maple1
Minister of Fire
What happened to the style choices? I'm back at the 'new' one - which works like crap on my XP machine. I'm not likely the only one still using XP. I hope this is temporary...
Someone has broken in! Things aren't the way I left them! (New forum layout)
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jharkin
Minister of Fire
With the new format I find that on my Android tablet it forces me into the mobile view even if I have the "show desktop site" option enabled in Chrome. Is there something set server side overriding this preference?
With a big tablet I prefer the regular view to the phone optimized mobile look.
With a big tablet I prefer the regular view to the phone optimized mobile look.
jharkin
Minister of Fire
Thanks fish!
Another thought on navigation. I think this was an issue on the old site as well. When you go to the top of the forum list at first the navigation breadcrumb looks like:
[home icon] > Forums
Then if you go to a sub forum, say the inglenook, you will get this navigation breadcrumb:
[home icon] > Non-Hearth Forums > The Inglenook
What happens its showing the category in place of the top level forum link. Now if you want to go back to the full forum list you have to click home and then navigate back down to the forums. It would help the navigation to have the breadcrumbs render the full path like so:
[home icon] >Forums > {category} > {forum name}
Sorry to nitpick, software quality is my profession
Another thought on navigation. I think this was an issue on the old site as well. When you go to the top of the forum list at first the navigation breadcrumb looks like:
[home icon] > Forums
Then if you go to a sub forum, say the inglenook, you will get this navigation breadcrumb:
[home icon] > Non-Hearth Forums > The Inglenook
What happens its showing the category in place of the top level forum link. Now if you want to go back to the full forum list you have to click home and then navigate back down to the forums. It would help the navigation to have the breadcrumbs render the full path like so:
[home icon] >Forums > {category} > {forum name}
Sorry to nitpick, software quality is my profession
maple1
Minister of Fire
Was renaming it to Old Hearth. You can change by going into your profile page and change preferences. There may be some functionality issues on the old style.
maple1
Minister of Fire
I'm not sure why but I was having lots of functionality issues with the new style on this XP machine. I got errors when clicking on the little notice bell thing, and the notification button. Didn't see a forum jump bar, and there was a couple of pages at the top of menu item type stuff that I had to scroll past every time to get to the actual forum page. And the pages loaded a lot slower.
But as long as I can view old style I'm good - so far. I suspect there are lots of bugs to work out yet anyway - maybe I'll try the new style again after some time goes by. Good luck.
But as long as I can view old style I'm good - so far. I suspect there are lots of bugs to work out yet anyway - maybe I'll try the new style again after some time goes by. Good luck.
Are you on IE8? Any specifics and screen shots would be helpful. It was tested on XP IE 8. If issues were Before Sunday , then please try again.
Michael6268
Minister of Fire
I have to chuckle, as I remember how much some folks hated the "old style" when it came out as new,,,, and now it is coveted 
In all, I'm going to stick with whatever the new style is as doing so and providing constructive criticism will be part of making the next version of what this place will be. Even though we can choose the old style for now, I do not believe that option will remain available forever.
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In all, I'm going to stick with whatever the new style is as doing so and providing constructive criticism will be part of making the next version of what this place will be. Even though we can choose the old style for now, I do not believe that option will remain available forever.
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Here is answer on responsive design. The show as desktop setting doesn't work for responsive sites. That feature is if you have a mobile site separate to your desktop site, which most sites do not have. Why chrome has that in boggles many people, you can read about it here:
http://www.webmonkey.com/2013/01/turning-off-responsive-design/
Now I can use the up arrows that pop up in the lower right of the screen to get back to the top, then click the forum name in the path to get a refreshed topic page. A path at the bottom of the page, in addition to the one at the top, would be nice, but this isn't too bad...
Anyway to get more white space and even less definition between posts? [sarcasm] But this is one of the 'features' I really dislike with the new 'flat' style. Here is an (admittedly extreme) case, but they are all over the place...an entire full screen view with literally two lines of content and I'll bet it takes a few seconds just to figure out how many posts you're actually looking at.
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Thanks for the tip. That does solve the 'post definition' issue...but then you get wonky colors, goofy round photos and still only a couple lines of 'substance' on every page in some cases. Plus, then I have the eerie feeling I've killed and buried a friend I've known for the past...oh...10-ish years or so.
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