✅ Forum Migration To Do List

Yes, that was exactly what i was looking for.
🙌🏽🙅🏾‍♂️

So aren’t we waiting for 5.2.2 of the posting plugin to be installed? Or has that been done.

@djensen said in Forum Migration To Do List:

@CWO-Marc I think we have a unique use of badges in our community. BGG aside most other services just give you a badge for your subscription period and don’t date stamp it. What I would like is tick marks (maybe 3-5 pixels wide) for “hidden” badges and they expand when you roll over them. So you could have 1-2 primary badges and the rest are small blocks of color.

Yes, our community’s use of badges does resemble what could be called the “Marshal Zhukov aesthetic” (a uniform covered in medals, orders and decorations), which isn’t surprising in view of the WWII theme of A&A.

At any rate, your idea to have the badges normally display as small images which could individually expand to full size (such as when you roll over them or put your pointer on them) sounds like a good approach. Rather than using an abstract tick mark, however, I’d suggest using some sort of small circular rosette, which would be similar to the practice which is often used for civilian decorations: the full-sized decoration is only worn on certain formal occasions, but in day-to-day life the recipient can wear a miniature version of the insignia, which is essentially a lapel pin. See the attached picture as an example. The full-sized A&A badge could (and I think should) keep its traditional horizontal rectangular form, which has the advantage of being similar to a military service ribbon but has the disadvantage of having a space-consuming shape even when it’s reduced to a tiny icon.

To follow up on my last post, here’s a rough example of what the miniature rosette concept would look like. I used my own string of badges as a prototype, and the mini version ended up being about 50% shorter than the full-sized string. The minis are squared-off versions of the rectangular badges, which actually works better than circular rosettes – it’s equivalent in compactness, and it reflects more effectively the angular (rather than circular) shape of the full-sized badges.

A feature request for the To Do List:

On triplea-game.org forums when I reference an external website, I most of the time see a small preview image.

For example when referencing a Github issue, with
https://github.com/triplea-game/triplea/issues/4186
it immediately shows a preview image of the referenced item under the URL:

Clicking inside the image brings me directly to the issue on Github, there.

On our forum I only see the written URL.

Is this a setting or a plugin worth to be included here?

Nice face lift of the forum guys!

However it seems my support badge for 2018 is lost in the big void between old and new. Could you please look into it when time allows? :relaxed:

@Tjoek You can choose which badges appear by clicking your profile image or visiting your profile and then choose “Edit” -> “Group titles”. Anyway I have already added it back for you :-)

See: https://www.axisandallies.org/forums/post/1236389

we used to be able to see how many times our attachments were downloaded. can this be supported with this new software as well?

also, we used to be able to view who’s online and what they were doing. I always felt that was helpful. any chance we can have that feature here too?

@axis-dominion said in Forum Migration To Do List:

also, we used to be able to view who’s online and what they were doing. I always felt that was helpful. any chance we can have that feature here too?

This is possible today: Klick on “Users” then “Online”. However the Online status has to be set per user.

@Panther said in Forum Migration To Do List:

@Tjoek You can choose which badges appear by clicking your profile image or visiting your profile and then choose “Edit” -> “Group titles”. Anyway I have already added it back for you :-)

See: https://www.axisandallies.org/forums/post/1236389

Thnx Panther! I should have looked there first…

@Panther true but it only says whether they’re online or not, which is of course very useful too. the old feature used to also allow us to know what they were up to, which was very handy :)

@axis-dominion Do you mean their latest activity? Klick on the user’s icon to see his profile. At the bottom of the page you see his recent postings. Or did you mean something else?

@Panther no not that, it is something different. there used to be a very small link at the bottom of the forum page, I think it was “who’s online”. and you can see everyone online and what they were up to.

@djensen TripleA pre-release with new A&A play by forum poster can be downloaded and tested: https://github.com/triplea-game/triplea/releases/tag/1.9.0.0.13066

We will look to publish this on the TripleA website as the next official stable this weekend if no major issues are found during testing.

Don’t forget to change the topic id