Ozric
Volunteer Moderator
Yep ratings do definitely need to come back. Had a few pointless 1 star threads in the last 2 days alone
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Yep ratings do definitely need to come back. Had a few pointless 1 star threads in the last 2 days alone
Thank you, thank you, THANK YOU!!
Feel embarrassed I missed that one
)I'm happy with the rest of the redesign, aside from one detail; When logging out all cookies are being cleared, including the chosen theme cookie.
Since setting a theme preference can be done both as a logged in user and as an "anonymous" user (non-authenticated), it would seem prudent if that cookie would be omitted from being cleared.
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I'm also unable to reply to any forum threads unless I manually change the forum URI to 'http' from 'https' ??
I use Chrome v 38.0.2125.111 m
I use Chrome v 38.0.2125.111 m
The server seems very frequently overloaded after the introduction of the new layout. Is that pure chance, or is the new layout more heavy on the backend?
Also, I really appreciate the addition of the badge that signals if a frontier employee has posted in a thread, but it would be great if instead of just signaling there are "23" employee posts buried somewhere in the thread, you could also make it easier to find those posts.
Illustration of the problem:
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Currently a reader is required to traverse all 1402 posts in order to read what frontier has written on the subject, wasting both the reader's time, but also putting undue load on the forum server when clicking through all the pages in search for the golden eggs. (perhaps that's why it's overloaded so frequently?)
Would it be possible to have the link the badge is attached to point to a page that only lists the employee posts, with hyperlinks back to the #post<no> anchor in the actual thread (if a reader needs more context) ?
At present when clicking a badge, the reader ends up on the first employee post in the thread. That same mechanic could be leveraged from a "dev post view" to provide the same kind of in-thread discussion context when the reader can't figure out the context for the employee's reply, but instead of linking just to the first post, linking to the actual corresponding post.
Also, I really appreciate the addition of the badge that signals if a frontier employee has posted in a thread, but it would be great if instead of just signaling there are "23" employee posts buried somewhere in the thread, you could also make it easier to find those posts.
Illustration of the problem:
View attachment 540
Currently a reader is required to traverse all 1402 posts in order to read what frontier has written on the subject, wasting both the reader's time, but also putting undue load on the forum server when clicking through all the pages in search for the golden eggs. (perhaps that's why it's overloaded so frequently?)
Would it be possible to have the link the badge is attached to point to a page that only lists the employee posts, with hyperlinks back to the #post<no> anchor in the actual thread (if a reader needs more context) ?
At present when clicking a badge, the reader ends up on the first employee post in the thread. That same mechanic could be leveraged from a "dev post view" to provide the same kind of in-thread discussion context when the reader can't figure out the context for the employee's reply, but instead of linking just to the first post, linking to the actual corresponding post.
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There should be a link in the top-right of each dev post to go to the next dev post. There are plans to for a dev tracker, but it'll be a while before we can focus on that.
Brett C
Frontier
I will ask about this one.
1. Presume it's been mentioned, but just in case: search function doesn't allow for results to be displayed as single posts. For me this renders it largely useless.
2. Subscribed Threads not available from search results page (i.e. Quick Links menu not available) - a small thing but annoying.
3. Mobile theme: cannot view New Posts.
4. New Posts button flows over to next line when the window is less than about 1000px and zoomed in a bit.
2. Subscribed Threads not available from search results page (i.e. Quick Links menu not available) - a small thing but annoying.
3. Mobile theme: cannot view New Posts.
4. New Posts button flows over to next line when the window is less than about 1000px and zoomed in a bit.
Great, thanks Andrew.
rootsrat
Volunteer Moderator
Brett, many thanks for implementing this ad hoc. Most helpful, sir!
I have removed the colour from that last line as black on dark gray really does not work!
Anyway can't post using Firefox v33 on W7 at work. This is using IE which is only on my PC for others to use when I am away. The fix above DOES NOT work unfortunately.
I'm not sure whether it's due to a change in the way the forums work, or earlier finger trouble on my part, but since using the theme changer at the bottom of the page rather than going through the Settings options it would appear that the theme preference is stored on a per-machine basis rather than per-account. So I now have "constrained" on my desktop and "non-constrained" on my iPad and all is well in the world.
Thanks again for all the effort that's gone into polishing the new look over the last week and a half. I'm really at home in the new forums now.
Brett C
Frontier
This is a known issue. I have to find a suitable way to make that BBCode function on both the normal themes and the mobile theme.
