Did the forum software change/updated? Themes/Skins in particular?
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@SteveITS using the slate skin..
Yeah I don't get here as much as once did hehee.. New gig has me going into the office few days a week - and just not possible to multi-task like when working from home..
I missed the outage last night, so far the forum seems to be working - so successful update ;) but colors are different that is for sure.. Again not the end of the world or anything - but not a fan of the top menu color nor how the quoted text looks. Its gray text on a gray background - its hard to read.. That for sure was not like that before. So either the previous skin wasn't loading correctly, or this one isn't or they made a change to it, etc. Why would anyone think gray on gray makes any sense for any theme or skin?
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@johnpoz it was a short outage, I was teasing.
I see the white/light background for quoted with Slate. Also writing this is dark text/a white background.
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Is the site on mobile affected as well? Since i think last week, the layout has changed where i use to get notifications on the left hand side but now its on the right and there are some overall format changes.
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@michmoor Yes I was on mobile earlier. Though IIRC the notification in a mobile browser was on the upper right before for me. I haven't tried other themes except for Slate, above, maybe some differ?
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@SteveITS like this is not working as before
It use to have like 1 new post, or 2 new posts as text in the colored box.. when new posts showed up - now its just this..
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@johnpoz Oh the new post/thread notification box? Yes I see that. It shows the box but has no content/message. Presumably a bug. I don't recall how that showed on mobile 100% but I think there at the top of the page. There's a "notifications" bell at the top right.
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@johnpoz said in Did the forum software change/updated? Themes/Skins in particular?:
Am I going crazy
No no, I had my sub-conscience also telling me something.
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@Gertjan said in Did the forum software change/updated? Themes/Skins in particular?:
@johnpoz said in Did the forum software change/updated? Themes/Skins in particular?:
Am I going crazy
No no, I had my sub-conscience also telling me something.
Sometimes a sign of going crazy. ;)
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@SteveITS said in Did the forum software change/updated? Themes/Skins in particular?:
There's a "notifications" bell at the top right.
Yeah that is still there and shows up with new stuff that following, etc.
But that colored box at the top of recent would show up when there are newer posts in the recent that you are not seeing, etc. Now it just a colored box with no text in it.
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On the Slate theme
The quote text is somewhat difficult to read, because it white/dark grey text on light grey background.
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@mvikman said in Did the forum software change/updated? Themes/Skins in particular?:
does the the topic name have larger font
Yes. And/or bolder.
@ all, seems the search is missing all the Advanced options such as the ability to search by date? I do that quite a lot looking for a recent thread to show someone. I search for "swap" has 600+ results dating back to 2013. :(
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@SteveITS yeah that is completely different - and doesn't seem like you can search by poster either. So date filtering missing, and poster.. Sure hope the back end stuff was good stuff because so far not to impressed with changes ;)
Could the thumbs up icon be any bigger hahahah
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Sure looks like its bigger than the posters avatar heheh
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@johnpoz said in Did the forum software change/updated? Themes/Skins in particular?:
Could the thumbs up icon be any bigger hahahah
I mean it could be....
Yeah I used Slate too and it's broken for me in the update in a few signifcant ways. Testing other skins...
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WoW... Thanks for this thread!!
I almost refrained from logging in. It looks kinda the same, but not quite. :)
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@stephenw10 said in Did the forum software change/updated? Themes/Skins in particular?:
for me in the update in a few signifcant ways.
is this something that can be looked at on the netgate side? Does the search items for date and poster work in other skins - I hadn't checked on that.. I would think that would be like common across all skins?
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@johnpoz I'd expect the skin to not affect a feature but
. More likely an on/off choice for it? Or, https://docs.nodebb.org has almost nothing on it except mentioning search plugins exist so maybe an updated plugin is needed. -
I don't think I've ever used that. Where do you expect it to appear?
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@stephenw10 said in Did the forum software change/updated? Themes/Skins in particular?:
I don't think I've ever used that. Where do you expect it to appear?
The search options? It was on the Search page. There was an Advanced Options banner IIRC, where one could expand it pick the account/author, newer than 2 weeks, date range, etc. Half a dozen options like that. Now it only shows the standard/not-advanced options on the left.
Useful if looking for a specific post or recent thread. A workaround for the author is to go to their profile page and look at their lists of posts but that requires knowing who posted it.
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Oh, like just on https://forum.netgate.com/search ?
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@stephenw10 said in Did the forum software change/updated? Themes/Skins in particular?:
Oh, like just on https://forum.netgate.com/search ?
Yes it was on this forum site. IIRC a grey banner across the search page, under the initial search fields, down a bit on the page. Said Advanced Search or something like that. Sorry for being vague, didn't know to document it. :)
archive.org for it shows the redirect to /login.