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The 'joined x years ago' is in blue (but not a link), is too small, and, I think, not needed.
Sounds like a number of issues will be resolved as the hamsters work through them. As someone who spent years involved in "systems" I sympathise and dont want to add to your workload so will check back later. Good luck!
The "jump to last post" button at the top of the thread seems to have stopped working over the weekend? Not workgin for me this morning. Hope it comes back with the theme update planned for later, as jumping to the last page thens scrolling down the page is a bit of a pain at the moment...
without going through 11 pages, i tried to use cut and paste with 'postimages' and that failed. How to post pictures ?
If it's any help I can see & edit posts I've made that aren't showing up in the forums through the Forums section of my profile. They're clearly in the database but not being seen for some hours by the wider forum.
Hi,
Are all of the old threads coming back?
Err, the topics with the newest posts aren't moving to the top. Is this the idea or is it something not working?
In the overview of the forum I used to automatically see all posts in order of latest post. This no longer happens.
Is there a setting I can't see to have it organised this way again?
Forgive me if already posted about, but in DMs my android keyboard pops up and covers over the field where I am typing. I can't scroll the page up any further to avoid this. This may be because we've exchanged a few messages now as this hasn't been a problem before. Firefox, latest general release android on pixel.
Btw the web page looks significantly better after the rework a few months ago.
There is a drop down box thingy near the top of the page which lets you manually select what order you see your posts in.
For instance I've currently selected sticky posts and only 3 appear. I could also select latest posts and a few others.
Problem is that it defaults to unread posts rather than latest posts or whichever customisation you selected on your previous visit.
Anyway, for those preferring the method of "just shut the site down for a week or two until it's working", it may be better if you just take a break and check back here in a week or two? Better for everyone 🙂
It's taken from 10.38am until 15.45 for any new posts to show up on this thread for me - that's the most basic forum functionality that isn't working.
Interestingly i get a different experience (some post visible, some not) depending on if im logged in or not
When I open or refresh the site, I get a green pop-up box "Email has been sent"
Appreciate it's a big task, but at the moment the forum is completely unusable with posts not showing up.
I have no idea if my posts are there or not, when they'll show up or not, so i'm having to read the TrainerRoad forum for my daily fix instead😉
Colors and stuff can come later, but if posts aren't showing up there's no point.
Oh, this layout is better! I can flip to the last post and easily find my way back to the overview in one click. Nice one!
This does look a lot better and seems quicker, but is that because according to the overview there are only 12 pages of posts available at the moment?
Visually the sea of sea blue text is very off putting because it increases the difficulty of visually navigating amongst the posts. It was previously easy to day my eyes straight to post titles, straight to dates, straight to usernames. Now not.
Colors and stuff can come later
I'm rather hoping the colours will go, and sooner rather than later, because it's too low contrast and... well see my last post if it turns up.
Layout was today's job. Which is slightly more than just the layout. It's a different way of organising the forum. The previous allowed a level of threading to happen so you could end up repllying directly to a post - which was not intended. This is a linear theme where new replies all go at the end. It's cleaner in how it looks and also how it works.
Not ruling out design tweaks, but now we aim to get the bug that is preventing the cache from clearing on reply. The length of time it takes to post a repl and the fact some replies aren't appearing immediately are both parts of the same issue. Something is causing the software to wait 1 minute from the reply button push to page refresh, even though the post enters the database within a few seconds.
That's for tomorrow.
Cheers Mark. Good luck.
Agree that this layout is better. Keep up the good work STW towers.
This is better - thanks!
Seems to be working much better now and the addition of the "go to last post" arrow is a welcome addition. Any chance of an indicator of total post count? guessing it is in the pipeline
Oh, this layout is better! I can flip to the last post and easily find my way back to the overview in one click. Nice one!
can you? still not great for me
Definitely a step forward. Still lots of issues but I'm happy to wait until the dust settles
Any chance the "likes" will be anonymous again?
Oh, this is much, much better. Nice one.
Probably get used to it, but on mobile it's very easy to hit the options above ^, font size etc, format, etc. Will there likely be a way to hide? I got very use to having no option before, aha.
Thanks again for all the hard graft !
Font sizing and other things like that are easy to for us to play around with. If you give us a bit of time to fix the bugs stopping things from working properly, we'll come back to UX and make some adjustments for you. Usernames in the likes? Happy to take opinions on that.
The minimal threads display was a bit of a shock but I think I quite like all of this new look. It's feeling slick this evening, the jump direct to last post worked.
Oh and thanks for the 🏠>forum>topic navigation at the top that you added over the weekend too.
Certainly a big improvement in layout. I do miss the overview of threads which included posts from all sections with every sticky post at the top. Unless I'm missing something they all are on separate pages now.
There is a new theme coming Monday morning that might help, but at the moment there are two slightly faster ways. The first is that just underneath where it says 'bike forum' at the top of each thread is bit of text that says ' last post' and although it doesn't look clickable it actually is. If you click on it it will often but not always juli you too the last page and last post. However this isn't completely reliable for some reason
The alternative is on the right hand side at the top of each thread it says 'page X of Y'. If you click on the number X (e.g. 1) then you get a drop down where you can quickly scroll to the last page rather than clicking through 1 page at a time
Satan can't afford the bung to the IOC fortunately
Cheers for that, I might have to take a screenshot for future reference; until I get used to it! 😁
Right, been using the forum for an hour or so, and I must admit it’s pretty much like using the old forum, quoting and adding photos are working fine, the white arrow pointing to the most recent post, I can’t really think of anything else at the moment that’s an issue.
Just noticed that a strike-through ’button’ has been added! Not something I use all the time, but it’s a handy tool when quoting. Thanks for that!
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Hmmm, I just edited my post above, and the edit didn’t show after I saved it. It was just to say I’ve noticed a strike-through button has been added, for which thanks - handy when posting quotes.
so I’m very much in favour of keeping identifiable likes. It potentially removes a lot of clutter if “thanks” posts. One of the best rules for good behaviour online is to not post anything you’d not say out loud to somebody. There is the odd post on here where someone asks for advice on a certain personal issue where anonymity is appropriate but not so much on anything else.
Layout - I know you’re probably restricted by themes but I don’t need to know which forum a post is from when viewing all. That's clutter.
i seem to have latest posts as default now. That’s good. It’s a shame sticky posts aren’t sticky anymore.
I’m not sure we need this full list of post classifications in the drop down. (Closed posts? Open posts?) but the view that would be most useful: “topics that I have replied to, that have new replies” isn’t there.
The option “Unreplied topics” suggests “replied topics” should also be possible.
“Email 4 new replies” has been confusing me. Seems it just means “subscribe”
Certainly a big improvement in layout. I do miss the overview of threads which included posts from all sections with every sticky post at the top. Unless I'm missing something they all are on separate pages now.
Agree with this, much better when you've just come for a browse over a cuppa
a lot better, good work. just 2 things to sk for me at the moment.
what are the little icons at the very left of the thread titles? seem to be a drop of water, a black page and a white page. also a padlock but i guess thats a locked thread.
and also, really good news on the 'go to last post' arrow, but could we also have that 'time since last posted' message back please? if i see the last post was a few minutes ago then i know i havent seen it so ill go have a look, whereas if it says 4 or 5 hours ago i know ive probably already read it so no need to revisit.
really appreciate the hard work you folks are doing, well done.
The Overview view is still there if you access from the main menu forum link but not if you hit the forum home icon. Stickies aren't sticky though.
New layout seems a vast improvement. Would like a proper “Overview” forum view, but clicking “latest posts” is not far off.
One issue is that I’m seeing an video advert bottom right of screen (paying member);
You get that when you click on forum, I don't ever see myself using the overview which then just lists the subforum types.
I actually liked the last layout better visually, just needed little tweaks
I think the "sub forum" label below the thread title needs to be smaller and not in block, and I don't think each thread needs the 'forum" label. That would just making the thread titles easier to scan IMO.
I am not a dark mode deviant though, maybe it looks different for others.
“Email 4 new replies” has been confusing me. Seems it just means “subscribe”
This.... I wondered why I might want 4 replies emailing to me.... I didn't realise that someone was trying to be "yoof".
And I'll say it again.... there's loads of things that do not work/appear in Opera Mini on mobile.
I thought this had been tested?
I'm sure there's a reason for using wordpress rather than something designed for the job but I don't get it.
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