be consolidated; I don't remember the old forum wasting that much real estate.

utiler

Been away for the weekend with the family so I've missed this til now...!! really well done guys..!!

Way sweet.

cotty

@broomstick said:

Also, where can I inquire how to sell some of my models?

No hints for this?

iichiversii

@cotty said:

@broomstick said:

Also, where can I inquire how to sell some of my models?

No hints for this?

@Cotty

You will find your answer to this here, view topic http://sketchucation.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=179&t=46087&start=60