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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 A lot of layouts were rather outdated and it looked terrible on mobile devices.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!

Source: metalstorm.net
Posted: 14.01.2017 by Ivan


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27.01.2017 - 16:36
ScottyM

One other observation. I accidentally rapidly double clicked on the "Edit Message" button from a comment, and got a page with both the red error message, as well as a green "message edited" message. It looks like the buttons aren't being disabled after the first click. To reproduce, just edit a comment, and quickly double-click the green "Edit message" button.
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27.01.2017 - 16:44
!J.O.O.E.!
Account deleted
Written by ScottyM on 27.01.2017 at 16:36

One other observation. I accidentally rapidly double clicked on the "Edit Message" button from a comment, and got a page with both the red error message, as well as a green "message edited" message. It looks like the buttons aren't being disabled after the first click. To reproduce, just edit a comment, and quickly double-click the green "Edit message" button.

That's always been the case. If you try to edit a comment and don't actually make an edit you'll get an error message. What's happening when you double click is you're getting the confirmation from the first edit then an error message saying the second attempted edit has failed, because there's nothing new to change.
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28.01.2017 - 12:39
Rot Teufel

Could someone fix the supported events and staff picks columns? I'm a bit tired to scroll down the entire page. Thanks.
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11.02.2017 - 22:21
Maco
Pvt Funderground
Sooo where's the shoutbox?
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12.02.2017 - 15:07
tea[m]ster
Au Pays Natal
Written by Maco on 11.02.2017 at 22:21

Sooo where's the shoutbox?

Came here to post exactly this....I have looked everywhere...
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12.02.2017 - 15:22
Marcel Hubregtse
Grumpy Old Fuck
I can access the shoutbox on my Phone but not on my PC, not matter what I try.
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12.02.2017 - 15:39
Karlabos
Meat and Potatos
Yeah, the problem persists
For a brief moment when I entered ms after being logged out for a while it was there. (therefore there's my shout 'yay sb is back')
but after I clicked on the forum link and went redirected it suddenly vanished again and was never seen anymore...
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12.02.2017 - 16:09
tea[m]ster
Au Pays Natal
Written by Marcel Hubregtse on 12.02.2017 at 15:22

I can access the shoutbox on my Phone but not on my PC, not matter what I try.

Me also Marcel. Good point.
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12.02.2017 - 17:21
tea[m]ster
Au Pays Natal
Also, didn't scroll thru the trouble-shooting forum, the add common band tool isn't working either.
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12.02.2017 - 20:33
Paz
Nuclear Cowboy
Well... That sucks...
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13.02.2017 - 11:07
LeKiwi
High Fist Prog
I believe this was mentioned earlier in the thread, but I wasn't sure so here's my take on it. If you search a thread, it comes up with the number of results, but it only displays the result on that specific page, i.e. the last page. There is no way to view the results from other pages - attempting to see results on a different page removes the filter. This bug can also be experienced while searching lists, however in this case you can't even select the pages once the search has been applied.
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13.02.2017 - 14:54
Cynic Metalhead
Paisa Vich Nasha
Has anyone notice this redirection or not?!

When you're on "New Posts" page, you see an entire posts from MSers posting on various forums. Initially, when you 'quote' user - it "stays" on the "New Posts" page only. But, in newer version if you do that - it lands you to the particular 'thread' where you quoted the user.
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