Support XenForo 2 Upgrade Thread

Spirit · Jan 8, 2019

Arjuna said:
How?I don't know how to do it.

Tux said:
Using BBCode

Here

xi0 · Jan 8, 2019

The BBcode value is the old numbering, but the button offers the Font size you'd see in Word Processors. The dropdown menu not displaying the actual size of each option is rather dumb though. Not sure why they altered that, another one of their "improvements", I guess.

Arjuna · Jan 8, 2019

xi0 said:
Change the text size with the button, then toggle BB code off (on the right, the gear). Then you can change the numeric value however you want.

The gear is this right

xi0 · Jan 8, 2019

Arjuna said:
The gear is this right

yes

Pat · Jan 8, 2019

Jammin said:
Thread sticky ordering is also unavailable/non-functional.

It was a feature of an add-on, we don't have its 2.x version. I think I saw another add-on which allows sticky ordering, I'll look into it.

Hardy said:
It's working quite well, feels pretty smooth, at least in my phone. To log in I kind of had to... "Click" in a very tight spot because the "menu" bar kept blocking the log in one '-'

Avatars look goofy, sadly, dunno if there is a fix for that. It's hard to explain:

Like, completely unproportional. This only happens in portrait mode, and even if ugly the avatars at least occupy way less space on the screen, so it's not all negatives I guess.

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Got the same proportion "problem" with the banners. Really minor stuff overall I admit

I'll check the Log In issue, as for the avatars and banners, they look proportional to me (width vs height aspect ratio) but they are very small. XenForo wasn't really designed for 150x300 avatars, showing the whole avatar in mobile view reduces it to a very small size unfortunately. :wonder

Tux said:
Alright, I'll just edit this post with any issues I run into.

- A minor alignment issue that might not be an issue but there you go.

- The CSS for Avatar placement on Media comment pages is a little wonky. (Update: They're wonky in any Comment Page)

- Spacing for Medals sometimes overlaps with larger flags.

- The small icon indicating whether you have posted in a thread cuts off just short of its right dimensions.

- The Width Change option doesn't also change the length of the banner.

- Global Mod blue is still nearly unreadable on darker themes.

- Little weird header class thing I found under Account Details.

- Emoji Tab Menus aren't very visible on dark themes.

If the minor alignment issue is centered user title, that's how it is in XF 2. My user color doesn't play well with darker themes too, not sure if there's an easy solution to that. I'll look into other issues.

Demonspeed said:
Looks fine so far. Not sure if it'll be like that from now on but the font size and width in general are smaller now?

When I see Tux, Hardy and Jammin's screenshots, it doesn't look like they have the same issue as me.

The font size is perhaps a bit smaller, not sure, the width is the same though, actually it's 1200 pixels now compared to 1180 pixels last version. What's your screen resolution?

Demonspeed · Jan 8, 2019

Pat said:
The font size is perhaps a bit smaller, not sure, the width is the same though, actually it's 1200 pixels now compared to 1180 pixels last version. What's your screen resolution?

1920 x 1080.

Everything is fine now for some reason.

Pat · Jan 8, 2019

Demonspeed said:
Everything is fine now for some reason.

Perhaps there was cached content which is now updated.

Spirit · Jan 8, 2019

.username--style5 {

color: #2d7cfc;

font-weight: bold;

}

This comes up with a nice easy to read shade of blue.

Pat · Jan 8, 2019

Tux said:
This comes up with a nice easy to read shade of blue.

I'll ask other staffers about it, I don't know yet what they think about changing username colors on certain themes. Thanks for finding a suitable color in any case.

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@Hardy Can you take a screenshot of Log in button under the menu? That's how it looks like on smaller resolution for me.

Hardy · Jan 8, 2019

Pat said:
I'll ask other staffers about it, I don't know yet what they think about changing username colors on certain themes. Thanks for finding a suitable color in any case.

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@Hardy Can you take a screenshot of Log in button under the menu? That's how it looks like on smaller resolution for me.

I just checked, I'm a fucking idiot all I had to do was fully scroll up lol, mb.

Pat said:
as for the avatars and banners, they look proportional to me (width vs height aspect ratio) but they are very small. XenForo wasn't really designed for 150x300 avatars, showing the whole avatar in mobile view reduces it to a very small size unfortunately.

But yeah, I think this still is a "problem". Is there no way to enlarge the "avatar window" in mobile? Nothing too massive, it's just that Milly's avatar is not as wide as Jammin's for example, yet it looks so much bigger and nicer '-'

Pat · Jan 8, 2019

Hardy said:
But yeah, I think this still is a "problem". Is there no way to enlarge the "avatar window" in mobile? Nothing too massive, it's just that Milly's avatar is not as wide as Jammin's for example, yet it looks so much bigger and nicer '-'

Hmm, I'll see what I can do, increasing the width alone breaks the aspect ratio and there's not much space to increase the width and height of the avatar at the same time. Using cropped avatars is an option but not sure if it's the best idea.

Spirit · Jan 8, 2019

Pat said:
Hmm, I'll see what I can do, increasing the width alone breaks the aspect ratio and there's not much space to increase the width and height of the avatar at the same time. Using cropped avatars is an option but not sure if it's the best idea.

How did it work with the older software? On mobile avatars were always just sort of squished and cropped into this little square. Not perfect but it did the job.

Pat · Jan 8, 2019

Tux said:
How did it work with the older software? On mobile avatars were always just sort of squished and cropped into this little square. Not perfect but it did the job.

Don't remember since I don't visit the site on mobile, probably they were cropped versions, we can return to that.

Charlie · Jan 9, 2019

Been asking Alexa to close my posts but doesn't seem to be functional.... :feelsbadman

GrySun · Jan 9, 2019

Some things which I noticed so far which I dislike or are annoyingly different from the past, not necessarily bugs.

1. On PC, when you're close enough to bottom(with the writing box) that you see the box, when you try to reply to the lowest post it doesn't move your screen down like it does in other cases. Think in the past it always moved it down to some centered view.

2. On phone I can't see the number of pages a thread has, or can click on a certain page number to go there. These boxes for pages are just gone on mobile.

3. Sticky order for threads is gone. Was very nice for Mafia section, to keep threads in place regardless of who posted when.

4. Some Coffee related stuffs I personally either miss or dislike now. The Alert for notifications is red, used to be orange(I think) and somehow larger/more noticeable, much smaller now. The color of the page you're on at the number boxes was orange and not black. The part at top/bottom with the Home>Forums>.. pressable links was darker brown color, made it easier to find when wanting to go back to the section after posting. This way it looks the same color like everything else. The brown color for the page-boxes in the section next to the threads makes it hard to see the number, because the color doesn't fit well with the font for the numbers.

And in general I don't like how much black color is used, it all used to be just different shades of brown, generally lighter. The black parts make the theme darker than it was or maybe should be.

Not gonna mention every little different thing, likely can't perfectly recreate the old theme, so just keeping it at the things that can be changed if I'm not the only one preferring it that way.

Pat · Jan 9, 2019

GrySun said:
1. On PC, when you're close enough to bottom(with the writing box) that you see the box, when you try to reply to the lowest post it doesn't move your screen down like it does in other cases. Think in the past it always moved it down to some centered view.

Not sure I understood that problem, when I clicked "Reply" in your post, the screen scrolled down. :wonder

GrySun said:
2. On phone I can't see the number of pages a thread has, or can click on a certain page number to go there. These boxes for pages are just gone on mobile.

Hmm, they shouldn't be.

GrySun said:
3. Sticky order for threads is gone. Was very nice for Mafia section, to keep threads in place regardless of who posted when.

Most requested missing feature I guess, will see what I can do.

GrySun said:
4. Some Coffee related stuffs I personally either miss or dislike now. The Alert for notifications is red, used to be orange(I think) and somehow larger/more noticeable, much smaller now. The color of the page you're on at the number boxes was orange and not black. The part at top/bottom with the Home>Forums>.. pressable links was darker brown color, made it easier to find when wanting to go back to the section after posting. This way it looks the same color like everything else. The brown color for the page-boxes in the section next to the threads makes it hard to see the number, because the color doesn't fit well with the font for the numbers.

And in general I don't like how much black color is used, it all used to be just different shades of brown, generally lighter. The black parts make the theme darker than it was or maybe should be.

The sizes of some page elements are determined by the theme, not much flexibility in that regard, we can discuss the colors with Gary to see if we can do something about it.

Jammin · Jan 9, 2019

As a fellow coffee theme user. I would second pretty much everything Gry said.

Though I think the element that I'm having the most trouble getting used to is the thread category prefixes. Like Spoiler, Chapter, Discussion, etc. Those are all solid black with white text now. Which causes a pretty harsh contrast. Everything else seems more or less ok to me but that part I'm having trouble adjusting to.

GrySun · Jan 10, 2019

Pat said:
Not sure I understood that problem, when I clicked "Reply" in your post, the screen scrolled down.

It‘s when you‘re already scrolled down far enough to see the box and then press reply, it will add the quote onto the box but not scroll down automatically. Probably because you can already see the box, but it‘s not as far down as it usually is when replying from any other post when it does scroll, which is kinda annoying. Maybe a bit hard to explain in words like this for you to recreate it, and it‘s not too big of a deal, but still.

Pat said:
Hmm, they shouldn't be.

Yes they are visible inside the thread, but meant at section they are not showing on phone. So that makes me have to press on the thread name or on the date of last post to get into the thread, but I can‘t just press on one of the last few pages directly. Apart from it looking very unnatural on phone not seeing the boxes.

Pat said:
The sizes of some page elements are determined by the theme, not much flexibility in that regard, we can discuss the colors with Gary to see if we can do something about it.

I thought so, so I know we can‘t have everything the same. But some touches can still be done to make it more like old Coffee I think. If it‘s not too big a bother.

Jammin said:
As a fellow coffee theme user. I would second pretty much everything Gry said.

Though I think the element that I'm having the most trouble getting used to is the thread category prefixes. Like Spoiler, Chapter, Discussion, etc. Those are all solid black with white text now. Which causes a pretty harsh contrast. Everything else seems more or less ok to me but that part I'm having trouble adjusting to.

I missed that :facepalm

You‘re right, it really is a very harsh contrast. Just like most of the other black that bothers me on the theme.