New Boards (Verdict?)

[Cthulhu's Librarian]

Overall, I like the new boards. I haven't noticed a change in font size, so I can't be of any help to anyone there. I really like the WYSIWYG interface.

A few comments for things to be looked into as you are tweaking over the next few days:

The "Last Post" feature is very slow to pick up on what the actual last post to a thread is.

Several of the message icons are difficult to make out: Hive, OT, ENnies, Movies, Poly, and General is too bright (as several people have mentioned).

Posting time is VERY slow, especially "Quick Reply" which is slower than a regular reply.

Again, I think the improvement is much better overall, and any little issues I'm sure you will fix. Thanks Morrus!

 

[Cthulhu's Librarian]

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[Velmont]

The new forum is a bit slow, but what I don't like, it is dissapearing post. I post a message on a thread, and it is successfully done (a dot appear on the envellop icon and the last post was posted by me), but when I look at the thread, I can't see it. I do some modificatiopn to a message and it dissapear. in other words, it's just like the thread forget what have happen since X minutes.

And the forums don't refresh well. I got new message in a thread I just look (and their is no new message), or it doesn't tell I just post in the thread (no dots on the envellop or my name as last post)

 

[Buttercup]

The font size is identical. I don't think I can help you there, I'm afraid. I really can't understand why you would be seeing different.

Let me see if I can explain it more clearly then. There is a way you can code your text so that the user can override whatever font size and color you use with their own preferences, as set in their browser. This new version of the board does not allow that. Your default font size has always been too small for me (Verdana 8 point) so I have my browser set it larger. Now I'm stuck with your default, which I can barely see. I really have to push my face up to the monitor to read threads now.

I hope this can be fixed, because if it can't, I won't be able to keep coming here, and that would make me sad. But I just can't use it the way it is.

 

[Piratecat]

I hope this can be fixed, because if it can't, I won't be able to keep coming here, and that would make me sad. But I just can't use it the way it is.

I'm sure we'll be able to fix it, Buttercup, even if I don't currently know how.

I have also found the spot where we turn off underlining for links, but I'm not going to touch it for now - too much stuff I could screw up. I haven't yet found the default font info, but I have no doubt that it's in the same place.

I've turned off the reputation system; we won't be using that.

I think I have also found the setting that refreshes the boards, mainly because it's temporarily off. Never fear; we're keeping it off for the moment in order to minimize bandwidth loads. We'll turn it back on later.

 

[hong]

Let me see if I can explain it more clearly then. There is a way you can code your text so that the user can override whatever font size and color you use with their own preferences, as set in their browser. This new version of the board does not allow that. Your default font size has always been too small for me (Verdana 8 point) so I have my browser set it larger. Now I'm stuck with your default, which I can barely see. I really have to push my face up to the monitor to read threads now.

I hope this can be fixed, because if it can't, I won't be able to keep coming here, and that would make me sad. But I just can't use it the way it is.

Digging around in the HTML, the relevant formatting for posts would seem to be given by this bit of CSS code:

td, th, p, li {
	font: 10pt verdana, geneva, lucida, 'lucida grande', arial, helvetica, sans-serif;
}

So the text is 10 pt Verdana if you have a Windows box, and probably 10 pt Geneva on a Mac. Which type of computer are you using? It's possible that 10-point text means different things on Macs and PCs.

I don't have any problems with the font size, but then I've got a PC.

 

[Eridanis]

THree things I've already noticed that I like:

1. Quick Reply is very cool & time-saving.

2. The emails you get from subscribed threads now show the text of the recent post. No need to go view it if it's just a one-line response or something.

3. If you hover your mouse over a thread title, it gives you the text of the first message. No more haaving to click on a thread to see if it would interest you - just read the first post! What a great idea!

 

[robaustin]

How about links being underlined? Is there a way for you guys to turn that off? My browser is definitely set for them to be off, yet they are all underlined. Drives me batty seeing a zillion things underlined on a page!

--*Rob

 

[Buttercup]

Digging around in the HTML, the relevant formatting for posts would seem to be given by this bit of CSS code:

td, th, p, li {
font: 10pt verdana, geneva, lucida, 'lucida grande', arial, helvetica, sans-serif;
}

So the text is 10 pt Verdana if you have a Windows box, and probably 10 pt Geneva on a Mac. Which type of computer are you using? It's possible that 10-point text means different things on Macs and PCs.

I don't have any problems with the font size, but then I've got a PC.

I was going to go back and edit my post, but several people had replied, so I'll just answer here.

There are two ways to change the font size in IE. An easy one, and a slightly more annoying one. The easy one just requires that one click View, Text Size and then select from the list. This is the one that no longer works. The more annoying one, however, *does* work. In that option, one clicks Tools, Internet Options, Accessibility, and then checks whatever boxes are appropriate. It's annoying because I'll have to change it back whenever I leave EN World. But it does still work, so I can now actually read the text here. Woohoo! Oddly, the font I have chosen to use is Verdana so you wouldn't expect it to change, but it's about 1/3 larger. Actually a tad too big, but it will do for now.

Hong, I've got a Windows box, running XP, with all the latest versions of everything, since we just upgraded a few weeks ago.

 

[Piratecat]

I know exactly where this setting is specified; for that matter, I know where the underlined links setting is, too. Unfortunately, I don't know diddly about html, so I'll let Thomas make the actual change. Just have faith that we'll alter the settings on this as soon as we know that we're not screwing something else up worse.