Forum Update Completed - Issue List

[raykv423 1,689]

1 hour ago, Sparklefan1234 said:

 

Oh. I thought light blue meant someone wasn't online. 

....although that wasn't a bad idea. Maybe there should be a light blue dot sitting beside a user which means someone logged out of that account and/or no longer active and/or wasn't online. Kinda like In Facebook and FB Messengers which whenever someone's active on Facebook, there's a green dot on their FB profile pics. I know there's already a "Last Visited" thing but still. 
 

EDIT: And maybe if the account is banned/suspended (or in this case, "banished" ), there could be a red bot indicating someone's MLP Forums account is banished/suspended. 

Edited January 2, 2021 by raykv423

[Sparklefan1234 169,691]

58 minutes ago, Jeric said:

Re: Login issues. The internal login was removed. We only use the Poniverse login. Sorry I missed that guys. 

 

Is that why I was locked out twice even though I typed everything correctly all six (?) times?

[Jeric 46,850]

30 minutes ago, raykv423 said:

EDIT: And maybe if the account is banned/suspended (or in this case, "banished" ), there could be a red bot indicating someone's MLP Forums account is banished/suspended. 

I almost want to address this in its own post since I do not want this topic to become a discussion on ban policy (you are welcome to make a topic in Feedback or Site Questions or PM if you want to know more on that). I'm a proponent of being transparent, so to answer your question the way we have handled banned accounts has been changed quite a few times over the years. As bans are not always permanent, I don't think that a badge and red name highlighting someone's punishment is the right way to go. Ignoring for a moment that some of you talk to each other outside of MLPF, I would rather a reinstated user not have the fact that had a public notice of being banned hanging over their head. It doesn't serve any purpose to the community, the staff, or the old user. 

 

8 minutes ago, Sparklefan1234 said:

Is that why I was locked out twice even though I typed everything correctly all six (?) times?

It is. Back in 2013 the site switched to a single login system and disconnected the default forum one. The default one shows up with each update and I didn't catch it this time. 

[Sparklefan1234 169,691]

2 hours ago, Jeric said:

It is. Back in 2013 the site switched to a single login system and disconnected the default forum one. The default one shows up with each update and I didn't catch it this time. 

 

Thank You SO MUCH for fixing the issue and for changing the notification icons back to red! 

 

Also, what are the dimensions for profile banners now?

Edited January 2, 2021 by Sparklefan1234

[Dabmanz 2,139]

Didn't realize this post existed just made a status saying the only bug I noticed was the smaller banner. GG ^^  

[Rikifive 24,120]

11 hours ago, Sparklefan1234 said:

Also, what are the dimensions for profile banners now?

Initially the site width after update had no limits and could be super-wide on bigger displays, which introduced more things to worry about when designing profile banners. The wider the site was, the more stretched the image was, resulting in having even less vertical area displayed.

However, the max-width cap has been restored to 1340px, so in the end nothing has changed in regards to profile banners, or at least it seems to be displayed just like it was earlier.

Like earlier, sadly there aren't ideal dimensions for these, as their display varies between screens/devices. The lower the width of the display, the more of the image can be seen vertically.

> At full site width, which is 1340px, the profile banner displays 1310x350 pixels
> If the banner image will have a lower or higher width, it will be automatically scaled to cover all pixels horizontally (up to 1310px at full site width)
> The banner keeps the aspect ratio, so instead of stretching, it will scale both width and height to cover the whole area horizontally without making the image appear squished/ultra-wide - that is what affects the vertically displayed pixels
> The banner always displays all pixels horizontally (covers entire area's width), but visible height always varies, where the banner starts with the top of the image. Keep the most important content at the top, as not everyone may see the bottom of the image.

So... it would be best if the banner width had 1310 pixels, so that it would have full quality in all display widths. Lower values may look blurry at full site width, however, 1000 pixels is still somewhat reasonable, for example. Obviously, the lower the image width, the more blurry it will get when scaling up.

If the image width would have 1310 pixels, a minimum of 350 pixels vertically would be required to cover the whole area at full site-width. The lower the banner width, the lower height is required, as both will be upscaled.

However, it works in both ways - on smaller screens, especially mobile, the displayed width will decrease and along with this, the height will also be scaled down, showing more of the image vertically. That is why there is no ideal height for banners. 

 

Summarizing, it would be best to have:

WIDTH = 1310px (or less, but never more, as it would be scaled down anyway, waste of filesize)

HEIGHT = As much as possible within the file weight limit (Generally a not bad idea is to keep your image somewhat square-y, or better if it has more height than width)

Remember, that you can upload images up to 0.25MB (0.5MB for subscribers iirc?), which might give you troubles with designing the banner, so eventually consider using less width to save some filesize for height or use lower quality .jpg format).

For example, my current banner is 700x596. It appears a bit blurry at full site-width (especially on PC's), but its squarey shape handles the thinner displays (especially mobile). But still, it's not enough to cover all possible cases, but works for the most part.

That's all I can say after investigating a bit.  

[Sparklefan1234 169,691]

2 hours ago, Rikifive said:

1310x350 pixels

 

So, this? 

[Rikifive 24,120]

@Sparklefan1234 Too many details, huh? Me and my walls of text.  

Basically, I recommend having square-ish banners (for example on my phone the profile banners appear as squares). So a full-quality square dimensions would be 1310x1310, where the height could be even bigger just in case, if possible.

I just made a template, that hopefully may explain things better.  

Spoiler

ALWAYS VISIBLE AREA + AREA MOSTLY SEEN ON MOBILE DEVICES = 1310x1310 SQUARE

Feel free to work with it if you want, the image uses real dimensions, so you can just slap images behind it and lower the opacity of the template to see how your banner will fit.

For example, that's how my current banner looks like (after scaling it up to cover 1310px horizontally):

Spoiler

And literally, on PC I only see the ALWAYS VISIBLE AREA, nothing beyond that. On mobile I have a black bar at the top, so my banner isn't high enough, I believe a square would cover the whole space.

 

You may bump into issues with too big filesize, because users are allowed to upload banners up to 0.25MB, so in that case either use lower quality format or scale the image down, keeping the aspect ratio. For example if you'll scale the 1310x1000 banner to 0.5, you should get 655x500. This will greatly reduce the filezise, but will make the image appear blurry on bigger displays, but all areas marked by me will still be perfectly valid.

[Sparklefan1234 169,691]

I would like to know when someone responds to my status updates but I would not like to be notified

every time someone I follow posts a status update, is there any way I can fix this in my notification settings?

Edited January 3, 2021 by Sparklefan1234

[Sphinx-Ara 3,569]

So uh..I may have accidentally posted multiple of the same character ref due to the bug.. is there a way to delete all but one?

 

[Jeric 46,850]

2 hours ago, The Wife of Hawks said:

@Jeric

Will all future banners remain this size?

Nope .... @Lavo has been busy

 

[Silly Druid 6,900]

The reaction selectors disappeared again...

[Jeric 46,850]

53 minutes ago, PawelS said:

The reaction selectors disappeared again...

Fixed that just now

[Jeric 46,850]

All previously reported issues have been resolved. 

[Will Guide 21,359]

No dates and times attached to posts when viewed on mobile. not sure at the moment if the same applied to desktop version. best the mobile gets is something saying something like 3 weeks later if there was a big enough gap between entries 

Would help to know what time it was when the post was made for time frame as well as context

[raykv423 1,689]

31 minutes ago, Will Guide said:

No dates and times attached to posts when viewed on mobile. not sure at the moment if the same applied to desktop version. best the mobile gets is something saying something like 3 weeks later if there was a big enough gap between entries 

Oh, yeah, I was about to legit post the same thing about that. I was confused why the dates and times didn't show up. 

[Jeric 46,850]

3 hours ago, Will Guide said:

No dates and times attached to posts when viewed on mobile. not sure at the moment if the same applied to desktop version. best the mobile gets is something saying something like 3 weeks later if there was a big enough gap between entries 

Would help to know what time it was when the post was made for time frame as well as context

I’m putting this on the list to fix tomorrow 

3 hours ago, The Wife of Hawks said:

@Jeric

I no longer have the option to change the font when altering my signature on my tablet 

I’ll pop in the editor system and see if the drop down is just left off the tablet view. That sounds like the cause here 

[Jeric 46,850]

@The Wife of Hawks the font selector should be on your tablet view. 

[Cagey 4,248]

I noticed this a few days ago, but on mobile (haven’t checked desktop), it doesn’t show the date posts in topics were created. I have to quote a post to find out. 

[Jeric 46,850]

3 hours ago, Cagey said:

I noticed this a few days ago, but on mobile (haven’t checked desktop), it doesn’t show the date posts in topics were created. I have to quote a post to find out. 

 

8 hours ago, Califorum said:

Can't see the follow button.

 

 

23 hours ago, Califorum said:

When viewing profiles I don't see the Message button.

 

I’m going to finish looking at these shortly. The entire post container is now custom so it took more than a few minutes to poke around the other day to add the class back in. Gonna basically merge three peoples take on the user information pane and post pane later 

 

This other two things look trivial, but I’ll fix it either way 

[Jeric 46,850]

3 minutes ago, Jeric said:

This other two things look trivial, but I’ll fix it either way 

Just to clarify ... by trivial I mean that they look easy and I know what to do before looking at the code ... but this framework has surprised me and made things a tad more annoying than it needs to be so it may take longer than a few minutes

[Jeric 46,850]

Date and time restored to mobile. I also de-centered the avatars. 

[Jeric 46,850]

Looks like the other issues are a missing generic container. There are some custom theme changes in the profile so I'm gonna make a temp setting adjustment and dig in to that tomorrow. 

[Jeric 46,850]

Nevermind I fixed it anyway. Sleep be damned, amirite?

[Jeric 46,850]

9 hours ago, Califorum said:

Is this a new feature or a bug?

  

I suspect a feature and another way of adding a status update, but I'm unsure. I'll play with it and see.

 

Note the date issue is back again after a as-yet-announced feature was added. Will work on fixing that again today