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New website 19/09/2016 at 17:07 #85136
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359 posts 		Pressing F1 in-sim to bring up the wiki has broken because the link appears to have changed.
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New website 19/09/2016 at 17:27 #85137
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1461 posts 		Regarding the forum software, is it possible to change the behaviour so that clicking on a topic takes the user to the page with the post they last viewed (old default behaviour), or at least show page numbers to choose from? Perhaps I'm too used to the luxuries of the old forum...
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New website 20/09/2016 at 04:51 #85145
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386 posts 		Danny252 said:
Is the Simsig logo appearing ridiculously large on all pages for anyone else? Illustrated: http://i.imgur.com/wRdnFon.png
Me too. Firefox 45.3.0 on Linux amd64. It seems to be appearing at the natural size of the actual file, which is 1500×516, rather than being scaled in the browser “responsively”. Also the raw file is 1.6 megabytes, which is rather a steep price to pay for a site logo for anyone on a low-end connection!
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New website 20/09/2016 at 08:00 #85150
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Online 		It does on my PC if using Internet Explorer 11, but not if using Microsoft Edge or Google Chrome
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New website 20/09/2016 at 08:34 #85151
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1461 posts 		Hawk777 said:
Also the raw file is 1.6 megabytes, which is rather a steep price to pay for a site logo for anyone on a low-end connection!
And a horribly upscaled version of a lower resolution image, at that!
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New website 20/09/2016 at 15:21 #85155
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4869 posts 		Danny252 said:
Hawk777 said:
Also the raw file is 1.6 megabytes, which is rather a steep price to pay for a site logo for anyone on a low-end connection!
And a horribly upscaled version of a lower resolution image, at that!
I've logged Mantis 15901 as I'm now seeing it across all browsers since this morning.
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New website 20/09/2016 at 16:14 #85156
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963 posts 		headshot119 said:
Danny252 said:
Hawk777 said:
Also the raw file is 1.6 megabytes, which is rather a steep price to pay for a site logo for anyone on a low-end connection!
And a horribly upscaled version of a lower resolution image, at that!
I've logged Mantis 15901 as I'm now seeing it across all browsers since this morning.
Does changing the width of the window affect it? It does on my system.


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New website 20/09/2016 at 20:22 #85165
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3922 posts 		headshot119 said:
Danny252 said:
Hawk777 said:
Also the raw file is 1.6 megabytes, which is rather a steep price to pay for a site logo for anyone on a low-end connection!
And a horribly upscaled version of a lower resolution image, at that!
I've logged Mantis 15901 as I'm now seeing it across all browsers since this morning.
Probably related, but the scrolling 'news' bar on the home page has had its dimensions messed up- it's now stretched vertically.
"Don't stress/ relax/ let life roll off your backs./ Except for death and paying taxes/ everything in life.../ is only for now." (Avenue Q)
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New website 21/09/2016 at 04:27 #85172
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386 posts 		KymriskaDraken said:
headshot119 said:
Danny252 said:
Hawk777 said:
Also the raw file is 1.6 megabytes, which is rather a steep price to pay for a site logo for anyone on a low-end connection!
And a horribly upscaled version of a lower resolution image, at that!
I've logged Mantis 15901 as I'm now seeing it across all browsers since this morning.
Does changing the width of the window affect it? It does on my system.


Kev
Yes and no. The logo disappears completely when the window is smaller than about 1080-something pixels wide. Above that width, the logo looks exactly the same no matter the window width and in fact produces a horizontal scrollbar if the window becomes narrower than the logo image.
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New website 21/09/2016 at 08:47 #85173
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1089 posts 		Steamer said:


Probably related, but the scrolling 'news' bar on the home page has had its dimensions messed up- it's now stretched vertically.
I think this happened because the lefthand panel (shout, upcoming games ads boxes etc) has been extended, ie increased in width, and as a result to try and keep page demensions had to decrease the width of anything to the right of it so the scolling news bar had its width decreased and so now looks streched
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New website 21/09/2016 at 15:06 #85198
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251 posts 		northroad said:
[quote=GeoffM]Sorry but I cannot go on looking at the new web site without voicing my dismay on the colour scheme and some of the font size. A trip to spec savers might help but I am sure that I am not the only one who has difficulty reading some of the text that now appears in a faint green colour. This starts with the message headers in the forum and seems to be true on many of other pages. Do we really need to have text which even if it is in black seems to be so faint that it fades away completely to me. Some of the text that appears in the posts quoting previous replies to the post are so small that they cannot be read.
I do like the formats that have been included and are generally happy with the new look it,s just that I would like to be able to read it.

I'm also having this issue, most notably when in the faint green colour but even some of the small black text isn't that easy to read.
Last edited: 21/09/2016 at 15:07 by Zoe
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New website 21/09/2016 at 16:51 #85205
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6284 posts 		Zoe said:
northroad said:
[quote=GeoffM]Sorry but I cannot go on looking at the new web site without voicing my dismay on the colour scheme and some of the font size. A trip to spec savers might help but I am sure that I am not the only one who has difficulty reading some of the text that now appears in a faint green colour. This starts with the message headers in the forum and seems to be true on many of other pages. Do we really need to have text which even if it is in black seems to be so faint that it fades away completely to me. Some of the text that appears in the posts quoting previous replies to the post are so small that they cannot be read.
I do like the formats that have been included and are generally happy with the new look it,s just that I would like to be able to read it.

I'm also having this issue, most notably when in the faint green colour but even some of the small black text isn't that easy to read.
Still improving things but hopefully what you see so far is in itself an improvement?
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New website 21/09/2016 at 16:55 #85206
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386 posts 		Its the different sizes of font for different depth of quotes I find strange.
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New website 21/09/2016 at 16:59 #85209
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1461 posts 		Regarding the large logo (Mantis 15901), it appeared to be displaying more properly today, although it's still the same >1MB image.

(Not as bad as another site which had slideshows of a dozen or so images, each several megabytes in size...)
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New website 21/09/2016 at 17:08 #85210
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251 posts 		GeoffM said:
Zoe said:
northroad said:
[quote=GeoffM]Sorry but I cannot go on looking at the new web site without voicing my dismay on the colour scheme and some of the font size. A trip to spec savers might help but I am sure that I am not the only one who has difficulty reading some of the text that now appears in a faint green colour. This starts with the message headers in the forum and seems to be true on many of other pages. Do we really need to have text which even if it is in black seems to be so faint that it fades away completely to me. Some of the text that appears in the posts quoting previous replies to the post are so small that they cannot be read.
I do like the formats that have been included and are generally happy with the new look it,s just that I would like to be able to read it.

I'm also having this issue, most notably when in the faint green colour but even some of the small black text isn't that easy to read.
Still improving things but hopefully what you see so far is in itself an improvement?

Yes although the hardest text to read seems to be where text is quoted at more than one level and also on the forum index page where it says "Latest post" and within the threads where the username is to the left of each post. Also in the shout box (except the username).
Last edited: 21/09/2016 at 17:15 by Zoe
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New website 22/09/2016 at 07:54 #85248
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386 posts 		The mobile site is poorly implemented. The avatar unnecessarily takes up over half the screen on the forum pages and even if it didn't, the text still wouldn't fit a screen width. You shouldn't have to keep swiping left and right in order to read a post, it should be scaled to fit the screen width. Perhaps consider putting the poster's name above the post rather than to the side and also dispensing with the avatar for the mobile site.
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New website 22/09/2016 at 08:33 #85250
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386 posts 		The mobile site doesn't appear to be updating, posts that are showing on the desktop site are not showing on the mobile site.

The time stamp of posts on the mobile site is an hour different to the desktop site.
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Mobile layout 22/09/2016 at 12:48 #85255
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889 posts 		@Dick: The width issues were already mentioned here. The missing posts and differing timestamps seem weird though - especially since as to my knowledge the mobile page is just using a different CSS style, with the actual HTML content being the same.
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New website 22/09/2016 at 12:49 #85256
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509 posts 		Danny252 said:
Regarding the large logo (Mantis 15901), it appeared to be displaying more properly today, although it's still the same >1MB image.

(Not as bad as another site which had slideshows of a dozen or so images, each several megabytes in size...)
Headshot/Geoff – I took the liberty of creating an SVG version of the logo during the week (I was bored and needed something to do). The font isn’t correct but the rest of the logo looks identical (much tidier) and comes in at 384 bytes, I have made a couple of test PNGs – 1500×516 @ 39.4kiB (original resolution) and 259×89 @ 6.1kiB (website resolution). I am happy to send them to you in their current state, or, if you let me know what the font used in the logo is, I can update and send you the newer versions.
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New website 22/09/2016 at 13:37 #85261
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386 posts 		Jan said:
@Dick: The width issues were already mentioned here. The missing posts and differing timestamps seem weird though - especially since as to my knowledge the mobile page is just using a different CSS style, with the actual HTML content being the same.
Sorry, missed the width issue in that thread. I did check the ongoing and fixed problems page but saw no mention there.
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New website 22/09/2016 at 19:23 #85271
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870 posts 		Zoe said:
GeoffM said:
Zoe said:
northroad said:
[quote=GeoffM]Sorry but I cannot go on looking at the new web site without voicing my dismay on the colour scheme and some of the font size. A trip to spec savers might help but I am sure that I am not the only one who has difficulty reading some of the text that now appears in a faint green colour. This starts with the message headers in the forum and seems to be true on many of other pages. Do we really need to have text which even if it is in black seems to be so faint that it fades away completely to me. Some of the text that appears in the posts quoting previous replies to the post are so small that they cannot be read.
I do like the formats that have been included and are generally happy with the new look it,s just that I would like to be able to read it.

I'm also having this issue, most notably when in the faint green colour but even some of the small black text isn't that easy to read.
Still improving things but hopefully what you see so far is in itself an improvement?

Yes although the hardest text to read seems to be where text is quoted at more than one level and also on the forum index page where it says "Latest post" and within the threads where the username is to the left of each post. Also in the shout box (except the username).
Would like to say that things have improved with all the tinkering that has gone on but as you can see from this post the size of text problem is still.not resolved.
We now have all posts dating back to July showing as a new post, the forum box that has been added now shows mumble jumble and the text on some of the green headers still being unreadable. I have just tried to read previous posts on the topic New Website and had a post with the header Mobile website thrown in for good measure.
I know the team are doing their best to sort the problems but using the site at the moment is not as an enjoyable experience as it was before all theses changes were made.
Last edited: 22/09/2016 at 19:26 by northroad
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New website 22/09/2016 at 19:51 #85272
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5190 posts 		1) My Account > Edit my profile > My subscriptions > Back brings up 404.

2) Can't find how to enable e-mail notification when PM is received. No e-mail currently being received.
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New website 22/09/2016 at 20:42 #85282
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5190 posts 		Under the Fixed items on the Wiki page is:

Default to first unread post in a thread (or at least have some way to get there; it used to be optional where clicking the thread name would take you to the first page of the thread while the X New Posts text would take you to the first new post)

On my system the default when there is/are unread message(s) is now the last posting in the thread not the first unread posting.
“In life, there is always someone out there, who won’t like you, for whatever reason, don’t let the insecurities in their lives affect yours.” – Rashida Rowe
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New website 22/09/2016 at 21:49 #85289
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3922 posts 		Regarding post count only showing new website posts- strangely, if you view someone's profile, the correct number is shown.
"Don't stress/ relax/ let life roll off your backs./ Except for death and paying taxes/ everything in life.../ is only for now." (Avenue Q)
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New website 22/09/2016 at 22:01 #85291
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2158 posts 		Geoff,

Sorry if this has been mentioned in the thousands of posts. For us Seniors, we need a "Preview" in writing posts.`

Barry
Barry, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
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