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 ?
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Brett C
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I performed a test by typing a blank message, and CPU usage was well within acceptable limits. Then I thought it would be wise to reply to your post, and when I quoting you, that's when the CPU spiked. It appears whatever javascript is "copying and pasting" quotes is the culprit. This would also explain why sometimes there is sometimes a delay in the quoted text appearing in this box. It actually interrupts my typing on occasion (the quote being inserted into the middle of a sentence).
ps - even after my reply is posted, the CPU usage stays high. The reply / quote seems to be the trigger, but not necessarily the cause (because it's still high right now even though I am not replying to anyone).
Please reconsider the login options for forum as in make the default login the forum account and optional the store account.
For example I like to login on forums from various places/networks and i'm not very worried about the forum password security, but I'd like to keep my store/game account more secure
As an experiment, try refreshing the screen. My Windows/Firefox session was running high CPU in the forums, without me doing anything. After a refresh it calmed down.
Any chance of tweaking that style override option. Like maybe unchecking it.
Or at least add a “Legacy Forum Login” link to the main forum guest top bar.
(Forum login won’t work for new users, so making it the default is probably a no-no.)
EDIT: Never mind, I see it was changed already.
Okay, so Google doesn't ask for a puzzle at every log in. I am relieved.
But I am sorry to have to add a big But again.
Why do you include "reactions" into the "Latest Activity stream?
"Latest Activity" was my way to scan the Elite forum, without having to log in, for new, interesting submissions. "New posts" is not an alternative since no snippets of the content is displayed there.
Now, it not only seems saturated with non-Elite (=not atz all interesting) content, but is also swamped with completely meaningless "reaction" notifications.
Reaction notifications matter to those who follow a topic or an individual poster. They are not, however, helpful in any way if you want to scan the forums. In fact, they are a roadblock.
Second point.
All those floating bars are oh-so nicey.
Back in end of the 1990, people ran crazy with Frames on websites. Turned out frames are a bad idea all in all, unremoveably standing in the way of the viewer.
This forum here re-introduces that old frames business in nice css: I have my screen crammed with header and footer bars that just stand in my way when al I want ins to read the actual content of your forums, and which are completely useless once I have anticipated them (a notification in the footer, floating header menues in two rows, huge "Your Changes has been Saved" (duh! really!) or "Last message in Thread" notifications ...). This doesn't serve any purpose than making it harder to browse through threads. Very techie but certainly not user-friendly.
Conclusion
I am totally not impressed, sorry. Web 4.0 is nice and bright and shiny, but sometimes, good old 1.0 principles do still keep their meaning.
But I am sorry to have to add a big But again.
Why do you include "reactions" into the "Latest Activity stream?
"Latest Activity" was my way to scan the Elite forum, without having to log in, for new, interesting submissions. "New posts" is not an alternative since no snippets of the content is displayed there.
Now, it not only seems saturated with non-Elite (=not atz all interesting) content, but is also swamped with completely meaningless "reaction" notifications.
Reaction notifications matter to those who follow a topic or an individual poster. They are not, however, helpful in any way if you want to scan the forums. In fact, they are a roadblock.
Second point.
All those floating bars are oh-so nicey.
Back in end of the 1990, people ran crazy with Frames on websites. Turned out frames are a bad idea all in all, unremoveably standing in the way of the viewer.
This forum here re-introduces that old frames business in nice css: I have my screen crammed with header and footer bars that just stand in my way when al I want ins to read the actual content of your forums, and which are completely useless once I have anticipated them (a notification in the footer, floating header menues in two rows, huge "Your Changes has been Saved" (duh! really!) or "Last message in Thread" notifications ...). This doesn't serve any purpose than making it harder to browse through threads. Very techie but certainly not user-friendly.
Conclusion
I am totally not impressed, sorry. Web 4.0 is nice and bright and shiny, but sometimes, good old 1.0 principles do still keep their meaning.
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When I "reply" like I'm doing now, CPU spikes. If I refresh, it goes back down*, but 9 times out of 10 I lose my text. Now I can copy-n-paste, but if I have to do this every single time I reply to someone, then I may just look at switching to Reddit, LOL.
* Down is relative. Even when this site isn't pegging the CPU, it's still more power-hungry than the majority of sites I frequent.
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In testing this (Chrome's performance tracker didn't seem to show much for me) I find myself wondering if there's any way to cancel posting a reply. Refreshing the page doesn't and I see no 'cancel' button.
Compared to previous forum they are.
What bots? Is it the Xenforo fingerprinting / discourager bot,or something else? 'Cos this might help explain the cpu usage / battery usage I'm seeing with the new fora.
In the editor there's an icon of a floppy disk - for me the penultimate icon. Clicking it let's you "delete draft". You need to then refresh the page to see that any text has been cleared from the reply box.