More compliments: new board is SO FAST!!
Mal: Gotta say, doctor, your talent for alienatin' folk is near miraculous. Simon: Yes, I'm very proud.
'Safe'
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Do you have problems, concerns, or recommendations about the technical side of the Phoenix? Air them here. Compliments also welcome.
Jessica - Nov 02, 2020 11:51:26 am PST #4405 of 4671
If I want to become a cloud of bats, does each bat need a separate vaccination?
Consuela - Nov 02, 2020 12:14:20 pm PST #4406 of 4671
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
Super fast!
Would it be possible to put a Read New button down the bottom of the page, maybe next to the First/Previous/Next/Last/Recent buttons?
dcp - Nov 02, 2020 12:17:51 pm PST #4407 of 4671
The more I learn, the more I realize how little I know.
Consuela, see [link]
Gudanov - Nov 02, 2020 12:29:11 pm PST #4408 of 4671
Coding and Sleeping
Yup. I don't think it is practical to add 'Message Center' and 'Read New' to the button bar with 'First ... Recent' because it won't shrink down well on mobile. But maybe I could add a second bar under it with just 'Message Center' and 'Read New'.
ION, I have now secured a certificate for buffistas.org so https://www.buffistas.org is now an encrypted connection. That means I will need to take the board down sometime tonight to switch to the real domain name. That's a bit too much to try to slip in while waiting on stuff at work.
amych - Nov 02, 2020 12:34:06 pm PST #4409 of 4671
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
But maybe I could add a second bar under it with just 'Message Center' and 'Read New'.
This (or some such solution) would be great - I'm realizing now that I'm using the new board for real that I never realized just how much I depend on those two for 98% of my mindless zombie-mode board reading.
Gudanov - Nov 02, 2020 12:40:01 pm PST #4410 of 4671
Coding and Sleeping
I added a very short and simple about page. In large part I just wanted to demo how pages work for admins.
Gris - Nov 02, 2020 12:51:22 pm PST #4411 of 4671
Hey. New board.
Gud, I added a couple of PRs you can look at whenever. One is just readme tweaks for things i ran into getting everything running, the second adds several view options.
Gudanov - Nov 02, 2020 1:03:00 pm PST #4412 of 4671
Coding and Sleeping
Cool! Too much to do during work, but hopefully I can get to it tonight.
Gris - Nov 02, 2020 2:53:40 pm PST #4413 of 4671
Hey. New board.
No problem, no rush. I was off work today. Back to the grind tomorrow so I can't do much to help the rest of the week.
Gris - Nov 02, 2020 3:07:10 pm PST #4414 of 4671
Hey. New board.
But maybe I could add a second bar under it with just 'Message Center' and 'Read New'.
This is one option, but i wonder if it might not look cluttered. Other options:
1) A bulleted list of links, essentially replicating the side bar, right underneath the button bar or under the "Post Message" box on the last page.
2) just three links in the actual footer in smallish font - Home, Read New, Message Center.
3) make the nav bar (and sidebar?) fixed in position, either using position:fixed or just by making the main area scrollable and sizing the whole page to viewport height. That way they would always be available for navigation even in the middle of a long page (like my 50-post ones).
Is this something worth polling about, or does it feel like dev judgment call? Pretty sure I could make PRs for any of them tonight.