OT - POLL: It's been a couple of weeks, how are things?

[Ian]

I haven't used it much yet but I didn't realize it was a thing so yes definitely I haven't liked having to go into a thread to ignore it. I often ignore after getting sick of reading it for the 10th time (after remembering it's degenerated into Hatfield and McCoy bickering about some random irrelevant thing -- so a useful way to just Nope out of it).

One reason I haven't used it is because it appears greyed out for me so I wasn't sure if that meant it was nonfunctional or something. But it seems when I hover it on desktop it becomes non greyed out. But on mobile, hovering isn't really a thing so it's not super helpful. Greyed out usually indicates option not available, so I'm not a huge fan of that design. But I can get used to it.

Thanks for all you do to continually improve the site!

That one was tricky. I ended up graying it out just because the goal was also not to encourage people to ignore more threads. It was just meant to just make it more convenient, and it took me a while, design-wise, to figure out where it was going to go. I thought about doing three dots and having it in a dropdown, but I also didn't want to add additional steps for people. I wanted it to be one { click } and fade out, kind of like the mute function. But that's a good call on the fact that being grayed out normally means unavailable. I added the hover effect to try and get around it but as you said, mobile doesn't reflect that as well. I also tried gray (not grayed out), but it still didn't look right, especially on the darker background.

With it not grayed out, it also stood out a lot more and made that block look a lot busier, especially on mobile (and I still need to adjust those for that). But I still wanted it to be there for anyone who wanted it, while not drawing a ton of attention to it day-to-day.

I also liked the way Invision handled that block (the number of posts/views) compared to Xenforo, and wanted to dress it up a little more compared to how it looked previously. At least it looks a little more modern now. It was definitely a little challenging, and I'm sure this will probably continue to evolve a little bit as it always tends to.

 

[Ian]

The dark mode makes this a winner for me, even though I'm having to deal with seeing Jetes to my right when using macOS.

LOL, @Ross12 mentioned that as well. That scoreboard photo will change, and I'll definitely keep that in mind when I do the next one.

 

[Ross12]

LOL, @Ross12 mentioned that as well. That scoreboard photo will change, and I'll definitely keep that in mind when I do the next one.

I never realized it was a Mac issue lol, I guess we are in the minority

 

[Ian]

I never realized it was a Mac issue lol, I guess we are in the minority

It's an Apple issue - because both my iPhone and iPad also do it. My son has a Mac laptop as well, but he's away at college (he went back to school and is going for another degree), so I can't look at it.

It's weird, and I've tried a bunch of different solutions, but none of them seem to touch it. Seems to be the one thing out of everything CSS-wise that they handle a little differently.

 

[Pape]

LOL, @Ross12 mentioned that as well. That scoreboard photo will change, and I'll definitely keep that in mind when I do the next one.

If i may make a suggestion...

 

[Huckleberry1]

It's obviously been a few weeks, so I wanted to start a thread just to see how people like the updated forum styling. As I said, I had another one in mind that would have been significantly different, but I scrapped that for the sake of trying to eliminate any real learning curve based on some other feedback. I also know a lot of people access this place from their phones, so I also didn't really want to mess with that, either.

The change by the software that added in the ability to toggle between two styles was helpful, given that it also kept a lighter style that was comparable to the previous one. It allowed for at least offering something different while keeping things similar.

It's also certainly nice to be on the latest version, as any patches or changes on this version allow future updates to be much easier. I was probably six months behind the updates due to the custom changes I had in place, which weren't compatible with this new version. Fortunately, we're now past that. Still have some work to do, but most of the hard stuff is at least done.

One other note that I wanted to mention as well is the fact that Direct Messages are searchable with this latest update. That was a big frustration of mine, and I was glad to see the people at Xenforo finally addressed that after feedback from others in their forum.

The contests will be getting some attention this offseason, with the Sportsbook getting an upgrade I mentioned at the end of the year, with people being able to select/create your own parlays, along with the predictions contest being redone. I didn't really run that last year, so we'll have that to go along with the others.

For now, I think I hit on everything from the previous thread forum-wise (which is now in the Help Forum). It took a bit due to my crazy work schedule to get done, but I feel like we're at least in a relatively good place. But I'd love to hear if anyone has run into anything or if there are any issues anyone is dealing with.

Well, since you ask. Huckleberry continues to hang in there, defying all the odds. My workouts are going great, I should be ready for the combine next year. But my Volvo has electrical issues, and they are expensive as **** to have fixed. Oh, yeah, and Hannafords keeps running out of the togurt I use in my shakes, which pissed me off. I’m going to start hoarding it soon.

 

[Clonamery]

It doesn't seem like my posts are as intelligent or as funny so it's gotta be the updated forum.

 

[mike_usagisan]

@Ian

The font on the thread titles on the front page have started looking weird

 

[Pape]

It doesn't seem like my posts are as intelligent or as funny so it's gotta be the updated forum.

 

[Ian]

@Ian

The font on the thread titles on the front page have started looking weird

That page is in the middle of a makeover. Was working on something earlier today and it must have messed with the styles. I’ll see if I can’t get it fixed in the morning.

 

[TinhWoodhead]

Thanks Ian, its perfect now!

 

[jmt57]

One very minor quirk I have noticed is that when I am writing a post and toggle to BB Code, the window shrinks to just five rows.

But when I return to the regular mode, the entire post will show, beyond five rows

This only began since the update.

And what is really odd is that it happens intermittently; it's not happening on this post, but did happen on my previous post.

 

[Ian]

One very minor quirk I have noticed is that when I am writing a post and toggle to BB Code, the window shrinks to just five rows.

But when I return to the regular mode, the entire post will show, beyond five rows

This only began since the update.

And what is really odd is that it happens intermittently; it's not happening on this post, but did happen on my previous post.

Interesting. I’ll have to dig into that. I did notice on dark mode that in BB/Normal the controls toggle between green and light blue, which at least helps signal if you’re in the other mode, which it didn’t do previously. Minor good news, I guess.