STICKY: NEW FORUM SKIN - Comments here please.

[mattmiller]

A new feature of the `rpi` theme:

@grega Well done - shame you wen't given the job earlier

[MattHawkinsUK]

Since the update I've struggled to get the Forum search to work. Certain searches always result in a "we are currently experiencing high traffic" page.

For example :
search.php?keywords=energenie

It does this on multiple machines from different internet connections.

However this search will happily give me 37441 results :
search.php?keywords=test

The forum doesn't seem to like "energenie" for some reason!

[bensimmo]

Just so you know, same thing here with your links.



Also on RPI there is no PM button from a post?
Intentional or Just Missing?

[DirkS]

Also on RPI there is no PM button from a post?
Intentional or Just Missing?

The little balloon to the right of 'Contact'

[grega]

Since the update I've struggled to get the Forum search to work. Certain searches always result in a "we are currently experiencing high traffic" page.

We've been seeing some issues with phpbb's native fulltext search since the upgrade to 3.2, currently investigating a few options so hopefully search will be in a better shape soon!

[bensimmo]

Also on RPI there is no PM button from a post?
Intentional or Just Missing?

The little balloon to the right of 'Contact'

I cannot see contact.
On the top
Left there is the name (takes you to profile and you can pm from there but it's not linked to the thread).
Right a green dot (online/offline)
Bottom
Left quote and report.

[DirkS]

Also on RPI there is no PM button from a post?
Intentional or Just Missing?

The little balloon to the right of 'Contact'

I cannot see contact.
On the top
Left there is the name (takes you to profile and you can pm from there but it's not linked to the thread).
Right a green dot (online/offline)
Bottom
Left quote and report.

Are you actually using the RPI skin as you said above or was that short for raspberry_pi skin?

[bensimmo]

Actually RPI.
Nope none of that is there.

[davidcoton]

Actually RPI.
Nope none of that is there.

What browser/OS?
It's there in Firefox/Win10.

[DirkS]

Actually RPI.
Nope none of that is there.

What browser/OS?
It's there in Firefox/Win10.

And in Chrome on Win10

[grega]

On the top

Since you say the post's user info is 'On the top' I'm assuming you're viewing this on a narrow-width screen where the forum layout shifts to single-column (see attached). If this is the case, hit the username and you'll be taken to the user's profile page where you can then send a PM.

[bensimmo]

On the top

Since you say the post's user info is 'On the top' I'm assuming you're viewing this on a narrow-width screen where the forum layout shifts to single-column (see attached). If this is the case, hit the username and you'll be taken to the user's profile page where you can then send a PM.

I mentioned you can get it from there but it's not linked to the post itself then.

Yes Chrome/Android. Portrait (and landscape iirc)

The 'mobile' view needs some work. To much space is used at the top, the burger and home need to move up into the dark area with the messages and profile (but at the right).
It just wasted space and makes the layout not work nicely.

And the forum directory but needs to stay within its bounds.

I'll attach pictures and sketches once we are allowed to attach modern day sized files. Another thing that needs looking at.

[W. H. Heydt]

latest iteration looks fairly nice (glad to have the "return to <current forum>" tag at the bottom, for instance), BUT can you *please* go back to actual BLACK text. This medium/light gray is extremely hard on these old eyes.

[gkreidl]

I've always used Prosilver, which is not great, but usable, and have just switched to "RPI" to see what you are talking about here.

The top bar is broken on all webkit based browsers (tested with kweb, epiphany and qupzilla on the RPi).

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The colors of this part are designed following the principle: How to put the greatest possible stress on human perception.

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Why the hell does the forum page download style sheets from other servers?

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<link href="//fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Roboto:400,400i,700,700i" rel="stylesheet">
<link href="//maxcdn.bootstrapcdn.com/font-awesome/4.4.0/css/font-awesome.min.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" media="screen, projection" />

Does google pay someone for helping to track forum users?

[rurwin]

Why the hell does the forum page download style sheets from other servers?
Does google pay someone for helping to track forum users?

I use NoScript all the time, so I can tell you that that is standard practise. I've had to green-light GoogleAPIs a long time ago because so many sites use it. Copying it to RPI servers would probably be a logistical nightmare of dependencies and updates. It would probably lead to bugs because scripts were not where they expected to be.

[gkreidl]

Why the hell does the forum page download style sheets from other servers?
Does google pay someone for helping to track forum users?

I use NoScript all the time, so I can tell you that that is standard practise. I've had to green-light GoogleAPIs a long time ago because so many sites use it. Copying it to RPI servers would probably be a logistical nightmare of dependencies and updates. It would probably lead to bugs because scripts were not where they expected to be.

These are CSS styles, not scripts, e.g.

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@font-face {
  font-family: 'Roboto';
  font-style: normal;
  font-weight: 400;
  src: local('Roboto'), local('Roboto-Regular'), url(http://fonts.gstatic.com/s/roboto/v16/zN7GBFwfMP4uA6AR0HCoLQ.ttf) format('truetype');
}
@font-face {
  font-family: 'Roboto';
  font-style: normal;
  font-weight: 700;
  src: local('Roboto Bold'), local('Roboto-Bold'), url(http://fonts.gstatic.com/s/roboto/v16/d-6IYplOFocCacKzxwXSOKCWcynf_cDxXwCLxiixG1c.ttf) format('truetype');
}
@font-face {
  font-family: 'Roboto';
  font-style: italic;
  font-weight: 400;
  src: local('Roboto Italic'), local('Roboto-Italic'), url(http://fonts.gstatic.com/s/roboto/v16/W4wDsBUluyw0tK3tykhXEfesZW2xOQ-xsNqO47m55DA.ttf) format('truetype');
}
@font-face {
  font-family: 'Roboto';
  font-style: italic;
  font-weight: 700;
  src: local('Roboto Bold Italic'), local('Roboto-BoldItalic'), url(http://fonts.gstatic.com/s/roboto/v16/t6Nd4cfPRhZP44Q5QAjcC50EAVxt0G0biEntp43Qt6E.ttf) format('truetype');
}

Using local copies shouldn't be a problem.

[dave j]

latest iteration looks fairly nice (glad to have the "return to <current forum>" tag at the bottom, for instance), BUT can you *please* go back to actual BLACK text. This medium/light gray is extremely hard on these old eyes.

This. It's not hard to set CSS to use the text colour the user has specified in their browser settings for the majority of text on a page and only deviate from that if you have a good reason to.

[Milliways]

The Raspberry Pi theme is still ugly as sin :shock:

The prosilver theme is worse than before :roll:

Personally would of preferred a clean of of the amount of Categories as at present the choice is bewildering :D

Actually there is a need for more categories (although better hierarchical organisation may help).

The current situation MAY be an issue for those who see their role as ANSWERING questions, but makes it difficult for users to FIND EXISTING ANSWERS. As a consequence most don't seem to bother looking, but just ask another question.

[Bosse_B]

QUESTION:
I see people talking about using different skins, does this mean on the RPi forum?
If so where can i change the skin to something more useful?

[pcmanbob]

Hi.

Assuming you are using default skin and logged in.

On grey bar at top of board index click on your user name
select user control panel from drop down box
select board preferences from menu bar
select edit global setting ( default anyway )
in main field my board style. 3 options on arrow button.

[Bosse_B]

Thanks! I think Prosilver is more to my liking....

[DougieLawson]

Thanks! I think Prosilver is more to my liking....

Have you tried RPI? It's like Prosilver but without the ugly blue & blueness with a frosting of excessive blue.

[rpdom]

I like the blue

[DougieLawson]

I like the blue

That explains a lot.

[Bosse_B]

Thanks! I think Prosilver is more to my liking....

Have you tried RPI? It's like Prosilver but without the ugly blue & blueness with a frosting of excessive blue.

Well, I like small fonts etc so one can fit more on each page. The last one just was too big for me.