Pfrsantos little corner of complaints

[pfrsantos]

So, let's get this started...

Testing the shit colouring system.

[root]

Dark Mode colors are shit. I know that much already.

[pfrsantos]

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[pfrsantos]

I'll be mainly (only) using a desktop, so my findings may not be comprehensive. I find it a little distracting that the footer bar (with the bread crums and other buttons) passes over the text window when you scroll up/down.

I see the editing window has been kept:
You are only allowed to edit posts for 300 second(s) after posting

Awlso tried to remove my #2 post but couldn't, despite getting a message that I did.

[pfrsantos]

Signature space seems really big (no, it wasn't her who said it, it's me). In some cases, it's bigger than the post itself. It could be wasting screen space.

Awlso, it doesn't show any pics. Trying to replicate my MTo flag and it doesn't work.

Any chance of having it working like in the old site? Adapting the size to the text?

[pfrsantos]

@root said:

Dark Mode colors are shit. I know that much already.

Yup, they should be smurf, though...

[root]

@pfrsantos

Those are the goals.

I had started by modifying an existing theme until I got close to what I wanted it to look like, then decided to create a custom theme instead.

I build the new theme and fought with a few settings, only to realize the old theme mods were still in place. #facepalm.

Currently I am working on removing any duplication between the theme I created and the custom CSS/Header/JS that modifies the theme so I can remove the custom mods and just have the theme.

I am also trying to clean the code and organize the changes so that when we have issues with something five years from now, we will be able to find things quickly and easily.

Once I have all of that stuff sorted out I will come back and start dealing with the smiley box, colors, widths and other visual issues.

The next step after that is to try rebuilding a few modules like the Treasury, and one that allows us to keep using standard BBCode like the [img][/img] tags you have discovered don't work yet.

And, at some point, there will be the SMF import, but that will probably mean shutting the forum down, pulling a backup, using the importer module specifically designed for SMF and then a whole pile of cleanup and config once that is here.

And at some point, the MTO specific smileys all need to be imported and I doubt they will come with the rest of the import.....

[root]

Yes, and the smurf filter too!

[pfrsantos]

@root said:

Those are the goals.

(...)

I am also trying to clean the code and organize the changes so that when we have issues with something five years from now, we will be able to find things quickly and easily.

(...)

This is important. We used to say that coders don't comment (if it was hard to code, it should be hard to read). Not anymore. Place notes about everything important and other places it's related to, that's a huge help when/if you need to change anything.

p.s.: the new quoting method is not very user friendly, needing a > in every line. The very slight shadowy background awlso doesn't make the quoted message stand out as much as it might/should/could...

[SteveC]

Auto tagging the previous post is still happening as well which is slightly annoying.

[pfrsantos]

I've seen we still have post count under our avatars. Will there be groups/ranks, as in the old forum?

If so, will there be "hidden" sub-forums/threads, available only after a ertain post count?

Will there be sub-forums (Victorinox, Leatherman, Fixed blades, etc.)? If so, will they be mod created or can anyone create them? Rather the previous than the latter.

[pfrsantos]

My #2 post (#3 in this thread) appears to have been deleted (no options available to quote/reply) but I can still see it.

Do you see it too? Is this supposed to be like this or should it have been completely deleted?

Can we delete posts or only mods can (like in the old forum)?

[pfrsantos]

In our profile, when viewing the posts, maybe just show the thread link instead of the entire post?

I've got a dozen posts and it takes up awlmost two screens.

[pfrsantos]

I miss an always visible quick menu bar to take me back to the main page and to access the main options/menu.

From the Profile, it took me some time to get back to the main page.

[pfrsantos]

@SteveC said:

Auto tagging the previous post is still happening as well which is slightly annoying.

Yes, it happens when you hit reply on a post. It doesn't if you hit the generic thread Reply button.

[pfrsantos]

Over the posts, you can see "pfrsantos wrote 18 minutes ago". Hovering over the user name gets you a link to the user profile and hovering over the XX minutes ago shows you the date/time.

I think I prefer the old way. It's quicker/easier to know the post original date/time.

[pfrsantos]

Reputation.

I keep getting a message saying I need 3 reputation to post in less than 120 seconds intervals.

How the smurf do I get reputation?! I thought I had reputation! Does it have to be good reputation?! Smurf, I'm not going to ever be able to post in less than 120 seconds intervals.

[SteveC]

Hopefully we can get this closer to what we are used to. I'm not a fan either of the user interface so far. I know Def is working hard at getting it closer to what we are used to. Hopefully the software allows it.

I'm also hoping we can get closer to the sunrise color scheme.

[root]

@SteveC said:

Hopefully we can get this closer to what we are used to. I'm not a fan either of the user interface so far. I know Def is working hard at getting it closer to what we are used to. Hopefully the software allows it.

I'm also hoping we can get closer to the sunrise color scheme.

I was actually happy (more or less) with these colors. Do we really want to go back to the various shades of grey?

[SteveC]

@root

I like the Sunrise theme colors. I was never a fan of the green colors of shelflife and used the older Curve theme for a long time until Sunrise came along. I like the shades of grey myself as it seems easier to read , but don't know if I'm in the minority or not.