Since there's such a short edit timeout, guess it's time to double post.
I must admit, the whole edit timeout thing is kinda solving a problem that wasn't really there in the first place. Scott speaks of Cowardice, but I honestly rarely remember it ever even occurring, maybe once or twice, three times at the outside, and that's over a four year period.
So, I kinda feel it's - as I said - inventing a problem just to solve it, and inconveniencing people generally to solve a few rare and specific cases.
Not complaining, mind, but simply offering critique in an attempt to be constructive.
It seems like there are some issues with the quote plugin, some seemingly random quotes don't have the blue boarder and only have a first line indent. In the picture below Boe Joomer should be quoted.
It seems like there are some issues with the quote plugin, some seemingly random quotes don't have the blue boarder and only have a first line indent. In the picture below Boe Joomer should be quoted.
If you people would have actually read the posts in this thread, we already discussed this issue. It's because Vanilla 2 doesn't handle names with spaces or any other weird characters in them.
This is an awesome update! I love the fact that you can post from any page in the thread, not just the last page.
Bug/feature non-complaints:
1. The list of pages by numbers is only at the bottom of each thread page, not at the top.
2. On the front page, the the "Most recent by" text is not a link to the most recent post in that thread. In Vanilla 1 I used that link all the time!
The combination of 1. and 2. means to get to the last post I have to click the link, scroll to the bottom of the page that shows up, and then click the last number. That's super annoying for me, but the way I read the forum while on a cruise ship (slow and expensive satellite internet) is quite an edge case.
This is an awesome update! I love the fact that you can post from any page in the thread, not just the last page.
Bug/feature non-complaints:
1. The list of pages by numbers is only at the bottom of each thread page, not at the top.
2. On the front page, the the "Most recent by" text is not a link to the most recent post in that thread. In Vanilla 1 I used that link all the time!
The combination of 1. and 2. means to get to the last post I have to click the link, scroll to the bottom of the page that shows up, and then click the last number. That's super annoying for me, but the way I read the forum while on a cruise ship (slow and expensive satellite internet) is quite an edge case.
I never used that link, but I do have the same problem.
Spaces are weird characters? And to think, I never knew. This changes EVERYTHING. I do know what you mean though, whitespace can sometimes be difficult to deal with, oh well. I hope someone codes up a good quote plugin soon. Maybe the guy who made the first one will come back to bat.
Oh hey, wide banner-like icons can look really cool. http://i.imgur.com/HlUh6.png Or maybe vertical banner like icons outside of the post area to the left.
Spaces are weird characters? And to think, I never knew. This changes EVERYTHING. I do know what you mean though, whitespace can sometimes be difficult to deal with, oh well. I hope someone codes up a good quote plugin soon. Maybe the guy who made the first one will come back to bat.
If you people would have actually read the posts in this thread, we already discussed this issue. It's because Vanilla 2 doesn't handle names with spaces or any other weird characters in them.
Is there a way to edit our user names so this problem no longer occurs, every time I try and go though the forum interface to edit it, I get the same problem as Gunther, a grayed out box and a error message.
There's no checkbox in the settings I can find to allow people to edit their usernames. If you people want to see what I see then download and setup a blank forum on your own computers in a virtual machine or something.
There's no checkbox in the settings I can find to allow people to edit their usernames. If you people want to see what I see then download and setup a blank forum on your own computers in a virtual machine or something.
That feature gets abused, anyway. Just tell people to whisper a mod if they really want their usernames changed.
That feature gets abused, anyway. Just tell people to whisper a mod if they really want their usernames changed.
Whisper, eh?
On an unrelated note, quoting someone automatically inserts 2 blank lines after it. I'm not sure what others find preferable, but I like my blockqoutes close the rest of my comment.
That feature gets abused, anyway. Just tell people to whisper a mod if they really want their usernames changed.
Whisper, eh?
PM, whatever.
On a related note, one cool thing about the new Inbox system is that you can create a private thread for multiple recipients. We can now talk behind Andrew's back with much more efficiency!
On a related note, one cool thing about the new Inbox system is that you can create a private thread for multiple recipients. We can now talk behind Andrew's back with much more efficiency!
So apparently usernames with spaces in them are no longer kosher.
EDIT: Also, the search feature is hella retarded now. For example a search for 'gun' produces no results, but 'guns' produces every thread that the word has ever been mentioned.
On an unrelated note, quoting someone automatically inserts 2 blank lines after it. I'm not sure what others find preferable, but I like my blockqoutes close the rest of my comment.
Vanilla 1 was similar. It put the cursor on a newline after the blockquote.
As for "spaces or any other weird characters", that shouldn't be a fucking problem because of fucking quotation marks. Solution, learn to fucking use the RELATIONSHIP ATTRIBUTE PROPERLY VANILLA 2 DEVS.
On an unrelated note, quoting someone automatically inserts 2 blank lines after it. I'm not sure what others find preferable, but I like my blockqoutes close the rest of my comment.
Vanilla 1 was similar. It put the cursor on a newline after the blockquote.
As for "spaces or any other weird characters", that shouldn't be a fucking problem because of fucking quotation marks. Solution, learn to fucking use the RELATIONSHIP ATTRIBUTE PROPERLY VANILLA 2 DEVS.
You really have no idea what you are talking about. It's not that they are unable to handle any of those characters. If you look at the code, they are intentionally disallowing them via regular expression validation.
With mobile viewing (at least on my iPhone) you can not zoom.
This is on purpose. Properly designed mobile sites never allow you to zoom in or out. The text should already be large enough to read; what do you need to zoom for anyway? Good mobile sites emulate apps. Can you zoom in your Facebook app? Twitter?
With mobile viewing (at least on my iPhone) you can not zoom.
This is on purpose. Properly designed mobile sites never allow you to zoom in or out. The text should already be large enough to read; what do you need to zoom for anyway? Good mobile sites emulate apps. Can you zoom in your Facebook app? Twitter?
I want to be able to view pictures with out scrolling.
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So, I kinda feel it's - as I said - inventing a problem just to solve it, and inconveniencing people generally to solve a few rare and specific cases.
Not complaining, mind, but simply offering critique in an attempt to be constructive.
Right, took me literally 2 hours to figure out what was wrong. It needed more metadata.
Finally! http://vanillaforums.org/addon/defaultwide-theme
Edit: Now that I know how to upload; if you want new colors, I can add that with only 0.5 effort.
Growin pains, I guess.
Bug/feature non-complaints:
1. The list of pages by numbers is only at the bottom of each thread page, not at the top.
2. On the front page, the the "Most recent by" text is not a link to the most recent post in that thread. In Vanilla 1 I used that link all the time!
The combination of 1. and 2. means to get to the last post I have to click the link, scroll to the bottom of the page that shows up, and then click the last number. That's super annoying for me, but the way I read the forum while on a cruise ship (slow and expensive satellite internet) is quite an edge case.
I do know what you mean though, whitespace can sometimes be difficult to deal with, oh well. I hope someone codes up a good quote plugin soon. Maybe the guy who made the first one will come back to bat.
Or maybe vertical banner like icons outside of the post area to the left.
Bronzdragon thinks the new design is too white. This is what it would look like with a background. Same color as the banner. .
On an unrelated note, quoting someone automatically inserts 2 blank lines after it. I'm not sure what others find preferable, but I like my blockqoutes close the rest of my comment.
On a related note, one cool thing about the new Inbox system is that you can create a private thread for multiple recipients. We can now talk behind Andrew's back with much more efficiency!
Well, to him in chat. =P
EDIT: Also, the search feature is hella retarded now. For example a search for 'gun' produces no results, but 'guns' produces every thread that the word has ever been mentioned.
EDITEDIT: wow, I really hate the edit time out.
As for "spaces or any other weird characters", that shouldn't be a fucking problem because of fucking quotation marks. Solution, learn to fucking use the RELATIONSHIP ATTRIBUTE PROPERLY VANILLA 2 DEVS.