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Whoa. For a second there, I think the font got way huge on me. Not sure why.

Does the "competition" forum really need to be subdivided? The second section is "reviews", and it stands to reason that the existing reviews forum would cover that well enough. ?

Also, this new version is even more complicated than the last. I see it has a number of new features, but I could see it having a pretty steep learning curve (especially for the newsgroup regulars, who are already biased against forums)...

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Also, this new version is even more complicated than the last. I see it has a number of new features, but I could see it having a pretty steep learning curve (especially for the newsgroup regulars, who are already biased against forums)...
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I personally find phpBB3 easier to use than the previous version. It's true that it contains more features, but I find the features to be more accessible than in previous versions.

[quote="Merk"]
Whoa. For a second there, I think the font got way huge on me. Not sure why.
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It did. I had to edit the configuration file to remove the debug mode from use, since it's on by default in a new install.

[quote="Merk"]
Does the "competition" forum really need to be subdivided? The second section is "reviews", and it stands to reason that the existing reviews forum would cover that well enough. ?
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Actually, I doubt it. I'll remove the subdivisions there.

[quote="rioshin"]
Actually, I doubt it. I'll remove the subdivisions there.
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Cool. It'd only be used for reviews of competitions, and those are likely to the reviews people post most often. Combining seems like a winning plan.

At this point, I'm pretty satisfied with the forum divisions. I'd still not separate Tads and Inform, but I guess it doesn't hurt anything. I'd suggest renaming "General Talk" to "General and Off-Topic Talk".

One other thing, I guess. This forum -- Administrative Announcements. Is there a way it can be renamed to something... softer? Maybe "Community Announcements" or something? I'm afraid this is going to perpetuate an "elite" kind of mindset with visitors, where everybody who's not admin or a moderator will feel like they're just a visitor, not part of the community. Obviously it can't just have open moderation and everybody can't be made admin, but I'd rather the whole thing be phrased more along the lines of a "community" where possible.

I'm afraid it's going to feel like somebody's private board, instead of a community board.

Where've the Playing IF forums gone?

and I think the Playing category should be first on the page, then the authoring, then the other two.

I can still see the Playing forum. But those +/- symbols out beside the groups are a little wonky. They don't seem to work right for me. I wonder if we'd have been better off sticking to phpBB version 2 instead? Also, it seems like the "Management" group is visible when you're not logged in, but the announcements forum itself is hidden. I don't know. Maybe I'm just too used to the prior version. It's a little quirky to me so far.