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Tomcat

I returned the missing avatar and edited the posts to make the quotes look as they should be.

In general the new design is a little nicer and in some ways even a little more convenient... maybe... But to my deepest regret a bug appeared which won't affect the majority of users — long forum threads are badly perceived by Google Translate

TwistedTwigleg

Tomcat - for translation of threads, we might be able to add something to help with this. I will add it to my TODO list of things to look into in the future.

DaveTheCoder

I guess it was sort of nice that the answer jumped to the top,

That was a terrible feature. It rearranged the order of the replies, making the thread confusing. It could have added a "here's the accepted answer" link without rearranging the replies.

Megalomaniak

DaveTheCoder That was a terrible feature. It rearranged the order of the replies, making the thread confusing. It could have added a "here's the accepted answer" link without rearranging the replies.

TBF we had a customized version of the plugin which kept the original comment visible in it's place as well, the one that appeared at the top was actually a duplicate of the accepted answer, with the plugins original version hiding the real post. We just had it not css display:none the original post in the customized version.

There was one point where it broke and went back to the original version though, perhaps you are thinking of that time.

cybereality

Well that was what I was saying about it being wonky. It never really worked right.

TwistedTwigleg

Yeah, the best answer was a nice idea, but it made things a little disjointed. I added a plugin where replies can be marked as “best answer” when I set everything up, but I have no idea how it looks.

TwistedTwigleg

The theme coloring for dark mode has been adjusted! Now it should be a little easier to use. I kind of slapped it together quickly, so it will likely need to change when we make a more permanent solution, but for now it should make a lot of the harder to read text more visible.

cybereality

Lot more readable now.

SnapCracklins

Question: does Markdown stick work? Or is it a different process?

Megalomaniak

SnapCracklins Question: does Markdown stick work?

yes, it still works.

cybereality

Seems zip files cannot be uploaded.

TwistedTwigleg

cybereality for now, only image files can be uploaded. I plan to add more support soon, but to add uploads it requires regex-like input and I didn’t have the time to figure it out when I was setting everything up.

vmjcv

I like helping others, past versions had a tab for unanswered questions, is there a similar option now? TwistedTwigleg

Tomcat

vmjcv I like helping others, past versions had a tab for unanswered questions, is there a similar option now?

On the main page of the forum, all new and unread posts are highlighted:

TwistedTwigleg

vmjcv I like helping others, past versions had a tab for unanswered questions, is there a similar option now? TwistedTwigleg

Currently there is not a tab similar to unanswered questions like how it was in Vanilla. This is in part due to there not being questions and discussions anymore, Flarum has them all as the same type: discussions.

As the others have mentioned though, you can see the replies to a topic by looking at the post count and whether it is highlighted or not to know if there is new posts.
In the future we might be able to add something like the unanswered questions page, but currently there is not a similar functionality.

vmjcv

Tomcat cybereality Thanks

cybereality

There is also an arrow on the top left corner of the screen. If you click it or roll over it shows the most recent topics and the ones that have new posts or no replies are highlighted in white.

TwistedTwigleg

TwistedTwigleg We have a plugin for selecting the best answer, similar to vanilla (though I have no idea how a best answer looks currently) but I didn’t realize I needed to set it manually. Now it is set on all the help tags and I also added a secondary question tag that can be added to any discussion.

Tomcat

TwistedTwigleg though I have no idea how a best answer looks currently

Maybe the answer, to be "best" should get some critical number of likes?

TwistedTwigleg

Tomcat TwistedTwigleg though I have no idea how a best answer looks currently

Maybe the answer, to be "best" should get some critical number of likes?

I think the “best” answer is supposed to be the answer that helped solve the issue, like how it was in Vanilla. The user who made the discussion can select the “best” answer (and forum staff).
I think it is better that way, as it prevents “best” answers from becoming a popularity-based thing. 🙂

Tomcat

TwistedTwigleg You are absolutely right - the best answer is exactly how it works.

Megalomaniak

TwistedTwigleg I think the “best” answer is supposed to be the answer that helped solve the issue, like how it was in Vanilla. The user who made the discussion can select the “best” answer (and forum staff).
I think it is better that way, as it prevents “best” answers from becoming a popularity-based thing.

Well, in theory there could be 2 things: the best answer as picked by the OP and the "most popular reply" as per upvotes, but we don't really currently have a up/down voting in here such as exists on slashdot or reddit(and i think the reddit godot community already fills that niche).

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