Tip.It News The latest Tip.It News posted on the forum. http://forum.tip.it/index.php Sun, 17 Jan 2010 07:11:52 +0000 60 <![CDATA[[ENDED] The Crew Wants You!]]> http://forum.tip.it/topic/255872-ended-the-crew-wants-you/ The Crew Wants You!
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Applications are now closed. Thanks to everybody who applied - it was fantastic to see energetic users wanting to give back to Tip.It! :)

This thread will be locked as it will only encourage spam at this point, but here is a brief list of Questions we thought you would like answered:

  • Who read my application? Crew and Administrators
  • How long until I find out if I was accepted or declined? You should hear back from us within one week from this post. If you don't get anything after a week, please PM me.
  • Will there be a list of those declined? This information is confidential and will be kept between us and the applicant. If the applicant wishes to tell people they were declined, that is up to them.
  • Can I check in on my application? No, but you should hear back from us within a week.
  • Will I be contacted if you declined or accepted my application? Yes. A pm will be sent to those declined and those accepted.


If you have any other questions, please feel free to PM me. :)

Applications are now closed!


I look forward to reading your applications! If you have any questions, feel free to PM me or you can post on this topic. Do NOT post your application here.

-Cowman 133
For the Tip.It Crew]]> Sun, 17 Jan 2010 07:11:52 +0000 http://forum.tip.it/topic/255872-ended-the-crew-wants-you/ <![CDATA[Is it a bird? Is it a plane? No, it's two super moderators!]]> http://forum.tip.it/topic/255419-is-it-a-bird-is-it-a-plane-no-its-two-super-moderators/
Congratulations to both of them.]]> Tue, 12 Jan 2010 09:34:18 +0000 http://forum.tip.it/topic/255419-is-it-a-bird-is-it-a-plane-no-its-two-super-moderators/ Profile Pictures! http://forum.tip.it/topic/253156-profile-pictures/
We have now given all members the ability to add a picture to their profile which everyone will be able to see. The same rules that apply to Avatars apply here except that the limits are 50KB in file size and 200x200 pixels in size.

Enjoy :)

Thanks, Tip.It Administration team]]> Tue, 15 Dec 2009 08:40:30 +0000 http://forum.tip.it/topic/253156-profile-pictures/ Five New Global Moderators http://forum.tip.it/topic/252872-five-new-global-moderators/
Keep up the good work guys!

~Your Tip.It Administration Team]]> Sat, 12 Dec 2009 16:10:55 +0000 http://forum.tip.it/topic/252872-five-new-global-moderators/ Tip.It Forum Skin http://forum.tip.it/topic/251325-tip-it-forum-skin/
This skin has been set to the default for everyone to begin with, so if you want to change this, change the skin as you normally would.

Please bear in mind this a new release, and there may be (read: probably will be) a few bugs that need to be ironed out.

If you see one of these bugs, please let us know by either posting in this topic, or sending me a PM. We did try to check for as many bugs as possible but it's likely some have been missed.

There's one that we currently know about - bold text doesn't always display bolded on the skin. This is to do with the font-family we're using and we will look into it.

Please note there are currently no alternate colours for the skin, just the default "Mithril".

Enjoy!]]> Fri, 20 Nov 2009 21:27:11 +0000 http://forum.tip.it/topic/251325-tip-it-forum-skin/ <![CDATA[Tip.It's Caption Contest! With prizes from Jagex! CONTEST NOW OVER!]]> http://forum.tip.it/topic/251037-tipits-caption-contest-with-prizes-from-jagex-contest-now-over/

This time we'll be doing a Caption Contest, whoever can come up with the best caption for the image below (as voted for by members of staff) will win one of three prizes!

1st Place: Betrayal at Falador/Backpack/Runescape Cap + Custom Tip.It Forum Rank

2nd Place: Drawstring Bag/Runescape Cap/Mousemat

3rd Place: Drawstring Bag/Runescape Cap

The only prerequisite is, that you should only enter if you can provide a full shipping address or your parent's if you're under 18. This will be done via confidential PM with the winners. DO NOT POST YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION HERE.

To enter, please send your entry into OfficialContest via PM with the following information:
[b]Forum name:[/b]

[b]Caption:[/b]


Anyway, here is the picture!

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The forum rules apply to this contest and thus any inappropriate captions are not welcomed. You can be as creative as you like, can be commentary on the picture or perhaps dialogue between the characters, it's entirely up to you!

The Deadline for the contest is midnight GMT on Wednesday 25th November 2009, giving you a little over a week to enter! Only one entry allowed per user.

Feel free to ask any questions or discuss this content in this topic.

Best of luck! :D]]> Mon, 16 Nov 2009 21:47:24 +0000 http://forum.tip.it/topic/251037-tipits-caption-contest-with-prizes-from-jagex-contest-now-over/ <![CDATA[Three New Forums! Falador Tavern, FunOrb & Sports/Fitness]]> http://forum.tip.it/topic/249286-three-new-forums-falador-tavern-funorb-sportsfitness/
They are as follows:
Sports & Fitness
For all the dedicated/relaxed sport fans and those who want to talk fitness.

Falador Tavern
A Role-Play forum that all Members have access to! Enjoy topics such as Tip.It Hegemony and others that are to be made.

FunOrb Discussion
That's right, a forum for all your FunOrb needs! It's here, get the word out.


You can find a detailed sticky on each forum as to what the purpose is as well as a few special rules. Please take the time to read them.

We hope to see the new forums flourish and build on the already superb community we have!

Regards,
Your Tip.It Administration]]> Tue, 27 Oct 2009 10:38:55 +0000 http://forum.tip.it/topic/249286-three-new-forums-falador-tavern-funorb-sportsfitness/ Three New Global Moderators! http://forum.tip.it/topic/248541-three-new-global-moderators/
Keep up the good work guys!

~Your Tip.It Administration Team]]> Mon, 19 Oct 2009 23:34:23 +0000 http://forum.tip.it/topic/248541-three-new-global-moderators/ Welcome to our new mod Darkrick! http://forum.tip.it/topic/248342-welcome-to-our-new-mod-darkrick/ Quote

We would like to welcome a former moderator, Darkrick back on staff!

He will be serving as a Board Moderator on the Off-Topic and RuneScape boards. :thumbsup:

Congrats again!
]]> Sun, 18 Oct 2009 00:27:55 +0000 http://forum.tip.it/topic/248342-welcome-to-our-new-mod-darkrick/ Welcome to Invision Power Board! http://forum.tip.it/topic/246935-welcome-to-invision-power-board/
There's lots of new features, as I'm sure you can see, first off I'd like to touch on a few of the "issues" that we do know about in advance, because it's likely you will come across them.

  • The majority of old BBCode has been converted into what it should be, but some things are still slightly broken, it's possible you may have to edit an old post of yours and slightly edit the BBCode if it didn't come across properly, but as I said, the majority are fine. The main thing we've noticed that has broken are lists, but these are extremely quick to fix using find and replace in notepad. If you find any of your emoticons have been replaced by HTML in your posts, you should just be able to edit it and put the emoticon back in to fix it, if that doesn't work, please PM me and let me know exactly which emoticon is causing the issue and I'll look into it.
  • The smilies don't look great on the black skin, we're working on it. :)
  • The title bar of the emoticons panel on the black skin is a little broken, but doesn't impede functionality.
  • A few (and I do only mean a few) topics have 2 or 3 posts duplicated (usually the first 2 or 3 in the topic), if you notice a topic with this, then please report the topic and write that in the reason box, but don't bother going looking for these topics, only let us know if you come across one, and a moderator can remove the duplicated posts.


There's lots of improvements, and as I'm sure you'll agree, listing ALL of them is fairly pointless, so I'll list a few with some extra information (if necessary).

Search Speed
We're utilising an Open Source Fulltext search engine on the backend of the forum that should greatly increase the speed and accuracy of the forum search, you should be able to get results for terms as short as 3 characters in less than a second, but yeah, it can take longer so don't hold us to that. :)

The Gallery
You can upload your images to the new Gallery, it's split up into 4 categories as you can see by clicking Gallery at the top. Inside each of these categories you can create an "album" where you can upload your images. You are allowed a maximum of 5 albums and you can use these in any combination of categories you wish. All images require a moderator preview before you (and the public) will be able to view them. Once they're viewable users will be able to rate them and leave comments. You can manage your albums by clicking your name in the top right to get the drop down menu, and then clicking "My Gallery". Just because your images have to be approved first does not mean you should upload distasteful images. Initially each user has 50mb of quota for images, and bandwidth is also limited, but we will be looking to revise these limits once we get a better idea of usage.

Blogs
You can also create your own blog now as well. First you need to enable it, do this by clicking your name drop down in the top right, then clicking My Settings. Once there, click the "Blogs" tab to activate your blog. The same rules apply to blogs as they do to posts, you are expected to treat Blogs in the same way you would treat Blogscape, with the exception we will allow you to blog about real life there if you wish.

User Profile Reports
If you see a user with a bad signature or avatar now, you can click their name to go to their profile and then report their account, rather than having to report the user's post.

Changing to Dark Skin
If you wish to change to the Dark Skin, go down to the very bottom of the forum, click the drop down box with "IP.Board" in it, and then choose "Deflection".

Updating Profile
You may wish to update your profile settings as users can now have birthdays, to do this, click your name in the top right, and click "My Profile". Once you get to that page, click "Edit my Profile", from here you can manage details about yourself. Currently we are not allowing users to select a photo because it would have to be uploaded to our server, this will *probably* change in the future.

Private Boards
If you had access to any private boards before, and you suddenly find that you don't now, then please PM an admin and let them know which board it was so we can restore that access. We have tried to transfer across all permissions but it is possible we missed some.

Clan Field
The clan profile field still exists (and should still contain your original data), but I need to look into fixing it as it doesn't work quite the same as in phpBB. It's currently hidden from the view on posts because of this.


Finally, please cut us some slack, we've just moved over to new software and there's bound to be teething issues, we know that a couple of small things might be broken here and there, but give us some time to sort them out, it doesn't matter how long we spend checking stuff, something always gets through which a user finds.




You can discuss this announcement in this topic.]]> Mon, 05 Oct 2009 21:39:28 +0000 http://forum.tip.it/topic/246935-welcome-to-invision-power-board/