Edit: see my later post - we ended up with new forum software after all.
goldyn chyld said:I think it'd be better if the quoted text (in general) were of a bit darker shade than the rest of the text in the reply window for better distinction...
scykei said:There is this one thing that bothers me a lot though: Where did the forum search bar go? I can still access it at search.php?keywords=searchterm. However, I don't see any place to access it.
scykei said:Also, it might be a problem on my end but my spell checker doesn't seem to work when replying to a thread on the new form. In the old style it worked fine.
Okay, it was a problem with one of my extensions. Nothing big. Sorry.mikelove said:scykei said:Also, it might be a problem on my end but my spell checker doesn't seem to work when replying to a thread on the new form. In the old style it worked fine.
Seems to be working OK here - try switching back to the old style via the User Control panel, does that get it working again?
mikelove said:goldyn chyld said:I think it'd be better if the quoted text (in general) were of a bit darker shade than the rest of the text in the reply window for better distinction...
Duly corrected, thanks.
mikelove said:Not a major redesign - we just took a stock template that was a little more contemporary-looking than our old one and added our logo to it - but to me at least it's still a vast improvement. (one inspired by properly color-calibrating my computer monitor, actually)
Hopefully in a year or two there'll either be a) a new version of phpBB or b) another forum we like well enough to switch to it (this one looks promising but it's decidedly beta at the moment), but this should make things more bearable in the meantime.
If for whatever reason you liked the old theme and want to switch back, you can do so via the User Control Panel (set your theme to "prosilver" in the "Board Preferences" tab).
goldyn chyld said:Hm, it doesn't seem to have changed? Whenever I see (xy wrote: ...) it's still the same color as the rest of the reply window, making it hard to distinguish from the actual reply.
johnh113 said:Which is the new style? "afterburner" and "prosilver" both have Pleco logos while "subsilver2" and "proBoot" do not. So if "prosilver" is the old style is "afterburner" the preferred style?
HW60 said:For me it is a little bit difficult to find out when a quote ends and the new comment begins - reading the text helps, but there is no support from the style as it was before.
mikelove said:HW60 said:For me it is a little bit difficult to find out when a quote ends and the new comment begins - reading the text helps, but there is no support from the style as it was before.
Does it help if you reload the page?
I think it looks pretty good- feels a lot less '90s. Looks good in mobile (iOS Safari) too. I would have probably gone for a bit more blue instead of the orange, but it doesn't bother me.
Hi! I'm slightly confused: This is not simply a new style but a whole new forum software, right? So the "change the style to the old one in the board preferences" thing doesn't work anymore, at least I cannot find the option.
Now, I'm perfectly happy with the new forum on laptops or desktops, but with my cell phone, the old forum worked better. One example: On the old forum I could login directly from the main page, here I have to go through a menu. When I want to log out, I have to inconveniently confirm this selection. Also, I had to deactivate the standard "Rich Text" method the board uses, because it totally messes with my keyboard. I'm using TouchPal, btw, which is awesome if you want to use different languages and like sweeping the screen like Swype. Also, the button for "go to first unread" seems really small.
Sorry, I didn’t mean to urge you to change it again: If you and most of the users like it, stick with it! It was just my general impression.
Interesting, actually the mobile skins for both forums were designed by the same guy - we'll see if we can find a cleaner mobile skin for this one.【。。。】with my cell phone, the old forum worked better. 【。。。】 I had to deactivate the standard "Rich Text" method the board uses, because it totally messes with my keyboard.