I'm back, I guess. Not that I'm gonna do much, but at least I'll deposit my own XP again and all that...

The werewolf suit will stay, though. Hey, just because you're a werewolf doesn't mean you can't wear a werewolf suit as well, does it? ^^

(Thanks to Coop83 for his help, too!)

Blessed (belated) solstice, everyone.

(And for those from the Wi/Ht? Level Up Lounge... I'm not sure yet when I'll be back (on NG in general, too), but you can IM me if you want to.)

Just in case you're wondering, my Internet connection and phone line are both broken, have been for about 10 days and will probably continue to be for another couple of days at least, so that's why I'm not really on NG right now.

I'm quite annoyed by how my telco has been handling this, but I hope I'll be back soon at least.

Just in case anybody cares. :P

EDIT: Back. And indeed, nobody cared.

The redesign looks quite nice so far. I really like the pink auras (finally something for us grrls! ^^), and the fact that level XP requirements don't seem to depend on the highest-ranking user (currently pimp) anymore is sweet as well.

Some issues I've found:
* Typing in the BBS or in PMs (but not here, for some reason) is extremely laggy.
* There seems to be no combined B/P ranking.
* BBS posts in users' post histories link to first topic page instead of the one containing the post
* VP shown in profile is base VP rather than total VP.
* Editing posts gives you a "NG Front Page?" option even when you can't post frontpage news.
* Old-style profile links (like this) are not forwarded to the users' new profiles.
* Users who haven't filled in their profile still are listed as vagrants and given no link to their userpage in the BBS (the "users online" part, at least; possibly elsewhere, too).
* Messages you get when levelling up are quirky: "With that vote, you now have 3,600 experience points. You need 0 more to get to Level 19."
* Your batting average is not listed in your profile.
* When you quote a BBS post so long that adding the quoting colons will bring it over the character limit for BBS posts, the quoted post will be truncated.

Non-issues:
* Uploading user images is broken (in Mozilla; Opera works). - Turns out this was my own fault for using an older browser version. After an update, it all works fine. :P
* Pimp is level 50, not level 60. - Apparently, this is intentional. Yay! :)
* The level 60 icon does not come with different auras. - I suppose that's intentional, although it's also rather unfortunate.
* All flashes in the portal (latest, weekly best, all-time best) are numbered as "00". - Browser issue, apparently (Opera works fine).

Solved issues:
* The "simple" list of level icons (linked in the FAQ) doesn't display anything at all.
* The "detailed" list only lists levels up to 30 and gets the XP requirements wrong.
* Rankings have "[an error occurred while processing this directive]" instead of the number of users.
* The site is completely unreachable intermittently.
* Depositing XP gives the wrong numbers: e.g., it says "With that vote, you now have 10,210 experience points. You need 10,670 more to get to Level 32", when in reality, 10210 is my *old* amount of XP (the new one would be 10220) and 10670 is the *total* amount required for the next level.
* The number of flash reviews given in your profile doesn't update when you leave reviews. Neither does the number of music reviews.
* a:visited and a:link have the same text colour(s) in the portal, so you can't see which flashes you already checked out and which are new.
* The level 60 icon is broken in the "detailed" level icon list.
* Most rankings (saves, blams, signups, sticker orders, ratings, bookmarks) are broken.
* The "Flash reviews" links in one's profile don't work. Neither do the "Music reviews" or "Trophies" links.

There's probably more, too. :) I'll try to keep the above list reasonably up to date.