New Matrix Forum

[76mm]

Any idea when this new forum will launch?

[Lobster]

Not soon enough? [;)]

[Edmon]

I can't wait for the new forum. It's going to add a lot of modern features, which I sorely miss every time I try to post an image here .

To those asking what features it will have, it's the same as the Slitherine Forum, so just sign up for an account there and you can test it out.

[IainMcNeil]

A big thankyou to everyone who posted their feedback. Below is a compiled list of feedback.

We're going to look at what can be done to deal with your concerns and update you.

Thanks again!

• Make the backgrounds all grey but different shades, with no white to be easier on the eyes. No need to alternate background colour as bars between posts would be better.
• User had to sign in with nomad_slith, not their matrix forum username nomad.
• Add different colour bars between posts where we show the post title and time of post.
• People don’t realise they can use Ctrl+Mouse wheel to zoom in and out. Can we make this clearer somehow? Can it default to fill the screen on your device?
• Forum arrangement – New releases needs to be trimmed down as there are too many.
• Subscribe to thread – subscriptions are not shown anywhere
• “Users browsing this forum” is white on a white background. Also the same for statistics.
• Some smilies are no longer supported.
• After reporting a spam post you go to a blankish page where the only option is to return to last topic.
• The most likely reason to report a post is spam so can it default to that, not piracy?
• When searching posts it returns the html markup rather than just the text.
• On mobile devise there is a huge amount of wasted space where the users avatar appears. See https://www.matrixgames.com/forums/upfi ... DC6314.jpg
• People would like to personalise the theme.
• Users post counts are double what they used to be on the old forum.
• Decisive Campaigns – Ardennes Offensive sub forums are not listed.
• Allow users to ignore forums or favourite / subscribe to forums to see a forum tree that only includes what they care about. Alternatively can subscribe to forum give a way to highlight it on the forum easily without receiving email notifications. Maybe enough just to have a setting to disable email notifications on subscriptions.
• Add a dark theme for the forums
• Layout feedback - https://i.imgur.com/EpShM4B.png
o text was easier to read – see comparison image above. Why is it clearer and how can we achieve this on new forum.
o The black line that breaks avatar section from text makes text easier to read and feel less like its detached.
• Need new ranking system
• Ensure the forum allows you to post pngs and other graphics formats, not just jpg.

[Lobster]

ORIGINAL: Edmon

I can't wait for the new forum. It's going to add a lot of modern features, which I sorely miss every time I try to post an image here .

To those asking what features it will have, it's the same as the Slitherine Forum, so just sign up for an account there and you can test it out.

Pardon my ignorance but I thought if you were signed up for the Matrix forum you were signed up for Slitherine also.

[Edmon]

ORIGINAL: Lobster

ORIGINAL: Edmon

I can't wait for the new forum. It's going to add a lot of modern features, which I sorely miss every time I try to post an image here .

To those asking what features it will have, it's the same as the Slitherine Forum, so just sign up for an account there and you can test it out.

Pardon my ignorance but I thought if you were signed up for the Matrix forum you were signed up for Slitherine also.

Yep, your right. So you just need to sign up. There was a time when that wasn't the case, but it is now.

[Neilster]

I think very few people viewing this forum do it on a mobile device. IMHO, the default should be for a desktop or laptop.

A comparison of posts with larger images seems to indicate that when using CTRL scroll wheel, the images have been reduced in size to fit the default narrow layout. Am I missing something?

[IainMcNeil]

It's still work in progress but there is an update to the new forum, adding in a top bar that integrates it better with the rest of the site. Many of the other upgrades are still WIP.

[actrade]

Can't come soon enough. So tired of the site hanging intermittently.

[Zovs]

I use my iPhone all the time to view and post here. But for obvious reasons use my desktop for AARs and to illustrate some aspect of a computer war game.

[IainMcNeil]

Latest version posted. Baring minor tweaks this is the version that will be going live once testing has completed so shout now if you have any issues or problems!

[Zovs]

I just noticed that all the history of Private Messages are empty, will this be the case in the switch over? If so then no worries but a notification would be good to down load them here first or something.

Second here I always use the My Forums to quickly view posts I am interested in, but I don’t see or can’t find it in the new forum. Will this be implemented?

Third I absolutely love the mobile support I am seeing, I use my iPhone all the time to visit the forums and I have to flip it side ways to read any thing but with the forum I don’t have to do that and the images from users are scaled appropriately which is just fantastic!

Lastly, I am assuming the new forum supports bbc code or image code for images stored on the cloud like from Imgur, it’s what I use for screenshots and AARs will this be available in the new forum or will drag and drop and cut and paste work? We can’t test this feature yet.

Thanks for the hard and great work on the forum website!

[mainsworthy]

• People don’t realise they can use Ctrl+Mouse wheel to zoom in and out. Can we make this clearer somehow? Can it default to fill the screen on your device?

this is great! i will use it everywhere

[IainMcNeil]

Thanks for the feedback!

Zovs - did you log in to the forum? If not can you try and let me know if that helps the My Forum issue? To be honest I'm not sure what My Forums means so we may not have that functionality or it may be different. What is it you're trying to see?

I'll check on private messages - I don't know the answer but assumed they would come over.

The new forum is PHPBB so has all that kind of functionality you want built in and gets upgraded over time automatically.

Mainswrothy if you login to the new forum, then click on your name top right and go to preferences you'll see a Board settings tab. On this you can select Matrix or Matrix-wide which will fill the screen. We think it looks ugly so have left it off by default but its there if you want it!

[RichG]

ORIGINAL: IainMcNeil

Latest version posted. Baring minor tweaks this is the version that will be going live once testing has completed so shout now if you have any issues or problems!

Hi Iain

On the new forums main page the 'NEW RELEASES FROM MATRIX GAMES' is listed in a rather strange manner - Decisive Campaigns Ardennes and Campaign Series Vietnam are right down the list despite being very new. Also this section includes many games that are far from new, including Alea Jacta Est and Conflict of Heroes. Likewise, the 'current games' section is very short. I think you may want to rethink the organisation of these sections as it's quite confusing.

[mainsworthy]

ORIGINAL: IainMcNeil


Mainswrothy if you login to the new forum, then click on your name top right and go to preferences you'll see a Board settings tab. On this you can select Matrix or Matrix-wide which will fill the screen. We think it looks ugly so have left it off by default but its there if you want it!

Thanks that works great!

[IainMcNeil]

ORIGINAL: RichG

ORIGINAL: IainMcNeil

Latest version posted. Baring minor tweaks this is the version that will be going live once testing has completed so shout now if you have any issues or problems!

Hi Iain

On the new forums main page the 'NEW RELEASES FROM MATRIX GAMES' is listed in a rather strange manner - Decisive Campaigns Ardennes and Campaign Series Vietnam are right down the list despite being very new. Also this section includes many games that are far from new, including Alea Jacta Est and Conflict of Heroes. Likewise, the 'current games' section is very short. I think you may want to rethink the organisation of these sections as it's quite confusing.

Thanks Rich, the new releases is a known issue that will be fixed as we import the forums across. The current games is something we plan to fix in a similar way to the existing forum with links to all games and we hope to have on day 1 but might be a week or two behind if its not ready in time.

We also plan to adjust the forum listing to clean it up as its been a long time since it was tidied but we have to migrate everything before attempting that.

[Zovs]

ORIGINAL: IainMcNeil

Thanks for the feedback!

Zovs - did you log in to the forum? If not can you try and let me know if that helps the My Forum issue? To be honest I'm not sure what My Forums means so we may not have that functionality or it may be different. What is it you're trying to see?

I'll check on private messages - I don't know the answer but assumed they would come over.

The new forum is PHPBB so has all that kind of functionality you want built in and gets upgraded over time automatically.

Yes last time I checked I was logged in. It seems to be better the last few days.

Here on Matrix there is a section in the upper right called My Forums. When you click on it it takes you to all the forums you have subscribed to for easy reference.



+1 on the PHPBB stuff...

[Zovs]

Ian,

One more thing, the subscriptions (besides all the PMs) do not carry over.



So this is pretty critical in my view, no PMs, Subscriptions, Bookmarks, Notifications or Friends carry over from Matrix Games to the new site. Only the UserGroups carries over.

[76mm]

ORIGINAL: Zovs
Here on Matrix there is a section in the upper right called My Forums. When you click on it it takes you to all the forums you have subscribed to for easy reference.

Given the hundreds of forums on the Matrix site, this is a critical feature--I've book-marked this MyForum page and that is how I access the Matrix site. If the new site doesn't have this feature, I literally won't be back to this forum, because I'm not prepared to either bookmark all of the individual games that I follow or come to the general Matrix page and hunt and peck through all for the forums for what I'm interested in.