J D 8 Posted February 11, 2021 Share Posted February 11, 2021 Thanks to Piers and John I sorted my avatar. Have loaded some pics into my profile about me section but can not put any printed info in, help please. Agree there is to much white space on the pages. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phil McCavity Posted February 11, 2021 Author Share Posted February 11, 2021 45 minutes ago, Dwain Dibley. said: Ron, at the top of the latest/unread stream, click on content types and choose topics, then save. You won't see anything but topic updates from then on. D.D. That stops you seeing what everybody else is doing but doesn't stop everybody else from seeing what you're doing, if your not a forum member or don't sign in you can see all the activity on the forum. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
J D 8 Posted February 11, 2021 Share Posted February 11, 2021 10 minutes ago, i12fly said: Don't like the grey text, very wearing after spending a couple of hours. Can we have black text in the posts please. My tired eyes can't cope with grey..... Agree 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Martin Harris - Moderator Posted February 11, 2021 Share Posted February 11, 2021 We've asked the question but I think it may be something of an optical illusion - zooming in or making the text bold, it seems to be black to me - although I've heard somewhere that there are 50 shades of grey. Other sites on the same template seem very similar so it's either a default option or not changeable. Let's hope there are higher contrast options - maybe with the average age of this forum (ahem) this is more of a concern to us than some sites aimed at the digital generation! One thing that might help in Windows is to change your text size to 125% (Start/Settings/System/Display) You can also try custom text sizes up to 500% but I suspect this could be overkill! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve Colman Posted February 12, 2021 Share Posted February 12, 2021 I would like to know how to edit my posts if I have to. It seems that this option is now absent. Anyone else have a view about this? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EarlyBird Posted February 12, 2021 Share Posted February 12, 2021 There are three dots on the top right, click on that and the bottom option is edit. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ron Gray Posted February 12, 2021 Share Posted February 12, 2021 9 hours ago, Dwain Dibley. said: Ron, at the top of the latest/unread stream, click on content types and choose topics, then save. You won't see anything but topic updates from then on. D.D. Thank DD, I’ve already done that but my point is that the default site setting is to show it whereas I don’t think it should be available at all as it’s more of a private thing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ron Gray Posted February 12, 2021 Share Posted February 12, 2021 Can we switch off the ‘Top posters’ box that appears top right of threads as it takes up 1/3rd of the screen and means that thread posts take up more vertical space which means a lot more scrolling. This is when viewing on my iPad. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve Colman Posted February 12, 2021 Share Posted February 12, 2021 56 minutes ago, EarlyBird said: There are three dots on the top right, click on that and the bottom option is edit. I only have "Report" and "Share" options. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GrumpyGnome Posted February 12, 2021 Share Posted February 12, 2021 Steve, I think the Edit option is only available for 10(?) minutes after the post is added... GG Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EarlyBird Posted February 12, 2021 Share Posted February 12, 2021 You have to be quick. Could only be there for two minutes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve Colman Posted February 12, 2021 Share Posted February 12, 2021 Just now, GrumpyGnome said: Steve, I think the Edit option is only available for 10(?) minutes after the post is added... GG Thanks GG Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dwain Dibley. Posted February 12, 2021 Share Posted February 12, 2021 1 hour ago, Ron Gray said: Thank DD, I’ve already done that but my point is that the default site setting is to show it whereas I don’t think it should be available at all as it’s more of a private thing. Fair play Ron. When not logged in all posts/activities are seen. D.D. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Simon Feather Posted February 12, 2021 Share Posted February 12, 2021 I've posted this in another thread too, so hopefully site admins will see at least one: but my number one gripe is that reading the grey text on white is really hard work. Just typing this is making my eyes hurt. Mid grey on white is very hard to read and very tiring. In my other thread I also mentioned the large amount of whitespace, meaning that there is a huge amount of scrolling around. Please can we reduce it. The Mobile view is much better in both the use of space and the font colour. I have a reasonabnly large screen but can only see two replies plus this text that I'm posting. The screen furniture and the advert at the top of the page take up so much space that only one useful bit of content (the first post in the topic) can be seen without scrolling. There are undoubtedly many new and useful features here, and I wholeheartedly support the upgrade, but please take consideration of legibility especially given your main demographic! thanks for the hard work Simon Feather 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alan p Posted February 12, 2021 Share Posted February 12, 2021 Hi Simon I found the amount of white space tedious but hit the "condensed" button top right to reduce to one line description of post and it dramatically reduces it . Similar to the old site layout. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ace Posted February 12, 2021 Share Posted February 12, 2021 Alan P, true the front page is but not the displayed posts - WAY to much wasted space and every picture is huge. Surly there must be a way of eradicating the wasted space - must be hell on a phone or touchpad pc. Report card - Yes some good bits but my scroll finger has cramp :-( Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Martin McIntosh Posted February 12, 2021 Share Posted February 12, 2021 OK thanks Pete. I did try that before but obviously not hard enough. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tosh McCaber Posted February 12, 2021 Share Posted February 12, 2021 (edited) Well done guys- this must have been a real challenging task. I've had many problems resolved on site over the years. A couple of (hopefully) objective comments: Whilst the old site had its faults, the new site is a lot more complex than the old. No doubt, we'll (have to!) get used to it! Secondly, the site now seems extremely spread out vertically. It takes a huge amount of scrolling to go down from one topic to the next. (Compared with, dare I say, the RC Groups Forum). Is this able to be tweaked? If possible? Edited February 12, 2021 by Tosh McCaber Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Martin Harris - Moderator Posted February 12, 2021 Share Posted February 12, 2021 Are you using the condensed option for the lists Tosh? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
J D 8 Posted February 12, 2021 Share Posted February 12, 2021 15 hours ago, J D 8 said: Thanks to Piers and John I sorted my avatar. Have loaded some pics into my profile about me section but can not put any printed info in, help please. Agree there is to much white space on the pages. I have now managed to place some text in my profile about me section.? I tried to condense the pages with the top right button but this makes the text to small. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
J D 8 Posted February 12, 2021 Share Posted February 12, 2021 Ha, now found condense button on the page [ not the laptop one] but can not see a difference. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
leccyflyer Posted February 12, 2021 Share Posted February 12, 2021 What is the rationale for there being a daily limit on the number of posts that you are able to react to - putting a Like or a Thanks? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris Bott - Moderator Posted February 12, 2021 Share Posted February 12, 2021 leccyflier that limit appears to be a default, like most of our existing settings. We've asked for it to be increased or removed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
leccyflyer Posted February 12, 2021 Share Posted February 12, 2021 Thanks Chris - can't leave a thanks via the button. ? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Simon Feather Posted February 12, 2021 Share Posted February 12, 2021 Another slight niggle I'm afraid. I spotted this in some other people's posts, and initially assumed it was was because local browsers were set in US locale, since this can sometimes be the case depending on how the site serves country-specific data, but I've now checked in my own browser (Chrome) which I know is set to UK locale. If you quote someone else's post from "yesterday" or earlier, the quote comes in with the date in US format e.g. yesterday is 2/12/21 e.g. quoting from a post from yesterday I get: On 2/11/2021 at 3:55 PM, Phil McCavity said: You've already done it with your avatar Jon, it's as simple as that. (with apologies - or thanks - to Phil; it was just a quote picked at random) So it seems like the site is set to US format for dates. Admins - could we get that added to the snagging list and looked at please? Thanks! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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