AAO25.com

Assist => News => Topic started by: Spanky on Sunday, February 02, 2014, 19:42:30 PM

Title: Welcome to the new AAO25.com!
Post by: Spanky on Sunday, February 02, 2014, 19:42:30 PM
Welcome to the redesigned AAO25.com. utRoda has been working hard to make this site easier to use and navigate as well as add features the previous website was missing or didn't implement properly.

Please note that not everything is 100% finished. There will be bugs and issues. If you find one or would simply like to make a suggestion, reply to this thread and be as detailed as you possibly can. Thank you.
Title: Re: Welcome to the new AAO25.com!
Post by: Spanky on Sunday, February 02, 2014, 19:53:53 PM
My personal suggestions:
- Less gap between user info column and forum post.
- Link and stats for unread private messages towards the top of the page.
- Link to view unread messages/threads on the forum.
Title: Re: Welcome to the new AAO25.com!
Post by: Jared on Sunday, February 02, 2014, 20:27:56 PM
Private messages show up in the profile dropdown, and when you have an unread one you get a bubble notification that will let you know, no way to explain it until you see for yourself.
Title: Re: Welcome to the new AAO25.com!
Post by: Spanky on Sunday, February 02, 2014, 21:07:41 PM
Then perhaps say "0 Unread Private Messages" :)
Title: Re: Welcome to the new AAO25.com!
Post by: Jared on Sunday, February 02, 2014, 21:14:22 PM
Then perhaps say "0 Unread Private Messages" :)

That can be done.
Title: Re: Welcome to the new AAO25.com!
Post by: Possessed on Sunday, February 02, 2014, 21:24:31 PM
Should the 'buttons': Getting Started, Media and maybe Servers be avaliable in the Main page of the site along with Forum / Login / Admin 'buttons'?
Title: Re: Welcome to the new AAO25.com!
Post by: Spanky on Sunday, February 02, 2014, 21:26:21 PM
Should the 'buttons': Getting Started, Media and maybe Servers be avaliable in the Main page of the site along with Forum / Login / Admin 'buttons'?
I agree.
Title: Re: Welcome to the new AAO25.com!
Post by: Rapture on Sunday, February 02, 2014, 23:23:55 PM
looks fresh. Hooah
Title: Re: Welcome to the new AAO25.com!
Post by: caelum on Monday, February 03, 2014, 01:47:08 AM
This is cool, matching very well with the client itself. Been loving utRoda's work long time!
Title: Re: Welcome to the new AAO25.com!
Post by: [SWISS]Merlin on Monday, February 03, 2014, 03:24:37 AM
congratulations for this new looking page. also fast and - hopefully - more stable :)

maybe i did miss something - then sorry. but if not, could you please make an advice about comming work. i didn't know about that downtime. also not for how long it will be not available.
so maybe i didn't read it - but i guess i jump here more the 2 times a day - almost impossible not to see such a message.
thanks!
Title: Re: Welcome to the new AAO25.com!
Post by: ArmyAntiCheat on Monday, February 03, 2014, 03:35:12 AM
Great job!

How about you guys add more or unread topics as it was in the previous forum?

It was easier for me to see main topics that were active.
Title: Re: Welcome to the new AAO25.com!
Post by: bRU$seLs.2004- on Monday, February 03, 2014, 05:19:38 AM
nice work guys!
we post it here too:
https://www.facebook.com/AmericasArmy2 (https://www.facebook.com/AmericasArmy2)
Title: Re: Welcome to the new AAO25.com!
Post by: [SWISS]Merlin on Monday, February 03, 2014, 06:24:04 AM
hey Spanky

could you fix this one - at main page - select SERVERS, an error appears. can you link that one there?

http://natescomp.com/list/ (http://natescomp.com/list/)

but the icons of the maps are now "gone". do not know why...

edit:
and at the frontpage - current version is there 8.04 :D
Title: Re: Welcome to the new AAO25.com!
Post by: bRU$seLs.2004- on Monday, February 03, 2014, 06:38:21 AM
many people think that 2.8.5 is dead but we need to explain that 2.5 is like 2.8.5
for example the uniforms and the Radar. You have a gameplay video from 2.5 where we can see its like 2.8.5 ? that people finally believe it?
Title: Re: Welcome to the new AAO25.com!
Post by: SASF-DarkShooter on Monday, February 03, 2014, 06:57:47 AM
New design looks great. Feels way more in touch with the Assist client.
However, will there be a quick reply option later on? Saves an extra action on the forum. Also I agree with ArmyAntiCheat, a more elaborate Recent Topics would be awesome. It was the function I used the most.
Title: Re: Welcome to the new AAO25.com!
Post by: teddy_grizzly_bear on Monday, February 03, 2014, 07:02:35 AM
It looks pretty cool :)

Good job guys!
Title: Re: Welcome to the new AAO25.com!
Post by: Ganja on Monday, February 03, 2014, 08:05:36 AM
I, personally, always have a hard time changing forum layout
Title: Re: Welcome to the new AAO25.com!
Post by: teddy_grizzly_bear on Monday, February 03, 2014, 09:12:43 AM
New design looks great. Feels way more in touch with the Assist client.
However, will there be a quick reply option later on? Saves an extra action on the forum.
You can enable it in the settings.
Title: Re: Welcome to the new AAO25.com!
Post by: Jared on Monday, February 03, 2014, 09:36:15 AM
hey Spanky

could you fix this one - at main page - select SERVERS, an error appears. can you link that one there?

http://natescomp.com/list/ (http://natescomp.com/list/)

but the icons of the maps are now "gone". do not know why...

edit:
and at the frontpage - current version is there 8.04 :D

Merlin, not all of the code is ported over yet, there was a major overhaul on the server side code, so we have to touch just about every file. We will get it up in the next few days.
Title: Re: Welcome to the new AAO25.com!
Post by: Jared on Monday, February 03, 2014, 10:29:56 AM
There is now a unread button within the recent topics header.

Also tightened up the poster information area.
Title: Re: Welcome to the new AAO25.com!
Post by: [SWISS]Merlin on Monday, February 03, 2014, 10:45:15 AM
thanks Spanky

btw: after one day with the new layout of this page i feel very comfortable with it.
again, good job, well done! thank you.
Title: Re: Welcome to the new AAO25.com!
Post by: ELiZ on Monday, February 03, 2014, 11:00:02 AM
thanks Spanky

btw: after one day with the new layout of this page i feel very comfortable with it.
again, good job, well done! thank you.

Spanky?
Title: Re: Welcome to the new AAO25.com!
Post by: Spanky on Monday, February 03, 2014, 11:56:03 AM
Spanky?
I didn't have anything to do with the new site. Jared (utRoda) deserves all the credit here.
Title: Re: Welcome to the new AAO25.com!
Post by: Vanoke on Monday, February 03, 2014, 14:34:50 PM
Tester i think you better puth it back were i comes from , i see clearly that are your brains.

By the way Realy nice Utroda!!  it look great THX.!!! :up:

GJ Utroda!
Title: Re: Welcome to the new AAO25.com!
Post by: Alex on Monday, February 03, 2014, 14:54:40 PM
The homepage says the current version is 8.04 when it's really 8.06. Other than that, the site looks and runs great. Nice and quick and stuff is easy to find. Great job.  :up:
Title: Re: Welcome to the new AAO25.com!
Post by: Jared on Monday, February 03, 2014, 14:58:57 PM
The homepage says the current version is 8.04 when it's really 8.06. Other than that, the site looks and runs great. Nice and quick and stuff is easy to find. Great job.  :up:

Fixed
Title: Re: Welcome to the new AAO25.com!
Post by: Vanoke on Monday, February 03, 2014, 16:34:23 PM
I don t know if i am the only one but its hard to logout whit PC.
and mobiel , also to login whit mobiel you don t  see the login directly only if you push the 2 time the link to the site than it apears.
To login whit PC is oke! 

An Error Has Occurred!

 
Session verification failed. Please try logging out and back in again, and then try again.



Back
Title: Re: Welcome to the new AAO25.com!
Post by: Jared on Monday, February 03, 2014, 16:58:07 PM
Its hard for me to understand what your trying to say, but we do know of the logout bug, and have been working on a fix.
Title: Re: Welcome to the new AAO25.com!
Post by: RealHarm on Monday, February 03, 2014, 17:11:15 PM
Awesome job utRoda! Site looks great!
I was just building a servers page for myself and i thought lets assist the assist team a bit... So i started building a servers page in this new assist theme. Its not done yet but if you like it, i can send you the code!

http://saestracker.tk/servers2.php (http://saestracker.tk/servers2.php)
http://saestracker.tk/servers2.php?showempty=1 (http://saestracker.tk/servers2.php?showempty=1)

or if you are more a lists person:

http://saestracker.tk/servers.php (http://saestracker.tk/servers.php)
Title: Re: Welcome to the new AAO25.com!
Post by: Jared on Monday, February 03, 2014, 17:13:24 PM
That looks hot  ;)

Feel free to package it up and PM me, or if you have skype PM me and we can chat about the code.
Title: Re: Welcome to the new AAO25.com!
Post by: Vanoke on Monday, February 03, 2014, 17:57:33 PM
I can t do it so Looks like i need help ?to go out

Its hard for me to understand what your trying to say, but we do know of the logout bug, and have been working on a fix.
Title: Re: Welcome to the new AAO25.com!
Post by: teddy_grizzly_bear on Monday, February 03, 2014, 18:02:32 PM
I think what Vanoke was trying to say was that it's hard to access the site from a mobile device (such as a phone and/or a tablet).

He's saying the site doesn't load on the first try on mobile devices and that it works OK on the second.

Seeing the layout it's entirely possible that a phone with a low resolution would have a hard time loading up the page,but I can't verify as I've yet to try that.
Title: Re: Welcome to the new AAO25.com!
Post by: Vanoke on Monday, February 03, 2014, 18:05:18 PM
that also but more stress it is to log out i try it in home but that puth me back to forum , then try it in forum
but get this :   
An Error Has Occurred!

 
Session verification failed. Please try logging out and back in again, and then try again.



Back

I think what Vanoke was trying to say was that it's hard to access the site from a mobile device (such as a phone and/or a tablet).

I couldn't verify, I've yet to try that.
Title: Re: Welcome to the new AAO25.com!
Post by: Jared on Monday, February 03, 2014, 18:08:33 PM
Please read my posts better Vanoke, I already said this is a known bug and we are working on it.
Title: Re: Welcome to the new AAO25.com!
Post by: Vanoke on Monday, February 03, 2014, 18:17:31 PM
My wife is forces me.i think she needs me to.
I was reacting to teddy :makemyday:
Read my post utRoda :makemyday:
 (https://aao25.com/forum/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fimagizer.imageshack.us%2Fv2%2Fxq90%2F823%2F09j4.jpg&hash=8a5709df23bc4a5f961b7c0c71ad1126) (https://imageshack.com/i/mv09j4j)
Title: Re: Welcome to the new AAO25.com!
Post by: C0RRUPTER on Monday, February 03, 2014, 22:18:38 PM
The New Website looks awesome good job  :D
Title: Re: Welcome to the new AAO25.com!
Post by: Alex on Monday, February 03, 2014, 23:54:51 PM
Not really necessary, but what about a display of everyone that's online?
Title: Re: Welcome to the new AAO25.com!
Post by: Jared on Tuesday, February 04, 2014, 00:40:26 AM
Not really necessary, but what about a display of everyone that's online?

What are you talking about its at the bottom of the site?
Title: Re: Welcome to the new AAO25.com!
Post by: Spanky on Tuesday, February 04, 2014, 00:45:08 AM
What are you talking about its at the bottom of the site?
I kind of miss it too. One right below the shoutbox.
Title: Re: Welcome to the new AAO25.com!
Post by: Alex on Tuesday, February 04, 2014, 00:52:28 AM
What are you talking about its at the bottom of the site?
Wow I completely missed that. Sorry.
Title: Re: Welcome to the new AAO25.com!
Post by: Jared on Tuesday, February 04, 2014, 00:59:10 AM
what are you guys crazy, it has moved? Its in the same spot as the old forum.
Title: Re: Welcome to the new AAO25.com!
Post by: Spanky on Tuesday, February 04, 2014, 01:01:03 AM
I thought UX designers were meant to make things more intuitive and pleasant for the users. Here you are making us scroll all the way down for a mod that was installed. Easy way out methinks.
Title: Re: Welcome to the new AAO25.com!
Post by: Jared on Tuesday, February 04, 2014, 01:02:56 AM
How is the mod important to you? Every users that posts in the thread also has an indicator which shows if they are online.

Its in the same spot, and is in even more spots. ;)
Title: Re: Welcome to the new AAO25.com!
Post by: Alex on Tuesday, February 04, 2014, 01:29:42 AM
what are you guys crazy, it has moved? Its in the same spot as the old forum.
I didn't even know the old site had the online users at the bottom. I thought it was just right below the shoutbox... lmao. This is good though. I just never thought to scroll all the way down.
Title: Re: Welcome to the new AAO25.com!
Post by: [SWISS]Merlin on Tuesday, February 04, 2014, 03:17:18 AM
Spanky?

lol big mistake from my side, sorry!
for sure utRoda
Title: Re: Welcome to the new AAO25.com!
Post by: Jared on Wednesday, February 05, 2014, 00:07:32 AM
Logout bug has been fixed.
Title: Re: Welcome to the new AAO25.com!
Post by: Vanoke on Wednesday, February 05, 2014, 03:34:04 AM
Good job was it hard to find ? :up:

Logout bug has been fixed.
Title: Re: Welcome to the new AAO25.com!
Post by: Alex on Friday, February 07, 2014, 00:23:23 AM
Can we get a TS viewer for the forum page?
Title: Re: Welcome to the new AAO25.com!
Post by: Jared on Friday, February 07, 2014, 00:30:11 AM
Can we get a TS viewer for the forum page?

LULZ No.
Title: Re: Welcome to the new AAO25.com!
Post by: [SWISS]Merlin on Friday, February 07, 2014, 03:01:07 AM
on the Server tab, since today, the players are not shown by detail.
yesterday it was all good there.
Title: Re: Welcome to the new AAO25.com!
Post by: Jared on Friday, February 07, 2014, 09:36:58 AM
Merlin, try a hard refresh.

Currently our cache busting system isn't quite right. I will fix this some time today.
Title: Re: Welcome to the new AAO25.com!
Post by: Jared on Friday, February 07, 2014, 10:21:35 AM
Fixed the cache buster, this should solve any issues people might have.
Title: Re: Welcome to the new AAO25.com!
Post by: [SWISS]Merlin on Friday, February 07, 2014, 10:45:56 AM
thanks a lot!
Title: Re: Welcome to the new AAO25.com!
Post by: CheeseyTron on Friday, February 07, 2014, 11:25:02 AM
Great job on the site Jared!!  :cool:
Title: Re: Welcome to the new AAO25.com!
Post by: teddy_grizzly_bear on Friday, February 07, 2014, 16:25:12 PM
Thanks for that, that's what we lacked on these here forums.


On a more serious note:

I don't know how easy or hard it might be, but:
Right now we can enter our AA username in our profile for others to see.
It would be real cool, though, if we could enter our battletracker ID and then it would fetch the name from there.
This way the name would always be current.
It could then also be a link to that players BT page.
Of course, there could also be just the username slot as well for those who don't know how/can' be bothered to find their BT ID.

Just an idea I was thinking of while trying to sleep the other day.
Title: Re: Welcome to the new AAO25.com!
Post by: Possessed on Friday, February 07, 2014, 16:54:26 PM
Quiting my self, the truth.
This is what he give to his kids to eat(must be the reason for them to be always sick...), just as his father did with him when he was a kid. Thats why his full of shit. Sad.
Title: Re: Welcome to the new AAO25.com!
Post by: Jared on Friday, February 07, 2014, 17:14:27 PM
Teddy I thought that was a good idea, player names are now clickable and takes you to their battletracker.
Title: Re: Welcome to the new AAO25.com!
Post by: CheeseyTron on Friday, February 07, 2014, 17:57:42 PM
Teddy I thought that was a good idea, player names are now clickable and takes you to their battletracker.

Many are showing as invalid links...
Title: Re: Welcome to the new AAO25.com!
Post by: Jared on Friday, February 07, 2014, 17:58:54 PM
Can't help that as users don't have the their updated/current names in there.
Title: Re: Welcome to the new AAO25.com!
Post by: CheeseyTron on Friday, February 07, 2014, 18:05:19 PM
Can't help that as users don't have the their updated/current names in there.

I think it must be something else...my link does not come up...wickid and Spanky also just to name a few.
Title: Re: Welcome to the new AAO25.com!
Post by: teddy_grizzly_bear on Friday, February 07, 2014, 18:12:25 PM
Can't help that as users don't have the their updated/current names in there.
That's why I thought it would be cool if you could enter your BT ID.
Title: Re: Welcome to the new AAO25.com!
Post by: Spanky on Friday, February 07, 2014, 20:30:05 PM
I think it must be something else...my link does not come up...wickid and Spanky also just to name a few.

That's because my in-game name isn't tigobitties anymore, it's something like "aasvr.us | tigobitties" but I'm not bothered enough to check it.


Actually, I'm pretty sure that this code won't work. The player in question has to actually be logged in. The code that sends you to Battletracker first sends a query to the Auth server to get the player's BTID. The query fails if the player isn't logged into Assist and thus, sends you to an invalid link on Battletracker. I'm 90% sure on this.
Title: Re: Welcome to the new AAO25.com!
Post by: teddy_grizzly_bear on Friday, February 07, 2014, 21:03:28 PM
I'm pretty sure you're mistaken, Spanky.
You see, I know Merlin isn't playing right now, but when I clicked on his link it forwarded me to his BT. It works OK.

But to make it work better than just 'OK', we would need the players to specify their BT ID so that we could then always link to that one.
Title: Re: Welcome to the new AAO25.com!
Post by: Spanky on Friday, February 07, 2014, 21:14:50 PM
I'm pretty sure you're mistaken, Spanky.

It's entirely possible. It was a long time ago that Jonny set up that query method.
Title: Re: Welcome to the new AAO25.com!
Post by: 82nd_DXO_COL=Shad on Saturday, February 08, 2014, 14:13:32 PM
new site looks great!
Couple of suggestions:

You are missing the favicon.ico in dist/imgs (or at least it's not showing in firefox). 
In case you need one, made one (http://shartley.net/pictures/favicon.ico)
Mobile browsers have a problem logging into the site, and this just isn't this look, it was the previous one as well.  Maybe the  divs (class brand) are stomping over the login ul block.  Nothing happens if you are able to press login.
Here is a screenshot in mobile (webkit)
(https://aao25.com/forum/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fshartley.net%2Fpictures%2FScreenshot_2014-02-08-11-17-25.png&hash=a8a108963280c3013e092d36499d7208)
Title: Re: Welcome to the new AAO25.com!
Post by: Jared on Saturday, February 08, 2014, 14:49:18 PM
Shad, thanks for the info, but as i already stated we know of this, but there are other issues we need to handle first.
Title: Re: Welcome to the new AAO25.com!
Post by: Alex on Saturday, February 08, 2014, 22:36:52 PM
LULZ No.
Well then have a separate page or at least something for the TS. What's the point of having a TS if nobody knows we have a TS or can get the info?
Title: Re: Welcome to the new AAO25.com!
Post by: Jared on Saturday, February 08, 2014, 22:52:15 PM
we need to find a better way to do it, the javascript view that we used, its really bad. It bogs down the site.
Title: Re: Welcome to the new AAO25.com!
Post by: 82nd_DXO_COL=Shad on Saturday, February 08, 2014, 23:54:53 PM
bogs down how, in terms of connections or cpu usage?  I made a php script that grabs info once per page load if you want a look but there's plenty of better looking examples out there.  You just have to make sure the query account is configured correctly.
Title: Re: Welcome to the new AAO25.com!
Post by: Jared on Sunday, February 09, 2014, 00:42:39 AM
The javascript for the ts viewer is blocking, which stops the other scripts from loading.
Title: Re: Welcome to the new AAO25.com!
Post by: Alex on Sunday, February 09, 2014, 00:53:02 AM
The javascript for the ts viewer is blocking, which stops the other scripts from loading.
We don't really need a TS viewer, just some way to let people know we have an official AAO25 TS. Would a link underneath the shoutbox that opens TS and joins the TS be possible? It would say something like "Join Official AAO25 TeamSpeak Server" They'd be able to click on it to open up TS and automatically join.

If not, just the text and the IP would be good. Maybe have the TS server and all of the official LSP AA servers listed too.
Title: Re: Welcome to the new AAO25.com!
Post by: Ganja on Sunday, February 09, 2014, 08:23:43 AM
"Join Official AAO25 TeamSpeak Server"

What about this on the loading screen?
Title: Re: Welcome to the new AAO25.com!
Post by: ArmyAntiCheat on Sunday, February 09, 2014, 13:09:22 PM
Just make a new tab on top saying something like Official AAO Ts3 Server
Title: Re: Welcome to the new AAO25.com!
Post by: -NicK.! on Sunday, February 09, 2014, 13:09:34 PM
Can't help that as users don't have the their updated/current names in there.
It's not this because I know my username is right, it just doesn't work.
Title: Re: Welcome to the new AAO25.com!
Post by: teddy_grizzly_bear on Friday, February 14, 2014, 04:25:33 AM
Hey!

I've got a problem with the 'New' button on threads that have new posts since my last visit.
It used to link to the first post that I hadn't read, but now it seems to always just link to the last post in the thread.
This causes me to have unread posts on some topics and since I'd like to read everything, that annoys me a little.

Thanks for the attention.
Title: Re: Welcome to the new AAO25.com!
Post by: Spanky on Friday, February 14, 2014, 12:16:30 PM
I've noticed that as well. Not sure why it's happening though.
Title: Re: Welcome to the new AAO25.com!
Post by: teddy_grizzly_bear on Wednesday, February 19, 2014, 11:22:16 AM
The version on the main page is wrong again. It says 8.06, although we're on 8.08.
Title: Re: Welcome to the new AAO25.com!
Post by: teddy_grizzly_bear on Tuesday, February 25, 2014, 12:43:57 PM
The version on the main page is wrong again. It says 8.06, although we're on 8.08.
This is still true.

Plus, like said numerous times before, the DNS issue is still at large.
I can't even log in to the site from my school without using a proxy server now.
(the same goes for trying to visit it on my mobile network)

I saw James post on shoutbox that the problem might have been fixed, but clearly it hasn't, unfortunately.
Title: Re: Welcome to the new AAO25.com!
Post by: [SWISS]Merlin on Wednesday, February 26, 2014, 19:10:29 PM
yes, this is really not good at all. should be fixed or - changed
Title: Re: Welcome to the new AAO25.com!
Post by: MJtorpedo on Friday, March 28, 2014, 23:57:40 PM
Stop complaining, the new site is great!  :up: