Pixel Arena Forums

We're back! Thanks for your patience over the weekend while the board was down. Pixel Arena is now running phpBB 3.0.2. All your posts, private messages and settings came across from the old board, and your password still works.

The short version of what's new:

• User Control Panel -- everything about your account is now in one place (click User Control Panel at the top of any page). Profile, signature, avatar, board preferences, subscriptions.
• Friends and foes -- add people as friends and they show up at the top of the UCP when they're online. Add someone as a foe and their posts are hidden from you (moderators excepted, sorry).
• Bookmarks -- bookmark a topic from the bottom of the page and find it again in the UCP. Separate from watching a topic, so no more emails you didn't want.
• Attachments -- you can now attach screenshots and files to posts instead of hotlinking from Photobucket. 256 KB per file for now, we'll see how the disk holds up.
• Private messages got folders, rules and drafts.
• Quick-mod tools -- for the mods: lock, move, split and merge without going through three pages each time. Kestrel is very happy about this.

The new look is called prosilver. The old subSilver look is technically still available, but we're only going to maintain one style, and it's this one. Give it a couple of weeks before you decide you hate it

Bugs, missing posts, broken avatars: reply in the phpBB3 feedback thread in General Discussion, not here.

Also: your old phpBB 2 ranks carried over, and moderators can now see reported posts in one place. Please use the report button (the little exclamation mark on each post) instead of PMing me screenshots.

Friends list is nice. Foes list is nicer.

Took me ten minutes to find where to change my signature. It's UCP > Profile > Edit signature, for anyone else looking.

Thanks dropbear. Locking this so it stays readable -- feedback thread is in General Discussion.