Thanks! I do think that the rich text editor will be easier.
Thanks, I'll try this!
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MacRumors Forums Theme Change and New Platform
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Thanks! I do think that the rich text editor will be easier.
Thanks, I'll try this!
Great. Another redesign with gratuitous padding to make things "lighter feeling" that ends up taking up more browser space which requires more scrolling to see the same amount of information.
Thankfully there's Stylish for the desktop:
.discussionListItem .listBlock {
Padding: 0px !important;
}
.discussionListItem .title {
line-height: 1 !important;
font-size: 12px !important;
}
.username {
font-size: 12px !important;
}
Unfortunately there's nothing like that for mobile Safari so I guess I need to check out Tapatalk again.
Thankfully there's Stylish for the desktop:
.discussionListItem .listBlock {
Padding: 0px !important;
}
.discussionListItem .title {
line-height: 1 !important;
font-size: 12px !important;
}
.username {
font-size: 12px !important;
}
Unfortunately there's nothing like that for mobile Safari so I guess I need to check out Tapatalk again.
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There are notifications on new threads and those were disabled via user CP. Good. Now you need to disable your current watched threads and/or forums. You go here:
https://forums.macrumors.com/watched/threads
Click on the bottom on "Show all watched threads". Then choose all the threads and disable following them by email. You can also click on ""Manage Watched Threads" --> ""disable email notification""
Same thing with forums
https://forums.macrumors.com/watched/forums
You can also stop watching a thread by clicking on "Unwatch Thread", which is on the right top corner of every thread.
I absolutely love how everything resizes without making text smaller on my iOS devices when changing orientation. That alone was worth the platform change, in my opinion.
I like most everything.
Not a fan of the main page, I liked the old list because every now and then I'd see a thread title on the last post details that caught my eye in a forum I'd otherwise never enter. But I'll adapt. I am glad we (finally) have quick reply though.
Out of curiosity, how much of this is all out of the box Xenforo stuff, and how much was custom coding (besides the style)? A friend of mine is considering converting his forum from vB to Xen, and me being the "IT guy" naturally I've been recruited to help. Is Xen easy to develop for?
Not a fan of the main page, I liked the old list because every now and then I'd see a thread title on the last post details that caught my eye in a forum I'd otherwise never enter. But I'll adapt. I am glad we (finally) have quick reply though.
Out of curiosity, how much of this is all out of the box Xenforo stuff, and how much was custom coding (besides the style)? A friend of mine is considering converting his forum from vB to Xen, and me being the "IT guy" naturally I've been recruited to help. Is Xen easy to develop for?
There are gazillions reasons why moving from VB3 is necessary, some major ones:
1. Security issues in the past year. Xenforo hasn't had any security flew in their code. There were few 3rd party problems that were fixed in manners of hours since they were discovered. There is not a single known security breach with Xenforo (compared to VB, which I don't need to tell you what happened here few months/a year ago).
2. Very old code, makes it very hard to code new add-ons and integrate new, current features.
3. Lack of responsive design/sufficient mobile design. In today's age it's a killer for a website. Most users today on major websites are mobile users (mobile includes iPads).
4. VB3 doesn't release updates anymore. It's basically EOL.
5. VB is going to die in few months/years since nobody wants to purchase their fifth version. It's the most horrible platform created so far. Thera are also no one left on their forums in terms of employees. They were bought by a very large company and many people left since they didn't like the new working environment. Xenforo was created by two VB3 coders, one of them was the leader of the project back then.
6. Xenforo is just faster and easier to develop upon. It's saving a lot of time to developers and saves a lot of money to the website(s) owner(s). You also enjoy the new/modern implemented features as a user in the long run.
7. More backend control on users and the software as a whole.
There are more reasons which are more on the owner side of the platform.
How the heck do I get the site to stop e-mailing me whenever someone replies to me?
I've already killed:
CONTACT DETAILS: Receive email when a new conversation message is received
PREFERENCES: and receive email notifications of replies
ALERT PREFERENCES: (everything on this page)
It's none of these things. Where's the actual setting?
I've already killed:
CONTACT DETAILS: Receive email when a new conversation message is received
PREFERENCES: and receive email notifications of replies
ALERT PREFERENCES: (everything on this page)
It's none of these things. Where's the actual setting?
There's also a button to unsubscribe to everything at once at the bottom of the email
arn
That seems like a poor design decision.
And that sounds distinctly like the old "I personally don't have a problem, therefore nobody has a problem" mentality. It therefore doesn't look like this will ever be fixed
Is MacRumors still signing the previous version? I've backed up my SHSH and want to roll back...
Have a look…That seems like a poor design decision.
And that sounds distinctly like the old "I personally don't have a problem, therefore nobody has a problem" mentality. It therefore doesn't look like this will ever be fixed
Is MacRumors still signing the previous version? I've backed up my SHSH and want to roll back...
https://xenforo.com/community/threads/custom-posts-per-page-user-setting.19973/
Not exactly pro-customer I think.
How do we get normal (non-mobile) version on iPhone? I've selected 'request desktop format' and it doesn't work. I always used the desktop format on my iPhone 6plus and it was fine. If I'm restricted to a mobile format it'll drive me crazy!
Fantastic! I am looking forward to using my PowerBook more now that school is going to be out.
I had the same first impression, with some disappointment, when I first previewed the open test environment around two weeks ago. As improvements were made, during that period, my perceptions changed; I realised some overall benefits.
With respect: I suggest waiting a week or so before making any firm decisions about variations from the default style.
Parallel to that advice, please know that the open test period was necessarily focused on migration. Within that limited period I did not expect all style enhancement suggestions to be given due consideration. If you would like to consider those suggestions, please browse the topic from that period – it's currently amongst the linked items in my signature.
I really like the new theme. The only thing is that it is a bit bright with all of the white (unless I am missing a "dark mode" setting). Maybe a slightly darker blue framing the posts within the threads would fix this, but it's not a huge deal. Good job to whoever worked to get this up and running.
Hate the new look. Maybe just need to get used to it. Old way was much easier to navigate the sub forums imo. Hopefully it grows on me but first impression is I don't like it.
Both of these did the trick but I do think this should be a check-box in the preferences, not some kind of 'mode' that you activate from the threads themselves. That's pretty difficult to figure out.
This happens because of the migration from a different platform. It should work properly from now and on. You were already subscribed to some threads via email. When you disabled the email notification in your preferences, you just prevented new emails from new watches threads. The section I referred to is a list of current watched threads, so these are two different things. Since XenForo is registering you as a "thread watcher" automatically when you comment in any thread (unless you disable it via user preferences), then all the threads you commented on before (or from a specific period of time) will send you an email.
There are two types of watched threads: email and/or notification. If you disable watching threads automatically via a comment in a thread, then you won't receive an in-forum notification as well when somebody replied to this specific thread (you'll get a notification only when a user quotes you directly).
Looking and working great so far! MacRumors has finally been lifted out of the 90s!
Favorite new feature so far is the overlay elements. This is so much better than loading a new page for every single action like we used to. Makes the site a lot easier and faster to navigate. Loving the highlight to quote/reply too!
Favorite new feature so far is the overlay elements. This is so much better than loading a new page for every single action like we used to. Makes the site a lot easier and faster to navigate. Loving the highlight to quote/reply too!
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Cheers Erik, that makes some sense. I'd suggest the Xenoforo devs should stop defending a poor decision and give the users a workaround.
I guess that also means all links to a specific post under vBulletin will now be broken?