Grant

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1 hour ago, JOC said:

It's been mentioned above, but could we please have the edit button back at the bottom of the posting?  I use the edit button a lot and its a PITN to have to click the three dots to find it. 

FWIW I'm also not keen on the list of stats that have started to appear at the bottom of the screen when I visit a new thread - is there any way of turning that off at a user level please?  Please also the same request for the facebook, twitter, youtube icons that have appeared in the top menu none of which I would ever use.  Perhaps we could have a new view and a legacy view option that users could select as tbh. I much preferred things before the changes when I fancy you could fit more on the screen.

The edit options are still there - click on the three dots on the right hand side of the post.

The activity streams should be OK now with duplications.

7 minutes ago, JeremyS said:

Understood, Grant, but the font for the titles has gone back to being too small on my iPhone, when you look at the expanded or compressed list of titles. The slider option on iPhone only has “larger font-size for posts?”. I have activated that, when indeed makes the font within a post larger, but has no effect on the font.

As somebody else pointed out, the title of a new thread has a larger font than an older thread. The larger font size in the former is just perfect for me. Can you make them all like that?

I've sorted this so they are consistent.

I can't win on font sizes - the settings I have affect too many different things so changing one variable affects multiple areas so some look OK, others don't -  I can't go through every bit of the theme and edit each one manually (well I can, but I'm not going to!). 

I have tried to find a balance now across most things and 15px font size seems reasonable on my desktop and should be OK for most people.

If you want it bigger, you can opt for a larger font in the theme settings, click on this button top right on a desktop:

And then use the larger fonts for posts tick box:

Despite what I said - some things were looking rather large so I have tweaked a little more, hopefully it's a bit more consistent now but if there is anything else people notice, please report but please post a screenshot so I know exactly which bit you mean.

To fix the activity stream issues I'm having to rebuild the search index which is going to take a few hours, in the meantime the streams will not function properly at all.

Just now, globular said:

Not just you James... I reported this earlier in the thread too.

@Grant can you do anything?  Or do you consider it ok as is?

I’m not making any more changes unless something is obviously massively wrong - I will review all feedback in a week when things have settled down and will make any tweaks  but otherwise I’m going to be caught in a loop of making stuff bigger and smaller to suit individuals which isn’t fun 🙂

The ‘unread topics’ stream no longer works as it did before - this isn’t a standard activity stream so I don’t know yet it it’s a bug or a change in functionality so it no longer works in the same way.

10 minutes ago, happy-kat said:

Thank you for doing the update would it be possible please in the thread text to increase the font contrast in the simple theme, I'm finding the text lighter and less easy to read, it is also this lighter colour when typing a reply. Example capture below.

 

Same lighter text is also on the unread view though the thread title is clear and black font.

The new posts since last visit is showing some threads multiple times, rather than I think the most recent update instance only.

 

 

Sorry - the default simple theme is not something we support, it’s there as the built-in theme that comes with the forum and enabled for people who prefer a white background but it’s not something we customise in any way - only the SGL default theme with a dark background is something we modify.

4 minutes ago, Second Time Around said:

I've never liked changes to other forums in the past but I do with the new SGL!  I especially like the buttons on the bottom.

Thanks for a great job and all the hard work.

I've got just one request.  On my mobile I all too often hit the sign out button rather than the mark all read as they're close together on a small screen.  Is there any way they can be moved apart?  Alternatively, can there be an "are you sure you want to sign out?" option added as with mark all read?

Many thanks.

I've added a gap - does that work better?

8 minutes ago, JeremyS said:

The font in expanded mode is now much better, but still too small on condensed mode. 

Should be better now.

6 minutes ago, Paul M said:

I'm now getting a panel on the right side of the screen while reading a thread with statistics and recent posts etc. Once that's been scrolled passed the page remains the same width - about 3/4 full width of of the screen. So the thread view is narrow. 

Is there a setting to disable that side pane? I can't find one!

I've changed this so it will appear under the first post of the topic - it's a new feature that gets added to 'busy' topics to help people get a feel for what's happening in the topic - let's see how it goes..

4 minutes ago, JeremyS said:

Also, the font used in the title of a post is smaller when viewing in condensed mode than in expanded mode (when looking at the list of forum posts)

I've tweaked a little more but it's on the cusp of getting too big now - what do people think (I know, I'm asking for trouble!)?

I've tweaked the fonts a tiny bit to make them a little larger, similar to how we had them before - this is always a tricky balance but the new theme has a 'Customiser' built in top right - little switch in the navigation bar - in there you can choose some personalised settings for the theme including forcing it to use a larger font size if you prefer that.

6 minutes ago, malc-c said:

missing edit button - and no option to insert an image into the main body of a post

 

Ignore me - just found the edit option on the right from the three dots  !!!!

 

Was just checking that - glad it's still working OK 🙂

Sorry some more notifications for FLO clearance stuff might've popped out but, these are now stopped and no more should go - seems to be a bug with the way RSS feeds are imported into the forum and the FLO clearance bit is the only place we use that.

Took drastic action and deleted all the old FLO offer posts - not quite sure why these notifications were getting re-triggered but this seemed the best way to stop it!

Fixed the pagination box colour issue.

I'm also getting a few rogue notifications come through for old posts - I think this may be something odd with the search indexer on some old posts, I'm investigating but not sure if it's possible to stop this - it might be a case of once it's updated, this will all be sorted but you might get some old notifications come through in the mean time.

13 minutes ago, vlaiv said:

Is it just me?

Page indicator displays very bright square instead of current page ...

Sorry if this should have been posted in that special section of the SGL instead of here.

Looking at this

Need to tweak the FLO logo size on the mobile view - it isn't intentionally that big I promise!

And we are back 🙂

This upgrade has introduced quite a few new features / updates which has required a significant theme update as well, whilst the theme should feel very familiar, there may be slight tweaks etc.. required or bugs - please report anything in the Bugs / Suggestions forum:

https://stargazerslounge.com/forum/50-forum-suggestions-bugs-errors-and-foibles/

SGL will be unavailable from 9pm tonight for several hours whilst we perform important software upgrades and maintenance.

The site will be unavailable during this time.

We hope to be back up within a few hours but it could take longer.

Many thanks for joining us @George Jones for a super talk!

Recording for those who missed it below: