1911 Beta

Hey just want to say the home page looks really cool. The twitch.tv stream (from an hltv I assume?) is really sweet. Not sure if the community is big or active enough to make use of all the capabilities the site seems to have, but it's still pretty awesome.

Props to Sears and whoever else is working on it for the effort.

Thanks bro, been working on this for a long time. This is still pretty bare bones, lots to be added still.

Once the dust has settled, I'm hoping that we do get some use out of the live stream, hit me up if you anyone ever wants to use it.

This live stream can broadcast whatever the fuck we want, whether it be HLTV or whatever.

My pie in the sky idea with it was to start live-streaming a 1911 podcast once a week, and doing some match-of-the-week broadcasts with casters, but we'll see if anyone wants to get involved and help with either of those endeavors.

the frontpage looks fucking amazing kudos sears.

looking good!

seriously awesome job Sears!

excellent work, sears! the new frontpage looks freaking awesome!

I was going to ask you to put dates up by the articles, but then I moused over the pictures and "TADA!". Pretty slick, thumbs up Sears & Co.

Looking real good man.

live steam is nice... maybe we can convince courtney to do live cam streams

just took a look.. yea looking really cool.

you guys going to do more stories like the Saup/element interview? that shit is always fun to read.

We can do whatever the community wants to do. Anyone can submit an article.

Sears wrote:We can do whatever the community wants to do. Anyone can submit an article.

I would like to do a 10 page write-up on jules winnfield. Will you approve this project for me?

alex kirk wrote:

Sears wrote:We can do whatever the community wants to do. Anyone can submit an article.

I would like to do a 10 page write-up on jules winnfield. Will you approve this project for me?

I would approve that soooooo hard.

Sears wrote:I would approve that soooooo hard.

You're a hero, Sears.

Tim Tebow is going to want to live stream his desktop while he plays...

I like the motto " relax, lounge-about and found out who hacks " that's from the dod rap isn't it?

Rambizzle wrote:live steam is nice... maybe we can convince courtney to do live cam streams

I see what you did there, Ricky!

Who wants to cast some awful dod matches with me?

caveat: I will only watch/cast matches featuring Steve "PuddingFace" Miller.

Looks good mang.

There is an unfixable bug with avatars on the front page.

Wordpress overrides all of it's own data with what it pulls from phpbb. If you don't have an avatar set when you comment on the front page, it leaves an awkward empty box. Because of the way that wordpress and phpbb are hacked together, the only way to deal with this is to override everyone's avatars and institute a automatic generic avatar for everyone that hasn't chosen one. That's really dumb.

So, I've decided (if you haven't noticed), that if you post on the front page without having selected an avatar, that you are subject to me picking one out for you at the mercy of google and total randomness.

Sears wrote:There is an unfixable bug with avatars on the front page.

Wordpress overrides all of it's own data with what it pulls from phpbb, if you don't have an avatar set when you comment on the front page, it leaves an awkward empty box. Because of the way that wordpress and phpbb are hacked together, the only way to deal with this is to override everyone's avatars and institute a automatic generic avatar for everyone that hasn't chosen one. That's really dumb.

So, I've decided (if you haven't noticed), that if you post on the front page without having selected an avatar, that you are subject to me picking one out for you at the mercy of google and total randomness.

People have complained about their avatars? I found mine, and especially Bonerhaus's, hilarious!

Alex Kirk has some whale for an avatar... whale fetish? beastiality, perhaps?

Sears wrote:There is an unfixable bug with avatars on the front page.

Wordpress overrides all of it's own data with what it pulls from phpbb, if you don't have an avatar set when you comment on the front page, it leaves an awkward empty box. Because of the way that wordpress and phpbb are hacked together, the only way to deal with this is to override everyone's avatars and institute a automatic generic avatar for everyone that hasn't chosen one. That's really dumb.

So, I've decided (if you haven't noticed), that if you post on the front page without having selected an avatar, that you are subject to me picking one out for you at the mercy of google and total randomness.

I noticed, thank you for mine

scorch- wrote:Who wants to cast some awful dod matches with me?

caveat: I will only watch/cast matches featuring Steve "PuddingFace" Miller.

i find your terms agreeable

We need some shoutcasts, livestreams and more articles. I'm willing to help if someone wants to get it organized.

motive wrote:

scorch- wrote:Who wants to cast some awful dod matches with me?

caveat: I will only watch/cast matches featuring Steve "PuddingFace" Miller.

i find your terms agreeable

Let it rain.

mogers wrote:We need some shoutcasts, livestreams and more articles. I'm willing to help if someone wants to get it organized.

this

I'd be down to help as well, doing like team interviews or something related!

ceebz wrote:this

Bro, no one will ever do an article about you, because corner-camping and crouch-walking everywhere just isn't that appealing to readers.

Do you even lift?

moosh wrote:

alex kirk wrote:

ceebz wrote:this

Bro, no one will ever do an article about you, because corner-camping and crouch-walking everywhere just isn't that appealing to readers.

Do you even lift?

How about an article about providing your evidence resulting in your ban?

+rep, will publish this asap if someone writes it up.

I'm fucking with the forum header at the moment.

If shit gets all weird or crashes the site just refresh till it starts working again.

ok all done

I liked the old way better, but oh well. Looks swell!

It's a trial run.

What don't you like about it?

Just the overall feel of how the breadcrumbs are so far above the comments while posting and the whole forum on the Forums index. I don't know why exactly, I just liked it tighter.

stealthlol wrote:Just the overall feel of how the breadcrumbs are so far above the comments while posting and the whole forum on the Forums index. I don't know why exactly, I just liked it tighter.

Yeah, I'm trying to find the right balance for it. Like I said it's all trial and error.

I also wasn't sure how people typically navigated the site.

Part of this is that I'm trying to integrate the forums and the front page as much as I can. So I wanted to have one consistant header.

For now I made the header on the forums link back to the forums, but it might work out better to have it link back to the fron page, I dunno. And we can always move the breadcrumbs around if you'de think it would be better to have them on the bottom of the header.

And all the actual header images are totally beta. I haven't decided on any long term logotype yet because I'm trying to figure out how everything else is going to look and function first.

moosh wrote: How about an article about providing your evidence resulting in your ban?

why so mad? quit ball riding so hard

Sears wrote:
For now I made the header on the forums link back to the forums, but it might work out better to have it link back to the fron page, I dunno. And we can always move the breadcrumbs around if you'de think it would be better to have them on the bottom of the header.

I personally like it linking back to the forums index page right now. For me it makes it easier than clicking the small Forums link every time to go back from wherever I am. Simply going to the top and clicking anywhere on header and i can get back easily.


I think it would be more useful to go back to the forum index page rather than going to the home page every time. People can use the link back to the home page once, but if it links back to the Index page of the Forums then they can keep using while they go through and read all the different threads.

On the other tabs you should keep it as is too with articles, media etc. all linking back to the home page.

my 2cents

wait is it just me or do the headers not appear on the top consistently. i assume its because youre still working with it, sears

Same Swiss. I navigate on my phone in between classes and liked it better when it was just the forum index breadcrumb at the bottom of the page, not home and forum. Harder for me to pick it out now without zooming in! The breadcrumbs at top do feel too high when no picture loads, but I'm sure that's just a little bump in the road

ace, youve seen it when it has the header images on the forum right?

i agree with the others. i think it would be nice for the breadcrumbs to be below the header. you could probably leave the user control panel over the header though

There should be a header loading each page, not sure what's going on if one isn't havent ran into that yet.

Right now, on the forums, you can click anywhere on the header to take you back to the forum index. Would it be better if that linked you back to the frontpage (ala gotfrag) and we reverted the breadcrumbs back to pre-frontpage?

I could also make the breadcrumb text a pixel or so larger probably.

I'll experiment with the breadcrumbs and see if they work well on the bottom of the header.

Ok, the breadcrumbs are now on the bottom of the header, but don't include a link to the frontpage. The header itself now links you back to the home page. Does this work better?

I'm trying to find the best way to have an easy one click back to the frontpage (ala gotfrag).

yeah that works great. (oh and the headers are loading fine now for me). i like the idea of the header linking back to the front page, seems to fit better.

the only other thing would be to maybe move down the user control panel below the header? its just a little hard to see up there and looks a bit out of place.

Yeah maybe, I dunno. I'll experiment with it.

Well I finally have the headers on all of the pages I visit on the forums. I feel it really gives it a nice, finished look. Splitting up all the links to "Control Panel", "Forums" and then my user name with the other options looks neat, clean and organized. It's simplistic and easy to navigate; precisely how I like the forums I browse to be.

Edit: Swiss, I was pretty used to seeing "User Control Panel" up there. It doesn't seem any harder to find in my opinion. Sometimes the font color can get lost in the the mixture of colors in the header, but the the opacity of the shading behind the links do make it easier to see.

The one header that seems to make the user control panel hard to see is the harrington mid from the POV of midhouse.

EDIT: Nevermind I see that shading you are talking about now, looks good Sears.

Has that link to STA always been there or is something brewing?