Forum Overhaul Fix-'em-up Jamboree

Hey y'all, updated some things per requests:

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RE: favicons

Another small thing: we seem to be missing our friendly tab eagle, that shows up as an image in tabs (at least on Firefox):



(note the icon dealie is ok on the quicktopic tab, but the eagle tabs are just text)

Yeah, dunno why that got removed. Put it back on the forum, and took the opportunity to upscale and redraw it at 2x the resolution, and rename it a favfalcon. I should eventually make multiple resolutions so it looks less blurry in a tab (I'm particular about clean pixel art), but it's there for now. Some subforums/threads don't show the favicon yet, but looking into getting that fixed. Might make subforum-specific ones, like for Fortuna.

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RE: serifs and sans-serifs

Could we get a theme with all visible text in serif fonts? Sans-serifs are harder for me to read and all of the current themes have sans-serif fonts. thanks

Could we have an eagle theme with a sans-serif font too? It's good to have serif around for readablity but sans serif is more pleasant to the eyes for me. I realize the fortuna themes already have sans serif but I'd miss the eagle.

I rolled out Serif-mode as a test last night, and just finished making it into a full alternate theme. Defaults have been reverted to Sans-Serif like they were, but if you'd like to use serifs, switch to "Eagle Theme Serif". Once I pick out some good fonts for it, I'd like to have a serif and sans-serif option for all themes.

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RE: image resizing

Hi there! unfortunately, while at the beginning of the update my pics were resized just fine, but after a few days it messed up and now they look massive, is there any way to resize them to fit in Eagletime's 'frame'?hat's the size? (or an approximate)

Sorry about that. I had images resizing like that, but there was a conflict, where table layouts would compress images. I temporarily disabled image resizing, to figure that out, and forgot to re-enable it. Oversized images should automatically resize to fit their containers now; either the width of the post, or the spoiler they're in, etc. For now, images inside a Layout table (a new set of tags for making columns or tables for arranging content), will not resize. It's a temporary work-around, until I can fix some more complicated stuff with the editor.

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RE: post titles

There's no easy way to see titles on individual posts.

This is overall a minor thing, but we've sometimes changed the title of a post to make jokes or for Post Making Contest purposes, so it would be nice if that were brought back.

Can agree that the return of thread titles/titles for individual posts would be good: it also serves a very nice function in mafia games in that if you're paging back you can immediately see what day's conversation you're looking at at a glance.

Making the time/date-posted a bit smaller would be good too. Especially on mobile, it's a bit hard to tell from the primary content. Maybe also make it italicized?

Done and done. Had to poke around and find some unlisted myBB variables (the documentation for this stuff is awful), but should be working! If it's still too distracting, I'll look into other fixes.

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RE: vanishing thread subscriptions

The redesign looks great, but some of my subscriptions disappeared.

Yesterday I was no longer subscribed to my own adventure .. and I've resubbed to All Night Laundry but it still isn't showing up in my subscription list.

I changed my default option to "no notification" and am now posting to this thread to see what happens.

Edit: Checked my subscription list and the thread is still there, so that's looking like a correct guess. Default options are being auto-applied.

Thanks so much everyone, for helping with bugtesting and looking into this. I'm not sure what's causing this to happen on the backend, since I didn't muck with the notification system at all. Did some preliminary research too, but no suggestions so far. Obviously this isn't good; it might be a problem with the latest version of myBB, so it may fix itself, but I'll keep looking into this. Hopefully it's just a side effect of one of our plugins.

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RE: broken multiquotes

Multiquoting, while extremely useful, seems to intersperse a whole bunch of HTML tags (<br>, <strong>) throughout the quotes, which don't actually work

Unfortunately, this fix is going to have to wait on a full editor redesign, rather than using an alternate editor plugin like we're doing right now. This is the best WYSIWYG editor plugin, for not breaking tags with HTML garbledygook, but it's still not perfect; there's certain tag combinations that will break it too, and undo/redo doesn't work in source editor mode, etc. You can multiquote, but the editor needs to be in WYSIWYG mode (the "<> Source" button in the top left corner of the editor needs to not be down); if it's in source mode, it injects raw HTML into the quote instead of bbcode. I will have to fix this eventually, it's... just gonna be part of a big project. Really sorry for the inconvenience.

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RE: broken lite mode

Not urgent but: some of the new formatting has rendered Archive/Lite mode distinctly un-lite.

An ability to quickly toggle between seeing formatting or no would be rad but also not urgent.

I'm going to have to look into how to do this. This is likely going to be another part of the editor overhaul I still have to finish, and is going to be a bigger project. I'm going to put this off for a bit, but I will do my best to get this in good shape again!