New forum software / theme bugs thread

[system11]

Looks nice! Shame about the tables being broken but it's not necessarily the end of the world.

For those of us maintaining scoreboards it's a pain. Like you said, hopefully it's fixable; it was probably my favorite feature to the forum in the last 5 or more years.

They might all have to be re-done unfortunately. I don't see any option so far that just fixes what exists as the whole bbcode parser changed.

[system11]

Oh - could someone take a screenshot of how narrow its looking for them because on mine the black area is only about 10% width on the left and right - I tested on a 4k and 1080P screen, I thought it looked kind of nice but it's clearly not working if its really taking up 60% as someone suggested above.

[Dochartaigh]

The new forum is still logging me out randomly, and making me log back in (even if I just visited a couple hours ago), as I detailed in this topic. Others were experiencing the same thing so I assume they still have the same issue as well. I've also gotten a COMPLETELY new computer since making that post, with an OS 4 years newer with new browser versions and everything... and the problem still persists (have to manually log in - and yes, I'm checking the "stay logged in" checkbox).

Smaller things that other phpBB's have been able to do for literally decades which we still can't do: Click on a user's name and have an option to see all of their created TOPICS... like to find the topic I linked to above, usually you just click on the username and then their topic and you can find it in 5 seconds... but on this forum I can ONLY see their post history... so I literally had to manually search back FIVE PAGES of my posts to find that topic I made... super annoying and a waste of time.

Oh... even making the link to the above is annoying as well... this forum makes you literally have to add your own code: you have to add the equal sign then paste in the URL manually into the [ url ] code... people who don't know code WILL have a problem with that. Should just be a pop-up where you paste in the URL like every other phpBB forum (and others) has had for 20+ years.

Not the end of the world by any means, and I HIGHLY appreciate you taking the time to migrate! ...just what I've found so far that I really thought/hoped would be fixed...

[system11]

Clicking "Mark Forums Read" opens up a blank information box (but does function).

Thanks, that will be easy to fix later.

As a heads up I will be fixing things that are broken ahead of other issues - my hands are really bad at the moment with RSI.

[EmperorIng]

Oh - could someone take a screenshot of how narrow its looking for them because on mine the black area is only about 10% width on the left and right - I tested on a 4k and 1080P screen, I thought it looked kind of nice but it's clearly not working if its really taking up 60% as someone suggested above.

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[system11]

Clicking "Mark Forums Read" opens up a blank information box (but does function).

Thanks, that will be easy to fix later.

As a heads up I will be fixing things that are broken ahead of other issues - my hands are really bad at the moment with RSI.

This is fixed.

[system11]

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Oh wow, oh dear. What resolution are you on?

[system11]

Yeah, def don't like the fixed width. So, of course, the first thing I did was whip up a Stylus script for myself that changed the main column max width to 90% rather than a fixed amount of pixels.

But with or without the script, I note that there's absolutely no padding between the user field and the post field, and that does not look great.



Edit: Also please make those green user online indicators not be animated.

Please check again at your end as it was never that bad for me - but in theory this is fixed.

[system11]

How does the width look now?

[system11]

The biggest thing that's bugging me is that the logo up top doesn't return you to the front page of the forum.

I need some help from a web developer on that. I tried everything but it was beyond my ability to have it center correctly between the left and right float elements without just making it a background image.

[Lord of Pirates]

How does the width look now?

Looking better now, thank you.

Smaller things that other phpBB's have been able to do for literally decades which we still can't do: Click on a user's name and have an option to see all of their created TOPICS... like to find the topic I linked to above, usually you just click on the username and then their topic and you can find it in 5 seconds... but on this forum I can ONLY see their post history... so I literally had to manually search back FIVE PAGES of my posts to find that topic I made... super annoying and a waste of time.

You can use advanced search for your own topics (or others) as a workaround, but a single link would be convenient.

[system11]

The new forum is still logging me out randomly, and making me log back in (even if I just visited a couple hours ago), as I detailed in this topic. Others were experiencing the same thing so I assume they still have the same issue as well. I've also gotten a COMPLETELY new computer since making that post, with an OS 4 years newer with new browser versions and everything... and the problem still persists (have to manually log in - and yes, I'm checking the "stay logged in" checkbox).

Not sure what is causing that, might need to delete cookies or something. I can't fix what I can't replicate.

Smaller things that other phpBB's have been able to do for literally decades which we still can't do: Click on a user's name and have an option to see all of their created TOPICS... like to find the topic I linked to above, usually you just click on the username and then their topic and you can find it in 5 seconds... but on this forum I can ONLY see their post history... so I literally had to manually search back FIVE PAGES of my posts to find that topic I made... super annoying and a waste of time.

Oh... even making the link to the above is annoying as well... this forum makes you literally have to add your own code: you have to add the equal sign then paste in the URL manually into the [ url ] code... people who don't know code WILL have a problem with that. Should just be a pop-up where you paste in the URL like every other phpBB forum (and others) has had for 20+ years.

None of these features exist out of the box on PHPBB 3.3 - so that's why they don't exist, migrating 3.0 to 3.3 was actually a pretty big step, it opens the door to modern extensions.

[Austin]

Funny enough, previous to the upgrade I only ever saw the starfield if I was logged out. Logging in would remove it and it would be a black background. Now the starfield is always visible. I don't have a problem the background itself (it is classic), however, the actual forum table is transparent and this on top of the starfield makes the text difficult to read.

I don't mind the narrow behavior all that much. When I'm on devices with a keyboard and mouse, I just zoom in (control + mouse wheel up) if I need the text larger, then zoom back out when I no longer need it. Not a huge deal to me personally.

[system11]

Funny enough, previous to the upgrade I only ever saw the starfield if I was logged out. Logging in would remove it and it would be a black background. Now the starfield is always visible. I don't have a problem the background itself (it is classic), however, the actual forum table is transparent and this on top of the starfield makes the text difficult to read.

I don't mind the narrow behavior all that much. When I'm on devices with a keyboard and mouse, I just zoom in (control + mouse wheel up) if I need the text larger, then zoom back out when I no longer need it. Not a huge deal to me personally.

There were two themes, a lot of people were using the 'lite' one that took the stars away. I WILL be creating it again but only once the normal theme is in a better overall place.

[Steven]

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Oh wow, oh dear. What resolution are you on?

That's exactly what I get as well and I'm using 1920x1080.

[system11]

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Oh wow, oh dear. What resolution are you on?

That's exactly what I get as well and I'm using 1920x1080.

How about now? I adjusted it yesterday - you might have to shift-reload to force the CSS to be reloaded.

[Sima Tuna]

I was going to bitch that nothing changed, but I shift-reloaded and it looks much better now.

The pulsing green "online" icons are weirding me out though bruh.

[Sumez]

I don't mind the animation as much as the fact that they are positioned a few pixels too high

[BIL]

There were two themes, a lot of people were using the 'lite' one that took the stars away. I WILL be creating it again but only once the normal theme is in a better overall place.

Cheers bud - no rush, done whenever it's done.

Perhaps we lot were the real blackmen.txt all along

[KennyMan666]

Please check again at your end as it was never that bad for me - but in theory this is fixed.

Mildly better now.



I do think a thin vertical line separating the user field and the post field, or a slight colour difference between the two, might be something to consider.

[RebeL9]

The logo on top is not linked to the main forum any longer. Could you please fix that?
The new narrower layout is ok on computer but not very cool on mobile.

[Plasmo]

New forum looks nice!

Is there any chance tables are coming back? Either the old tag or any other new way to make tables. If not, there is huge workload coming towards many of us, see e.g. https://vps-3576da.stackvps.com/viewtopic.php?t=60767

[BareKnuckleRoo]

It was actually discussed on the previously page, sadly there's a bug in the way tables are handled and there's not an immediate, easy fix, so we'll just have to sit tight for now.

[system11]

The way they will defined will definitely change I'm afraid looking at the options - the old one simpl is not compatible with PHPBB anymore, so I have to see which extension is nicest. I'm a bit busy for the next few days - family & health stuff.

[Lethe]

Depending on the syntax of the new tables you'll probably be able to regex one into the other anyway. The real problem will be posts by users who aren't around any more staying broken short of mod intervention.

[Warp_Rattler]

Just a minor cosmetic issue, but the text on the user details on the left side of posts is weirdly cut off/cramped:



Viewing the site in Firefox, no fancy stylistic tomfoolery happening on my end that I'm aware of.

[Fudoh]

small request for better/easier board navigation: could you put a link to the board index behind the forum logo on top ?

When I'm in the depth somewhere (e.g. in PMs), it's an easier way to navigate back the actual board instead of having to find the small "board index" link somewhere in the upper navigation.


PS: the updated spacing is much better - thanks!

[PerishedFraud ឵឵]

Could we push up the thread page selector a little bit? Preferrably centered just like the actual thread links? It's looking a bit unfriendly rn

[Steven]

Oh wow, oh dear. What resolution are you on?

That's exactly what I get as well and I'm using 1920x1080.

How about now? I adjusted it yesterday - you might have to shift-reload to force the CSS to be reloaded.

Yep, that fixed it. Excellent, thanks.

[spmbx]

small request for better/easier board navigation: could you put a link to the board index behind the forum logo on top ?

When I'm in the depth somewhere (e.g. in PMs), it's an easier way to navigate back the actual board instead of having to find the small "board index" link somewhere in the upper navigation.


PS: the updated spacing is much better - thanks!

Second that. I could have sworn i always clicked the forum logo to navigate back to index