Forum new look?

[Rahul Balaggan]

@wanderer_1204

I am not here to prove anything other than we are working on things. Slowly, yes, but working on things.

The 1 other very big thing we are aware of is spoilers not opening.

It is actively being looked into right now.

Also I am dropping a test here just so I can reference it:

spoiler

[kuali]

@Rahul-Balaggan There is a visible difference between read and unread topics now, which is definitely one improvement!

That said, the issues related to the page widths and the top bar are still there - 'intermediate' widths get the most minimal UI, with more being displayed on narrower screens, and then all controls being visible on wide screens.

[dragon3010]

Can we get notifications in the sidebar back? Not sure if its a bug or intentional, I'll learn to live with everything else if this returns :p

[Rahul Balaggan]

@kuali

Is that better?

(Something was updated)

[kuali]

@Rahul-Balaggan Better, certainly. The top bar makes the 'search' control available at all widths now, so it doesn't disappear and reappear as I resize the browser or open my phone.

That said, the left menu (where the categories/unread/recent/etc buttons go) is still hiding the labels in the intermediate widths (same as the screenshots I posted here)

[Rahul Balaggan]

@kuali How is it now?

[kuali]

@Rahul-Balaggan After the last refresh, the menu labels are visible at every width I've tried.

[Phabiohost]

@Rahul-Balaggan

I can't see my notifications from the side bar. I get the red indicator and all that, but when I try and view them from the side bar they never appear. I have to go to the notifications webpage.

[Lily Garden]

@Rahul-Balaggan there’s still no feature indicating which pages I have already read so navigating the forums is more difficult than before

[Rahul Balaggan]

@Lily-Garden

Hi,

Thank you for the feedback. Can I ask for more specifics?

Are you referring to pages for topics that are unread vs read?

I am jumping the gun here a bit below:
Or is this about a forum topic itself?

I am having trouble visualizing what a forum topic with 5 pages would look like to indicate that page 1 and 2 were read, and pages 3-5 were unread.

usually when you open an unread topic. It opens at the last message read.

[Lex]

So if I set the zoom on Chrome to 80% or below I can see in the thread list the statistics like the number of posts, views and the preview of the last reply, that are hidden with higher zoom levels. But when I reply to a thread, if I don't set the zoom to 90% or higher the top bar in the post editing window with the Cancel and Send buttons is hidden, making impossible to send replies unless I use 90% or 100% zoom. So either I have to give up seeing all the details on the threads list, which is kinda ridiculous on a 12 inches tablet, or I have to constantly change zoom. I hope JNC staff will be able to make the forum work better on larger mobile screens.

[Lily Garden]

@Rahul-Balaggan
Topics that are read vs unread

Previously when I went on the forum the l could tell at a glance if— for example I had already read the Bookworm discussion topic—-because the topics were color coded for read vs unread

Now it’s difficult to tell which topics people have recently posted in and so it’s hard to keep up with the discussions

[Rahul Balaggan]

@Lily-Garden

Thanks for the feedback. I’m assuming you’re referring to the Recent section, where read and unread topics appear together.

We’ve made an adjustment so topics with unread posts now have two indicators as seen in these photos.

The blue to the left of the topic for unread.

[Rahul Balaggan]

spoilers should be working again

working on notifications in the saide menu.

spoiler

[Almond Magnum]

@Rahul-Balaggan
It opens but doesn't close.

[Rahul Balaggan]

@Almond-Magnum

yup, going to be like that for a while unfortunately

[Valanduin]

Thank you to the forum team for working to improve the issues, I just tried a few different darker skins again and contrast and readability have greatly improved and they are mostly now readable, however text in quote blocks is still very low contrast with the "vapor" skin, the text is light blue and the quote block is slightly darker blue. I would include a screenshot but imgur does not appear to be working at the moment.