Brett C
Frontier
PM/start a conversation me with what the email should be.
ANNOUNCEMENT Welcome to the new forums!
Is it possible to change the time-format from AM/PM to 24-hour ?
I know everyone put in a lot of effort and hard work to the new format and layout. Not to be a negative force and perhaps it is just me or maybe I am getting too old, ( or both), but to me the overall look and feel is too generic or perhaps dumbed down is a better word.
Maybe in time it will grow on me.
Maybe in time it will grow on me.
Thanks for the answer Brett, I understand the difficulty.
Maybe one day you can write a module that will allow the reintegration of these exceptional icons ?
And again congratulations for the great work and the transition to the new forum !
Brett C
Frontier
No, not currently.
Is there a way to reduce the left margin avatar area where it is not stealing the focus from the threads?
I am really trying not to be negative and like I mentioned earlier I realize people put in a lot of hard work for the new layout; but I can't help but feel I like I am back in grade school or kindergarten when in these forums. Sorta reminds me when everyone complained about Windows XP's "Fisher Price" theme.
I am really trying not to be negative and like I mentioned earlier I realize people put in a lot of hard work for the new layout; but I can't help but feel I like I am back in grade school or kindergarten when in these forums. Sorta reminds me when everyone complained about Windows XP's "Fisher Price" theme.
Brett C
Frontier
Could you post a new thread here: https://forums.frontier.co.uk/forums/forum-support/ about that? Possibly with some screenshots to depict what you're describing?
I completely agree! I detest the square/boxy look everything seems to have these days - it looks like the "designers" put no effort whatsoever into it; it has no soul (for want of a better word) whatsoever. Although I, personally, like white on dark themes I understand completely why some can't use them and it is frankly disappointing that fdev didn't consider this when the change was made. Forum software that won't let the user select from a range of themes (although a quick look online reveals that it is, in fact, possible - clue: nodes), or time/date format is just ...
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A lot probably comes down to native resolution and screen size, but for me also, it feels like there is a lot of noise to signal (actual topic posted words).
The amount of space taken up by the avatars, people's signatures, each comment's top and bottom bar (report - like - quote - reply)... it just feels off.
If the time is going to be changed, can we get UTC / in-game time added too please? It may make meetups etc easier if there's a non-relative time option.
I posted a copy with screenshots as Bret suggested in this thread: https://forums.frontier.co.uk/threads/left-margin-area.507311/
Yes - there is a lot of wasted space in these areas. The left margin avatar area looks too large in comparison to the text body.
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This is great on mobile
I noticed this using the latest version of Firefox (Ubuntu Linux), and I'm seeing the CPU spike now with this editor open, but not when I go to pages like the "Watched" section. The CPU usage is high regardless if I'm actually typing or not. However, I'm not getting any indications of bandwidth utilization while just typing.
ps - this editor is always "open" in threads, at the bottom, waiting for my reply. Even after I post this CPU usage stays up until I leave the page.
Nice! Did you umm, figure out a way to do so which won't give lawyers an opportunity to claim that privacy is being breached? (This is apparently why XF doesn't have it as a built-in.)
Did you try the
about:performance info in FF? I don't see this CPU-hungry behaviour on my machine at present.I like the white text on the black background.
To be honest, I used this theme for years on the old forum.
I find it relaxing.
To be honest, I used this theme for years on the old forum.
I find it relaxing.
Certainly doing the trick for me
I started using Ghostery to browse these fora, and for nothing else. In less than 24 hours, of which I used it for around 3 at most, it accounted for 89% of battery power used, and took the battery down from 100% to 44%.
It's possible to tweak things like the padding with a userstyle. I've used Stylus for this and published the script here (NB: do not use 'Stylish' to install such things, it has a bad rep for data harvesting since a buy-out): https://userstyles.org/styles/170426/frontier-forums-less-padding
Clicking 'Login' (top-right link on the forums front page) immediately redirects to https://auth.frontierstore.net/auth?client_id=... , which does not accept an old-forums email+password. So, where is this mythical 'Normal Login' available ?