New Forum Software
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All,
While I understand this new forum is new. It’s ultimately easier to keep up to date. The Forums we had were not a free version of software and had been very much out of date. We’re all getting used to this new system as well. In the meantime, you’re correct it’s new and different, but ultimately it will be for the better. We still have the old forums if some major reason (other than I don’t like the layout) we need a failsafe, but for right now, I suggest getting used to the new items.
It may seem awkward at first, but I think you will find it much better down the road.
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Maybe it is just me, but it seems like some of the posts are missing information. For example, andyroo54’s tutorial I think is missing a bunch of information that used to be above what is now posted (how to set-up the VM, etc).
It’s also not stickied at the top of the tutorials, which I think it used to be?
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The new forums default to display newest items first. The Main post stays at the top of the page to make things out of context if possible.
You can adjust the view of this to your own liking by choosing sort by and selecting your desired output of display.
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Thanks Tom, that was definitely a help. However, I believe the tutorial is still missing some info at the top. It starts with section c, no a or b, which if I remember correctly covered setting up the VM.
Am I missing something obvious?
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@Les-Lambert said:
Thanks Tom, that was definitely a help. However, I believe the tutorial is still missing some info at the top. It starts with section c, no a or b, which if I remember correctly covered setting up the VM.
Am I missing something obvious?
I don’t know if they were there or not. It does seem a bit odd to leave off starting with letter C), but it also may be something very very simple.
I understand wanting to setup a VM and all, and I’ll see if I can figure out what happened.
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What i noticed, is that the search is not working really well. If search “image size on server” i get every result matching one of these words. I tried diffrent search phrases, but the problem is the same.
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After a day of using it, I actually really like it - so long as you can find a way to redirect old forum links for anyone who might have hardlinked to threads here!
What does the forum use now?
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We are actually going to add old forum redirect this up coming week. This new forums runs on Nodebb
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@Jbob said:
If posting a problem / question with FOG, please click the down arrow next to Submit and click “Ask as question”. This will flag the thread as a question for us and put a status flag next to the title.
Just open a new thread, didn’t had any option to mark as a question. Don’t know if I’m blind or if there really is no option
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Sorry about that, it would appear only a moderator can do that. (We’ve appointed a few to help out with this).
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@Trevelyan said:
After a day of using it, I actually really like it - so long as you can find a way to redirect old forum links for anyone who might have hardlinked to threads here!
What does the forum use now?
I know that I hard-linked a TON to old forum posts.
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I’m not entirely sold on this new software and its interface. I’m finding it cluttered.
My biggest peeve right now is the sorting.
Viewing a forum post with more than a couple of replies is tedious.
Instead of viewing a simple ascending chronological list of post and replies from top to bottom, eg:
A post
b reply
c reply
d reply
pagination (which I’ve turned off for my probile)
e reply
f replyThis new style of:
A post
z reply
y reply
x reply
w reply
pagination
A post
v reply
u reply
t reply
s reply etc…Forcing the user to the bottom of the last page/post then rescrolling back up through the posts and backwards through the pages (if pagination is turned on) is time consuming. I’m puzzled why this particular wheel was reinvented instead of sticking with the simple ascending chronological.
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Whoa… how do I edit an existing post of mine?
Don’t all cultures read top to bottom? I find reading bottom to top jarring and slow.
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I’m proving my own case. Okay, I found the sort oldest to newest. yay me. Now I can’t go back and remove my foot from my mouth that my initial reply induced.
Danger! Wil Robinson …
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I’m going to blame the 3 day old migraine I’m trying to think through… yah, that’s it.
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@sudburr I agree that it’s a change and a large change at that.
What I love most about this forum over the old, beyond that we can keep updating it as it’s 100% free and opensource just like FOG is, is that it’s user customizable. We may setup defaults, but those defaults do NOT need to be what you must always follow.
I actually find the
A - Original post z - Latest reply y - reply before z x - reply before y ..........very much handy. Of course what I like isn’t what everyone is going to like. I enabled pagination simply because others are more comfortable with that style. The sorting is totally up to you, and even the pagination system is totally up to you.
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I’ve gotten used to how the posts are organized.
I strongly dislike how search is performing.
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Okay, I’m now warming to the view style. I’ve set oldest > newest … and it is thankfully became a universal setting once I finished reading through every single thread I had already opened.
The top level topic and downstream topic screens I’m not so crazy about; but then I’m bypassing that altogether for reading by going straight to the unread instead.
I really, REALLY miss the ability to edit a post after posting.
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You can still edit a post. Click the three dots on the right of your post and click Edit.
