Amigans.net 2022 updates

Hello guys,
I just applied the following changes/fixes, based on your feedback.

- Fixed redirections from xforum to newbb
- Updated menu items to point to the new forum pages
- Updated the IRC Window in menu to redirect to KiwiIRC and let the users to connect from there
- Made quotes smaller
- Edited text got smaller and border removed
- Now on reply the message field will automatically include the user nickname
- Fixed the pagination links in "View all topics" pages
- Added the "Forum Settings" features to the new forum
- Made text fields a little bit bigger
- Removed the "Image manager" from the forms, as it is not needed

Thank you for all your comments and requests. If something is not working, please inform me.

I hit the "3" on the front page and it took me to the most recent unread post. I was expecting it to take me direct to page 3 (although actually most recent unread is more useful)

@walkero

Excellent, thanks!

I've got my long listing of items back on the main page, and the "Edited by" texts and quotes look as unobtrusive as they used to

Best regards,

Niels

@walkero

Thanks for all the fixes.

Images (on the left "Sections" menu) still won't show a list of them, still says 0 images found (on either category or on no category chosen).

Any other way to access them except clicking on the random one (which is kind of ... random)?

@walkero

Is there a way to see all uploaded photos?

@rjd324
Unfortunately, the album is broken and doesn't work well. This is the next update I am working on. Hope to finish it as soon as possible.

@George
Cool, thanks! Better and better.

ps. Maybe you can shift a bit in the priority list "size of the code blocks", so it will be of the same size as code size because when one want to put just one or two lines of code, he have then that:



Which wastes a space pretty much and makes it not so good to put a few lines in the code/code, but instead you need to put it in quotes (which is not that colored as code). So fixing code/code blocks will help.

EDIT: not anymore, thanks!

Some updates:

- In notification emails, only the thread URL is mentioned since the post URL was the same
- Set the code boxes to not have a default height but a max-height. Now they will shrink if there are a few lines of code, but it will have a maximum height and a scroll bar if the code is big.

@George
Thumby! Thanks!

A few minutes ago I updated the Album module. This fixes most of the issues and probably introduces a few minor ones, which are going to be ironed out.

Please, have a look at that and tell me issues that you probably find, if something doesn't work for you.

Also, now we were able to upgrade to PHP 7.3. So far I haven't seen any problem with the website, but you never know. But if you find anything, hit me in this thread.

@walkero

Thanks for all your efforts.

I have not tried all functions yet, but I am pleased so far.

Looks good to me using IBrowse 2.5.5
and Odyssey 1.23 r5 (Jan 2, 2022)

Looks better than I expected using AWeb APL Lite 3.5.12 (Mar 7 2018)


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redfox

P.S. a few rendering issues with NetSurf 3.10
I might have to tweek some settings.

@redfox

Thank you for your kind comment. I have seen some issues with netsurf, and I will try to optimize the code to work on that as well. Thank you for mentioning it.

@walkero

thanks for getting the image gallery back up again! I always enjoy flipping through old and new pics every time I log in

@walkero

First thank you for taking the time to sort all these things on this website and keep it online and safe.

Now using latest Chrome on my smartphone, the side bars (both left and right) seem to much wide compared to the main part. If you cannot reproduce I can send you a screenshot.
I tried in the default mobile view and after checking the "computer version" checkbox.

@abalaban
I managed to reproduce it. Unfrtunately the website is not optimised for mobiles at all. I am trying to solve first some crucial problems and then slowly make fixes that would make it work better on various browsers.

Until then I would propose to use firefox on mobile, because it looks and works much better there.

@kas1e

I configured it to collapse the user details by default. So less useless empty space now.

@orgin, @walkero

Hmm ... I almost hate to ask, but I have a big screen and like to have the user details in view when I read, so could this choice (collapse user details by default or not) possibly be part of the Forum Settings under User Tools?

Best regards,

Niels

@nbache
Quote:

Em... No... And the reason is that there is no clean way to do things like that other than hacking the website modules. And the problem with that is that it breaks the update path, which means whenever we need to do any updates, we have to apply again the patches and sometimes this is not an easy job to do. Especially if we need in the future to move to different modules like it happened when I did the forum update a week ago.

@walkero

Fair point - no problem.

Best regards,

Niels

BTW, just noticed another little thing.

When posting a reply (like the one I just made above), it would previously show the end of the thread with my newly added post.

Now it shows the top of the page instead. Is that reasonably fixable?

Best regards,

Niels