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As you know, the forum has been fighting spammers and bots for years. We have seen our fair share of "Custom Kitchens UK", scammy Internet hosting companies, and bots trying to send us to a business's homepage. But after fighting the tidal wave of spam for so many years, the admins had a persistent thought: what if the spammers are right? Not in terms of posting nonsense links and trying to scam our users, but in trying to make money through our unique platform?

Well, thanks to the helpful counsel of Taunt, we have finally decided to move the forum in a new direction. Please see his important post on the matter in this topic

New Server Design & Features

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Pretty much what the poll says.  I've put a lot of work into this, but I want to know you guys' honest opinion.  After all, the server is made to serve its users. :)

Check Out The New Server Design

I still have some things to add.  For example...a user can't select and delete files anymore.  I have to add that feature.  To be honest, I don't know how.  I'll figure it out though. :lol


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This I like!  It definitely looks pretty nice.  Not to mention my customers will be enjoying those preview tabs you've given the .mp3 files I've got. :)

It's better then the old one, that's for sure. :D


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Me likey. Just for the help of comparing, could you put the older one up too in a screenshot or something? :)


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Me likey. Just for the help of comparing, could you put the older one up too in a screenshot or something?

Well....I can't without completely taking the server offline.  I don't have just a screenshot of the old system.  I'd have to put the old system back up, which would probably take several hours of downtime. <_<


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Okay, no worries. Maybe someone else does. I thought it might be easier than just seeing one of the designs. Was the previous one with the red borders?


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Was the previous one with the red borders?

Ummmm...it's been quite awhile.  Yeah, I think that was the one though.  Just a simple table with a large image on the right side?


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Dark colors are good for my eyes.  Is it possible I can get a folder put on there?  I may use it in good time.


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Is it possible I can get a folder put on there? I may use it in good time.

I'll send you a PM about it.


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I still have more work to do.  You might have noticed that the icons are much too big and have white all around them (except for the folder icon).  I was originally going to make this a white template, but it hurt my eyes too much so I decided to go black.  Because of this, I didn't make the icons have transparency.  I've got a lot of work to do.  I've got to totally re-do 38 icons.  I'll let y'all know when I'm finished.


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Well, they're all up now.  But I am a bit disappointed in them.  Perhaps I'll make the boxes for them to be in a bit larger so they can go back to their original 64x64 sizes. :(

EDIT:  Done.  They're all at 64x64 now and I'm loving it! :D Perhaps I should make them larger?