Forum Update May 2nd
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@SGaist Do you feel any performance improvement after the upgrade? Any feedback is welcome!
@Nhan-Nguyen Like the old saying goes: day and night (at least from some minimal preliminary tests) :-)
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@JoeCFD thanks for the feedback! Do you mean the desktop or mobile left-side bar? Or both?
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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.
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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 ??? -
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 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...)
- Post navigator is still at the bottom but with Qt development cool styles :D
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@FeRDNYC The mobile bottom pagination icons updated
@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.)
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For me: Desktop. Maybe, never mind. I can set bigger font and they will be enlarged as well.
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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 ".@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
Qt Doc Search for browsers: forum.qt.io/topic/35616/web-browser-extension-for-improved-doc-searches
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@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
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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.
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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.
@FeRDNYC said in Forum Update May 2nd:
I can't see any of the forum navigation interface, until I remember to scroll back a bit to make it appear.
As a practical, constructive suggestion in that regard, perhaps the toolbar could "reattach" itself to the Page's main scroll context at the very bottom, so that it scrolls back into view beneath what's now the bottom of the page? That way, it would reveal itself once you've scrolled DOWN past all of the other content, as well as when you scroll up.
