New Forumosa

Charlie_Phillips · August 16, 2016, 6:58pm

You have no respect for ancestors.

tango42 · August 16, 2016, 10:25pm

Shouldn’t Replies, Views, Activity be before category and users because people are chatting and want to know what is happening.

Little balls under Users is a waste.

tango42 · August 16, 2016, 10:26pm

And why not list 1. who started post and 2. last person to post with time they posted.

jo · August 17, 2016, 4:43am

Hi, I’m member at forumosa but forgot my password back then now I’m glad that I can login

I think one day I will forgot the password again …

Happy to be back here at new Forumosa and thank you to original Admin building up this community.

tempogain · August 17, 2016, 5:42pm

I like the way spoilers work.

Charlie_Jack · August 17, 2016, 6:32pm

Am I misunderstanding something?

yyy · August 17, 2016, 8:06pm

Sorry, who?

Doraemonster · August 18, 2016, 2:54am

I guess what @tango42 means is not to list intermediate posters.

If that’s the case I agree with this sentiment. I think the topic list layout could be simplified, aiming for (a) the title column to take about 60% of the table width (as opposed to the current 40%), and (b) fewer avatars being displayed. It’d take some experimentation to arrive at the best way to reach this though.

Charlie_Jack · August 18, 2016, 3:34am

So I did misunderstand, lol. Well, then, apologies to tango42 and to everyone else, and thanks for clearing that up for me, Doraemonster.

tempogain · August 19, 2016, 7:01am

I added a “My Posts” link to the top of list pages, like the “Own” link on the old site.

ranlee · August 19, 2016, 8:48am

This one button is so much win and doesn’t require me to click two things to get to “My Posts” like in the phpBB ages.

hansioux · August 19, 2016, 9:14am

I tried to edit one of the old pinned Culture and History threads, http://tw.forumosa.com/t/taiwan-key-dates-and-trivia, and the system informed me it has exceeded a characters limit.

That would make it impossible to make any future edit to that post except from deleting a large chunk of it. Should we remove this max characters limit?

tempogain · August 19, 2016, 2:16pm

That’s a long post! I ran a count on it, and bumped the limit up a few notches. That should cover it.

hansioux · August 20, 2016, 3:02am

By the way, the new color scheme is really easy to look at, great choice. How did you get Discourse system to play along?

tempogain · August 20, 2016, 4:29am

Took some trial and error, but was pretty logical in the end. I had to use a black that had a larger red component for the text. The first one had more blue in it, so we wound up with blue all over. A balanced black would give gray (like it was early on). Not sure why it’s set up like that.

Brianjones · September 1, 2016, 12:06am

I have to say I’m finally swayed by the move to discourse.

This new software is way better, it detects the links themselves so no faffing aroind, and It works well on mobile.

What with you slowly working thru the design issues it seems to have been a good move.

yyy · September 2, 2016, 5:46am

To be honest I hated it at first, and now I agree it’s better… but lots of emojis are still missing!

tempogain · September 2, 2016, 5:54am

There’s the possibility to add them. I’ll make a thread for that purpose.

ranlee · September 2, 2016, 6:08am

I’m all for bringing back the old emojis from phpBB, can’t really remember any specifics but is there an option to show more emoji’s in the pop up when you type the colon?

tempogain · September 2, 2016, 6:16am

I don’t think so, but if you didn’t notice, it’s an autocomplete list and narrows things down as you type.