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MacRumors Forums Theme Change and New Platform
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I'm sure this is plainer than the nose on my face but how do you know if a forum has "new posts" or "no new posts" by looking at the forum index without clicking and going into the forum? 
(<---- My fav emoticon). LOL
(<---- My fav emoticon). LOL
I mostly like the new look and feel.
However, the lists of threads in a forum seems to have a lot of wasted space or something. Previously this was quite space-efficient and I could quickly look over far more thread titles than I can do. Now I have to do a ton of scrolling and go to next pages.
Same for inside a thread. All of the posts are just so huge now. Scroll scroll scroll scroll scroll scroll... sheesh. Someone is a huge fan of having acres of white space and giant controls.
However, the lists of threads in a forum seems to have a lot of wasted space or something. Previously this was quite space-efficient and I could quickly look over far more thread titles than I can do. Now I have to do a ton of scrolling and go to next pages.
Same for inside a thread. All of the posts are just so huge now. Scroll scroll scroll scroll scroll scroll... sheesh. Someone is a huge fan of having acres of white space and giant controls.
@arn Thanks for changing the thread page numbers. Much easier to scan the lists now.
I have another question - I have been getting the red notification icons as expected at the top of the page under the flag icon, but I just had a second notification under my username. When I hovered over it, the notification was also an 'alert' though. What's the difference between the two?
I have another question - I have been getting the red notification icons as expected at the top of the page under the flag icon, but I just had a second notification under my username. When I hovered over it, the notification was also an 'alert' though. What's the difference between the two?
I reported a few but there were dozens and dozens of new threads from the same user and same title and content.
hate the look, but still love the forum. hopefully, i'll get used to it sooner than later.
That happens. Some spammers go on a spree and happen to do so when no staff members are online at the time. Rest assured though that once a moderator does come online and checks the open reports, that they will take care of them promptly. It's a volunteer service and they work on reports when they're here and have time.
I may be missing it in the settings, but I can't find the setting to change the time format. Not everyone in the world uses the am/pm system and I would really like to put it back to the 24h time mode (or military time as it's sometimes called in the US)
I could have overlooked this somewhere in settings, and although I tried to keep up with this thread might have not seen it discussed earlier, but are there still options to not display avatars as well as not display images in posts/threads?
I see the option to not display signatures. And I recall in the previous version of the forums I was able to turn off avatars and images in posts (they would just appear as links, rather than load as actual images)--it allowed me to focus on the content of the posts easier and basically load and scroll through threads better as well without all these items. Would be great if these options were also available in the new version of the forums.
I see the option to not display signatures. And I recall in the previous version of the forums I was able to turn off avatars and images in posts (they would just appear as links, rather than load as actual images)--it allowed me to focus on the content of the posts easier and basically load and scroll through threads better as well without all these items. Would be great if these options were also available in the new version of the forums.
Thats a pity I love intermittently using emoji in my posts, especially since apple updated them
I've noticed some previously banned users no longer show as banned. Perhaps the new forum software doesn't work the same way w.r.t. banned users? Or perhaps they were accidentally unbanned?
Just FYI...
Just FYI...
Hmmm, well if that's true, there are two previously banned members who definitely appear to be reactivated. Based on their history, I find it unlikely they've been intentionally unbanned.
Hmmm, well if that's true, there are two previously banned members who definitely appear to be reactivated. Based on their history, I find it unlikely they've been intentionally unbanned.
Can you send me their names in pm
@Gamer9430 @mobilehaathi everyone who was banned is still banned... apparently it's just not obvious to regular users.
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Is that on iOS? Everything is the same size here (more or less) on Firefox, but then I can resize the screen with a mouse button press in Firefox.
The biggest problems I see:
* Alerts for posts or quotes to messages no longer appear to have a link on them to go to that new message to look at it. As far as I can tell I have to go to watched threads. But that might be due to the next issue.
* Many "buttons" are not the least bit obvious to be buttons (e.g. view to newest thread in a post is a blue circle, but it does not give the slightest visual indication you can click on it by its shape/design; I gather this is an issue in Yosemite as well and a good reason why skeuomorphic, like it or not has its place in GUI designs as buttons were almost always obvious with them as they LOOKED like something you could press).
* The messages themselves need a light grey background like before (too white now and same as overall background where it was grey/white before).
* The new avatars are huge (limits on size before do not scale well to the new ones after the upgrade).
* Many very old watched threads showed up as new after the update here (but that goes away when you view them briefly).
* Quick replies appear at the bottom of the screen instead of at the bottom of the message you're replying to (probably makes little difference in practice though since posting brings you to the end of the thread anyway so I use a middle mouse click in Firefox to respond so it opens to a new tab instead, preserving where I was reading in the thread on the previous tab).
I still think there should be a DISLIKE button as well, even if I have to put my name on it. It would save me and others from having to reply to just to indicate a simple disagreement of opinion. This "PC" world of "positive" only is a load of horse manure and gives people a false indication that everyone agrees with them when in fact 10x more may disagree than agree, but aren't allowed to indicate their opinion. Others may simply not care about clicking on such things either way, so only getting "2 likes" may indicate nothing but laziness or only a few reading the thread or a disagreement with the system in general. In summary, the system is largely MEANINGLESS to begin with when it's one-sided. People that can't stand any disagreements should get a thicker skin, IMO.
I'm not getting such links thus far. I get a * at the end, but I can't click on it and that includes the alert for your post.