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Wow a lot going on,some interesting bug's, at the moment I'm not getting email notifications as I did before,those that do make it through (maybe 6 or 7) have been posted 9 to 12 hours before hand, still no option to edit PM or preview before posting.

@tenkan said:

I'm not getting email notifications as I did before

I haven't done anything with the email, so that's a head scratcher, but I'll look into it.

@tenkan said:

still no option to edit PM

You trying to edit it before or after it's been seen by the recipient? Kind of weird to edit those? I suppose I think of PMs more like emails...

@tenkan said:

preview before posting

The goal is for the editor to look exactly like the end result. Are you not seeing that?

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@tenkan said:

at the moment I'm not getting email notifications as I did before

We found the reason some of your notification emails have been arriving late. Your account is subscribed to a very large number of topics and several busy categories, which generates roughly 80–170 notifications per day.

Our email system was limiting your account to 20 notification emails per day. Once that limit was reached, any additional notifications were held until the limit reset the following day. This caused a backlog to build up, with some notifications delayed by many hours.

I will see if I can improve this situation with batching at a more regular frequency.

Will update to this:

  • Direct replies, mentions, and quotes: five-minute batch.
  • Watched-topic updates and likes: fixed hourly digest, grouped by topic.

@AbramBaileyAuD

Keep the dark mode!!!

Back burner stuff... :thinking:

You probably know about this but I'll post my login sequence for my PC. I have my browser enter my email and password for me.

This is the number of steps (3 or 4) for me to login to the forum home screen. Same as on my phone as well. I understand it may be this way for while as more members migrate to the new forum.

Desktop login sequence 1.Desktop login sequence 2.Desktop login sequence 3.I'm not complaining but was wondering if others have the same login routine on PC or Phone.

I will eventually remove that first step, but not until I have invited all the legacy users to sign up first. I'm waiting a little longer to get everything just right and then I'll do that. Then we can go to a more rapid login.

You may need to hit refresh on your browser to see it, but I made some layout changes today. Hopefully you find them to be improvements.

  1. Latest responder avatar now sits next to the time on the post index, on the right with reply count
  2. Reduced font and bolding for the category and view/reply count to enable better focusing on the title
  3. Removed the snippet of text below the title that was cluttering the post indexes (this was taken from the first sentence of the post, etc)

Also catch up area now has easier/more obvious ways to clear/mark read and indicate "not interested"—see icon buttons on the right rail

In reply to @AbramBaileyAuD

You trying to edit it before or after it's been seen by the recipient?

Same as it used to be I believe, but yeah sometimes I notice a mistake and it would be good to correct it after sending, I've never noticed wether it was before or after it's been read tho, but I guess that would be a handy feature to have( knowing if the message had been or read or not, a bit like a "watermark" in a email)

We found the reason some of your notification emails have been arriving late. Your account is subscribed to a very large number of topics and several busy categories, which generates roughly 80–170 notifications per day.

Ok great thanks for looking into this, yeah it's a lot, but found it easier to scroll through my inbox to see which I'd like to respond to.

Will look at PM editing and view status. Also, let me know if batched emails work for you once you start receiving them.

Edited

For those who have been asking for tighter spacing, you can now toggle between compact and comfortable in the 3-line menu up top...

As a bonus, the compact mode increases contrast while in dark mode (sorry reverse is true in light mode)...

That's fantastic,I just tried it and it works great! thanks Abram.

This is the first time I'm checking the website after the "update". I have a message in my inbox, but when I try to open it, I get this error.

error while opening messages

@AbramBaileyAuD I have designed websites in the past. I have no real issues with creating the necessary code for the text content, navigation, php server responses etc. That side I don't mind as it's all purely technical.

However, I absolutely hate dealing with css. The difficulty is more to do with deciding what font, what colour, what size, left, middle, right, how does it contrast with header, footer, another section, aligning images etc. Then you throw in accessibility and discover that your nice new blue heading font is technically not accessible in terms of sufficient contrast.

I swore that I would never work in website design. I find it very frustrating and it just drains you of all energy as you are constantly tweaking the "look" and it never ends.

Interesting irony, the spacing of the text on my website is pretty much the same as yours and I have only just realised that today because I am updating my website! Although my font is fractionally smaller.

So, I honestly would not sweat the CSS stuff. It can end up being a massive time drain for very little benefit I have discovered. I just don't enjoy doing anything with CSS as there are better things to do with one's life! I would rather work on api's and dealing with actual data and content, not with css design.

As long as people can read the text with sufficient contrast and the page does not look too busy, I would say problem is solved. The important thing to focus on is why you changed the forum to the new one in the first place and I suspect that had more to do with manipulation of data, categorisation etc.

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In reply to @Roberto

Yes, designing websites is a chore and time consuming. I've done it in the past also. Building a forum or discussion based has to be the most time consuming. Weeks can stretch into months making tweaks and adjustments or small changes. When I was programming there always something that I wanted or needed to change. @AbramBaileyAuD, you've done an excellent job.

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@Dogday said:

I am not seeing the option..."Already set your new password?...Sign In" ...Just my email (for now...but this could disappear again like previously).

I was right....when I tried to sign in just now, there was no email showing. I was asked for my email and sent a link, despite having renewed/reset my password. There was no option to choose to use a password.

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