Issues with the forum

[VincentGR]

Mode 0? That would be difficult to read. Mode 1 and you get me on board

Shall I constrict it to 40 columns?

80 if you are professional 

[Gryzor]

Sir, this is a hobbyist site. 

[Shaun M. Neary]

I would say move the category bar over to the left instead of the right. It just looks strange on the right hand side to me and would be better suited to the left.

I'm guessing a lot of things are still in progress so I'm not seeing what we have here as final unless otherwise stated.

You don't see the icons at the top of the category section?

I think the forum is pretty stable, fast and functional right now. There's a couple of things not yet incorporated, but if people don't ask for them out means it's not really worth it, so it's up to you to tell me if it's done 🙂

Ah didn't see that it could be user customisable. Good idea, it can be personalised to suit whoevers taste.

[VincentGR]

Sir, this is a hobbyist site.

With quotes like this one, people were convinced that our beloved machine wasn't professional.

[Carnivius]

woah, and I thought it looked different yesterday. I just logged in now and saw the main forum page and was like

I'm play with it a lil bit and see what's what.

Also avatars got shrunk? Aw, mine doesn't fit properly now and the forum's attempt to shrink it screws it up cos pixel art doesn't scale well.

[Gryzor]

Hmmm I think I see what you mean about the avatar; to be hones I like yours as it shows, but then again you're the artist  I'll see what I can do...

[Carnivius]

Yeah, can see I created it for the old avatar size which was 110x110 but now appears to be 64x64 (which on modern resolutions is smaller than a stamp).
Is no trouble.  Just let us know what size you're using going forward and have settled on and I'll have to make a new one.

[Gryzor]

Yeah, let me first figure out why and how that happened

[Gryzor]

Yeah, can see I created it for the old avatar size which was 110x110 but now appears to be 64x64 (which on modern resolutions is smaller than a stamp).
Is no trouble.  Just let us know what size you're using going forward and have settled on and I'll have to make a new one.

Just to test something, could you try reuploading your avatar in your profile?

[Gryzor]

Ah ok, nevermnind, found it in the css.

To be honest, I prefer the smaller avatars, what do people think? I've now set it to a round 80px to match the underlying icon column.

[TotO]

Visually, I prefer the little version. But I don't care.
I can understand that is an issue for some people.

[Shaun M. Neary]

Smaller ones look better in my opinion.

[Gryzor]

That's what I think, too. It always bothered me a bit how big they were but not enough to do anything about it😀

[Shaun M. Neary]

I do have a question / request.

Is there a dark theme available to install and choose from? It's not 2001 anymore, a lot of people have moved on to the choice of dark themes. It's easier on the eyes in some cases and in the case of mobile devices, it's a gift for saving battery life.

[VincentGR]

I do have a question / request.

Is there a dark theme available to install and choose from? It's not 2001 anymore, a lot of people have moved on to the choice of dark themes. It's easier on the eyes in some cases and in the case of mobile devices, it's a gift for saving battery life.

Yes!!!
That grey we talked about recently :-D

[Shaun M. Neary]

I do have a question / request.

Is there a dark theme available to install and choose from? It's not 2001 anymore, a lot of people have moved on to the choice of dark themes. It's easier on the eyes in some cases and in the case of mobile devices, it's a gift for saving battery life.

Yes!!!
That grey we talked about recently :-D

Better be gun metal grey!
Darker the better for me

[Gryzor]

Well. Yes there are dark themes, but not part of the default theme which I'm working on. Which means I would have to support another theme and another set of files with modifications etc.

So, two options:
-i can find a dark theme that people can use but it will NOT be updated with some modifications, or
-since it's not 2001, you can use a browser that applies a dark mode 😁. I'm attaching a screenshot of what this page looks like in Vivaldi with dark mode turned on.

You cannot view this attachment.

[Carnivius]

Smaller ones look better in my opinion.

But your avatar is getting a bit messed up too. Not quite as noticable as mine but yeah the CPC pixels are getting all badly scaled and uneven.


I personally like the bigger ones mainly because of as said before the higher resolutions these days make 64x64 just seem kinda microscopic compared to how it used to be.

But is cool either way I suppose. 

[Gryzor]

That's because resizing is done in the browser, you could always do a proper file and upload to avoid this. A chore, I know. 

[robcfg]

Well. Yes there are dark themes, but not part of the default theme which I'm working on. Which means I would have to support another theme and another set of files with modifications etc.

So, two options:
-i can find a dark theme that people can use but it will NOT be updated with some modifications, or
-since it's not 2001, you can use a browser that applies a dark mode 😁. I'm attaching a screenshot of what this page looks like in Vivaldi with dark mode turned on.

You cannot view this attachment.

My MacOS and Chrome are in dark mode but the forum still looks as usual.

I can live with it though.

[Gryzor]

Pffft Mac. 😁

I don't think this should happen though, Vivaldi is based on Chrome and it's always worked great in dark mode. A setting? 

[mahlemiut]

Why is the front (forum) page showing a recent posts list, instead of the usual forum list?  Also, can't view more than one page of posts on said page, gives "Sorry, that section doesn't exist"

No dark mode, either.  Firefox is set specifically to use dark mode (automatic doesn't work either), forume is still in light mode.

Firefox 110.0.1, Arch Linux.

[Shaun M. Neary]

No dark mode here either. Older version of MacOS (Mojave 10.14 but still supports dark theme) and latest firefox 111.0

[Shaun M. Neary]

Smaller ones look better in my opinion.

But your avatar is getting a bit messed up too. Not quite as noticable as mine but yeah the CPC pixels are getting all badly scaled and uneven.


I personally like the bigger ones mainly because of as said before the higher resolutions these days make 64x64 just seem kinda microscopic compared to how it used to be.

But is cool either way I suppose. 

Maybe my eyesight is going, but my Avatar looks fine on my machine? Although the res on this laptop isn't the highest either which could explain it.

[ervin]

Gotta say, I'm LOVING the Recent Forum Topics feature.
It's something I've been wishing for, for years.