Mambo Kings
Super Anarchist
Exactly what I would expect from a "mid-range" anarchist.
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Mambo Kings
Super Anarchist
Well Shaggy Tanty, how do you think the "mid range" members feel? Neither large nor small, just middle of the range?
I like seeing how long somebody has been a member. Its actually more useful than how many posts they have posted.
If somebody has posted 5,000 posts in 2 years, you at least know you are dealing with someone with forum diarrhea. If someone has posted 500 posts in 10 years then they are more likely to have collected their thoughts before posting.
If someone has been posting for 10 years they are less likely to be a recently created sock puppet , and even if it is a sock puppet , it has earned a certain kudos for being maintained that long!
So I vote for keeping the year that the poster joined.
ProaSailor
dreaming my life away...
In a way, that was possible on the old forum. The ability to delete an entire thread that you started, no matter how old or how many people had contributed to it, wiped out thousands of other peoples' posts. That's too much power to destroy content that was often carefully considered and useful. I saw it happen several times. It was not good!
Mambo Kings
Super Anarchist
THIS IS IMPORTANT.
What has happened to my nice carefully created profile picture? It has gone from a crystal clear logo that anyone who has sailed with or against me in real life or on sailX recognizes .....to a blurred oversized portion of the real thing?
(Is it time to free the Dawg?)
What has happened to my nice carefully created profile picture? It has gone from a crystal clear logo that anyone who has sailed with or against me in real life or on sailX recognizes .....to a blurred oversized portion of the real thing?
(Is it time to free the Dawg?)
billy backstay
Backstay, never bought a suit, never went to Vegas
Please put back the dark blue line that separates posts already, from newer unread posts??
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Jean-Baptiste
Member
Is it possible to increase the default font size?
Terry Hollis
Super Anarchist
It is if you are using a Windows Computer, Ctrl key + the scroll wheel on your mouse.
Jean-Baptiste
Member
Sorry I was unclear, iPad only, increasing the font in settings works for newspapers and such but this stays locked at a very small size.
bmiller
Super Anarchist
How do you hide signature lines?
ProaSailor
dreaming my life away...
Because people bitched about it. On a desktop browser, you can see it by hovering the mouse over the avatar image.
Profile Preferences: https://forums.sailinganarchy.com/account/preferences
It's there if you hover over the avatar.
SloopJonB
Super Anarchist
I see our user "classifications" have come back.
Kudos to Tech Admin for listening to this huge group of grumpy old farts.
Kudos to Tech Admin for listening to this huge group of grumpy old farts.
SloopJonB
Super Anarchist
Used to be able to message someone by hovering over their avatar - now it seems you have to start a message and key in their I.D.
Bring back the old way please.
Bring back the old way please.
floater
Super Duper Anarchist
I think its because each topic is narrower, more compressed vertically, and there is less white space between topics. also the headings themselves are perhaps too small (look like a 'verdana' font). stretched wide so also perhaps not as easily read.
when you read a page of text, there is a certain amount of white space between the rows or it becomes unreadable. that's what the layout of this forum now suffers from. it is not easy to quickly scan the topics to find the ones that hold interest - because its difficult to isolate the individual topics.
the irony, of course, is that far less topics are shown on a single page (far too few imo). so saving vertical space, at the expense of usability, would seem a poor tradeoff.
(edit: There is a subtle button in the bottom left corner of the page that says 'Change width'. seems to work!)
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ProaSailor
dreaming my life away...
The new owners have been impressively responsive to feedback. The 'Start Conversation' button is visible to me.
floater
Super Duper Anarchist
This does not bother me so much now that they have the "jump to latest unread post" functionality working. However, it does seem like a huge usability problem that so few topics are presented on the forum page itself. I had to click 5 times just to find a topic that was posted one week ago.
There are sailors I'm sure who only get onto this forum once or twice a week - but they aren't likely to click five times (through a difficult to read list of topics) just to find the topic that interested them. More topics per page please!
(edit: use button at the top right of the page that allows you to set the number of posts per page!)
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Marty Gingras
Mid-range Anarchist
There is a subtle button in the bottom left corner of the page that says 'Change width' Might help.
floater
Super Duper Anarchist
Does anybody know how to get the "multi-quote" functionality to work?
ProaSailor
dreaming my life away...
Have you not noticed the button at the top right of the page that allows you to set the number of posts (or threads) per page?
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I feel nd “well known member” to be totally lame.
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