Comments on new SMF theme

[LiroyvH]

I dont have that problem but had it before,
what browser do you use?

[metallica48423]

its not the browser -- its something in the coding of this version of SMF, its in the works, its just a small bug... unfortunately from what i'm told its a hard one to squish without knowing its exact cause

[shadow82x]

I use firefox but I have to reload my page after that

[motumbo]

The Search box should always be present. You shouldn't have to manually make it visible.

My sentiments exactly, although, as mentioned earlier, I would rather have put it to the right of the menu bar...

I disagree that the search box should always be visible.  Why?  Because most visitors won't use it.  So why should it be there taking up space and cluttering the look of the forum?  If someone wants to search they can go to the "search" link conveniently located on the menu bar.

The same goes for the login box.  If someone wants to login, they can click the login link on the menu bar.  I think it was version 1.0, not sure, but there were 4 places to login on the board index.  It was redundant as can be.  There was the login box at the top in the info center.  Then there were login boxes at the bottom of the forum.  Then there was the login link in the menu bar.  And there was another link where it said, "welcome guest, please register or login" (or whatever it said).  So there were actually 4 places to login, two sets of login/password boxes and two links to the login page.

I got rid of all of that except for the login link on the menu bar.

Less is better in my opinion.  Yours may differ. 

[TheGamer]

Yeah, the post2 function always gets me. About 1 in 5-10 posts it goes blank. Also in sending PMs.

I also get

"The last posting from your IP was less than 10 seconds ago. Please try again later. "

VERY commonly when it is infact inaccurate.

What's happening to SMF?

[shadow82x]

Yeah, the post2 function always gets me. About 1 in 5-10 posts it goes blank. Also in sending PMs.

I also get

"The last posting from your IP was less than 10 seconds ago. Please try again later. "

VERY commonly when it is infact inaccurate.

What's happening to SMF?

IM supposing there trying to fix it. It does say "Powered by SMF 2.0 Alpha"

[青山 素子]

The blank pages/download index.php issue is being worked on, but it is hard to reproduce. It looks like it is configuration-based too.

The "last posting" thing is a bug and the developers are working on it.

This is why we run the development edition here, it shakes out a lot of bugs so you don't run into them.

[texasflats]

I like the new theme, colors are great. Not everyone thinks "rounded corners" are "it". It's hip to be square

[Dannii]

I disagree that the search box should always be visible.  Why?  Because most visitors won't use it.  So why should it be there taking up space and cluttering the look of the forum?  If someone wants to search they can go to the "search" link conveniently located on the menu bar.

People not searching is a problem we want to fix! The search bar should definitely be displayed, but really, it's not very big. I'd prefer to have the search box than my avatar there...

[TheGamer]

I just noticed the cool new quote tag system. Now you can't put words in others mouths and if the original post is edited then it will reflect the changes.

Nice!

[Dannii]

What? Nothing has changed in the quotes except styles.

[TheGamer]

Peh, what was I thinking. All I saw when I went to quote your last post, Eldakar, was

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[quote author=motumbo link=topic=163420.msg1051590#msg1051590 date=1176506540]

So I didn't see the actual quote still there. I thought that just that single quote code made it display that post - so, since I'm going crazy and apparently seeing/imagining things - consider this a feature request!

[klumy]

I disagree that the search box should always be visible.  Why?  Because most visitors won't use it.  So why should it be there taking up space and cluttering the look of the forum?  If someone wants to search they can go to the "search" link conveniently located on the menu bar.

People not searching is a problem we want to fix! The search bar should definitely be displayed, but really, it's not very big. I'd prefer to have the search box than my avatar there...

INdeed search box should be a little bit bigger than current

[nitins60]

i didn't like the place of Avatar. It must be changed and the square/rectangle look

[Sverre]

The Search box should always be present. You shouldn't have to manually make it visible.

My sentiments exactly, although, as mentioned earlier, I would rather have put it to the right of the menu bar...

I disagree that the search box should always be visible.  Why?  Because most visitors won't use it.  So why should it be there taking up space and cluttering the look of the forum?  If someone wants to search they can go to the "search" link conveniently located on the menu bar.

The quick search is currently the only way to search a topic though, and unless you need advanced parameters, I also find it very convenient when searching in a specific board.

[Harro]

Indeed.
And like mentioned before: it's very important that it's always visible here because people should learn to search more before asking questions

[Col]

The quick search is currently the only way to search a topic though, and unless you need advanced parameters, I also find it very convenient when searching in a specific board.

Is the local search facility available to 1.1 (maybe as a mod), or is it only available with smf2?

[Daniel15]

The quick search is currently the only way to search a topic though, and unless you need advanced parameters, I also find it very convenient when searching in a specific board.

Is the local search facility available to 1.1 (maybe as a mod), or is it only available with smf2?

In SMF 1.1, if you use the search box at the top of the forum whilst viewing a topic, it searches that topic. Same for when you're in a specific board - It will search that board only.

[Col]

The quick search is currently the only way to search a topic though, and unless you need advanced parameters, I also find it very convenient when searching in a specific board.

Is the local search facility available to 1.1 (maybe as a mod), or is it only available with smf2?

In SMF 1.1, if you use the search box at the top of the forum whilst viewing a topic, it searches that topic. Same for when you're in a specific board - It will search that board only.

Hmmm. I had assumed that because it is only here where there is a dropdown box, the simple search just used all the words entered across the whole forum DB. I normally use the advanced search option instead, so didn't realise.

Thanks.

[Sverre]

I don't understand why locked topics are emphasised, both in font and in background. They distract the eye when vertically scanning the posts.

I'm not a fan of a different background colour for locked topics.

It draws too much attention among the normal topics, and locked sticky topics are usually just as important as the others. I like the idea of using a desaturated (dark grey) link colour for locked topics though.