Site Tweaks - Oct 2024

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Socoder -> Site & Server -> Site Tweaks - Oct 2024
Tue, 08 Oct 2024, 09:23
Jayenkai	New Layout - Oct 2024 I've been spending a bit of time in Discord of late, and jumping back to 1990's era SoCoder is making me go "Hmm... Maybe I oughta tweak things a bit." So, I tweaked things a bit.. Head into the Paintbrush settings section, and you'll want to Enable the New Layout The new layout.. A. Removes borders between posts B. Removes the Homepage/PM from the bottom of posts. (This section now lives in user profiles. Click a persons avatar to find it.) C. Removes sigs.. Not sure what to do about those. Suggestions welcome. D. Reduces the long "Posted : " timestamp that used to be much larger. The new minimal timestamp is a fair bit neater. E. Removes other clutter, like the Edit/Delete buttons. These are now in the new menu. F. Adds a new menu. Either right click in any space inside the post (done so you can still select text and copy it, or whatever, if you right click on something other than blank space) Alternatively, there's a teensy button on the top right of each post. There's 2 new themes. A NeoDark and NeoLight which fit the new layout a little better, but you can still use your favourite themes. So, umm... Yeah, that's been a couple of chaotic days! Apologies if anyone noticed the site breaking intermittently over the past day or two! vs Suggestions, thoughts, comments, etc, are all welcome. -=-=- ''Load, Next List!''
Tue, 08 Oct 2024, 12:55
Dan	Can you add alternating post colors to the NeoDark theme ? Like every second post in a slightly higher tone ? It would make the distinction between posts easier, i think.
Tue, 08 Oct 2024, 13:56
Jayenkai	Yeah, the engine handles that, try out the Smoke theme for roughly what it'd look like. I'll add "_Alt" versions for the neo themes some time tomorrow. \|update\| added \|update\| -=-=- ''Load, Next List!''
Thu, 10 Oct 2024, 02:59
Dan	Thanks, its a bit better !
Mon, 14 Oct 2024, 04:42
Jayenkai	Play Video Video Uploads are now in place, but videos won't play directly on the site, and will open in a new tab. MP4's are supported, MOV's might work, AVI's will probably break because, of course they would. (Also, filesize limits, obv!!) Note : Don't abuse this functionality, or I'll take it away. No uploading entire movies squished into 10Mb filesizes! -=-=- ''Load, Next List!''
Mon, 14 Oct 2024, 05:01
Jayenkai	Mov Test Play Video AVI Test Play Video The drag'n'drop kinda breaks for both of those, and the avi won't playback on the Mac. So, um.. Maybe stick with mp4 if you have that option. -=-=- ''Load, Next List!''
Tue, 05 Nov 2024, 12:25
Jayenkai	OK, the new "Discordy" functionality has been live for almost a month. Has anyone been using it? How have you got on with it? Have you found any issues? ... Or have you just not used it in the slightest? -=-=- ''Load, Next List!''
Tue, 05 Nov 2024, 21:18
Dan	Now, as you mention it ... i have just noticed that i'm back on the default theme ... I can't recall if i have set it back (maybe i wanted to change something, but because it was late night and it could be that i forgot to change it back the next day). Right, i think i like the default theme better ... i just noticed that, in the discordy view the user icon/picture is missing if there are 2 (or more) posts from the same user and i do watch it while scrolling .... (well the user icon is in the 1st post and following do not have it, until someone other posts something)
Wed, 06 Nov 2024, 03:29
cyangames	I'm a fan of table borders
Wed, 06 Nov 2024, 03:54
Jayenkai	Sure am glad I added that as an option, then. I've been using the Discordy edition exclusively since adding it, to ensure it functions the way it oughta. The other day I added Upvotes to it, because I was missing those, but otherwise I've not really had any issues with the new form. As far as "the site looks different without X and Y" that was kinda the point of adding it!! It's stripped a lot of the boxiness away, trimmed a ton of the clutter, and made it all a little teensy bit less .. 1998..! But I totally 100% understand people not liking that, which is why I made it an alternative, rather than the default. -=-=- ''Load, Next List!''

New Layout - Oct 2024