Message Board Updates.

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Thanks! It's also given me the opportunity to update a few and re-think a few as well, and all icons I've tried to optimize for quick-loading also. Also I've a few new ideas for a few new ones so that helps also.

Don't forget folks - and newcomers - you can only get these from the staff who will award them at random!

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Going through the different skins and just making sure they're all still looking good.

Aesthetically you won't notice any difference but I'm replacing "Messsage Board" on all of them with "Community", so some (Like the Laytrx7 skin) I've had to re-do almost entirely from scratch. That skin incidentally is where I have got too so far - alphebetically.

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It's been a while since we had once of these...

Introducing!....



NOW OPEN!

The most classic or frequent Transformer threads asked on a message board, or ones that just have potential merit to open deeper discussions! Fun for the longer serving members here, helpful for any newer potential members that join! So any age old threads don't get continually re-made you can access and still respond to them here! Who's your favorite Prime, your favorite TF of all time and was Transformers Armada a good thing or not?

All these threads and more in one board, excruciatingly hand-picked by myself from crunching through 65 pages odd of old threads topics!

Enjoy!

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Themes

Unicron Theme: improved banner, bigger improved background drop.

EDIT:

WFC: purple has been re-instated taking it back to the original light "Shockwave purple" instead of the deeper purple. Naturally the banner has been remade, and a more suitable background added.

Blue Terminator: One of the oldest themes, that perhaps dates back to maybe 2003 has also been re-instated! Disabled for years, I have kept it faithful to the original (Same simple background but re-mastered), but have re-done the banner in sympathy with it's former self but with a slight tweak.

All three are now once again available for all.

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Oopsie!

With Tinypic going down when it did, I went through all the themes and re-uploaded stuff to make sure there was s little disruption as possible. One little thing I may not have thought of however - the old awards system. I forgot all the old shield awards were hosted with Tinypic, so for now I have temporarily disabled the awards system.

I also just removed the G1 name plate ranks from the winter theme - not fitting! My bad!

Apologies, nothing to see here! Continue as normal!!

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Themes

"Renegade TFs" theme ha been restored with original background, the previous banner and link colors have also been changed to differentiate between it and our main theme.

Regards,

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Themes

The "TTF 15th Anniversary Armada" theme has been as has the 2016/17 theme re-named "No Masters, No Shackles", after the very last Renegade RP.

Regards,

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Themes

The "TTF Teletaan Tech" theme has been as has the has been replaced/retired in favor of "Tech Spec" - Now available.

Let me know what you think about this one. I had a plain off-white/very light grey background on it but am trying out a"Grid pattern" ala the banner. SO let me know if you think it's too much and should be reverted.

Regards,

Hoist.

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Revision

So there were a few gambles a long time ago I took with the message board and I guess they didn't pay off. One was making the default theme full width, which has now been reverted to the 1280px format and reverted the transparent forum banner, the other was the Shoutbox. I felt like members were only coming on to say hey on the shout-out box rather than participate on the forum, thus the sticky thread "Come and say hi" was created in it's replacement. This has been locked and the shoutbox reverted and put back.

I am still doing my very best to keep this community going with new and thoughtful topics in what will be our 18th year.

Regards,

Hoist.

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Themes

hey you guuuuuuuuuys!,

So with a couple of the themes latetly (Main, latryx7 possibly some others) I've been experimenting with bringing the board down to 1080px width and want to know how users feel about it. This comes from another of my boards where a user said it scrolled on laptops, so I want to make it accessible for deskyops, laptops/tablets and mobile use.

Especially if you use the main theme by default, lemmme know what you think! SHould I continue it?

Regards,

Hoist.

[Amanda]

You have multiple boards? You're my hero. Must be a lot of work. I'd sure like to see the 1080 version.

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Jul 11, 2020 19:31:06 GMT -5 Amanda said:

You have multiple boards? You're my hero. Must be a lot of work. I'd sure like to see the 1080 version.

Only since this pandemic begun, mainly out of boredom. Doesn't look like anything is gonna come of them though - and maybe it's just as well. Means I can keep focused here.

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Pre-Anniversary BETA-TESTER

Want to pre-test our adapted theme 22 days ahead of our anniversary? Then let me know here and I will officially add you to the group "BETA TESTER" and you can try it out yourself ahead of time and the anniversary launch! Adapted means is a mix of a brand new theme and the current defula theme blended together!

One you are in the group simply change the theme as you normally would by going into your profile>settings and changing the theme to Gray Decay" and that's it your done!

Good luck beta tester! We're relying on your feedback!

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Jul 7, 2020 12:43:32 GMT -5 Hoist said:

Themes

hey you guuuuuuuuuys!,

So with a couple of the themes latetly (Main, latryx7 possibly some others) I've been experimenting with bringing the board down to 1080px width and want to know how users feel about it. This comes from another of my boards where a user said it scrolled on laptops, so I want to make it accessible for deskyops, laptops/tablets and mobile use.

Especially if you use the main theme by default, lemmme know what you think! SHould I continue it?

Regards,

Hoist.

Update.

By the end of today ALL themes will be 1080 width to accomodate for PCs, mobiles. tablets etc, with our preceeding anniversary on Wednesday, now is the time.

Regards,

Hoist.

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Reply Box Smilies

Although the huge list of smilies are a thing of the past, we always have the standard reply box selection, these have just been added to this latest theme. I think what I might do tomorrow is go through every available active theme and make sure they're all in every.single.one.

enjoy!

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