Discourse seems to handle things better and is constantly talking to the server to check for new replies as you write yours, so I expect it won't have problems with sessions timing out while you write a reply.
But do keep in mind that if you spend more than a few hours writing a reply, any attachments you uploaded for the post may be deleted and no longer work. (The forum periodically checks for uploaded attachments which no post is using and deletes them.) So if you leave a reply open for several hours it can cause problems, but having one open for a few minutes or even a couple of hours should be fine.
(Although if you are writing something that long and detailed, saving it into a text editor first is probably a good idea. The server might be down, especially at the moment while we are still having to restart it to change certain things. Or the internet might go down, etc.)
On phpBB you can normally hit Back in the browser and recover what you had typed, but not always and it was indeed a pain when that happened.
Yes, exactly. All those broken imageshack links on old posts should be a thing of the past.
I had started to do this manually after the problems with imageshack, so I'm really glad the forum automates it.
As an aside, Discourse has a much better backup process than phpBB (which was a complete joke, didn't include files/attachments, and sometimes corrupted the SQL backup if it took too long to generate). So if anything catastrophic happens we should have more recent backups of the forum now than before. Backups are now automated, and can also be done by a single button push. With phpBB it took about an hour to do all the actions and checks necessary to do a full backup (posts + attachments) of the forum. phpBB was garbage.
Normally one wouldn't spend so much time on posting a reply. But, I must confess, it sometimes happens once I start to search on Internet for possible extra information, links, whatever, to support a reply, but then start reading the 'other' stuff, forgetting about the post I was creating.
When getting back - I was logged out. The 'Back'-button often didn't help. Based on that experience, I often saved the text to clipboard before posting...
Pulling in the images is indeed a big improvement. Users may cancel their account with e.g. Imageshack (like I did last week, one has to pay 38 p/year and there are no improvements / changes over the last 1,5 year) or one might delete images/remove albums.
Anyway, good luck with the new forum, hopefully, once all is in order, you may have a few minutes extra for yourself ..
Ouch, tbh the new forum software looks and feels less than good.
Not to mention that white background burns my eyes..which is also an additional reason
why I avoided W10 (W10 themed apps = white, flat, and annoying).
I would've preferred one of the regular forum types.
Btw, where is "Mark all as read"?
Try it for a while. After the initial shock it grows on you, or at least has for several of us (myself included).
We may make the background darker but it's not the priority. Turn on a light for now.
To mark everything as read, click on the Unread view at the top, then Dismiss at the bottom right of the list (or top right, after scrolling slightly).
Important: Do not change the checkbox inside the confirmation dialog. It makes the Dismiss button mute/hide all those threads, not just mark them unreas.
Thanks, I found it
Light doesn't really help alot when the screen is almost completely white.
Btw, in the earlier software you used account linking where the username had a different color based on registration status.
Will this be used in this one?
Or you could have some text regarding registration status in the same position as your "Directory Opus developer" label.
Is there a time limit for editing posts? I just had a look at my Tagger thread and saw that the edit symbol only appears at newer posts (2 month in this case). I wasn't able to edit the first post which was intended to be the main post where you always can find the newest version for download.
There is a time limit at the moment, but that will be changing for the downloads area. I'll try to get that set up in the next day or two. Been chasing some other problems with the imported posts the last couple of days so I haven't had a chance to sort out the downloads areas properly yet.
The software itself is nice. But the default design for Discourse is bad. Too much whitespace taking up too much screen real estate when it doesn't have to.
I am still a bit lost in the new forum and share the concern about the amount of whitespace, but I was pleasantly surprised how well it works and how nice it looks on a mobile device. Very cool!
Thanks. I think this isn't always the case?
Maybe it is not possible that users delete their own new threads?
I wanted to delete my own post, titled : "Set Attribute: creation date after document created date?"
There are 0 replies. It is no problem, but it serves no purpose then to keep it there, hence I tried to delete it myself.
(The "three-dots" button is missing below my own thread)
I agree phpBB is a steaming pile of horse hocky.
My only complaint with Discourse so far is it is taking the same 2 dimensional flat look and feel of Windows 8/10. I guess Microsoft missed the days of the look/feel of Windows 1.x and 2.x.... Not sure why every piece of software now has to go that far back in time for their look and feel......
