It's good to be back.

x2rl

The new forum sucks. The editor box is tiny the forum layout is just..... Hope there is some tweeks to come. And I white theme come on my eyes.

Edit, Editor box needs code box and quote box adding

RonpfS

@jimp said in It's good to be back.:

That would be https://forum.netgate.com/recent.rss now or perhaps https://forum.netgate.com/recentposts.rss – pick your poison

I went with recent.rss
Thank you.

jimp

@darkvodka34 said in It's good to be back.:

The new forum sucks. The editor box is tiny the forum layout is just..... Hope there is some tweeks to come. And I white theme come on my eyes.

Edit, Editor box needs code box and quote box adding

Click this for a giganto editor box:

For the white theme, see above, you can change the skin to a color you are more comfortable with, and we area looking into other themes.

x2rl

@jimp Still missing Code and quote box. also the dark skin has a few colour problems.

Checck the tab

jimp

For code you can just surround the text with ``` (before and after)

Like this:

code code code

Quotes just start a line with >

But you are right there are not buttons on the composer for them, we can look into that as well, but there aren't any options I see to turn them on in the stock composer.

x2rl

@jimp would be handy to have them not everyone can remember all bbcode and other ones. Cheers

ERROR As a new user, you can only post once every 120 second(s) until you have earned 3 reputation - please wait before posting again

Do you know how long 120 seconds is lol

jimp

@darkvodka34 said in It's good to be back.:

@jimp Still missing Code and quote box. also the dark skin has a few colour problems.

I just found a way to turn on the code button, it's there now. :-)

This is some code

jimp

@darkvodka34 said in It's good to be back.:

@jimp would be handy to have them not everyone can remember all bbcode and other ones. Cheers

ERROR As a new user, you can only post once every 120 second(s) until you have earned 3 reputation - please wait before posting again

Do you know how long 120 seconds is lol

True, that does feel like a long time but once you get three upvotes on anything it clears that requirement from you. It helps limit accounts that sign up and spam. :)

x2rl

Ill never get 3 upvotes as I just ask on here im learning. So Ill post nothing helpful :) But okay Thanks for the code box Boss.

Edit can you make it 60 seconds? I had to wait on here 40 seconds to post this reply.

jimp

Well you've got three now so enjoy!

x2rl

@jimp Ha thanks man. I feel for new members tho :)

RonpfS

@jimp said in It's good to be back.:

True, that does feel like a long time but once you get three upvotes on anything it clears that requirement from you. It helps limit accounts that sign up and spam.

Well it may takes weeks to get 3 upvotes without your intervention . Maybe this "feature" could take into account the numbers of posts of the user

JKnott

When they said "extensive", they weren't kidding. However, I don't think much of the new format.

How do you mark a forum as read?
Why am I seeing messages years old, when I have sort by newest selected?
How do you go to the latest message in a thread?

Based on what I've seen so far, I'm really not favourably impressed. This seems to be the dumbed down sort of interface that appears to be the fashion these days.

NogBadTheBad

Click on the envelope, mark all as read on the right.

jimp

@jknott said in It's good to be back.:

How do you mark a forum as read?

Temporarily or permanently? You can permanently ignore a board by opening it and then changing it from Watching to Ignoring, then it won't show up in your unread list at all.

Why am I seeing messages years old, when I have sort by newest selected?

On which category? By default it should list the newest topics first, unless maybe one of them got set the other way accidentally. Make sure "Sort By" is set to "Newest to Oldest"

How do you go to the latest message in a thread?

Click on the double down arrow in the post count:

Based on what I've seen so far, I'm really not favourably impressed. This seems to be the dumbed down sort of interface that appears to be the fashion these days.

Of the available choices that met all the requirements we had, this was the best of the bunch. We can tweak the look and feel over time, so I wouldn't expect it to look this way for very long.

JKnott

Why am I getting replies via email, instead of here?

To jimp: In the old board, when I go to a forum, such as IPv6, I read the messages that interest me and then click on the Mark read button, all the messages are marked as read. Is that not possible here? When looking at the list of forums, I could instantly see which ones had new messages. Why not now?

As I said, I'm not favourably impressed.

jacotec

Wow, this is ugly! Replying at iPad does now show any history, there is completely no overview.
I really like modern platforms like Discourse, running two instances by my own. Why do you use a stupid clone and not the free, working and comfortable original?

jimp

@jknott said in It's good to be back.:

Why am I getting replies via email, instead of here?

I get both, but if you keep the thread visible in your browser it may not notify you since it injects the replies in real-time and thinks you've seen them.

To jimp: In the old board, when I go to a forum, such as IPv6, I read the messages that interest me and then click on the Mark read button, all the messages are marked as read. Is that not possible here? When looking at the list of forums, I could instantly see which ones had new messages. Why not now?

I see what you mean. I don't see a way to specifically do that, nor a plugin for it, but I'll keep looking around.

jimp

@jacotec said in It's good to be back.:

Wow, this is ugly! Replying at iPad does now show any history, there is completely no overview.

I don't have an iOS device to test, but a lot of the behavior of the system can be customized in your profile settings. There may also be a button on the screen to collapse it down. Or perhaps a way to nudge the browser to display the "desktop version" of the site.

I really like modern platforms like Discourse, running two instances by my own. Why do you use a stupid clone and not the free, working and comfortable original?

We were not fond of running another system tied to Ruby, having had difficulties with it and things like Redmine in the past with updates and maintenance. There were several other reasons as well, but in the end NodeBB was the winner. They may look similar but they are vastly different underneath and not exactly what you could call a "clone".

KOM

You can turn off email notifications in Settings.

I'm starting to get the hang of the new layout. The only glitch I'm seeing so far is that the small Reply icon that appears when you reply to someone is pure white and useless when matched with a dark theme like Cyborg. If you mouse over it, then you can see it was a reply to <- @user.