Thread to Report Issues with new xenForo version 2.2
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If someone makes one, then it'll be time for us to make a sticky for CFC grease monkey scripts (which I'd happily do).
The arrow that takes us to the top of the page has disappeared from where it was (in a nice, easily-found location) and seems to reappear as a ghost image that appears if you happen to mouse over the right location on the screen.
This is not convenient AT ALL, so of course that's why they changed it, I would surmise. Why keep things easy when you can just frustrate the <censored> out of people?
If you go to the very bottom, it's too far down and the arrow won't appear. Go somewhere in the vicinity of the "Similar Threads" (that are irrelevant to me) and it might appear. Maybe.
I'm guessing this is one of the things that can't be changed?
I checked, we have 3 options:
- no arrow up
- make it appear when you scroll upwards (current setting)
- make it appear when you scroll up- or downwards (for a downwards button)
So no option to display it permanently :/.
Would you prefer the 3rd option?
mmmhhh.... which browser? Let me try this later...
I don't use more than one browser at a time, as Firefox and Opera usually result in a crash or freeze. They don't play well together on my computer, and Opera has features that I find very useful on other sites.
Thank you for verifying that the arrow isn't always visible. It doesn't remain for me, though.
I never use Chrome or Edge.
The third option would seem the best. None are ideal, but I could live with the third one. As long as I know how to find it and it doesn't keep disappearing.
I just miss being able to scroll down a little way to the word "top" and zoom back up to check the rest of my alerts. For long threads it can take a long time to scroll.
This arrow that appears and disappears is how it is on the ProBoards forums - it's annoying there, too... and in their case if the arrow happens to appear right when you want to submit a post, the post doesn't get submitted and you get taken to the top of the page and have to scroll back down to finish the post. I would not like that here.
Lexicus
Deity
chrome. Problem may be on my end, but fwiw this wasn't an issue before the migration.
That's the point. Before the migration, there was a link at the bottom right corner that said "Top". All we needed to do to zoom to the top of the page was click that. The current version of XenForo at TrekBBS has an up arrow fixed at the same place (it's there permanently and doesn't float around and disappear).
It would appear that whoever devised this "upgrade" took something that was working perfectly and ruined it.
Lexicus is talking about a different problem 
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Okay... I'm embarrassed, but I don't know what you're actually doing
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Are you
- drag-n-dropping a picture from another tab in Chrome into the CFC tab (results for me in just the link getting pasted; Firefox)
OR
- you have the picture open in an image editing software (paint, photoshop, whatever), and paste the content here (does not work for me)
OR
- something else?
Done.
.Okay... I'm embarrassed, but I don't know what you're actually doing
.Are you
- drag-n-dropping a picture from another tab in Chrome into the CFC tab (results for me in just the link getting pasted; Firefox)
OR
- you have the picture open in an image editing software (paint, photoshop, whatever), and paste the content here (does not work for me)
OR
- something else?
Done.
Lexicus
Deity
Really? So any 'big' thread will just send me to OP rather than latest? Dumb!
Buster's Uncle
AC2 Owner
I'm sure they mean it'll happen once w/ any big old thread, and the forum will be able to keep reasonable track after that.
This upgrade has gone about as smoothly -and quickly- as any forum upgrade ever does...
This upgrade has gone about as smoothly -and quickly- as any forum upgrade ever does...
racha
Prince
FWIW, dragged and dropped an image with Brave (chromium) without any lagging.
Yes, exactly as @Buster's Uncle says.
It'll only re-set if the thread drops to the back again. I have no idea if we can tweak that, haven't seen any option for that
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It'll only re-set if the thread drops to the back again. I have no idea if we can tweak that, haven't seen any option for that
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I managed to reproduce the second option with Chromium, my tab also freezes.
I checked, this seems to be a known bug https://xenforo.com/community/threa...-attachments-turned-off-worked-in-1-5.180551/ , so there's nothing what we can do about this, besides doing this differently.
Copying a link and embedding it should always work.
I checked, this seems to be a known bug https://xenforo.com/community/threa...-attachments-turned-off-worked-in-1-5.180551/ , so there's nothing what we can do about this, besides doing this differently.
Copying a link and embedding it should always work.
racha
Prince
I believe the droid you're looking for in the ACP is: Options > Threads, discussions and conversations > Read marking data lifetime. However many days you set that for, n+1 gets you the first post in the thread.Yes, exactly as @Buster's Uncle says.
It'll only re-set if the thread drops to the back again. I have no idea if we can tweak that, haven't seen any option for that
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I've seen that, but if I interpret this option right, then this also is used to mark all old threads read in a forum. If I set this e.g. to .... I don't know, 3650 days (10 years), then all threads less than 10 years old would show up as unread in all forums, even if there was nothing new posted in the last 9.5 years.So I'm not convinced if I want to tweak this
.EDIT: Currently the value is set to 30 days.
EDIT2: And thanks
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Lexicus
Deity
Yeah that's what I've been doing.
It really doesn't seem to be the case.
Even when I am the latest person to comment on a thread.. when I click on the thread title, I might end up on the OP, a totally random comment mid thread, or my own latest.. I can't see a pattern.
Synobun
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If the thread is marked unread, it will go to the latest unread post when you click on the thread title.
Where this goes awry, in my experience, is if moderators/users deleted the post that the forum thinks is the first unread message. It will usually shunt me to the OP then.
If the thread is marked read, clicking the thread title goes to the OP. If you want to go to the last post, click on the timestamp at the very right where the latest reply is shown. (Not sure if this has changed between v1 and v2, but this does not work if you aren't signed in.)
Regarding the Dark Skin:
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Isn't fluorescent green for names a rather horrible (for one's eyes too) option for a black skin? The skin feels more like you are in a nuclear plant
Personally, I love the green. It's a good contrast, not hard on the eyes, and is cheerful.
The only thing I don't love is the "online" icon that lands smack in the middle of the bottom of everyone's avatar. But that's an icon problem, not a color problem.
Maybe I could ask someone over at TrekBBS. The numbers there are at least twice the size here. No guarantee they'd know, or would tell me, though.
The problem with clicking the timestamp of the latest reply is that it isn't necessarily the first post you haven't read. I've done that and discovered that there were 2-3 PAGES I hadn't read.
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