AbigailII: With the row-layout the flags would look good there for me :)

gogul: I like the no-flag look.

In my opinion, what is needed at the bottom of the page, is links to each language..... like it is on the bottom of the main sign-in page:

English | čeština | Deutsch | Português | Nederlands | slovenčina | Français | Castellano Español | Svenska | Italiano | Türkçe | 汉语 | Esperanto | Românã | русский | eesti

BIG BAD WOLF: I don't know what the possibilities and the limitations are of customizing the site. Stylesheets (CSS). And the language writen. Someone may google upon it, even they are on the loginpage (check the url), but looks nice too :)

MadMonkey: No, I won't change anything. Everything is clear enough.

alanback: And what should I do with that? Our time is not the US time. We have own rules for DST.

alanback: The time is currently displayed correctly according to your settings. For example, if you live in the Pacific time zone, Pacific Standard Time (PST) is GMT-8 and Pacific Daylight Time (PDT) is GMT-7. So if you want BrainKing to display PDT, you should have your time zone set to GMT-7.

The bug will appear this coming weekend, when the Czech Republic shifts to summer time and Fencer attempts to redefine Greenwich Mean Time.

KotDB:  I assumed that the bug would disappear this weekend, when the US would have gone on DST if the Congress had not lost its mind, and Europe also goes on DST (if I am not mistaken).  For this reason I did not attempt to reset the time to GMT -7, since that would introduce a new error at the weekend.

I hope Fencer will not be burdened with the task of redefining GMT, which seems pretty well defined as it stands.

I wouldn't waste time trying to change the way the time displays for the remainder of this week.  I just wanted to point out that, due to a change in US DST, whatever algorithms were in place to fix the time display were not displaying the time correctly. 

As a further note, the US government is required to produce a report on whether the early switch to DST (and the late switch back to Standard Time) actually saves energy.  If it does not, then we will revert to normal DST in the future.

Is it right, that BK is changing in a new outfit? A castle? Since when and why?

Actually I like the outfit like it used to be...

Radiant2007 :-): if you want to see it go to your main page and click on 'test mode' just to the left of the flags. You don't have to have the castle you can have the new page without it. But I'm afraid change is in the wind :)

Hi volant - thank you for replying! I only receive the castle once i open my messagebox and click on finished games.. Its very strange to click on links and suddenly receive such a page.. makes me confused; think i am landed in the wrong website.. very strange...

alanback: Actually, the US has never switched to DST on the last Sunday of March. From 1987 to 2006, the US switched to DST on the first Sunday of April; from 1966 to 1986, the switch happened on the last Sunday of April (with the exception of 1974 and 1975 when the US switched in January and February).

So even under the old rules, there would still have been a week where just one side of the pond would be on DST.

Having said that, it's a pity that all you can choose from for a timezone is a fixed offset of GMT (although if it would really be a fixed offset of GMT, everyone would have to switch their timezone twice a year as GMT is a fixed timezone without DST). There are publicly available databases with rules for all timezones (the Olson database for instance). But that would lead to a huge drop down list, and many people would get confused and start complaining.

AbigailII: I agree that including DST conventions in the time zone setting would be a nice feature. And it's probably true that some users would be confused and complain. But then some users are already confused and complaining.

But as I see it, the absence of this feature is not the main problem. The main problem is the mismatch between the interface and the functionality of BK's time zone setting. The various options on the Settings page are all described as fixed offsets from GMT, but they are implemented</a> as fixed offsets from Czech time. Thus, whenever the Czech Republic is on summer time, what you set is not what you get.

KotDB: Oops. Sorry about the runaway italics.

Here's an interesting thought: If pawns were allowed to edit their posts, then all the paying members wouldn't have to suffer through my incorrect formatting.

ScarletRose: If you try to compose the message again a link to retrieve the saved message should appear by the message box where you enter text.
Of course, if you already tried it and didn't notice it, the retrieve saved message link probably won't appear anymore :(

Fencer: I was on my sister new computer yesterday when i asked about messages read/unread. I have to say on mine here they are fine.
Just shows you not everyone(or should i say each screen) sees things the same as they do not know what they are looking at or trying to look for. I will try altering her screen when i am there next, but everything else looked great on it, it should be for the price it cost.

And i still love the simple style

If I resign from a game will I be able to see my opponent's code?

BG:Yes.

King Reza:

Thanks

Why is in the new castle layout the Prize tournament name not bold-fonted?

joshi tm: Because nobody has reported it yet.

I mentioned this before, with no response - and I'm not sure if it is a bug, or just something that basically makes the feature pointless.

In the tournament templates, it does not save the name or description as part of the template.

Those are the areas that for me takes the longest to fill out - and to have a template with those 99% filled out where I just need to make a small change for each template would be VERY helpful - but right now all that a template saves is the settings for the tournament - which is something that usually takes me 10 seconds to do without a template.

Any chance to get this bug fixed - the templates are a great idea for someone like me who makes a lot of tournaments, but un-usable right now.

Do we get notice if one of our pics is rejected? My icon changed but my big pic didn't.

TarantinoFan: press ctrl/f5 and you'll get it :)

gogul: Thankyou. Can everyone see it now???

TarantinoFan: I see your resevoir dogs icon and Quintin pic.

Rose: Thanks Rose. That is just so Quentin. And my fav movie.

TarantinoFan: I reply to you on the Movies board.......--->

I must say, I find the boards with the new style sheets harder to use than the old way. Can we at least have a different background for messages and the surrounding area? Just a tiny border doesn't do it.

And textboxes should look like textboxes (which are traditionally "lowered"). Now it's just a white rectangle in a sea of white among other white rectangles in the same white sea.

AbigailII:But on my screen, it's a grey rectangle on a beige background! 

AbigailII: What now? The no fonts style.

Fencer: much easier to see thanks

Fencer: Much better. Thanks.

The site clock is still not doing what it is supposed to do. Australia went back to Eastern Standard time on Sunday morning at 2am but the site clock (if set on Brisbane,Sydney,Melbourne,Vladivostok) still reads an hour ahead. The actual time here at the moment is 12.20am on March 27 but the clock tells me that if I live here the time should be 1.20am????

BTW. Where the heck is Soul?????

Would it be possible to add a setting where one can enter a URL for a custom stylesheet - and if this setting is set, it's treated as another style to switch to? (Looking at the logic of styleswitcher-1.js this doesn't seem like a major change). This would make developing alternative styles much easier.

For instance, if I were to set the setting to 'http://www.abigail.be/style/brainking.css', I could work locally to develop a different style and if done, present it to Fencer as one of the user developped styles.

PS. I know this is picky but I am proud of my country and like everyone to get it right.

Sydney is spelt with 2x y's not with an I as it is shown in the clock settings.

TarantinoFan: The site clock is doing exactly what it is supposed to do. I've written something about it yesterday in my blog.
What's the problem with Seoul? It's a capital of South Korea.

AbigailII: Yes, it would be possible.

TarantinoFan: More people make the same mistake.

AbigailII:

Fencer: Ok I read the blog. I don't understand ( I thought all clocks worked off Grenwich Mean Time the site clock tells me that I am +10 hours from GMT. What does CET have to do with me setting my site clock from GMT) I guess I will just have to tell my site clock that I live an hour west of where I really do live.

And I know that Seoul is the capital of South Korea. The clock lists "Soul". I was picking at the spelling mistake again!

AbigailII: Just goes to show that you really should be more careful with your spelling! 13,000km is a big detour!!!

i liked my gray background with the old style. but i like the new castle style, however with my games, its now switched to a white background. for some reason, its a bit glaring, and i would prefer to have that gray again. is there anyway i can do that?

Fencer: Not A capital, but THE capital... it's the only one, they don't have any more! ;)

 Gabriel Almeida:

Well, at least the site has caught up with my local time now :-)

Can I second what Anjte said? I'd like to have the old, simpler layout which I found much easier to read. Even switched to simple, there's too much detail on the new pages for me.

BG: i dont want it simple, i like the new look, i just dont like the white on the game board pages, its too bright.

BG:  I don't see any more detail than before.  I think "No Fonts" is going to be my favorite.

Antje: You mean the white background on one of these pages? Hyper backgammon (Fencer vs. AlanP)