Question New format?

The reason you needed to reload was because I ran a patch on the forums software last night. This makes changes to the PHP and CSS and a number of other things related to the forums. By default, your browser will load a new version of the page you are directly loading if its different from the last time you loaded it... but most browsers pull linked files (graphics, CSS, JS, and so on) from cache. So the patch changed some things that your browser loaded fresh... and some things your browser didn't. The two don't work together right and it generates a page that has stuff on it that is unexpected (remember, every 'page' you come to on this site is generated uniquely for you, every time you go to a new page - there is NO static html at all).

So yes... first thing to check if something isn't working... is to reload. If you have reloaded and still have problems, then its probably worth reporting.

In this particular case, the only thing that I *THINK* has changed visibly is the quoting system. Which has been changed significantly in ways I do not like... but were SO significant, the hour I spent trying to recreate the old ones last night accomplished almost nothing. I'll try to figure it out tonight... but it might have to wait until tomorrow when I have more time.

Note... if you get what is shown in Yolanda's image... hover your mouse over the area about 90-95% across the screen in a horizontal line from the category heading. Just 'inside' the middle section, before you get to the sidebar. There are buttons with an X in them there that let you turn on/off whether you see the sub-categories within the section of a forums. It looks like one of the things that is getting lost by the system is the default - visible details... and the categories are being hidden. Clicking on that X button will make those sections visible again.

I found the fix for the quote boxes... I think. There might still be something funky going on with fonts on quotes, but at least the stacking colored frames give clarity to where quotes begin and end.

Additionally, there have been some nice little updates to the JCE editor for those of you who have author access. It doesn't ALL work as desired yet... but having the option to view an article in Preview mode (which should apply the correct CSS to it instead of showing it in some 'other' combination of styles) will be nice.

I think they are trying to make it look more like social media feeds... *shrug* but they also changed a lot of the underlying code for things too, supposed to be a lot more secure now. I'll be poking around on it to see if there's anything else we can benefit from...

i didn't change anything globally, but its possible someone clicked the comments off button on the editor...which stories are you looking at that you see no comments?

I'll take a look. It may be the use of divisions vs paragraphs in the stories, or it's possible that something changed in the CSS that impacts one browser and not others. I try to keep them consistent, but some things aren't obvious.

I've looked at things in Firefox and am not seeing what you are, El. Maybe its because something has already been done that has changed them... but... conceptually, there shouldn't be any impact.

See... the readmore feature is not set up to do anything at all when you visit the story's full page/article... which pulling it out of the original timeline list should do. The only time its designed to have an effect is when we have a page in 'blog' format like what you see when you click the Main Menu button for Stories but do not select a specific category list. On THAT page, you get a blog layout of the most recent stories released... but to keep those pages from being ridiculously long, the 'readmore' tag breaks off the story and provides links to the rest of the story at the point in which it was tagged.

The ideal use of this would be to include the header info (category, title, author and part/chapter) plus a blurb/jacket text. Alternately, instead of a blurb, a one paragraph 'story thus far'. Then the readmore tag and after that, start the actual story. But I don't always have the time or creative energy to create good blurbs even for the front page news let alone for good story jackets... so the bulk of stories don't actually have blurb (and a lot of the blurbs that were on the old site didn't get transferred)

Anyway... outside of that blog layout? It shouldn't do anything. Which is why I'm a little confused about the observation that you're seeing things missing as a result. It's not supposed to do that, especially not where you are seeing it happen. And I'm not personally seeing it on either Chrome or Firefox... so... weird.