[07-MAR-2016] Current status of BLF upgrade process

Update looks good! Like others, I miss seeing the users location (without clucking to see their profile). I came to this thread about email notifications not working, but I see it’s already a known issue (i.e. I’m not getting any BLF emails for new posts in threads I’m subscribed to).

-Garry

Ah thanks, the smiley configuration is really janky on this version. I’ll basically have to add them in one by one.

Interesting observation, thanks.

Still looking for a solution. I thought I had it yesterday with the “Tracker” functionality, but that had the side effect of showing everyone’s browsing habits to the entire world, so not a good solution. I’ll figure something out though.

I just now added the user location thing to the first post in this thread.

How do i see my browsing habits?

Can i make a suggestion, signatures seem to look like part of a reply, not sure why they didn’t before the upgrade, but perhaps smaller test, or italics or something or some spaces might help?

This is another gotcha. I’ll add it to my todo list.

That was the problem, I had to disable it because making it visible to you would make it visible to everyone.

SB, for whatever reason the “mark all read” button is missing the button image on my system. Even after several page reloads. Did the image get lost?

I’m not sure what’s wrong, but none of the pictures I have been posting are embedding correctly anymore. Sb, I’m guessing you are working on soemthing, but maybe you can use this thread if you need a case study. My pictures were working fine earlier today.

http://m.banggood.com/Ultrafire-C8-CREE-XM-L-T6-1300LM-5Modes-LED-Flashlight-Suit-p-912655.html

http://m.banggood.com/Ultrafire-C8-CREE-XM-L-T6-1300LM-5Modes-LED-Flashlight-Suit-p-912655.html

Ah, thanks pilotdog68. It looks like I’ll have to revert the fix that I tried on Bort’s observation about broken links. Looks like to add links with dashes in them we’ll have to use the insert link button when using the Simple Post Editor.

Yep.

Something is amiss.

Not just pictures.

Some of the emoticons that were working earlier aren’t working either.

Maybe they are out on strike. :smiley:

Yes, I realized that I will have to configure each and every emoticon. I just added a few essentials, and I’ll add more as time allows.

I know you're new to BLF and all, so I'll let you in on a little secret:

That charger and those batteries are junk!

Aww man! :smiley:

If it’s to your liking, you could also try the BLF dark theme… but I’m not much of a graphic designer and my CSS is rusty, so it may very well be worse than 1990s vibes. :stuck_out_tongue_winking_eye:

(for anyone else who might be interested, this is your notification that the theme thingie has its own thread now because I didn’t want to clutter this thread)

Technically he has only been on “BLF” for 2 days so your insight is valid

Making explicitly mobile-friendly sites is kind of a pain. The server needs to check your browser’s User-Agent header (if provided) against a sizable database to determine what kind of client it’s talking to, categorize it into one of a few supported types (like recent desktop, old desktop, recent mobile, old mobile, bot, etc), then render each page completely differently based on the client type. This requires a full set of templates for each type, and code inside the entire rendering chain (and sometimes functional logic too) to behave differently according to the client type. And then if you want to customize the theme, like applying the BLF theme, you have to customize it for every supported client type. And if you later upgrade the site, you may have to re-do those customizations repeatedly. And, of course, the person who does this needs access to one of each client device for testing and development. It’s a lot of time and effort.

If the framework supports it, a custom multi-platform theme might be do-able in a day for an experienced and efficient web designer… but it could also take much longer.

If it’s not already built deeply into the web framework, it’s not even remotely worth the effort.

Anyway, if it happens, I think we would collectively owe sb56637 at least a year worth of beer. As if we don’t already. :slight_smile:

aye carumba. i had no idea, i usually go to desktop mode anyways because they take out features i need at least half the time

As someone else indicated in their post, I believe you have to add text, or a period, or something, maybe a space. I just tried to post a photo only and it didn’t work. No problem. Thanks.