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Soooo any word yet on fixing the biography formatting bug? You know the one where looking at a bio displays giant letters (in my case they always show up light blue.)

Does "next relevant" mean the next one of either of these, or the next one of the type I clicked?

I'd prefer the former.

Can be done with forumgold too, but would be awesome.

For the web-dev-curious among us: Bootstrap (ugh), Foundation, or Polymer?

Some great changes in there, especially with regard to the banners on CSM, ISD, etc... avatars. What I would love to see implemented is a previous DEV, CSM, ISD, etc... post button!

Making the forums look nicer on more devices isn't as critical as making sure that players feel like CCP is always actually reading the posts by players, esp. comments on devblogs. Sure, CCP can't fix or address everything, but players should feel that somone at CCP is reading what they made effort to write.

Typically, players feel that CCP devs only read posts for the first day or so (a week at most) after the devblog went up, and pick/choose a limited number of posts to which to read/respond, completely ignoring the rest. This impression creates bad feelings from players towards CCP, esp. since it is probably not true.

Unfortunately, CCP devs do not post as frequently as required, justifiably arguing that spending all day responding to forum posts means less time doing actual work - design, coding, debugging, whatever. Thus, relying on only the posted replies by CCP devs, as feedback for players to know if their posts are being read, is not sufffcient.

With this in mind, I'd like to suggest adding the following features:

1) Add seperate columns on the topic pages which track the number of "CCP Replies" and "CCP Views" - which, ofc, should only keep track of how many CCP devs have replied to or viewed the topic.

2) Add a tracker to each page of posts within a topic, which indicates the number of "CCP Views" of that specific page. This allows players to know that someone at CCP has read the posts up to page 5 or whatever. It also lets CCP track whether someone *should* make a special effort to read through the posts of the latest pages within a topic, since the tracker shows that no one at CCP has done so yet.

3) Add simple response templates for the CCP devs, with a customized dev-only forum UI, which will allow them to more quicklly indicate that they are indeed reading the topic posts, without needing to actually spend time to write, format and post a full message. For example, to answer posts from players about bugs or test server feedback, there could be a templated "bug/issue reply" button for CCP devs which simply quotes the original player post, and adds "Issue read and acknowledged. We'll fix it. Thanks!". Or for a longer thread, there could be a button that generates a templated post that says "I've read up to post #####. I'll post an update based on your responses soon. Thank you for your feedback - keep it coming!"

Note: Item (3) isn't meant to be abused by CCP devs - ie. used all of the time instead of posting "real" responses. It is only meant to let players know that someone at CCP is actually reading the posts, and hasn't had time to write a "real" response yet.

Love the overall plan for the changes.

I wish we could get an option to make the background white and the text black.

As well as to set a default size for text on the pages.

For some of us old folk, the default size text and the white text on black background make the forums painful to read.

I know the black background is tradition, but please give us the option to reverse it.

It's this one: http://www.yetanotherforum.net/

Pls Pls Pls

Add an Thumb down / don't Like Button to have an 2nd Option as only the Like Button.

1. It is easier to let a person know, what we think about his Post as to Reply something he/she never get noticed
2. made it possible to count votes, elections and opinions

when you guys redesigned the eve website a few years back imho you took something totally functioning and working perfectly and easy to navigate and fuxored it all to hell. I have no faith that this will be any different.