c99p site upgrade update
Good morning folks
After a couple of weeks of tweaking, code patching, squishing bugs, and general clean up, I finally finished getting the site in tip top shape after the recent software upgrade. Getting that done allowed me to concentrate on the new site layout which you are using right now.
All functions and features are still present, although you may need to get used to where they have been moved to. Many have been moved to the "Navigation" dropdown menu in the header. It may take a while, but I guarantee you'll get used to it.
The comment section has had a major upgrade. When you now make a reply to another comment "Reply to: username" will automatically appear in the subject line. You may add additional text after the "Reply to:" if you want or you may also remove it all together.
Also take note of the parent link that is now included. You'll see it right at the beginning of the comment body. it will appear as a number when you are using the comment editor, but after you publish it will change to a link to the parent comment. Please don't remove this number when writing your comment or the parent link will be lost to all subsequent readers. If you mouse hover over the parent link in any comment you'll see a popup box that displays the parent comment. Also if you click the parent link in any comment it will take you to the parent comment, click the back button in your browser to get back to where you were before.
To the left of the comments you'll see the user names/avatars, under that you'll see that every comment is now assigned a number for easy referencing.
I also added a large gold "NEW" text in every new comment. Hopefully this will make it easier to spot the new comments.
You also should notice a definite improvement on mobile devices. Those of you that use phones and pads please give me some feedback.
Please keep in mind that I still have a lot of tweaking left to do on this interface and will be working on it in the future.
I hope you enjoy it
Comments
I know I'm going to regret this...
but here goes:
Any questions?
Reply to: JtC Reply to: JtC - So Far So Good
Saw it first with my iPad and will look some more later.
I will try some formatting things soon to see how they look.
I will try some formatting things soon to see how they look.
I will try some formatting things soon to see how they look.
Why did the formatting trick work here initially?
RIP
Reply to: PriceRip
RIP, when you edit a comment it doubles up on the "Reply to:" and the parent link. You can remove the extra ones when you edit.
Reply to: JtC
I caught that during the testing and found a way to defeat that. So, the question is will it still work.
And now the more important question is, Does this trick foulup the works?
I can easily defeat the multiple edit tagging. but I have been defeated in my quest to control formatting at the zeroth level.
If this works, I will be happy. YES, thanks for restoring my mojo, JtC
Formatting
And more Formatting
Have a good day.
Reply to: PriceRip
There is mojo here?
dfarrah
A nod to Magical Charm of the voodoo variety
Don't take it too literally, as I am not a practitioner. Although, sometimes what I do looks like magic.
Here I was, thinking
TOP.
dfarrah
PriceRip How do I type this ?
I would like to write a simple statement: To make appear you type "@#1.1". but every time I type "@#1.1" it resolves to . The only way that seems to work is to type "@#1.1" but that is so very not right, in so many ways. I need to be able to type long strings for which spacing is an issue.Sigh, I am defeated.@​#​1.1 produces @#1.1 which then renders as
I am not defeated.
Reply to: JtC - Why can't NEW be red?
Why can't NEW be red? Hah! You asked for it.
Plus the hex is #FF0000 which Trump would pronounce foo, and that rhymes with new. Whereas, orange just reminds me of fascism for some reason. LOL! I'm just kidding around.
Thank you so much JtC. Thanks for creating the space where people can talk and learn and be who they are without too much hassle. Thanks a lot.
Peace
Edits: fiddling with line breaks and reply dupes.
Reply to: eyo
I can make it red if that's what folks want.
Reply to: eyo
Because when it is read, it's not new any more!
"I’m a human being, first and foremost, and as such I’m for whoever and whatever benefits humanity as a whole.” —Malcolm X
Reply to: Bisbonian
Groan...
Believing in the improbable can make your life a miracle.
Reply to: JtC
Yes, one typically does regret typos, especially in the comment header
The earth is a multibillion-year-old sphere.
The Nazis killed millions of Jews.
On 9/11/01 a Boeing 757 (AA77) flew into the Pentagon.
AGCC is happening.
If you cannot accept these facts, I cannot fake an interest in any of your opinions.
Reply to: JtC Reply to: JtC Reply to: JtC Reply to: JtC
Looking good so far JTC, The mobile friendly still needs some tweaking.
Here it is on an iPhone 6S I'm going back to the laptop.
Let me know if you want another screenshot after adjustments.
In addition the curser goes off the right side of the screen when replying so you can't see what you are typing.
Also picture upload dialogues are huge so you have great difficulty doing that.
It still has 3 failed areas on the Google mobile friendly test.
Wrong image was selected while attempting to use phone...
I'll be fetching the right one...
There it be...
I'm the only person standing between Richard Nixon and the White House."
~John F. Kennedy~
Economic: -9.13, Social: -7.28,
Viewport added...
to the header. Site is now scalable and passes the Google test.
Reply to: JtC - Very Nice
I regret nothing...
It's our new steel kitchen with a blue metallic shine, straight lines, modern, efficient. I see stylish elegant women in pant suits chopping herbs to spice up their comments. Very nice. Thanks for your work, JtC
Ok, the "NEW" sign is in orange, but I would it make like the color of a "blood orange". This orange reminds me of Trump and that makes my blood boil and I see red.
I tried to display a color here but didn't know how to do it. rgb(230, 0, 0) ?
https://www.euronews.com/live
Reply to: JtC
it's true that the comment subject lines are hard to read when they are written all in capital letters. I would change that.
https://www.euronews.com/live
Reply to: JtC
Using a mid sized laptop -- some of the blue headings are way too tight to read, especially those at the top of block quotes. If I remember right, thats called kerfing LOL. Other than that, its easy on the eyes.
From the Light House.
Very nice!
Thanks for your work dude! Heh. I had FINALLY got used
to, and had come to really like, the old multiple columns.
But don't worry. I never liked the changes when they first happened at dk but I always got used to them.
My only real beech is minor, is still the crap image uploader which will not automatically resize like Facebook, dk, Travelpod, and others do. But I don't have the money to fund a new one so, pay no attention to me lol !!!
Thanks for all you do.
A truth of the nuclear age/climate change: we can no longer have endless war and survive on this planet. Oh sh*t.
Reply to: divineorder
Yes, it takes me hours to load and layout my usually heavily visual essays. The multi-step process is annoying and the back and forth from upload to send to editor to clicking C, then hitting the camera icon, back to browse followed by edit to save (visualize) to edit to save gives me an editor's headache. To the point that I prefer to post on facebook first. I suppose another way to save time would be to use Presentations software to lay out the graphics, captions and test then just load the essay as images.
I also ignore first page and go straight to recent. But the new recent posts way seems handier in that you can easily drill back once an essay goes down off the bottom.
From the Light House.
No regrets. Well done.
Have some lusciousness:
https://youtu.be/aurqCBAqUBI
First album, which I have just adored from the get go.
Great job!
You may choose to look the other way, but you can never say again you did not know. ~ William Wiberforce
If you can donate, please! POP Money is available for bank-to-bank transfers. Email JtC to make a monthly donation.
The 'Slim' Button?
Really nice. One thing though, I miss the 'slimmed' button to bring the whole thing back to the top. That huge round button in the right lower corner blocks a lot of screen real-estate.
best, john
Strange that a harp of thousand strings should keep in tune so long
Ok Good
Actual place to discuss what happened.
Didn't know if it was intentional or what not, thought I was the only one who had this change cause no one else was talking about it. But ok I'm sane, good to go.
control+
made it legible for me. This font (typewriter) is a reminder of long ago.
Hey! my dear friends or soon-to-be's, JtC could use the donations to keep this site functioning for those of us who can still see the life preserver or flotsam in the water.
Reply to: riverlover
Oh wow ,cool the side bar! Must have missed the memo on that.
A truth of the nuclear age/climate change: we can no longer have endless war and survive on this planet. Oh sh*t.
Reply to: PriceRip
Just a test that chldc
Hey! my dear friends or soon-to-be's, JtC could use the donations to keep this site functioning for those of us who can still see the life preserver or flotsam in the water.
Reply to: riverlover, did not child
This did not attach properly ? Your comment is a child of JtC's comment.
second try
can you hear me now???
Hey! my dear friends or soon-to-be's, JtC could use the donations to keep this site functioning for those of us who can still see the life preserver or flotsam in the water.
Paragraph breaks in comments?
Hi JtC. The new site looks great, thank you so much for your work and dedication!
We were just talking in the open thread about how line breaks have disappeared from previous comments, now all paras run together in older comments, and it seems you have to manually add an HTML break command in order to get line breaks in a comment now.
This is easy enough to do on my computer to get to the br tool in the toolbar, as long as you remember to do it each time instead of just hitting the return key. but on my phone its a pain because the popup tool tips actually cover the buttons.
If it is possible to restore the way it worked before and breaks are added just by using the return key on the keyboard, that would be awesome. Thanks again!
Ha! Well in the preview on my computer, all these paras are run together, even with the
added in. Maybe because I also added a return to that I can see the breaks as I'm typing?
Let's see.
OK so that was a fail!
No line breaks, with or without the
added in.
Is this your way of telling us to be more concise in our replies?
just kidding...
OK, I don't have a clue
In my reply the br command added a line break! In my original post it didn't work. I am lost...
Reply to: CS in AZ
Hi CS, I fixed the automatic line break problem, I had to edit a CSS file and remove a line of code.
It works now.
Thank you so much!
Most excellent, everything looks good and works fine now, tested on my computer, phone and iPad, Chrome and Safari browsers, no issues, everything looks great.
For the people having issues with the font being small, it is easy to magnify it in your web browser; control+ (command+ on a mac) increases the size to whatever you like/need.
Reply to: JtC
Wizard !
A truth of the nuclear age/climate change: we can no longer have endless war and survive on this planet. Oh sh*t.
RE: c99p site upgrade update
@#0 Good luck with the updates, hoping that it all goes smoothly
I never knew that the term "Never Again" only pertained to
those born Jewish
"Antisemite used to be someone who didn't like Jews
now it's someone who Jews don't like"
Heard from Margaret Kimberley
Thank you!
I love the new look, especially the banner. Thank you for all the work that you do.
Why are there
no paragraphs in the comments? For me it's really hard to read big comments that are solid blocks with no paragraphs. I also noticed that links and things like bold or italics are in code.while I'm gripping the type size is too small. Navigation fine but I miss having the Recent Essay List in the Community featured section.I usually go right to this when I come here to see what new. Thanks JtC for your hard work. I'll adjust to the new site.
RE: c99p site upgrade update
@#0 sorry just trying the reply node whatever the heck that is. I'll give this a whirl and be back later after I give myself and the new site a chance. Testing Bold thanks again JtC
It certainly looks better
but I hate to tell you that it is still too small on smartphones. Sorry
Reply to: gjohnsit
I can tweak that later, I wanted to get this up and running first.
I did check it on a phone before I ported the changes over here from the dev site and you're right, portrait mode is too small but landscape mode is much better.
Break Command Check
Hello
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Should be four blank lines above
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Should be two blank lines above
Hello again:
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Should be four blank lines above
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Should be two blank lines above
Reply to: PriceRip Reply to: PriceRip
Now the line breaks are back and everything looks right again. YAY!
Either JtC is a magician or there was a glitch of some kind earlier. Anyway it looks good again now, including in my older comments.
Whatever you did, thanks very much JtC. You are the best!
Reply to: CS in AZ
I fixed it by removing a line of code in a CSS file.
I prefer to imagine you are a magician.
In my opinion, what you do here is magical.
It's purty.
The earth is a multibillion-year-old sphere.
The Nazis killed millions of Jews.
On 9/11/01 a Boeing 757 (AA77) flew into the Pentagon.
AGCC is happening.
If you cannot accept these facts, I cannot fake an interest in any of your opinions.
Kinda feel I should dress better . . .
. . . if I'm gonna come to a site this nice!
Looks great, JtC.
Reply to: dance you monster
I note that having the "Reply to: whomever" in the subject line makes the Recent Comments List look a little odd.
Not that I have any suggestions for that -- it's just a design quirk I'm seeing.
Reply to: dance you monster
it's designed that way. I tried everything that i could think of to remove it to no avail.
You can remove it when you write your comment or add text after it.
Okay, let's try that.
Cool, that worked!
Just strip the subject line and add your own. Thanks!
You can remove it as JtC said
← Just don't remove this (.1) as it turns into a link.
Oh, I forgot to mention...
that the site's content has now been 100% indexed so the search function should work as it's supposed to now.
I know I saw a few complaints about our search function sucking, well, it was. There was a problem with some unicode characters that was published here and there in the content, the database didn't like it and the search indexer would halt and hang every time it hit one of the unicode character strings.
It took a while but after removing all of the unicode characters the content indexed 100%.
Folks...
if you don't like the "Reply To:" in the subject line you can strip it when writing your comment or write more of a subject line after it.
I need to enlarge page to 125% to read comfortably
what I read w/o enlarging previously.
Looks nice, JTC! Thank you.
'What we are left with is an agency mandated to ensure transparency and disclosure that is actually working to keep the public in the dark' - Ann M. Ravel, former FEC member
Reply to: MsGrin
Once the dust settles, I'll enlarge the text. The problem with that though is people have already compensated by enlarging with their browsers, so when I us CSS to enlarge the text it will appear enormous to them.
I did that before on another board and got tons of complaints. "It' too big now! It's too bog now!"
The problem with adjusting text size is, you can't please everyone.
How do you
enlarge type size with your browser? I'm an techie idiot. I seem to be reading it better now that I hsd my coffee and cleaned my glasses. The paragraph breaks are back and that helps readability too. Thanks it does look really good. Your a brilliant designer as well as a good geek.It also seems to be better at loading a lot of videos. The OT music vids.came in really fast and stayed put.
I just tried the image editor and it doesn't seem to work. I'm sure you have other more pressing tinkering to do but I sure love my images. No problem but I hope it becomes functional soon. On the image editor the file browser the second box does not fully load. The bar across the top stays blank. Thanks again for your hard work and the slick new site.
Morning shaz...
I just increased the font size a little, is it better now?
Yes it is better
Shah figured out how to enlarge the type using a simple zoom up on Firefox's view on the tool bar. thanks now that I can read, navigate and post I'm really liking it. The reply function is great.
Thanks for all the work...
On my desktop, I magnified and it is very readable and attractive.
The Three Evils of Society, 1967
All the features seem to work well. Thanks again...was this an expensive up grade? Might be time to kick into the kitty?
“Until justice rolls down like water and righteousness like a mighty stream.”
Wait until next month...
to kick in. Our yearly webhost fees will be due in march and we're going to have to raise some funds in February to meet them.
You'll be hearing more about that in a couple of weeks.
This site looks very classy
as dance-you-monster wrote above, I too feel the need to dress up and do my hair.
Great job JtC!
To thine own self be true.
I just increased the font size a little...
is that better?
Those that have increased your browser settings may have to readjust.
Now the escapes are not working.
Rut roh...
Now I'm seeing HTML coding in the comments instead of formatted text, images, etc.
I was adjusting some settings...
It's back to normal now.
ah, easy enough to increase size!
click View at the top of the browser page, then zoom
Reply to: JtC
No to red.
My vote anyway.
"You can't just leave those who created the problem in charge of the solution."---Tyree Scott
Reply to: Steven D
yes, but some of us are allergic to orange.
Seriously though, that "NEW" is huge enough and it doesn't matter what color it is (as long as it's not the same light blue as the background!). We'll see it.
Reply to: Shahryar
Oh, I thought this was a discussion of the overall background color, not the "new" comment button, so my bad.
Still not crazy about red for that button though.
"You can't just leave those who created the problem in charge of the solution."---Tyree Scott
No worries Steve...
No red.
Reply to: JtC
It's not the same orange as TOP anyway. I'd make a suggestion but can't make up my mind so I will leave it up to people who care more about the orange issue than I do.
"You can't just leave those who created the problem in charge of the solution."---Tyree Scott
It looks gold to me...
the code used is for gold color.
It's cadmium yellow medium.
Yep...
That's what I said, Cadmium Yellow Medium.
Reply to: JtC
we'll call it gold, then...although my screen shows it as light orange.
What is reply to node?
Why is there a link in the same line to caucus 99 blog?
Will you explain the new buttons, please.
"Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich."--Napoleon
Oops...
That wasn't supposed to be there, thanks for bringing that to my attention, dk.
How to type code:
The @ # 2 9 code to the left became a link to your comment.
YES! I found a way to render @ # 2 9 : I just type @ # 2 9 : I win!
Easy for you to say
"@ # 2 9" Spelled just like it sounds, then?
Now interviewing signature candidates. Apply within.
Control+ not so good a solution...
Windoze 7 and Firefox. Control+ makes everything larger, not just this very small font. This pushes many things off the edge of the screen.
Many sites have a button like Font+ and Font- that just effects the font size not just a general magnification.
Sounds like I'm quite the complainer here which is not my intent. Thanks for everything JtC
Compensated Spokes Model for Big Poor.
Reply to: GreatLakeSailor
Above comment meant for another comment. ???????
Compensated Spokes Model for Big Poor.
You didn't hit the rply button,
You can tell by the number your first comment was given under your avatar.
GreatLakeSailor
if you are using Firefox go to the tool bar and hit view. On the fly down menu hit zoom and then Zoom In. Pretty easy and does affect anything on the screen. It just makes it bigger.
Reply to: shaharazade
Thanks for your comment.
Control+ is the same function as view/zoom - and while I can scroll sideways to see the stuff that spills over the edge, that is yes, it magnifies everything, scrolling back and forth sideways ain't really convenient.
Compensated Spokes Model for Big Poor.
I increased the font size again...
you may have to readjust your browser settings.
Hi JtC. One last suggestion from me (for now)
Personally I was ok with the font size and it seems fine to me. I'm accustomed to using zoom in my browser to adjust sizing as needed on various sites, so it's not an issue for me at all.
However, as I have been reading comments in various posts for a little while now, I am finding the all-caps headings *very* difficult to read. The font is narrow, and in all caps, it just ends up looking like a block of blue and takes extra time and focus to decipher, even when I zoom in on it. So I would like to suggest getting rid of the all-caps as a default. Thanks again.
I'll look into it...
There'll be many tweaks as we go along. But I do agree with your assessment.
Reply to: JtC
this looks good! Thanks. We all appreciate your hard work. Sometimes I forget to say that as I trouble shoot. We make suggestions and it could seem like we're demanding rather than thankful.
Too much empty space on the left, haha made a funny.
There does seem to be some wasted space over there on the left. Hah! That makes me LOL every time I say it.
Keep going.
I don't know if I'm serious or not. You guys are funny too, about the colors and such. Thanks all!
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