Finally I got my act together and sorted out the IFRAME evilness. No more confusing scrollbars I hope. Please report if you find any bugs or anomalies

Happy browsing!

One small problem for me. New posts seem to expire too fast. More times than not I don't even catch the new posts. I have to go through and look at the dates to see what is new.

Hmm.. that's weird since I haven't touched that part. Normally new posts expire after the session is terminated. I.e. if you see new posts and close your browser and open the page again, they are probably expired. Or if you browse to another web site with the same tab/window.

I've noticed sometimes the new posts notification seem to disappear without apparent reason, before you've even clicked the new posts, but I guess it's just a limitation within the phpBB session handling.

Yay!! I was wondering if that was intentional or not. I'm glad that's all sorted out.

I've never had a problem with new posts expiring. Don't know if that helps you. If you've updated from a previous version of phpBB, it's possible that older accounts may have a setting carried over that affects this while accounts after a certain version do not. That's a wild guess at best. It may be worth checking the database entries for user account info to look for anomalies.

The banner is huge and eats up way too much space. F ex when posting a reply the banner and top links take up half of my browser window, and the bottom half of the Post a reply box is below the bottom. Making it about 30 pixels high would be nicer.

Ah yes, good point. I'm using 1600x1200 on both my laptop and stationary computer so I never really see the page in lower resolution (i guess that makes me a very bad webmaster, but then again I'm not really a web designer ). I will try to slim it down so it fits better on 1024x768.

Okey, so here is a preview on the new 768p friendly version

How does it feel? I must say it feels a bit weird

Yeah, I'm a 1600x1200 guy too so I also didn't notice. It looks compressed. No real biggie. To be honest, you could eliminate the background and use a solid soft blue with the red lettering and retrohackers.com in blue 8-bit font. I think it would work well. Compressed as it is, it looks really busy and makes the red a little more difficult to see.

This isn't really important, but a lot of links appear to be hard coded to retrohackers.org still (try a few of the news items on the front page.) A script to go through the database and change all instances of retrohackers.org to retrohackers.com would be nice, but it's minor and easy to deal with. A better option would be to have a nightly cron job run that changes retrohackers.org or retrohackers.com hard coded links to relative links. That way, if for some reason, the URL changes to something unrelated, it wont matter because the links are all relative.

But, I haven't explored phpBB enough to know if it relies on any hard coded links for anything. So I can't say that should be done without testing. Perhaps a duplicate site in retrohackers.com/forum2 with a duplicate instance of the database would be a good test tool for something like that.

Much improved, thanks. I'm normally using 2560x1024, but for the time being I'm stuck with the laptop at 1280x800.

Yes. Good job, Raveguru! Unread flags are cleared when you log out, so if you haven't read new messages in one go - you won't see them flagged anymore...

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Stuck at 1280x800? Geez. I use this MacBook day in and day out at that resolution.

Either way, the new layout does look quite smart.

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Since my normal res is 2560x1024 or 1680x1050, yeah, 1280x800 is a bit cramped...

What a discussion for a retro thing forum

For me 640 x 256 is somehow the best resolution...

I do like the new header.