Forum Update May 2nd

FeRDNYC

@Nhan-Nguyen said in Forum Update May 2nd:

Post navigator is still at the bottom but with Qt development cool styles :D

I don't care so much about the styling, but I find the switch from up & down arrows to left & right arrows there really strange. Left / right makes it seem like you'd use them to switch between different threads, not go to the start / end (AKA top / bottom) of the current thread.

(As a reminder, the navigator currently looks like this on mobile, with the same sensible up/down arrows as on the desktop...)

zeeshan

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SGaist

@Nhan-Nguyen Just one more thing to check: performance. I still have an issue that when I want to check the forum, if anonymous, it's super fast but as soon as I am logged in, it goes down to a crawl.

Nhan Nguyen

@FeRDNYC Thank for your feedback, we will take it into consideration and discuss with the design team.

Nhan Nguyen

Hello @SGaist, thanks for your report! I don't see any performance issues while logged in. Let's experience the new forum and discuss the performance issue with specific cases.

Nhan Nguyen

@SGaist Do you feel any performance improvement after the upgrade? Any feedback is welcome!

SGaist

@Nhan-Nguyen Like the old saying goes: day and night (at least from some minimal preliminary tests) :-)

JoeCFD

Better to make the buttons on the left sidebar bigger. There is enough space

Nhan Nguyen

@JoeCFD thanks for the feedback! Do you mean the desktop or mobile left-side bar? Or both?

JoeCFD

For me: Desktop. Maybe, never mind. I can set bigger font and they will be enlarged as well.

SGaist

~~One other thing that is surprising. There used to be a preview when writing however it's now only shown when editing a post.~~

Furthermore, once the editor is hidden, it seems you have again go through the three dotted menu to make it appear again. The previous version would show an icon to show the editor back.

Ok, you have to hit either reply to the last message or the global reply button to have the preview.

However, the hiding issue is still there.

Anonymous_Banned275

tongue in cheek comment
I wonder if moving posts will be hidden ... it has been uncalled for and difficult to to keep track, I guess I find out.Other that that - if it WAS NOT BROKEN , why FIX it or does Qt have money to burn ???

Anonymous_Banned275

tongue in cheek comment
I wonder if moving posts will be hidden ... it has been uncalled for and difficult to to keep track, I guess I find out.Other that that - if it WAS NOT BROKEN , why FIX it or does Qt have money to burn ???

PS I am accepting monetary bets on how long before this "update" will last,
Qt Inc - get your money back!

Was it done by AI or human?
Look-up Webster's definition of "update ".

Nhan Nguyen

@FeRDNYC The mobile bottom pagination icons updated

NiyazFat

will it be dark/light mode for forum with auto-switch (based on system theme)?

FeRDNYC

@Nhan-Nguyen That's great, thanks!

And I see that links in post body text are underlined now, which is awesome and will warm the hearts of the W3C's Web Content Accessibility group.

I did notice that, while links are underlined in the posts, they're only underlined on hover in the edit-mode preview of the desktop interface. Which seems like a weird difference. (It's not a big deal at all, though.)

FeRDNYC

@JoeCFD There's also a preference in your account's "Theme settings" to lock the sidebar expanded so you'll have the text next to the icons, if you prefer that instead of setting a larger font.

JKSH

@AnneRanch said in Forum Update May 2nd:

if it WAS NOT BROKEN , why FIX it

Something was broken: https://forum.qt.io/topic/129011/what-will-it-take-to-fix-this-money-rant

FeRDNYC

@JKSH Well that's just blatantly unfair, using users' own words against them! 🙄

FeRDNYC

Having now kicked the tires on the mobile interface a bit, I have to say that it's not so much the bottom toolbar itself that's a challenge for my addled, curmudgeonly brain. It's the fact that you have to scroll UP slightly to get it to reveal itself, even when you're at the very bottom of a page. Totally breaks the learned patterns.

I keep finding myself at the end of a thread, wondering what to do next — because I can't see any of the forum navigation interface, until I remember to scroll back a bit to make it appear. Quite disconcerting.