New Forum Fun, Questions and Glitch Reports

[cayuse]

Ok, thanks guys, the green slide sort of works, but I can’t stay on it well and it jumps around ALOT (sounds like a bucking bronco, lol. Is it green for a reason ?)

[MHM]

@Moderator_1

@YankeeDuchess

When I post, it sometimes but not always posts in a bad format do that a reader would have to scroll right and left to read the post. Also uses a different font.

 I’m not trying to get the weird formatting.

I explained this on another thread, but in case anyone here was wondering or having the same problem, this formatting occurs when you have 4 blank spaces at the start of a line of text.

Like here

I think it might be used to be able to type in lines of code as an example without letting the code actually work. Let me test that.

To make something bold, you can type **this**

Yup, if I type “this” like I did above on a normal line without the 4 blank spaces at the start, I get this instead.

Ok, now my head is starting to hurt. Lol.

[Simkie]

@Moderator_1

I think it might be used to be able to type in lines of code as an example without letting the code actually work. Let me test that.

Yep, that’s exactly what the 4 spaces at the start of a line is for

[Renn_aissance]

@halt

These are things that bother me just being someone in the IT field. The accessibility of the new forum is very poor. Even the color of the major feature (scroll bar) is not an accessible color and doesn’t meet the universal accessibility ratio for most websites. Making it larger, and a better color contrast will help.

This is a good point and bears repeating.

@JB Think “the design allows the content to be available to all.” There are guidelines (WCAG) that state an acceptable standard for matters like color contrast to serve those with visual impairments, etc.

[trubandloki]

Is the term Hamburger Menu a real term for those three lines? Or is it something we came up with here on COTH?

[Simkie]

@halt

One more question to dogpile onto the Moderator:

I see there is “NEW/LATEST” which is all encompassing. Is it possible to have "“View Latest Posts” AND “View Latest Threads” restored, excluding Off-Topic/Current events? If I am not missing it, that is. I see NEW / LATEST but those are not quite the same.

Yep. Mute the forums you don’t want to see.

@Simkie

How can I hide a forum?

Entire forums can be hidden from view. The forum will not be visible on the “Categories” page, and the posts from that forum won’t show on the “latest” view.

To hide a forum, navigate to your user settings:

And then to “Categories,” and add your desired hidden forum to “muted”

To unmute a forum, come back here, and delete the forum.

[Moderator_1]

@MHM

Ok, now my head is starting to hurt. Lol.

You definitely don’t need to know this information. I just explained it in case anyone else was having trouble…or wanted to know how to use it.

[JB]

@Moderator_1

I also just realized that you can click and drag on that post number ratio thingy, which is next to the fat part of the timeline, and that will also work to drag you around on the timeline – so you don’t have to be that precise with the click!

Oh sweet!

@Moderator_1

Do you all think it would be a good change, if they can do it, to just make that whole “box” where the post numbers and date are located next to the slider all one color, so the whole section has a background color that matches the fat part of the timeline slider?

and yes, if that whole block of things can be more visually apparent, that will help.

@trubandloki

Is the term Hamburger Menu a real term for those three lines? Or is it something we came up with here on COTH?

It’s a real term!

[Simkie]

@trubandloki

Is the term Hamburger Menu a real term for those three lines? Or is it something we came up with here on COTH?

Hamburger button

https://uxplanet.org/the-ultimate-guide-to-the-hamburger-menu-and-its-alternatives-e2da8dc7f1db

10 pros and cons of the hamburger menu (with examples) | Inside Design Blog

etc etc etc…

[trubandloki]

The things one learns on COTH. Never knew! Interesting.

My level of computer clueless is such that I would not have known what was meant by hamburger menu if there was not a graphic to go with the instructions. So I am glad there were graphics.

[MHM]

If the picture shows up, I sometimes have a hamburger in each upper corner of my screen. So… a double hamburger?

[Simkie]

@MHM

If the picture shows up, I sometimes have a hamburger in each upper corner of my screen. So… a double hamburger?

The left one is for the main Chronicle website. The right one is for the forum

I think the left one will eventually be replaced with the big “C” logo? Is that still the plan, @Moderator_1?

[CrazyGuineaPigLady]

Can I just say that some of the advice, tutorials and screenshots about all these new functions (green sliders and hamburgers ) are less than helpful? It seems that everyone who got a chance to play around with the software in advance is using different language to explain things.

Perhaps just starting with the basics of navigating the forums in ONE way would make it easier to understand and less work for you. It’s going to be different and I think most people can get past that, but there’s a lot of overload right now.

I’ll save my question about how to skip to the last post on a thread without opening it first.

[Moderator_1]

@MHM

If the picture shows up, I sometimes have a hamburger in each upper corner of my screen. So… a double hamburger?

Yes, that is a Big Mac.

@Simkie

I think the left one will eventually be replaced with the big “C” logo? Is that still the plan, @Moderator_1?

I did ask them about it, so we’ll see what turns up!

[Simkie]

@CrazyGuineaPigLady

Perhaps just starting with the basics of navigating the forums in ONE way would make it easier to understand and less work for you.

Yeah, that’s what the FAQ really is

FAQ -- Tips for Using the Site

Great place to start!

[trubandloki]

@CrazyGuineaPigLady

I’ll save my question about how to skip to the last post on a thread without opening it first.

This was answered up above, recently.

But it is a good question, that I asked too, on Monday.

When you are on the below screen you have two choices to go to the end. The number on the right (burgundy circle) is how long ago the last post was. Pick that and it will open the thread on the last post.

The number with the green circle is the post count. Pick that and you will be given the choice of going to the first post or the last post.

This is what it looks like when you pick the post count (green circle). Pick the top one to go to the first post and the bottom one to go to the last post.

[CrazyGuineaPigLady]

Well, maybe that should be the standard reply to questions instead of adding to the confusion.

[CrazyGuineaPigLady]

Thank you! I thought I saw a post about this somewhere, and tried, but was clicking on the avatar of the last poster (on the right) instead of to the far right on the time of post.

ETA: It works. Learning to click on numbers instead of pictures or words will take some getting used to.

[ohmyheck]

I like how the FAQ sheet gets fleshed out here with all these extra details and different ways of saying things. In fact I’m sure I’d still be lost in a fog without them!

Thanks everyone for taking the time!

[MHM]

@Moderator_1

@MHM

If the picture shows up, I sometimes have a hamburger in each upper corner of my screen. So… a double hamburger?

Yes, that is a Big Mac.

@Simkie

I think the left one will eventually be replaced with the big “C” logo? Is that still the plan, @Moderator_1?

I did ask them about it, so we’ll see what turns up!

I feel like at some point earlier in the week, the screen had the big C logo at the top left corner. Or was it on the right? But it evaporated at some point, or turned into the hamburger. The hamburger on the top right corner only appears when I scroll upwards.

So far I have only looked at the new site on my phone, so I don’t know if everything is the same on another device.