It's good to be back.

[KOM]

I was starting to go through withdrawals. I'm not sure I like the new forum but it will probably grow on me in time.

[stephenw10]

It will take some getting used to like all change but I'm pretty sure I'll have forgotten the issues after a few weeks.
I hear you on the withdrawals!

Steve

[ivor]

Good to have you back KOM! :)

[KOM]

Not sure why it shows me as offline when I'm logged in and actually here.

And what happened to our reputations?

[ivor]

Click on your profile photo on top right corner, select online.

[KOM]

It doesn't do anything when I click the small grey circle. And besides, shouldn't it change that status automatically since I'm logged in?

[ivor]

Gray circle? I meant this icon:

[stephenw10]

Hmm, does seem like it should.....
There will probably be a period of tweaking while we find these things.

Steve

[KOM]

Thanks Ivor. If it's a manual toggle then I can imagine everyone will always be offline except Netgate staff.

[ivor]

@kom likely! :) I think that feature is more a signal for chat availability (which replaces private messages).

[kpa]

I'm certainly online, I think I had to to toggle it once to invisible and back to online.

[bcruze]

will take a little to get used to but i don't mind

[kpa]

I like that I can ignore certain sections of the forums by default in the new and recent feeds. For example I have no interested in reading the international support section.

[stephenw10]

If you set your status to 'Online' it will show green when you're logged in and grey when you logout again. Like Slack for example or like SMF did.
NodeBB now gives the option of not showing active if you wish.

Steve

[jimp]

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

And what happened to our reputations?

The karma and such didn't carry over. NodeBB also lets us disable downvotes so we can all have a fresh, positive start. Also on NodeBB you upvote posts and not people directly, which seems more appropriate.

[chpalmer]

I hate it! But I guess Ill get used to it.. :)

[ivor]

My first impression was that it's a bit weird but when I saw that I could browse forum while responding to message at the same time, I was pretty impressed. Add instant notifications to that and a very responsive GUI, I started to love it. I actually look forward to find cool new features our ancient forum was missing. I think first impressions might be negative, at first, because it's a first big change after so much time.

[grandrivers]

TOO white and I too hate this change as predicted

[ivor]

@kom about reputations, we're working on a few ways to point out those who had a good reputation, a lot of posts and karma. We had to focus first on getting the forum migrated, now comes the fun stuff.

[ivor]

@grandrivers you can select a skin if you go to your profile settings.