Announcing the NI Discussion Forums Upgrade

[Wolfgang]

In the editor box I miss the possibility to add horizontal lines... This was easily possible in the earlier version using one button. Do I have to change to HTML and code it in HTML?

[tst]

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@Laura F. wrote:

tst and others - I'm not sure what is going on with font size.

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This seems to be an issue with a combination of IE and high DPI. Changing the DPI to the standard 96 gets rid of the large font issues (although, I should point out that using that DPI setting, IE is the only browser I checked which has the font at a reasonable size. Both FF and Chrome display it as a pretty small text, which is hard to read).

[K C]

Hi,

I always used the dashboard to jump quickly to the board I want to read. Just a list of about 10-15 boards that I follow.

Now I have to search within a longer list to find the boards. I know it is just getting use to the new look, but still I want 'my' Dashboard back  

If there is a good alternative for the dashboard I love to hear it.

Kees

[RobertoBozzolo]

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Laura F. ha scritto:

• Roberto Bozzolo - are you describing the "0 Kudos" on the Kudos icon itself?  I have it on my list to switch that over to gray text instead of black

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I was referring to "0 kudos" message: it is too evident, changing it to gray may improve the visibility of kudoed messages.

As you see in the image, at a first glance you see no great difference between those two messages!

[tst]

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@K C wrote:

I always used the dashboard to jump quickly to the board I want to read. Just a list of about 10-15 boards that I follow.

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You can float the boards (from the board options) so they will appear on the top of the main forums page. This is what I've been doing for years. It also allows you to immediately see which boards have new posts.

P.S. I agree with Roberto that the 0 kudos message is superfluous and is hard to read.

[tst]

Laura, two additional points:

1. For some reason, the example task force board is floated. I had it floated a long time ago, but now it returned. I can't unfloat it because the board itself has been closed, so I can't go into it.
2. The new spell checker seems to load faster than the old one, but it appears on the top of the page, so if you scrolled the page, you won't see it.

[Ray.R]

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@altenbach wrote:

If I do a "View all" on my recent posts, I really miss the bolding of threads with new messages. Now everything is plain and I need to look at the numbers in the last column to see what got updated. This is tedious!

Can we have the bold back?

Please! 😄

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That is one thing I do miss!  Please bring this back..

I'm still getting used to the changes in button location. 

I'm trying the font size changes that Saverio mentionned.

Either I don't understand the problem he mentionned or I do not see it. 

Saverio, were you trying to get font sizes smaller than this?

<< Using FIREFOX browser >>

[Ben]

Just noticed a change in the statistic for total posts.

Either the way you are calacualting the total has changed or Christian posted more than 200 posts this week-end.

So what is the change?

Ben

PS I noticed because I am stll trying to pass Christian total post count. I was climbing until I checked ths AM. Its a plot I tell you!

[muks]

Total post is now = forum post + idea exchange post. Good change.less confusion.

[smercurio_fc]

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@Ray.R wrote:
 

That is one thing I do miss!  Please bring this back..

I'm still getting used to the changes in button location. 

I'm trying the font size changes that Saverio mentionned.

Either I don't understand the problem he mentionned or I do not see it. 

Saverio, were you trying to get font sizes smaller than this?

<< Using FIREFOX browser >>

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I am currently using Firefox 3.6.3. In my preferences I set the "Text Size" to "Small". In Firefox I have not changed the zoom level, and I have not changed anything with respect to DPI settings within Windows. This is what I see on the main forums page:

If you set the font size to "Medium" (which I believe is the default), then the forum links show up as bold if there are new messages.