New forum woo

@foodlfg You can, and no anime bullshit, thanks

@foodlfg The forum name is your FAF player name. If you change your FAF name your forum name will get updated.

"Nerds have a really complicated relationship with change: Change is awesome when WE'RE the ones doing it. As soon as change is coming from outside of us it becomes untrustworthy and it threatens what we think of is the familiar."
– Benno Rice

Okay. Why new?

I added a post on why we selected NodeBB

"Nerds have a really complicated relationship with change: Change is awesome when WE'RE the ones doing it. As soon as change is coming from outside of us it becomes untrustworthy and it threatens what we think of is the familiar."
– Benno Rice

❤ Dark mode yes!

"The needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few" - Spock

can someone disable these ugly emojis pls?

SOON™ <- this tm is an unicode char but it gets changed to a shitty picture.
😄 <- why? a simple : D
😀 <- this unicode char emoji is changed as well

as for unicode emojis, cant we just use the ones that are on discort or twitter?
as for the others, throw them out.

nice ghetto streams: https://www.twitch.tv/foodlfg

@nine2 the side by side preview feature is cool, but it looks less...what's the word...manegable? Intuitive? user friendly? than the old one.

Too much white, too little emphasys.

@DDDX you can change the theme though which is a huge plus. I'm personally using "Cyborg" for a less bright experience. If you click your profile icon in the top right and go to settings there's a "Theme" dropdown. Cyborg is pretty much black, Darkly has grey and Slate has a lighter grey. The others are all white and bright.

So nice to have a movie friendly forum now

The forced opt-in for email bollocks is bollocks.

Welcome to the internet in 2020 where you need consent for everything. Go and complain to your local parliamentarian.

"Nerds have a really complicated relationship with change: Change is awesome when WE'RE the ones doing it. As soon as change is coming from outside of us it becomes untrustworthy and it threatens what we think of is the familiar."
– Benno Rice

Can't you turn it off in settings once joined?

You can, it’s easy

Are the old forum threads still accessible?

just add an s to the word "forum" : https://forums.faforever.com

Well, on that note...

https://forums.faforever.com is requesting your username and password. The site says: “traefik”

scheisse! scheisse! scheisse! this just happened

I'm trying to put the forum into a static http archive. As there is no way to put phpbb into read-only mode I temporarily put a password on it.
However my attempts of archiving yesterday failed, so I guess it will stay a little longer like this. (The old URLs will go invalid in all cases!)

"Nerds have a really complicated relationship with change: Change is awesome when WE'RE the ones doing it. As soon as change is coming from outside of us it becomes untrustworthy and it threatens what we think of is the familiar."
– Benno Rice