still hard for this almost-60 guy with reading glasses to see where the posts delineate, but maybe I just need to play around with formatting more
great post Lily Dale TYVM
Right, I figured it out, but it’ll take some time. If you refresh the page, you’ll see all the dates and times in your timezone; however, as they arrive live, at the moment, they’re coming in the poster’s timezone... This is because of how broadcasting messages works:
A user posts
That message is broadcast to all listening users
But if it is to be correct, then the message much be altered on a per recipient basis, so if I’m sending it to someone in Spain, they have to have the date altered to Spain time, someone in Australia, likewise etc.
So that’s just a bit more complicated, and will take a bit more time.
Sleeve, if you play with “Post separator” in text display options, there are options for more space, various types of lines, traditional typographic thing, and some stupid stuff.
The post separator options go a long way. Sleeve, I’d also try the option to put the username below the post, which I find very effective.
Thank you sir. Can any of the three lines—name, date, menu—be combined, so it doesn’t take up three lines? Or is that a request that goes deeper than cosmetics, probably?
Sadbonx, it does for the whole lot, but it is quite straightforward to change the time to be t0 the right of the username; the menu less so. That said, I’d be changing an option people seem broadly happy with, and I am kind of nervous of having so many options that it becomes rapidly unwieldy. Perhaps people can give their view and I can do it if people want it, or don’t care one way or another.
cool thx y’all xps
lol will we be able to disable reacts to our posts as well? ;)
Haha, well you know, I did just find that handy! But I mean I have pushed to let people see this, so they have a chance, but the rate of signup here has (obviously) slowed and views haven’t changed, so I wouldn’t worry about that.
Sorry, I’m probably being overly circumspect there, what I mean is I’ll give it until tomorrow evening or something (a week), and assuming there’s no massive groundswell of opinion in the next 36 hours, then I’ll look to put something in that lets admins disable reactions on specific boards, and obviously then they can just do that.
And I don’t mean disable viewing them, I mean removing the ability for people to post and/or receive them.
so many options that it becomes rapidly unwieldy
Perhaps some of these details could be left up to aftermarket CSS styles rather than dozens of options tickboxes? I know you said it’s more complicated by far than the cuurent site, but on one of these threads Treefell was saying it looked at least possible.