Forum questions and suggestions directed to Admin
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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.
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Yes, I think that option to turn on that feature is pretty standard in most modern bulletin board software.
I just talked to @Axtremus and he said he will look at all the open items that have come up when he has a chance, but his schedule is quite full this week. I will try to look around, but my tech skill set is extremely limited and right now I'm mostly here to approve registration requests and to experiment with the site as a user, not an admin. I haven't been active in behind-the-scenes work since 1997. I have a lot of catching up to do and don't want to experiment and end up taking down the whole place.
But at least we know we can do a lot things if we want to!
