WELCOME to the NEW BoLS Lounge! - READ THIS!!!

[Bigred]

First of all, THANK YOU for your patience during the couple days of craziness of ungrading.

We are now on the latest version of Vbulletin 4.2. And that means you all get to enjoy the most advanced forum platform out there.

I know we are all creatures of habit (especially on forums), but PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE take a few minutes to just explore a bit as if you have never been here before. You will a ton of new features to make your posting, and browsing even more enjoyable. I guarantee you that nothing old is missing. Its just a matter of finding its new location, and discovering all the new cool stuff. Here's just a few:

1) We have new recent post and recent thread widgets in the sidebar.

2) "What's New" activity stream now gives you a realtime report of all activity on the site, including articles, blog posts, and more.

3) Check out those sub menus directly under the navbar (lots of cool search, and filtering stuff is in there).

4) You can now expand and collapse entire sub-sections of the forum and these settings are saved for you next login.

5) New post editor should be easier to use.

6) Easier to now add image attachments to posts.

7) New Gallery recent additions strip atop the forum highlights the community's latest contributions. (You can condense it if you don't want to see it) P.S. Go add some cool gallery stuff - you all are awesome hobbyists!

8) New Blog section makes it easier to keep track of everybody's blogs

9) Articles - Kind of like a mini-WIKI, you can now write up your literary Opus and add it to the article archive for all to see and enjoy. We've already added several categories to get folks started.

And much, much more.

In short, we've had the same nice Lounge for almost 3 years - it was time to upgrade the old gal. Enjoy, go forth and have a great time. If you see anything odd, or broken, let us know.

[Tzeentch's Dark Agent]

I really like this new system Red, why we no upgrade sooner?!!

[Deadlift]

Yeah its nice, now its working. A heads up prior to the changes would have been a good call, especially with a warning about possible kinks etc with usage. I personally found it frustrating, but that could be because I mainly use my iphone, ipad to log onto BOLS.

Either way its all looking good now, and I have made my own changes to the forum layout to suit my tastes.


So despite my previous rants, I am happy to admit I "could" have been jumping the gun a bit with my dislike of change.


pssst BIG RED move the hobby sections back, you know you want to :)

[Psychosplodge]

Still running a bit slow, suppose I'll get used to it.
Don't like have to click twice to get to the subscribed threads as opposed to once like before, but I'll get used to it.
Attaching pictures seems a longer process than before, but I'll get used to it.

Love the embed video tags.

So BAAARGH I hate change, but yeah, I'll get used to it...;)

[Renegade]

Is there any way to make it less... white!?

Edit:

Splodge, try adding 'Ghostery' to Fire Fox. It cuts out most of the cookies, in particular, the 5 tracking cookies.

[Bigred]

Is there any way to make it less... white!?

Turn down the brightness on your monitor? *runs for the door*

:)

[fuzzbuket]

my main complaint is that the reply button for quick replies is kinda hard to find when theres a great big reply button above it!

and that quick replys dont auto-subscribe to threads!,

-fuzz
p.s. move the hobby section or your cat gets it. (and if you dont have a cat i will buy you a cat, ship it to texas and then thretan your new kitten !)

p.p.s. that was a joke

[Tzeentch's Dark Agent]

Is that how Scotland works?

[Psychosplodge]

Splodge, try adding 'Ghostery' to Fire Fox. It cuts out most of the cookies, in particular, the 5 tracking cookies.

Cheers, I'll try that.

[Chris*ta]

and that quick replys dont auto-subscribe to threads!,

Huh. Does for me; I'm pretty sure. Weird.

EDIT: Definitely does. Try starting a quick reply, clicking Go Advanced, then scroll down to Subscription and changing the option there. and make sure you click Save Changes below that :D

Then finish your comment.

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lol i was 13 when the first lounge was made... i remember somebody telling me to go play lego, then everybody trashing the dude for it... good times

[Psychosplodge]

Lego is fricking awesome, have you seen the SSD kit they've released?

[eldargal]

I have one of those, too intimidated to build it.

[Tzeentch's Dark Agent]

SSD? I don't even...

[Psychosplodge]

I have one of those, too intimidated to build it.

Intimidated? It's lego, if I didn't have two long weekends coming up I'd have found myself owning one...

[eldargal]

Super Star Destroyer.

SSD? I don't even...

Well it's big and has lots of pieces.:(

[Psychosplodge]

TDA, it's from the proper star wars films.


lol, and it's so pretty in it's box? one for saving, need a second for building?

[oni]

I like it; certainly an improvement. Still has too many advertisements... One is OK, but anything more is too many. :P

Perhaps I'll start posting here again instead of lurking.

[Tzeentch's Dark Agent]

I KNOW WHAT THE SUPER STAR DESTROYER IS PSYCHO! I JUST DIDN'T KNOW THE ABBREVIATION.

Cows go moo.

@EG - Thank you for elaborating. :p

[Gotthammer]

So where does one put pictures of other fantasy / sci-fi lines? Things like Wreck-Age, Hasslefree, Studio McVey etc?
As is I'm probably just going to dump stuff in the 40k painting thread and be done with it.

[Psychosplodge]

Just making sure :p

[Tzeentch's Dark Agent]

@Gott - I'm speaking to Red about Generic Sci-fi/Fantasy boards.

@Psycho - You suck.

[Wildeybeast]

Why was the forum broken yesterday evening? My browser kept telling me the site did not exist or some such nonsense, yet all the other intertron pages were working fine? I thought we had fixed all the bugs now? Anyone else have this issue?

[Renegade]

Cheers, I'll try that.

Also try ABP, and block all pop ups and adds. Works for me.


Turn down the brightness on your monitor? *runs for the door*

:)

You know, I just found a use for a Hellhound... flaming smart arse mods! *not one for being subtle*

[Psychosplodge]

Why was the forum broken yesterday evening? My browser kept telling me the site did not exist or some such nonsense, yet all the other intertron pages were working fine? I thought we had fixed all the bugs now? Anyone else have this issue?

the server farm was taken down


Also try ABP, and block all pop ups and adds. Works for me.


Got that already, and noscript.

[Chris*ta]

Lego is fricking awesome, have you seen the SSD kit they've released?

Off topic, but has anyone else seen/bought the Monster Hunters range that Lego has just started. It's steampunk vs. Universal movie monsters.

That's right: Lego. Is. Doing. Steampunk.

[Psychosplodge]

but too many other hobbies....(and we dont mention straying from topic it stops people noticing :D)

[Chris*ta]

but too many other hobbies....(and we dont mention straying from topic it stops people noticing :D)

But steampunk. Lego steampunk.

[Chris*ta]

Oh, and off-topic doesn't hurt me; TDA likes me.

Watch, I can even swear: boobies!

[Wildeybeast]

Watch what you say, power has corrupted him and TDA is one of the anti-derailment men now. Trust no one.

[Denzark]

Is the site still scatty? I'm sure we were debating a GW manager in USA earlier in corporate, that seems to have gone. Don't know why it would have been neutralised by the inquisition if they are happy to let CHS spew its gash all over the site.

Secondly, anyone noticed an increased amount of people just posting to 40K generall instead of categorising into the right bit of the lounge?

[Psychosplodge]

has that gone? O_O

And yes everything seems to find it's way into 40k general.