Welcome to Stage48 version 6!

It's a good thing this forum software allows me to check how many new posts remaining for each forum. This can actually indicate how popular something really is, quite a nice feature that the previous forum software didn't have!

 

Ooooh. Great look! I love what you guys did with the forum. Can't wait to explore the other features.

 

I'm also liking this "whiparound" coverage that I'm getting used to in this new forum. Previously, I would check the forum "sequentially" (from top to bottom), but instead I'm going through all the threads AT RANDOM without any particular order! (Except I'm doing it based on earliest to latest alert...)

Also, this forum software actually gives me a CUSTOMIZED forum experience where I can actually watch the particular forums and threads that I'm interested and not on the ones I'm not interested on! I'm sure there's some here like me that are taking advantage of this...

Agreed? The "customized" Stage48 experience with this new forum software?

 

Yay I got my avatar to work nicely now! The Save for Web thing worked. I totally forgot Photoshop did that. For some reason when I initially saved it, it was 200kb... XD Now the same file is much smaller. Awesome.

 

I really like the new layout!! congrats stage48-san for the new look

 

I find this wall-message feature is pretty funny and useful in the same time lol, keep it up lads! and oh! It would be great if the alert notification could be the real-time pop-up notification like you have in the facebook! XD

 

The new forum looks nice!! I just don't understand the purpose of "points" I think it could be removed/ignored. and then the "likes" system, that I dislike, because I've been in enough forums before to know how this kind of system ends (not well). One thing I liked with stage48 is that it was neutral, no "likes" or +/- to people's posts. and now... well, I know that personally, I probably won't be using the "likes", even if I agree/appreciate a post.

 

Actually the admin also don't want to use that 'like' system but it's too complicated to remove it...

 

Which preferences did you pick? I still can't get my avatar to look like it's original quality.

 

Awesome job on the new forum layout!!! I especially like how the girls' individual threads are separated by team.

 

Weird thing is that I didn't change any of the settings besides picking .png as the format. Yet it saved as much smaller than just simply save as > .png... it's weird.

 

Even though I didn't use Photoshop but I think I know why that happens...

When you directly save as > .png
The image layers are saved as it is when you're editing.
The colours are also unchanged at all...

But when you save using Save for Web
The image layers merged to become only one layer plus one background layer that's not merged...
The colour will change a bit but you'll not noticed it...

I know about layer things because I use GIMP and Paint.NET in editing and they also use same "layer" concept like Photoshop...

 

Wow, it's great, feels like new home. Congrats stage48 minasan.

 

The new look is nice and fresh! You guys did a great job with this. I'll be sure to poke around for the new features!

 

Just got back from a week of having only very occasional internet through a cell phone, and I have to say that the new layout looks great on a computer! The new mobile version is also very nice though, I was able to see a bit of that before and was eagerly anticipating the full thing. Thanks for all of the hard work on this, I'm looking forward to exploring all of the new and improved features.

 

What's with the new PMing system, I can't seem to PM more than 5 people at the same time when I need to get at least 6 people in sync for a convo.

 

Can you regulate the avatar size to make it more uniform and the nice? Some member have super long avatars and it's ugly. And some signatures exceeded the maximum space. I think it's better to have half the normal allowed space. It looks better that way cause most people post a line or two anyway and the signature looks bigger than their post.

And removing future girls kenkyuusei upcoming girls whatever it is if you want more kenkyuusei to post. I can still recall someone said in the other thread 'what's with the ranking im getting after posting for 3 years..'. You gotta really regulate everyone you know..no more ranking system in this forum except for likes, points. Yup, just name only so it's hard to distinguish someone who only came here recently so they won't be shy to post.

 

I'll address that in the new rules in just a little while. I'm gonna make sure I'm clear about how big every signature can be. I can set the forum to cut off signatures after a certain size, so those that exceed the limit will be shown only partly.

As for the avatars: yes, some avatars are too long. It's very easy to change that. I'm still looking at how people are adapting to the feature and will decide later on dimensions that everyone can live with.

Right now we're still putting the finishing touches on the design and some of the functions. I'll post the new rules when I feel that everything else is done and working.