Significant site upgrade

[Jon]

Everything new takes time to get used to. I remember when we switched from vBulletin. There were many things that were preferred in the old forum until users got used to them here.

 

[zeroaccess]

What was it before: Shades of Grey or Shades of Blue?

There was no blue background, that's for sure.

 

[CJ_London]

this is
a bit
of inline code

this is a bit of inline code

it's adding an extra carriage return

 

[CJ_London]

The code tags now work similar to the way vBulletin did - highlight the code and hit </> - the code is copied to the code window so you don't have to paste it in - but colouring still doesn't come through

this is
a code tag

this is
a code tag

 

[CJ_London]

Not noticed the spoiler before, was it available in the previous version? (space added after [ to show the code) - but doesn't appear in preview
[ SPOILER="this is a spoiler"][/SPOILER]

 

[CJ_London]

nor after posting

 

[CJ_London]

good to see the quote is no longer in a dropdown

 

[Jon]

I'm sure you will discover all sorts of niceties in the new version. I don't know what they all are since there are quite a few of them, but I do know the big ones.

I will set up the VBA forum with the Q&A thing, to see how that goes.

 

[Jon]

One change is the Similar threads. The look, feel and content have changed. The one we had before was a third-party add-on. This new one is built into Xenforo, so is probably better.

 

[zeroaccess]

Not sure what you mean by dropdown, but it does show a preview in the reply box rather than the QUOTE code.

Well just discovered a bug, screenshot attached. It isn't including the quote.

 

[Jon]

If I click Reply to someones post, I get the quote. It could be a cache issue with your browser. I suggest clearing your cache and trying again.

 

[Gasman]

If I click Reply to someones post, I get the quote. It could be a cache issue with your browser. I suggest clearing your cache and trying again.

replied

 

[CJ_London]

for quotes before - you pasted the quote, highlighted it then clicked the 'insert' dropdown and selected quote

 

[Jon]

Testing quote

 

[Jon]

Ok, I just tried it. Highlighted the text, clicked the quote icon, voila!

 

[CJ_London]

as I said - now only one step, rather than two

 

[zeroaccess]

as I said - now only one step, rather than two

Unless I'm missing something, that is the same behavior as before. There are two ways to reply with a quote: selectively by selecting text, or to an entire post by hitting Reply.

What I was referring to last night guys is that the quote fails to pick up any text already in a quote box in someone's post.

 

[The_Doc_Man]

I have cleared my browser cache again. Just recently I had my in-house network speed upgraded but after this Xenforo upgrade, I get the vague but unquantified impression that things are a bit slower than they used to be. Don't know if that is just having a slowdown on the TransAtlantic path but I'm not seeing that slowdown on other sites - and it is an immediately recent observation.

 

[Jon]

It might be slower. Then again, there are all sorts of caches going on, such as the cache on the server that has to catch up, browser caches and more. And the internet is unpredictable. Give is some time and see what happens.

Edit: Actually the site is hosted in the US. And there is a CDN, with local storage via POPs in about 40 different locations around the world. There can be so many different things that affect site speed.

 

[The_Doc_Man]

Was just about to complain that UNDERSCORE was gone ... but it isn't. It has just moved to the three vertical dots to the immediate right of the text-color palette symbol. So FYI to others, there are a lot more text options but some old favorites have moved.