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Might just be me but the new forum layout is hard to navigate. It used to be that vexforum.com was sorted by recent posts and that vexforum.com/forum was sorted into the annoying categories but now it doesn’t seem possible to get back to the plain view I always used.
I think I have to check 10 different categories to see if there is an unread thread on the forum.
I’m not sure if this is a bug or if it is designed this way, but the navigation bar on the right gets cutoff on the bottom (I have to scoll down quite a bit before I can click the “latest” button).
Where is my Avatar? Where is my sig, most importantly where are my private messages? I was in the middle of replying to one this morning when the update started. I’m sure it’s all here somewhere but I’m having a really hard time with the “light” color scheme, how do I change that to something these old eyes can see?
One thing I liked on the old layout was the ability to see the original date and author of a thread when seeing the list of threads (i.e. on the home page). Any chance that can be visible here?
Edit: Another thing, is it possible to see the exact date of something, instead of “XXX ago”? When it’s talking about minutes or hours ago I think it’s nice, but it gets a bit annoying and vague when it gets to “a month ago” or “a year ago”.
Also, links are now shown in full length, and when they’re long they extend past the edge of the post and you need to scroll sideways until the end. It would be nice if these would be shortened like on the old forum.
I actually sort of see you sig Griffin, but just the image link with bbcode tags. Also, how do I find my attachments? I often use that to find old threads. And where is advanced search? How do I find threads by a specific poster? Must be a FAQ somewhere I guess.
Another way is to use the search bar. When you click it some options will pop up. I was able to find this thread again by clicking on “order by newest” and “contributor:member” and typing in “jpearman.” What actually is written into the search bar is “#order by newest + #contributor:jpearman.”
I’m sure it’s somewhere, but is there a way to click to get to the last message or the first unread message of a thread?
I also just noticed that when you hover over the green dot beside a user’s name you can see which thread they’re looking at. Not sure if I should find that cool or creepy, lol.
Took a look at my ConVEX thread, most of the bbcode is not working.
Text size, Attachments, things like that, perhaps the migration is still happening.
I think it’s nice to see what other people are looking at, but it also keeps me wondering who is looking to see what I’m looking at. (insert laughing face here - is there a way to do that?)
I don’t know if this will keep the threads with the newest posts at the top of the page, but I’ve been using the search bar with “#unread + #order by newest”. The ordering function might do it by thread age, though, and not by newest posts. I’m not sure.
