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Speaking of which… there doesn’t seem to be any adverts?
Yeah, I can't see any either.
its as slow as ever.
See the updates in the "our forum" sticky.
actively disinclined to keep supporting it if this is the new forum look.
Could you give any details as to what you don't like beyond "it's a **** up?"
Speaking of which… there doesn’t seem to be any adverts?
great do we get a refund on our 
then?
Ah, so that's what they meant by integrating the forum with the main site (and facebook page). Access to all the content from one place. Yes, I could get used to that.
great do we get a refund on our
Don't be facetious.
You subscribe to the magazine, an advert-free forum is a Brucie Bonus.
I like it.
Stop messing about with it wontcha..
👍😜
This is nice.
Menu doesn't work though - android on mobile...
I’m not one to moan about stuff like this, but this is a massive **** up and a total joke. I was indifferent to maintaining my P, but actively disinclined to keep supporting it if this is the new forum look.
Seeing as I've been very critical so far, I have to say I quite like it. The quoted text is very faint though. Keep going with the improvements and my P will be re-instated.
Edit Android /Chrome tablet and Android/Adblocker phone
2nd Edit, and finally I can zoom on my phone! I'm so happy :--)
Block, copy, paste 2 seconds, works perfectly
Iphone posting a response still is a bit odd ie it zooms I’m so you loose the edges of the box, text does however now wrap back inside the visible screen 🙂
No buttons though 🙁
Edit - I still have no clue how to quote in a box.
And the edit screen is plain odd on iPhone.
Edit - to get back to a thread you have contributed to you still need to know the secret squirrel pass key pressing #
Bit weird having a different font, colour and size when composing a new post.
It’s always been that way.
Since when? As all the posts used to be in one size and colour i guess a few people didnt spot that.
Also swiftkey still billocksed but currently quicker than waiting for 1 page to load on the laptop, win 10, chrome chewing 60 - 70%, of cpu. Ad block getting hit with 13 requests at the last look before it hung the browser. (im logged in andaaapremium member
Could you give any details as to what you don’t like beyond “it’s a **** up?”
The hideous slowness, which has been the case since the original update, 10+ seconds to post, or open a thread. I know there's been "indexing" and other stuff, but that's taken about a month now! That, and the banner telling me to follow Singletrack, which I do anyway, and enjoy the regurgitated content from months, or even years previous, that get posted periodically!
The font isn't brilliant, the grey quoting is daft, the buttons on the top of the reply box aren't particularly clear to me. But really I mainly object to being beta tested on a service I pay to support. I get fixing forward rather than rolling back and all that, and presumably a lot of the problems are volume based, but surely you can test in lower environments before deploying to production? Even if you didn't surely you learned from the last release that it wasn't really usable, so doing it again... bit weird!
On the plus side you've managed to do away with all the HTML crap on quoting, so well done.
havent commented at all yet since the 'update' other than to say ill always keep my P, but i hate that 'follow us' ad on the right taking up a third of the screen. to me its the same as any other annoying ad, which i choose not to see.
can we get rid of that please?
Menu doesn’t work though – android on mobile…
Cheers. In what way doesn't it work? (I rarely use the mobile site.)
The hideous slowness
Again, see the "Our forum" sticky. This too will pass.
That, and the banner telling me to follow Singletrack,
I don't know anything about this but I expect it's here to stay. I'm not keen on it either but it's less intrusive than many many other websites.
The font isn’t brilliant, the grey quoting is daft, the buttons on the top of the reply box aren’t particularly clear to me
The font is different. The grey a few people have mentioned, I'm sure it'll be an easy change. In what way aren't the buttons clear, they're the same as they were before the latest update aren't they? Screenshots / platform would help.
Predictive text/auto-complete entry on android is still bolloxed for some reason, TBH I couldn't care less what it looks like I'd rather it actually worked...
I tend to view/post to the forum more from my mobile than PC, and the new forum is becoming a chore to use on a phone now...
Can we have who posted the last post back please.
Predictive text/auto-complete entry on android is still bolloxed for some reason
Is this Swiftkey or something else?
Some menus are not quite right or the profile page needs a smaller font.
Reply box needs squishing in a bit. Text automatically now moves on to the next line, however you eventually disappear off the bottom of the screen and have to move it up manually
Main threads looking good, apart from quoted text that is really difficult to read.
No buttons ?
IPhone 8 safari
I tend to view/post to the forum more from my mobile than PC, and the new forum is becoming a chore to use on a phone now…
I think it looks much better - and its speeding up...
In what way aren’t the buttons clear, they’re the same as they were before the latest update aren’t they?
I suspect because they're now just a letter or pictorial of the function rather that saying quote, link etc. On a pc you can hover over them and they tell you what they do but you can't on mobile. I find it hard to believe that people can't see what they do though unless they've only started using a computing device for the first time a few hours ago.
[b]edhornby[/b] wrote:
There’s a massive advert (big ugly facebook link and advert for the magazine) on the right-hand side and I’m logged in (premier) but I can’t get rid of the advert, is this a permanent addition?
Not for those using Chrome on desktop 😉
Did we always get a reply box at the end of each page of a thread
Did we always get a reply box at the end of each page of a thread
Yes
Not for those using Chrome on desktop
Its THERE for me 🙁
meh removed it with ad blocker, 1/3 of page now white better than the faceache advert
The massive facebook sidebar has crossed the line for me. Makes the page beyond irritating in landscape mode on iPad
Yes if you mean always since the big upgrade a couple of weeks ago - it wasn't there before that.
Just so it doesn't get forgotten I'll mention that I still have no buttons at the top of the reply box and Preview still doesn't work (it's still the scripts not running I presume).
Haven't read the whole of the update thread so may have already been covered (apologies if so), but sticking a CDN in front of the site will help massively for very little effort.
Page content when logged in is already sent with no-cache response headers, so should continue to work fine. Anon users would benefit from a short TTL on page content, and offloading static content with a long TTL would help reduce load on the single nginx box that appears to be running the site.
Given STW's a global site, a CDN should really be a no-brainer. If performance in the UK is bad, hate to think what it's like in the US/APAC.
(I'd hope that since it's all Wordpress/bbpress, the basics of server-side caching have already been done: https://codex.bbpress.org/getting-started/improving-performance/)
The hideous slowness
Again, see the “Our forum” sticky. This too will pass.
The server network card doing the high cpu usage shown in chrome task manager?
[b]bruneep[/b] wrote:
Not for those using Chrome on desktop
Its THERE for me
meh removed it with ad blocker, 1/3 of page now white better than the faceache advert
You misunderstand - I was suggesting it isn't necessarily a permanent addition if using Chrome on desktop, given that I find it irritating (though clearly there are other ways to remove it).
The massive facebook sidebar has crossed the line for me. Makes the page beyond irritating in landscape mode on iPad
Why?
(Genuine question, not being an arse)
sticking a CDN in front of the site will help massively
Sorry, "CDN"?
EDIT: Never mind, Googled. I'll pass on your comments (and everyone else's), thanks for that.
Aye. Cheers.
^ I find the same. The forum body text is a very light font. The other third of the page is a boldly contrasting sidebar. It disappears in portrait mode, fortunately. Generally (re font changes) I quite literally am reminded of my overdue Specsavers appt 🤓
meh removed it with ad blocker, 1/3 of page now white better than the faceache advert
thanks bruneep, didnt know you could do that. for some reason it made me irrationally angry 😀 the fact i pay to subscribe, turn ads off, then have that forced onto the page instead irks me.
EDIT: actually it keeps coming back on each new page, so that hasnt worked for me. still irked.....
For me, the text is too pale, nearly unreadable, and the quoted text is just about invisible. I guess black on white isn't the fashion, which is bad news for us old people.
But also the question is there about the speed issue (about 100x faster loading desktop site on Android Chrome vs windows Chrome) and no massive CPU load either. Not expecting an answer from you but just knowing it's logged.
(Genuine question, not being an arse)
I prefer to hold my iPad landscape, it's more comfortable that way.
I want to be able to read the content of the forum. That's why I come here.
If I wanted to read the content of Facebook, I'd go there. Which I don't.
It's like watching an Attenborough documentary on BBC One but you only get the picture in two thirds of the screen because the other third is taken up with an episode of Top of the Pops from 1983, but hey, that's okay because it's all BBC content.
I find it a bit jarring.
I've never felt that the site has tried to force feed me any content before until tonight
General look is better, font is too light, quotes are far too light, finding them very difficult to read on my iPad Pro at full screen.
Still no buttons above the reply box.
No problems with large adverts or a sidebar.
I get the following on Firefox; site works on Chrome.
Your connection is not secureThe owner of www.singletrackworld.com has configured their website improperly. To protect your information from being stolen, Firefox has not connected to this website.
This site uses HTTP Strict Transport Security (HSTS) to specify that Firefox may only connect to it securely. As a result, it is not possible to add an exception for this certificate.
Working fine on iPad Pro and iPhone 7 but yeah the quote text is too pale.
Is this Swiftkey or something else?
Yep SwiftKey.
Vanilla version nothing clever...
Having to scroll to the top of the page after reading recent posts is great.
Really great.
I’m reading this on my iPad and the 1/3 of the screen in landscape mode is too much. The reason for my premier subs is so i don’t have to have that sort of rubbish on screen. If I want to go to Facebook I’m more than capable of finding it myself.
Same as someone above - light font etc on the left for the forum and hi contrast Facebook ad on right side.
Ive not bothered moaning about the new forum so far as th9ngs have to change I guess and things don’t always work out as planned. This is a bit annoying though.
The quote text is a bit pale but overall I love the look of it.