This also gives people more chance to beon the "First 3 to reach this phase" list

yeah, for people who'll be there from the start, just as is it now. but there will always be new members with that same desire... i don't see why we'd even need that list, you can always make a post when you reach a phase, right?

Fair point. The First-to-Reach lists are useless as it is... but if you want to show the future members that you are elite, a well-thought-out post in every phase topic will do.

I like the first to reach. Granted i wasnt on it til much much later. I think its an accomplishment for those who worked their butts off to get up there fast.

I haven't really thought about the lists yet. If they do get included, the original lists here will still be honored... somehow...

a big sign.....

nil
felix
maniac
finished phase 100 befor the move

CONGRATS!!

I mean the lists on every Phase.

You'll see them when you get to Phase 50 or so.

i thought so. precisely the reason i used the word "hopefully" in that sentence

edit:
oops. i misread that statement.
mistook it for "easier said than done" LOL

i see them now on phase 37....

...

XD

Heh, what a cool time to decide to get another crack at Phase 17 ( )

Just letting you know that the progress has been a little slow over the last week due to university exams. That'll continue for another week or so.

But I'll get you guys some initial screenshots next week, so you can see the new layout/colour scheme and see the beginnings of some of the new features.

Although feature-wise the progress has been a little slow (as some of my insiders will agree), it's mainly been due to the complexity. Some things require some monster SQL queries. One took about 5 days to complete, requiring reworking about 4 times.

There's also lots of very little things that can take a while to add. As I think I've said somewhere, one of the worst was adding commas in between users names.

At present, I'd estimate early-mid August as the date of it being opened, but that's a rough guess. It's hard to figure out how long some things will take.

I'll keep you posted.

Uni exams For The Loss!

Just had my first one of the semester today.
I know how you feel.

My "2-Do" list is so big there's no way I'll have it completed by the time next semester starts up again!

Just a quick update: most bbCode tags are now working. At the moment, the included ones are:

Bold: [B ][/B ]
Italics: [I ][/I ]
Underline: [U ][/U ]
Direct link; a la http://www.google.com: [URL ][/URL]
Text link; a la Search Engine: [URL=... ][/URL ]
Image: [IMG ][/IMG ]
Strikethrough: [S ][/S ]
Text color: [COLOR=... ][/COLOR ]
Text colour : [COLOUR=... ][/COLOUR ]
Text col : [COL=... ][/COL ]
Text size: [SIZE=... ][/SIZE ]

Of course, these tags will be used without the spaces that I've added before the ']'. And they are case insensitive. I've added a few color synonyms, as I'm sure some people were tired of the American spelling .

Size works slightly differently at the moment then it does here. Instead of a scale 1-7, it is now pixel height. So [SIZE=10 ][/SIZE ] would make the containing text 10 pixels high (consider the size options in MS Word as an example).

Other tags yet to be implemented:
Quote - no source: [QUOTE ][/QUOTE ]
Quote - with source: [QUOTE=... ][/QUOTE ]
List: [LIST ][/LIST ] - each new item will be identified with a new line

Plus some more special tags just for Web Riddler.

After getting the bbCode done, smilies will be a breeze.

On a side note with regards to IMG tags. We've had problems here when images are too large, where they stretch the forum's width. I've had similar problems with layout when -*test*-('")ing with large images. So if possible, I'll probably thumbnail images if they are too large with a link to the full image.