Site Issues, Updates, Changes, and Feedback Thread

[The Computer Audiophile]

2 minutes ago, PeterSt said:

Chris,

I think someone else tried to point out the same as I am going to show you now. Look :

First shot is from a certain width of my Chrome browser; Second shot is from the same browser but the right hand border was dragged a few mm to THE RIGHT. Thus, the internal browser's width scaling messes up.

Hope this is helpful.

Maybe you need to close your browser or something. My view is much larger than yours. I said my "view" Peter.

[The Computer Audiophile]

3 minutes ago, PeterSt said:

I am sorry, but what do you mean with "my view" (in bold) ? (English again ).

Anyway, I stopped and restarted the browser and see no difference. Here's the maximum width I can drag regarding monitor (width of 1650). After some threshold only white adds.

Btw have no real issues with most of the things I mention so I am only trying to help a little.

Your help is appreciated.

 

See these two screenshots. Yours has my words on two lines, whereas mine shows my words on a single line. It's like your browser isn't seeing the 20% width adjustment I made last night.

 

[The Computer Audiophile]

1 minute ago, Jud said:

Or a thread to offer users various customizations for the site pages they can apply themselves with CSS (cascading style sheets), as mansr was talking about.

This would be fabulous.

A second theme = twice as much work to maintain. I'm not opposed to it, but custom CSS could solve the issue. 

[The Computer Audiophile]

7 minutes ago, PeterSt said:

OK, Now I am going to act smarter than I am :

What I see happening is not any dedicated Phone or Tablet or Desktop CSS etc. What I do see though is that all is just related to the width of the "monitor". Here's the phone view, but just from the desktop's screen :

What if this is about thresholds and when a certain width (for upper boundaries) is not supported in the CSS etc. it falls back to the smaller (default witdh). Think Case - Else.

 

I just set my monitor to its native 5120x2880, and resized the screen from smallest to largest and everything in between, and don't see the issue. 

The new site goes by viewport size - http://viewportsizes.com/mine/

[The Computer Audiophile]

@PeterSt @Jud Yes, when the viewport size changes, so does the layout. most people stick with a fairly similar viewport size while browsing. 

Can you condense the issue into a couple sentences? I'm working on a few things right now, to get Google to like us again, and my head is spinning.

[The Computer Audiophile]

21 minutes ago, daverich4 said:

This does not work on an iPad/iPhone which means it's no longer possible to participate in a really active thread such as this one on a mobile device without spending a lot of time trying to figure out where I left off. Also, on my iPad Air2 the page is larger than the screen which means that when I scroll, the page moves left and right in the window as well as up and down depending on how straight I scroll.

Please pinch the entire screen and it will resize to your iPad so you don't have to see the right-left issue.

[The Computer Audiophile]

1 hour ago, sdolezalek said:

For some reason the "white space" issue on my screen seems even more severe than most (particularly as I'm not seeing the ads):

This is on a 27 inch monitor with 2560x1440 resolution (I figured if I was going to get an expensive CUDA card for HQPlayer, I might as well also get the graphical benefits with the audio ones.

Surely it would be ridiculous to widen the screen so much that an entire paragraph can be seen on a single line. Yes that's all the way on the continuum from wide to skinny. Also ridiculous is a thin design that is so thin as to have one word per line. 

We must find a happy medium. Can you find a site that works perfectly for you and post a link?

[The Computer Audiophile]

49 minutes ago, Jud said:

Narrow your window gradually until your text lines lengthen (really).

It's part of the responsive design. it assumes you are on a mobile or tablet when you resize to such a narrow window. Then it removes some content and places banners below. 

[The Computer Audiophile]

1 minute ago, Jud said:

Chris: It's being caused by ad positioning, for paid members who don't see ads.  When the viewport is wide enough that ads can be positioned on the right, even the paid members' text shortens.

Is there a way to have the ads "shown" for paid members at the bottom to allow maximum text width?

Hi Jud - I originally had this exact design. But, as I posted to jhwalker, there is a screen reflow annoyance that happens. 

How about this, I'll re-enable this aspect and you guys can help me with feedback?

[The Computer Audiophile]

1 minute ago, Jud said:

You really want *more* feedback from a thousand amateur web page designers? 

Ha!

I just enabled this. You may need to refresh your browser to take advantage of the size.

Notice the reflow issue.

[The Computer Audiophile]

1 minute ago, Jud said:

The reflow is pretty much unnoticeable here for me, as (1) I'm on a fast connection, and (2) It happens at the same time as I'm being taken to my previous position in a thread, so I perceive both as part of the same thing.  No annoyance so far.  I'll retest at home.

Ok, good. 

There's one more smaller issue. The top two articles on the home page have the number of comments cut off unless a page resize is manually done by the user. Not the end of the world though.

What do you think of the size without the sidebar to the right? Is this what you had in mind?

[The Computer Audiophile]

Just now, PeterSt said:

Is that side bar supposed to be gone now ? I still see it.

We must be talking about different things.

Home page and articles ? ... how are they related ? OK, I am thick.

I removed what's called the sidebar for user who've purchase a CA All Access Pass. 

screen reflow effects all pages, including home page.

[The Computer Audiophile]

5 minutes ago, SWL3600 said:

Any idea when CA will be back on Tapatalk?

Not any time soon.

[The Computer Audiophile]

4 minutes ago, austinpop said:

Chris, here's another question - may be an issue if it's not user error.So when a topic is all caught up, there is no button to go to the first unread article. So, for example here, the * is grey. not green:

In the previous site, just clicking on the topic used to take you to the first unread. In the new site, there is this option when you create an activity stream:

But what is needed is an option (should really be a site-wide default, IMO) that when clicking on a topic, it takes you to the last post, not the first. Oh - and also - this is necessary for mobile and tablet, since they don't seem to see the unread button/star, if I remember correctly.

Your thoughts?

Try the new test activity stream. Does this work how you want?

https://www.computeraudiophile.com/discover/59/

[The Computer Audiophile]

Just now, austinpop said:

No. The failing case, is a thread - sorry, topic - on which I'm all caught up. In that case, there's nothing unread, so there is no icon or setting to say "take me to the last post". In your test stream, I filtered further to content I follow, and clicked on the title of a topic that had no unread content. It took me to the first post, not the last.

Click on the time such as "2 minutes ago" and it should take you there. Correct?

[The Computer Audiophile]

One other cool item for the Buy / Sell forum is that those who have sold something can now mark it as SOLD by using tags. This tag will appear in the forum list so people don't have to even go into the thread to see it has sold.

[The Computer Audiophile]

1 minute ago, Abtr said:

Well, it all looks much better now than it did 2 days ago. Yet, I would prefer even more horizontal and vertical space for content/posts. This can be easily achieved with a slightly smaller font and/or a smaller line spacing. Also, some chunky black menu bars can be much smaller and this ugly top menu bar shouldn't be continuously visible, wasting vertical space. And please get rid of the black & white theme. Nothing wrong with blue or even purple shades, anything but black and white.. Thanks.

Thanks for the feedback. At least now someone argued for a smaller font, rather than the others arguing for a larger font :~)

[The Computer Audiophile]

10 hours ago, accwai said:

Two quick questions:

• How does one insert a video?
• Is there a way to turn off WYSIWYG and edit the BBCode directly?

Thanks!

The only way for me to show  the source for people to edit the code directly is to enable posting of HTML. No forum on Earth allows that any more. Bummer. 

[The Computer Audiophile]

3 hours ago, mansr said:

What he said.

How about now?

 

[The Computer Audiophile]

1 minute ago, jhwalker said:

 

Nice!

 

Appreciate the change  and the other changes today - esp. the dynamic resizing of content for those of us on the ad-free model.  Very nice to have the screen filled, and still works very well on iPhone / iPad, as well.

 

Really coming along, Chris.

 

Thanks for the gentle nudges to adjust things a bit. 

[The Computer Audiophile]

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

[The Computer Audiophile]

32 minutes ago, bunno77 said:

Any update on Tapatalk support? 

The new CA website looks exactly the same as stereonet which also works with Tapatalk. 

I am missing CA a lot but personally I don't want to open a browser so often. Tapatalk is  great. 

 

Not at this time. 

[The Computer Audiophile]

21 minutes ago, Theobetley said:

I am sure I missed it but where can I search a thread?

 

The search box at the top is contextual and can be changed with a couple clicks. Try that and let me know if it's what you want.

[The Computer Audiophile]

6 hours ago, One and a half said:

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?

 

Looking into it.

[The Computer Audiophile]

16 minutes ago, mansr said:

@The Computer Audiophile The background colour of mentions is a bit dark IMO. A paler blue such as #a8c8f8 looks nicer to me.

 

Agree. I've made a small adjustment.