Forum questions and suggestions directed to Admin
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Ahh, in your second photo you have the chat icon (in between the bell and your avatar).
How odd that it’s not the same as what I see. I have that chat icon on my main page and it’s there all the time.
In any case, if you have a Minnie Mouse ears, you’ll know you have messaged, I guess.
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Oh, okay. I don’t have that speech bubble, but I do have 2 alerts on my avatar. (I look like Minnie Mouse!)
When I click on my avatar, another menu opens, and it shows that I have an alert, and a chat. Here’s a picture:
Apparently SK and I use our iPads in landscape mode, and you prefer portrait!
When the iPad is in portrait mode, the notification and chat icons get rolled into Minnie Mouse ears. Tap your avatar and it expands them as shown in your second pic.
In landscape mode, they are visible all the time.
When the world wearies and society ceases to satisfy, there is always the garden - Minnie Aumônier
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Minimum post length. @Jack-Frost discovered that the minimum number of characters for a post is 8 when he tried to post "IPA" as his response in the favorite summer beverage thread. Should we make that shorter, like maybe a single character or two. so people could respond "no" to something without having to pad the post?
When the world wearies and society ceases to satisfy, there is always the garden - Minnie Aumônier
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Yes, definitely reduce the minimum number to 1 if possible.
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Apparently SK and I use our iPads in landscape mode, and you prefer portrait!
When the iPad is in portrait mode, the notification and chat icons get rolled into Minnie Mouse ears. Tap your avatar and it expands them as shown in your second pic.
In landscape mode, they are visible all the time.
@wtg I use my iPad in landscape mode! The picture I sent before is just a square because I use Layout for Instagram to make collages.
I’m using one of the skins, but I don’t think that’s the issue. (Superhero, it has a lot of dark space which makes reading easier.)
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@ShiroKuro I’ve run into the “too short post” twice already; I guess I like short answers!
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Minimum post length. @Jack-Frost discovered that the minimum number of characters for a post is 8 when he tried to post "IPA" as his response in the favorite summer beverage thread. Should we make that shorter, like maybe a single character or two. so people could respond "no" to something without having to pad the post?
@wtg said in Forum questions and suggestions directed to Admin:
Minimum post length. @Jack-Frost discovered that the minimum number of characters for a post is 8 ...
Reduced "minimum title length" and "minimum post length" to 1 by popular request.
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So as folks test the waters here we will begin to develop a list of likes/dislikes. It's very rich functionally, but I'm still at that initial stage of getting to feel like it's a comfortable fit.
I'm seeing some things that I'd like to get your input on as you use the software. Because we have control of the software, we can make global changes to the overall style/format so that it works well for as many people as possible. And each user can select a skin. The good news is that we have a lot of choices. The bad news is that we have a lot of choices.
So far my take is that the style, the overall look of the forum, is OK but I think there are better ones. The one TNCR uses, for instance.. I think they started with the one we are using here but subsequently switched to this:
https://nodebb.the-new-coffee-room.club/category/2/general-discussion
Thoughts on the overall layout? Font sizes? Let's just start with those.
Ax increased the font size. Need to go bigger? Keep as is?
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FYI, right now WTF-Beta uses the "Persona" theme, TNCR uses the "Harmony" theme.
Each individual user gets to choose which "skin" to use -- "skin" large deals with colors.
"Theme" is set for the entire forum -- "theme" deals with layouts.Changing "skin" can be easily done anytime by an individual user.
Changing "theme" needs an admin to select the intended "theme" and then restart the forum software for the new theme to take effect. -
I've gone thru almost all of them. I'll like a particular one for a while but then find some screen where the contrast or colors don't work for me. And it's so bad that I can't understand how whoever designed it did it that say. Sort of like black text on a black background problem. Or text that washes out.
I'm back to the default skin, which is no skin.
