Altar of Stone Forums - Update Thread

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This is a simple thread to document any changes made to the forum and its functionality, for users who like to keep an ear to the ground.

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19/03/2019 - Updated the "Hacks" section of the forum to read "Utilities & Hacks", since there was desire expressed to discuss and demonstrate tools, which isn't technically hacking.

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19/03/2019 - Added custom colours for VIP, The Eternally Faithful and Dogmeat user groups.

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21/03/2019 - Increased the post count per page to fifteen.

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21/03/2019 - Increased the number of topics per page to 50.

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21/03/2019 - Erased the old PHPBB constraint whereby avatars couldn't be uploaded if they were greater than a certain set of dimensions. The board should now scale down user avatar uploads so that they obey the board's visual style. No more fiddling with Photoshop and Paint!

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22/03/2019 - Gave the Youtube button when creating a post a more attractive and uniform appearance, and put it in a more logical position.

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22/03/2019 - Increased the file attachment size limit to 2.5 megabytes. The default was quite stringent.

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22/03/2019 - Added the Strikethrough text and Spoiler text formatting options to the board.

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28/03/2019 - Made some small adjustments to file hosting limitations and extensions to enable usermaps and episodes to be uploaded to the site. It goes without saying that this is then the official day on which the site began to be able to host such content! Expect this process to offer further visibility, automation and functionality in the future.

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16/07/2022 - Updated forum Software to phpBB 3.3.8. Updated site configuration to use PHP 8.1. Restored functionality of various features which were affected by the update. Made a tiny fix so descenders in user profiles are no longer trimmed slightly on certain posts.

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16/07/2022 - Modified the stylesheet for the site's avatar gallery. These should now be transparent where previously they were bright white, which was both unsightly and might've scared some users off from using them, possibly contributing to the peculiar trend of multiple users sticking to the "default painting avatar".

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17/07/2022 - Made a tiny visual change whereby read posts will have a grey paper icon and unread posts will have a red icon. Previously there was no way in which to immediately establish which posts were new upon reading old threads.

[Lizzieborden]

Hey thx so much for this:

read posts will have a grey paper icon and unread posts will have a red icon.

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18/07/2022 - Updated the personal message icons, which previously didn't fit so well with the forum's visual theme and replaced them with darker, Blood-themed icons.