Forums upgraded

[Lord Avalon]

times fixed

[snoopy369]

Has anyone else tried the Mobile theme? I'm on a Palm Treo 700wx and it's nice and streamlined. Quick load time too. I can post at work very easily!

I'm vaguely interested into how you actually got into the mobile theme. I thought I disabled it except for those visiting m.apolyton.net ...

[Jaybe]

Snoop, it's accessible from the Control Panel/Edit User Options (not from the Quick Style Chooser).

[Tuberski]

The ad serving system did set the timezone to UTC some time through pageload, and didn't set it back. That's why it affected users that are to see ads.

Thanks.

I never see ads, but I know what you are saying.

ACK!

[Harry Tuttle]

Snoop, it's accessible from the Control Panel/Edit User Options (not from the Quick Style Chooser).

Yup, still there.

Now I just logged in from my home computer and the style was still the Mobile style, which as DaveV found out was very hard to change. I had to use the link Gramphos added. It would be nice to restrict the style to the mobile address and have the theme not be permanently switched, ala Facebook mobile.

Some notes:

1. I saw a spelling mistake in the quick search. The quick search lets you hop from sub-forum to sub-forum.

2. The "New Post" list is hard to navigate because none of the thread titles identify which forum they are posted in. A simple abbreviation before the thread title might be nice.

3. For some reason I keep getting logged out after about a half hour of inactivity. I don't know if that is just for the forum as a whole or if it has to do with the mobile format.

4. Smiley codes actually have a link, that when clicked, direct me to a picture of a smiley. I understand it's a code for a picture, but when scrolling with my directional pad I would rather not have the cursor stop on every smiley code.

5. There seems to be a lot of double spacing when the full forum list is displayed. My screen is small so this causes me to scroll down many, many times. Why not just have the forums single spaced, right after another and allow me to see more at one time.

[DaveV]

Originally Posted by DaveV
Arrrgh! I switched to this theme to try it on my computer, and now I can't figure out how to switch back to a more computer-friendly theme .

http://apolyton.net/forums/?styleid=12

Thanks .

[snoopy369]

Yup, still there.

Now I just logged in from my home computer and the style was still the Mobile style, which as DaveV found out was very hard to change. I had to use the link Gramphos added. It would be nice to restrict the style to the mobile address and have the theme not be permanently switched, ala Facebook mobile.

Some notes:

1. I saw a spelling mistake in the quick search. The quick search lets you hop from sub-forum to sub-forum.

2. The "New Post" list is hard to navigate because none of the thread titles identify which forum they are posted in. A simple abbreviation before the thread title might be nice.

3. For some reason I keep getting logged out after about a half hour of inactivity. I don't know if that is just for the forum as a whole or if it has to do with the mobile format.

4. Smiley codes actually have a link, that when clicked, direct me to a picture of a smiley. I understand it's a code for a picture, but when scrolling with my directional pad I would rather not have the cursor stop on every smiley code.

5. There seems to be a lot of double spacing when the full forum list is displayed. My screen is small so this causes me to scroll down many, many times. Why not just have the forums single spaced, right after another and allow me to see more at one time.

It is automatic if you access m.apolyton.net (and eventually will force you to that if you're on a phone, if people agree that's a good thing). I didn't intend it to be available from the control panel, and installed a plugin to prevent that ... apparently that removes it from the quickstyle chooser but not the control panel. If you only access it from m.apolyton.net it should not change your general setting for apolyton.net

What spelling mistake? Can you point it out? Are you talking about the Forum Jump box, or something else?

Not sure what is causing the doublespacing, i'll look at that and the smiley codes being links (in theory they are being replaced with : - ) w/o spaces, but that doesn't seem to work properly). I don't think the logout has anything to do with the style, but I could be wrong. (I don't get logged out of the regular site - i'll test the mobile style right now.)

Thanks for playing around with it ... it's mostly intended to be a beta-feature as we work on other styles, it's one I am trying to do, but it's not really getting a lot of attention as of yet.

[Harry Tuttle]

..Of course now that I scrutinize the Forum Jump Box I can't find the spelling mistake. I guess attribute that to tired eyes.

[snoopy369]

Well, definitely fixed the doublespacing (it was supposed to indicate a new post in that thread, I think ... either way it was just odd).

Can't easily get the forum name into the new posts list (though I did add the My Threads link, if you notice). I can easily get it when you're browsing a forum, but the variable that has the forum name is undefined in either new threads or my threads. I'll think about it some more and maybe someone else like Gramphos will have some ideas.

[snoopy369]

Hmm, the image thing is a bit of a cheat. It's just doing a on-the-fly replacement of the end of the < a ... class=inlineimg> with : - ) < /a>. I might be able to work something out with regexp but this might not happen or might need gramphos' expertise also.

[Ben Kenobi]

Can we get rid of this implicit wrap bull****?

My sig is now borked. It fits fine in 4 lines when displayed, but it keeps trying to wrap the code so it thinks it is much bigger.

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[snoopy369]

There will always be a maximum length to a sig line. We are discussing whether that number needs to increase or not. Realize that on different displays and different styles, your sig may be 4 lines, 6 lines, or even 7 lines - your lines are very long.

[Ben Kenobi]

I just need to know how long a 'length' is, right now I'm not getting any feedback from the wysiwyg.

[Ben Kenobi]

Ok it's about half a screen. Thanks snoopy. I was just frusterated trying to figure out how wide a line really was.

[snoopy369]

Length is 90 characters (regardless of actual length).