Oops I accidently deleted my post…lol
Not that I care but my user name is wrong, and how do I change the background colour?
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I do not know about changing your username – I think that might be a setting we need to turn back on in our platform.
Background color: upper right hand corner, click on your user icon (yours is probably a D). Click on the Profile icon (a person). Then go to Preferences. And then click on Interface.
I chose the Dark theme. It’s black background, white text. And I think it looks much cleaner.
Ooo la la!! Love it!
Dan can you please change my user name
thanks
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I hate change. But in my experience when a website changes formats I usually get used to it fairly quickly and forget about the old format.
It is a challenge to adapt to new experiences. I felt disoriented until I saw the list of threads displayed with the most recent posts at the top and older posts descending downward. Ah— I know where I am! The settings seem to default to “tags” rather than “without tags.” That is different than before (I think) & might cause confusion. Whatever. Once that’s changed, it’s like the old site but better.
I think change is exciting and fun. I’m certain that RheisslerSoandSo and others put their brains together to deliver a good experience for us. We can explore what they made. It’s discovery & fun! It’s like a game!
Unfortunately/ fortunately, I have a job so I have to go do my real job now. I get to go do my job. Thank goodness for it. Pays my bills!
Ciao, whiner
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So, the beauty of Discourse, I suppose, is that for a lot of things – you, the user, get to determine how you want content to be organized (outside of Categories, obviously).
For example: I changed my settings so that when I hit the forum homepage, it defaults to showing me categories – just like the old site. Then changed the sort order within each category to be off of latest reply. Voila!
We do have some stuff to iron out – like, I’m missing a few things in my toolkit at the moment, that we should want to see. And I am noticing we’re missing about 48 hours worth of content and I’m not entirely sure how we will reconcile that import with all the content we’ve since generated here on the new platform. (That’s just the forum, we have some tweaks for the front end of the site to come to.)
But–it is progress. One day at a time.
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Holy shit thank you so much for moving over the forum. This is 10000000x better and it isn’t up for debate. Thank you Slowman!
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Is this Slowtwitch, or some cheap Chinese version that’s stealing my data?!
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Interesting. So far I can access the new forum on my phone but not on my computer.
I am sure I will get used to it but I hate change so you can imagine how much I like it.
There’s some weirdness with the server switches going on that needs to get buttoned up.
I hereby vow not to like any of you, even if I do. It will remain a mystery.
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Ugh. No. Just No.
Here’s the first positive I’ve found- maybe. There isn’t a quote and reply function that this curmudgeon can find. More than likely I just am not seeing it.
Perhaps that means that we all don’t have to view 83 embedded posts when we are smacking windy (figuratively, of course, there little buddy) around.
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These rules that appear for the first 2 posts are precious.
" * Be kind to your fellow community members.
- Does your reply improve the conversation?
- Constructive criticism is welcome, but criticize ideas, not people."
And what’s the deal with “basic?”
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I changed the background color, now it looks much better, [quote=“DarkSpeedWorks, post:1, topic:1048832, full:true”]
I will start.
Unfortunately, even without a like button, the old forum format was VASTLY better than this one.
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What part of lost content and decreased functionality do you not understand? This was not whining. It was pointing out legitimate issues and a wonder whether it would be fixed or if this was the new norm.
This was addressed to Slowman above. As I said, the point went over your head or you were too preoccupied waiting to take a jab at me.
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New forum is 100% better
GREAT job to all involved
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This new format hurts my brain.
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Hate it. And the lavender room box is now BLUE.
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