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[dlgoff]

Greg, ...
the up/down arrow blue box...

Could you PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE get rid of that damned thing?

Hooray! It's gone. :)

Now for the "hover over" pull-down menus.

 

[Greg Bernhardt]

Now for the "hover over" pull-down menus.

Where?

 

[dlgoff]

Where?

It's not that big a deal. Your sleep is probably much more important. It's when you run your mouse across the menu items they drop down but don't go away (see attached). It's still there while making this reply (header bar doesn't refresh on reply?).

Edit: Oh. I see it's been addressed. https://www.physicsforums.com/threads/slower-hover-overs.772173/

 

[Greg Bernhardt]

drop down but don't go away

What browser?

 

[dlgoff]

Firefox 28.0

BTW they go away by clicking on the item.

 

[Greg Bernhardt]

Firefox 28.0

BTW they go away by clicking on the item.

First, upgrade to FF 32 and then clear your cache

 

[Greg Bernhardt]

BTW they go away by clicking on the item.

Ah now I see, the functionality is that you must click off the menu for it to close. This is to prevent flickering and accidental closing.

 

[dlgoff]

First, upgrade to FF 32

Not a chance. :D

Ah now I see, the functionality is that you must click off the menu for it to close. This is to prevent flickering and accidental closing.

Got it. Thanks.

 

[phinds]

Hooray! It's gone. :)

HOORAY indeed !

I take back several of those bad things I said about Greg :p

Greg ... GO TO BED !

 

[ShayanJ]

I still have the problem with the list of my posts...mmm...contents and threads.
It seems that when I click "Find all content by shayan" the forum shows my today posts(I don't see my yesterday posts)+all posts before a random date in 2013!
And I still see "No results found" when I want to see my threads.

 

[Borek]

I still have the problem with the list of my posts...mmm...contents and threads.
It seems that when I click "Find all content by shayan" the forum shows my today posts+all posts before a random date in 2013!
And I still see "No results found" when I want to see my threads.

Yes, it is still not fixed and we are aware of that. Sorry about that, but there are plenty of things to do. For now, try to use google adding

site:physicsforums.com

to your searches.

 

[Zarqon]

I like the overall look!

But one thing I found quite annoying is the social media bar to the left on the screen. It's fairly big, flashy colors and always shows up with a delay on every page you start reading. Is there a way to turn it off or permanently hide it? There's a small arrow below it for collapsing it, but it still comes back as soon as you click a new link. Just make the small arrow perma-hide it would be a quick solution I think.

 

[phinds]

Yep, I have the same issue. Probably some database cleanup that Greg will get to after the more pressing issues are resolved.

EDIT: OOPS ... didn't see Borek's post

 

[ostrich2]

Not sure what canbe done about that. It needs to be broken up some how. Responsive sizing would be neat though.

Unfortunately I just don't recall exactly how the page appeared before the upgrade, but I know I could see that whole posting. Unless the rendering was smaller somehow, I think there must have been horizontal scrollbars either inside the panel, or on the browser frame? That would be the obvious way to handle very wide equations that don't fit in the current browser window (no different than any web page really). Would the previous version have done that?

 

[cristo]

Unfortunately I just don't recall exactly how the page appeared before the upgrade, but I know I could see that whole posting. Unless the rendering was smaller somehow, I think there must have been horizontal scrollbars either inside the panel, or on the browser frame? That would be the obvious way to handle very wide equations that don't fit in the current browser window (no different than any web page really). Would the previous version have done that?

You're right, there was a scroll bar. I've edited this latex, anyway, since it went off the screen for me too. Hopefully it's all visible now.

 

[Lord Crc]

Not sure what canbe done about that. It needs to be broken up some how. Responsive sizing would be neat though.

Sadly this makes anything but the shortest equations cut off in the mobile version :-(

In the old forum the page just got wider, which worked quite well in my view.

 

[Greg Bernhardt]

Sadly this makes anything but the shortest equations cut off in the mobile version :-(

Interesting observation, I'll have to go look

 

[Lord Crc]

Interesting observation, I'll have to go look

FWIW it happens in both Opera Mobile and Firefox Mobile for me.

Mobile theme in general could be improved a lot with a few tweaks, especially the excessive empty spaces, but of course not a burning issue.

 

[Greg Bernhardt]

especially the excessive empty spaces

I see the left padding issue in posts that make them cramped. Solving that will make a big difference.

 

[Lord Crc]

I see the left padding issue in posts that make them cramped. Solving that will make a big difference.

That would be great indeed.

In any case thanks for the hard work. For some reason I hadn't seen the announcement despite visiting daily so came as a bit of a shock, but the switch seems to have gone very smooth, which I assume is due to much work and planning.

 

[DrDu]

Two points: When I click reply in a thread, the previous text is automatically quoted. What is the "+quote" for, then?
There was a strange thread in the chemistry forum about how to write a sigma which had started some days ago. The overview didn't show when it started nor who had replied to it. Today, the tread isn't there any more. Are there more threads which got lost in transition?

 

[cristo]

When I click reply in a thread, the previous text is automatically quoted. What is the "+quote" for, then?

The +quote is what was called multi-quote in the old forum. The reply is what we used to call quote.

 

[Borek]

Today, the tread isn't there any more.

It was moved to the general discussion: https://www.physicsforums.com/threads/writing-sigma.772161/unread

 

[DrDu]

Will there be a reply without quote as it is kind of nasty to delete long quotes?
How do I see that a thread has been moved?

 

[ShayanJ]

Will there be a reply without quote as it is kind of nasty to delete long quotes?

Just use the quick reply. I used it rarely in PF3 because I often needed more tools but now that everything is present in quick reply, I just use it all the time and there is no unwanted quotes.

 

[Borek]

How do I see that a thread has been moved?

Depends. Sometimes you don't.

In general, when moving threads, we leave a redirection thread. However, we treat redirection threads as a junk, they are typically set to expire. If the thread had no answers redirection thread will be set to expire in a day or two. If there were many people involved, we can send alerts to all involved (or make the expiration longer) - but that won't work if you have only read the thread.

 

[Imager]

Great job on the new PF;) Less bugs than anything released by MS!

 

[Greg Bernhardt]

Less bugs than anything released by MS!

We just have a good can of Raid :)

 

[phinds]

Great job on the new PF;) Less bugs than anything released by MS!

Oh, that's setting the bar really low ;) Greg did a much better job than just beating MS.

 

[Borg]

OK, here's a new one. In general, I like the new feature where the system remembers a post that you're writing even if you leave the page and come back later. However, if I wipe it out, it ignores that and keeps putting my unfinished post back. If I want to remove a draft, I have to either post something or replace it with a single character.