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

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

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 :(

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.

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.

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.

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...

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 :)

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...

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.

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.

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

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

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 :)

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

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

gogul: Sorry, but I don't from your example that it follows that switching quickly between languages is important for everyone.

I rather have the move button there - that's important functionality for everyone.

AbigailII: It's important the languages can be switched fast. If I copy/paste, I might want the context in english, or I need to know a word in english, or a link to a tournament changes all further pages to an other language.

I like the new stile quite good so far, I'm just used to the row-layout, wich I hope is not too complicate to create.

Fencer, the message box in the new styles is not very clear (well on this PC) as too which messages have been read and which not.
Well the No fonts option is not to bad.
Could you make the read messages show in italics or the unread ones more bolder than they are please.

Side note, i like the simple style, i think it clean, tidy & clear

    The date/time on my home page do not reflect the early adoption of DST in the US this year.

ok the link worked sending it via PM

Hrqls: See i can play ya know lmao

I have sent the link in pm instead, see if it works instead of sending it during the game

Oceans Apart: me as well

I go straight to it.

Hrqls: They are logged in

MadMonkey: LMAO, u cheeky monkey

Oceans Apart: maybe they needed to be logged in to see the link ?

Oceans Apart: Going to give you a lesson on links, you never have much luck with them do you lol

Oceans Apart: which was the link ? you might have forgotten a part of it ?

I have jsut sent somebody a link to look at a game i was playing, but it sends them back to their homepage, why is this?

Hieronymus: But having the flags on the top right is such a waste of screen real estate, and is only useful for a handful of people (the translators), and even then I doubt they switch between all of them.

I rather not have items on the top of the page that are either useful to only a very few number of people (the flags), or contain things I already know (for instance, the current date and the time).

Hieronymus: Yes, I know. It is correct.

Fencer: The links are underlined in the left and in the main part of the main page, but not in the right.
emmett: Maybe most users never change the language, but for translators it is very important to have the possibility of easy switching them. I think that the simple mode should have the same functionality as the castle.

BIG BAD WOLF: Ah, I see. I'm still using the old blue outdated look. When I logged in today, it went into castle mode and I had to change it to simple. I haven't been using the simple look long enough to notice if the login was consistently in "simple". Thanks BBW. I'm sure we'll all have to get used to the new look.

emmett: I also don't miss the flags. Plus every time I use the new setup, it remembers that I had it in simple mode - not sure what you are saying about being a permanent setting.

Hieronymus: I don't miss the flags. The main page should be as simple as possible. It should be a "Setting", whether or not to have the language flags on the main page. It should also be a setting to permanently have the main page in "Simple" mode rather than "castle".

Thank you Fencer, i loved the idea of the context menu and started using it when you first released it, but stopped as i missed not being able to right click for cut/paste which i use a lot.

What a great idea to have it in javascript like the games list in the top left, shocked no one thought of it before lol

Hieronymus: What do you mean by "no link indication"?

Hieronymus:  How often do you switch languages?

I miss the flags for language switching in the simple and no fonts layout of the main page. Furthermore there is no link indication on the right side of the screen, e.g. for fellowships. At least that is inconsistent to the menu on the left.
For the castle layout this is ok.
I hope, this will be changed for simple and no fonts layout before the official release of them.

BIG BAD WOLF: This is the test mode and some kind of backward compatibility can interfere where it's not supposed to be.

When using the style no-fonts, which now applies to the Message Box list. There is something still makeing the message list really small - which then transfers over and makes the favourite boards & Fellowships list in the right column small also. Can we get out that small font from the discussion board for the no-font theme also? Thanks.

I have also trouble with those spyware even with Firefox, really strange!

Hrqls: That's the pest I was complaining about which started this thread.

Fencer: :) it didnt install it .. it just offered it .. and ie showed me its nice yellow bar telling me that i a website was offering me a download .. of course i didnt do that

but still the ad took over brainkings tab, made it small, popped up another window, which i could only close, then it showed the window in which brainking was with the drivecleaner site

i had to close that one .. and restart in brainking .. and .. within 10 clicks on brainking .. it happened again :)

now i am a few more clicks further and it didnt happen again .. but 2 times is quite annoying (1 time already is)

(just got this computer on friday, still in the process of installing all, will have ff on it again soon .. but still .. this ad is quite annoying)

Hrqls: If you didn't click it, nothing could install a spyware on your computer. If you use a proper browser like Firefox, of course. Nobody knows what the Internet Exploder 7 is capable of.

Fencer: is there anything i can do to track it down for you ?
or to know more of its origins ?

Fencer: thats why i am bothered by it .. i didnt click on it :)

i might have hovered my mouse over an ad though .. not sure .. i moved quite fast