Site Issues, Updates, Changes, and Feedback Thread

[EdmontonCanuck]

12 hours ago, austinpop said:

Chris, 

 

Is it me, or does the site now have a brighter white background than before? Yeah I know, that's a nonsensical statement, but I do find the background fatiguing after a while. 

 

Did the old version have a hint of grey, or some delineation between elements? 

 

Maybe I'm imagining it...

 

Using the built-in Digital Color Meter app on my Mac laptop, I pulled up a Google cached copy of a forum posting before the site change and compared it with the current site design. Both show a background RGB color of hex(255,255,255), which is pure white in both instances.

[PeterSt]

35 minutes ago, EdmontonCanuck said:

Both show a background RGB color of hex(255,255,255), which is pure white in both instances.

 

Then the black of the text maybe went more black ?

 

Btw, what possibly could be fooling is that previously (and IIRC) the topic listing of a board (like "General Forum") were white/less white/white/less white - etc. Now they are all as white. But do notice that one could only see this from a wide angle (like aside from the monitor). This one by one a slightly different color has now vanished.

 

Here is another example:

 

If you look dead-straight to this, you may perceive a color difference under the shade-lines, but it is very hard to really see (the shadow line seems to fool you). Now look from aside until you see that the middle part of that screenshot is quite yellow-ish indeed.

These small nuance-differences could be tiring when not there.

 

 

PS: Yeah, Chris, I know, I know. I am working on it ... (haha)

 

 

 

 

 

 

[PeterSt]

PPS: There's a difference in the white space between the posts compared with the posts too :

 

 

So Ed, I can imagine that a lot of posts exist to point that color analyzer at.

[Summit]

On 9/26/2020 at 5:05 AM, austinpop said:

Chris, 

 

Is it me, or does the site now have a brighter white background than before? Yeah I know, that's a nonsensical statement, but I do find the background fatiguing after a while. 

 

Did the old version have a hint of grey, or some delineation between elements? 

 

Maybe I'm imagining it...

 

It’s much brighter, which I reported here:

If you wonder my report was ignored.

[kennyb123]

9 hours ago, Summit said:

 

It’s much brighter, which I reported here:

 

 

But it's not according to the Mac's Digital Color Meter.  I think it might be the bold black text that's used for our usernames that might be causing the fatigue. The contrast is a bit much relative to the white.  

[The Computer Audiophile]

On 9/18/2020 at 6:06 AM, R1200CL said:

Hi Chris

 

Can this be done ?

(Not mandatory)

 

 

It's now possible!

 

I have my country flag showing, but it's not required. 

 

The settings are located here - https://audiophilestyle.com/settings/country/

 

For now it's just showing in the forum and on the user profile pages. 

[kumakuma]

2 hours ago, The Computer Audiophile said:

It's now possible!

 

I have my country flag showing, but it's not required. 

 

The settings are located here - https://audiophilestyle.com/settings/country/

 

For now it's just showing in the forum and on the user profile pages. 

 

Thanks, Chris. 

[Superdad]

1 hour ago, kumakuma said:

Thanks, Chris. 

Are you asking us to believe you live in Antarctica? 

[rando]

Man ia i pem evri samting

 

@The Computer Audiophile We appear to have lost our button for returning to top of page.  

[The Computer Audiophile]

19 minutes ago, rando said:

Man ia i pem evri samting

 

@The Computer Audiophile We appear to have lost our button for returning to top of page.  

This one?

 

Mobile or desktop?

 

 

[rando]

Weird, it wasn't there and when I restarted the laptop it reappeared.  

[fas42]

Noting something else in Polestar ... perhaps because I tried to do a sort by Highest Rated, of DACs, the page 1 button didn't work - so, if I was on page 3, and clicked for page 1,  it would refresh- but I still was on page 3 ...

[kumakuma]

42 minutes ago, Superdad said:

Are you asking us to believe you live in Antarctica? 

 

Yes and I'll be placing an order soon for some of your fine products.

[The Computer Audiophile]

5 minutes ago, fas42 said:

Noting something else in Polestar ... perhaps because I tried to do a sort by Highest Rated, of DACs, the page 1 button didn't work - so, if I was on page 3, and clicked for page 1,  it would refresh- but I still was on page 3 ...

Works on mobile. I’ll check desktop later. 

[992Sam]

Is there a way to setup a "dark mode" on this forum?  vs the white background?  I've seen it before on other similar looking forums.

[The Computer Audiophile]

40 minutes ago, 992Sam said:

Is there a way to setup a "dark mode" on this forum?  vs the white background?  I've seen it before on other similar looking forums.

Not currently. We could do it, but so far there hasn’t been many request given the amount of work. 

[992Sam]

On 10/5/2020 at 2:47 PM, The Computer Audiophile said:

Not currently. We could do it, but so far there hasn’t been many request given the amount of work. 

 

your site appears to be the same brand/UI as the one dCS uses, or is it just similar?   PS Audio also uses a similar UI..

 

Dark mode is becoming a must have on almost all UI's now.. even Facebook has gone that way... and I told Qobuz that it would be nice to add, and they said it's a priority for their next major update..

 

Hopefully more on here will ask for it...  because late night laptop and white screen isn't any good... 

[The Computer Audiophile]

27 minutes ago, 992Sam said:

 

your site appears to be the same brand/UI as the one dCS uses, or is it just similar?   PS Audio also uses a similar UI..

 

Dark mode is becoming a must have on almost all UI's now.. even Facebook has gone that way... and I told Qobuz that it would be nice to add, and they said it's a priority for their next major update..

 

Hopefully more on here will ask for it...  because late night laptop and white screen isn't any good... 

I certainly hear you. There is so much more that goes into a site like this behind the scenes, than a manufacturer’s site that I don’t expect people to know. To create a dark mode is one thing and to support a bunch more code is another. 
 

As an example, we have one theme available to members of this community and an additional theme available to subscribers of AS. They share the same code base but have tons of different customizations. Every update behind the scenes requires combing through the code on both themes and testing it prior to and subsequent to the update. Dark mode is essentially another theme and would be increased code. 
 

I’m totally in favor of a dark mode. People love it. It’s good business to make the community happy and it would feel good personally to help the members of this community who are so vital to this site’s continued success. 

 

If we had the resources of Facebook, we’d have dark mode today. 
 

 

[992Sam]

3 minutes ago, The Computer Audiophile said:

 

As an example, we have one theme available to members of this community and an additional theme available to subscribers of AS.  

 

 

 

How do I access the theme?  I am a subscriber and I didn't see this feature..  

 

But thanks either way for a great resource...  It's been a valuable resource for me to make the leap into the digital music world. 

[The Computer Audiophile]

3 minutes ago, 992Sam said:

How do I access the theme?  I am a subscriber and I didn't see this feature..  

 

You're already using it :~)

 

At the bottom of the site is a theme switching function for subscribers. You're using the Premium 2020 theme. I should also note that this theme can only be made available to subscribers because it strips out all the advertising code and all the code required for the framework of advertising such as sidebars, etc... It isn't something that I withhold from non-subscribers just because they don't pay. 

 

 

 

3 minutes ago, 992Sam said:

But thanks either way for a great resource...  It's been a valuable resource for me to make the leap into the digital music world. 

 

Thanks for the kind words. This is a super smart community. I usually find that when people can't find answers, it's because they either don't ask the right questions or don't keep asking follow up questions. There is always someone around here that's smarter, especially smarter than me. 

[The Computer Audiophile]

2 hours ago, 992Sam said:

Dark mode is becoming a must have on almost all UI's now.

Try switching to the Premium 2020 Dark theme at the bottom. Shhhhhh, don't tell anyone :~)

 

P.S. It's beta, so expect issues. 

[992Sam]

1 minute ago, The Computer Audiophile said:

Try switching to the Premium 2020 Dark theme at the bottom. Shhhhhh, don't tell anyone :~)

 

P.S. It's beta, so expect issues. 

 

wow, that was quick!  I'd say it's pretty darn close for 60 minutes work 😂..

 

But I can seriously say... way way more "night time" eye friendly!   Thanks man! 

[The Computer Audiophile]

Just now, 992Sam said:

 

wow, that was quick!  I'd say it's pretty darn close for 60 minutes work 😂..

 

But I can seriously say... way way more "night time" eye friendly!   Thanks man! 

It's amazing what you can get done with a laptop battery running down and no power cord in sight. Maybe I need to give myself more deadlines :~)

 

Let me know how it works and what needs changing. 

[992Sam]

Just now, The Computer Audiophile said:

It's amazing what you can get done with a laptop battery running down and no power cord in sight. Maybe I need to give myself more deadlines :~)

 

Let me know how it works and what needs changing. 

 

so far so good...all I would suggest is replacing the color that's white up there with something darker?  (if that's even possible to do), otherwise perfect. 

[The Computer Audiophile]

9 minutes ago, 992Sam said:

 

so far so good...all I would suggest is replacing the color that's white up there with something darker?  (if that's even possible to do), otherwise perfect. 

 

 

OK, just updated that but it may be a can of worms in that the color may show up in some other places unintentionally. Let me know how it goes. 

 

P.S. I already see it's appearing in this box as I type.