I agree, each person has a different view on colour. We needed an update. This is an often used style. There are 100's of the available that we could implement. One day I might propose a few to you, but for each new style added, the programming has to be done twice, unless we want to have the standard stuff that they propose. So it takes time to implement.Michael Stride wrote:Sure colour matters. Take a look at www.middle-age-shred.com and you'll see a similar forum with 'life'.
However each person has a different view on colour.
Most of you may not have discovered it yet, but when you post a reply you have all the previous posts just below. Just scroll and review the previous posts. I think that pretty much solves it.Michael Stride wrote:1) I'd like this box to be at the bottom of a 'page' so that I can scroll through the posts i'm replying to. There is no need to change fonts (except make it a tad larger)
2) I see no need for the boxes above or below this area. They can all be put on a posting guidlines page.
Not sure I fully understand. Most of the boxes above the post are editing features to help you format your post. They act when you click on them, so moving them away from the post/edit/reply screen means you can't use them and have to remember the syntax like in the old forum.Michael Stride wrote:2) I see no need for the boxes above or below this area. They can all be put on a posting guidlines page.
The checkboxes below the text box when editing a post are maybe less important, but I didn't consider that space so important and some of those checkboxes have some value.
Yes, and No. Random is not supposed to the forum for "Important posts" while other areas are "less important". It's more of a place for left-overs that can't be immediately sorted into their subforums, or posts for which there is no suitable subforum. By putting it at the top of the forum list I have given it more importance than it had. I hope you appreciate that. However in searches, posts since last visit, etc I will let it mix and mingle with the other posts in the order they currently show up.Michael Stride wrote:One last thing, the MOST popular area for topics is always going to be 'random'. that needs to be the first lot of post to appear. otherwise the most important/relavant/and intersting stuff is given the same importance as the 'GRS Outer Mongolia' forum, updated once a year.
Some of the posts in the Random forum is (and will be) moved to their appropriate forums when one of the admins have some time to do it.
Like this thread for example. It should be in the Site admin forum. I originally put it in the random forum to make sure nobody would miss the warning that the forum would be closed down temporarily.