A fast, easy to use, free, and community supported 2D game engine
The site seems very functional.
There still some bugs like you can't delete tags. I guess this is bbPress specific bug.
So, unless some fatal bug appears during the weekend I'll deprecate the google forum this monday and make this forum the official one.
Codemattic
Moderator
One weird thing I noticed is that on some topics the forum shows additional pages even though none exist. These two topics seem to show 3 pages for me:
http://www.cocos2d-iphone.com/forum/topic/88
http://www.cocos2d-iphone.com/forum/topic/73
It changes, so by the time you read this those two topics might not still have the mistake. So even though the topic only needs one page you see the navigation links:
1, 2, 3, next>>
and if you go to the next pages, its just empty.
Anybody else notice this?
Yes, it is also happening to me.
"fake" and "debugging" threads will be deleted on Monday.
Ok.
I'll upgrade to rc2.
bbpress 1.0 rc2 installed.
regarding the old posts, I would prefer to add a link somewhere to the google group forum, so people can search it from there.
I think that adding all the old threads here might not be optimal since we won't be able to find them by tag, something very useful, and also, there lots of threads that are not worth posting here.
Instead of re-posting all threads here, I would start building a "knowledge base" here:
http://www.cocos2d-iphone.com/documentation
The theme that I was using has many bugs:
- can't delete tags
- can't move post from one forum to another
- and another minor issues
I'll use the default bbpress theme until I fix those issues.
Codemattic
Moderator
Although now using the web interface its even harder to tell which are the new/unread posts. Its not a huge deal, I backtrack through each one until I start recognizing posts from before and go from there. But it seems like something the forum software should track itself. When everyone starts using the forum and the volume of new posts go up it may become a hassle.
>When everyone starts using the forum and the volume of new posts go up it may become a hassle
Agreed.
Having a light forum has this things, light features. I see wierd in the 22 century to still have to quote by hand, insert tags by hand, etc
I'm still advocate for a vBulletin, SMF or PHPBB forum. More heavyweight? yes but many more features.
added "unread posts" plugin
I'd like to float the idea of adding the bbPress Signature plug-in:
http://bbpress.org/plugins/topic/bbpress-signatures/
Codemattic
Moderator
Maybe we can have two more forums?
Im thinking a "cocos website" for discussions about features or changes wrt cocos2d-iphone.org. So any of the posts currently prefixed "[site]" would go in there.
Also maybe a "free discussion" forum, which could be about anything iphone appstore game related - even if it isnt directly cocos information.
That way the "cocos2d discuss" could concentrate only on discussions on the framework itself.
just a thought.
Really like the new forums, just catching up with posts after being away for a week.
Minor request: Is it possible to force all href links in posts to launch in a new tab/window (target="_blank")?
Its a bit of a pain when you click on a link, closing the page when you've finished with it to realize you've closed the forums (thank god for Firefox's 'Undo Close Tab' : )
I'm sure I'll get used to right clicking, open in new tab otherwise, but I find its usually a good idea to leave people on your site, instead of redirecting to another when dealing with links.
Thanks,
Phil
Also, the 'Related Posts' plug-in could be a nice addition
http://bbpress.org/plugins/topic/related-topics/
Didn't know that, thanks.
But I'm on a macbook pro using the touchpad, or my iphone most of the time. So unfortunately don't have the luxury of a middle button.
Just noticed that a cmd + click opens in a new tab, although that means using 2 hands rather than one. Guess I'm a lazy web surfer :-/
I just personally think that 3rd party links shouldn't redirect users away from the main site/forum by default (on any site). But its not a major issue that I can't cope with ;)
Will be trying out the email gateway soon (it sounds sweet!), hoping to go back to the lovely gmail interface with custom tags, labels and stars etc.
I have a request.. would it be possible to make the 'code formatted'
as a default (instead of using ' around code blocks)?
Chris.
On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 9:52 AM, <cocos2d-iphone-discuss@gamesforfood.cl> wrote:
> philm says:
>
> Really like the new forums, just catching up with posts after being away for
> a week.
>
> Minor request: Is it possible to force all href links in posts to launch in
> a new tab/window (target="_blank")?
>
> Its a bit of a pain when you click on a link, closing the page when you've
> finished with it to realize you've closed the forums (thank god for
> Firefox's 'Undo Close Tab' : )
>
> I'm sure I'll get used to right clicking, open in new tab otherwise, but I
> find its usually a good idea to leave people on your site, instead of
> redirecting to another when dealing with links.
>
> Thanks,
> Phil
>
> Read the whole thread.
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