New Forum Improvements

I like em’

New features so far noted :

  • Nice new forum icon
  • Next thread/previous thread buttons at end of screen
  • Nicer header with thread tools/search thread
    -Nice popdown tools/search options
  • Posting permissions bar is now minimized

Minor but is this a lead up of more to come?
What else can be noted?

It’s not really changes as such, some users may have noticed and issue with being to edit their posts. We identified the problems as a style issue so we reverted to default to fix it ( and it has as far as we can tell) but this means there are some changes with that (some that we removed) but other we kept.

If anything funky is happening though, please let me know so I can get the website developer heroes know.

I can’t seem to report posts anymore.

Hope this isn’t realted to this thread haha.

@Aurore
Cheers, looks better anyway. how long till the forum software switch? xD

Did you report spam saying “spaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaam”?

Also I just tested it and it works for me? Still having problems?

- Nice new forum icon
Can’t say I really like the new icon, seems overpowering for the page, the dark blue than the menu bar makes it seem like its more important, but its just an icon.

- Next thread/previous thread buttons at end of screen
Yep I like this, though not sure how much use it is, I rarely ever move back or forward through posts but jump around.

What I desperately would like to see is a repeat of the directory structure level (e.g. Forums → Unity Gossip → Thread Name) or a ‘back to top’ put at the bottom as those are both functionality I find I miss on this forum compared to others.

In general though its good to see they are evolving the forums.

That report returned an error to me about not having access to that functionality or something.

It’s working now, though. I just reported your post. (you’re in big trouble now!)

Don’t really know where that FORUM icon came from, think it’s just part of our default template, it doesn’t offend me.

I don’t think the directory and back to top was part of the default template so it may be something we would need to write in :frowning:

Got your report zerobounds, I am in, the biggest trouble! :stuck_out_tongue:

A couple of problems:

  1. The font doesn’t respond to “Never use font sizes smaller than…” in Safari. Since I use a higher resolution than average, this means the fonts are tiny and hard to read. I don’t know what’s happening where the fonts can’t be resized since no other websites have this issue. (Trying to zoom text doesn’t work either.)

  2. The font in the reply box is yucky. :wink:

–Eric

You’re yucky! :wink:

I’ll get them to take a look at it :slight_smile:

Hey, last time that happened it was unanimous that the reply box font was yucky. :wink:

–Eric

No wonder my reported posts never went through. I didn’t have enough aaa’s

Now the tiny font problem is infecting UnityAnswers too. Can you ask the web guys to please not do whatever diabolical hack they’re doing to prevent font sizing, it’s very annoying.

–Eric

The forum is web 2.0, but the font is Dickens. At least it isn’t super-tiny :slight_smile:

Hm, i dont get feedback if my post was successful when i report a spammer. It goes immediately back to the posting. Wasnt there a “your post was successful” message before?

Well the ‘reply’ font is also at the top title bar for me, so when I go on the forums the Unity site gets ugly. I’ve cleared the cache of my browser too.

When i try to edit my openings post i get a blanc page after pressing edit.
Also when i want to check a preview all will disappear.

This occurs now for since a couple of months. (with this post it happens)

Hellooooooo…the font problem persists, and it’s been weeks now. It could easily have been fixed immediately.

–Eric

Yes, A serif font is awful on screen, especially at such small sizes.

The other problem is the reply box is tiny by default. It doesn’t need to be.

Sorry it’s not been sorted, everyone has been away for the holidays and now the main person who deals with these issues is also away, I’ll try and get someone else to look at it.