New Forum Interface. I hate it.

mkupper

@PeterJones said in New Forum Interface. I hate it.:

BTW: selecting text and hitting the “Quote” link next to the “Reply” link has historically quoted just the selected text for me, and still does as well. At least in Chrome.

Thank you. That version of selected quote is also still working in Firefox.

Coises

@mkupper said in New Forum Interface. I hate it.:

I’m using Firefox on a Win11 desktop.

Firefox 117 on Windows 10, the Quote button is working, for me.

mkupper

Thank you @Coises. I also am on Firefox 117. I discovered the issue is a Firefox plugin, enable-selection which I use to deal with a couple of web sites that actively block attempts to select and copy text.

I’m now wondering if the hovering blue “Quote” button was working before. I can’t imagine the forum code in that area changed enough that it now intersects with whatever the enable-selection plugin deals with.

Thank you @PeterJones for suggesting that the “Quote” link that is below the message box. That still works when the enable-selection plugin is running.

Lycan Thrope

@PeterJones said in New Forum Interface. I hate it.:

@Lycan-Thrope ,

I’ve changed the theme to something much more like the previous. I hope it’s less hateful to you now.

Yes, thank you.

UI is very important for productivity, and when UI is changed for the sake of change, rather than improvement, it doesn’t make sense to me. I can see on a limited screen size something like that can benefit that device, but when all other devices get affected, that makes no sense to me. Maybe it’s just me, but thanks for returning it to some sense of normalcy.
Caveat: UI changes also make me wonder if I’ve been subjected to a highjacked site/application, which triggers my security senses and concerns. :-)

Michael Vincent

@Lycan-Thrope said in New Forum Interface. I hate it.:

Yes, thank you.

UI is very important for productivity,

Agree.

The new UI is still very different for me:

The grey strips are awfully bright when they used to be darker in the dark mode preference I have. Likewise, when composing this reply:

My edit window is not light instead of white text on black background as it used to be.

Not a big fan of the new theme.

Cheers.

PeterJones

@Michael-Vincent said in New Forum Interface. I hate it.:

My edit window is not light instead of white text on black background as it used to be.

Not a big fan of the new theme.

Colors are set by your “skin”, which is in the user preferences/settings (Settings > Select a Skin). It may be that the “skin” that you had previously chosen isn’t maintained as well (the same thing happens with N++ themes, for that matter: if a lexer gets new styles, not all themes are updated to include it) – so you might want to try some of the other “skins” to see if they have colors more to your liking.

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the changes that had been talked about above were the differences between

accidental
current

in the “accidental”, all the GUI elements – navigation controls, etc – were all completely rearranged, in different places and with “tiles” and other such win8-style features.

rdipardo

@Michael-Vincent said in New Forum Interface. I hate it.:

My edit window is not light instead of white text on black background as it used to be.

Colors are set by your “skin”, which is in the user preferences/settings (Settings > Select a Skin).

The culprit is the bg-light class selector:

If your browser supports user style sheets, you just need to add this rule:

.bg-light {
    background-color: inherit !important;
}

Michael Vincent

@PeterJones said in New Forum Interface. I hate it.:

Colors are set by your “skin”, which is in the user preferences/settings (Settings > Select a Skin). It may be that the “skin” that you had previously chosen isn’t maintained as well

Thanks, wasn’t aware of that. I did not change my skin, I just saw these visual changes starting yesterday - about the same time this original topic was started - I assumed they were related as I have not switched my theme.

I cycled through the other themes, none to my liking. I’m using “Darkly” currently.

Cheers.

mkupper

Can the normal light background default skin be put back? I hit refresh on the forums and it’s now I guess what people call dark mode? The text box for entering messages such as this one at least are still dark text on a white background.

PeterJones

@mkupper said in New Forum Interface. I hate it.:

Can the normal light background default skin be put back?

I think I fixed it.