Forum change?

[fireodo]

@johnpoz

Hi,

just a (maybe stupid) question: Is it not easier to contact the sysadmin of the forum and ask to change the underlying software in a way that makes it more readable/usable instead of using lot of self developed solutions? IMHO

Regards,
fireodo

[stephenw10]

Yeah we are still looking at what we can do here. It looks like the theme we use doesn't play nicely with the skins in this version.

[SteveITS]

@stephenw10 One thing I have noticed on iOS Safari and just put together…if I reply to a message it looks fine. When I tap into the text field to type it zooms in enough to hide the > icon. Let’s see if this makes it:

…so I have to zoom out or scroll right to submit.

[SteveITS]

said in Forum change?:

white on white in the Unread list

Also "Off-Topic & Non-Support Discussion" I see.

BTW re: my iOS Safari comment, that might be an iOS thing? I think I've seen it on other web sites occasionally. It's oddly annoying but easily fixable by pinching or swiping left to "scroll" right.

[mvikman]

Looks like some update added previews of the images posted in the thread into the end of the subject line...
Not a fan of that, makes the forum look very cluttered.

[johnpoz]

@mvikman yeah not a fan either.. And quick look doesn't seem to be a way to turn it off. Have to look into a way to just not load them..

[mvikman]

@johnpoz
These filters in uBlock seem to work, don't know if it breaks something else though...

forum.netgate.com##.d-xl-block.d-none.flex-shrink-0.text-decoration-none.position-relative.topic-thumbs
forum.netgate.com##.hidden-empty.align-items-center.gap-2.flex-wrap.d-flex

[johnpoz]

@mvikman thanks will try them out in a bit

[stephenw10]

Yeah that took me a while to work out what I was seeing.

[dennypage]

@johnpoz said in Forum change?:

yeah not a fan either.. And quick look doesn't seem to be a way to turn it off.

Also strongly not a fan...

[johnpoz]

@mvikman yeah those work great from what looks like to me

before/after

If you add new features like that - it should be able to be turned off.. This isn't /funny in reddit where people just post memes and videos, etc..

[stephenw10]

Yup you would think there would be some obvious setting 'image previews' or similar but..... I'm finding nothing!

It looks like it's using the first available image as a topic thumbnail but there no setting for that

[stephenw10]

Looks like it's this but I'd still expect to be able to disable it completely:
https://community.nodebb.org/topic/18821/topic-thumbnails-uploads-and-media-display

[johnpoz]

@stephenw10 completely agree - the user should have a way to disable this. And if they wanted to get fancy, have the ability to turn that off per category/section, etc.

Depending on the forum - maybe there is a meme type section where users just post images where that might make sense - where you might be able to tell from a little icon of the image if you have seen that one already, etc.

While I am all for images in posts - they are required to be honest to see what the user is seeing, etc..

But to be honest - these are pretty useless for anything other than distraction.. You sure can not glean any info off such a small image to what the user is wanting to show, like their firewall rules or settings in a gui page.

I am a big poster of images to be honest, it's the easiest way to show the user where a setting is, or a basic network drawing on how to connect stuff, etc. But not really a fan of this implementation.. Glad @mvikman was nice enough to post some filters, so I didn't have to dig that deep..

[mvikman]

@johnpoz btw the first line is for the thread list view page (shown in your pics) and the second is for the open thread page

[JonathanLee]

The website is really smooth.

[stephenw10]

Testing some CSS to disable the topic thumbnail entirely....

[stephenw10]

OK changes applied. Looks good to me. Let me know if you see any issues.

[johnpoz]

@mvikman huh? Both pictures are from the recent threads url

https://forum.netgate.com/recent

[johnpoz]

@stephenw10 yeah removed the ublock filters - and images still gone.. Thanks!