I am reviewing from my desktop computer using Microsoft Edge.
Multiquote is working for me. That is, the multiquote button is working, the text link is not.
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[li]The font size in quoted text is reduced from the post itself. eta: same thing happening with text in the bulleted items [/ul][/li][/quote]
Yes, reduced font size in quote boxes and lists is not good.
That’s mildly annoying, but livable. I think.
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[li]It looks like the width of the display is now resized based on the length of the post title, which scrunches up the screen.[/li][li]The button to go to the last post in the thread is gone, along with the who posted last. Those are functions I use every time I visit the boards. They are visible on my laptop, but not my mobile.[/li][/QUOTE]
I have noticed on the Forum page listing threads, the spacing between lines is controlled by the length of the contents in each box. So
The first line has the thread title, a spot for a sticky icon, or active thread icon (check), a gap, number of replies, number of views.
The next line has the name of the thread starter, last post date and time.
The next line has a carryover of AM or PM from the previous line on post time.
The next line has “by” under the AM/PM above. That is all.
The next line has the last poster’s name, or by last poster. This depends on the username length, I guess, where if the name is too long the by is carriage returned and left justified in that “box”.
This behavior is what appears to me to create the extra white space between lines in the thread list. Zooming the page text larger bumps the last poster by and date/time info, and closes the gap accordingly.
Zooming out sufficiently gets rid of the AM/PM and by line carriage returns, but makes the text too small for me to comfortably read.
These appear to be formatting issues associated with default column widths in the table. I think adjusting those a bit could make this behave better.
I think this was already occurring on the old skin. The full menu line in the blue bar visible on the desktop is a pulldown menu on the mobile version (three gray parallel horizontal lines).
Seriously, this is an annoying “feature” that happened the last time the board was upgraded (or some previous upgrade). It was shown to be a simple line in the code that sets how quote box content for autoquote blocks is formatted, which is default set to italics. It can easily be set to not be italics by tweaking that one line in the code. It was a simple request to fix the previous time, but how likely that is this time is unknown. I prefer the quoted text to not be default italics because it screws with people’s intentional font choices in the quoted material. I also prefer the font size to be the same as the response content, with the quote box lines sufficient to distinguish the two. On my screen the box is sufficient, but some browsers are not seeing it, perhaps because of zoom level.
Yes, bold is almost indistinguishable from non-bold text. I think it is the font. This needs to be distinguishable across platforms.
I think the blue bars are an actual skin from the prior version of the board - I think it was the skin I was using because I like the differentiation. I don’t see skin selections available any more.
I mentioned in another thread, one improvement I do see is the performance of the post edit window. In the old version, using the edit window on a mobile platform the text in the box would center on the screen. Enlarging the box sufficient to see the text made the text box extend off the sides of the screen, but the window stayed centered, so you could not set the cursor and see what you were typing. That pretty much made using the regular board software unusable for posting, and drove me to Tapatalk. This new version fixes that so the screen follows the text/cursor. I may still prefer Tapatalk - I’m trying to decide which works better on mobile for bumping between posts and forum lists. Neither really works fully to my preferred method.
