NEW LAYOUT - Read First ... then complain

[HoTWire]

 Hello everyone,

I've pulled the trigger and put the new layout live. This will no doubt be met with some gnashing of teeth at the change, it is always thus. Before you immediately get mad at me, please give it a couple of days, unless it is immediately unusable.

I'm aware there are a whole bunch of little graphical glitches that need sorting, spacing here and there, font sizes on some buttons.

I'm also aware there are going to be issues for people I'm unaware of, certain devices, screen sizes, browsers, may behave very differently to what I'm expecting to happen.

With that in mind:
If you have an issue where the whole thing is unusable, please report it here, I need to know the device, the screen resolution if you know it, and the browser you are using. Screen shots of the problem would be useful.
If you have the same issue as someone else, please just like that comment rather than post a new reply (assuming like is not broken).

BIG CHANGE:
Other than the menu moving, more space for text/images in threads and a few other bits and pieces, the BIG change is the editor. I've not found anyone else on Proboards doing what I'm doing here, so I'm a bit out on a limb, however this editor should be much better than the previous one, particularly given the Image Uploader, which is now the little paperclip icon above (I'll change that in due course to be more obvious). It will upload multiple images, in broadly the order you select them (I've had a couple of times where the first selected image appears last, but that seems to be a Windows thing rather than an uploader thing), which should make build threads and photo reports from events easier to do.

One area where it isn't as good (currently) is hotlinking images from other sites. You will still need to put in the old fashion squarebracket img tag around the img url. I have a plan to automatically take pasted img urls, upload them to RR Imgages and replace the url. However this is a little way off as there is other stuff in the queue before hand.


KNOWN ISSUES:
At certain resolutions/devices the Participated box does weird things to the view. This is going to need a deeper re-styling and was holding up all the rest of the go-live, so we'll live with it for a little bit and get it resolved as soon as I can.

Quoting older posts does weird things when there is a quote within a quote. I'm working on a fix for this, but it is proving a tricky one, anyone with javascript skills that is available to help would be appreciated, I'll work it out eventually though. Just be aware of it at the moment.

Styling on new editor I'm 90% sure not all the styling options at the top of this new editor translate and get retained when the post goes in to the forum software. I need to do an exhaustive test and remove what isn't used. I'm just running from the defaults at the moment.

Mobile 'Desktop View This is one of the main reasons I've been moving all this stuff around and working on implementing this new editor and all that good stuff. However it still has some font size issues and there is a 'known bug' in the editor when you click back to the middle of words to re-edit them, starts moving the cursor around and causing mayhem in your replies.  I'm hoping there is a fix for it, or I'll have to word a little note under the edit box on mobile.  Feel free to hit the Desktop view in mobile and experience it, feedback any major issues you have.


IF IT IS TOTALLY UNUSABLE:
If you really really can't get on with this layout because it is fundamentally broken for you, you can go into your profile, Edit Profile, go to Settings and in themes you can still select OLD RR Layout.  This will eventually disappear when I'm satisfied the new layout is correct.

On that note eventually, the Desktop view for mobile will be the only view for mobile. I'm hoping sooner rather than later on that too, so please try if, report issues and we'll get it tip top.  There is nothing I can't fix, I just need to know about it.


Thanks in advance for your patience with this transition phase. We've done it a few times over the last 19 years, and it is rarely as smooth as I'd like, but rarely as painful as I anticipate.

Good luck. 

[The Rascal King]

Happy to rubber-duck the javascript issues if that'll help...

[HoTWire]

The Rascal King said:Happy to rubber-duck the javascript issues if that';ll help...

Awesome, will take you up on that in a PM, once I've got the initial range of questions/complaints/observations out the way.   Thank you

[v8ian]

It might just be me being a computer dinosaur...... Bookmarks? cant find mine, 

[HoTWire]

v8ian said: It might just be me being a computer dinosaur...... Bookmarks? cant find mine, ; 

Should be on the left hand side menu, or if you browser window is smaller than mine you need to pop down the top menu (three lines next to RR logo) and they should be in there.

Although by the time you read this, they may well be an icon in the top navigation as I'm working on it right now (clicking around to test the layout and found your reply )

[joem83]

I only have 1 gripe, I maybe going blind but there used to be a quicklink at the top of threads that took you back to the section you were in. Do we still have that?

[sonus]

My mistake 😅👍

Looks good 

[Tamber]

Not sure if it's tied to the change in forum layout, or a side-effect of something else, but the post editor appears to be missing the preview button; and BBcode isn't working any more?

[HoTWire]

Tamber said: Not sure if it's tied to the change in forum layout, or a side-effect of something else, but the post editor appears to be missing the preview button; and BBcode isn't working any more? 

The editor is the preview mode. What you see is what you get.

We have the little "Switch Editor" link underneath which will take you to the BBCode editor version of it. This was only added yesterday. It is a little buggy if you click between BBCode and the normal editor a few times.  Which is handy for me as it is pointing at where there are bugs in the styling, but a little frustrating when you are actively trying to post (as I was yesterday when I did it).  So use with caution.

joem83 I think there is a bug on the layout somewhere for some people at certain sizes, the quick link is still at the top, but it is getting lost occasionally under the top banner.  It is also at the bottom of threads too.

[jimi]

HoTWire I think there is a bug on the layout somewhere for some people at certain sizes, the quick link is still at the top, but it is getting lost occasionally under the top banner.  It is also at the bottom of threads too. 

I see it at the bottom, but the top is under the banner (I think) Chrome, Android 8" tablet, landscape, 1280x800

EDIT
If I switch to Portrait I can see it 

EDIT II
Can now see it on both Landscape/ Portrait 👍

[Tamber]

HoTWire said: The editor is the preview mode. What you see is what you get. We have the little "Switch Editor" link underneath which will take you to the BBCode editor version of it. This was only added yesterday. It is a little buggy if you click between BBCode and the normal editor a few times

Ahhh, that makes sense! I was just used to being able to hit a button to preview how my bbcode post would look, without posting it, and switching back & forth between the bbcode editor and the visual editor wasn't doing that. Now I know!

[merryck]

Looks like there isn't enough of a margin beneath the header. As it's fixed to the top of the screen there needs to be a bit of a margin at the top of every page to account for it.



If you add margin-top: 60px; to the class maingrid it'll look like this;

[Frankenhealey]

Microsoft Edge - pages don't seem to scale when windowed smaller than fullscreen.

[jimi]

Tap/click the hamburger menu (3 bars top left) to close the menu and it will be fine 

[Frankenhealey]

jimi said: Tap/click the hamburger menu (3 bars top left) to close the menu and it will be fine  

Thanks

[mrbig]

Only issue I have is that when I move to the next page of thread, it opens that page right at the bottom and not the top? I'm using MS Edge. Anyone else have the same problem?

[HoTWire]

mrbig said: Only issue I have is that when I move to the next page of thread, it opens that page right at the bottom and not the top? I'm using MS Edge. Anyone else have the same problem? 

Yeah it is that way for everyone at the moment. But this bug is vexing, I've got a question in with Proboards support about it. I thought I'd got it all correctly set, but sadly not.

[datman]

Site seems mostly ok here

(Brave Browser on W10) but the menu overlaps the pages a bit unless I turn the scale down to 80% or below, rather than the normal 100%

[jimi]

datman

jimi said: Tap/click the hamburger menu (3 bars top left) to close the menu and it will be fine  

[datman]

aha. that was not obvious.. but it worked.