[Bugs + Suggestions]: "The NEW Board Upgrade"

[QuietOne]

Two things RE: the Notifications:

(1) There seems to be an anomaly (like Sidewinder said) about the Notifications but for me I notice it with the Counter ...

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(2) The "Notifications" Menu doesn't always disappear when the User clicks someplace else on the screen. There are times when the User (or at least me anyway) has to re-click the Button before it'll disappear, thus it's behavior is erratic.

WRT the other Buttons ...

• The "Private Messages" button seems to work as advertised; and
• The User Name Menu also seems to work OK.

[TrustFire]

Fixed the the blinding white background — re-colored the Header and Footer in consonance with the Board scheme:—

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Not so fast there Tonto!! Doesn't work for ME and I suspect the others.

LoL . . . . . . all these illustrations that I'm posting are (ATM) effective only on my system — they are meant as a mere reference-point to facilitate the Admins in making global changes at the root source as per the preference of the majority (not as per mine — my tweaks are just a visual indication of the potential.)

[QuietOne]

Fixed the the blinding white background — re-colored the Header and Footer in consonance with the Board scheme:—

Resolutions_Of_All_Notification_Issues.png

Not so fast there Tonto!! Doesn't work for ME and I suspect the others.

LoL . . . . . . all these illustrations that I'm posting are (ATM) effective only on my system — they are meant as a mere reference-point to facilitate the Admins in making global changes at the root source as per the preference of the majority (not as per mine — my tweaks are just a visual indication of the potential.)

True enough but they sometimes add to the confusion instead of Clarifying the Issue.

For instance because you jigger your own display, you see things one way (i.e. your preferences) while everybody else sees something TOTALLY Different! (i.e. The Board Defaults per RD) which is why you needed me to supply you with SC's yesterday before you saw all the whitespace I was complaining about.

[TrustFire]

Confusion is THE word in a nutshell — just couldn't wait for Admins. to fix it.

Besides, the blinding white all over the place was another motivation — would be a PITA to be transfixed with this for the rest of our posting days.

[QuietOne]

Confusion is THE word in a nutshell — just couldn't wait for Admins. to fix it.

Besides, the blinding white all over the place was another motivation — would be a PITA to be transfixed with this for the rest of our posting days.

Copy that!

[rusticdog]

Moved now into General Site. Thanks for the feedback so far, we'll start looking into the issues/feedback.

Cheers

[davews]

I must say I don't like the new forums at all and it was a big shock to the system when they suddenly appeared the other day with no indication of what had happened (because this thread was hidden). The comments on here cover some of my issues but:
1. No immediate indication of what boards contain new messages other than hovering over the board title. When within individual boards the only indication is a right arrow against those postings with new posts.
2. In the Mailwasher board there are loads of stickies at the top that I have to scroll through to get to non-stickied ones. The sticky marker is not prominent, nor is there any clear boundary between them and normal posts.

I need to come to the forums, quickly see if there are any new posts, get to them, then go elsewhere. We are a long way from that situation at the moment. I suspect I will be coming here very rarely nowadays.

[TrustFire]

The Active and Inactive tabs resurrected in compliance to the Board theme:—

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[TrustFire]

Made some changes to escape from the blinding white stretches all across the avatar strip:—

• Introduced Avatar & text background colors which blend into the white background.
• Centered avatars.
• Curved the avatar corners
• Centered the text under avatars.

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[TrustFire]

Would also help to divide the Post "Text Body" from the "Quoted Text" and also from the "Signature" as well. (i.e. Such as using a Horizontal Rule or something else of that nature etc.)

Managed to segregate post and signature with a clear defining line between them — all dividers and defining colors are in keeping with the Board theme.

Example of the following illustration from

your own post

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[TrustFire]

The Quote Icon on the Quotes is not hot-linked:—

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[TrustFire]

Made the following little tweaks:—

• Centered the title, and
• Changed the typeface to a much better looking one.

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[TrustFire]

Just pimped the Preview Pane:—

• Centered the Title.
• Changed the Title Typeface.
• Re-colored the Titlebar.
• Re-colored the Titlebar Font.
• Stripped-off unnecessary space from the Posting Area (body.)
• Stripped-off unnecessary space from the Signature.

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[TrustFire]

When the page is in Print Mode, the Firetrust FavIcons fail to show up at the following:—

• Tabs
• Site Identity Box
• Bookmarks

[QuietOne]

These SC's were taken from the Mailwasher Pro 7 Forum but the problem(s) exists throughout the site.

(1) There is inconsistent use of a LOCK Icon to indicate a LOCKED Topic.
(2) There is also Inconsistent use of STAR Icons to indicate LOCKED Topics and READ/UNREAD Posts within Topics. Users must hover over the Stars to tell the difference! Very Confusing!!!
(3) Additionally, since Moderators CAN post in LOCKED Topics, there needs to be two versions of the LOCK Icons as well; Again, READ/UNREAD Posts but in LOCKED Topics.

LOCKED Topic Icons:

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SOME Locked, Some NOT -- Very Confusing!!!

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