Announcing the NI Discussion Forums Upgrade

[elset191]

[altenbach]

Laura, when looking at my posts, the last column ("New") contains the number of unread posts in the thread. Would it be possible to move this very important column all the way to the left in the table (i.e. between icon and "subject" column).

It would be much more convenient, especially since we lost the bolding of updated threads.

Especially on small screens (e.g. on my android phone). It would make things much easier if I could look at the "new" and "subject" at the same time, without having to constantly scroll left and right.

[Laura F.]

Hi everyone - an update on your questions:

• Search - you can actually search for users directly from anywhere in the forum by switching the drop down to users.  I find that very convenient.  I agree about the advanced search link.  As I mentioned before there are further changes coming to search but it will take me a while to configure the experience for our community. 
• muks - I previously submitted your suggestion about recently authored solutions.
• tst - thank you for the detailed and well thought out list after using unread discussions for a while.  I will submit all of your feedback.
• Ray. R - yes the macros drop down was reported.  It is only an issue in Firefox.
• muks - I think you are the only one seeing such small columns.  Are you using a very small monitor?  Also, what page is that a picture of?
• Gerd - I've previously made the time suggestion, but it was a long time ago so I'll submit it again. 
• Tim - what page are you on when you click that?  Just the normal idea exchange? Is it the unread discussions module?  I was careful to test that functionality so I'd like to know what I missed.
• altenbach - I'm still waiting on a response about bolding the threads, but moving the column is a very good idea and I will suggest it. 

Thanks,

Laura

[elset191]

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Laura F. wrote:

• Tim - what page are you on when you click that?  Just the normal idea exchange? Is it the unread discussions module?  I was careful to test that functionality so I'd like to know what I missed.

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That was on the Idea Exchanges unread discussions.  The View All page to be more specific.  Pretty sure it does it in the regular module for me too though. (Don't have any unread I can test on..)

[Laura F.]

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@elset191 wrote:

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That was on the Idea Exchanges unread discussions.  The View All page to be more specific.  Pretty sure it does it in the regular module for me too though. (Don't have any unread I can test on..)

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Thanks - I see it and have reported it.

[muks]

Are the old links in idea exchange broken now after the upgrade?. Atleast one is.

[muks]

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muks - I think you are the only one seeing such small columns.  Are you using a very small monitor?  Also, what page is that a picture of?

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If you can call a 17 inch monitor a small one then yes. I am stuck with the same desktop right from when I actually registered in this forum. I didnt have any problem before the upgrade.I am surprised when you say no one else is seeing this. If that is the case then I suppose there is some setting like "Enable crumpled look" and I should have ticked that radio button by accident.

[muks]

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Also, what page is that a picture of?

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I got this when i viwed Ray.R's profile. The problem is only in "

Messages I Recently Kudoed" and the rest of the category is just fine.

[muks]

The link from this thread has been removed.

[smercurio_fc]

Don't know if this has already been mentioned - I did a search, but nothing turned up...

I noticed that the color scheme for the navigation bar (not sure what you're calling it) is different depending on whether you're looking at the forum page, or at a thread page. In the forum page it has a light blue background with dark blue text, and the active page has a light gray background. This is extremely difficult to read, and I'm not even color blind.

When looking at a thread, the background is white, so the dark blue text has a high contrast. The active page has the light gray background, but it's easy to see because of the white background.

This seems ... odd to me.