Forum Update

[ainsworth74]

Edit: doesn't seem to show up quite as well on the screenshot as the size is reduced, but hopefully you get what I mean.

If you click on the image it will make it full size

 

[GRALISTAIR]

VAST IMPROVEMENT

 

[Skimble19]

If you click on the image it will make it full size

Whoops, should've guessed that!! I have to admit the forum definitely does appear to run a lot smoother and doing things like rotating a device doesn't cause issues like before.

 

[Whistler40145]

How do I view Subscribed threads?

 

[ainsworth74]

How do I view Subscribed threads?

These are now called 'Watched Threads' so if you click on the link at the top it should take you to a list of them.

 

[61653 HTAFC]

A few issues (good and bad) I've noticed so far...

1. "First unread" takes me to the 5th September. Noted above that this might be just a teething problem so no biggie...
2. On mobile, the new forum works well in portrait mode, whereas on the old system it zoomed out too far. Good stuff!
3. Other than that, it's just going to take some getting used to. Give me about 18 months!
4. The "new" icons still show on posts that aren't new to me. Again, probably just a temporary issue.
5. Where's my Avatar gone? It wasn't there when I first logged back in. EDIT. It seems that the new setup is more fussy about dimensions and my previous image no longer complies. No problem.

 

[Puffing Devil]

Looks nice and shiny, though takes up a little more screen real estate. I'd really like a stripped back, low graphics option. Just like when we used to edit documents with vi and runoff commands...

One question: is it possible to set the number of posts shown per page? It would be great if that could be upped as a user option.

 

[ainsworth74]

1. The "new" icons still show on posts that aren't new to me. Again, probably just a temporary issue.
2. Where's my Avatar gone? It wasn't there when I first logged back in.

1. The 'new' icon will sort itself out over time. The Forum index got a bit wonky during the migration.
2. Sadly some customer avatars went missing (we wish them well on their travels) so will need to be re-uploaded. If you were using a forum default these didn't make the transfer at all.

 

[ainsworth74]

Liking it so far; only thing I've noticed so far is that I don't have access to a private subforum.

We are still sorting out permissions. Currently I don't have it either!

 

[61653 HTAFC]

1. The 'new' icon will sort itself out over time. The Forum index got a bit wonky during the migration.
2. Sadly some customer avatars went missing (we wish them well on their travels) so will need to be re-uploaded. If you were using a forum default these didn't make the transfer at all.

Think I've worked out the Avatar issue, the new setup seems to have issues with images that are too rectangular!

 

[gsnedders]

Sorta related to backend changes, any chance of getting HTTPS around here?

 

[Lrd]

Sorta related to backend changes, any chance of getting HTTPS around here?

It's coming soon

 

[bearhugger]

Had some “new reply to watched thread” emails through, 4 so far. Used to get these at about 1 o’clock in the morning.

 

[Mike395]

Had some “new reply to watched thread” emails through, 4 so far. Used to get these at about 1 o’clock in the morning.

Yes, these should now come through in near-real time

 

[Starmill]

I almost cried when I realised you can now highlight to quote SO much easier!!

 

[A Challenge]

Does this mean the end of the ~03:00 'the server is too busy'?

 

[Lrd]

I almost cried when I realised you can now highlight to quote SO much easier!!

Wow, now thats cool

 

[FGW_DID]

I note my signature block has disappeared and can't seem to find the edit facility to renew it. I see the change avatar facility but no signature one?

 

[J-2739]

Mmm, fresh

We got our old smilies back, good on you for that. The ones slightly before hurt my eyes!

 

[r37]

A very minor issue here but I've noticed that double clicking the semaphore no longer marks that forum as "read". This might just be because of teething troubles, but it's just a small observation.

Otherwise it seems good, it's certainly faster on my laptop!

 

[Starmill]

I very very briefly became a Veteran Member too, but I am now back to being an Established Member I should have taken a screenshot!

 

[ainsworth74]

I almost cried when I realised you can now highlight to quote

Have you tried multi-quote yet? That's also significantly improved

 

[ainsworth74]

We got our old smilies back, good on you for that.

We can't have too much change! Need at least a few reminders of our old home about the place!

 

[Starmill]

Have you tried multi-quote yet? That's also significantly improved

We can't have too much change! Need at least a few reminders of our old home about the place!

Yup! It's lovely!

[Or it would be if I pressed the right button]

I also love that you don't have to use the tags for text formatting aaaah!!!

 

[A Challenge]

Yup! It's lovely!

[Or it would be if I pressed the right button]

I also love that you don't have to use the tags for text formatting aaaah!!!

The only annoying thing is it doesn't get rid of formatting when copying in from elsewhere, though this is useful as well! Don't like the new advanced posting window though, as there is no box border!

 

[Cletus]

Can we increase posts per page ?
20 is a pain. 50 much better

 

[rebmcr]

Had some “new reply to watched thread” emails through, 4 so far. Used to get these at about 1 o’clock in the morning.

Yes, these should now come through in near-real time

I had that already in the old software...

I also love that you don't have to use the tags for text formatting aaaah!!!

I also had that already in the old software!

 

[Deerfold]

There doesn't seem to be an easy way to get to the most recent page in a thread from an early page.

 

[rmt4ever]

On the old forum I just clicked something at the top, I think it was called user cp, to see if any of the issues I had contributed to had any updates. How do I get this now????

 

[Lrd]

There doesn't seem to be an easy way to get to the most recent page in a thread from an early page.

The black dot to the left of the thread title