XF2 transition feedback

[madcat496]

I hate that you got rid of the option that only shows threads started by users when you look at their postings. The new way is so much more convoluted, since it takes you to the search function for the entire site, and shows you EVERY SINGLE POST THEY EVER WROTE!!! Please bring back the option to see only threads started by users option in their postings!!!!

 

[NoobStyle]

Chipping in on the styles, I had Black and Orange on the previous website version. Would prefer for it to reimplemented as all current colours are making my eyes hurt. Also, zooming in with the Chrome and Firefox inbuilt 'zoom' tool doesn't 'fill' out the site as nicely as before. Leaving gaps.

 

[iamnuff]

Previously, in your "Likes Recieved" page, it actually had pages. So you could go to page 500 and see what post of yours was doin numbers six months ago.

Now it has a shitty 'endless scroll' where you have to hit 'show more' every five or ten posts to get it to keep showing you stuff, and there doesn't seem to be a way to skip forwards several hundred posts.

Man, how am I supposed to fluff my ego by reliving my own greatest hits like this?

Edit: I know this one is petty, I just figured i'd mention it, since it was something I liked about QQ that sucks on SB and SV.
Now it sucks here too.

Edit2: I've seen people suggest a couple of Styles via tampermonkey. Do we have a thread to consolidate all of those in? It'd be convenient.

 

[Makihuda]

There is a bug with gmail notifications . When a thread is updated it will not shows the contents of the thread update. It will only show title and nothing else

 

[SwiftRosenthal]

How do I make the alerts dropdown in the header bar only show new alerts, instead of giving a long scroll that includes a bunch of alerts that I've already skimmed past?

 

[Lord Elsquare]

I'd really like to be able to type bullet points or numbered lists in comments. Made it much easier to format longer posts for readability.

...Maybe it is possible to do these still and I'm too dumb to figure out how. But it used to be an obvious button while editing a comment, which is now gone.

 

[2 Hot Crown Subdues the Sinful]

I hate that you got rid of the option that only shows threads started by users when you look at their postings. The new way is so much more convoluted, since it takes you to the search function for the entire site, and shows you EVERY SINGLE POST THEY EVER WROTE!!! Please bring back the option to see only threads started by users option in their postings!!!!

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[Ebanu8]

I think there should be an added option for a vote tally for quests, cause I don't know if the old vote tally program will work with the new Xenforo scheme.

 

[Aleh]

I think there should be an added option for a vote tally for quests, cause I don't know if the old vote tally program will work with the new Xenforo scheme.

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The program's been updated specifically for that purpose, so yes.

 

[Fryst]

If a thread has a poll, the Users viewing, reply, and similar thread sections will be put on top of the posts/messages.

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Probably should've tested more than just on the transition thread when I wrote that. This should fix it, at the very least it seems to work on threads with and without polls. Caveat is I had to use :has() which only got added to browsers in 2022 incase you're running an ancient browser

@-moz-document domain("questionablequesting.com") {
.p-body-pageContent {
    display: -webkit-box;
    display: -moz-box;
    display: box;
    -webkit-box-orient: vertical;
    -moz-box-orient: vertical;
    box-orient: vertical;
}
[class*='js-pollContainer-'] {
    -webkit-box-ordinal-group: 1;
    -moz-box-ordinal-group: 1;
    box-ordinal-group: 1;
}
[class*=' block--messages'] {
    -webkit-box-ordinal-group: 2;
    -moz-box-ordinal-group: 2;
    box-ordinal-group: 2;
}
.js-quickReply {
    -webkit-box-ordinal-group: 3;
    -moz-box-ordinal-group: 3;
    box-ordinal-group: 3;
}
.block:has(#uaThreadViewContainer) {
    -webkit-box-ordinal-group: 4;
    -moz-box-ordinal-group: 4;
    box-ordinal-group: 4;
}
.block[data-widget-key='xfes_thread_view_below_quick_reply_similar_threads'] {
    -webkit-box-ordinal-group: 5;
    -moz-box-ordinal-group: 5;
    box-ordinal-group: 5;
}
.blockMessage:has(.shareButtons) {
    -webkit-box-ordinal-group: 6;
    -moz-box-ordinal-group: 6;
    box-ordinal-group: 6;
}
}

Edit: Admins appear to have fixed this particular problem, rejoice and disable my terrible css

 

[HorribleNature]

I should mention as well, the colors of the thread in the default style are such a depressing grey. We are gonna need nore styles soon.

 

[Aleh]

I should mention as well, the colors of the thread in the default style are such a depressing grey. We are gonna need nore styles soon.

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TBH, we should have had them before the transition. I mean, there are a lot of them available for free, and... well, I'm pretty sure it was one of the first bits of feedback they got on the testbed.

 

[1eyed1]

Another thing with he font, if you make the font bigger than the top bar takes up more of the screen but the actual buttons get smushed together, making the alert tab too narrow to properly read your alerts. That top bar is making it hard to use this site and needs to get fixed

 

[Imabot]

My feedback. I wish a number of reactions to posts were a bit more varied. Reactions like " Funny" "This", Helpful/Insightful", "confused", "scary", "Love"..."horny/Hot/I came/Eggplant and sweat net to it." Because it is QQ. I also like there are more emojis we can use, making a table is also much easier. XF2 seems to be fine with using webp format. That is a massively big positive.

 

[Epicr]

I understand it was done for security reasons, which is difficult to criticize - but the new look is just horrifying. QQ was honestly the perfect forum experience, and it's now ugly, boxy, and generic.

I think my biggest issue is the bloat / massive dead space - each post seems to take up twice the amount of screen it did before. Even with the screen scale set to 90% it's still way too much.
I hope it's possible to restore the old look.

EDIT: Yeah, it's the screen bloat that makes it feel so terrible. On Sufficient Velocity, for example, I can see 5x ~2 line posts at once. Here, it seems to be ~2.5 x 2 line posts.

 

[Enso]

Probably should've tested more than just on the transition thread when I wrote that. This should fix it, at the very least it seems to work on threads with and without polls. Caveat is I had to use :has() which only got added to browsers in 2022 incase you're running an ancient browser
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Nice wizardry. Thanks for the fix!

 

[ClitoriaTernatea]

I've noticed that text alignment no longer carries over, when I copy+paste the text over from a writing program. (LibreOffice)

 

[BritishGrenadier]

Finding threadmarks in a thread is fucking atrocious. I go to a snippets thread with like 800 thread marks and try searching for a specific story by name, and it won't because it's separated page by page with 50 chapters per page. I have to manually search page by page to find my story.

Please change this, or teach me if it can be changed more in the settings!

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seconded. sb has the capability of 200 thread marks per page. 50 is too little to be honest.

 

[khatun]

I'm really not liking that page numbers are only on the bottom now, forcing me to scroll past everything to get to the next page button.

 

[Orphus]

seconded. sb has the capability of 200 thread marks per page. 50 is too little to be honest.

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wish we could get all threadmarks per page tbh.

that way I could use the search page function.

 

[Monsterboy]

I hate how big everything is. Like, if you check a fiction the image takes up like half the screen before you can see individual chapters. And the spacing of literally everything is cancer, everything takes up twice as much space and yet somehow feels cluttered. Take the forum list, for example. Reeks of modern shitui minimalist designed for minimum usability. Even individual posts aren't exempt from that, they all have massive borders and padding.

God, the site is barely usable, and will be for a long time unless this abortive 'update' is rolled back. At least SB, SV, AO3 and akun still exist with usable UIs. Somehow worse than newreddit.

 

[HanEmpire]

You might try instead using Per-Alert Configuration, and then adjusting the checkboxes in the list of things you can get alerts for a bit further down the pref page. Turn off the Pop-up Auto-read for the things you want to stay in place.

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That seems to have worked, thank you.

 

[GodfatherKD]

Is there a way to at least get the Black and Purple color scheme back? and get that logo fixed?

 

[stoopmaster]

Good additions: visible tags in the thread list, able to ignore threads without entering them first.

Bad: Moved the watched threads hotlink to gods knows where, shorter pages, the themes are gone.

 

[Rzetyagi]

Not getting alerts or op mails after the site upgrade how to fix ?

 

[litaispe]

I would highly suggest adding a way to filter threads by wordcount for the stories, especially when searching by tags.

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From the thread-list you can, Click the "filters" button and a dropdown will appear and then enter a word-count value and the tag you want.

 

[ses]

Previously, in your "Likes Recieved" page, it actually had pages. So you could go to page 500 and see what post of yours was doin numbers six months ago.

Now it has a shitty 'endless scroll' where you have to hit 'show more' every five or ten posts to get it to keep showing you stuff, and there doesn't seem to be a way to skip forwards several hundred posts.

Man, how am I supposed to fluff my ego by reliving my own greatest hits like this?

Edit: I know this one is petty, I just figured i'd mention it, since it was something I liked about QQ that sucks on SB and SV.
Now it sucks here too.

Edit2: I've seen people suggest a couple of Styles via tampermonkey. Do we have a thread to consolidate all of those in? It'd be convenient.

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Endless scroll delenda est!

Also yes I do that too and would like that functionality back. :')

Also why is total posts/likes received hidden by default now? You need to hover over someone's name to know how big their penis is now. If I want to get really petty why is it "Reaction score" instead of "Likes recieved"? That's not nearly as satisfying!

 

[Kulingile]

Yeah, I know I'm not adding a lot here, but the new dark style is attrocious. There's no color, all grey, white and black and I feel like I'm in a Noire movie. Adding the old style should be a priority because I can't enjoy reading on this site while it looks like this.

 

[KyleDaScourge]

I also disapprove of the current dark style, the grey on grey is a nightmare to read, but as I'm sure that's already on the to-do list I'll just note for anyone interested that I just tried toggling on the Midnight Lizard browser extension. I think I'd still prefer to have flexile dark back, but I'm currently looking at the site through "dimmed dust" and it's at least a significant improvement.

EDIT - And after a bit of testing, I think "Inverted Light" is even better...

 

[TRN]

I'm somewhat divided on the email alert issue. On one hand, it did used to be quite convenient to read from the email. On the other hand, that the contents of the updates were sent might have had something to do with the various email providers causing problems with message delivery. I can only imagine that part of the spam filters companies might employ is blacklisting domains that send large amounts of pornographic content, since that was one of the standard features of spam filters back in the bad old days of the spam wars. And I'd rather get the emails at all over not getting them, but them containing the entire update.

I'm wondering what exactly is causing the reports of blurry text, because while the current styles aren't ideal, they don't contain any sort of blur element, and shouldn't be doing that. I suppose it's possible if the font used is one their system badly mishandles, but it really shouldn't be. Normally I'm a poster child for vision issues, given my eye problems and all that, but none of my monitors or screens have displayed any blurring. I suppose, some screens might have haloing, where excess backlight bleed into the grey around text is a thing, but that would be an unusual problem to have manifest suddenly. Then again, I color calibrate my displays, so maybe it's an issue with edge cases on GPU color tables, alpha, or some other display settings that can't reasonably be predicted and aren't so easily solved.

I'm glad the important part of the upgrade is done with, and that it's mostly down to making it look nice again and fixing a few issues(the tab situation being possibly the most important one). I'll probably be relearning where everything is for quite some time, especially as things shift around as more changes get made.