Forum Sftw Update!

[Christopher Sanderson]

FYI

The forum's software will undergo a major update tonight and may be briefly offline.

From readers' POV not a lot will change: some minor cosmetics; Tapatalk _should_ now work properly again. The rest is admin-related.

Please post any weirdnesses here

Chris

[Rob C]

FYI

The forum's software will undergo a major update tonight and may be briefly offline.

From readers' POV not a lot will change: some minor cosmetics; Tapatalk _should_ now work properly again. The rest is admin-related.

Please post any weirdnesses here

Chris

Good luck!

Rob

[Kevin Raber]

The update has been completed.  Please let us know if there are any issues you might experience.

Tapatalk should be working again.

Kevin Raber

[AreBee]

Kevin,

Please let us know if there are any issues you might experience.

The box that surrounds quoted text is not visible.

[Christopher Sanderson]

Kevin,

The box that surrounds quoted text is not visible.

Thanks!

That's being worked on

Chris

[Slobodan Blagojevic]

How my iPad Air 2 renders a forum thread:

[Slobodan Blagojevic]

Clicking on an image now downloads it!!!???

[Slobodan Blagojevic]

On my desktop, Safari, the quick reply box extends way beyond the screen:

[Kevin Raber]

Thanks.... we will work on those reported issues.

[Slobodan Blagojevic]

The way quotes are displayed is now distracting:

- too much space before and after the quoted text
- white background (against the backdrop of a light gray for the actual reply)

Both of which give more prominence to the quoted text than to the reply.

[Slobodan Blagojevic]

This is what my screen looks like on a desktop Safari when composing a reply:

[Eric Myrvaagnes]

Gray on Gray text in quote boxes!

I suspect most LuLa readers are old enough to have less than perfect vision :-)

http://webaim.org/resources/contrastchecker/

Isaac describes me perfectly. I find the gray on gray extremely difficult to read.

[Jacob Wise]

The font color has been updated to be much darker now, try refreshing your browser.

[Slobodan Blagojevic]

Now nothing distinguishes a quote from a reply, apart from an indent!?

[Eric Myrvaagnes]

Now nothing distinguishes a quote from a reply, apart from an indent!?

That's better than the immediate previous version, but a box or something around the quote would be nice. Or even
[ q u o t e ] and [ / q u o t e ] surrounding the quoted text.

Slobodan: Have you tried a different browser on your desktop? I generally keep four browsers on mine (not including Safari), and one of them usually works on recalcitrant websites.

[fredjeang2]

Administrators don't have profile pics anymore
Time for Chris to go to the hairdresser and come back with a Brand new punk cut.

[Slobodan Blagojevic]

That's better than the immediate previous version...

Better!? No. As atrocious as the gray on gray was, it was still much better than this indistinguishable one. But why being forced to choose the less of two evils when there was nothing wrong with the original quoting mode?

Slobodan: Have you tried a different browser on your desktop?...

I have Chrome, no difference. Besides, there was nothing wrong with the forum software from a user perspective, thus all these changes for the worse are really puzzling. Don't fix it if it ain't broken, bro!

[Schewe]

Now nothing distinguishes a quote from a reply, apart from an indent!?

You can always add a glow effect :~)

[Eric Myrvaagnes]

You can always add a glow effect :~)

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Or do other weird things...

But I agree with Slobodan that the old system (before the recent changes) was quite usable, and this new one still isn't.

[Schewe]

Or do other weird things...
But I agree with Slobodan that the old system (before the recent changes) was quite usable, and this new one still isn't.

I don't disagree...