Question FireBoard 1.04 to Kunena 1.5 Issues

I use Joomla 1.5 with Community Board 1.2.2 and uddeIM 1.7 The upgrade process has gone mostly well with very few problems. One of the problems is that the text is rendered bigger than in FireBoard. in a thread the margin for the user info is more wider than FireBoard. Is there also a way to turn off the centering of the user info inside a thread? Community Board 1.2.2 also displays weird text aswel.. but that's not Kunena's fault?

My site is www.theorangeblock.org

I'm not sure if this is a Kunena template issue or a Community Builder issue. I suspect it's a template issue. A screenshot to illustrate the "weird text" and "centering of the user info inside a thread" would certainly help. The original subject and asking it in the "installation and upgrade" category confused me; I don't think there are any upgrade issues here. :dry:

EDIT: I see the Community Builder "weird text". That's definitely a Joomlapolis issue: ask them.

2ND EDIT: I see the torrents of abuse your users have hurled at you. Perhaps it would help if you shared with them a few screenshots. You may discover that the "annoying" bigness they see is due to their browser settings, not due to your website. I viewed your website using Firefox V3.6 at 1920 x 1080 px resolution on a 22-inch flat screen TFT monitor at 100% zoom. Your website looks fine to me. Would you like me to post a screenshot?

Perhaps your users are using some "state of the ark" technology? :laugh:

For centering, look to the right, on FireBoard it was formatted diffrently and I would like it that way on Kunena for my site. The weird log in text is within the Community Builder Login Module, here's a picture:

EDIT: Oh, ok, I will go ask them about that then.

Here's where all the fuss seems to be:


I haven't changed the image proportions above. Let others assess for themselves if this situation is seriously annoying or if the user in this case is being a just tiny bit bit precious? If this font is "annoyingly bigger" I would hate to have seen what the situation was like before. :blink:

You could add, in your reply about the old forums that you used to have, that there were a million things wrong with Fireboard and if the user had a week to sift through the litany of complaints, the security bulletins, the fractured feature set and the fact that it's been dead for nearly 18 months, just how bad things were. If your users also were made aware that Kunena is a project with a future, that is committed to ensuring best practice Joomla interoperability, and that the developers are intent on listening to their users, then maybe your users would be less (how do I put this diplomatically) resistant to change. Perhaps you might point them to www.kunena.com ?

It's not "critical" but it would be nice for a way to make it look abit like FireBoard, you don't have to have it as a option or anything, just a CSS/HTML hack or something?

Edit: Also, one user asked if it was possible to remove the smile next to the spoiler when using the tag. I would also like to know if the default landing page could be configured user by user.

The Kunena project is doing as much as possible to distance itself as far as possible Fireboard primarily because of the bad reputation that Fireboard had gained. In the future, Kunena will barely resemble Fireboard both in terms of internal design and external appearance. Put simply, Kunena works while Fireboard doesn't.