Ars forum updates are now here!
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One thing that I miss is the subforum selector that used to live on the bottom of the page. It meant that I can jump from forum to forum (say Lounge to Battlefront) without having to return to the homepage.
Another comment: the bright, orange elements in dark mode are awfully jarring, I feel like my retinas are burning out! Tone them down for sanity sake.
My avatar appears (to me at least) as a K in an orange circle.
The orange is NOT Ars Orange. I want my K to be in an Ars Orange circle. Thanks.
EDIT: In fact it's doing my head in the oranges don't match. Blech.
The orange is NOT Ars Orange. I want my K to be in an Ars Orange circle. Thanks.
EDIT: In fact it's doing my head in the oranges don't match. Blech.
The site could use a bit of a cleanup in terms of font usage. Firefox has a nice option to show all the fonts being rendered on a page and at least on Linux there is quite a smattering. Some elements have a rather long "font-family" list which is causing different fonts to be used on different browsers, even on the same system. And some of those fonts are also causing problems with alignment. For instance, in Firefox/Linux the "-> Jump to latest", "+ Follow", and "<- Reply" text isn't aligned properly with the preceding icons. The "new" tag (on new posts) is also misaligned, with almost no padding over the text compared to under it.
Yes, really minor detail that likely only affects a minority of an already very small minority of users.
But standardizing on a few fonts would make everything just that bit more clean, in terms of both visuals and code.
Yes, really minor detail that likely only affects a minority of an already very small minority of users.
But standardizing on a few fonts would make everything just that bit more clean, in terms of both visuals and code.
The expand width toggle doesn't seem to stick. I have to choose it again when I come back.
But, my login also doesn't seem to stick, despite choosing 'keep me logged in'.
But, my login also doesn't seem to stick, despite choosing 'keep me logged in'.
glad to see my account survived this time. My original account did not survive the last transition (I’ve been here longer than 18 years).
On Firefox on Android, the keyboard keeps immediately closing
I originally wanted to post how much I dislike the changes.
The articles on Ars are nice, but the real reason I keep coming back is the quality of the comments section
The current change is deep in "I don't think I can come here any more" territory
Also if you could move the up vote button further from the side of the screen it would be a God send for those of us with curved touch screens.
I originally wanted to post how much I dislike the changes.
The articles on Ars are nice, but the real reason I keep coming back is the quality of the comments section
The current change is deep in "I don't think I can come here any more" territory
Also if you could move the up vote button further from the side of the screen it would be a God send for those of us with curved touch screens.
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Adding another login bug. I'm not sure if this has come up before, I'm only halfway through the thread; but this one seems pretty serious as things go.
Yesterday I had to log in in on my iPad after the upgrade, and everything seemed ok. This morning I opened Ars on my Mini for the first time since the upgrade and was greeted by this:
I'm most definitely not malor. Logged out and was able to log back in as myself.
Edit: Safari 16.1 on MacOS 13.0.1
Yesterday I had to log in in on my iPad after the upgrade, and everything seemed ok. This morning I opened Ars on my Mini for the first time since the upgrade and was greeted by this:
I'm most definitely not malor. Logged out and was able to log back in as myself.
Edit: Safari 16.1 on MacOS 13.0.1
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I’m using dark mode. The colours look to be so bright now to border on fluorescent.
The international orange combined with lime green accents makes for it feeling like an 8 bit colour combo. Subtle it is not and combined with some of the other UI elements it looks like it is from a way back machine twenty years ago,
The green person icon with #y and green speech bubble with number of posts above every post just looks cluttered and adds to an ugly look to the comments section.
The international orange combined with lime green accents makes for it feeling like an 8 bit colour combo. Subtle it is not and combined with some of the other UI elements it looks like it is from a way back machine twenty years ago,
The green person icon with #y and green speech bubble with number of posts above every post just looks cluttered and adds to an ugly look to the comments section.
ARS SHOWS DOB.
I do not recall opting in. Did I opt in? The rest of my rant assumes I did not, and Shirely a world-leading security conscious site of exemplary journalism doesn't assume its volunteer unpaid content creators (AKA members) want their birthdates displayed.
Why is it even an option?
To repeat myself. Why is this even an option? Give me one good, security-reviewed reason.
I do not recall opting in. Did I opt in? The rest of my rant assumes I did not, and Shirely a world-leading security conscious site of exemplary journalism doesn't assume its volunteer unpaid content creators (AKA members) want their birthdates displayed.
Why is it even an option?
To repeat myself. Why is this even an option? Give me one good, security-reviewed reason.
I'm using FF on Android (Samsung Galaxy S21 Ultra) myself and can't reproduce the keyboard issue; could you do a screen capture of it?
(I'm actually a frontend dev who worked on this).
Observation on Alerts settings. I had turned all categories off last night but work up to 28 of them.
A comment on the auto-un-nesting of quotes: I think only saving the previous quote is too little. When replying to a reply of a reply, it was handy to be able to expand the thread to understand the last 2 or 3 posts. Auto-quoting 2 or 3 would be handy if possible.
On mobile when I click the widget at top left to see replies to my posts, the links lead to arstechnica.dev instead of .com. "fixing" the URL gets me to the right place.
I don't remember: was this option ticked on by default? I think it was, I had to uncheck it. Pretty much all options under Privacy should be ticked off by default. Luckily, I never entered my DOB anywhere in the site settings before.
Latest Firefox on Windows 10. Every keystroke in the Search box causes a small, discrete upwards scroll.
Came here to ask about this too.
And to throw my name on the pile of those having issues with the random "Your post in Thread has 65 Trillion Upvotes" notifications even though I've tried to disable all of those in my profile.
Really makes one appreciate how much work went into the old forum to add those quality of life improvements on a clunky system, now that they have to be re-implemented in a newer and more flexible one!
I was testing the search function, and I suppose that might still need work? I attempted to search for Lord of the Rings, and was told that nothing could be found, despite the Lord of the Rings Online forum thread being present.
What happened to the ability to say why we upvoted/downvoted a comment? I liked that, it made it feel more constructive.
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Is this the first spam post on the new forum?
There doesn't seem to be a hammer icon to quick-report. I used the '!' in the bottom left of the post instead.
There doesn't seem to be a hammer icon to quick-report. I used the '!' in the bottom left of the post instead.
Sorry, I don't have the time to look over 26 pages of other people's Feedback currently, so no idea if some of this has already been posted, but wanted to give my own because I have some problems.
First, the commenting section under articles is currently broken for me. Not broken in doesn't work, but broken in can't do what it needs to do.
What I need it to do: Pick up around the comments where I left off reading, even if the browser is closed and reopened later.
What it does currently: Always starts at page 1 of the comments. The URL doesn't change from "/?comments=1" to any other value, no matter on what page of comments I am on or how far I have read. I assume this is supposed to do something more, else =1 would be superfluous.
Is there a way to set the layout of the comment section for each device? Currently on my Tablet if has the names and things on a huge block on the left that is wasting a lot of space. This would be fine if I were reading in landscape mode, but as I almost always read in portrait mode this is not a good use of screen real-estate.
A nice to have: Is there a way to disable showing how long people have been on the site? It's not something I care about so is just visual clutter to me and I prefer to have less visual clutter.
Thanks
Edit: I would also like an option to auto expand quoted comments. Especially on my tablet, always having to move my hand to "click" is very annoying.
First, the commenting section under articles is currently broken for me. Not broken in doesn't work, but broken in can't do what it needs to do.
What I need it to do: Pick up around the comments where I left off reading, even if the browser is closed and reopened later.
What it does currently: Always starts at page 1 of the comments. The URL doesn't change from "/?comments=1" to any other value, no matter on what page of comments I am on or how far I have read. I assume this is supposed to do something more, else =1 would be superfluous.
Is there a way to set the layout of the comment section for each device? Currently on my Tablet if has the names and things on a huge block on the left that is wasting a lot of space. This would be fine if I were reading in landscape mode, but as I almost always read in portrait mode this is not a good use of screen real-estate.
A nice to have: Is there a way to disable showing how long people have been on the site? It's not something I care about so is just visual clutter to me and I prefer to have less visual clutter.
Thanks
Edit: I would also like an option to auto expand quoted comments. Especially on my tablet, always having to move my hand to "click" is very annoying.
Never mind, it seems to affect old and new accounts as well.
Another issue on mobile Safari: the site theme color is orange, but the top navigation bar is black. This results in an orange status area over a black bar instead of making it look like the navigation bar is part of the top chrome (like other sites do).
Is it possible to make automatic media embeds when pasting a link optional? When the backend detects a pasted link with video, it tends to automatically use the [ MEDIA ] tags on it, instead of [ URL ] or just plaintext. Often I don't want to embed media when posting video links (it adds to clutter), especially as I am having big problems with Telegram videos (even the embedded ones!) in some browsers (the whole tab just freezes and I had to edit it out in another browser).
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Am I missing it, or is there no longer an option to have article comments go directly to forum view? I'd personally prefer that (and it's what I used to use before this upgrade). I realize you can click view in forum after loading the comments, but I'd rather avoid the unnecessary extra step.
Forums are getting slammed with spam, and you cant even report them.
Must wait xx seconds before you can report this message, and there's dozens of messages.
Must wait xx seconds before you can report this message, and there's dozens of messages.