XF2 transition feedback

[Rin]

So you know how SB, SV and QQ have these dynamic margins that allow the main part of the forum to stay the same size regardless of how big or small your screen is, as that's necessary to preserve formatting and make stories readable?

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Well QQ used to have them too, because we're also a creative writing forum, and having each line of your story be two feet wide is not great for readability. As it currently stands, QQ expands to fit my window, which is a pain and means that the individual lines of a story are like, two feet long. Entire paragraphs are just a single line in some cases. Any chance of the dynamic margins coming back?

Spoiler: QQ is currently a wideputin meme

Please?

I'm getting a crick in my neck trying to read smut. :'(

 

[Vanbers]

Any chance of the dynamic margins coming back?

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While I'm not sure if it's what you're looking for, there IS an option, right next to "Style Chooser", "Change Width", that allows you to change the margin size.

It's on the bottom left of the page, top left of the footer.

 

[Rin]

While I'm not sure if it's what you're looking for, there IS an option, right next to "Style Chooser", "Change Width", that allows you to change the margin size.

It's on the bottom left of the page, top left of the footer.

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Thank you so much. My vertebrae cry out with joy.

I have no idea why this isn't/wasn't the default for me, but it instantly fixes the issue.

 

[24caratcoal]

Thank you so much. My vertebrae cry out with joy.

I have no idea why this isn't/wasn't the default for me, but it instantly fixes the issue.

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Beware, it does reset. So, you know, that has to be hit fairly frequently if you want the page width to remain as what you set it.

 

[Rin]

Beware, it does reset. So, you know, that has to be hit fairly frequently if you want the page width to remain as what you set it.

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Okay, thanks for letting me know. So it's still an issue that needs fixing either way.

 

[Biotech]

Clicking on a thread seems to drop me right in the middle of the thread instead of the start.

 

[AztecCroc]

Okay, thanks for letting me know. So it's still an issue that needs fixing either way.

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It only resets if you wipe the cookie for it. I've never had it reset on me.

 

[Vanbers]

Beware, it does reset. So, you know, that has to be hit fairly frequently if you want the page width to remain as what you set it.

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Okay, thanks for letting me know. So it's still an issue that needs fixing either way.

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While it's never reset for me, I also like having no margins at all.

Though honestly, there should instead be a setting in preferences to set your preferred margin (Margin, No Margin, Dynamic Margin), imo.

 

[24caratcoal]

It only resets if you wipe the cookie for it. I've never had it reset on me.

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Theoretically. I've not wiped any of the cookies for QQ and I keep having to change it.

 

[Renko]

Anyone here know that we can set profile banners now!? Man, I hope we got more profile costumizations in the future!

 

[Rin]

While it's never reset for me, I also like having no margins at all.

Though honestly, there should instead be a setting in preferences to set your preferred margin (Margin, No Margin, Dynamic Margin), imo.

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I can confirm that it resets. I haven't deleted my cookies today and I'm already back to wideQQ. Thankfully the fix is just a click away, but still annoying.

 

[24caratcoal]

I can confirm that it resets. I haven't deleted my cookies today and I'm already back to wideQQ. Thankfully the fix is just a click away, but still annoying.

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Trade you. I keep getting "narrow" QQ. It's not that narrow, but I still prefer it stretching across my screen.

 

[chrnno]

So you know how SB, SV and QQ have these dynamic margins that allow the main part of the forum to stay the same size regardless of how big or small your screen is, as that's necessary to preserve formatting and make stories readable?

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Trade you. I keep getting "narrow" QQ. It's not that narrow, but I still prefer it stretching across my screen.

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If you have Stylus, or some other extension, I have been using this style for margin to fill my screen:

div.p-body-inner
{
    max-width:1366px!important
}

Just apply to domain questionablequesting.com and change the number to whatever you want. Works for SB too as margin there is messed up, or at least was last I checked.

 

[ArsMagna1337]

The table option to cell merge is gone from the default Rich Text Editor...

 

[CrossyCross]

I've turned off the media auto-embed for the moment. This means the only way to trigger that is to type out the full invocation, e.g. [url unfurl="true" media="youtube:<id>"]<url>[/url], which is a bit of a pain. I'll look into finding a better way to do that later.

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I think it's still turning into media.

like, I'm only typing out the url to a picture

https://rule34.xxx/index.php?page=post&s=view&id=10091976

But it's still turning into media link

Rule 34 - 1boy ai generated ass big ass blackcatmeow blindfold crossdressing femboy light-skinned male light skin looking back lying lying on stomach male male focus male only nier nier: automata rear view short hair solo thighhighs trap white hair y

Rule 34 - If it exists, there is porn of it. We have pokemon, my little pony, Other hentai, whatever you want.

rule34.xxx

 

[TroyX]

I don't suppose we can see a return of the previous "eek" smiley? The old was great for expressing surprise, the new one is more like expressing dismay. It's disconcerting to look through my old posts and see the tone of a line take a very different shift with the new smiley.

Like, you can keep the new one, but give it another identifier than : eek : and restore the old : eek : one or something, please?

 

[inverted_helix]

So I can't figure out how to make tables smaller than the whole width of the screen in Xenforo 2. Does anyone have an explanation on how to do that? I looked at old posts with working tables, but the bbcode for that stuff is crazy.

 

[AztecCroc]

Test

Edit: Nope, table setup lets you specify a width, but it doesn't do anything.

 

[Kinematics]

So I can't figure out how to make tables smaller than the whole width of the screen in Xenforo 2. Does anyone have an explanation on how to do that? I looked at old posts with working tables, but the bbcode for that stuff is crazy.

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This should be 600px wide:

Name 1	Name 2
Verielle	Hrumadra
Aeria	Svadrifa
Dhylyris	Revif
Thylaria	Ava
Teninis	Svirun
Calyphe	Arlrun
Tyrorena	Sveldana
Lyphete	Nysiphis
Agrior	Morylia
Kalmold	Eygrior

Have to use [xtable]

 

[inverted_helix]

This should be 600px wide:

Name 1	Name 2
Verielle	Hrumadra
Aeria	Svadrifa
Dhylyris	Revif
Thylaria	Ava
Teninis	Svirun
Calyphe	Arlrun
Tyrorena	Sveldana
Lyphete	Nysiphis
Agrior	Morylia
Kalmold	Eygrior

Have to use [xtable]

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Do I have to manually do all that code, or is there some sort of shortcut?

 

[Kinematics]

Do I have to manually do all that code, or is there some sort of shortcut?

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Only manual, as far as I know. (I checked; it's BBCode-only, no editor support, as of December last year, per Xon.)

I do have some regular expressions I use in Visual Studio Code to make it easier to fill in the basics, though. For example, where the names are each listed on their own line, I can do a search and replace using

^((.+)\n(.+))$

and

{tr}\n{td}$2{/td}\n{td}$3{/td}\n{/tr}

to capture two lines at a time and put them in their own TD cells, enclosed in a TR row. Replace all, and everything's built except the TBODY and header.

The XTable can handle almost anything you can do with an HTML table, so it's understandable that the complexity doesn't mesh well with the visual editor. Xon did say he was trying to get the functionality to work with standard tables, a few years ago. Not sure if that ever got anywhere.

 

[AztecCroc]

Looking at the code via quote, it's just the same as a regular table but with the table tags changed to xtable and then the required size added to the opening xtable with |size= followed by the width and height in pixels.

 

[inverted_helix]

Only manual, as far as I know. (I checked; it's BBCode-only, no editor support, as of December last year, per Xon.)

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That's very unfortunate.

The XTable can handle almost anything you can do with an HTML table, so it's understandable that the complexity doesn't mesh well with the visual editor. Xon did say he was trying to get the functionality to work with standard tables, a few years ago. Not sure if that ever got anywhere.

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Somewhat amusingly one of the first results I had looking for how to resize tables in xenforo 2 was this:

[OzzModz] Table BBcode Tweak

This add-on is shared with the Xenforo community for free without branding. Donations are welcome by just liking this add-on or leaving a nice review, that's all! :love: By default all BBcode tables are full width (100%) with XenForo 2.1 / 2.2...

xenforo.com

But that's a mod that has to be installed in the forum.

 

[iamnuff]

In the Dark High Contrast style, Read and Unread alerts are the same colour.

 

[rkyeun]

@alethiophile
Duotone FontAwesome characters are ... "inverted?" on dark theme? On dark theme the secondary layer should be the opaque one, and the primary layer should be the transparent one.

 

[Shadowclonier]

A further problem with the email notifications not showing any of the actual content is that, when you get two alerts from a thread in a day, some clients like Gmail automatically presume that it's entirely the same message and trims the entire message. Would prefer that emails once more contain at least a good measure of the content we're being notified about.

 

[DaWalrus]

Hello, I'm generally a lurker and I have enjoyed the update, having to repick something every single time is super annoying. I've always followed stories I've enjoyed. There is now an annoying default change.
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This window always defaulted to 'without receiving email notifications'. Now it defaults to 'receive email notifications'. It should default to the least intrusive option unless something is implemented to remember your choice.

 

[RampagingDragon]

So I have played with alert settings slightly since the update, but do not receive any alerts (I do not get/want emails, just top right corner alerts) at all from watched threads, some of which I have checked on before a new update. What should my settings look like to have it the same as before the update/what should I look for to get alerts working again?

 

[evildice]

Hello, I'm generally a lurker and I have enjoyed the update, having to repick something every single time is super annoying. I've always followed stories I've enjoyed. There is now an annoying default change.
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This window always defaulted to 'without receiving email notifications'. Now it defaults to 'receive email notifications'. It should default to the least intrusive option unless something is implemented to remember your choice.

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For me the default was "without receiving email notifications".

It seems to be controlled by this checkbox in Preferences:

For me, that checkbox was empty (and is still empty, I don't want email).

 

[Kinematics]

There's an issue with parsing BBCode colors.

[color= red] The deadline for the vote is Thursday, April 4th at 1900 hours Eastern Daylight Time (-4 GMT).[/color]

[color=red ] The deadline for the vote is Thursday, April 4th at 1900 hours Eastern Daylight Time (-4 GMT).[/color]

[color=red] The deadline for the vote is Thursday, April 4th at 1900 hours Eastern Daylight Time (-4 GMT).[/color]

Of the three lines above, the first two do not color the text red, while the last one does. The difference is the space after the = sign in the first one, and the space before the closing ] on the second one. This does not seem like it should matter, but it does.

Spoiler: Demo

[color= red] The deadline for the vote is Thursday, April 4th at 1900 hours Eastern Daylight Time (-4 GMT).[/color]

[color=red ] The deadline for the vote is Thursday, April 4th at 1900 hours Eastern Daylight Time (-4 GMT).[/color]

The deadline for the vote is Thursday, April 4th at 1900 hours Eastern Daylight Time (-4 GMT).

If it is possible to fix this parsing issue, I suspect it would help in various places where people made typing mistakes. The above came from a quest update.