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Old 04-27-18, 11:21 AM
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No font or font size changes available?

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The indent button seems to be broken. It shows the indent when editing, but doesn't save. (At least on some text I cut and pasted in.) Old posts with indenting from before the upgrade do work correctly. I think it drops the newline, too.

Indented below:
Testing the indent. Does it work?
Last line of indent.

Back to non-indent.
EDIT--yes, it's broken.

I see when clicking "Source" that it's coded \[left\], for left justify.
2nd test of indent -- I changed the code from 'left' to 'indent' by editing the source.
end of test.

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Originally Posted by LesterOfPuppets
I get the URL error when trying to post a pic from Google Photos. Google Photos URLs are wack, but they were still postable here. Wonder if flickr works...

(pictures deleted)

Hey, that works. Just have to paste the crazy Google Photos URL inside manually.
That seems to point a bug.
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Originally Posted by Darth Lefty
In Safari on an IPhone 6, I can get all the way through choosing a photo from the camera roll and it shows me a percentage uploaded... then an error
Thanks, I've reported this. After looking into it, I'm unable to post pictures that I've taken on my phone, but I can upload pictures that I've saved to my phone from the internet. Looks like it may be an image size issue.
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Old 04-27-18, 11:27 AM
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Originally Posted by tds101
Scroll to the bottom of the page and you can select the style of display for the forums. I don't recommend it,...but it IS THERE!
All you can do is choose Mobile and the new 'Next Gen', and that's not a choice.

It's just the difference between the 'regular' site and text based.

Dude, I got a DELL!

(and a few other PCs)
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Old 04-27-18, 11:31 AM
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I have no idea how to get out of Mobile once I'm in it, unless I have to log out and come back later. The only reason I'm here like I should be is IE 11.
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Old 04-27-18, 11:36 AM
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Originally Posted by Rollfast
I have no idea how to get out of Mobile once I'm in it, unless I have to log out and come back later. The only reason I'm here like I should be is IE 11.
If you get stuck in mobile, you can click on the hamburger button at the top left, then click "view full site" to get back to a desktop version.
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If you scroll down to the bottom of the main page, on the left hand side you will have the option to choose your forum style from a drop down list. The problem as per usual is that there is no option to select the older style if we preferred that one. I don't mean to be ungrateful, but I always believe in choice.
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Old 04-27-18, 11:46 AM
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Originally Posted by Rollfast
All you can do is choose Mobile and the new 'Next Gen', and that's not a choice.

It's just the difference between the 'regular' site and text based.

Dude, I got a DELL!

(and a few other PCs)
There's a more "classic" view, which is terrible, or mobile. The new veiw is much better. The font color choice, not working for my eyes.

And I have multiple PC's as well,...windows & Linux. Makes no difference when browsing. I'm sure all the bugs will be worked out soon,...
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Originally Posted by Rollfast
Please put the Control Panel link back where it belongs as well. Hiding basic things in menus without instructions is not good programming policy, nor are 'hamburger menus' (three horizontal lines like a burger).
I still see the "User CP" link in the top left of my screen?
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I like the overall look... Cheers!
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Just like with my mobile version, now when I open up the Notifications tab I cannot do anything but respond to PMs. If I've been quoted and want to check it, I click on New Post Quotes and am redirected to my Visitor Messages page. The recent quotes are not there, of course.

What's the dealio with that?

I don't mind the new look - already getting used to it - but I do mind reduced functionality...

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Hamburger menus are counterintuitive. Put the basic controls on the page and encourage usage. Every time people redesign a site they seem to forget THE INSTRUCTIONS. Many things remained familiar but just throwing a bone and making us guess no longer works.

Not even a HELP button. I've used the internet since 1995, and while you have to update and improve, the actual users tend to be lost in the process. It goes beyond don;t mess my crap up every time I just learn how to use it.

So far my antenna DTV hasn't changed beyond what I can do with my 480p SDTV converter boxes, and that means over 70 channels including one station that's half TV channels and a few 'radio' channels. I have all the sports and whatever I'd like but for a few signals I could get with a taller mast.

Just post a sticky or something to guide us, especially since we aren't the only ones going through this, this version is the CORPORATE version across all IB sites, which are numerous.
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Originally Posted by IBThomas
I still see the "User CP" link in the top left of my screen?
Only when I reply...do I have to open the COMPOSING window for that?
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Originally Posted by hazetguy
Here's an example of what I'm talking about. Screenshots are from my iPhone 7.
I greatly prefer(red) the 'full site' interface on my phone over the mobile version, but the text size in the new version is making it pretty much unbearable.






Now here are some screenshots from other forums I read. Notice how the text is a much more manageable, readable size.





This is why we urge people to use the mobile skin. the desktop version is optimized for desktop, not mobile.
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It's no big deal if Yahoo Mail doesn't like IE, that's my spam bucket and I never get any mail there anyway. But my Linux machine is down again and I'm Commander Adama.
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Originally Posted by indyfabz
I am getting the same teal and it's not pleasant to look at.

Also, as Sy notes, the quotes link doesn't take you to quotes.
Thanks. A ticket has been opened for this, will you updated on the status.
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Originally Posted by jimincalif
Something changed overnight with the font, font size, and/or contrast, it is much harder to read on my iPad running Chrome iOS. THis is what it looks like:


Try using the site on its mobile skin, it will be optimized to your tablet.
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Originally Posted by noglider
Neutral:

I don't mind the new look. I get used to stuff like that.

Problems:

I gave a URL of an image, and it said bad URL. It's a good URL.

I tried to upload an image, and it said couldn't load the image but did not say why.

I can't find my list of quotes.

Mentions (tags) don't work. Where I have mentioned someone using an @-sign, that word is not displayed.

The infinite scroll feature is a very bad idea. Fine, I turned it off for myself, but it should be off for everyone by default. Let people enable it if they want it.
Can you walk me through what you were doing with the URL? Upload image and quote issues have been reported, hopefully we can fix this for you soon.
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Originally Posted by IBThomas
Try using the site on its mobile skin, it will be optimized to your tablet.
How do I do this? I tried switching to View Full Site and back to Bikeforums Mobile. The picture I posted is the Bikeforums Mobile view that I get on my iPad. I get the same view on my iPhone. Is there some other view settings available? Thanks.
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Originally Posted by IBThomas
Can you walk me through what you were doing with the URL? Upload image and quote issues have been reported, hopefully we can fix this for you soon.
I grab the URL of the image on my google photos page. I make sure it is an address of a jpg, not an html page. I verify that I can display the image in my browser by pasting the address into an incognito tab. Then back on bikeforums, I click the icon for image. In the place where I am supposed to paste the URL, I paste the URL. It tells me the address is invalid.

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I notice another lost feature: A list of discussion threads no longer displays the date of the start of the thread. It would be very useful to have this back.

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Originally Posted by rm -rf
No font or font size changes available?

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The indent button seems to be broken. It shows the indent when editing, but doesn't save. (At least on some text I cut and pasted in.) Old posts with indenting from before the upgrade do work correctly. I think it drops the newline, too.

Indented below:
Testing the indent. Does it work?
Last line of indent.

Back to non-indent.
EDIT--yes, it's broken.

I see when clicking "Source" that it's coded \[left\], for left justify.
2nd test of indent -- I changed the code from 'left' to 'indent' by editing the source.
end of test.
Issue has been logged.
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Any way of adding to the mobile app a way to mark all topics in a forum read like in the desktop version? That would be very ursful.
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Originally Posted by noglider
I grab the URL of the image on my google photos page. I make sure it is an address of a jpg, not an html page. I verify that I can display the image in my browser by pasting the address into an incognito tab. Then back on bikeforums, I click the icon for image. In the place where I am supposed to paste the URL, I paste the URL. It tells me the address is invalid.

Thanks!
Thanks, tested and I see the problem. We're working on fixing this.
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Ok, I had a major computer crash a couple of days ago, so I'm running on the backup. Puppy/Chrome. I hadn't recently run BF on this machine.

The first thing I noticed, BF locked up Chrome and gave me timeout errors.

The only way BF was usable was to load Noscript Lite. MEMORY/RESOURCE HOG?

The next issue is that the the static no-scroll header takes up 1/3 of the screen. Some of the quick buttons are nice, but I know where to look for them. No need to not just scroll those off the screen.

Originally Posted by IBThomas
Try using the site on its mobile skin, it will be optimized to your tablet.
Tried it (Puppy/Chrome/Noscript Lite), and got text only. A big step back. Also going back to normal, I had to use the "reset" button as I couldn't find the skin choice option again.
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