There's a front page?
I don't see the thumbs up, have always assumed it's for paid members only
I suspect this will have been mentioned already, but I'm not about to wade through pages of stuff to find out, but there's something quite badly wrong when you click on an embedded image in a post to give a larger version. You'll get a random assortment of images from the same thread and sometimes not the one you've clicked on at all, so...
As below, all sorts of random, though at least in this case, my images are actually included in the randomness.
Yesterday whilst using my iPhone it was incredibly slow so switched to my laptop. Using edge I couldn’t get the forum to even load properly. After several seconds it would come up but only the multitude of adverts and banners, not the list and links of all the forum topics - there was just a white gap where they should be. This was on chat and bike forums. I gave up after a few minutes. No issue with other sites
In line with tradition, the Search function seems to be broken. I did a multi-word search & eventually was presented with a sizeable list of results. The forum, for some reason, lists them in 'Relevance' order with no concern for date. I'm not sure how it decides on relevance, but I don't find it particularly useful.
Clicking on Advanced Options allowed me to select 'Order by Date' but, leaving the search box populated as before, running the search again now yields no results.
It is certainly slow. Not 24s slow for me. Takes around 10 seconds to open the homepage. In comparison Crazyguyonabike and Uk Cycling open in 1 or 2 seconds.
This is on an aging Windows 10 laptop. Firefox.
Just tested on my desktop, loading the front page is sub- 3 seconds.
About 5sec on my android phone with firefox.
If the forum was a cyclist, it would be almost as slow as me.
I just posted on a thread - moral dilemma tax thing, and the bottom of page 1 went weird - no formatting and screen filling icons.
iPhone 15 if it helps
This afternoon's update appears to have removed the ability to post replies by PC. Trying to post refreshes the page, losing all text entries into the reply box
and on my phone
...it's not letting me post. When I try to add reply it tells me I am leaving the page and will lose my changes.
I was going to say, this latest update is a bit strange...weird black and white scheme, post counts next to user names?
OK, i can post now....but not a fan of fhis new look. Will check back in a few days
Let's see if it works for me.
Apologies for the downtime, that was unexpected, we have been testing on both of our develop sites, and these issues were not showing on their, I believe I have fixed the issue regarding post replies on PC, we hope you like the new theme of Singletrack, any issues please do post in this thread, or message me.
Kind Regards
Tech Hamster
Not just on PC
dark mode gone
zebra stripes are back
Its a huge backward step, is this the new version forum?
I dont like anything I've seen so far.
again the theme is fussy and not very intuitive
So just some info. We've ditched the old theme for this new one and it's a little more than cosmetic. The old theme was, well, old. Very old. The code in it was bloated. At the time we wrote it the software we needed didn't exist. Now most of it does and so we have moved on and ditched a lot of unnecessary code. That being said, gl;itches and bugs were not unexpected. Give us a day or two to find them and fix them.
Test.
Testing (phone)
Ignore - can now post from phone and laptop, by the look of it (laptop)
Not a fan of the post count. It serves no purpose beyond eliteist willy waving.
If I want to see someone’s posting history, I can look it up (or at least used to be able to).
what's the point of the ****ing zebra stripes?, everyone complained about the stripes first time round but there's no dark mode to switch the ****ing things off.
I also lost a post in the process of adding it earlier. There is now a very long list of links on every page that I don't recall being there before. Merch adds, links to recent articles, a list of recent reviews, top rated reviews, a list of partners, articles I may have missed etc. etc! Some of it is duplicated - the list of reviews appears twice.
On my chromebook these appear in the right sidebar with some on the bottom, on my phone they all appear on the bottom of the page. Every. Single. Page. It's just annoying clutter that really detracts from the user experience. Maybe just put it on the forum home page or the overview page? Every page of every thread is too much.
Edit to say, I'm also getting a pop-up advertising houses for sale in County Durham. WTF?
More pop-up advertising - for a gambling site I think.
'They' want you to gamble on moving away from sunny Shrops?
Ah it’s working again
So just some info. We've ditched the old theme for this new one and it's a little more than cosmetic. The old theme was, well, old. Very old. The code in it was bloated. At the time we wrote it the software we needed didn't exist. Now most of it does and so we have moved on and ditched a lot of unnecessary code. That being said, gl;itches and bugs were not unexpected. Give us a day or two to find them and fix them.
The lack of a Dark Mode is neither a glitch nor a bug. Can we please have that re-instated asap?
…is it working yet!?
Ah it’s working again
If by the use of “working”, you actually mean laughably piss poor then I agree with you
This is probably not what a lot of people here want to read but I quite like the latest look on my phone. Not tried desktop yet.
Genuine question - what do you folks mean by the 'zebra stripes'? Is it the grey background for the posts against the lighter page colour (I don't use dark mode)
Ta.
Begs the question - Why did you pick a “The old theme was, well, old. Very old. The code in it was bloated.” - theme the first time round and spend months trying to make it work! 🤷♂️
Mark, fyi I only seem to be seeing the advertising pop-up on the Newsletter page. Hopefully that helps you track down a way of killing it for subscribers. I also note that further to my post above, the long list of stuff in the sidebar and at the bottom of every page has already been trimmed back a fair bit. Thank you.
This is probably not what a lot of people here want to read but I quite like the latest look on my phone.
I don't dislike it, it's fairly clean and intuitive. Certainly no worse than before and maybe a little better imv. Now that some of the bloat on the edges has been paired back a little.
Can I post now?
edit: Yes! I can! (On iPhone running iOS18.5)
This is probably not what a lot of people here want to read but I quite like the latest look on my phone. Not tried desktop yet.
Genuine question - what do you folks mean by the 'zebra stripes'? Is it the grey background for the posts against the lighter page colour (I don't use dark mode)
Ta.
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I quite like the look of it too!
What's the matter with you lot? Just put on your dark shades and turn down the brightness 😘
HTF have I made over 8000 posts on here? I apologize. Is that actually true?
Just doing a test post for no other reason than to see my post count before it gets taken away in the next improvement
well i dont get zebra stripes (nor do i want them)
Hmm? In Classifieds I can no longer differentiate promoted ads from free ads. It’s just a list of ads now.
Just doing a test post for no other reason than to see my post count before it gets taken away in the next improvement
You could always see your post count in your profile under the forums tab.
Whatever has happened in the last hour is horrific, my eyes may never recover from this.
Keep getting logged out on iPhone (safari).
