Personal computing discussed
Sargent Duck wrote:Damage wrote:
We'll roll these changes into the blue look before it goes live.
Very excited about this. I haven't had any issues with the new set-up, except the beige background keeps me thinking I'm posting somewhere else. Eagerly looking forward to TR blue.
Flying Fox wrote:Some of us got a preview and the blue is not the old blue. So be warned. Of course there is room for change.
Damage wrote:Those include a slightly wider "profile" area to prevent the icon wrapping issue and less spacing below quotations by default.
Captain Ned wrote:Flying Fox wrote:Some of us got a preview and the blue is not the old blue. So be warned. Of course there is room for change.
Well, it might not be the old blue, but it's definitely the oldest blue. It's the color of the dark blue theme that Firefox borked and could never properly handle.
mattsteg wrote:Is anyone else experiencing problems with the newposts search? The forums run fine, other searches (including egosearch and other "special" searches) run fine, but the newposts search won't load for me. The page just sits there and eventually times out. It's been happening on and off all day long.
Usacomp2k3 wrote:mattsteg wrote:Is anyone else experiencing problems with the newposts search? The forums run fine, other searches (including egosearch and other "special" searches) run fine, but the newposts search won't load for me. The page just sits there and eventually times out. It's been happening on and off all day long.
Not here. Was it on multiple sessions/browsers/computers? Did you try clearing cache?
mattsteg wrote:I agree. The profile area should be narrower not wider. Shrink the "Join Date" info by displaying just dd mmm, yyyy -- we don't need the time or day of week -- and then make the profile no wider than that. I don't see what's wrong with two lines of icons if it comes to that. Most posts worth reading are more than a couple of lines long so the added vertical space isn't a big deal (particularly in light of all the other vertical bloat going on in the new design). The dynamic growing/shrinking might make it harder to get a consistent margin between that and the post body at narrower widths.Damage wrote:Those include a slightly wider "profile" area to prevent the icon wrapping issue and less spacing below quotations by default.
The profile area seems a tad too wide to me. IMO it doesn't need to dynamically grow like it does and should really be fixed-width. Icon-wrapping is far less objectionable than being too wide.
UberGerbil wrote:The date display is user-controlled. It shows up however you have your date prefs set.Shrink the "Join Date" info by displaying just dd mmm, yyyy -- we don't need the time or day of week -- and then make the profile no wider than that.
mattsteg wrote:Unfortunately, I want to know the exact minute a comment was posted. I don't want to know the exact minute a user joined TR.UberGerbil wrote:The date display is user-controlled. It shows up however you have your date prefs set.Shrink the "Join Date" info by displaying just dd mmm, yyyy -- we don't need the time or day of week -- and then make the profile no wider than that.
titan wrote:I don't know why, but I'm having trouble using the ordered list function.
[list=][*]Here's[*]what[*]I[*]get[/list]
Am I doing something wrong, or is this feature not really implemented?
[list=1][*]Here's[*]what[*]I[*]get[/list][list=a][*]Here's[*]what[*]I[*]get[/list]Looking for Knowledge wrote:How do I turn off email notification of IMs?
I have "No" checked on "Notify me on new private messages."
titan wrote:I don't know why, but I'm having trouble using the ordered list function.
[list=][*]Here's[*]what[*]I[*]get[/list]
Am I doing something wrong, or is this feature not really implemented?
Kevin wrote:If you take the equal sign out, you don't have an ordered list. For an ordered list, you need to specify numbers or letters like so:Code: Select all[list=1][*]Here's[*]what[*]I[*]get[/list]
- Here's
- what
- I
- get
Code: Select all[list=a][*]Here's[*]what[*]I[*]get[/list]It looks like it doesn't matter which letters or numbers you specify.
- Here's
- what
- I
- get
Flying Fox wrote:titan wrote:I don't know why, but I'm having trouble using the ordered list function.
[list=][*]Here's[*]what[*]I[*]get[/list]
Am I doing something wrong, or is this feature not really implemented?
Cut the "=" and you will be unordered list. Put "list=1" and you get numbered ordered list.
titan wrote:I don't know why, but I'm having trouble using the ordered list function.
[list=][*]Here's[*]what[*]I[*]get[/list]
Am I doing something wrong, or is this feature not really implemented?
Vrock wrote:So...why does the forum prevent you from quoting more than three posters? That kind of sucks. Can we have a more reasonable limit? Say, six?
Captain Ned wrote:Vrock wrote:So...why does the forum prevent you from quoting more than three posters? That kind of sucks. Can we have a more reasonable limit? Say, six?
Given the glee ISTR Kevin exhibiting over this feature, I'd not hold out much hope.
Captain Ned wrote:Vrock wrote:So...why does the forum prevent you from quoting more than three posters? That kind of sucks. Can we have a more reasonable limit? Say, six?
Given the glee ISTR Kevin exhibiting over this feature, I'd not hold out much hope.
Kevin wrote:Looking for Knowledge wrote:How do I turn off email notification of IMs?
I have "No" checked on "Notify me on new private messages."
That's odd. I'll look around and see if there's a reason for this.
Vrock wrote:So...why does the forum prevent you from quoting more than three posters? That kind of sucks. Can we have a more reasonable limit? Say, six?
mattsteg wrote:What it should do is give the option to cut out the deeper quotes instead of making you hunt through to find them.
Looking for Knowledge wrote:It's fixed. I may have needed to clear sign-out/clear my cookies/ or some other such magic....but it's fine now.
Kevin wrote:mattsteg wrote:What it should do is give the option to cut out the deeper quotes instead of making you hunt through to find them.
Yeah, that would be pretty slick.
Vrock wrote:So...why does the forum prevent you from quoting more than three posters? That kind of sucks. Can we have a more reasonable limit? Say, six?
Captain Ned wrote:Given the glee ISTR Kevin exhibiting over this feature, I'd not hold out much hope.
titan wrote:I agree with the current limitation as it is. I don't need to reread six posts. Most people don't take the time to summarize the quote either, so there ends up being a long run of nested quotes before actually getting to what the current poster is going to say. Very annoying. Besides, you're able to quote other posts while writing your own, so what's the big deal.
mattsteg wrote:What it should do is give the option to cut out the deeper quotes instead of making you hunt through to find them.
Kevin wrote:Yeah, that would be pretty slick.
Usacomp2k3 wrote:That's what I was thinking of too.
JustAnEngineer wrote:And note, in case you missed it when I mentioned it earlier, that when you're composing a reply you can click the quote button on as many other posts as you want and they'll each get added, with proper quote tags, at the end of your reply.You can have plenty of quotes. You don't have to nest them, you know.
UberGerbil wrote:JustAnEngineer wrote:And note, in case you missed it when I mentioned it earlier, that when you're composing a reply you can click the quote button on as many other posts as you want and they'll each get added, with proper quote tags, at the end of your reply.You can have plenty of quotes. You don't have to nest them, you know.
Usacomp2k3 wrote:UberGerbil wrote:JustAnEngineer wrote:And note, in case you missed it when I mentioned it earlier, that when you're composing a reply you can click the quote button on as many other posts as you want and they'll each get added, with proper quote tags, at the end of your reply.You can have plenty of quotes. You don't have to nest them, you know.
Is that new, because I haven't seen that before. Cool
