[Closed] Forum Update

I can't see the threads I've previously commented on.

I'm colour blind AF and have had trouble navigating.

No more quote, img, url, etc functions?

On a PC.

Trying to post a pic from my Flickr account.

Do we need everyone's crappy avatar tagged onto the end of their post?

It uses more data and was one of the things I really liked about STW...

Trial from phone...Anfroid & chrome

<img class="aligncenter" src="<img src="

width="640" height="171" alt="Sunny South Wales" /><script async src="//embedr.flickr.com/assets/client-code.js" charset="utf-8"></script>" alt="" />

God that green is foul and so hard to read.

Is the overall appearance my fault or the new forum? So harsh.

Green user names about twice the size of the text. Old version was nicer. No idea if other things are better, never do anything but post and whinge!

Ooft, just tried my phone instead of a PC - the avatars take up half the screen!

I did read your original post Mark… unfortunately I interpreted it as "there's more good stuff to come", rather than "please don't tell us what currently looks odd or is hard to use due to the most recent back end focused update".

Upload Pics work.. ^^

Click little picture frame only this time there is no need to remove https...

I've just got a reply box with a preview and submit button and that's it, no quote, picture, video options or anything.

And the preview button does nothing.

Mods - Bikebuoy posted a photo of him chokin' his chicken.

- Reported 😉

Ok, so you can't use the share photo option that Flickr provide.

Instead you have to click on the download this photo tab, select view all sizes then right click and copy image address.

That's a bit long winded.

bbcode from flickr does not work 🙁

Looks like it should be multispeedstu ^

The really big, really low resolution avatar pics are properly not good when browsing on a phone.

Oddly, normal(ish) colours on pc, but green on iPad? I'm also getting a number of broken links when I click on some threads in the chat forum and classifieds.

I can't Paste into the Reply box (chrome/android)

When I click on one of my 'Forum Topics Started', the first post is often (but not always) missing.
e.g this one:
https://singletrackmag.com/forum/topic/please-one-line-of-code-just-one/

woopsie

IT guys, FYI, the big avatars look really bad on a Kindle Fire.

[img] https://flic.kr/p/JNZjak [\img]

Mark Subscriber

Kelvin,

You’ve not read my first post have you

Are you new here? 🙂

Christ! This is awful. The Green colour is really hard to read, and fails accessibily contrast tests.

Why on earth is the table of posts created as series of nested unordered lists? Why not just use a table for tabular data?

I've now managed to create a load of for sale posts in the classifieds trying to get one of them to work. There's no preview button, so it's just guesswork on what works and what doesn't.

Where I used to create an advert with Imagur links in Word then copy and paste into the forum box, this now no longer works. I think it's to do with the formatting, font, size, etc. Also you have to use the "post image" button and select the pixel size, or you get MASSIVE pictures.

Also there seems to be a limit on how many pictures you are allowed in one post.

When I go back to the index and select one of my threads some are empty, with only the reply box. If I log out and do the same then I get broken link warnings, coffee cup and nothing to see here.

I've just given the mods some extra homework with deleting all of my duplicate posts. I just hope they leave the complete ones because I'm still not sure how I managed them.

There’s no preview button

Yes there is.

I tried to post 2 images in one post and it never worked. as you say posting pics in adverts is going to be a right pain in the arse.

did no one test this site 1st?

there is also a lag when hitting the submit button, meaning i click again and get a double post

Can we have the old forum back please?

It's just a blank page for me!
No options to post pics at all.

Nothing like that on my laptop!

Why cant I see big avatars :-(.... or any for that matter 🙁

No preview in the classifieds.

Not in the classifieds.

Looks identical to the bike forum for me. On laptop and mobile.

The BIG avatars are a mobile thing. It makes a change from the redirects to virus sites.

I think I prefer the green used on maseratis

The format, video, url and image options don't appear when I go to write a reply. I'm using Safari: Does that make a difference?

Yep! Don't appear on mine. Doesn't appear on my phone, either (Chrome).

I'm on Safari and I see the options are there for me. As in the screenshot above.

How do you start a new thread ?

I can’t see how to do it on iPhone using Safari ?

Edit : Found it down there

Edit : Painfully slow to do owt on my iPhone 6

<div class="bbp-reply-author" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border-width: 0px 0px 1px; border-image: initial; outline: 0px; font-size: 12px; vertical-align: baseline; background: #eeeeee; display: flex; justify-content: flex-start; float: none; text-align: center; width: unset; color: #444444; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; border-color: initial initial #cccccc initial; border-style: initial initial dotted initial;">FunkyDunc
<div class="bbp-author-role" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 11px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent; display: flex; justify-content: flex-start; font-style: italic; float: none; width: unset; flex: 0 1 auto;">
<div class="" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent;">Member</div>
</div>
</div>
<div class="bbp-reply-content" style="margin: 0px; padding: 4px 12px 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 12px; vertical-align: baseline; background: #eeeeee; color: #444444; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;">
<p style="margin: 10px 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent; line-height: 1.2em;">How do you start a new thread ?</p>
<p style="margin: 10px 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent; line-height: 1.2em;">I can’t see how to do it on iPhone using Safari ?</p>

</div>

<div class="bbp-reply-content" style="margin: 0px; padding: 4px 12px 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 12px; vertical-align: baseline; background: #eeeeee; color: #444444; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;">

scroll down to bottom of page

</div>

Edit WTF is that mess ^^^

Firefox for Arch Linux 57.0.4 (64 bit)

Tune Association thread is nuked 🙁

This is kinda pants.... Might join pink bike.

I think I can post in classifieds, but when i click back to check, the main body of text is blank.
how can I post so its visible please?

The Winter Mountaineering picture thread is also broken

On Samsung s7 mobile I cant view the whole text box at once, and it will not scroll left or right

I've updated my OS and still no formatting options appear.

Can we have old software back?

My Galaxy S7 is the same as wrightyson, but landscape sorts it.

Haven't read through this entire post so apologies if someone has stated this already: the stats are somewhat inaccurate for Engagements, Favourites and Subscriptions.

There isn't even a next button at the bottom if the page to move on. Just microscopic page numbers or a tiny arrow. Probably the biggest yet simplest balls up of all time. Why?

I don't understand half of the posts above so why do I have huge, blurry, totally useless blobs of colour which may be pictures?

And the login button has gone. Had to find a device that kept me logged in to post!

Horrid.

How do I find the list of threads I’ve posted on?

Not the ones I started - I can find those?

just posted an image some text and a link on the Mark E Smith thread and nothing appeared it just all vanished after I pressed the sumbit button. 🙁

posts are vanishing 🙁

And tags are vanishing

I think the new update is amazing, and it’s great to see all the old issues squashed. Especially without introducing any new bugs.

Edit: Typo.

OK - work this one out.....

Not ideal but viewable on Mac using Chrome.

Zoom using gestures remains the same "kinda" but works..

Zoom using cmd+ above 110% makes it go green!!

Kicks it into what appears to be an absolute shit mobile format.

Everyone else has already mentioned all the other [s]f[/s]cock ups....

Seriously - you paid someone for this?

So everytime you edit it puts yet another note in?

Some quoted text includes page code as well, where-as others are posting quoted text without the code.

Seems editing a post adds another avatar at the bottom.

i like the green. But I would also like pink.

Please, please, please remove the avatars with the swastikas in the middle. Doesn’t reflect well on a public forum, even if this is in testing.

What a mess 🙁 was there no offline testing of this?

What do you mean, John? It’s perfect. No issues at all here.

Ah. Right-click to Paste doesn't work on desktop either, though CTRL-V does.

<span style="color: #444444;">Ah. Right-click to Paste doesn’t work on desktop either, though CTRL-V does.</span>

Great how do you quote?

Edit bugger

<span style="color: #444444; font-size: 12.8px; background-color: #eeeeee;">Great how do you quote?</span>

Buggered if I know

This is doing my non IT savvy bonce in!

What an absolute crock of shit this is ffs...

Quoting just takes you to the top of the last page without actually posting the message you just typed including any quotes - which don't show up in the text box either despite spacing out the quoted text as if they are there...

edit - and taking 20-30s to post (and edit) even being on an 80+ connection (gotta love the Officers Mess :rolf: )

I don' see a preview button either ,hence my 2 posts in classifieds with no content

I'm only posting this so i can uncheck the email me box

Thank you team_STW, I'm expecting this was many hours and days of work.

Many of us work in IT/release management/testing/something computery.

I know nothing though of forum software, so can someone explain what's causing any changes to be such a bit of a mess to deploy? Aside from the limited resource, because surely testing in some form is available before droppping into live?

EDIT: Amusing auto-change of original phrase to "bit of a mess" 🙂

I think they just uploaded a forum template and spunked it on us.

such a shame after years of building a support base and advertising network that it could all be undone overnight because of a clear lack of testing

Don't be such a drama queen

It’s awful - it makes no sense at all and if it isn’t fixed soon people will leave in droves.

Can anyone get the "Paste Link" button to work on Chrome/Android? Mine goes into a never ending loop

If it helps (not read this whole thread yet) but I got a screen takeover advert virus thingy piece of crap within 10 seconds of seeing the new forum

Do new videos work? Cos all the old ones is deaded.

er, that'll be a no.