MX Linux Forum

mmikeinsantarosa wrote:Just landed here thinking, What the ...?
It is a significant change. Once I get turned right side up, things should start looking normal again

For those not on line during the day when we posted an announcement. obviously the forum software has been upgraded. A necessary change as the old software was woefully out of date and unsupported by phpBB. The changes are many but most functions are available. Missing is the Thanks module which will be added when one becomes available. An added bonus is much better rendering on smartphones.

Certainly looks different. Have just wasted ten minutes trying to write this comment wondering why I could not type.
- then discovered that the keyboard's usb cable was unplugged. During that ten minutes I found my way around the
new layout. It's great.
Many thanks to Peregrine and all others involved.

Gordon.

Looks good on my phone! Haven't tried on pc yet.

From the Newest Posts list, I'm taken directly to the end of the topic, not the beginning or first unread.

A couple of questions for the moment:
1) Is there a way to change the colors on a per user basis?
I know on the antix forum you can select a different theme in the user control panel. I tend to use a dark theme unless the ambient light is very high (like outside in the sun)
2) how do you tell if you have read a thread or have not? They seem to look the same to me

Oi, that took me by surprise. No you cannot select a different theme, just checked through the user control panel.

The new threads have this light yellow box on the front of them, the read ones do not have this.

Looks great, what page am I on?

Going to have to get used to:

1. clicking on "Unread posts" or "New posts" at the top right corner. The list of newest posts on the front page only shows the latest 8 no matter how many more recent posts were unread. The old forum software just listed all unread posts, in as many pages as it took.

2. being brought to the last post in a thread when clicking on the "unread" orange icon to the left of the thread link. Seems a waste of effort to have to then make an additional mouseclick after that to be brought to the first unread post. Is there any way at the very least to have the "first unread post" option at the bottom of the page rather than on top, since that's where the user ends up after being brought to the last post?

This software looks similar to that of another forum I visit, and clicking on the orange icon always brought me to the first unread post. So this might be a setting that can be changed.

Other than that, it's looking good.


EDIT:

Clarification: if you click on "new posts" via the Quick Links on the top left rather than the link on the top right corner, the small orange icon on the left of the thread link does bring you to the first unread post. It's only if you click on the icons in the list of 8 newest posts or via the "new posts" link in the top right, that you are brought to the last post in thread.

Weird inconsistency.

Makes my screen look like a giant smartphone, that's something new.
Henry

antiX-Dave wrote:A couple of questions for the moment:
1) Is there a way to change the colors on a per user basis?
I know on the antix forum you can select a different theme in the user control panel. I tend to use a dark theme unless the ambient light is very high (like outside in the sun)
2) how do you tell if you have read a thread or have not? They seem to look the same to me

1. No
2. Unread threads have a yellow box net to the thread, unread blue