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Foggy's Progress - a record of improvements to the forum
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Re: Foggy's Progress - a record of improvements to the forum
H/T for boxing in the book worms ![Clap :clap:](./images/smilies/clap.gif)
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Re: Foggy's Progress - a record of improvements to the forum
Just surprised that one topic thread was so irritating that it had to be “boxed in.” After all the various and many topics—one topic qualifies.
On a forum of mostly educated people the thought that some people read more than them is over-the-top enough to justify this?
Why does it matter?
Because it will now be unseen by many who would likely have an interest at some point, but could only see it if they join the group.
This makes sense for Sports where there would be many sub-topics on a forum that is primarily politics and active social topics.
But….
Whatever.
On a forum of mostly educated people the thought that some people read more than them is over-the-top enough to justify this?
Why does it matter?
Because it will now be unseen by many who would likely have an interest at some point, but could only see it if they join the group.
This makes sense for Sports where there would be many sub-topics on a forum that is primarily politics and active social topics.
But….
Whatever.
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It is not surprising if you recall this is the same forum where a handful of people were so offended when an occasional sports thread happened to show up in Active topics that all sports threads had to be hidden by default.
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Re: Foggy's Progress - a record of improvements to the forum
I don’t want to join a book club and have to read certain books at a certain time (especially since you’re not keen on pre-20th century classics), but would like to follow the discussions.
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Re: Foggy's Progress - a record of improvements to the forum
I asked for it as I don't care for the US literature. Books are not handled in a single thread so when members are posting the various threads pop up all over the place.Danraft wrote: ↑Fri Apr 29, 2022 8:56 am Just surprised that one topic thread was so irritating that it had to be “boxed in.” After all the various and many topics—one topic qualifies.
On a forum of mostly educated people the thought that some people read more than them is over-the-top enough to justify this?
Why does it matter?
Because it will now be unseen by many who would likely have an interest at some point, but could only see it if they join the group.
This makes sense for Sports where there would be many sub-topics on a forum that is primarily politics and active social topics.
But….
Whatever.
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It's an alternative way to handle the forum software as long there is no way to mark threads to be ignored. And yes, I am happy not to see all the US football and baseball discussions. Special interest groupr for things too special --- more special than birthers and sovcits...Reality Check wrote: ↑Fri Apr 29, 2022 9:00 amIt is not surprising if you recall this is the same forum where a handful of people were so offended when an occasional sports thread happened to show up in Active topics that all sports threads had to be hidden by default.![]()
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Re: Foggy's Progress - a record of improvements to the forum
Yeah, its yellow.
But notice how yellow hilighter still works perfectly. And notice how inclusions like tweets stand out from the forum page text.
I quite like it, though personally I'd have preferred a bit paler. But then I've worked on too many programs with design choices I wouldn't make to forget that my design choices are probably even more irritating to others, so I will just enjoy it while I can.
But I am wondering why the Bookworms got exiled. Were they teaching CRT or something?
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I understand but my wish would be have the board default to show all topics with choices to hide some sub forums. I do not think the software has a topic ignore function except for blocking by members. Foggy has to stick with approved extensions or risk breaking the forum.RTH10260 wrote: ↑Fri Apr 29, 2022 9:28 am![]()
It's an alternative way to handle the forum software as long there is no way to mark threads to be ignored. And yes, I am happy not to see all the US football and baseball discussions. Special interest groupr for things too special --- more special than birthers and sovcits...
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TFB v1.0 even had an Under the Brdge section hidden in the Bow of Fog ![Big Grin :biggrin:](./images/smilies/icon_biggrin.gif)
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Re: Foggy's Progress - a record of improvements to the forum
I've mentioned before that color blindness runs in my family. The thing about color blindness is that what looks hideous to a color normal person may look perfect for a color blind person. I wonder if there are styles available which you, Foggy, might reject as awful, but that a color blind person would find perfect. The only way of knowing, though, is to have a color blind person sort through the various styles available.
Anyway, just my 2 cents.
Anyway, just my 2 cents.
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Re: Foggy's Progress - a record of improvements to the forum
I am happy not to have to see the Sportsball posts because of my lack of interest.
One thing that drives me crazy on Twitter is that the news organizations I follow keep posting about sports news in which I am uninterested.
Seriously, cricket news from India is not important to me.
One thing that drives me crazy on Twitter is that the news organizations I follow keep posting about sports news in which I am uninterested.
Seriously, cricket news from India is not important to me.
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Hey Boss, is there an accessible option? Like until I get my cataracts fixed, I can’t read the board. I can make it bigger via the iPad Pinch, but then I have to manually scroll right and left to read the sentences. I need bigger type.
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Are you using Safari? Do you see the small and large A’s in the address bar? Tap on them. You will get a drop down box whose top line is a small A on the left, 100% in the middle, and a large A on the right. Tap on the large A to increase the font size. Additional taps will keep increasing the size.
Alternately, you can change the font size for all of Safari by going to your iPad’s Settings, scroll down to Safari, scroll down to Page Zoom, then select a page zoom size.
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Re: Foggy's Progress - a record of improvements to the forum
There should always be accessibility features on any machine.
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Having said that, there is an extension I can add that would give you the ability to increase text size to 400%.
Who says size doesn't matter?
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Check it out:
https://www.phpbb.com/customise/db/exte ... arge_font/
HOWEVER, I'm not sure if that is going to help. You can already increase the text size, and you'll still have the problem of horizontal scrolling.
What you really need is a way to increase your phone size 400% on occasion.
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Try the HiFiKabin board style, black on yellow. But if you want the large font extension, lemme know.
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Re: Foggy's Progress - a record of improvements to the forum
Objection, your honor. The CSS retains layout size so the text with large fonts gets wrapped around within the text box limits. There will be physical lengthier forum pages to scroll down. Width ought to remain with fewer words per line.
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Edit: Tried 400% text size, and horizontal scrolling is definitely a problem. It's unusable for me, but I already had my cataracts fixed. ![Towel :towel:](./images/smilies/f_towel.gif)
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Re: Foggy's Progress - a record of improvements to the forum
400% may be overkill, but lower percentages ought to work.
Though it seem my Samsung tablet nor my Samsung phone got recognized as mobile devive and did not increase font size.
Though it seem my Samsung tablet nor my Samsung phone got recognized as mobile devive and did not increase font size.
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Yeah, the effectiveness is apparently altered depending on the board style you are using. But heck, if anybody is really helped by that and the yellow board style, I'm happy.
I have a few plumbing chores today, tweaking toilets with minor leaks (2 of them) and replacing the faucet mechanical parts in a sink, then I'll try to get to the forum stuff.
I have a few plumbing chores today, tweaking toilets with minor leaks (2 of them) and replacing the faucet mechanical parts in a sink, then I'll try to get to the forum stuff.
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I am using the larger print and bold together, thank you.
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Re: Foggy's Progress - a record of improvements to the forum
The mobile version worked for mine using GrandNew (not that I left it on that as I was just looking to see how it works). I did turn it onto 400% for my laptop. I was able to read it from 8 feet away. What fun. Now I need 8-foot arms to type a response.
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