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Title: Forum rank themes
Post by: LinnScarlett on January 22, 2013, 01:44:35 PM
...didn't there used to be forum rank army themes?

I realised it only this morning when I bothered to glance in the direction of my avatar and saw the Tau-ish forum rank dangling above it. I did a double-take and jumped into my profile, but it's still on 'Inquisition' as it used to be. What happened?  :o
Title: Re: Forum rank themes
Post by: Cammerz on January 22, 2013, 02:11:48 PM
It still appears to be working for me, I'm also using Inquisition.

The Tau theme does always appear on my profile page but in the rest of the forum I see my chosen army ranks.
Title: Re: Forum rank themes
Post by: LinnScarlett on January 22, 2013, 02:36:47 PM
Not for me, I am seeing everybody Tau-style, including myself... O.o'

...I only noticed this morning, when updating my 'personal quote' to be more clever and replace my avatar.

EDIT: I did try reloading it/ changing it and changing it back, etc. But the Tau jazz seems to remain...
Title: Re: Forum rank themes
Post by: Lord Sotek on January 22, 2013, 02:57:25 PM
Linn's comments made me curious, so I checked this out, and I'm getting the same issue. I tried switching ranks to Space Marine, and then to Necrons, but neither of them works; everything still just displays as a Tau rank.
Title: Re: Forum rank themes
Post by: The Man They Call Jayne on January 22, 2013, 05:30:33 PM
Same here. Mine was set to Dwarves and I just changed it to Chaos but it still showed Tau.
Title: Re: Forum rank themes
Post by: LinnScarlett on January 22, 2013, 05:31:38 PM
It disrupts my =I= flavoured avatar space!  :'(
Title: Re: Forum rank themes
Post by: Chocomel on January 22, 2013, 06:32:40 PM
Do something special to get a personal forum rank. although i'm not sure you like your rank to be "Inquisitrix".
Title: Re: Forum rank themes
Post by: Sorck on January 22, 2013, 06:44:59 PM
Erm.... I can't even find the setting for your forum rank. :-[

Where is it? :P
Title: Re: Forum rank themes
Post by: LinnScarlett on January 22, 2013, 08:57:15 PM
Profile -> Modify Profile -> Look And Lay-Out -> at the bottom, below the setting where you can change the colourscheme
Title: Re: Forum rank themes
Post by: InsaneTD on January 23, 2013, 03:44:05 AM
Quote from: Sorck the Spork on January 22, 2013, 06:44:59 PM
Erm.... I can't even find the setting for your forum rank. :-[

Where is it? :P
Weren't you the one who set that up?
Title: Re: Forum rank themes
Post by: Lord Sotek on January 23, 2013, 03:56:09 AM
Quote from: Tybalt Defet on January 23, 2013, 03:44:05 AM
Quote from: Sorck the Spork on January 22, 2013, 06:44:59 PM
Erm.... I can't even find the setting for your forum rank. :-[

Where is it? :P
Weren't you the one who set that up?

I think we may have located the problem...
Title: Re: Forum rank themes
Post by: InsaneTD on January 23, 2013, 04:50:09 AM
Quote from: Isaac Baraqiel on January 23, 2013, 03:56:09 AM
Quote from: Tybalt Defet on January 23, 2013, 03:44:05 AM
Quote from: Sorck the Spork on January 22, 2013, 06:44:59 PM
Erm.... I can't even find the setting for your forum rank. :-[

Where is it? :P
Weren't you the one who set that up?

I think we may have located the problem...
Still FT's fault. He made Sorck an Admin. :P
Title: Re: Forum rank themes
Post by: Restayvien on January 23, 2013, 11:36:19 AM
I am seeing Tau ranks as well. I imagine it's a theme-specific issue. I use 'Eldar-Blue'.
Title: Re: Forum rank themes
Post by: LinnScarlett on January 23, 2013, 12:40:21 PM
Quote from: Restayvien on January 23, 2013, 11:36:19 AM
I am seeing Tau ranks as well. I imagine it's a theme-specific issue. I use 'Eldar-Blue'.

I've always used the eldar blue colour scheme with the inquisition rank army theme and it was just fine... but now its doing this Tau-thing  :shifty:
Title: Re: Forum rank themes
Post by: Railgun Convention on January 23, 2013, 12:57:45 PM
Quote from: Linn Scarlett on January 23, 2013, 12:40:21 PM
Quote from: Restayvien on January 23, 2013, 11:36:19 AM
I am seeing Tau ranks as well. I imagine it's a theme-specific issue. I use 'Eldar-Blue'.

I've always used the eldar blue colour scheme with the inquisition rank army theme and it was just fine... but now its doing this Tau-thing  :shifty:
Oh, yeah, and Shifty doesn't work. Nor for that matter do any of the smileys. I thought we fixed that problem.
Title: Re: Forum rank themes
Post by: InsaneTD on January 23, 2013, 01:21:41 PM
Must be your theme. Everything but :lion: is working for my.
Title: Re: Forum rank themes
Post by: Restayvien on January 23, 2013, 01:32:33 PM
Quote from: Linn Scarlett on January 23, 2013, 12:40:21 PM
Quote from: Restayvien on January 23, 2013, 11:36:19 AM
I am seeing Tau ranks as well. I imagine it's a theme-specific issue. I use 'Eldar-Blue'.

I've always used the eldar blue colour scheme with the inquisition rank army theme and it was just fine... but now its doing this Tau-thing  :shifty:
Yeah I use Chaos Daemons but am currently seeing Tau ranks.
Title: Re: Forum rank themes
Post by: Sorck on January 23, 2013, 07:29:45 PM
Quote from: Railgun Convention on January 23, 2013, 12:57:45 PM
Quote from: Linn Scarlett on January 23, 2013, 12:40:21 PM
Quote from: Restayvien on January 23, 2013, 11:36:19 AM
I am seeing Tau ranks as well. I imagine it's a theme-specific issue. I use 'Eldar-Blue'.

I've always used the eldar blue colour scheme with the inquisition rank army theme and it was just fine... but now its doing this Tau-thing  :shifty:
Oh, yeah, and Shifty doesn't work. Nor for that matter do any of the smileys. I thought we fixed that problem.
Shifty should work in all cases IIRC. Which smiley set are you using?

Quote from: Isaac Baraqiel on January 23, 2013, 03:56:09 AM
Quote from: Tybalt Defet on January 23, 2013, 03:44:05 AM
Quote from: Sorck the Spork on January 22, 2013, 06:44:59 PM
Erm.... I can't even find the setting for your forum rank. :-[

Where is it? :P
Weren't you the one who set that up?

I think we may have located the problem...
Nope, FT set it up and I hate his bad coding practices. :P He put a lot of inefficient database queries into the template files... every single template file. :(

They appear to currently only work under the 2S theme (http://secondsphere.org/?theme=15 (http://secondsphere.org/?theme=15)).

As a side note I might start pruning out themes if they've not got multiple users. It's simply too much work trying to maintain a lot of themes.
Title: Re: Forum rank themes
Post by: Chicop76 on January 23, 2013, 09:31:08 PM
It used to work than when everything got consolidated it stoped and went to Tau rank. Also no matter what scheme I change to it is always te same.

It's something that's been around for awhile. Funny Lynn is the first one to point it out. Karma cookie for her?

Sadly if the admin just noticed the problem and didn't even know you can change rank does say a lot.
Title: Re: Forum rank themes
Post by: LinnScarlett on January 23, 2013, 09:46:58 PM
Quote from: Sorck the Spork on January 23, 2013, 07:29:45 PM
Nope, FT set it up and I hate his bad coding practices. :P He put a lot of inefficient database queries into the template files... every single template file. :(

They appear to currently only work under the 2S theme (http://secondsphere.org/?theme=15 (http://secondsphere.org/?theme=15)).

As a side note I might start pruning out themes if they've not got multiple users. It's simply too much work trying to maintain a lot of themes.

And what is the working theme? Amma just switch to that... the Tau-thing is now slowly beginning to irritate the warp out of me :P
Title: Re: Forum rank themes
Post by: Sorck on January 23, 2013, 09:52:15 PM
2S is currently using SMF Curve as default. The theme called '2S' is the most feature-complete I believe. 'SecondSphere' isn't feature complete but is a slightly modified version of SMF Curve.

Quote from: Chicop76 on January 23, 2013, 09:31:08 PM
Sadly if the admin just noticed the problem and didn't even know you can change rank does say a lot.
I knew you could change the rank but I didn't know where the setting was... no admin can keep track of every single setting's location especially when you have hundreds if not thousands of settings on just one site.
Title: Re: Forum rank themes
Post by: The Allfather on January 23, 2013, 10:30:25 PM
=I= Censored by the Inquisition.
Title: Re: Forum rank themes
Post by: Will's on Fire on January 23, 2013, 11:12:10 PM
Quote from: Chicop76 on January 23, 2013, 09:31:08 PM


Sadly if the admin just noticed the problem and didn't even know you can change rank does say a lot.

If they had it on Tau, or do what I do and not pay attention to the titles, because frankly they account for nothing, then it's a reasonable thing for him not to notice. Not really sure what you're trying to get at to be honest...

- Will
Title: Re: Forum rank themes
Post by: Cammerz on January 23, 2013, 11:43:19 PM
Sorck are you messing with the 2s theme? Its not letting me view any posts, I've had to switch to the 'second sphere' theme to post here, and of course the Tau titles are showing on this one.
Title: Re: Forum rank themes
Post by: LinnScarlett on January 24, 2013, 09:19:35 AM
Quote from: Cammerz on January 23, 2013, 11:43:19 PM
Sorck are you messing with the 2s theme? Its not letting me view any posts, I've had to switch to the 'second sphere' theme to post here, and of course the Tau titles are showing on this one.

Myea, I had the same :(
Title: Re: Forum rank themes
Post by: Restayvien on January 24, 2013, 10:05:32 AM
Give Sorck a break Chicop, there's a lot more to being an admin than memorizing minor setting locations and you aren't paying him. ;)
Title: Re: Forum rank themes
Post by: Irisado on January 24, 2013, 02:45:49 PM
I wondered about this when I first joined up, but I didn't say anything about it, because I just assumed it was an inactive and/or redundant feature.

If it's going to take a lot of admin work, then it could just be got rid of.  It's not as though there's a large community representing all the different armies here, so as much as I, for example, prefer Eldar to Tau, it doesn't seem right just to keep that theme for a few when the site is mainly supposed to be geared towards Tau.  Unless of course the site wants to become broader in its scope.
Title: Re: Forum rank themes
Post by: LinnScarlett on January 24, 2013, 03:42:53 PM
...but =I= want my rank back :(
Title: Re: Forum rank themes
Post by: Chicop76 on January 26, 2013, 08:06:11 PM
I was just giving him a hard time. What I was saying the rank used to work here in 2nd sphere for awhile. Although I could have gotten confused with it working on the Tau site. Anyway I thoguht it used to work until the subject matter was shrunk down. I remember my Daemon rank showing up for awhile and than it defaulted back to the Tau rank.

I don't recall the color scheme ever working though.