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-   -   Jan. 3rd 2019 Upgrade Master Thread (https://forum.dvdtalk.com/forum-feedback-support/646313-jan-3rd-2019-upgrade-master-thread.html)

VinVega 01-10-19 08:28 AM
Re: Jan. 3rd 2019 Upgrade Master Thread
 
Originally Posted by MooMooMooMoo (Post 13477417)
Just some feedback: I really dislike the "infinite scroll".
So turn it off.

IBJoel 01-10-19 09:29 AM
Re: Jan. 3rd 2019 Upgrade Master Thread
 
1 Attachment(s)
Originally Posted by Timber (Post 13477234)
Is there any way to get the "forum jump" at the top of the page as well as the bottom? I hate having to scroll to the bottom of the page to get to a different forum. I hate the drop down at the top because I have to remember what category each forum is in.
Originally Posted by MooMooMooMoo (Post 13477418)
I second that request.
While not a full listing, if you're just trying to go back, the breadcrumbs feature is similar:
Attachment 141

IBJoel 01-10-19 09:29 AM
Re: Jan. 3rd 2019 Upgrade Master Thread
 
Originally Posted by LorenzoL (Post 13477261)

So will HTML being off be a permanent move?
Yes, although not technically related to the forum software update, just a coincidence that I turned it off around the same time.

IBJoel 01-10-19 09:54 AM
Re: Jan. 3rd 2019 Upgrade Master Thread
 
Originally Posted by tonyc3742 (Post 13477229)
Does Mobile version not have "search this thread" or "thread tools"?
Unfortunately no, but as more and more people browse primarily on their mobile devices, we're always trying to add functionality and it could be added in the future.

thetao 01-10-19 10:06 AM
Re: Jan. 3rd 2019 Upgrade Master Thread
 
Originally Posted by VinVega (Post 13477512)
Originally Posted by MooMooMooMoo (Post 13477417)
Just some feedback: I really dislike the "infinite scroll".
So turn it off.
Yes, but then you always need to be logged in for that to work. I'll mention my previous suggestion one more time: reverse the setting so infinite scroll needs switched on, not switched off. Looking at it from another POV, there have been enough WFT responses here from regular users, do you want to chance alienating casual visitors?

LorenzoL 01-10-19 12:23 PM
Re: Jan. 3rd 2019 Upgrade Master Thread
 
Originally Posted by IBJoel (Post 13477547)
Yes, although not technically related to the forum software update, just a coincidence that I turned it off around the same time.
Thank you for the response. Now, in terms of creating a table in a thread, can we do that without HTML? Is there a workaround that someone knows in order to create one?

DJariya 01-10-19 05:36 PM
Re: Jan. 3rd 2019 Upgrade Master Thread
 
No one addressed this in my previous post, but has the option to increase font size been taken away?

I don't see it anywhere on the reply panel.

Trevor 01-10-19 06:43 PM
Re: Jan. 3rd 2019 Upgrade Master Thread
 
Originally Posted by DJariya (Post 13477923)
No one addressed this in my previous post, but has the option to increase font size been taken away?

I don't see it anywhere on the reply panel.
You mean in forum replies? I still see a font size selector, but remember that there are like 5 different editors now, only one fully supported, but they all work to some degree. Choose your editor in options.

joeblow69 01-11-19 01:32 PM
Re: Jan. 3rd 2019 Upgrade Master Thread
 
So I noticed something interesting today on Chrome (don't see it on firefox). If you right click in the reply box, there's an emoji & symbols options, which looks like this:

https://i.postimg.cc/vmfkh6Kq/Screen...1-30-18-AM.png
If you select one of these symbols, it looks like it's gonna work ... but then when you post the reply, all the symbols you took just show up as black boxes. Anyway we can get this functionality to work?

dex14 01-11-19 02:40 PM
Re: Jan. 3rd 2019 Upgrade Master Thread
 
Originally Posted by joeblow69 (Post 13478438)
So I noticed something interesting today on Chrome (don't see it on firefox). If you right click in the reply box, there's an emoji & symbols options, which looks like this:

https://i.postimg.cc/vmfkh6Kq/Screen...1-30-18-AM.png
If you select one of these symbols, it looks like it's gonna work ... but then when you post the reply, all the symbols you took just show up as black boxes. Anyway we can get this functionality to work?
I don't see that at all. Looks like IOS emojis...

joeblow69 01-11-19 02:57 PM
Re: Jan. 3rd 2019 Upgrade Master Thread
 
https://i.postimg.cc/L5CwYw4d/Screen...2-56-05-PM.png
I'm getting it on my mac ... I don't remember seeing this before the forum change, but I can't be sure.

Adam Tyner 01-11-19 03:01 PM
Re: Jan. 3rd 2019 Upgrade Master Thread
 
It's a Chrome thing. It was probably there before and you didn't notice it till now.

I never noticed it before either, but I see it on every textbox on every site now.

joeblow69 01-11-19 05:03 PM
Re: Jan. 3rd 2019 Upgrade Master Thread
 
Originally Posted by Adam Tyner (Post 13478519)
It's a Chrome thing. It was probably there before and you didn't notice it till now.

I never noticed it before either, but I see it on every textbox on every site now.
Oh. Well ... can we add support for it? :D

ibobi 01-11-19 06:23 PM
Re: Jan. 3rd 2019 Upgrade Master Thread
 
Originally Posted by Obi-Wan Jabroni (Post 13474018)
I had been maintaining the wiki at the top of the Sports Futility Thead (https://forum.dvdtalk.com/sports-tal...-futility.html) for the last few years, and it's gone now. If it can't be recovered, I guess the list is done now, because I'm not going to go through and re-do all the changes over that time.
Wikiposts are back :)

Trevor 01-11-19 06:37 PM
Re: Jan. 3rd 2019 Upgrade Master Thread
 
Originally Posted by IBobi (Post 13478658)
Wikiposts are back :)
I’ve checked several threads and don’t see the option.

Music 01-11-19 06:40 PM
Re: Jan. 3rd 2019 Upgrade Master Thread
 
I see the Wikis that existed prior, but the only option is to print them.

I do not see any options to edit, or create a new one.

Trevor 01-11-19 07:04 PM
Re: Jan. 3rd 2019 Upgrade Master Thread
 
And the one wiki I found was in the wrong thread. Challenge compendium thread in dvdtalk

Norm de Plume 01-11-19 09:32 PM
Re: Jan. 3rd 2019 Upgrade Master Thread
 
Apologies if this has been covered already, but is there a reason we can't use [img] [ /img] or [url=____ ]Title of Link[ /url] tags anymore.

Hailey G 01-12-19 08:02 AM
Re: Jan. 3rd 2019 Upgrade Master Thread
 
Originally Posted by IBobi (Post 13478658)
Wikiposts are back :)
As others have said, my wiki is there, but I can't find any option to edit it, which is kind of the point of a wikipost.

OldBoy 01-12-19 11:23 AM
Re: Jan. 3rd 2019 Upgrade Master Thread
 
Originally Posted by Norm de Plume (Post 13478742)
Apologies if this has been covered already, but is there a reason we can't use [img] [ /img] or [url=____ ]Title of Link[ /url] tags anymore.
there are icons on top of post to do all that...

Adam Tyner 01-12-19 11:26 AM
Re: Jan. 3rd 2019 Upgrade Master Thread
 
Originally Posted by Norm de Plume (Post 13478742)
Apologies if this has been covered already, but is there a reason we can't use [img] [ /img] or [url=____ ]Title of Link[ /url] tags anymore.
You can, but there's a bit of a workaround required.

You can compose your post in Notepad or a similar text editor, and the IMG and URL vBCode will work. Or you could click 'Source' in the editor and do it that way. I guess you could also switch editors, although I haven't looked into that yet.

But if you're copying/pasting a URL directly from your browser window, the editor will automatically make it a link, which supercedes any IMG or URL code. I'm trying to get in the habit of using the buttons in the toolbar now.

Norm de Plume 01-12-19 05:45 PM
Re: Jan. 3rd 2019 Upgrade Master Thread
 
Originally Posted by Adam Tyner (Post 13478953)
You can, but there's a bit of a workaround required.

You can compose your post in Notepad or a similar text editor, and the IMG and URL vBCode will work. Or you could click 'Source' in the editor and do it that way. I guess you could also switch editors, although I haven't looked into that yet.

But if you're copying/pasting a URL directly from your browser window, the editor will automatically make it a link, which supercedes any IMG or URL code. I'm trying to get in the habit of using the buttons in the toolbar now.
Thanks for the tips. I'll have to get used to using the toolbar as well. It's not an intolerable alteration.

Nick Danger 01-13-19 09:35 AM
Re: Jan. 3rd 2019 Upgrade Master Thread
 
I tried to copy and paste the text of this article into the forum. The forum software deleted all the paragraph marks and ran it together into one big block of text. I had to paste into Wordpad and then copy it again as an additional step just to keep the formatting. What's the deal?

Bluelitespecial 01-13-19 03:02 PM
Re: Jan. 3rd 2019 Upgrade Master Thread
 
How do you upload pictures now?

Trevor 01-13-19 03:16 PM
Re: Jan. 3rd 2019 Upgrade Master Thread
 
Originally Posted by Bluelitespecial (Post 13479551)
How do you upload pictures now?
Could you ever upload pictures?

I thought we’ve always used imagehosting sites.

http://i63.tinypic.com/fnr90k.jpg

Norm de Plume 01-13-19 04:26 PM
Re: Jan. 3rd 2019 Upgrade Master Thread
 
Originally Posted by Trevor (Post 13479556)
I thought we’ve always used imagehosting sites.
Yes, but it used to be a 5-second matter of copying the link and pasting it in [img] tags. Piece of cake. It's really not more convoluted or time-consuming now; just a new procedure to get used to.

dex14 01-14-19 08:01 AM
Re: Jan. 3rd 2019 Upgrade Master Thread
 
I click on the image icon and paste the link. Same thing I did on the old version. Nothing changed as far as I can see.

Nick Danger 01-14-19 08:44 AM
Re: Jan. 3rd 2019 Upgrade Master Thread
 
Originally Posted by dex14 (Post 13479874)
I click on the image icon and paste the link. Same thing I did on the old version. Nothing changed as far as I can see.
We used to be able to type the img tags from the keyboard like this: img ctrl-V /img. That option is no longer available. Now we are required to use the mouse.

BobO'Link 01-14-19 01:19 PM
Re: Jan. 3rd 2019 Upgrade Master Thread
 
Originally Posted by Nick Danger (Post 13479893)
We used to be able to type the img tags from the keyboard like this: img ctrl-V /img. That option is no longer available. Now we are required to use the mouse.
Change your editor to the "Standard Editor - Extra formatting controls" version. It's probably more like what you used before and will allow you to type the tags from the keyboard. Be aware that is has a couple of foibles - mostly when doing a "Reply to thread" (Can't adjust the edit window horizontally more than ~1").

IBJoel 01-14-19 01:23 PM
Re: Jan. 3rd 2019 Upgrade Master Thread
 
Originally Posted by LorenzoL (Post 13477683)

Thank you for the response. Now, in terms of creating a table in a thread, can we do that without HTML? Is there a workaround that someone knows in order to create one?
Wikiposts have returned, so that would be the most effective way to emulate a mass of information, albeit with some editing, since it would still not appear in table form.

IBJoel 01-14-19 01:27 PM
Re: Jan. 3rd 2019 Upgrade Master Thread
 
Originally Posted by Obi-Wan Jabroni (Post 13478865)
As others have said, my wiki is there, but I can't find any option to edit it, which is kind of the point of a wikipost.
Originally Posted by Trevor (Post 13478675)
And the one wiki I found was in the wrong thread. Challenge compendium thread in dvdtalk
Originally Posted by Trevor (Post 13478662)
I’ve checked several threads and don’t see the option.
Do you see the ability to edit now? It appears for me, but may be usergroup-based.

Trevor, I see what you mean about the wrong wikipost in the wrong thread and will ask tech.

Hailey G 01-14-19 01:29 PM
Re: Jan. 3rd 2019 Upgrade Master Thread
 
Originally Posted by IBJoel (Post 13480129)
Do you see the ability to edit now? It appears for me, but may be usergroup-based.

Trevor, I see what you mean about the wrong wikipost in the wrong thread and will ask tech.
Still don't see an option to edit an existing WikiPost, or create a new one. I see that you just edited one, so maybe only admins/mods can do it currently?

andicus 01-14-19 04:06 PM
Re: Jan. 3rd 2019 Upgrade Master Thread
 
This is an ongoing 'problem' and still exists with the forum software upgrade, so I'll ask, here...

From the Pet Peeves thread:

My only pet peeve is that the forums are automatically marked as read after a certain amount of time. So if you get distracted, while reading the forums, you may find that they're suddenly all marked as read, so you can't tell which posts are new. Other forums don't necessarily do this, for example the Steve Hoffman music forums. I couldn't find any way to control that behaviour, nor can I find a way since the upgrade.

Is there some way to control this behaviour? It's very frustrating. I would prefer that threads are only marked as read if I've actually read them, rather than after some non-controllable time.

b2net 01-14-19 07:25 PM
Re: Jan. 3rd 2019 Upgrade Master Thread
 
Originally Posted by andicus (Post 13480315)
This is an ongoing 'problem' and still exists with the forum software upgrade, so I'll ask, here...

From the Pet Peeves thread:

My only pet peeve is that the forums are automatically marked as read after a certain amount of time. So if you get distracted, while reading the forums, you may find that they're suddenly all marked as read, so you can't tell which posts are new. Other forums don't necessarily do this, for example the Steve Hoffman music forums. I couldn't find any way to control that behaviour, nor can I find a way since the upgrade.

Is there some way to control this behaviour? It's very frustrating. I would prefer that threads are only marked as read if I've actually read them, rather than after some non-controllable time.
+1 for this Change

IBJoel 01-15-19 10:44 AM
Re: Jan. 3rd 2019 Upgrade Master Thread
 
Originally Posted by Obi-Wan Jabroni (Post 13480136)
Still don't see an option to edit an existing WikiPost, or create a new one. I see that you just edited one, so maybe only admins/mods can do it currently?
I think so. I've asked tech if it's usergroup-based and how to fix it.

IBJoel 01-15-19 10:47 AM
Re: Jan. 3rd 2019 Upgrade Master Thread
 
Originally Posted by andicus (Post 13480315)
This is an ongoing 'problem' and still exists with the forum software upgrade, so I'll ask, here...

From the Pet Peeves thread:

My only pet peeve is that the forums are automatically marked as read after a certain amount of time. So if you get distracted, while reading the forums, you may find that they're suddenly all marked as read, so you can't tell which posts are new. Other forums don't necessarily do this, for example the Steve Hoffman music forums. I couldn't find any way to control that behaviour, nor can I find a way since the upgrade.

Is there some way to control this behaviour? It's very frustrating. I would prefer that threads are only marked as read if I've actually read them, rather than after some non-controllable time.
I actually started noticing this, too. Normally, unread threads get marked as read after one week. But I don't think your post triggered my "Unread Posts" alert in this thread at all. I'm going to close all tabs on DVD Talk, so please reply to me here so I can test this.

andicus 01-15-19 10:50 AM
Re: Jan. 3rd 2019 Upgrade Master Thread
 
Originally Posted by IBJoel (Post 13480862)
I actually started noticing this, too. Normally, unread threads get marked as read after one week. But I don't think your post triggered my "Unread Posts" alert in this thread at all. I'm going to close all tabs on DVD Talk, so please reply to me here so I can test this.
Here is your reply.

FWIW, this (all being marked read) happens within an hour, at least for me. That is really a guess, but I think it's a reasonable one.

Hailey G 01-15-19 10:52 AM
Re: Jan. 3rd 2019 Upgrade Master Thread
 
I think it's actually much shorter than that. If I stay logged into the site on my PC, and am inactive for 10 or 15 minutes, everything gets marked as read.

andicus 01-15-19 11:17 AM
Re: Jan. 3rd 2019 Upgrade Master Thread
 
You're probably right. I guess I meant that it's a reasonable guess relative to what Joel mentioned regarding a week.

b2net 01-15-19 02:16 PM
Re: Jan. 3rd 2019 Upgrade Master Thread
 
For me it is about 10-15 minutes before all are marked read.


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