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How do I view a message when a new topic opens (Start a Discussion)? I couldn't find a preview.

    Tomcat How do I view a message when a new topic opens (Start a Discussion)? I couldn't find a preview.

    You just write an initial stub with a basic summary/TL;DR and then post it. Once the topic exists you can edit the OP and preview your edits to your hearts delight.

    Weird. I had to re-login to get be able to post here.

    I hope we get 'new-posts' flags back on the topic areas. Not having them is quite a downer.

    New posts are highlighted in white bold. You probably want to click the check box on the main page to mark all posts as read, that way you don't see old stuff. Then the new stuff will be at the top and bolded (also the right number is the number of unread posts). You can also move the mouse to the left side of the screen or click the arrow at the top left to see a short list of newer posts.

    9 days later

    A few smiles. Does anyone need the list?

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    :w ๐Ÿ˜‰ ๐Ÿค” ๐Ÿฅด ๐Ÿ˜Ÿ โ˜น๏ธ ๐Ÿฅน ๐Ÿ˜ฉ
    :e ๐Ÿ˜‘ ๐Ÿ˜ฎโ€๐Ÿ’จ ๐Ÿคฏ ๐Ÿ‘โ€๐Ÿ—จ ๐Ÿ‘‚๏ธ ๐Ÿฆป ๐Ÿ‘€
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    :t ๐Ÿ˜‚ ๐Ÿค” ๐Ÿ˜Ž ๐Ÿ˜ซ ๐Ÿ˜ค ๐Ÿ˜น ๐Ÿ’•
    :y ๐Ÿ˜‹ ๐Ÿฅฑ ๐Ÿ’› ๐Ÿ‘๏ธ ๐Ÿช€ ๐Ÿงถ ๐Ÿ’ด
    :u ๐Ÿ™ƒ ๐Ÿ˜’ ๐Ÿฆ„ โ˜‚๏ธ โ˜”๏ธ โ›ฑ๏ธ ๐Ÿ”“๏ธ
    :i ๐Ÿ˜‡ ๐Ÿ˜ถโ€๐ŸŒซ๏ธ ๐Ÿ‘ฟ ๐Ÿฆ ๐Ÿจ ๐ŸงŠ ๐Ÿ๏ธ
    :o ๐Ÿ˜ฎ ๐Ÿ‘น ๐Ÿงก ๐Ÿ‘Œ ๐Ÿ‘ ๐Ÿง“ ๐Ÿ‘ด
    :p ๐Ÿซฃ ๐Ÿ˜” ๐Ÿฅณ ๐Ÿฅบ ๐Ÿ˜ฃ ๐Ÿ˜ก ๐Ÿ’ฉ
    :a ๐Ÿ˜ฒ ๐Ÿ˜ง ๐Ÿ˜ฐ ๐Ÿ˜  ๐Ÿ‘ฟ ๐Ÿ‘ฝ๏ธ ๐Ÿ‘พ
    :s ๐Ÿ˜ƒ ๐Ÿ˜„ ๐Ÿ˜† ๐Ÿ˜… ๐Ÿ™‚ ๐Ÿ˜Š ๐Ÿฅฐ
    :d ๐Ÿซฅ ๐Ÿคค ๐Ÿ˜ต ๐Ÿ˜ตโ€๐Ÿ’ซ ๐Ÿฅธ ๐Ÿ˜ฅ ๐Ÿ˜ž
    :f ๐Ÿ˜› ๐Ÿคญ ๐Ÿซข ๐Ÿซฃ ๐Ÿคจ ๐Ÿค’ ๐Ÿค•
    :g ๐Ÿ˜€ ๐Ÿ˜ƒ ๐Ÿ˜„ ๐Ÿ˜ ๐Ÿ˜… ๐Ÿซข ๐Ÿ˜ฌ
    :h ๐Ÿ˜‡ ๐Ÿ˜ ๐Ÿค— ๐Ÿคญ ๐Ÿฅต ๐Ÿฅณ ๐Ÿ˜ฏ
    :j ๐Ÿ˜‚ ๐Ÿ‘น ๐Ÿ‘บ ๐Ÿ˜น ๐Ÿง‘โ€โš–๏ธ ๐Ÿคน ๐Ÿงƒ
    :k ๐Ÿ˜˜ ๐Ÿ˜— ๐Ÿ˜š ๐Ÿ˜™ ๐Ÿ˜ต ๐Ÿ˜ฝ ๐Ÿ’‹
    :l ๐Ÿ˜† ๐Ÿ˜‚ ๐Ÿคฅ ๐Ÿ˜ญ ๐Ÿ’Œ ๐Ÿ—จ๏ธ ๐Ÿซฒ
    :z ๐Ÿคช ๐Ÿค ๐Ÿ’ค ๐ŸงŸ ๐Ÿฆ“ โšก๏ธ 0๏ธโƒฃ
    :x ๐Ÿฉป โŒ ๐Ÿ‡ฝ โ˜บ๏ธ ๐Ÿ˜‘ ๐Ÿ˜ฎโ€๐Ÿ’จ ๐Ÿคฏ
    :c ๐Ÿฅถ ๐Ÿค  ๐Ÿ˜• ๐Ÿ˜ฐ ๐Ÿ˜ข ๐Ÿ˜– ๐Ÿคฌ
    :v ๐Ÿคฎ ๐Ÿ–– โœŒ๏ธ ๐Ÿง› ๐ŸŒ‹ ๐Ÿšฆ ๐Ÿ
    :b ๐Ÿ˜ ๐Ÿ˜Š ๐Ÿ˜˜ ๐Ÿ’“ ๐Ÿ’” ๐Ÿ’™ ๐ŸคŽ
    :n ๐Ÿ˜๏ธ ๐Ÿ˜ถ ๐Ÿคข ๐Ÿค“ ๐Ÿ˜ค ๐Ÿ‘Ž๏ธ ๐Ÿ’…
    :m ๐Ÿซ  ๐Ÿค‘ ๐Ÿ˜ท โค๏ธโ€๐Ÿฉน ๐Ÿค˜ ๐Ÿ–• ๐Ÿ’ช
    :- ๐Ÿ‘Ž๏ธ ๐Ÿฆ– ๐Ÿ“ง ๐Ÿฉป ๐Ÿšฑ โšœ๏ธ
    :+ ๐Ÿ‘๏ธ

    ๐Ÿ™‚ ๐Ÿ™ ๐Ÿ˜

    :com ๐Ÿงญ โ˜„๏ธ ๐Ÿ–ฅ๏ธ ๐Ÿ–ฑ๏ธ ๐Ÿ’ฝ ๐Ÿ—œ๏ธ ๐Ÿ‡ฐ๐Ÿ‡ฒ
    :mono ๐Ÿš ๐Ÿค‘ ๐Ÿง ๐Ÿคฌ ๐Ÿ‘ทโ€โ™‚๏ธ ๐Ÿ‘ทโ€โ™€๏ธ ๐Ÿšฃโ€โ™‚๏ธ
    :bee ๐Ÿ ๐Ÿชฒ ๐Ÿบ ๐Ÿป ๐Ÿ˜ƒ ๐Ÿ˜ ๐Ÿ’“
    :wi ๐Ÿ˜‰ ๐Ÿฅ€ ๐Ÿท ๐ŸŒฌ๏ธ ๐ŸŽ ๐ŸชŸ ๐Ÿ˜ƒ

    I have a slow connection, and Flarum is mostly spin wheels for me with pages taking 10 seconds on average to load.
    Discourse seems superior in this regard.

      houkime Depending on the 'discourse forum you are thinking off, they might just have dedicated servers while we are on a shared host. Might have less to do with the forum software, tbh.

      Do I understand correctly that the forum allows you to ask a question, then answer it yourself and mark your own answer as the best? Is that the idea?

        Yes. It is possible to answer your own question (on the forum, and in real life).

        4 days later

        Nice, I really like Flarum. It's a lightweight version of Discourse, while being smoother.

        Tomcat Do I understand correctly that the forum allows you to ask a question, then answer it yourself and mark your own answer as the best?

        It makes sense. Sometimes I'll ask a question, and then find the answer myself before someone else provides it. I guess someone could abuse that feature in order to bump up his "best answer count".

        I may post in the wrong section... I wondered if a topic title could be changed by its original author. It seems it was the case with the previous forum by editing the first post of a topic.

        Not a big deal but I wrote "WIP/72%" in my game topic and the actual progress is about 82% today. Unlike what it reads, Hop!2D's development is not stopped !

        Thanks for your work !

          Asthalis I wondered if a topic title could be changed by its original author.

          Yes, you can edit the title. I think you just need to click the box on the top right of the first post to edit it. To change section, you have to change the tags.

            The transition to the new platform is still obviously ongoing, but on first impressions, I have to say I'm not a fan. Some random feedback from my first session with the new forum:

            • Night Mode is nigh-unreadable, and even in Day Mode, the top bar still looks exactly the same. More contrast is needed.
            • When creating a new thread, there's no preview button.
            • Formatting feels limited - no text size or colour options.
            • Everything is so tiny! My eyesight isn't great and I've had to zoom in to be able to read anything.
            • This is of course personal opinion, but for what it's worth, the new forum is just ugly to me. The old forum was clearer and laid out in a much more readable way. This one seems like it's trying really hard to look like Discord.

              snowy-fox Night Mode is nigh-unreadable, and even in Day Mode, the top bar still looks exactly the same. More contrast is needed.

              Yes, a real custom theme is yet to be made, so far only some tiny adjustments have been made to the default css theme.

              snowy-fox When creating a new thread, there's no preview button.

              Alas, theres no option to turn on for that, but as I've already previously recommended somewhere in here, just create a stub post then edit it and you get the preview.

              snowy-fox Formatting feels limited - no text size or colour options.

              it's no different than the previous forum software, it's the same markdown formatting as before, though some if the header buttons now work better than in the previous software, so actually a slight improvement.

              snowy-fox Everything is so tiny! My eyesight isn't great and I've had to zoom in to be able to read anything.

              Yes, again, we should probably create a new custom theme again. This would be an opportunity to do a more complete job too, cause last time we got busy and didn't actually manage to complete what our actual vision for it was.

              snowy-fox This is of course personal opinion, but for what it's worth, the new forum is just ugly to me. The old forum was clearer and laid out in a much more readable way. This one seems like it's trying really hard to look like Discord.

              Yes, in terms of having no pages but infinite scrolling topics, the design is more similar to discourse. Alas seems that most modern software that is actively maintained is going in that direction. On a positive note though, if you leave a topic open and someone makes a new post, it should update the page on it's own. And unlike discourse, flarum doesn't even really maintain categories at all, it's actually all tags now.

              In terms of why the change happened though, the old forum software wasn't really very viable anymore. It actually had corrupted the database, for the second time now. First time we managed to recover most of it, not so the last time. So the other shoe had dropped and it was time to move on.

                Megalomaniak

                All fair. I didn't intend to bemoan the switch to the new forums - just to report my first impressions, especially while changes are still being made. Though I'm just one voice among many, I hope the feedback helps.

                  snowy-fox All fair. I didn't intend to bemoan the switch to the new forums - just to report my first impressions

                  Yep, I understood that. ๐Ÿ‘๏ธ

                  Yeah, I need to get the mirror of the forums setup so we can start working on a new theme, which should help a lot. Iโ€™ve just been super busy lately and unfortunately it doesnโ€™t look like that is going to change for several weeks ๐Ÿ˜ฅ

                  Iโ€™ll try to get it going soon though! Iโ€™ll see if I can get it up this weekend.