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I disagree, in fact I think the After version doesn't go far enough. I want to look at content, not vast acres of empty space.
Agreed. Why does the forum heading need to be so big? If we've got to have a colour, a thin stripe will be enough. Personnally, I don't see the need. We've got the navbar strip as it is which gives all the info.
Also, if the search field defaults to boards.ie (which seems to be the case) then it should be in the boards.ie header. This "misplacement" is something I've noticed in several other sites - what style guidelines are directing new designers to put it in anywhere other than beside the site name/logo it refers to?
Similarly, the logic regarding the positioning of the started by/last post by info is wrong. If it's important to indicate who started the thread, that info should be bundled with the thread title, not put as far away from it as the css allows
And again, from a stylistic point of view, the important info regarding the last post is not that it is the last post, but the date and time, so these parameters should be in bold, not practically invisible!0 -
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So, the new bugs/features list is available to see here.
Please don't ask for permission to edit it like a few of you did the last time, we'll be managing it.
There are some issues I want to get further information on from some of you and I'll be following up with that shortly.
I just want to take a minute to explain our plan of action. Based on our progress through this list above, we're planning on getting through all that and pushing the button to completely switch everyone over to the new site. in 2 weeks. Again, the Legacy site will be available to anyone who doesn't want to make the switch straight away and we're going to have that available until at least the end of the year whilst we continue to build the remaining features like moderation tools, the various back end administration tools and so on.
Meanwhile, over the next 2 weeks, the team will continue to work on the issues listed above. Further bugs etc will be added to that list of course. I'm off on a much needed week off next week, so when I come back I'll go through this thread, update the list and will hope to publish the updated list with our progress to day 2 weeks from today.
OK, so I'll be following up with people now on some of the stuff we've mentioned in the document as "Clarify with Bug Reporter."
We're getting there folks, thanks for all the help so far!
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This "sort by Thanks" issue that so many of you have reported.
Now we know there's the "Thanks" tab on the home page but that's a separate issue (one that's being worked on). No one in this office has ever wanted to browse anything based on the number of Thanks it has, so we have no real idea what it is you want The current site can show you all posts that you've thanked as well as all posts of yours that have been thanked by others. However, it doesn't present this in any meaningful way except by date. What is it you're trying to see when you're doing this and maybe we can simply build a better method with your help.
There's also a huge amount of confusion about read/unread posts, so I'm going to explain how it's been written to function.- A thread you've never read before will appear as bold on the forum page.
- If you click into that thread, click back out to the forum, it should no longer be bold.
- If that thread gets new posts when you look at the forum at a later date, it will be bold again. Clicking on the thread will bring you to your last unread post
- If a thread has multiple pages and you're reading it for the first time, it will be bold as above. However, if you don't read to the end of the thread, it will remain as "Bold/Unread" (eg you only read 3 out of 5 pages, it is considered unread).
- If you have only read 3 out of 5 pages, you will be brought to page 4 on your next visit to the thread because that'll be your next unread post.
- If you've read to the end of the thread, it will no longer be bold when you go back to the forum until it has new posts again.
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This "sort by Thanks" issue that so many of you have reported.
Now we know there's the "Thanks" tab on the home page but that's a separate issue (one that's being worked on). No one in this office has ever wanted to browse anything based on the number of Thanks it has, so we have no real idea what it is you want The current site can show you all posts that you've thanked as well as all posts of yours that have been thanked by others. However, it doesn't present this in any meaningful way except by date. What is it you're trying to see when you're doing this and maybe we can simply build a better method with your help.
Browsing the site by most thanked posts is a great way of reading the site. I think I showed in the video in the mods forum (if anyone has the patience to watch someone's browsing habits!) that when I'm done reading the my forums tab, I'll switch to the thanks tab and have a read of the most thanked posts.
But, sometimes when the boredom really takes me and I want to quickly look at the best bits of a long thread, I can search that thread for "*" and sort the results by most thanked. (This also comes in handy in relation to controversial issues to see what side has more support generally etc.)
You can also do this with the "search this forum" results to see what the best posts over time have been (at least since the introduction of thanks.)
You can also do this if you want to see the best of for an individual user.
Basically, it's a really handy way to see highlights across the site.
The other thing is that if you're having a particularly slow day and the 3 pages of "most thanked" posts from the main page aren't enough, you can search the site, limit the dates to a 24-hour period and keep going through the posts with the most thanks for the day.
If it wasn't for the ability to do this, I don't think I'd have kept coming back here while I wasn't a mod tbh.0 -
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Moderators, Arts Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 76,367 Mod ✭✭✭✭ Join Date:Posts: 75667
OK, that's a strange one, can you give me the PostID?Thanks Dav - PM sent.
Dav/Whoever might be looking at this while Dav is away - just to let you know, I just posted another post adding a title to it, but this time if I go back to it through 'Find all my posts', this one opens without any problem, whereas the older one is still 'broken'. The difference between the older thread and this one, aside from the date it was posted, is that the older one had attachments and images, and the new one didn't.
If you need to see the newer post, please let me know.
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