Metal Storm - Design Update
Hi all!
It's been a while since Metal Storm had a proper update. A lot of layouts were rather outdated and it looked terrible on mobile devices.
I started working on a redesign over a year ago, but due to chronic lack of time and Metal Storm's insane amount of pages, the progress was very slow. Now, while not every page has been redesigned, I feel it's ready for release - I certainly wouldn't want to drag it for another year. The remaining pages can then slowly follow as I complete them.
The biggest improvements are centered around responsive layout, which should now scale nicely all the way down to smartphones. A lot of layouts, some sections and functionalities have been updated, most notably the front page and private messaging. My biggest efforts were directed at the most vital parts of the site, like band pages, the forum and publications.
Due to the increased image sizes, many old album and band images wil appear stretched - please replace them with new ones, they will be saved in higher resolution. I will also work on automatically updating gallery thumbnails, which used to be very small and now will look stretched as well.
Please report any broken layouts and bugs here. Though make sure you clear your browser cache before you complain
Happy New Year!
It's been a while since Metal Storm had a proper update. A lot of layouts were rather outdated and it looked terrible on mobile devices.
I started working on a redesign over a year ago, but due to chronic lack of time and Metal Storm's insane amount of pages, the progress was very slow. Now, while not every page has been redesigned, I feel it's ready for release - I certainly wouldn't want to drag it for another year. The remaining pages can then slowly follow as I complete them.
The biggest improvements are centered around responsive layout, which should now scale nicely all the way down to smartphones. A lot of layouts, some sections and functionalities have been updated, most notably the front page and private messaging. My biggest efforts were directed at the most vital parts of the site, like band pages, the forum and publications.
Due to the increased image sizes, many old album and band images wil appear stretched - please replace them with new ones, they will be saved in higher resolution. I will also work on automatically updating gallery thumbnails, which used to be very small and now will look stretched as well.
Please report any broken layouts and bugs here. Though make sure you clear your browser cache before you complain
Happy New Year!
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| Bad English Tage Westerlund Posts: 61982  |
Written by [user id=113163] on 15.01.2017 at 23:36 No black must stay here
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| Gopherhawk Posts: 257  |
It would be nice if when you clicked the album art it got larger.
---- Follow your heart, not trends.
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| Maco Pvt Funderground Posts: 3593  |
Written by Gopherhawk on 15.01.2017 at 23:55 That would be definitely great.
---- Crackhead Megadeth reigns supreme.
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| The Galactician Posts: 399  |
Great job! Just bumping here the notion to clear your cache if you're having problems. I thought things were really broken until I remembered I have a history in web development and cleared my damn cache. :-D
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| 3rdWorld China was a neat Posts: 4367  |
Written by Ivan on 15.01.2017 at 22:03 Looks like option to search for posts within a thread is missing in the forum. Is it moved or removed? cause I'm definitely not able to find it.
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| metal2000 Posts: 146  |
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| Athropos Burning inside Posts: 161  |
Written by Ivan on 15.01.2017 at 21:04 Is this processed offline or something? I re-uploaded good quality images for some albums (e.g., http://metalstorm.net/bands/album.php?album_id=1628&band_id=239&bandname=Loudblast), edit has been accepted but the cover art is still low res (100x100 as far as I can tell).
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| LeKiwi High Fist Prog Posts: 4099  |
When you open up your notifications and ctrl click one of them, it opens the link in a new tab as expected but also in the current tab.
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| LeKiwi High Fist Prog Posts: 4099 |
Also just noticed that the button to preview your post is gone.
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| Litvin Posts: 364  |
That is how the new layout looking in my borwser https://snag.gy/V0XE1I.jpg. I am on latest Opera. Plaese fix.
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| Paz 777 Elite Posts: 4000  |
I love how the band's discographies are sorted/displayed now. Great work!
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| Mehdi Taba Mehdi Taba Posts: 436  |
Previously rating numbers from 8.5-10 was pure green but now the current color is kinda similar to the yellow ones and it's not that distinctive! PLEASE make it more greenish ThAnX in advance.
---- Stop seeing things and people in a binary way. Everything has its own spectrum and complexity. Be patient and learn about the world.
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| Cynic Metalhead Ambrish Saxena Posts: 7550  |
Written by Litvin on 16.01.2017 at 12:01 Clear your cache/browser and restart opera. It will work.
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| Cynic Metalhead Ambrish Saxena Posts: 7550 |
In new update, the notification reminder should be (1n) format. That was way good than a warning 'icon' with number on it.
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| Paz 777 Elite Posts: 4000 |
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| Ivan Retired Admin Elite Posts: 8850  |
Written by Athropos on 16.01.2017 at 08:27 No, it looks fine to me. You probably still have old version in you cache, since the filename would remain the same.
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| Paz 777 Elite Posts: 4000 |
Written by [user id=4365] on 16.01.2017 at 14:21 Yeah, that would be useful.
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| Athropos Burning inside Posts: 161 |
Written by Ivan on 16.01.2017 at 14:30 Yep you're right, much better now.
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| Cynic Metalhead Ambrish Saxena Posts: 7550 |
Written by Paz on 16.01.2017 at 14:09 If we want to keep overall perspective intact, then I think i wasn't nitpicking it. 
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| Paz 777 Elite Posts: 4000 |
Written by Cynic Metalhead on 16.01.2017 at 14:42 Thanks for quoting me! Now I know how the icon looks like 
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| Paz 777 Elite Posts: 4000 |
Also, the preview option while writing a new post would be handy... Because you never know if the image code is good or not.
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| WorpeX Made of Metal Posts: 1352  |
Is it possible to make things smaller?? everything is so big...
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| moXmo Posts: 9  |
Hi Ivan, I've noticed that the link to my profile (or to any profile) http://www.metalstorm.net/users/profile.php?user_id={ID} redirects through a 302 to the website's home page.
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| Ivor Staff Posts: 5491  |
Written by moXmo on 16.01.2017 at 15:31 That one was temporary error. I.
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| Karlabos Posts: 5734  |
I might be just not finding myself here but isn't there more topic search option? I only seem to find the subforum search now... That was pretty handy when finding whether an album was already posted on 20xx rec threads...
---- "Aah! The cat turned into a cat!" - Reimu Hakurei
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| Dark Forever Ruído Sonoro Posts: 706  |
Good idea to give this website a visual refresh! But while you're at it, please see if you can fix the login. The Facebook login only works at the second attempt and if I close the website, when I come back it looks like I've been logged off (but if I try to login, the login fails BUT I'm logged on, kinda messy).
---- Taste the DARK... ... and you'll live FOREVER!
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| 3rdWorld China was a neat Posts: 4367 |
Written by Paz on 16.01.2017 at 14:31 Already quoted Ivan for that. -_-
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