Forum Issues

[Klaus]

I need to go through a couple of updates. May take a while, with outages and times where plugins won't work.

[Klaus]

OK, updates are finished.

We are now on NodeBB version 15.5, the latest version.

I see the design has changed a little.

Please let me know if anything doesn't work or has become worse.

[Catseye3]

Thanks, Klaus.

[George K]

@klaus said in Forum Issues:

Please let me know if anything doesn't work

Twitter embeds.

And, of course, thanks for all your hard work. The check is in the mail.

[Klaus]

Thanks, guys.

One new feature seems to be that posts can be "bookmarked". One can check the bookmarks of any user by going on his or her "profile" page (or can only I do that?).

Any other noticeable changes anyone notices?

[George K]

@klaus the wonderful emojis are back!

(I said that to piss off @Mik )

[Copper]

@klaus said in Forum Issues:

Thanks, guys.

One new feature seems to be that posts can be "bookmarked". One can check the bookmarks of any user by going on his or her "profile" page (or can only I do that?).

Any other noticeable changes anyone notices?

I just clicked the 3 dots on the right
And selected Bookmark

Then I went to my profile and clicked the 3 dots
And selected Bookmarks(1) to see your post

[Klaus]

@george-k said in Forum Issues:

@klaus the wonderful emojis are back!

(I said that to piss off @Mik )

We do have a choice between different emoji sets.

Would these emojis be better?

https://www.webfx.com/tools/emoji-cheat-sheet/

[George K]

@klaus I rarely use emojis, but on a cursory look, they look better.

I'll leave it to the emoji users to opine.

[Catseye3]

@klaus I like these, but I'll leave it to the others.

[Loki]

@catseye3 said in Forum Issues:

Thanks, Klaus.

[Mik]

@george-k said in Forum Issues:

@klaus the wonderful emojis are back!

(I said that to piss off @Mik )

Do we have a ‘bastard’ emoji?

[Mik]

Hey, they are back!

[Klaus]

Another new thing in NodeBB seems to be the support for RSS. Notice these buttons?

I have no experience with RSS feeds, but they may provide a useful novel interface to the forum, e.g. on mobile devices.

But from what I can see, the feature can also be disabled. I'll leave it on for a while; if nobody is using it, I'll probably disable it to declutter the interface.

[Klaus]

Turns out we also have a new and improved spoiler tag.

It doesn't show the content anymore in the topic preview (which @jon-nyc and others hated).

In fact, I just experimented with it a little and it turns out that the spoiler content is not even loaded from the server unless the button to un-hide it is pressed.

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I'll probably try to disable the "old" spoiler function, then.

[Klaus]

This post is deleted!

[Mik]

Very cool. again, thanks for all your work on this forum, Klaus. It is appreciated.

[Copper]

The top part (Title) of the thread being read is chopped off by the forum header.

Like this


[Rainman]

Not for me, Copper.
Maybe it's one of those size vs. percentage things.

I do need to decrease the size of the browser window in order to post, as for me it's chopped off at the bottom. If I don't shrink the size, I end up typing where I can't see what I type. It's no big deal, I figured out how to get around the problem (by decreasing the size of the browser window).

[Klaus]

I need to shut down and restart the whole server for an update to a core component. This may take a while and I estimate the risk that this will completely ruin the forum to be around 0.272819%.