Anyway… the formatting options are truly abysmal compared to the XenForum: writing and reading resources or long posts will be an horrendous experience.
I’d also like to know. Just to make it clear, part of this week between forums is to dial things in. Rather than bloat the forums software on day one, we opted to start small and add/enable features based on need. Its much easier to add vs take away. If there are helpful features we can enable, please speak up.
From a QoL (ease of use) point of view it’s a huge pain to format text there. For example as far as I know you can’t set text aligment at all, and in order to color text you need to use either html or latex, which means awfully long code insertion for minor formatting enhancement that provides a huge boost to a post’s readability!
It also sets the bar to a substantially higher knowledge level. Not a fan of this, even if the forum is meant for enthusiasts and professionals.
I feel like I got a more powerful car that lacks basic things like turn signal commands, and in order to make it work I need to short the circuits!
Only a week to tune everything feels tight then. And does not contribute to a good first impression to the users, which is paramount on a change like this.
As always, these are my two cents. Take them for what they are.
Just tried to add another one. Got an error saying I can’t post link to that host. The host is Github.
Also, my other resources were hidden by community flags.
I understand the need in general to prevent spam by users having to wait to reply to posts, but there really needs to be an exception for early registrations which are likely to be people who are existing members of the old forums.
The image size limits for the avatar profile pic seem to be using different delimiters than the text suggests. A bog-standard JPEG was rejected @ 1.2MB as being being bigger than 4MB.
The first accepted image was a standard 885kB JPEG on my system. I doubt the Mac and the new forum have that different a standard or is TrueNAS converting them to BMPs?