New Look for Code Modifications
 

Well, you might remeber a discussion about Changing the first Post of Modificationthreads, to get a little more the feeling of our Hacks Database we used to have in during vB2 times.

After a long time of coding i've now added something like that.
Take a look at a Modthread, and you will see what i mean if you look at the top of the thread, over the first post.

You'll see that there are a lot of informations you can see within one moment now.
I'd like to ask our Coders to edit their releases and change the settings to fill in the fields correctly.

Of course i have tested this with a lot of possibilities, but it's still considered as Gamma version.

So if you have ideas, about something to change, please feel free to post here :)

Enjoy!

Wow you implemented that quickly ;) Good job pal

Nice job. :)

Can you add things like "Username has installed this mod." to Co-Authors/Supporters as well?

Yep, that's planned Matthew, as well as allowing coauthors upload bugfixes aso to the original post.

:)

That'll help me quite a bit.

Thanks. :D

You and Zak were a main reason why i thought about something like that ;)

Talk about favorites ;) I'll have to start giving the cookies more often no :p

They were just the reason that i got the idea, nothing else :p

wow nice :D

Heh.

Just one question: since the Hack DB-like first post is there and seems to cover everything (except maybe user info, though I don't see much point for that on a hack release anyways), does the first post really need to be repeated on the normal postbit? :)

hey, i first thought it was a glinch on my display... GOOD content... will have to see if i can handle that...

can we see that code released somewhere ??? (or at least for friends like me ?? ;) )

@Matthew: i'll remove the first postbit, but i want to make sure everything works perfectly, that's why i kept it in, right now :)

@nexial: hmm, well, we'll see ;)

I want to comment on it, but starting a new thread for it seems to be too early:
I would like to see the first post (which is copied onto the new code header style) truncated, and a link to the original post (either single view or just start of thread).
Reason? Looking at my rpg thread, the header is WAAAYYYY too long IMHO ;) It is a problem with mods with huge first posts. :p

Other than that, I got a "WTBF happened to by thread!?" feeling when I saw it, but once I actually looked, it was really nice ;)


//peace

Nice job xenon

/me clicks install looooooooool

@Revan:see my answer to Matthew regarding the first post :)

Makes sense. :)

Once again, nice work. I love it. :p

Looking good! :)

I would suggest remove the firstpost show on the firstpage because there's the firstpost with most info already ;)

YUCK!

Sorry guys, I know a lot of hard work has gone into it but I hate it.

great work and idea but i dont like the look of it though

I like it, nice job!

Users without avatar don't show up properly though.

WOW, i thought at first....okkkk whats broke...hehe Then i read this.. :) nice job and i do have to say it looks better now, more proffesional :)

Looks good, Stefan! ;)

maybe make the checkboxes disabled so users cant uncheck them;)

Yep looks good, was going to say maybe grey the boxes out to everyone but the coder of the hack.

Looks nice though.

You can't edit it from that page anyways, so what good would keeping it enabled for the coder do? :p

i love the way its set...
this is especially good for those that dont like reading first posts and now people can post new updates to the firstpost and people will notice better and easier

Excellent work: such a useful modification, and so well implemented... I (FWIW) have only two suggestions:I think perhaps have the checkboxes type="hidden", but have images change on the fly with the DOM based on the settings of the checkboxes?

Secondly, the "minimise" setting for the hack info at the top of each thread should retain the user's open/closed setting on a per thread basis: works for forums on forumhome, should be extendable to the hackthreads ;)

Other than that, awesome: *thumbs like way up dood*

Why not just use if conditions in that case?

Either way, I would say disabled checkboxes (or hell, enabled is still fine) is the way to go.

'cos the DOM is so much cooler ;)I reckon even potentially confusing the new members is not the way to go, but hey, we don't have to agree on everything :D

Well, of course it can say Yes or No instead of checkboxes. You could use an image, but why? ;)

My reasoning of either Text or Images, over Checkboxes, is that one doesn't think one can change a text value or an image by clicking it, where a checkbox makes me think I can make an alteration...

Yes, at first i checked my hack and saw the changes and check boxes, and though they where for the thread starter to easily change settings, then i got confused when i looked at someone eles's hack and still saw that. Great work Stefan, you out did yourself this time. But i agree with natch, use an image or text, cause even i got kinda confused at first.

I may have spoken too soon in the site feedback forum. It should be very useful when the rest of it's implemented.

Would it be possible to have a "view THIS users posts in THIS thread" option? Quite often we find ourselves interacting with 1 or 2 users on modifying hacks and it would be quite useful if it were possible to view just that users posts in the thread.

I like it, can ya please release it as a hack, I have a lot of downloads for custom architecture on my site and it would be perfect as a hack ;P

on my side, i'd be very happy to have that hack to transform it, add custom fields, and make it versatile like a bookstore, product reviews, recipes book... please please , guys... give it to me.. ;)

Looks neat :) Nice job :D

Very nice, I like it very much :)

I have two comments to make on this new style...


1. I don't like the fact that the file attachments no longer show how many times they were downloaded.

2. I REALLY think it would be a good idea if the first posts indicated when each file attachment was uploaded (or last updated). Otherwise, there's no way of knowing if the "Last Update" field was tripped only by an edit of the post itself, or whether it was because there is a new version of one or all of the files available.