Welcome to the new Forum look – give us your feedback

booneruk

booneruk said:

Has something changed with the forum styling today? It's looking a lot different and I can see some functionality has disappeared (choosing between newest reply & newest thread in the all discussions page for example)

There's actually a lot of functionality that seems to have dropped since yesterday. I no longer have breadcrumbs (so can't navigate back to the forum index). I also can no longer see information like thread start date, last post date - and it appears I can no longer Preview as I write this.

I do apologise to anyone who's spent any energy wondering what was going on! I found out I had accidently disabled javascript. The forum is completely fine now that I've re-enabled it!

MSE_Stephen

Hi everyone

Just a quick update that if you've chosen to hide the menu, you'll soon see a little icon in your menu bar. 



As we tell more people outside this thread about the ability to hide the menu, we need to give them a quick way back to the preference page if they change their mind. 

In the future when you turn off the menu, a little popup will point out the icon as a way to get back to the menu preference page.

MollyR

That sounds really useful!

LHW99

And a quicker solution (for me) than searching through my bookmarks!

alanwsg

Suppose it accidentally gets turned off,
How do you locate where to turn it on again?

MSE_Stephen

alanwsg said:

Suppose it accidentally gets turned off,
How do you locate where to turn it on again?

Hi @alanwsg

I've just added an update here. If you hide the menu, the icon I mentioned above is your link to the preference page

Jenni_D

That doesn't really answer the question though ... if you click on that icon and then choose to show the menu (or it accidentally gets reset by the forum) the icon disappears. The question was - how do you easily (without saving a bookmark) get back to that page in order to hide the fly out menu again? If the icon's not there, where do you click to get to that page?

10_66

Jenni_D said:

That doesn't really answer the question though ... if you click on that icon and then choose to show the menu (or it accidentally gets reset by the forum) the icon disappears. The question was - how do you easily (without saving a bookmark) get back to that page in order to hide the fly out menu again? If the icon's not there, where do you click to get to that page?

On my PC, the option to turn the menu off is at the bottom of the list on the Quick Links tab.

victor2

10_66 said:

Jenni_D said:

That doesn't really answer the question though ... if you click on that icon and then choose to show the menu (or it accidentally gets reset by the forum) the icon disappears. The question was - how do you easily (without saving a bookmark) get back to that page in order to hide the fly out menu again? If the icon's not there, where do you click to get to that page?

On my PC, the option to turn the menu off is at the bottom of the list on the Quick Links tab.

Same here. It does explain in the linked page they hope to make it easier to use in the future...

Jenni_D

Apologies - I missed the comment about it being in the Quick Links, which I have now seen (and tested)