Forum Layout Mobile Devices

Quote from: CreateAForum on March 26, 2026, 05:07:39 am

I changed the quote/code/bbc size on the CAF2 template see if this helps @animaniactoo @agate
Thank you, I have been extremely busy this week and just saw this. I will check when I am home tomorrow.

Looking much better, I will double check with my forum peeps about it. Thank you!

I discussed with my forum peeps and polled about trialing the switch to CAF 2.0. There are 2 hiccups, one of which may be solveable.

1) As previously mentioned, a good portion of my forum is 50+ and readability is a prime consideration. The consensus among those who responded in the no category is that there is not enough contrast between the type and the background in the quotes although the size is good now (and thank you!) - if this is something that I can edit, I am willing to work at that.

2) Things feel pretty destabilized right now in general - not the forum/platform, but everything <waves hands at the world> - and they'd prefer not to deal with the change if they don't have to at this point. Because we are a community run setup (they tell me what they want and I make it happen unless I have reason to believe something is necessary), I have tabled it for now and said that we will revisit it in the future.

My question to you: Is it your intention for the "classic" version to go away at some point?

1. There are some different style options under Style Manager with different color options and it all can be tweaked.

2. Understandable. I just really surprised people don't like this theme more...thought was more modern looking. When I am doing updates I focus on this theme more.

The one response that I got which I think may be useful for you here:

[...] the sample was so off-putting to me, (low contrast colors and the switch of the functional links from the top left to a cluttered drop down at the bottom right) - especially the latter change - was just a no go for me. Plus I'm mentally tapped out right now. Maybe those differences might not be such a hill to climb later.

Right now, I'm still missing the link to find posts in which I'm quoted that disappeared and am not loving the Alert link, which doesn't provide any info that wasn't already available. That's enough tinkering for me for the moment.

Bringing the conversation back here where it belongs: 

This is the thread that I created and the responses I got - these users are some of the most vocal and I do find them to be represntative of most user's views in general. Level-headed, practical, realistic:

https://haxnuts.createaforum.com/customizing-our-forum/a-request-from-the-platform-managerowner/msg388850/#new

Top conclusions that I have based on the conversation (and knowing the history of what we had isseus with in the past):

1) The quote structure. I don't know if this is possible, but if older quotes in a chain (we are sometimes quoting 10 deep) could be "collapsed" and able to be expanded when desired. Or a way to make it easier to quote only the last 2-3 responses. Many people try to edit and cut out the oldest stuff in the middle but it often results in having missed a character somewhere and then things don't work right.

1b) This could also solve the primary problem that we had with someone we ultimately had to ban. The ignore function has a significant flaw in that quoted posts reveal the ignored person's words, they are no longer "collapsed" and not visible to the user who has them on ignore.

2) Color/contrast setup. As previously mentioned, a number of my users are over 50, and there's some declining eyesight going on. If it were possible for people to individually adjust their settings within the overall forum theme to be "high contrast" and "normal", I think that helps a lot.

3) Spoiler button: There's a react button in that you have to "react" to a post in order for it to show up, but we know that the spoiler coding works - so why not have a spoiler button as one of the easy formatting options?

4) I understand that you wanted a cleaner look/layout, but I think that in doing so — you've "hidden" some of the buttons/features that people actually use the most. 

• Recent unread topics
• Show who quoted my posts

So bringing those back front and center in this version would probably make an easier sell of the other stuff that's in the dropdown under the username now.

And you've got duplicate ways to get to things. If you have a big search field in the upper right corner, you don't need it in the topline menubar. 

Likewise - just about everything under "profile" is under the username dropdown menu here. And the mentions and alerts are duplicating the same function, no? So you could get rid of the Search and Profile access from the topline menu. If anything, I would just leave a link for "my bookmarks" there as part of the front and center easy access while still having a cleaner overall setup.

Once those pieces are in place, it would be easier to see what else could be finessed.

Thanks for this. Will review and see what can be done.