EVE General Discussion

After extensive testing and the addition of many new features we are pleased to bring back the new EVE Forums. These new features include a compact view, a character dropdown list to keep you in contact with your fellow forum friends, the highly anticipated hide posts option, RSS Feeds, new search functions, and a selection of backgrounds to customize your EVE Gate and forum experience. In addition, you are now able to easily keep track of the activity on EVE Gate and the new forums using the new Notifications function. Full details of these additions can be found in the patch notes.

The old forums will remain active until Friday, September 9, to not disrupt any ongoing discussions. We will not be deleting the old forums so don’t worry about losing your favorite posts!

Below is a list of the newest forums features:

Once you go into a thread, it's all fairly straight forward. Each post shows the avatar picture and name. In addition, we have also included few new features:

• Compact view

Forum users have an option to view threads in a Compact view. The View settings are located in the thread title bar where you can easily switch between them. Once you set your view of choice, it stays that way until you change it again. The Avatar image has been reduced from size 128x128 to 64x64 and all other character information can be accessed by clicking the user name

• Badges

DEV, GM, CSM, ISD and External Partner characters have a colored badge overlay on their avatar. Additionally DEV and GM badges have been added on EVE Gate profiles

• Character dropdown list

When clicking on the character name, you will get a dropdown list of handy links and information to help you keep in contact and follow your Forum friends and trolls. You can now via one click send an EVE Mail to a Forum user, show all his Forum posts or simply go directly to his EVE Gate profile. The dropdown list shows you the name and logo of the Corporation/ Alliance he or she is a member of and the number of Likes he has received overall. It also provides the ability to HIDE posts from characters that you simply don’t wish to see.

• Hide posts

By clicking “Hide posts” in the Character dropdown list, all posts by this specific user will appear hidden on the Forums. Yes, you heard me right. If someone is leaving you steaming and stomping every time you go onto the Forums, you can simply HIDE the user’s posts. The posts will then appear collapsed. You will see if the hidden user posts a reply in a thread and can choose to read it by clicking “View post”. If you feel ready to unhide the posts you can click “Show posts” which will then make all posts by that user visible again.

• Quick Reply

For the ever busy amongst you, we have included a Quick Reply that will allow you to post a reply to a thread without loading a reply page with full formatting options.

• Like

Each post has a Like button. This allows you to Like a post. Once a post has been Liked, you'll see a running total of Likes received and also an option to Unlike if you change your mind. Underneath each poster's avatar there is a running total of the number of Likes they gave to posts and the number of Likes they have received for their posts. In the channel view you can see the total number of Likes for each thread, quickly highlighting hot topics.

• RSS Feeds

On the front page, in channel view and within threads, basically on every page - there is a link at the bottom of the page to subscribe to an RSS Feed for that page. This will make it much easier for you to follow what's going on in the forums by receiving updates in your favorite RSS reader application.

• Favorites

Each thread has an option to "Tag as Favorite", adding it to your Favorites page where you can easily find it again and quickly spot any new activity.

• Search

Admittedly, the old forum search function was not up to modern standards. It is our hope however, that the search function of the new forum will be a giant leap forward. Advanced search options currently include search by character, topic name, channels and DEV/GM posts. You are also able to bookmark your search criteria for later or subscribe to an RSS Feed of your search criteria.

• Based on usability feedback given during public testing, the team has done a lot of UI tweaks touching font size and color, tooltips, quotes, buttons, design, security and performance. We will hopefully keep receiving valuable feedback from you.

• Forum Settings

Forum settings will be in your EVE Gate profile settings page with the usual options for toggling corporation/alliance information and your signature.

Smilies are working great, just like they did on the first first test run. Congrats.

Related to the background list, could you add a full black background? It would be useful for those who use a phone or have a mobile connection to reduce bandwidth costs.

By all means; as long as you're not writing them...

Whats the difference between compact and not compact ? Its just a smaller picture with a lot of space around, thats what i cant really call compact, still a lot of wasted space.

So, here we are again with a font size so small that I can barely read it with my glasses on. Why CCP is it so damn difficult for you guys to work out such a simple thing as a decent font size? Seriously? Why is it so small in nearly everything you do? It's asinine that the "forum settings" have no way to modify the standard font. In fact, the forum settings section has exactly 3 options, which is entirely laughable. Fail.

Can we get the option for none? Not picking holes but it sounds like a low investment of time to provide that option :)

How do we increase the number of items on a page or even change pages? I have 8 items on the page (Home » EVE Forums » EVE Marketplace » Timecode Bazaar) and no way to go to additional pages. I'm in Windows 7, Chrome browser.

I liked what I saw before and I'm happy it's back. I understand the security concerns, but I'm in total disagreement with the people who said they looked bad and lacked intuitive controls.

Still getting white screens when going from the forums to other parts of evegate.

When reading a devpost selected from the quick devpost page. I cannot just back up one page to go back to where i was on the
devpost list.

Please have the devpost quick search remember where you where if possible.

Devblog comments even on the 5 that are sticked here still go back to the old forums.

Where do you want offical feedback here or in the 1.1 feedback deploy sticky right now it is everywhere.

A MOTD for the forus only when you log in might be a good thing to add

Graying out the reply tab when you are posting a quick post might be a good idea too :)

more announcemetn flags at the top for devblogs announcements and devposts.