I can beat up demons until the cows come home, and then I can beat up the cows.

Buffy ,'Dirty Girls'


Buffistas Building a Better Board ++

Do you have problems, concerns, or recommendations about the technical side of the Phoenix? Air them here. Compliments also welcome.


Gris - Nov 01, 2020 9:53:02 am PST #4368 of 4671
Hey. New board.

The sidebar is also not working for me, on latest Edge for Windows. The checkbox does not persist.

Regarding GUI changes - I know that it's not possible to incorporate custom stylesheets as easily as on Phoenix, but maybe we can poll for some of the most popular things and incorporate them into the View options. Some things I expect might be popular:

1) dark mode 2) visible spoilers 3) narrower width (this one is me - I personally like the desktop look better with body set to a max-width of 1000px or so)

I like styling, so I'm willing to try fiddling with this.


DavidS - Nov 01, 2020 10:07:28 am PST #4369 of 4671
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."

3) narrower width (this one is me

Me too! Also, not sure if this is viable off of style sheets or whatnot, but I'd like to go back to a cooler blue rather than red.


Gudanov - Nov 01, 2020 10:25:13 am PST #4370 of 4671
Coding and Sleeping

Hmm... The left menu checkbox works for me in both Chrome and Firefox. There must be a bug somewhere, but there doesn't seem to be a pattern I can detect.

I think adding more view options would be a good idea. Please feel free to contribute work.


Gudanov - Nov 01, 2020 10:25:56 am PST #4371 of 4671
Coding and Sleeping

Annoyingly, the DNS changes need more time before I can get a certificate.


Gudanov - Nov 01, 2020 10:37:02 am PST #4372 of 4671
Coding and Sleeping

When I get a chance I'll open tickets on Gitlab. If you have/get a Gitlab account, you can also report bugs and make feature requests directly.

Bug: Left menu checkbox doesn't always persist.

Enhancement: More view options and/or custom stylesheet.

Enhancement: Footer buttons that match the header buttons.


Gris - Nov 01, 2020 10:50:23 am PST #4373 of 4671
Hey. New board.

The menu checkbox - could it be user-level, not browser-level? Like it's not saving into the database for some users for some reason?


Gudanov - Nov 01, 2020 11:03:23 am PST #4374 of 4671
Coding and Sleeping

Seems likely, but I'm not sure why it would be different, still something must be different.


Gudanov - Nov 01, 2020 11:05:42 am PST #4375 of 4671
Coding and Sleeping

My best guess would be there is something in the migrated data for the user account that is getting flagged as invalid when it tries to save the changes to the user record so the update doesn't occur.


Tom Scola - Nov 01, 2020 11:15:42 am PST #4376 of 4671
Mr. Scola’s wardrobe by Botany 500

Did you ever change "Number of posts displayed per page" on the old board?


Jessica - Nov 01, 2020 11:39:07 am PST #4377 of 4671
If I want to become a cloud of bats, does each bat need a separate vaccination?

I am also really missing a Read New link at the bottom of the page.