I do miss the style of the old forum, but the new one is really nice as well. As others have said, dark mode is much easier on tjhe eyes and and makes it clearer to navigate.
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If you are signed into the forum there shouldn't be any adverts.I quite like the new format. Good to have a 'like' button for posts. My real complaint is the (huge) amount of advertisements all over the pages, but I guess its a bit of a necessity in order to fund the site.
Actually I just noticed that - quite often lately I browse without signing in. ThanksIf you are signed into the forum there shouldn't be any adverts.
Actually I just noticed that - quite often lately I browse without signing in. Thanks
I've reported this to the developers elsewhere. I'm pretty certain it's a Safari problem as it loads certain elements in a different order to other browsers. We have this problem with some of the online stuff we develop in Django.Here's something weird - on my computer - if I hit the 'page end' button on my keyboard, the page end is blank, still with forum colours but no text at all in there, and is a long long way past the actual end of all text on the page. So as a workaround I have to scroll down from the top of the page, which is a bit annoying on fullish pages, but still a fair bit quicker than scrolling back up to the end of the text from the empty bottom of the page. Never seen that before in forums or on websites!
Safari on Mac, I haven't tried it in a different browser.
I've reported this to the developers elsewhere. I'm pretty certain it's a Safari problem as it loads certain elements in a different order to other browsers. We have this problem with some of the online stuff we develop in Django.
If you use Chrome on your Mac it'll work fine.
I must admit I am liking the new forum, it seems much better
Keep the clinic talk in the clinic please...I quite like it too. Just slowly figuring my way around it.
(And I've completely given up trying to figure out what all the trophies mean… or why there is no 'IV')
Firefox should work fine I think.Ah, interesting, thanks! I don't use Chrome, but could try Firefox in the interim.
Keep the clinic talk in the clinic please...
I just had a look at what we can edit and actually...Well… I've heard some rumours that you mods "like-dope" yourselves.
Clicking on the thread title takes you to the first page. Or (assuming you're logged in) it takes you to the first unread post on that thread. I'm still not clear on how the two different behaviours are triggered, I think taking you to the first unread post only works if there is an unread post to take you to, otherwise you're dumped back to the first page. The titles of threads with new posts on them are highlighted in a different colour.I'm not sure if I was clear. I meant before when I used to click on the thread it'd take me to the last post (first page). I don't see a way to do this.
Yes, but do recognise that some of us are completists, and not having that missing IV trophy has the potential to become really, really distressing. Is this perhaps part of a new premium service on the site, certain trophies can only be purchased, sort of the way Panini only release into the wild three or four cards with Lionel Mesi on them, requiring you to buy the missing card direct from them to complete the set?Keep the clinic talk in the clinic please...
Getting that trying to reply to a post on the Froome Clinic thread. The error seems to be being triggered by the use of smilies (as in, if I take the smiley out of the post, it posts, if I leave it in, I get that message).Oops! We ran into some problems.
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Yes, but do recognise that some of us are completists, and not having that missing IV trophy has the potential to become really, really distressing. Is this perhaps part of a new premium service on the site, certain trophies can only be purchased, sort of the way Panini only release into the wild three or four cards with Lionel Mesi on them, requiring you to buy the missing card direct from them to complete the set?
Getting that trying to reply to a post on the Froome Clinic thread. The error seems to be being triggered by the use of smilies (as in, if I take the smiley out of the post, it posts, if I leave it in, I get that message).
(The attempted message featured the 'flushed' smiley. Chrome browser on a Windows PC.)
Until now, I didn't think that we could still see whether or not a thread had gotten new posts since the last time one read that post when one was on the front page of a subforum. Now, I realise, that the titles of threads with new posts are in fact written in purple, whereas the titles of threads where you're up-to-date are written in black.
Those two colours are practically indistinguishable from each other, so maybe a tweak would be in order.
I had the same issue as you - I blamed it on my slight colour blindness.
Dark mode has it as white and purple which is a lot better!