Site Issues, Updates, Changes, and Feedback Thread

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3 hours ago, Rt66indierock said:

Chris,

My username is now:

Rt66indier

ock

Any way to fix it?

The new site is working fine in the Valley of the Sun on all my computers and my iPhone. No performance issues.

Take care,

Steve

If you look on a cell (mobile) phone, the correct syntax of the username is displayed.

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Like others I don't like change, but so long as the basic navigation is simple to find, then reading becomes second nature. Cable debates will never end though...

On the subject of navigation, the Search tool expands logically, either the whole site, or sometimes is handy for the topic at hand.

I gather 'follow' is to subscribe.

Also not keen on the overall white space left and right with a screen res of 3840 x 2160, however if the left side is occupied with advertisements, like Mono and Stereo website, the balance could be achieved. Ads tend to distract possibly avoided by a paid membership which would be welcome.

The colours or lack there of, perhaps a Gateway Computer nostalgia? Agree with other comments, it's too stark, colours are good but a minefield of readbility since aging eyes have different contrast capabilities. OMG, an opening for themes!!  

Readability on a mobile phone is better, before there could be 8-10 messages on the activity screen at once, it was good to scan, then swipe, now I can manage only three, so a lot of swiping. The fonts are bigger, so are the spaces between, so makes it easier to read at the expense of more swiping. On the laptop there's lots of space between paragraphs, like triple font spacing, most likely to cater for touch screens or iPad doo dads. I'd say the mobile experience is far better now than the dedicated app or the VBulletin squished down.

What's missing is the TOP button at the bottom of the page...! TOP brings you to search, mail and user settings, the menu frame is present, but it doesn't navigate to search. Would be nice if the FORUM on the menu bar would drop down to say Networking or Music.

Attaching files now is a lot less painful, drag and drop is good, still hope on day to copy/paste an image rather than save it to a file, then attach. Is that a HTML limitation or the editor ? Are the file types restricted to graphics, text and pdfs only or can we upload wav maximum ... say 20s worth of redbook in MB?

The reputation number is somewhat subjective? Not in favour of it, the classifications such as newbie, sophomore and so on is OK, it's just based on the number of posts, fine with me. It's up to the reader to judge the quality of the post.

All in all, I can live with the new presentation, please add the TOP button

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3 hours ago, Nikhil said:

 

Not sure if this has been mentioned before but the user profile data hasn't transferred over in the "About Me" section of the member profiles,  For example in my profile's "About Me" just shows "iPad and Blackberry" which I think were the last fields in the previous forum.  

Agreed on the About Me section,  just the last line on my profile as well. By looks of it,  at least the structure is now up to the user to create their own,  rather than tick the boxes, which was restricted somewhat. 

The editor looks much the same as for posting allowing external links...my short term memory may let me down here.

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1 hour ago, The Computer Audiophile said:

Just put in a Go To Top link at the bottom of every post.

Thank you so much for this button!

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The ignored posters show up in the discover page, they didn't show up in the activity page with Vbulletin.  In the threads the ignored posters were shown, however the text is blank. Is there something to learn now?

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I like the blue theme better than the black. If an NYT theme can be copied, what makes their page readable is the roman font they use, fills in the gaps, rather than the Helvitica style. The NYT page is easy to read on a phone.

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Erm, the signature field shows up in Chrome on Windows 10, but the Android version, all signatures are missing. Is there another button to set somewhere? Thanks.

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5 hours ago, Abtr said:

 

You must be signed in to see signatures.

Problem still exists on sign out and in. Clear cache? 

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48 minutes ago, jaaptina said:

I'm very much missing CA forum on Tapatalk. 

My 2c.

Am glad to see it go, no need to read the obligatory,  sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk. 

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2 hours ago, The Computer Audiophile said:

OK, what about the change I just made to not show the total reputation points, but still have the Up/Down voting on each thread?

 

Good system! It avoids the petty downgrading of reputations, since there's none to downgrade.

The like and dislikes are fine, there are more likes I've seen anyway.

For mobiles and ipads though, the buttons are a little too close to one another, depends on how fat the fingers are; a difficult decision as to how far they should be moved . Desktops with mice are no issue, I could not bear to see fingerprints on the screen, I want to look at images with clarity and not dotted with smudges, yuk. The system now is easier to use than with Vbulletin which took some time to figure out which button was first.

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8 hours ago, mourip said:

 

Thanks! This is great.

Love this feature,  and it works!  

 

Great thanks to Chris! No more MQA vapourware to read about in the headlines. 

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41 minutes ago, rickca said:

Chris, you've done something nice with posts from ignored users in the activity stream.  

Yes, finally the ignored users have vanished totally from the activity list, well done. 

Now just have to remember to add in a new ignored member from the link in the account settings, by entering the name, which also preselect, another good idea.

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Still receiving full posts instead of truncated especially after viewing more activity. 

On Android or Chrome. 

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4 hours ago, The Computer Audiophile said:

Hmmm. Trying to replicate this, but I can't. I logged in with your account even, but everything looked good from a Mac.

 

Are you using Android and Chome OS?

 

 

Yes, Chrome on Android and Chrome on Windows 10. The expanded is two lines maximum for the initial activity (discover page) then soon as the list more activity button, randomly posts are their full length.

 

Can duplicate behaviour with Edge on Windows 10.

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On the completed posts after the 'more activity' button is pushed, if navigation travels to the expanded-condensed buttons, click on the 'condensed' then click on the 'expanded' and the two line standard is back. 

The full posts appear on Chrome on an ios11 install, where it's a real problem to scroll through a huge post.

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OK, I get the push for Superphonica, but the red against the blue eyesore? Does it need to be that prominent?

 

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Adblocker was paused, refreshed the screen, the red is still there. Adblocker detected 3 ads on this page.

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Search Engine merde

 

Going to pot, what's the story with search now? Takes ages and end up with zero.

 

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14 hours ago, The Computer Audiophile said:

The upgrade screwed it up. I have a support ticket open with the company to fix it like they did last time. 

Hope it's the right ticket...

 

If the search falls over is there a way to use Google, just for the CA site? 

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14 minutes ago, The Computer Audiophile said:

 

Yes, go to google and type in what Rando said below:

 

 

Cool, thanks.

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This is the second time I've seen this little problem , where an image is cast over the message, and can't read the contents of the post.

Running Chrome on Win10 Pro.

 

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1 hour ago, The Computer Audiophile said:

Unfortunately no. It’s out of my hands. 

That’s sort of well sucks. May have to resort to white out.

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24 minutes ago, The Computer Audiophile said:

Hi Guys - I recently updated my iPhone iOS and discovered that javascript in Safari was disabled by default. This is a huge issue for tons of websites. If you browse CA and notice the menu in the upper right (on mobile only) doesn't work, you should check this setting. javascript is required for CA and many sites to function.

 

I also just tried using Safari a but more after using Chrome exclusively for years. I may be switching back.

 

I use Safari 95% of the time and CA displays ok and JavaScript is set to Off. Bith work phone and personal iPhones are latest revisions unless there’s a new edition out last 24 hours?

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26 minutes ago, The Computer Audiophile said:

It would work like this:

 

OP of a thread PMs me asking for moderator capability of his thread. 

 

I enable it for that single thread thread for the OP. 

 

The OP can then edit and remove posts as he sees fit. 

 

Certainly some pros and cons with this. 

I see more pro than con and vote Yay. The ability to classify a post as OT has some merit and the OP can steer the topic back to discussion. 

 

Editing posts, not in favour since classically a post can be discussed with quote and make an amendment to what the intent could be . Deleting posts with a placeholder as to who deleted would prevent a witch hunt. The quoted post of a deleted item can remain.

 

The locking of the thread would remain with the founder.

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I thought as part of subscribing there be no ads... so why does Adblocker report 63 blocks on this page at CA?