Forum change?

johnpoz

Did something change in the forum - or maybe the css?

Looks horrible

It was not like this earlier today. Fonts are huge.

bmeeks

Hmm... looks the same on my end. Maybe somehow your profile got set to "dark mode" or something ???

bmeeks

But on further investigation, I do see the font sizes of the forum titles have decreased on the home page. So, something happened to style or theme settings.

johnpoz

@bmeeks yeah I run dark mode - but the fonts are huge on the recent page.. and can't tell between read and deleted topics.. - like how to quit vaping that topic is deleted but it just looks like was read not deleted.

And yeah just look the main page - the fonts look extra small.

edit:
Just loaded in chrome - and yeah fonts still huge.. But no other sites look different.. Wonder if some setting in my actual profile?

edit2: changed to a few different skins, and yeah font sizes are all borked. Some our smaller and others are huge..

bmeeks

The Forum landing page looks different for me as well. The fonts of the sub-forum names are much smaller and no longer bold nor blue.

johnpoz

@bmeeks I wouldn't mind the smaller on the main page - I am rarely on it.. But the recent page I am on all the time.. If it doesn't get corrected soon will have to alter the css myself locally I guess.. It's horrible imho.. And lack of distinction between deleted or just read is not discernible.

Maybe there is a setting to no show deleted topics or posts in mod settings or something? So could make that issue go away, don't really care to see deleted items or topics anyway.. But before it was easy to see that they were deleted.. Currently just looks like I have read that topic.

w0w

In the mobile view, the chats and notifications are just empty if you open them through the quick access in the top right corner — there's nothing there. On the PC, the history is still available.

Bob.Dig

@johnpoz said in Forum change?:

will have to alter the css myself locally I guess

And please share it!

johnpoz

Has it now gotten worse?

Why is the this is a white box? Looks the same in firefox and chrome.. So its not something with my firefox..

cmcdonald

The forum software was recently updated.

We are looking into this.

chrcoluk

@johnpoz said in Forum change?:

Did something change in the forum - or maybe the css?

Looks horrible

It was not like this earlier today. Fonts are huge.

Same here, but I assumed it was my end, as I have had a few websites all suddenly looking different, but at least in the case of this forum, I guess its not my end.

johnpoz

@chrcoluk not unless we have the same issue, sure haven't noticed it on any other sites and looks same in chrome as it does on FF.

I cleaned it up a bit with

a.text-reset {
  font-size: 18px;
  line-height: 12px;
  font-weight: 500;
  font-style: normal;
}

a.badge.px-1.text-truncate.text-decoration-none.border {
  background-color: #000000;
  border-color: #000000;
  border-style: none;
}

Using stylebot in FF.. Got rid of the white boxes and shrank the topic title size a bit

if they don't correct in a few days I will spend some more time on it - but this is better imho.. need to shrink the votes,posts,views down a bit they are quite large as well.

edit: ok this is usable

add this to the above changes

span.fs-4 {
  font-size: 24px;
}

li.category-item.hover-parent.py-2.mb-2.d-flex.flex-column.flex-lg-row.align-items-start {
  padding-bottom: 0px;
  padding-top: 1px;
  margin-bottom: 5px;
}

mvikman

Looks like that with every forum update, the UI themes become less and less readable, especially dark themes...

johnpoz

@mvikman yeah something is off with read topics as well - doesn't seem to change, but deleted topics show like what read use to look like.. Before there was like bold for topics with unread, normal for read topics and then faded for deleted ones..

Guess have to dig into CSS again, but it's been so many years ;) There has to be some webpage guys around here that are wizards with css ;)

emikaadeo

Also on mobile (Safari - iOS) site looks broken

stephenw10

Yup I use a dark skin in my view and they are particularly broken. We are looking into what we can do here.

Currently 'Solar' seems most usable of the dark skins to me.

johnpoz

@stephenw10 I have mine in a state I can live with using stylebot ;) I can toggle it off or on with a simple click so I will keep checking.. And will also check out the solar theme..

But you know the saying once you go _____ you can never go back ;) hehe so for sure won't be switching to the default hahah

stephenw10

Mmm, my eyes can't handle the brightness!

SteveITS

curious what the checkboxes are for on messages on https://forum.netgate.com/unread ?

Otherwise, looks fine here in the light…in 2 minutes of looking.

johnpoz

@SteveITS you talking about these check boxes?

Those are so you can select multiple and mark them as read.

But you think that looks normal? The huge titles, and look at that white blob under the top topic there, the background is the same color as the text - so you can not even see that was posted in official netgate hardware section.

Are you using just the default theme?

The sizes look better with no skin, but look you still can not tell what section this was posted in