New Website Theme Active.

[AJR-Legend]

Well the new theme is no up so edits, modification & addons can now be looked into. Decided to go with similar colours from our previous site as well....they worked & blue has always been "our" colour lol.

[flixy]

safe rudeboyyy

looks much better

[Flux]

fuck the flux "is online" next to my name.

fix that first.

get a icon thats green if on, red if off etc.. easy.

[AJR-Legend]

Im glad you like it flux lol

[Flux]

skins gorgy, just that online thing is bugging me to silly lengths.

[Phoenix]

This is so much better!!! Now the tweaking can be done!! :)

[XUnit]

Works good with my own site as well.
The colours I mean.

[AJR-Legend]

better flux? lol

[Phoenix]

I was going to say no it looks gay cse of the white around the button.. but by the time i got here its changed and now its great.

[Flux]

better flux? lol


much. < 3

[DuncRx7]

i nearly jizzed when i came on here :D
good to see some colour on the forums again

[Flux]

custom donator badges, that suit this skin <3.

[SpiritSharD]

Fantastic Legend! Keep up the good work! ;)

Did you design this yourself?

[Makaveli]

Nice... Looks good.!

[XUnit]

Perfect on and off icons now.

[Mazman]

Only thing is the text in posts is ever so slightly hard to read

Any chance of making it a paler blue/grey?

or just white?

[Phoenix]

Curse you and your custom user title Xunit

[XUnit]

Curse you and your custom user title Xunit

I like . :)

I think I can edit yours.

[Phoenix]

If you can edit yours you can do anyones.. although I cant edit anyones as super mod.. only avatars and signatures :(

+ Also in time maybe the icons should be changed.. as most of them don't even correspond.. : o = :o Plus there a bit rusty around the edges.

[Flux]

edit mine x'y my boy :)

[AJR-Legend]

I made it so everyone couldnt edit them cos it would turn out stupid...with everyones names user ranks being totally random. Thinking of doing something though actually....which would enable ppl to have them...at some point.

[Fate]

I like it, think we just need to change default text to white though

[SpiritSharD]

I made it so everyone couldnt edit them cos it would turn out stupid...with everyones names user ranks being totally random. Thinking of doing something though actually....which would enable ppl to have them...at some point.

I suppose you could edit permissions individually.

Editing their own user title/rank permission could be given to who you think would be responsible and not abuse the feature. ;)

+ Also in time maybe the icons should be changed.. as most of them don't even correspond.. : o = :o Plus there a bit rusty around the edges.

I think the smilies/icons were designed for the theme that was being used before (the white one), hence why they have that white stuff around the edges. Someone could edit them using Photoshop and just remove the white bit. :)

[sLii[Pp]Y]

Ye the white bits around the edges are a bit gay, other than that i love the new skin and cant wait for the dits :) and yeh agree with flux, you should have like a custom BsE donator badge

[flixy]

i wont lie

i think a white/blue as opposed to black/grey/blue would be vastly better but each to their own

this could look dope when we get banners etc sorted

[brinky]

make it like rwd fourm


then once you dun that give it to CG

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_yCMS5orlUqY/RehFCVex7aI/AAAAAAAAAA4/dMq26Qyf7ak/s1600/rwd2.JPG


http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_yCMS5orlUqY/RehFilex7bI/AAAAAAAAABA/1tYnZi67US4/s1600/rwd.JPG

[AsILayDying]

i wont lie

i think a white/blue as opposed to black/grey/blue would be vastly better but each to their own

Agreed, 'dark' sites look a bit meh imo. Doesn't look too bad though.

The on and off images should be placed somewhere else aswell. Looks squished against the name.

Lighter grey/white body text pls.

[Makaveli]

Yea, white and blue would be nice tbh.

[RAGEMAN]

move the on/off and change text to pale blue to match theme and making it easier to read

[Reckonage]

Looks really good but I'd also agree with the text being a little hard to read.

[BsE Falco]

alot better :D

EDIT: does anyone think maybe the font colour of our posts should maybe something like white!? or maybe something more standout?

[AJR-Legend]

I think they did falco..................

I will look into it later.

[BsE Falco]

ok mate, just a suggestion.. if not it still looks fine.

[Flux]

this is coming on nicely, nice to see legend listening aswell.

changing the text colour would be nice, its a bit camoed in atm.

[Makaveli]

Agree with Flux.

[Source]

A Link to homepage on teh forums maybe?
Credits, so you can buy stuff, like the ability to change someones Sig (unchangable) for 24 hours and stuff, or an extra 5 post count, or even change your own user title for a high price and shizz, be imaginative.

[AJR-Legend]

Yes im going to install something like that^

Probs leave out the sig changing ability though lol

[Centarius]

lucky i can do that shit for free ^^ as demonstrated by flux's sig.

[Millo]

Looks sick

[Flux]

wtf did u change in my sig?

[Mazman]

lucky i can do that shit for free ^^ as demonstrated by flux's sig.

Ya got there just ahead of me ya bastard...

[Centarius]

wtf did u change in my sig?

lolol

Ya got there just ahead of me ya bastard...

lol maz...too quick for jesus hehe

[SpiritSharD]

or even change your own user title for a high price and shizz, be imaginative.

They do something like that over here;

www.planetrenders.net


Small shop where, if you have enough points, you can change your username, usertitle, colour of name etc...


Not saying it should be done here. But I thought i'd mention it.



(Also, members can donate points to each other on that site, but I can't see that being any use over here. Again, thought i'd mention it).

[AJR-Legend]

Yes i found this the other day and was thinking of installing it. Its actually like the "top members" thing on our old site....but u will actually be able to "do" something with being a top member or contriuting to the community in some way.

Description
vBExperience is an advanced Level and Activity System with Shop and Awards. It will calculate an activity and experience score for every user based on their activites on the forum. Now your users will see how their level is increasing by participating on your forum.

This mod was developed by me because I was never satisfied with the post count. Communities are not only defined by post count, they need much more parameters: Are the postings the user creates helpful? Are his threads frequently read? Does the user participate on the community by posting pictures, attachments, leaving visitor messages, tagging threads? All this can be answered with this mod.


Demo:
http://www.insideearth.net/xperience.php?langid=5

Demo Profile:
http://www.insideearth.net/member.php?u=1&langid=5

Demo Rankings:
http://www.insideearth.net/xperience.php?langid=5

Demo Awards:
http://www.insidesupcom.de/xperience...wards&langid=1 (http://www.insidesupcom.de/xperience.php?go=awards&langid=1)

Demo Promotions:
http://www.insidesupcom.de/xperience...=shop&langid=1 (http://www.insidesupcom.de/xperience.php?go=shop&langid=1)

Demo Shop:
http://www.insideearth.net/xperience...=shop&langid=5 (http://www.insideearth.net/xperience.php?go=shop&langid=5)

Demo Stats:
http://www.insideearth.net/xperience...stats&langid=5 (http://www.insideearth.net/xperience.php?go=stats&langid=5)

Demo Earn Points:
http://www.insideearth.net/xperience...=earn&langid=5 (http://www.insideearth.net/xperience.php?go=earn&langid=5)

Other Demo Site:
http://www.insidesupcom.de/xperience.php?langid=1


There are mainly four things visible for the users: The users score, his level, his next level up in %/points and his activity in %.


Calculation of the score
Taken into calculation are these things:
Threads
- Created threads
- Thread views of own threads
- Thread replies of own threads
- Thread votes of own threads
- Thread tags
- Replies to own threads
- Sticky threads
- Socialgroup Discussions (Discussions, Posts)

Posts
- Created posts
- Views on attachments

User
- Days since registration
- Referrals
- Received infractions
- Reputation / Use of reputation system
- Visitor messages on profiles
- Members of own social groups
- Albumpictures
- Friends
- Completing Profile

Misc
Additionally there is support for 3rd party addons (some are already installed):
- AWCoding-Donation System LITE and PRO (via CDP Addon)
- Cyb Paypal Donate (included)
- DownloadsII (included)
- ibProArcade Highscorer Points (via CDP Addon)
- LDM Links and Downloads Manager (included)
- PhotoPlog 2.1 (via CDP Addon)
- PhotoPost Gallery (included)
- Post Thank You / Use of Post Thank You (via CDP Addon)
- QuoteIt! 3.16 (via CDP Addon)
- SAPR: Advanced Post Rating system (via CDP Addon)
- thanks via vS-Hide Hack Resurrection (Expanded Edition)
- v3arcade Highscorer Points (via CDP Addon)
- vBulletin Blog (included)
- Who Downloaded This Attachment? (included)
- Other Addons can be added via CDP - Custom Data Provider plugins.

Additionally you can install these modifications:
- Thread Necromancer: Gives (minus-) points when a user is posting in old threads. Contains also Thread Necromancer Award.
- Scrupulous Poster: Gives points for editing posts. Award users that are editing own posts instead of doing double post.
- Deletion Addicted: Gives points when an user/nod soft-deletes post, thread, visitormessage, groupmessage or picturecomment.

Also, there are already addons available that are working as custom point provider (CDP). A CDP can extend vBExperience by collecting data and adding it to the vBExperience datastore. All point providers can be used for Awards and Shop.

You have to install these hacks for your own, vBExperience doesn't install nor touches these.


vBAdvanced
There are two vBAdvanced 3.0 XML modules: Most Active Users and Most Experienced Users. Import them via vBAdvanced AdminCP.


Awards
There are four default awards: Community, Posting, Activity and Helpful. The awards are shown in Rankings and Profile. You can set them also to display in postbit near the username. There is a scheduled job running once a day (02:30h) to calculate them.
Via AdminCP they are completely customizeable and can also be assigned manually.
Awards can be created for every data provider.


Rankings
Showing User, Level, Awards, Activity Points (experience, thread, post, user, misc) - sortable.


Shop
With vBExerience 3.7.14 a virtual Shop has been introduced. You can define categories and put virtual items with pictures in it. A currency can be defined seperatly for every item, e.g. 20 points from threads or 100 points from gallery. Users can purchase the items, they appear in their profile. The costs of the item are substracted from their xperience points. Additionally you can set quantity of the items.
The Shop will motivate your users to collect specific points to buy an item. Optionally you can show the last purchased items on postbit.
You can put virtual items in it, like WoW addons: Sell WoW Items in exchange of f.e. thread points. Great for RPG forums.

Earn Points
Since vBExperience 3.8.0 there is an overview for the user on how points can be collected. All data is beeing pulled from the database (settings, phrases)

Statistics
The statistics is showing a Top-X list of the leading users. Usefull for optimizing points of the point provider. Only enabled point providers with results will be displayed.


Promotion system
To motivate users to do more on your forum I created the promotion system. By reaching defined xperience points the user will be moved to another usergroup - where you can set graphics, shadows, highlighting, etc... What is interesting in combination with this: you can give the user more possibilities f.e. larger avatars or bigger PM box. A log of the promotions is available.

[SpiritSharD]

That would be an extremely good modification to be installed. I'm not entirely sure what good it would do on these forums, but it would certainly increase activeness of the forums.

That, plus these new challenges [BsE] have been setting up, and you'll find yourselves with a busy new forum. Would also increase the amount of partipants in the competitions/challenges aswell. :)



Wish vBulletin was free. :(

[XUnit]

We've had that on TSR/TimeSplitters-Resource.co.uk after some time, could change background colour, shadows, 1st and 2nd colour of the name I think.. well, quite a bit anyway.