Forum Upgrade (05/29/12)

[Scott5114]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Bypass_your_cache provides a handy description of what browser caching does and how to bypass it, on many popular browsers.

I went in and tweaked the font settings to have the forum use whatever your default font size is; I hope this fixes some of the "spacing issues" that have been reported.

[vdeane]

And I've now tweaked the font setup some.  Let me know if you think it's better on your ends or not.

No change. Still looks like it did after the upgrade.

Did you force refresh the page? (Ctrl+F5)  Because I did notice some change when I made the tweaks to the font settings.

I think so... neither Shift + F5 nor Ctrl + F5 worked in Chrome, but visiting with another computer that never saw the pre-upgrade version of the forum did.  I guess I need to reformat and re-install my laptop just to fix these buttons.

You know, you don't have to re-install your laptop.  Just delete your catch for Chrome (I don't know how to do it since I don't have that browser installed) and then try again.  That "should" fix the problem I would think.

I did that a couple nights ago.  I have no idea why that worked since shift + F5 didn't, and that's supposed to be the command to reload and bypass the cache.  Maybe Google removed that feature on Linux.

[myosh_tino]

Great job with the forum upgrades.  I especially like the alternating backgrounds for nested quotes but I noticed the default font seems to be bigger than it used to be.  I viewed the site Sunday night on a 1920x1080 monitor and today on a 1024x768 monitor and in both cases, the display font seems unusually large.  Was this change intentional and do you think you could switch it back?  I believe the old setting was equivalent to 12-pt Verdana.

Keep up the good work!

[agentsteel53]

Great job with the forum upgrades.  I especially like the alternating backgrounds for nested quotes but I noticed the default font seems to be bigger than it used to be.  I viewed the site Sunday night on a 1920x1080 monitor and today on a 1024x768 monitor and in both cases, the display font seems unusually large.  Was this change intentional and do you think you could switch it back?  I believe the old setting was equivalent to 12-pt Verdana.

Keep up the good work!

I also noticed the increase in default font size.  I did a CTRL-minus in Firefox and that dropped it to a little bit smaller than the old size, but one that I prefer.

[myosh_tino]

I also noticed the increase in default font size.  I did a CTRL-minus in Firefox and that dropped it to a little bit smaller than the old size, but one that I prefer.

I tried that too but it makes quoted text unreadable (too small) IMO.  It appears quoted text is still the same size as before even though the main default text size is larger.

[Quillz]

The larger font size seems to have made the board a bit strange looking for me. I've updated the cache several times, too.



Is it supposed to look like that?

[froggie]

While the upgrades seem to be okay overall, I'm not a fan of this new green theme/"skin".  Much prefer the blue/gray theme from before, but can't find in the settings where to switch back (if it even exists).

[Quillz]

While the upgrades seem to be okay overall, I'm not a fan of this new green theme/"skin".  Much prefer the blue/gray theme from before, but can't find in the settings where to switch back (if it even exists).

It's still there...

Modify your profile and go into "Look and Layout." You can use either the SMF 2.0 Default or "Core," the old default. The actual board default is "Button Copy 2.0," though.

[rickmastfan67]

The larger font size seems to have made the board a bit strange looking for me. I've updated the cache several times, too.



Is it supposed to look like that?

What's the resolution on your screen?  That should only happen when you shrink the screen too much.

[Quillz]

The larger font size seems to have made the board a bit strange looking for me. I've updated the cache several times, too.


Is it supposed to look like that?

What's the resolution on your screen?  That should only happen when you shrink the screen too much.

1600×900... Although, I don't remember that happening on the board pre-update. Either way, not a big deal, just wanted to be sure I was at the very least getting the latest board look, since I wasn't sure my cache had been cleared. But I think it has been.

[rickmastfan67]

The larger font size seems to have made the board a bit strange looking for me. I've updated the cache several times, too.


Is it supposed to look like that?

What's the resolution on your screen?  That should only happen when you shrink the screen too much.

1600×900... Although, I don't remember that happening on the board pre-update. Either way, not a big deal, just wanted to be sure I was at the very least getting the latest board look, since I wasn't sure my cache had been cleared. But I think it has been.

1680x1050 here.  Did you happen to "zoom" in on the forum?  That can also cause that problem.  In both IE and FF, hit Ctrl+0 to reset the zoom on this site and it should fix that problem.

[Quillz]

Nope, I'm using Chrome and I'm at the default, 100% zoom level. Maybe the latest board software just reformats the pages differently from the old version.

[rickmastfan67]

Nope, I'm using Chrome and I'm at the default, 100% zoom level. Maybe the latest board software just reformats the pages differently from the old version.

Guess so.  I might be able to fix that still.  I know at least the "buttons" bar has a line in the CSS.  Just have to remember what line it is and tweak it.

[rickmastfan67]

I just tweaked the font settings some more.  I force set the font at a specific size, so, hopefully it will be the same for everybody and fix the font problems.

[rickmastfan67]

Nope, I'm using Chrome and I'm at the default, 100% zoom level. Maybe the latest board software just reformats the pages differently from the old version.

I just broke down and installed Chrome to see if I could duplicate this and I wasn't (posting this from chrome).  All I can suggest is to clear your catch again.

[myosh_tino]

I just tweaked the font settings some more.  I force set the font at a specific size, so, hopefully it will be the same for everybody and fix the font problems.

That seems to have resolved my issues with the font size. Thanks!

[Quillz]

Nope, I'm using Chrome and I'm at the default, 100% zoom level. Maybe the latest board software just reformats the pages differently from the old version.

I just broke down and installed Chrome to see if I could duplicate this and I wasn't (posting this from chrome).  All I can suggest is to clear your catch again.

Were you using the same resolution as me? It's probably a resolution issue, as you mentioned before.

And it's not even really an issue for me. I have no problems with font legibility or anything like that, it just seems to put the topic buttons on two rows instead of one. Nothing I can't live with.

[rickmastfan67]

Just an FYI to anybody still having "Font" problems, please double check to see if you have the following fonts installed first and make sure they aren't somehow corrupted:

Verdana, sans-serif
In Windows XP: version 2.41 of Verdana is what comes with the OS.
In Windows 7: version 5.02 of Verdana is what comes with the OS, but some recent updates have bumped it up to 5.05, which is what I have here on my copy of Windows 7 x64.

If you're running Linux, this page might help ya out.  If that doesn't, this page might do the trick.

[national highway 1]

It appears that the 'Help' menu is down from the recent upgrade.

[rickmastfan67]

It appears that the 'Help' menu is down from the recent upgrade.

Not our problem.  The "Help" is now hosted directly by "Simple Machines", the creators of the forum software.  So, when they are down, the help "links" will be down and there is nothing that we can do about it here.

[Alps]

I can't believe I've noticed something so picayune, but when a board has unread threads, the board name is right next to the little - box (indicating that it has been expanded). If you read all the threads and reload, the board name now has a space next to the - box. I'm sending you an example.

[rickmastfan67]

I can't believe I've noticed something so picayune, but when a board has unread threads, the board name is right next to the little - box (indicating that it has been expanded). If you read all the threads and reload, the board name now has a space next to the - box. I'm sending you an example.

That's happening here as well.  I think that's a bug in the SMF software and not the theme as it's happening in the "Core" theme as well.

[formulanone]

It seems users with no posted age are actually older than Methuselah...

https://www.aaroads.com/forum/index.php?topic=87.msg153341#msg153341

...or Jesus Christ's younger brother.

[Alps]

I think he set his birth year to 4.

[rickmastfan67]

I think he set his birth year to 4.

Nope, there is a bug here.  He has it set at 0000.  So, if anything, it should be 2012, not 2008.  But this bug is in the mod that shows the age.  I'll have to report that as it's not a bug in the forum theme.