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Official TUGBBS upgrade complaint/suggestion thread!

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TUGBrian said:
fyi can anyone confirm tapatalk is working on the new forum?
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I don't know if you (re)enabled tapatalk, but it's still not working for me. I can see the headline and start of thread/post, but tapatalk fails when I click on it. I get an error that the post was moved or deleted.
 
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TUGBrian said:
what is ruined about that? it looks normal to me?
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Brian, I have the same issue...the picture doesn't do it justice. My Samsung Note shows about 2 words per line and they appear to be right justified. Lots of wasted space and a simple post takes up (too) many lines. It's neither user friendly (too much scrolling and too difficult to read posts) nor aesthetically pleasing.

The issue clears up for me when I turn my phone horizontally...so at least that is working.
 
I think the font is still too large. What were you using in the old vBulletin BBS? I don't recall too many complaints with that. The current font does seem much bigger than it used to be.
 
I would also really like a way to modify the number of posts per page. While the old forum allowed for 25 or 75, the current version only allows for 25 and no way for the user to modify.
 
SmithOp said:
OK, thats a new one on me, breadcrumb line...

After fiddling with all the new features I have to say I like what you have done and how responsive you have been helping to get everyone settled in to the new home. Bravo!
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lots of these terms are certainly new to us as well!
 
Marathoner said:
On the main forum page, could you (substantially) reduce the width of the column of the sub-forum names with their descriptions? Increase, by the same amount, the width of the column which shows the title of the latest post and increase the font size of the latest post title
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not sure on this one...id imagine the answer is yes...but i havent seen an obvious way to do this yet.
 
Marathoner said:
Ok, would you give it a go and change to 13pt?

I think a major impediment when reading posts is that there is so much whitespace on the page because the avatar pictures are so large along with a lot of space taken by join date/likes received/trophy points. The content of the post is often short which leaves a lot of scrolling to do with all the whitespace due to the left hand poster information.
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its already at 13pt =)

I dont see any whitespace between posts? can you post a screenshot?
 
Marathoner said:
Another request.

This image is from a post from odyclub which is a Honda Odyssey forum. Would you be willing to incorporate the style elements from their forum? I believe it is much more functional and aesthetic.
1. A bar above each post which shows, on the left, the date and time of when the post was submitted. On the right side of the same bar, it lists the specific post number within that particular thread.
2. The same font size used for both the original quoted post and the response.

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im sure we can figure out a way to increase the font size of the quoted reply yes.
 
LisaH said:
Not sure if this has been mentioned, but the new display seems to be not optimal. The avatar takes too much space and the real message becomes so long to display. See picture here...
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ah..this is now more clear to me we are talking about the mobile viewing. im sure there is a way to adjust that as well...just a matter of finding it.
 
actually i take that back, it shows message size is at 12pt..and we changed it to verdana from georgia
 
took it down to verdana 11 just now...at least now it doesnt appear "bold"
 
dioxide45 said:
I would also really like a way to modify the number of posts per page. While the old forum allowed for 25 or 75, the current version only allows for 25 and no way for the user to modify.
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this is now a forum wide setting...vs an individual user one.
 
Is it possible to somehow adjust the font in the like, quote and reply buttons? They seem to perhaps be in bold font and the white bleeds together on the blue button. I actually liked the simple links, but the buttons stand out more.
 
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tapatalk is still disabled, we have had no response from tapatalk support on the issue it caused..and since the issue actually broke functionality of the forum...we have to keep it disabled until we can figure out why.
 
DaveNW said:
What is the function of the "+ Quote" thing (in between "Like" and "Reply" on the lower right corner of posts?)
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That is the multi quote feature. Click one more more of those and then an Insert Quotes button will appear under the reply box. Click that and then you can insert all of the quotes or remove select ones before inserting. There is also a +Quote and Reply option that comes up if you simply highlight text in a post.
 
Why don't people just adjust the font size on their own device? Is it because some devices have a fixed font size, or because they don't know how to do it?
 
If this is available, please point me to where to find it:

On the old BBS I had the option of clicking the drop-down by my username and seeing my posts and threads I'd started. I think it said "Your Posts" and "Your Threads" or something like that. I'm not seeing an option for that here, without having threads marked as "Watching."

My intent is being able to jump onto threads I'd previously commented in. Marking every thread or post as "Watched" seems like it would get to be pretty tedious after awhile.

BTW, I'm really liking the growing appearance of the new BBS. I know changes like this are a huge undertaking, and Brian et al are doing a great job of tweaking things into a very usable format. Thumbs up. (I'd give you an emoji for this, if I could find one. ;) )

Thanks!
Dave
 
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More of an observation than a "complaint", but I have noticed that some users' avatars (mine included) that were formerly sharp and crystal clear in vbulletin now appear fuzzy and blurred in the new software. Not a big deal certainly, but an observation nonetheless.
 
theo said:
More of an observation than a "complaint", but I have noticed that some users' avatars (mine included) that were formerly sharp and crystal clear in vbulletin now appear fuzzy and blurred in the new software. Not a big deal certainly, but an observation nonetheless.
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There is a thread about this. The new software allows larger avatars. If you don't upload a new one, it will stretch your old one to fit, resulting in the blurred image. I noticed the same issue, and fixed it by making a larger avatar and uploading it to replace my old one.

Dave
 
Brian I think you avatar suggestion worked for this old tugger.
 
DeniseM said:
Why don't people just adjust the font size on their own device? Is it because some devices have a fixed font size, or because they don't know how to do it?
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Some of the text on the forum was on 14pt which is really, really large. Some of the other text like the "Last Post" column on the main forum screen is in small font like 8pt (or less?). Hence, you can't adjust the screen to be smaller to accomodate the 14pt text or else the other smaller font text becomes unreadably small.
 
I no longer had that old Tigger avatar. I had the mature senior sporty red Vet avatar.
 
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