We're migrating the QGL forum to a new box soon and some changes needed to be made code-wise to support this move.

If people who still use that old forum wouldn't mind using this URL instead:

http://staging.ausforums.com/x/439207/

... and letting me know of any issues, that would be awesome and appreciated.

Known issues:
- Messages and User profiles load in the stupid old broken generic ausforums.com template. This is known/expected and is just because of the domain name - if you are really motivated you can edit your hosts file and set it to point to 203.220.0.238 and those things will work.
- post editing is horribly broken

FAQ:
Q: Is this preparation for shutting down the QGL forums and making everyone move to AusGamers?
A: No, we're going to all this trouble so people can still use the QGL forum. Douche.

Q: But you're going to make everyone move one day, right?
A: No. Our goal is to try and make the AG forum more appealing; our first attempt at that (when time permits) will be to just offer an optional QGL theme/skin which we'll make as close to this as possible.

Q: When will you make search work?
A: It already works! Oh, you mean on the QGL site. Probably never; it's a huge pain in the ass. But maybe.

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I went here and tested it, I don't understand, there is another way to access qgl forums, other than qgl.ausforums.com?

yep, http://www.ausgamers.com/forums/general/

Eww that ausforums view is disgusting, who would use that?!

ITS A TRAP

qgl.ausforums.com 4lyf y0

who'd have thunk it

posting in a test thread
beep beep chugga chugga big red car

It's the Rapture!

holla!

It's quicker

Feels like a XEON

trog, when I login to that site from your OP, it redirects me back to the base URI (staging.*) with no /index.php/439207/?agn path etc

also it looked like this;

http://unix.org.au/~brett/images/badqgl.jpg
^ fully loaded

firefox / xp yada yada

Make the search link link to the ausgamers search page.

Just noticed when you edit your post it has the area set as "Wireplay - CS News". But then I've noticed that's on the production site too :)

it seems to work fine for me.

trog, when I login to that site from your OP, it redirects me back to the base URI (staging.*) with no /index.php/439207/?agn path etc

oh yeh that's a known issue too; I'd add it to the list but EDIT IS BROKEN!@#

edit: HAI AMMS!

So wait, when I go to the staging.ausgamers version, is this AusGamers Forums on steroids to look precisely like QGL?

Actually yeah, just saw the different editing stuff.

I dont know if I want to remember a new shortcut... staging post k!

I'm sure there's a few of us that would happily lend a hand if you had code work to do
just setup a staging svn, no one can break anything this way

Yeah give us access to your PHPz!

Two reasons why people wont use the ausgamers forum.

a) Dumb url. Why not forums.ausgamers.com or something?

b) Dumb theme. Obviously you plan to address it, but even if I liked the ausgamers colourscheme (and for the main site, its ok) I would still think that the forums were terrible (they are).

^ you don't care enough unless you've written your own qgl template site based on the rss feed

Following Ruperts strategy ?

Or you've added your own PHP forum version inside their staging server. Muahahah

^ lololol teq's on Whingepool looking at gaming configurations

Eww that ausforums view is disgusting, who would use that?!

*sigh* Me. And many others. And we prefer it. The end.

trogdor can you please add some kind of option to the ausgamers forum to increase the table width (or whatever it is if its not a table any more) Ill stop using the QGL forum if the ausgamers version isn't quite so retarded... and by retarded I mean made for tools still using 1024x768

last edited by qmass at 23:21:44 05/Nov/09

if you skinned ausgamers i'd switch in a jiffy.

the white hurts my eyes in a dark room.

I need a work-safe, boring ass version of QGL.. PLS?!

Just some whites and some sky-blues and uncontrasting black text.

Looks the same to me.

ROFL ok I see what you mean about edit being broken... I think I'll stick to the old forum for now.

changed my bookmark url so here go's i guess?

editing really does suck.. guess my posts are going to be be even worse than usual for a while.

another thing when you're post limited and try to post your text doesnt come up in the little box thing on the redirect page..

and i cant get back to the forum after i post... it doesnt autoredirect and the links broken as well..

trogdor can you please add some kind of option to the ausgamers forum to increase the table width (or whatever it is if its not a table any more) Ill stop using the QGL forum if the ausgamers version isn't quite so retarded... and by retarded I mean made for tools still using 1024x768

hooray for being a hoarder and never throwing anything away, I just found my ausgamers -> qgl greasemonkey script sitting in a backup dir from a few months ago :D If you're using firefox it's possible to make the ausgamers forum wider so it fills your entire screen using greasemonkey.

It's probably possible in other browsers too but I have no idea how to do it.

qmass wins the mystery of the stretched ausgamers :P


last edited by ctd at 02:38:05 06/Nov/09

it looks like its zoomed...all the images are blurry? try resetting the zoom.

edit: yeah im pretty sure that is what it is. Just tested zooming then closing the site and reloading it and firefox stores the zoom from the previous view.

last edited by qmass at 01:49:41 06/Nov/09

It's just as shit as the original on iPhone, so I'd happily use it

Two reasons why people wont use the ausgamers forum.

a) Dumb url. Why not forums.ausgamers.com or something?

www.ausgamers.com/forums is a dumb url for the forums?

b) Dumb theme. Obviously you plan to address it, but even if I liked the ausgamers colourscheme (and for the main site, its ok) I would still think that the forums were terrible (they are).

ffffffffffucccccccccccccccckkkkkkkkkkking hell

trog, can you tell how many active QGL interface ppl there are compared to active AGN peeps? Just a %age will do if you don't want to give away numbers.

www.ausgamers.com/forums is a dumb url for the forums?

No, thats fine, but http://www.ausgamers.com/forums/general/ is a dumb url.

ffffffffffucccccccccccccccckkkkkkkkkkking hell

what?

Q: Is this so trog can generate more fat qgl loot for his bandana collection ?
A: probably.

=]
it's so we can move the site to another host, but pick up as many bugs etc as possible and get them fixed beforehand

Q: Will this improve the quality of discussion on QGL?

A: Probably not.

It's impossible to improve on perfection, infi.

Also, bug-fix https auto-links already.

I liked the ausgamers post reply feature but I really don't like the colour scheme :(. I really tried really hard to like it but white background and black text just hurt my eyes... So I stuck with old QGL forums which some small compromise i.e. manually quoting people etc. I'll force myself to use ausgamers again and see if I can make myself like it ....

Another essential AGN interface feature that is missing is 'delete post'

Implement that already too, bloody annoying having to go to QGL to delete things that I wished I hadn't posted...

Hi Chris :)

Hai E.T....if that is your real name... *shifty eyes*