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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.
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).
As it was in the previous forums.
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.
cybereality Yes, you can edit the title.
I found it:
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:
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.
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. ️
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. I’ve just been super busy lately and unfortunately it doesn’t look like that is going to change for several weeks
I’ll try to get it going soon though! I’ll see if I can get it up this weekend.
I think the new forum is great, but I agree there needs to be some work on the styling. The colors aren't bad, but it would be cool if they were closer to the Godot brand. I also think there are some low contrast issues (for example, the preview on a post is hard to read, and on quotes, among other things). And the text size is rather small. It Could probably be bumped up 2 points. But overall the software is very much the best in terms of available FOSS forums, so I think with a little work on the CSS everything will be fine.
The forum "mirror" is up: https://tmptesting.godotforums.randommomentania.com/
(It is not a true mirror and instead is a snapshot of the forums from 20-40 minutes ago - it also will not update as new posts are made)
It is a completely standalone instance. Right now it just uses the default Flarum theme but I am working on a new theme. I do not have anything to share yet though as I only just started. I am building it off the OXO theme, which is what we are using now.
The forum "mirror" is a read-only forum though - it is not intended for posting and is really just to get feedback on the forum theme. In the future, I may make it possible to post for testing plugins, but for now it is read only for everyone but forum staff.
I'll make an update here when I have the first draft of the new forum theme ready for the first view
I just noticed a misspelled sub-forum name: Job Offerring
nice catch, I've fixed it.
I don't understand. How?