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Vintage Veloce

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Love the new site.
I might go a bit smaller on the fonts to condense stuff a little bit.
And consider playing with the responsive design settings a bit. You can change the breakpoints.
If I use my phone in landscape, the headers and stuff jump to a pretty large size.
And on my tablet the headers are large in both portrait and landscape mode.
Personally, I like to set stuff up so even unregistered visitors see the threads, and not just the headers and an advert.
(Note the responsive design also effects whether signatures are shown, it is great deleting them in portrait mode on phones, as it does now on mine at least.)
 

merkyworks

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Thank you for your hard work on upgrading site.
Overall upgrades are very nice, but I'm with others on font "Default Style"switching to "XF 2.2" was a must for me.

"Default Style"
  • Font type hard to read
  • Page format/scale/layout to large (feels like 130% zoom)
    • Phone/11" Laptop it's so big/spread out it, reminds me of using a microfilm reader LOL. Making smaller/condensing would be welcome.
 
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Lassen Forge

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Thanks, Ryan... I know you're going to have a fun weekend... or 2... --lol--

One other thing - someone already mentioned it - I had my account to list IIRC 40 messages at a time... any way of bringing that variable back? Otherwise I lose entire pages of posts when I'm not constantly on!

Rock on, brother!
 

1982fxr

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Yep, font is really bad... BUT...To those unhappy with the font, go to your preferences (drop-down from your user name at the top) and change the "style" to "stock XF 2.2 style". This makes it similar to the old forums and much easier to read.
The top doesn't display my user name just my sig pic and I don't see any drop down...?

I'm not trying to be a jerk but the way this is displaying and operating for me, it is the most unusable forum format I've ever seen.
 

619DioFan

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I looked at my profile page but there is no longer any info there ( the info I loaded about myself ) also didnt see anything about pms there or how to send them now. saw some message about trophies but dont know what that means
 

Vintage Veloce

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The top doesn't display my user name just my sig pic and I don't see any drop down...?

I'm not trying to be a jerk but the way this is displaying and operating for me, it is the most unusable forum format I've ever seen.
The width of your window or screen can effect what you are seeing. On a phone or tablet rotate it. On a computer make the window wider...
 

Old Man Roger

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The top doesn't display my user name just my sig pic and I don't see any drop down...?

I'm not trying to be a jerk but the way this is displaying and operating for me, it is the most unusable forum format I've ever seen.
Click on your avatar picture and then look in the bottom left corner you should be able to click on the font type and choose
 

Old Man Roger

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I looked at my profile page but there is no longer any info there ( the info I loaded about myself ) also didnt see anything about pms there or how to send them now. saw some message about trophies but dont know what that means
Click on the envelope on the top right corner of the screen, and you can choose to start a new conversation. That’s what PMs are called now.
 

yatg

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Went into a thread I have in classified to say its sold, and there's no "post reply" button. After the last post at the lower right it says "You have insufficient privileges to reply here.".
 

rice rocket

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THANK YOU!

That font was brutal to try to read.

If other forums are happy with it, I picture those users as a bunch of old codgers with their screen resolution set to 640x480, heads tilted back, granny glasses perched on the ends of their noses and screen zoomed in so far they have to scroll to read a single post on this new fangled e-lec-tronic newspaper.
This.

Serif fonts display horribly on screens, especially really tall, narrow fonts. Serifs are meant for print, not for displays.

Pick almost any sans serif font, it will be a million times better.
 
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Went into a thread I have in classified to say its sold, and there's no "post reply" button. After the last post at the lower right it says "You have insufficient privileges to reply here.".

Thank you sir. Just put it on the list.
 

d42jeep

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I now seem to have to reduce the size of my pictures to upload. That is inconvenient and wasn’t necessary previously. Otherwise I’m slowly adjusting.
-Don
 
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I now seem to have to reduce the size of my pictures to upload. That is inconvenient and wasn’t necessary previously. Otherwise I’m slowly adjusting.
-Don

This is what I am currently working on... Should be fixed soon.
 

NewShockerGuy

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Was the theme update removed? This was the before, then when I go to perferences it's looks like the second picture.
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After:
gjafter.JPG

Is there a chance we can get a dark theme? I ask this because all the white is extremely "bright" in a way. Most forums I'm on there is a feature for a darker color theme and it makes browsing on a laptop/phone much easier on the eyes..etc.

It's funny seeing GJ and being used to how it looked for 10+ years, then it was down and now looks like it does all modern..lol. Nice job. definitely adding pictures is much nicer and you can put it in the thread and add text...etc. I didn't dislike the old way but this way is much better.

Thanks,
-Nigel
 

jtitus07

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Can you send me a link to that thread. If you are logged on, you should not be seeing that....


Here's an example. Some sub forums are better than others. This was the worst, but still representative of most.

ETA, another screenshot f a different sub forum
 

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It was mentioned previously, but I think it got overlooked. When trying to upload pictures that would normally work, I am getting an error saying the file is too large.
 

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Ryan, any way to get rid of the ads plastered everywhere? Thanks for all your efforts.
 
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Was the theme update removed? This was the before, then when I go to perferences it's looks like the second picture.
gjbefore.JPG

After:
gjafter.JPG

Is there a chance we can get a dark theme? I ask this because all the white is extremely "bright" in a way. Most forums I'm on there is a feature for a darker color theme and it makes browsing on a laptop/phone much easier on the eyes..etc.

It's funny seeing GJ and being used to how it looked for 10+ years, then it was down and now looks like it does all modern..lol. Nice job. definitely adding pictures is much nicer and you can put it in the thread and add text...etc. I didn't dislike the old way but this way is much better.

Thanks,
-Nigel

That was the default style. It was cached... I don't have the time right now to manage two styles... BUT, I will be doing a dark theme....
 

laser3kw

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Yep, font is really bad... BUT...To those unhappy with the font, go to your preferences (drop-down from your user name at the top) and change the "style" to "stock XF 2.2 style". This makes it similar to the old forums and much easier to read.
Hmm... I changed it to "stock XF 2.2 style" an hour or so ago and alll was good.
I came back (still logged in) and the font reverted back to original. Went back to preferences and "style" is gone. I am now stuck with the original. I logged out and back in and still no go - "styles" is gone in preferences.
 

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I can't afford the bandwidth at 100, but I just bumped it up from 20 to 30. Hope that helps.
Is this why there is no longer a feature to "View All" rather than going page by page when looking at a thread ?



As far as changing the font, I have no option to change style/font.
 
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Is this why there is no longer a feature to "View All" rather than going page by page when looking at a thread ?



As far as changing the font, I have no option to change style/font.

Correct. "View all" was a hack that I did with VB. I haven't tried to code that for Xenforo, but plan too...

I am working on fonts right now in an effort to ease the pain for some folks.
 

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I see where the "Style" button should be when Git posted a screen shot. However, on my drop down, Time Zone is the highest I can read where I suppose "style" is supposed to be at the top.

I see you have the font changed, Much better on the PC and on the phone. THANK YOU ! !
 
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I see where the "Style" button should be when Git posted a screen shot. However, on my drop down, Time Zone is the highest I can read where I suppose "style" is supposed to be at the top.

I see you have the font changed, Much better on the PC and on the phone. THANK YOU ! !

That was cached... if folks can see it now, they won't be able to for long...
 
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Either I am used to the original or you already changed it to something easier to read. Either way, my eyes say thank you!

I was getting font complaints right off the bat... and I was all like, "What the hell? I literally used the most readable font ever developed - the font used by the US highway system... How can these people complain?!"

And then I realized Garamond (the font I use in my blog posts) somehow got merged into the forum...

FML.
 

theoldwizard1

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Fonts need to be more readable... Tahoma is my choice. What we have is very hard to read for my eyes... and no... blowing it bigger is NOT good... there is already an extreme amount of "space" between things. I feel like I'm in an out of control bubble bath without my glasses. .
Use a font that has serifs !
 

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I was getting font complaints right off the bat... and I was all like, "What the hell? I literally used the most readable font ever developed - the font used by the US highway system... How can these people complain?!"

And then I realized Garamond (the font I use in my blog posts) somehow got merged into the forum...

FML.
LOL, same font as US Highway system. . . now I know why some people drive like they do ! (wanted to add a laughing smilie)

Please add new smilies to the Wanted List.
 
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LOL, same font as US Highway system. . . now I know why some people drive like they do ! (wanted to add a laughing smilie)

Please add new smilies to the Wanted List.

Yes sir... I am shopping now... And man, smilie sets are expensive as ****!
 

kaymccampbell

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Might as well pile it on. Search seems to be hit or miss. I'm assuming that the indexes haven't finished building, but just in case they have... There's holes.
 
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