Forum themes?
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We're testing. It was ugly to us too and removed before you posted here. We notice that stuff, just like you ;)
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@ivor said in Forum themes?:
We're testing. It was ugly to us too and removed before you posted here. We notice that stuff, just like you ;)
Can you not have a duplicate of the forum to test with ?
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I am still seeing the recent stuff on the bottom.. Not a fan..
As to them testing on a different duplicate - then they wouldn't get user reaction..
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@johnpoz yeah, it should only be on main page, we just noticed that!
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@ivor Much better!
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And seeing foreign language topics as well.. I have the international section ignored so shouldn't any of those topics not show up in that recent list just like how they don't show up in the new posts listing for unread?
edit: Gone... Nice fun working on how the site looks in realtime ;) hehehe
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@johnpoz How do you ignore posts written in other languages? I've looked around a bit but can't find it...
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@jegr I want the grid boxes back because it uses real estate better on the screen. These bubbles and wide spaces make it harder to find things. Most other forums are that way too.
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@lburr That was answered in this forum and on the Netgate blog already, just read.
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@jahonix Thanks, sorry I missed seeing that on the blog. All good now!
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I liked the idea of the old forum toggling background colors of posts, something like
dark grey
darker grey
dark grey
darker grey
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The interchanging backgrounds really helped my old eyes, even though I'd prefer darker color schemes now.
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Looking better :)
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Forum is slowly shaping up :) but we're not done yet!
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You should get rid of a lot of the ancient stickies. Some of them are years old and totally irrelevant today.
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@kom said in Forum themes?:
You should get rid of a lot of the ancient stickies. Some of them are years old and totally irrelevant today.
That's on our TODO list. In fact we were discussing a few of them already this morning. Feel free to suggest any you think should be unpinned.
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Mails from forum.netgate.com are coming in just fine now
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@gertjan yup, should be good. Thanks for reporting these issues :)
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Big for the new ACME package sub-forum
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@gertjan said in Forum themes?:
Big for the new ACME package sub-forum
Yeah I figured it was time. Also considering one for FreeRADIUS and for Routing packages (FRR, Quagga) since they also seem to pile up in the main packages category
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@kom said in Forum themes?:
You should get rid of a lot of the ancient stickies. Some of them are years old and totally irrelevant today.
These should be all cleaned up now, I removed quite a few. I tried to keep ones that were still accurate or relevant up. I didn't touch the IDS/IPS or pfBlocker categories though, I'll leave that up to the mods of those categories since I'm not sure what stickies are still relevant there.
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@jimp said in Forum themes?:
Yeah I figured it was time. Also considering one for FreeRADIUS and for Routing packages (FRR, Quagga) since they also seem to pile up in the main packages category
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Anyone else seeing a lot of these:-
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A few times, yes. But it got fewer the last days. After the initial switch to nodebb I saw them quite often.
BTW: another thing popped up a few seconds ago: "As a new user you only may post every 120s before you get 3 posts (or upvotes? - can't remember)" 120s aren't that bad, but I reply very quickly to many threads - and I don't consider myself an new user exactly :D
Edit: It's
Als neuer Benutzer kannst du nur einen Beitrag innerhalb von 120 Sekunden erstellen bis dein Ansehen 3 erreicht hat - Bitte warte bevor du erneut einen Beitrag erstellst. (in german)So it's 3 upvotes from posts before being able to post faster. That would be OK - but I suppose most users don't even know/see the upvote thingy (the little ^0) below a post god forbid even click it ;) Perhaps should be more clear what it does and how to use :)
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@jegr said in Forum themes?:
ngy (the little ^0) be
Thanks !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I could find for days now how up up vote ... and was a bit scared to ask for not passing as the most stupid one today.
I found it - up voted your post (as @jimp did 30 sec ago) - some else will vote and deliver you soon. -
@jegr Done , can I get 3 as well?
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@lburr said in Forum themes?:
@jegr Done , can I get 3 as well?
The whole idea is that you should post 3 "quality posts" (or, like me 2k5 pure ramble)
But ok, during the forum introduction every reason is valid, so there you go - done. -
my post wasn't meant as a collector for upvotes, merely to point out it's hard to find how to give someone - hmm I always consider it a thank you! - for his post and his time. Perhaps an additional text like "upvote/thanks" next to the "^" will do that :)
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@jegr said in Forum themes?:
Perhaps an additional text like "upvote/thanks" next to the "^" will do that
Yeah, I thought it to be some kind of "jump to top" button at first.
Not obviously the "thanks" action. Make it have an icon. -
I notice that on dark themes like Cyborg, the small Reply icon is all-white and unreadable until you mouse-over it.
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@jahonix said in Forum themes?:
@jegr said in Forum themes?:
Perhaps an additional text like "upvote/thanks" next to the "^" will do that
Yeah, I thought it to be some kind of "jump to top" button at first.
Not obviously the "thanks" action. Make it have an icon.It's a little more obvious when downvoting is enabled since there are up and down arrows, but we turned off downvoting. I don't know that we can put any text there, though. Not easily, anyhow.
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If you can't add text, can you at least change the symbol from the up arrow to something more recognizable, like a ?
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@lburr said in Forum themes?:
If you can't add text, can you at least change the symbol from the up arrow to something more recognizable, like a ?
That turned out to be easier than expected, how does it look now? :-)
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Its a bit small ;) but upvote for you for such quick response
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@johnpoz said in Forum themes?:
Its a bit small ;) but upvote for you for such quick response
I tried making it larger but it appears to be stuck inside that small space for the moment. If I enlarge the picture it just gets cut off. There is probably some extra CSS trickery to make it work, I'll bug someone else here that is much, much (much much) better with CSS than I am later.
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@jimp Much better, thank you! If you can figure out how to make it larger that would be awesome, but at least most people should recognize it now.
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@jimp said in Forum themes?:
how does it look now?
Size doesn't matter
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@jimp said in Forum themes?:
That turned out to be easier than expected, how does it look now? :-)
Thanks Jim, makes way more sense now.