What's Currently Still Being Fixed After Migration

[Evorum]

Also try using WebGL or something of sort for that banner animation, because it really tortures the CPU.

You can try using the forum on mobile if PC doesn't work well. Usually, the CPU threading is working better on phone than PC in some cases.

Depends on case ofc

 

[Desdemona_666]

You can try using the forum on mobile if PC doesn't work well. Usually, the CPU threading is working better on phone than PC in some cases.

Depends on case ofc

I use forum on both phone and desktop/laptop, it’s just feedback

 

[AFODO]

Also try using WebGL or something of sort for that banner animation, because it really tortures the CPU.

could it be your browser?
I use firefox with a user.js, and it gets laggy, the whole computer, than on vanilla librewolf, it has no effects.

I'm not sure what you mean by WebGL, but one can also pick the banner element with uBlock and ban it. element picker mode < pick element < create.

 

[Desdemona_666]

could it be your browser?
I use firefox with a user.js, and it gets laggy, the whole computer, than on vanilla librewolf, it has no effects.

I'm not sure what you mean by WebGL, but one can also pick the banner element with uBlock and ban it. element picker mode < pick element < create.

Yeah, might be Firefox

 

[Ol argedco luciftias]

What I want to do when I come to this website is click the notifications to read the replies to those topics. But it is not possible to do this until the page is fully finished loading, or instead of bringing down the list of notifications, it starts trying to load a different page.

This worked the same way in this software, and in the older version. It has not changed how this works. But the problem that has changed is that now it takes forever for the main page to finish loading, so I have to wait a very long time before I am able to start viewing the notifications. I am having to wait for several minutes just for the page to load, because of how many large things are on there. In the old version, most of the time it would load almost instantly.

 

[Ol argedco luciftias]

Maybe this is what Larissa is talking about about the cpu being overloaded.

 

[Henu the Great]

When you need to resort to another device or for external software to tweak issues you know the design is flawed. The best solution would be to offer selection box settings such as "disable featured content", or "disable head banner". That way everyone has built-in possibilities to change their own user experience based on their needs and wants.

 

[Henu the Great]

@ApolloAbove [JG] Pinging you again since there was no response earlier.

What's Currently Still Being Fixed After Migration

Greetings all. I hope you are enjoying the new forums. First, if you need help recovering your account still, please contact me. To those of you who contacted me recently, please check your inboxes. The forum migration may have reverted your username to a previous one, so try logging in with...

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What's Currently Still Being Fixed After Migration

Maybe it's just for me but email notifications seems not to work. They did work first few days of new forums but recently whenever I receive private dm the notification either doesn't arrive or arrive couple of hours later. I tried resetting my settings but it's still the same. Is it an issue...

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I made another recording to show how the browsing forum does not work correctly on the Firefox browser.

https://imgur.com/a/6zSuWv4

The side panel does not scroll down when scrolling down, except when the multilingual section is closed. In which case other subforums below do not show up at all.

 

[AFODO]

When you need to resort to another device or for external software to tweak issues you know the design is flawed. The best solution would be to offer selection box settings such as "disable featured content", or "disable head banner". That way everyone has built-in possibilities to change their own user experience based on their needs and wants.

Good things takes time and effort brothers. Lets first of all appreciate brother JG ApolloAbove for actively participating and contributing to all sites of JoS to troubleshoot, and implement new things.

He is working on the forums and on other things too, we can't expect him to do all our request in a week. We can't judge on how slow or fast he is, because we don't know how much problem he needs to solve, how much he needs to learn and research, etc. When we reflect on others, we should also reflect on ourselves.

My suggestion is that we should make a list of the problems, bugs, and suggestions we have regarding the forum. For example on JoS-projects, where we can all edit the list. This way, ApolloAbove can prioritize these things and see what needs to be done in one place.

BTW this comment is not for you specifically, Henu, but generally for this thread.

 

[ApolloAbove [SG]]

@ApolloAbove [JG] Pinging you again since there was no response earlier.

What's Currently Still Being Fixed After Migration

Greetings all. I hope you are enjoying the new forums. First, if you need help recovering your account still, please contact me. To those of you who contacted me recently, please check your inboxes. The forum migration may have reverted your username to a previous one, so try logging in with...

www.ancient-forums.com

What's Currently Still Being Fixed After Migration

Maybe it's just for me but email notifications seems not to work. They did work first few days of new forums but recently whenever I receive private dm the notification either doesn't arrive or arrive couple of hours later. I tried resetting my settings but it's still the same. Is it an issue...

www.ancient-forums.com

I made another recording to show how the browsing forum does not work correctly on the Firefox browser.

https://imgur.com/a/6zSuWv4

The side panel does not scroll down when scrolling down, except when the multilingual section is closed. In which case other subforums below do not show up at all.

Greetings,

Sure I can try fixing this.

 

[Ài Gōng]

In the light mode some fonts are too dark or too light, like quotes and hyperlinks:

View attachment 874

 

[Henu the Great]

Good things takes time and effort brothers. Lets first of all appreciate brother JG ApolloAbove for actively participating and contributing to all sites of JoS to troubleshoot, and implement new things.

He is working on the forums and on other things too, we can't expect him to do all our request in a week. We can't judge on how slow or fast he is, because we don't know how much problem he needs to solve, how much he needs to learn and research, etc. When we reflect on others, we should also reflect on ourselves.

My suggestion is that we should make a list of the problems, bugs, and suggestions we have regarding the forum. For example on JoS-projects, where we can all edit the list. This way, ApolloAbove can prioritize these things and see what needs to be done in one place.

BTW this comment is not for you specifically, Henu, but generally for this thread.

Very interesting response considering that I have brought up several issues in a reasonable manner. I go beyond simply appreciating his work. I owe him at least one lunch already.

 

[AFODO]

Very interesting response considering that I have brought up several issues in a reasonable manner. I go beyond simply appreciating his work. I owe him at least one lunch already.

As I said on the last line, it wasn't meant for you specifically, I'm not sure why I quoted you in the first place.

 

[Henu the Great]

As I said on the last line, it wasn't meant for you specifically, I'm not sure why I quoted you in the first place.

Because you were triggered. It's okay.

 

[AFODO]

Because you were triggered. It's okay.

I felt like being nice but didn't turned out that well as I can see.

 

[Ài Gōng]

People seem to be necroposting a lot, I think because "Similar threads" box, they read titles and post without paying attention to the date. Maybe if a thread, or latest message in a thread is 1+ years old, a confirm box could pop-up when one clicks in "Post reply" warning "This thread is over (x) years old, are you sure you need to reply here?"

Also, the first post in this thread was made nearly 2 years ago. I'm not sure why it was bumped.

 

[Ài Gōng]

You can't cross-reference existing attachments. I noticed this upon translating the new year message. I had to upload the same video again instead of let's say, use the link of the existing file by [ATTACH = full] 1462 [/ATTACH] - (the same ID of the video file HP HC posted). This seems inefficient and could bloat the server later I don't know.

 

[ApolloAbove [SG]]

You can't cross-reference existing attachments. I noticed this upon translating the new year message. I had to upload the same video again instead of let's say, use the link of the existing file by [ATTACH = full] 1462 [/ATTACH] - (the same ID of the video file HP HC posted). This seems inefficient and could bloat the server later I don't know.

Not sure that is possible to do, but interesting to note. Thank you

 

[Ol argedco luciftias]

Now that some users have small symbols put next to their names, could you please put somewhere what the meanings of these symbols are? Some of them are more obvious, but some are not.

Also the new trophy for having majority of posts receiving good reactions. I'm wondering how this is calculated, since most of my posts were made before there were reactions. If it is just taking the average with total number of good reactions divided by total number of posts, then I could earn that.

 

[ApolloAbove [SG]]

Now that some users have small symbols put next to their names, could you please put somewhere what the meanings of these symbols are? Some of them are more obvious, but some are not.

Also the new trophy for having majority of posts receiving good reactions. I'm wondering how this is calculated, since most of my posts were made before there were reactions. If it is just taking the average with total number of good reactions divided by total number of posts, then I could earn that.

Hover your mouse over them to see the descriptions. Unfortunately, there is no way to see this on mobile. I didn't design the system, so it will take me more time to get that working.

I have been experimenting in adding more trophies. One of the new ones is to have more total reactions than posts. Of course, if you have been here forever, that is quite hard to achieve. So I will probably modify the requirements again. None of it means anything, since it's all just virtual points.

 

[Wotanwarrior]

One problem I have noticed that happens a lot when I work with translations is that when I am editing and correcting the text, everything looks fine and once I hit send message, the text is compressed and the paragraphs are too close together.

 

[Desdemona_666]

I must mention that the search function is...kinda bad?

For example, I cannot search for specific term, and include that only. Let's say, I type in "solar return". I get result for "solar return", but I also get results for "solar" and "return", so I have to sift through mountains of unrelated stuff to find exactly what I am searching for.

No, putting the search term in quotes does not help either, which is weird, you would expect it to (in that case you would be searching for the exact string).

 

[Henu the Great]

Search is definitely downgraded from previous platform, BUT, it is possible to manually improve it. Fingers crossed here.

 

[ApolloAbove [SG]]

I must mention that the search function is...kinda bad?

For example, I cannot search for specific term, and include that only. Let's say, I type in "solar return". I get result for "solar return", but I also get results for "solar" and "return", so I have to sift through mountains of unrelated stuff to find exactly what I am searching for.

No, putting the search term in quotes does not help either, which is weird, you would expect it to (in that case you would be searching for the exact string).

I'll see what I can do. Frankly if all that can be complained about is exact search phrase not being respected, I wouldn't consider that bad.

Search is definitely downgraded from previous platform, BUT, it is possible to manually improve it. Fingers crossed here.

From previous experience with the old forum, if you searched something like "Runes" it would search recursively inside quotes. So you would get nothing but the word Runes inside someone else's quote, which was quoted from another user, etc. Sometimes the highlighted search term wasn't even visible within the search result, meaning you would just be staring blankly at a result with your search term nowhere in sight. This system doesn't search quotes.

 

[Desdemona_666]

I'll see what I can do. Frankly if all that can be complained about is exact search phrase not being respected, I wouldn't consider that bad.

Well, that's one thing, but overall old forum used to have more refined and advanced search, so I would say it's somewhat of a regression in that regard.

But then again, if it proves to be something too complicated to implement, I guess we can live with it. It was a suggestion after all.

 

[Henu the Great]

From previous experience with the old forum, if you searched something like "Runes" it would search recursively inside quotes. So you would get nothing but the word Runes inside someone else's quote, which was quoted from another user, etc. Sometimes the highlighted search term wasn't even visible within the search result, meaning you would just be staring blankly at a result with your search term nowhere in sight. This system doesn't search quotes.

I have never had either of those problems. I used filtering by poster quite a lot. Nowadays referring information to others via search is too cumbersome so I do it over 95% less than before. Fortunately, we have some resources handily available in repositories and joswiki, to name two examples.

 

[Maelstorm [NG]]

The old forum's search system was definitely much worse. Since migrating to XenForo I am much more satisfied with the search and filtering.

 

[ApolloAbove [SG]]

I have never had either of those problems. I used filtering by poster quite a lot. Nowadays referring information to others via search is too cumbersome so I do it over 95% less than before. Fortunately, we have some resources handily available in repositories and joswiki, to name two examples.

The wiki and this forum use the same search system, but configured differently.

 

[Henu the Great]

The wiki and this forum use the same search system, but configured differently.

Wiki has concentrated information, and using "omni:" will filter results nicely so there is no issue there. The issue is finding relevant information here.

 

[ApolloAbove [SG]]

Wiki has concentrated information, and using "omni:" will filter results nicely so there is no issue there. The issue is finding relevant information here.

The wiki was started in 2021 and has required JG Blitz and a group of volunteers to meticulously organize the information. Not only that, but they still aren't fully done and work has been ongoing for years. So I would hope it would be easier to search and find information, as opposed to years of unfiltered forum posts of varying quality. That was actually the main goal of the wiki, so I am happy it works well for finding info. Should I wave my magic wand here and organize the years of forum posts too? It is easy to suggest some vague fix, but the wiki only came to be useful from years of manual work.

Well, that's one thing, but overall old forum used to have more refined and advanced search, so I would say it's somewhat of a regression in that regard.

But then again, if it proves to be something too complicated to implement, I guess we can live with it. It was a suggestion after all.

I asked all JGs and Clergy members if they preferred this forum or the previous forum system for search, and they all agreed this one was easier and was improved. Further, I went through and tested your search for "solar return" in this forum and found that every single post contained "solar return" at least once. It does also highlight "solar" and "return" separately in the replies, which can appear confusing. In some search results it appears the post is irrelevant because your search term isn't highlighted at all, but if you click on the post, you will see the term "solar return" in every single one.

I also went through our xenforo search and saw it has the exact same functions as the old phpbb forum. In fact, this new version actually lets you search for something within a specific time frame, making it more useful.

Use the Advanced search and then search by Threads specifically.

You can actually compare the original search page vs the new one because I archived a read-only version of it.

New: https://ancient-forums.com/index.php?search/&type=post
Old: https://apolloabove.org/ancient-for...eywords=&sid=b37b4e6f6a884c522c26c677dbb5bfa5

 

[Henu the Great]

The wiki was started in 2021 and has required JG Blitz and a group of volunteers to meticulously organize the information. Not only that, but they still aren't fully done and work has been ongoing for years. So I would hope it would be easier to search and find information, as opposed to years of unfiltered forum posts of varying quality. That was actually the main goal of the wiki, so I am happy it works well for finding info. Should I wave my magic wand here and organize the years of forum posts too? It is easy to suggest some vague fix, but the wiki only came to be useful from years of manual work.

I know, I have been part of that work. I simply wonder if the search can be customized, that is all.

 

[AFODO]

Now that I look at the old forum I think one of the aesthetic thing about it is the soft/curved edges. The new forums have very hard edges.

 

[Yzaurqp]

Greetings all. I hope you are enjoying the new forums.

First, if you need help recovering your account still, please contact me. To those of you who contacted me recently, please check your inboxes.
The forum migration may have reverted your username to a previous one, so try logging in with your old username first, and then requesting a username change within your profile settings.

As of right now we are still working on:
- EDIT: EMAIL HAS BEEN FIXED. TRY REQUESTING A PASSWORD RESET IF YOU HAVE NOT BEEN ABLE TO GET INTO YOUR ACCOUNT!
- Coloring issues with some website elements not being very visible
- Nobody was intentionally stripped of mod powers or "rank." If you are unable to do something you used to be able to, please email.
- EDIT: Bookmarks are going to be restored for everyone very soon.


In the future:
- More themes for everyone to choose from
- More reactions and different emojis to use

Thank you for your path

Greetings all. I hope you are enjoying the new forums.

First, if you need help recovering your account still, please contact me. To those of you who contacted me recently, please check your inboxes.
The forum migration may have reverted your username to a previous one, so try logging in with your old username first, and then requesting a username change within your profile settings.

As of right now we are still working on:
- EDIT: EMAIL HAS BEEN FIXED. TRY REQUESTING A PASSWORD RESET IF YOU HAVE NOT BEEN ABLE TO GET INTO YOUR ACCOUNT!
- Coloring issues with some website elements not being very visible
- Nobody was intentionally stripped of mod powers or "rank." If you are unable to do something you used to be able to, please email.
- EDIT: Bookmarks are going to be restored for everyone very soon.


In the future:
- More themes for everyone to choose from
- More reactions and different emojis to use

Thank you for your patience.

I feel like i meet you somewhere

 

[AFODO]

Use the Advanced search and then search by Threads specifically.

Try to display all threads STARTED BY HPZM AND ONLY THAT FIRST POST with the search function.

Now the only way to do this is to go to a profile "find" than "find threads", but not with the search.

Few things that would be a good improvement:

-Being able to select multiple forums to search in at once.
-searching in threads, and giving the name of the author should display only threads that were started by that specific author. Now it displays all threads BY the author AND ALSO that the author posted in as a commenter or the author's thread and the author's REPLIES in that thread (depending on "Display results as threads" is on or not). MAKES NO SENSE!
-(Optional) merge the 3 pages to make it less confusing, and give the option to what to search for (posts, threads, profile posts, all, and be able to select multiple of this) as they were on one page in the previous forums as well.
-Being able to ignore the archive or search specifically only in the archive (possible with my first recommendation, but there could be just a shortcut for this).

 

[Desdemona_666]

I have encountered a bug, when you collapse featured posts nothing else of the forum is visible.

 

[Henu the Great]

I have encountered a bug, when you collapse featured posts nothing else of the forum is visible.View attachment 6680

I reported this almost immediately and then again, but got no response. Additionally, on desktop with Mozilla Firefox, there is a bug when scrolling down the page, the right side column does not scroll down with the rest of the page until you reach down enough on the page. It is noteworthy that another forum with the same platform does function correctly in this regard. Irritating, but we'll manage I guess.

 

[Lucifer's army]

Hello
All the emojis have turned gray , not working. I used to use it but i don't know what happened. I can't put any emoji on any comment except for a blue like. How can I fix this, please?

 

[Maelstorm [NG]]

...

We have recently implemented a new system that adjusts which reactions an account can and cannot use.

Accounts with low engagement in the community or that are very new can only use the Like reaction. As you become more active in the forum and establish your credibility, our system will automatically allow you to use other reactions as well. This does not mean that you are an untrustworthy member.

This system was designed to prevent certain troll accounts from spamming negative reactions, so it's for the safety and peace of our community.

I hope this clarifies your question.

 

[Lucifer's army]

We have recently implemented a new system that adjusts which reactions an account can and cannot use.

Accounts with low engagement in the community or that are very new can only use the Like reaction. As you become more active in the forum and establish your credibility, our system will automatically allow you to use other reactions as well. This does not mean that you are an untrustworthy member.

This system was designed to prevent certain troll accounts from spamming negative reactions, so it's for the safety and peace of our community.

I hope this clarifies your question.

Yeah thank you