(10-16-2022, 06:33 PM)Freija Wrote: Honestly, this is a disaster. No banner, mutilated avatars and twice as much work to find half as much information.

I believe it's only temporary and the need to 'upgrade' is due to the damage done to the original site.

(10-16-2022, 06:22 PM)hounddoghowlie Wrote: tried that, it has three options, MyBBcodePro, Responsive_MyBB. and RoundDarko, there is no Dark1.8 listed.

That's strange that there's no Dark1.8 listed for your view, I'll leave a message for Sol.

(10-16-2022, 06:59 PM)BIAD Wrote:

(10-16-2022, 06:22 PM)hounddoghowlie Wrote: tried that, it has three options, MyBBcodePro, Responsive_MyBB. and RoundDarko, there is no Dark1.8 listed.

That's strange that there's no Dark1.8 listed for your view, I'll leave a message for Sol.

On the back of HoundDogHowlie's complaint, I went onto my old computer that was built the same time as the
Enigma machine. After clicking on a designated 'Favourites' link, I arrived at the RoundoDarko version of Rogue Nation.
This hadn't happened before, but I attempted to log-in and it refused my access.

Believing this was just a glitch due to the teething problems here, I went down to the Drop-Down menu in order to
try via the 'old' RN site. Yet -just as HoundDogHowlie had said, there were only three possibilities.
MyBBcodePro, Responsive_MyBB. and RoundDarko... no Dark1.8 and in my case, no way of logging onto the site.
(Typing this from my laptop)

now it's doing the login thing again, telling me there's a mismatch and have try two three and four times.

one thing i founsd playing with it, i think you can rate a post if you click their avatar, gonna try on BIAD's last post.

(10-16-2022, 08:00 PM)BIAD Wrote:

(10-16-2022, 06:59 PM)BIAD Wrote:

(10-16-2022, 06:22 PM)hounddoghowlie Wrote: tried that, it has three options, MyBBcodePro, Responsive_MyBB. and RoundDarko, there is no Dark1.8 listed.

That's strange that there's no Dark1.8 listed for your view, I'll leave a message for Sol.

On the back of HoundDogHowlie's complaint, I went onto my old computer that was built the same time as the
Enigma machine. After clicking on a designated 'Favourites' link, I arrived at the RoundoDarko version of Rogue Nation.
This hadn't happened before, but I attempted to log-in and it refused my access.

Believing this was just a glitch due to the teething problems here, I went down to the Drop-Down menu in order to
try via the 'old' RN site. Yet -just as HoundDogHowlie had said, there were only three possibilities.
MyBBcodePro, Responsive_MyBB. and RoundDarko... no Dark1.8 and in my case, no way of logging onto the site.
(Typing this from my laptop)

tried to rate like i said i think it works, but you can't not just rate you have to add a comment. if you would check your ratings numbers and post what they are now and then i'll try this post to see for sure if it works.

if you click your avatar you should see it on the top under your name and avatar.

Edit: checked your on i'm going to call it the avatar page and it says you have 38.417 ratings. gonna try now

Edit: yeah it works, but it doesn't tell you what post. if you click the ratings button that now should say 38,418 under your avatar it give a list.

(10-16-2022, 08:07 PM)hounddoghowlie Wrote: tried to rate like i said i think it works, but you can't not just rate you have to add a comment.
if you would check your ratings numbers and post what they are now and then i'll try this post to see for sure if it works.

if you click your avatar you should see it on the top under your name and avatar.

Edit checked your on i'm going to call it the avatar page and it says you have 38.417 ratings. gonna try now

Testing for HoundDogHowlie.

Just testing once more in case I was too quick!
(Edit) The ratings increased!! thanks HDH!

i guess until things get fixed you could put post number and thread title in in the comment box, that way people will know what got rated

like this

#16 WELCOME HOME - AN ALL MEMBERS READ

(10-16-2022, 06:33 PM)Freija Wrote: Honestly, this is a disaster. No banner, mutilated avatars and twice as much work to find half as much information.

Pretty basic huh? It's normal, we're testing the infrastructure to see if it'll hold. Before decorating the walls, we want to be sure that the walls will stay up and not fall apart like the previous theme did.

If it does, if it's stable, then we start installing plugins, banners, new avatar layouts, the shoutbox and many other cool features. But not yet.

As for twice much work, it's just that you are not accustomed to the new style and layout yet. The same features are there, you just need to know where they are. Tutorials will be coming once, again, we're sure that the infrastructure is stable.

We had the very same comments when we went from RN2 to RN3 testing. Everyone hated it. Then when we started to add the candies to RN3 (shoutbox, starring. rating, changing layouts, new avatar layouts, banners, etc) everyone loved it. And now miss it.

Give us time. I know change is not easy. But the bells and whistles aren't installed yet. We're testing.

So far, today, the site has been pretty busy. And the infrastructure is holding. Quite well, actually. We're not busting bandwidth. We're not busting memory capacities. What needs to work, works. It's a good sign.

Finally, at first, we wanted just the Staff to test it but we decided to go with the full membership to get volume testing. I knew we'd get some bad feedback and it's ok, nothing wrong there. Because I know, in due time, when everything is installed, you are going to love this.

I really think so.

Sol.

I miss that dial-up sound.

WoW! Shock 'n Awe!



Where the hell am I? Yea, gonna take some time for me to get accustomed to this new appearance & navigation. Ok, ok I'll give Sol a week or so as we await polished gemstone plug-ins. The older you are the worse you hate CHANGE.

(10-16-2022, 09:14 PM)EndtheMadnessNow Wrote: WoW! Shock 'n Awe!



The older you are the worse you hate CHANGE.

I sooooooooooooooooooo agree with you!!

But when the change is acquired, would you go back? Sincerely?

Love my cell phone, my laptop, the internet, my car, even my fucking new coffee machine lol

But they all got me cursing and swearing when I first got them but now I wouldn't want to live without them.

Such is life. Cars used to have a crank in the front of it to start it. The good ol' times...but who the fuck would want that now?

You reply made me smile. That's a good thing!! HA!

(10-16-2022, 09:41 PM)Sol Wrote: I sooooooooooooooooooo agree with you!!

But when the change is acquired, would you go back? Sincerely?

Love my cell phone, my laptop, the internet, my car, even my fucking new coffee machine lol

But they all got me cursing and swearing when I first got them but now I wouldn't want to live without them.

Such is life. Cars used to have a crank in the front of it to start it. The good ol' times...but who the fuck would want that now?

You reply made me smile. That's a good thing!! HA!

Yes... but I still miss the dial-up sound AND Angelfire forums. I've even contemplated taping a cardboard box to the back of
my monitor and buying a pair of loons.

(10-16-2022, 09:41 PM)Sol Wrote:

(10-16-2022, 09:14 PM)EndtheMadnessNow Wrote: WoW! Shock 'n Awe!



The older you are the worse you hate CHANGE.

I sooooooooooooooooooo agree with you!!

But when the change is acquired, would you go back? Sincerely?

Love my cell phone, my laptop, the internet, my car, even my fucking new coffee machine lol

But they all got me cursing and swearing when I first got them but now I wouldn't want to live without them.

Such is life. Cars used to have a crank in the front of it to start it. The good ol' times...but who the fuck would want that now?

You reply made me smile. That's a good thing!! HA!

I'm proud of your usage of the F word bravo! ?

(10-16-2022, 10:39 PM)Brotherman Wrote:

(10-16-2022, 09:41 PM)Sol Wrote:

(10-16-2022, 09:14 PM)EndtheMadnessNow Wrote: WoW! Shock 'n Awe!



The older you are the worse you hate CHANGE.

I sooooooooooooooooooo agree with you!!

But when the change is acquired, would you go back? Sincerely?

Love my cell phone, my laptop, the internet, my car, even my fucking new coffee machine lol

But they all got me cursing and swearing when I first got them but now I wouldn't want to live without them.

Such is life. Cars used to have a crank in the front of it to start it. The good ol' times...but who the fuck would want that now?

You reply made me smile. That's a good thing!! HA!

I'm proud of your usage of the F word bravo! ?

I've used the F word since I was very young. I'm not young anymore but I still use it once in a while, online and in real life. It's nothing personal, it's just one of my ways of being free. Little rebel inside stuck around, I suppose.

Ironically, I used the crank car example in my last reply to you and even then, it didn't always work as planned.

I just switched to the MyBBPro theme which removes all the simplified and dumbed down crap and shows a forum as a forum should look and avatars and announcements are even normal. With the exception of the recent posts being at the very bottom and the blinding whiteness of it all, it is much more functional. Of the other two themes I have available, Responsive myBB and RoundoDarko, RoundoDarko is the most terrible. I swear it is made for TicTok children. Keep the RoundoDarko theme as a portal if you must but put a link or something to a normal looking forum.

I want to see a listing of threads, when and who created them and by whom and when they were replied to not a snippet of the thread or pictures or in the case of EndtheMadnessNow's excellent Vintage B&W Photos thread, an entire wall of pictures that certainly uses more bandwidth than a text based interface.

This is not simply a case of being an old cow that is resistant or can't adapt to change but the MyBBpro theme and modifications to it should be the direction you go. It is the closest to the old RN3 and should be easiest to tweak?

I owned, ran, admin'd and extensively modified and customized a vBulletin forum for four years. It can't be that hard to change the colors in the MyBBPro theme and move recent posts back to the top and make it an option as the default landing page.

(10-16-2022, 06:33 PM)Freija Wrote: Honestly, this is a disaster. No banner, mutilated avatars and twice as much work to find half as much information.

All in good time, my friend
Just gotta be patient


Trust me when I say, the old RN3 site started out the exact. same. way. --- no bells and whistles

Until Sol added the magic touch , the plugins




Unfortunately tho, with technology there are continuous upgrades and the old platform itself, is outdated in that the need to upgrade security and other areas had caused issues that no matter what Sol tried, it made it worse 

Hence the need to upgrade to "newer outfit" --- newer car --- so we can get all the cool new bells and whistles 
The new car smell.... LOL



It just takes time, but Sol will put the add ons as soon as we know it is stable 
So I hope you can hang in there a little longer

Its been a very long time since I was last here, and so far I think it looks pretty good.  I am older and do not handle computers well but I've been able to navigate the website without difficulty - once I got past the "forgot my password" part.  

Kudos to the folks managing this transition; thankfully they have the intelligence to ensure a stable site to build onto.

(10-16-2022, 11:42 PM)Sol Wrote:

(10-16-2022, 10:39 PM)Brotherman Wrote:

(10-16-2022, 09:41 PM)Sol Wrote:

(10-16-2022, 09:14 PM)EndtheMadnessNow Wrote: WoW! Shock 'n Awe!



The older you are the worse you hate CHANGE.

I sooooooooooooooooooo agree with you!!

But when the change is acquired, would you go back? Sincerely?

Love my cell phone, my laptop, the internet, my car, even my fucking new coffee machine lol

But they all got me cursing and swearing when I first got them but now I wouldn't want to live without them.

Such is life. Cars used to have a crank in the front of it to start it. The good ol' times...but who the fuck would want that now?

You reply made me smile. That's a good thing!! HA!

I'm proud of your usage of the F word bravo! ?

I've used the F word since I was very young. I'm not young anymore but I still use it once in a while, online and in real life. It's nothing personal, it's just one of my ways of being free. Little rebel inside stuck around, I suppose.

Ironically, I used the crank car example in my last reply to you and even then, it didn't always work as planned.

I grew up on a farm. My papa had an old tractor that needed crank started, when I was little my uncle had me out with him in the barn trying to get the tractor started, this tractor was an old Lambo believe it or not and that cold ass morning the crank swung back and hit him in the face and knocked out all his front teeth and broke his nose. A little version of me around 5 or 6 had to point out, "Uncle Shane your bleeding." yeah I had some trauma after that for a little while, Uncle saying Thucking Thit spitting out teeth and bleeding everywhere. If he wouldve had a steven hawking device it would have probably said shits fucks damns and the cunt word. Papa came out and the tractor didn't run that day, My uncle went to the dentist, ironically before dial up internet you could go to the doc that day and be seen in a few minutes when they actually gave a fuck. 

I admire your shits fucks and damns, makes me feel at home =)

I'm not going to blow smoke up anyones ass on this one.

It's a shit show.

I don't mind the layout, with the catagories on the left and new topics on the right, but I hope we get a shout/chat box on top and an alert system for when there are alerts for responses to a post or responses to a thread(if you are the creator).