topic Re: New skin bugs and tweaks in Community Site Feedback

New skin bugs and tweaks

Kelly — Wed, 06 Feb 2008 15:41:35 GMT

I've started a new thread to put any little thing you spot for us to clean up. Try and be nice and specific.

Re: New skin bugs and tweaks

Kelly — Wed, 06 Feb 2008 15:42:55 GMT

- Unread posts / replies to your posts page has the first column very cramped.
- report to moderator option and signature not very tidy on posts. Could be displayed better.
- no easy differentiation between more popular blog posts on front page.

Re: New skin bugs and tweaks

James — Wed, 06 Feb 2008 15:43:31 GMT

Kelly & Jonny,
As discussed, on the front page it would be nice to see some form of differentiation between the start and the end of each forum and blog post.

Re: New skin bugs and tweaks

Chris — Wed, 06 Feb 2008 15:56:36 GMT

Browsing between the other tabs (home, blogs, polls) shows a login link in the top corner, trying to log back in then transports you to the forums no matter which tab you were currently looking at. Once you browse back to that tab it shows 'login' again.

Re: New skin bugs and tweaks

MarkC — Wed, 06 Feb 2008 16:07:49 GMT

If you are reading a forum post (like this one) and you click on the Community logo at the top left it just refreshes the forum post, instead of taking you back to the community front page (which I expected it to do).
On the home, blogs or polls tabs it works fine, on the forum tab it just refreshes the screen you are in.
Mark.

Re: New skin bugs and tweaks

itsme — Wed, 06 Feb 2008 16:21:42 GMT

Does PN do any QA before releasing or do they rely on the community to do their testing?
There is no key for the colours used for Users on Line.

Re: New skin bugs and tweaks

James — Wed, 06 Feb 2008 16:22:20 GMT

About a months worth!

Re: New skin bugs and tweaks

Neil_A — Wed, 06 Feb 2008 16:24:50 GMT

When posting a comment on a news item or blog the returns are taken out. Example:
"Test 1
Test 2"
becomes:
"Test1
Test2"
See my latest comment on the TalkTalk lawyers blog.

Re: New skin bugs and tweaks

James — Wed, 06 Feb 2008 16:28:16 GMT

http://community.plus.net/blog/2008/02/04/talktalk-lawyers-target-plusnet/#comments
Also from Neils comment in his blog, the link he's posted at the end runs off the page.

Re: New skin bugs and tweaks

jelv — Wed, 06 Feb 2008 16:39:02 GMT

Quote from: itsme
Does PN do any QA before releasing or do they rely on the community to do their testing?
There is no key for the colours used for Users on Line.

The new forums have been available for testing for ages and discussed at great length in this very forum!
See New Community Site Skin - Testing/Feedback (210 replies)
and New Community Skin (Take 2) (78 replies)
I honestly don't know what more Plusnet could have done to get users comments before it was implemented!

Re: New skin bugs and tweaks

Kelly — Wed, 06 Feb 2008 16:41:13 GMT

We'll sort the colour legend.

Re: New skin bugs and tweaks

itsme — Wed, 06 Feb 2008 16:41:40 GMT

Quote from: Jameseh
About a months worth!

Still can't see a key for the colours used for the active users, an example where I mean is below.

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Re: New skin bugs and tweaks

Colin — Wed, 06 Feb 2008 16:42:21 GMT

That's an oversight which will be added back at a later date.

Re: New skin bugs and tweaks

itsme — Wed, 06 Feb 2008 16:48:47 GMT

Quote from: jelv
Quote from: itsme
Does PN do any QA before releasing or do they rely on the community to do their testing?
There is no key for the colours used for Users on Line.

The new forums have been available for testing for ages and discussed at great length in this very forum!
See New Community Site Skin - Testing/Feedback (210 replies)
and New Community Skin (Take 2) (78 replies)
I honestly don't know what more Plusnet could have done to get users comments before it was implemented!

So what I have pointed out was not picked up by 'available for testing for ages and discussed at great length in this very forum!'.
Does PN generate specifications and test scripts for the software they produce or is it a suck it and see approach. If you ask your users to feed bugs and comments then I suggest they go for the latter.

Re: New skin bugs and tweaks

jelv — Wed, 06 Feb 2008 16:49:10 GMT

Colin
The login at the top issue looks to be exactly the same problem as I had with the Wordpress SMF integration on the beta forums. Is it pointing at the right databases? Is it only people who have recently changed their passwords that are affected, would changing our passwords get things back in sync again?

Re: New skin bugs and tweaks

Kelly — Wed, 06 Feb 2008 16:50:48 GMT

We know what the problem is. People will need to log in again, but we need to do a DB clean up first. Should be very soon.

Re: New skin bugs and tweaks

Colin — Wed, 06 Feb 2008 16:52:11 GMT

No, it's osmething completely different here
Basically, all the cookies have changed (deliberately, but I forgot about it) and we're going to need to require people to login again. We're likely to be forcing this at some point in the next hour, anyway.

Re: New skin bugs and tweaks

zubel — Wed, 06 Feb 2008 16:59:53 GMT

Idea: Downscale the "title bar" and "signature" font by 1 point.
Title bar is where is says: "Post #1 posted on blah blah" (and where the moderator merge/delete etc links are)
B.
EDIT: set div.signature and span.smalltext to 8pt font. Helps delineate the header and footer from the message body (albeit the most important part of the post ;))

Re: New skin bugs and tweaks

jelv — Wed, 06 Feb 2008 17:02:04 GMT

I'm wondering if the Report to moderator and IP logged should be below the signature not above.

Re: New skin bugs and tweaks

James — Wed, 06 Feb 2008 17:03:21 GMT

Exactly what me and Kelly suggested, John