Renamed: Upgrade Discussion Thread

I like the old site better..... everyones already pointed out the reasons. Looks too big kinnda clutered compared to the last format, it dosent seem like you can fit the large amount of text on the screen like before.
 
i just clicked through every page of a thread i wanted marked as read. it still has the red "unread" mark. i did not scroll down over each post on each page.
 
Hydro, I wouldn't place money on what I said before, that that is how it's always been, but I am pretty sure that is how it's always been. However, having to scroll through each page instead of just clicking on it is excessive and it has not always been that way, at least in my experience. Dumb question, but have you refreshed the page since viewing the thread?
 
hydro, what red mark? The only red mark I know of is the one that says if there are deleted posts in thread (and I believe only staff can see this). Scroll over the mark and see what it says. It might just display differently on this end.

When a thread is unread, generally the link is bold and once you'd read it, this disappears. I tested this with a thread on this page just opening the last page and it un-bolded the link when I went back to the forum indicating the thread was 'read'.
 
ooo, i did not notice how they were bold and then unbold. problem solved, far as i am concerned. thank you much, Cane. and addictivepersona, for answering.

but i was talking about what the icon legend is trying to tell me:
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guess it's more orange than red.
 
^ ahhhh, I gotcha. I forgot about that because it's tiny!

I'm glad the bold thing helps :)
 
^You're correct, hydro, the actual icon with the orangey-red thing in it is displaying wrong for read threads. I just checked this by refreshing the support forum and checking this thread title, which had turned from bold to un-bold but the icon still labeled it as a "hot thread with unread posts".
 
addictivepersona said:
Clicked Thread Tools > Mark This Forum Read. Waited. Waited. Clicked again. Nothing happened. Originally tried in the Reported Posts forum but repeated in Healthy Living.
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Noted. For the record, there are two such links, one works. We'll have to sort why the other doesn't. However, the one that does, will pop up a window basically asking 'are you sure?'.

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hydroazuanacaine said:
^im 99% sure this is incorrect. it used to be that if you clicked a thread it was marked as read until there was a new post. even if you were joining in on the thread on page 22, you did not have to go back and click on every page to make it read. wouldn't swear my life on this, but it is too significant now for me to believe i did not notice it before.
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how are you returning to the previous page? if you're hitting the back button, then it will display it as if you never visited the thread. if you click back on the forum subsection you're in at the top of the page, then it should make it so that it has been marked as read, and should be unbold now.

the problem i find is that the difference between bold and unbold is very subtle, and since i have the site zoomed out it makes it almost impossible to tell the difference sometimes without straining my eyes significantly. is there anyway to make the bold more bold???

edit: i see you already figured it out nvm.
 
Shit I didn't even notice that yet. Thank god they made a legend for people like us.

felix said:
OMFG the old shade of pastel blue has been replaced by a very slightly different shade of pastel blue which suks balls, I can't believe what you guys have done here, I'm leaving bluelight now and if I die thanks to a bizarre drugs overdose & masturbation combo in my momma's basement it'll be YOUR FAULT, WAH WAH WAH. pls give me a refund.
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I want to turn on post rating so I can give you five stars lol...
 
jancrow said:
Yes, PM me.

Also, can anything be done about the width of the column with username / avatar / join date etc in it? It takes up a freakish amount of space at the mo (running Chrome).

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Replied over here

Hey guys, can we keep all discussion about the skin/design over in the other thread. Please use this one to report issues unrelated to the look/design of the site.
 
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TheLoveBandit said:
Noted. For the record, there are two such links, one works. We'll have to sort why the other doesn't. However, the one that does, will pop up a window basically asking 'are you sure?'.

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The second one actually does work, upon a hard refresh of the page. It just doesn't show up instantaneously like it used to...

(BTW, David the gnome, LOL!)
 
Survived Abortion said:
What happened to the search function at the middle-top of every forum? I only ever used that Google powered search because the built-in search doesn't like terms such as "2C-E". Can this possibly be restored? I'm guessing it's just a plug-in; it would definitely be handy to have it re-installed at some point.
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If I remember right, it's just a bit of HTML that's either hand-coded into each individual forum, or into a template for all the forums. Not hard to replicate, but will probably take a bit of time to do. In the meantime, there's a workaround for searches like 2-CE. Add an asterisk to the end of the search, so 2-CE*. The board software won't allow searches of 3 characters or less, but will let you use the asterisk as a wildcard :).
 
^It was actually there when I logged in earlier today to my suprise, but then it was gone again several minutes later. I thought one of the elves must have read my post and fixed it, but it looks like they're chasing bugs with it. Thanks for the tip for searches in the meantime!
 
i've been having trouble using the advanced search. i used to be able to search my username, and choose the option for posts from a week ago and newer, and then it would show me a list of threads i had posted in, and then i could tell if someone replied to them or not.

i keep getting the message saying there's been no results. am i doing something wrong here?
 
^ have you clicked 'settings'? In the User CP it will update whenever ANY thread you post in has new posts. If you want it to stop updating one of these threads, just hit unsubscribe. You can subscribe to other threads as well that you want to follow but not post in (such as the nudie thread of course).
 
If we're putting a reply button on each post, would it be possible to also add some kind of indicator at the beginning of the post that indicates to whom the post is directed? I'm noticing already that people are clicking the "Reply" button and not mentioning who they are replying to (since it appears to them that the post is directly above or linked somehow), leaving confusing responses. Something like @Cane2theLeft at the beginning of the post if I was replying to the post above by clicking the reply button on the post would work well. The "Post Reply" button or Quick Reply options would be the only things that would give a blank text box for responding to a thread in this case.
 
birthday PMs?

i am pretty sure in the past BL used to automatically send you a birthday greeting. i am sure this is not high on all your lists of things to investigate but i thought i would mention it :)
 
animal_cookie said:
birthday PMs?

i am pretty sure in the past BL used to automatically send you a birthday greeting. i am sure this is not high on all your lists of things to investigate but i thought i would mention it :)
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Just checked the logs, these seem to be sending. Can you tell me who didn't get one? I think they're important. :)
 
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