Welcome to the new Forum look – give us your feedback

LHW99

On my PC it appears that the quicklinks on the top toolbar does now retract itself if I move off, so I don't have to try and find a spot on the page away from any links to click to make it go.

It still triggers too easily IMO (would prefer a click & drop) but it seems better than it was.

jrawle

Feedback on the new forum:

Annoyingly, the bug where the paragraph spacing in posts is different from in the editor has still not been fixed. Why does a line break in the editor turn into a paragraph break in the post, resulting in silly spacing you can see here and in other posts above?

A comment on the new layout: in the list of threads in a particular board, the titles are in a font that is too similar in size, font weight and colour to the line that says "Started by So-and-So". This makes it much harder on the eye and brain to scan the titles for interesting threads. The list of categories themselves doesn't have this issue: the title is larger, bolder and in the slight blue-green colour so is much more readable. Is it possible to change the thread title font, or do I need to resort to userContent.css?

castle96

A mess. Please revert!

HillStreetBlues

poppellerant said:

If anybody is using uBlock Origin to customise the appearance of these forums, these rules are what I am using to restore the forum back to something I can just about get away with:

forums.moneysavingexpert.com##.Panel-main.Panel
forums.moneysavingexpert.com###themeHeader
forums.moneysavingexpert.com##.WarningMessage.DismissMessage
forums.moneysavingexpert.com##.MainContent.Content:style(width: 99% !important)
forums.moneysavingexpert.com###themeFooter

Great rules.
Decided to start again, using those rules.

dave2319

HillStreetBlues said:

With uBlock Origin you can also right click and zap them

Thanks, that's great!

For people who don't like the forum homepage because of having to scroll past all the pictures to get to the list of recent threads, here's the uBlock Origin filters I've got to make it much tidier:

forums.moneysavingexpert.com##div.panelWidget.css-28vcxy-panelWidgetStyles-root:nth-of-type(1)
forums.moneysavingexpert.com##div.panelWidget.css-i8sers-panelWidgetStyles-root:nth-of-type(1)
forums.moneysavingexpert.com##div.panelWidget.css-28vcxy-panelWidgetStyles-root:nth-of-type(2)
forums.moneysavingexpert.com##div.panelWidget.css-i8sers-panelWidgetStyles-root:nth-of-type(2)
forums.moneysavingexpert.com##div.panelWidget.css-28vcxy-panelWidgetStyles-root:nth-of-type(3)
forums.moneysavingexpert.com##.css-1vobhhz-Section-styles-mainPanelWidget
forums.moneysavingexpert.com##.css-kcxou1-Section-styles-secondaryPanelWidget

If you still want to see the Quick Links down the right, just remove the couple of entries above ending with "(2)". Unfortunately it brings back a couple of pictures but at least it gets rid of most of them.

Newcad

Just to note that whilst the above is a good avdert for uBlock other adblockers can also do the same.
Although the syntax used will be different.

For example: I have AdBlock (not AdblockPlus) in Firefox on this laptop.
Right-clicking on 'Quick Links' or 'Categories' or anything else brings up a context menu from where I can tell Adblock to Block/Hide them.
It does call it 'Block this Ad' because ad's are what it expects you want to block.
It also lets you Hide anything on a page that you don't want to see.

I'm not going to do that at the moment though - because you shouldn't have to - I'm waiting to see if/what the forum admin do about it.

Sea_Shell

We really shouldn't have to jump through those hoops to get a usable forum though, should we.

It should just work, straight from the box. ☹️

MollyR

jrawle said:

Feedback on the new forum:

Annoyingly, the bug where the paragraph spacing in posts is different from in the editor has still not been fixed. Why does a line break in the editor turn into a paragraph break in the post, resulting in silly spacing you can see here and in other posts above?

Because the HTML code has been written to use {div} and {br} for paragraph spacing, whereas HTML standards say that they should use {p}.  (I have used curly braces instead of angle brackets to delimit these codes, as otherwise the forum tries to interpret them!)

Swipe

poppellerant said:

If anybody is using uBlock Origin to customise the appearance of these forums, these rules are what I am using to restore the forum back to something I can just about get away with:

forums.moneysavingexpert.com##.Panel-main.Panel
forums.moneysavingexpert.com###themeHeader
forums.moneysavingexpert.com##.WarningMessage.DismissMessage
forums.moneysavingexpert.com##.MainContent.Content:style(width: 99% !important)
forums.moneysavingexpert.com###themeFooter

Thank you. That is 100 times better now.

MollyR

MSE_James said:

Hi @MollyR (and others) - just in case you didn't spot my message a few pages back, I can confirm we're aware of the email notification issue which we are currently exploring with our software suppliers. 

Thank you, @MSE_James.  Can you add to that the fact that none of my notifications are being displayed in the "bell", and never have since the update was applied?  Many thanks!