A brand new home for SketchUcation

Mike Lucey

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

baz

I'm happy with the new look, but pages seem to load pretty slowly.
Also I'm seeing 'All our ads are sketchup related, you are missing relevant content'
Are these 'popups' or something else? I have popups blocked generally.
Baz

Gaieus

Are you using some AdBlock, Baz?

These are no popups. We also hate popups. These are just the placeholders for the ads you are probably blocking.

Slowness is a serious issue however. Most of the time, the pages load nicely and fast for me but occasionally, they indeed load slowly. While on the old forums, once two "gues" users (from two IP's of the same block) made so many parallel queries (i.e. scraping the site brutally) that the whole server went down. Well, we banned those IP's but this can happen any time.

pilou

Seems there was a little problem with copy direct link of images
between French part to English part : "link broken"

So I upload again images on the English part

French Part

Gaieus

Pilou, the French forum (and every other subforums down there actually) is "permission based" (you need to sign up to the usergroup). No wonder an attachment there cannot be seen outside that particular forum.

Maybe we should abandon this permission system - but then all foreign language post will appear in every other member's "new posts" list (this is why we keep them permission based). I will look into some other solutions.

baz

Thanks Gaieus, will check my settings.
Baz

Gaieus

Don't misunderstand me, Baz, I am not ranting with you for using AdBlock (I myself use it most of the times, too).