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.
(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)
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.
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.
Or, for those who are so inclined, the forum still allows quite a bit of HTML in the simple post editor. It’s very useful, and the syntax is pretty easy, but it can take some getting used to.
So, if it’s giving you trouble, you can write it this way instead:
<a href=“http://some.site.com/foo/bar/baz”>The Foo Bar Baz site</a>
(also, FWIW, I may have just found a bug… it still auto-links things which look like links, even inside of the <notextile> tags which are supposed to disable that… which suggests that the auto-linking thing may be running in a separate pass)
<img src="http://example.com/example.jpg">
-dashes- should not cause strike through
_underscores_ should not be underlined
And close the code block with "p. "
Hint: this is the only known way to type @_the_@'s username. :)
Hey SB. I know this has to be a ridiculous amount of work tuning out all the little bugs and I don’t envy you right now.
Great job overall but I suppose I may as well throw my complaints and suggestions out there too.
User rank (star system) is gone. Not a huge deal I guess but I liked it. I was so proud when I got my fourth star!
I know it’s on the list already but location is really important in a global forum like this. It helped me a lot with how to respond to certain questions.
White space… There is SO much of it now mostly at the bottom of each post. For those who don’t have a signature line on my 24” monitor I’m looking at 2 1/2 inches of blank space at the bottom of each post. I’m wearing out the scroll button on my mouse. One place at least 1/4 inch could be saved would be shrinking the height of the “Top…Quote…Reply” line under each post. It seems overly large now. It looks like the “Send PM” button is half the height of those bottom buttons and that is more than large enough IMO.
I never thought I could hate emoticons… These new cross-eyed, dopey looking dorks with a sprout of hair are driving me bonkers! Ok I like the new crazy eyed one but I actually get mad looking at the winking one. Ok maybe I have some anger issues to work out. LOL I miss the old ones though. Perhaps you’re working on them already because now I only have 5 to choose from…
Ending on a happy note the new beer mug has increased capacity!
Yup… Adding a photo without any other content doesn’t work. It needs a space or other input in the text field, otherwise the Save/Preview buttons remain grayed out.
Things I’m missing:
1. I liked having the member location listed; this was helpful when assisting with locating sources for hardware. (eg., are you in the US? Buy from Mtn! Are you overseas? get free shipping from FastTech.)
2. A searchable list of threads participated in by each member. This was very helpful… (I recall Djozz started a thread yesterday but I didn’t subscribe, now I want to find that again… Also, this is extremely helpful in identifying Giveaway Spammers who aren’t contributing members and only join to get free stuff.)
3. The automatic subscription to threads I participate in of course…
4. The full list of Smileys in the drop-down box from the text editor…