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

Hrqls: Why do you click on it? This is the basic rule - never click anything you don't trust.

Fencer: i got a new one .. this time something called 'drivecleaner'

it loaded in the brainking tab (i have to admit i am using ie, didnt install ff on this new pc yet) .. made the window very small (not minimized) .. showed another window in the center of my screen . when i close the originally brainking window show another window of drivercleaner showing my pc (although they gave my drives the wrong names :)) .. showing i had threats on it .. and trying to make me download something (a cab file)

its quite nasty as i have to close down my ie .. restart it .. and login into brainking again

popups might be annoying .. but this is worse
(i might be able to live with popups alone :))

Fencer: Darn - it works now.

I had hoped you would say I would have to live with it, then I could then say if I have to live with Castle, I would tell you I would then need a quick submit button near the top of the screen - Feature requests (BIG BAD WOLF, 2007-03-16 04:36:48) (Which of course I still want very much - but don't have a good excuse now...)

BIG BAD WOLF: But it's funny, isn't it? Try it now.

I'm guessing this is what the problem is - but when I choose the no-font style that I like better, and go to another page - the page loads completly with the castle theme then after it is loaded then switches to the nofont theme that I like. I'm almost positive it did not do this before - and a reason I pick the nofont is so it will load on the screen faster without having to load and display all the different images - and having it load completly with the castle theme first and then suddenly switching to the correct theme on every page load - that will start to get VERY old VERY fast. Any way we can have it load the theme we like from the start?

AbigailII: Not a bug, only a small detail I have missed.

Interestingly enough, while most fonts are larger if I choose the 'nofonts' style, the style switcher is significantly smaller. The 'nofonts' style makes it extra, extra small, which turns out to be quite a lot smaller than the 10pt. fixed setting for the simple style. Simple style ranges from 10 to 15pts, nofonts uses: xx-small, small, smaller, larger, and fixed sizes 10px and 11px (bug?).

I prefer the nofonts, although I wouldn't mind seeing 'xx-small' go.