First, and most importantly, change your theme to Discourse Classic. This is way, way better. I can’t emphasize that enough.
Secondly is to take the new site in very little doses. For the first and second day, I just logged on, poked around for maybe 5 minutes and then left. I did this maybe half a dozen times a day.
This morning when I first opened up the new site it wasn’t nearly as jarring and I can tell now that I’ll be used to it in no time.
How does one do that?
Click your icon in the top right. Then click the bell icon. Then preferences, then Interface, then select Discourse classic. Or Vincent, some people seem to like that. I tested them all and the classic is the closest to the SDMB imho.
It’s a bit of a convoluted process.
I clicked my picture in the top right. Then I clicked my name in the popup menu that appeared.
Then Preferences then … over to the left side of the screen,Interface under the Account menu.
Pick a theme and click Save Changes
I’m looking at “Discourse Classic” and it seems appealing.
Thanks. Yeah, I like that better, too.
For me Straight Dope Dark is the best one. And the header looks much much better this way.
Hmmm, Straight Dope Light isn’t bad (dark backgrounds are really hard for me to read text), but I think I like the space between posts with Discourse Classic better. I’m on my phone, currently, but I’ll check it out on my computer later.
I wish I could have Discourse Classic, but remove some space between the replies…
I like Discourse Classic too. Good call.
The top right icon, your name and then “Activity” will list what you’ve posted, which I like to follow up on threads I’m participating in.
I still don’t know how to reply with quote. Do you have to do that manually?
I’m not sure how to do that either.
The easiest way is to highlight what you want to quote. A button will appear that says “quote”, click that and a reply box will open with the quote in it. You can do this with more than one post, like I just did here. There are other ways, but this is what I do.
@Lumpy and @FloatyGimpy: That’s one way to quote a portion of a post. To quote an entire post, here’s another way:
The other way to make a quote is to click on the Reply button (the one at the bottom of the post, not the one at the bottom of the thread). This opens an empty editor window. The left-most icon on the editor tool bar is a little speech bubble. Click on that. This imports the entire text of the post you are quoting. You can then edit that as needed.
Be sure the [quote] and [/quote] tags are on lines by themselves! If they are not, the quote won’t be formatted right! I’m seeing a lot of users having problems with this, especially if they’re trying tricky things like multi-quoting.
Either way, there’s a gotcha: If you are quoting the immediately previous post, and you are quoting the entire post, then the Disco-Nanny-Bat helpfully deletes the quote from your new post! Go figure! You have to make some change to the quoted text to prevent that from happening.
I’ve tried a couple of the themes. I like the Discourse Classic pretty good.
to me vincent is the closest to the old “boxes” like we used to have
I’m using the Vincent now. I like it.