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Something I noticed with dark mode is while posting a bunch of pictures in another thread, the text for the buttons below the attachments (the white bar) is in white and I cannot read it unless I highlight it.
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Ooooh, I love this site even more. Thank you everyone who worked on the improvements for this site.
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Two things Jordan:
1) Is there a way to remove the "Threads You Follow" and "Latest Posts" section when opening the main forum? It's a bit annoying having to scroll down extra everytime you go back to the main forum. I don't have threads that I follow so it just shows the 2 tracks I uploaded in GT6 Course Maker, and since this feature is now offline it's useless having this section here.
2) With the shortcut on top left (Home > Forums > Off Topic > Site Support), is it possible to remove the Home? It just takes you to the News page and it's a bit redundant since the "News" tab is literally less than 3cm from it. I got used to clicking on the left most link to go back to the main forum from the previous version, so I'm getting a lot of mis-clicks to the News page.
Also not trying to sound like a broken record, but any chance at all for the old smilies to come back as with the "cheers" and "gtpflag"? Some old smilies don't even have a new equivalent. E.g. to get a winking face previously you just type
but now you have to type : wink : Old habits die hard I suppose.
1) Is there a way to remove the "Threads You Follow" and "Latest Posts" section when opening the main forum? It's a bit annoying having to scroll down extra everytime you go back to the main forum. I don't have threads that I follow so it just shows the 2 tracks I uploaded in GT6 Course Maker, and since this feature is now offline it's useless having this section here.
2) With the shortcut on top left (Home > Forums > Off Topic > Site Support), is it possible to remove the Home? It just takes you to the News page and it's a bit redundant since the "News" tab is literally less than 3cm from it. I got used to clicking on the left most link to go back to the main forum from the previous version, so I'm getting a lot of mis-clicks to the News page.
Also not trying to sound like a broken record, but any chance at all for the old smilies to come back as with the "cheers" and "gtpflag"? Some old smilies don't even have a new equivalent. E.g. to get a winking face previously you just type
but now you have to type : wink : Old habits die hard I suppose.
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Wanted to record it, but it stopped doing it now 🤷
It did a thing where, as soon as I selected the reply box, the browser zoomed in to the maximum level, so far that two words would fill the screen left-to-right. Guess it was just my browser being buggy for a bit.
Btw, homepage is way better now. I still think the featured photos are cluttering it a bit, but at least the news is easy to find now.
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Just asking, but would it be possible to relocate the light/dark/auto mode buttons to the top of the page? Maybe on the right edge of the bar that shows the Home > Forums > Site support >, and such information. A dropdown menu maybe?
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There is no option. Considering the volume of posts that we publish I don't feel like that's necessary.
As mentioned, this feature will be coming. I am busy offline through the weekend but I hope to implement this next week.
I know it's a little jarring at first. As I mentioned earlier in this thread, I had a lot of mis-clicks myself while building the new theme.
The site now has a true, universal breadcrumb that extends to all areas compared to just the forums' breadcrumbs before. A consistent root breadcrumb is logically and technically (for SEO) necessary.
I promise you'll get used to it in a few more days. 👍
Possibly. I love them too (well, I kept them on my site for 20 years, if that tells you anything!) but there are some issues.Also not trying to sound like a broken record, but any chance at all for the old smilies to come back as with the "cheers" and "gtpflag"? Some old smilies don't even have a new equivalent. E.g. to get a winking face previously you just type
First, the reality is the old smilies really need to be rebuilt in higher resolution to keep the site from looking dated on modern displays and devices. As with some of the other changes that have drawn criticism, there are simply things that I have to de-prioritize or just say "that's good enough for now" or "I will decide/work on/refine that later", else the site would stay in development behind-closed-doors quite literally forever. The smilies were one of those things.
Second, I'm not entirely thrilled with the idea of having a motley crew of different smilies — in terms of both visual appearance and invocation method. Dealing with the standardized Unicode emoji set is more consistent in many ways.
So, I don't know. It's a decision that had to be made / deferred. I knew some people wouldn't like it (I wasn't sure how many), but I'm listening to the feedback on it.
This was actually just an oversight on my part. You can use ;) to insertSome old smilies don't even have a new equivalent. E.g. to get a winking face previously you just type
. Please let me know if there are any other shortcuts that I missed.
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Fair enough Jordan. Thanks for explaining the reasons behind it. I never realised how much I love the old smilies until they're gone. IMO the loss has the biggest impact on the look of the site more than anything else. I use smilies a lot here, it's almost like a second face. On other forums, despite my posting style being the same I rarely use smilies because they look different and it doesn't feel right. So the change here feels like I've gotten a plastic surgery and have to get used to a new face, if that makes sense 🙃
Even so I can't remember all the old smilies and shortcuts. A quick search shows this thread which shows all of them in their new forms, but hovering the cursor over them shows the new shortcuts instead (e.g. wink instead of ;-) ) Some are pretty obvious but a few look markedly different so I don't know what they correspond to in the old format.
Awesome Face Epic Smiley Appreciation Thread :D
So rather than posting fake infos about something which is pretty outdated trick, id rather do this in this very special day! Description: Awesome Face, also known as “epic smiley”, refers to a drawing of a round yellow-colored smiley face with upturned eyes. It has been predominantly used...
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Some quick thoughts:
- "Bowdown" has a totally different feel in the new one
- "Cool" and "indiff" doesn't even have a replacement
- "Banghead" seems to be missing
- There were 2 smilies that are condensed into one "confounded"
- "Drool" barely looks different from a normal smile now unless you look real closely
I must be the only one who cares this much about these little guys 🤣
EDIT: Seems bullet points are auto formatted. Now that's a cool change 👍
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Sometimes when line breaking on mobile, it inserts the line break but does not move the cursor. I think it has to do with whether or not you have punctuation at the end,
It works with the comma up there, but will not work if you don't use itso it ends up like this.
*I hit line break after "don't use it" in the above sentence and you can see that kept the cursor up there. How it did create the line breaks. I moved the cursor down here to type at it.
It works with the comma up there, but will not work if you don't use itso it ends up like this.
*I hit line break after "don't use it" in the above sentence and you can see that kept the cursor up there. How it did create the line breaks. I moved the cursor down here to type at it.
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Are the search results sorted by relevance by default? When I do a search, I see posts from various dates, some not even recent.
Honestly, the emoji for standard smilie-style expressions are so bad that I am very reluctant to use any of them. They're so over-produced, insincere (by way of ubiquity and meme-ification), and too often nearly indistinguishable -- if not plain indisinguishable at a glance, then indistinguishable in terms of what they are trying (and failing) to convey. Typical awful & cold modern design. I don't see GTPlanet in them. I see indifferent, insincere corporatism.
On the flipside, I appreciate much of the remainder of the new palette. 🐺 The feature is genuinely a big improvement for the site. The problem is just the crop that now stands in place of our superior traditional equivalents. Having both sets readily available, per the user's preference, would be greatly appreciated.
(To no one's surprise, I really could not care less if our smilies look "dated" -- they are emotive, which is the whole point. Besides, I still cannot understand any aversion to pixels in a world where Minecraft is such a worldwide phenomenon.)
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Most of today's work was behind-the-scenes, but there were a fair amount of public changes as well:
- “GT Suggestions” forums sort-by-votes links fixed
- FAQ page updated
- News articles: list formatting updated
- News articles: pull quote formatting adjusted
- News articles: fixed article quizzes so they are working again
- Premium subscriptions can now be purchased with any of the following payment methods (in addition to PayPal):
- All major credit cards
- Apple Pay
- Google Pay
- Android Pay
- Microsoft Pay
- Dark mode: highlighted posts background color adjusted
- Dark mode: multi-quote insert gradients fixed
- Forum search: query underlined on results page
- Reactions list: links underlined
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Today's updates:
- Premium subscriptions: new “gift” buttons added (more details here)
- Premium subscriptions: private conversations started by Premium members can now contain up to 500 participants
- User profiles: fixed spacing around reaction button on profile post comments
- User profiles: your account warnings and infractions will again be visible (only to you and moderation staff) on your profile page if you have infractions logged against your account
- FAQ page: Updated to reflect new Premium information
- Other: new moderation and administrative tools installed and configured
- Other: updated bot detection system to hCaptcha
No, I'm afraid that would be too complex to implement here. I would recommend using a browser plugin if you want to further customize the site's appearance.
