Forums upgraded

[drew.phillips]

This afternoon we upgraded the forums to the latest version of phpBB as well as created a new theme to match our new corporate branding. Additionally, the forums are now 100% responsive and work great on mobile phones and tablets.

Please let us know if you find any problems with the new version.

If you wish to change back to the older style, you can do so by following these steps:

• Go to your User Control Panel
• Click Board Preferences
• Change My board style from sonic to prosilver_sonic

Thanks!

[virtualmike]

Thanks for posting the notice!

I don't seem to be able to make the "Previous" and "Next" buttons to work when viewing a thread that has multiple pages. They don't appear to be live HTML links, but just plain text.

Here's the HTML I see when view source:

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<div class="btn-group topic-pagination">
<a href="" class="btn btn-default btn-sm disabled"><i class="fa fa-chevron-left"></i> Previous</a>
<a href="" class="btn btn-default btn-sm disabled">Next <i class="fa fa-chevron-right"></i></a>
			</div>

I'm using Firefox 46.0 on Windows 7 Pro 64-bit.

[drew.phillips]

Indeed that was the case, thanks for pointing it out Mike.

A last minute upgrade to the base theme changed a variable for pagination and prevented the Previous and Next page buttons from working. You should now see clickable pages numbers as well as forward and back arrows.

[tikvah]

Hi, I was wondering if you could please send full text with the email notifications? (by default or by choice) Especially for very active topics, it is such a PITA to have to log in every time because if you don't you 1) don't know what the reply says and 2) won't get any more notifications for that topic. I just want emails (every email, unless I unsub from the topic) so I can follow it easily. Or at least the choice to do so. Does your new system do this?

Thanks!

[virtualmike]

Thanks, Drew. Yes, I see the numbers and arrows, and I am able to navigate between pages.

Could I ask for another "fix"?

Under the older software, from the "Unread posts" page, I could click the icon to the left of the thread subject, and I would be taken to the first unread message.

With the upgrade, when I click the icon, I'm taken to the first message in the discussion (even though the tooltip says "Unread posts"). At that point, there is a button that says "First unread post," which I can click to be taken to the first unread message.

Is it possible to have a click on the "Unread posts" icon take me directly to the first unread message?

Why is this important?

When I pull up the "Unread posts" page, there usually are 4-8 threads with new messages. In the past, I would middle-click on each icon, so each thread would be opened in a separate tab. I could let the tabs open "in the background," positioned at the first message, while I read the first one. With this change, each time I switch to a tab, I have to click the "First unread post" button and wait for the tab to reload to the correct place.

Does my description make sense? Any chance of changing the behavior to mirror the old software? Thanks for your consideration!

[virtualmike]

... send full text with the email notifications? (by default or by choice)

Only by choice with opt-in, please. If I get hammered by email, then I'll disable it completely.

[tikvah]

... send full text with the email notifications? (by default or by choice)

Only by choice with opt-in, please. If I get hammered by email, then I'll disable it completely.

Choice is good. But I would love to be able to change the default action *for my account*. Meaning I'd go to settings and set it once. Then I could change it for individual threads. I wouldn't want notifications for every reply in the "here's a new number to block" threads, for example. But I do want to be given full text of the replies every time I do get a notification. And I don't want notifications to turn off until I go to the thread and unfollow it.

I'm active on another forum that uses different BB software. They have a choice between "immediate" and "daily" each time you follow a thread (also one for "when I'm offline only"). I've tried both. The immediate gives you notifications and no text. You have to click each time, though at least it doesn't stop notifications until you log in. The daily gives notifications several times a day (weird huh) with full text. If several replies come in at once, it will put them in the same notification. Not sure why it isn't a true daily digest, but a daily digest feature would certainly be a good option for most threads (for anything thread I start, I would want immediate notification).

[gandc]

Under the older software, from the "Unread posts" page, I could click the icon to the left of the thread subject, and I would be taken to the first unread message.

With the upgrade, when I click the icon, I'm taken to the first message in the discussion (even though the tooltip says "Unread posts"). At that point, there is a button that says "First unread post," which I can click to be taken to the first unread message.

Is it possible to have a click on the "Unread posts" icon take me directly to the first unread message?

I think you want the little ">" button to the right of the topic title.

Took me a few tries to find that, especially since the large button to the left has that not-so-accurate tooltip.

[drew.phillips]

I think you want the little ">" button to the right of the topic title.

Took me a few tries to find that, especially since the large button to the left has that not-so-accurate tooltip.

This is correct. On threads with unread posts, a blue ">" icon appears to the right of the topic title just left of the ">>" icon which takes you to the last post. Clicking the blue ">" takes you to the first unread post based on what you have or have not already looked at in the thread.

[virtualmike]

Thanks, gandc and Drew. There's no tooltip, so I had no idea what the arrow does.