Jinxed Posted April 9, 2021 Share Posted April 9, 2021 Whose great idea was it to have the edit and share buttons at the top of the post? Say I write a post, I then proofread it a few minutes after posting (need time to reset the brain to notice one’s own mistakes)... Then I have to scroll all the way back to the top of the post and click on a pull down menu button to reveal the edit function, then click edit. or say I read a post and want to share it... I have to go back to the top of the post and click. yeah, I know it’s not a big deal, and the white knights will say: but you’re just lazy. Still, the point stands that it seems as little thought has gone into the forum ui as the skills ui. At least the quote button is at the bottom. Lol. Emptiness 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blazemonger Posted April 9, 2021 Share Posted April 9, 2021 I agree there needs to be an edit button at the bottom at least, having that hidden under the ... menu only is very unintuitive Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NQ-Naerais Posted April 9, 2021 Share Posted April 9, 2021 It is part of the default theme we updated to. We're not crazy with the layout either, but shuffling it is not a high priority just yet. Trust me when I say I'm planning to take a torch to it. Want to bring along the marshmallows? Thanks for the feedback! blundertwink, Jinxed and CptLoRes 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CptLoRes Posted April 10, 2021 Share Posted April 10, 2021 Please take a look at the fonts used while at it.. Regards from a pair of bleeding eyes.. Edit: NVM.. I see they have been changed/reverted now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blazemonger Posted April 10, 2021 Share Posted April 10, 2021 I think the previous theme was "Uniform Dark" which is much better that this one.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CptLoRes Posted April 10, 2021 Share Posted April 10, 2021 Regardless of color scheme, using a serif font for the relatively small text sizes in a forum is a big nono. But we are back to sans serif now, so I can live with this. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jinxed Posted April 10, 2021 Author Share Posted April 10, 2021 42 minutes ago, CptLoRes said: Regardless of color scheme, using a serif font for the relatively small text sizes in a forum is a big nono. But we are back to sans serif now, so I can live with this. It was serif? I think your client likely missed a font reference or something... Haven't really seen a serif font on a web page other than the New York Times. LOL. CptLoRes 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blazemonger Posted April 11, 2021 Share Posted April 11, 2021 yeah, same, the font never changed for me since they moved to another theme CptLoRes 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IvanGrozniy Posted April 12, 2021 Share Posted April 12, 2021 Could have used MyBB, ph2B, etc.. those are free and open source and offer plenty of options that are better than this.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jinxed Posted April 12, 2021 Author Share Posted April 12, 2021 Not sure I entirely agree. Back before discus and Facebook plugins, I used to build website and forum solutions for customers using tools like phpbb and yaBB strapped onto MySQL/MariaDB. More recently I get requests to build Vanilla and Discourse solutions and while they are free im not sure they were actually any better than this. The problem with many forum ms is that they remain off-the-shelf and generic in many cases because customers who request solutions based on free software are not usually willing to fork out money for “pointless” customization. there is nothing wrong with this forum. It is one of the better ones, IMO. It’s just that it has not been customized for ease of use. The fact that a drop down menu has only option rather than just having the option itself as an icon and aforementioned ridiculously unergonomic user flow are prime examples. I very, very much doubt that just switching to another, different forum solution would be any better since most are generic and thus unoptimized on install and would likely suffer the same NQ treatment of “install and ignore” as this one. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NQ-Naerais Posted April 12, 2021 Share Posted April 12, 2021 We never changed any fonts, so I'm unsure what happened. But we did have a few hiccups as you saw. CptLoRes 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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