Font Changes

Submitted by JtC on Sat, 01/21/2017 - 4:14pm

Afternoon folks.

I changed the site font. Did you notice the All Caps are gone? The only way to get rid of them (caps) was to change the font.

Give me some input as to how the fonts look on your machine/device. Too big? Too small?

It's impossible to please everyone, but I hope to strike a happy medium.

OK, let me have it, I've mummified myself in bubble wrap!

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Submitted by blazinAZ on Sat, 01/21/2017 - 4:20pm
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Thanks, JtC.

I really didn't like the all caps, and this font is contrasty enough that I can read without blowing it up 200%.

The only thing that's wonky now is the comment threading. The indents don't seem to be working the way they should.

I know, I know -- we're voracious. Never satisfied. But the site is looking awesome!

blaze

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Submitted by JtC on Sat, 01/21/2017 - 4:29pm

@blazinAZ
sometimes goes out of line because of the length of some usernames. The names push the indent over. I cannot decrease the size of the usernames so the only thing that will help is for the users with the long names to break their names up so they word wrap. It's the names with many characters with no spaces that cause the problem.

I already decreased the size of the avatars, that helped a lot, but now the usernames are interfering.

If you keep an eye on the comment number under the avatars you'll be able to follow the nesting when it gets out of order.

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Submitted by Hawkfish on Sat, 01/21/2017 - 4:35pm
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@JtC Or wrap them?

The new font looks great on my iPad. And thanks for all you do. I'm in software too and I know how much fun it is to try to make automated layout look good! Keep up the good work.

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Submitted by PriceRip on Sat, 01/21/2017 - 4:52pm
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@Hawkfish
          One complaint: Upon activating [Preview] the comment "in progress" displays with Original Article rather than displaying with The Comment to which it is intended to reply. This disconnect makes it a bit difficult for those of us with certain cognitive issues.

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Submitted by JtC on Sat, 01/21/2017 - 5:00pm

@PriceRip
one baby step at a time.

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Submitted by PriceRip on Sat, 01/21/2017 - 5:14pm
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@JtC
          Using my iPad and, in portrait mode this looks good. So I like it much.

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Submitted by JtC on Sat, 01/21/2017 - 5:13pm

@PriceRip
The old layout displayed the same behavior.

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Submitted by JtC on Sat, 01/21/2017 - 4:58pm

@Hawkfish
already wrap, I fixed that several days ago. The username font can't be decreased below the default, that's were it is now.

It took a couple of days or so bouncing my head off the desk to work through the all caps thing.

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Submitted by mimi on Sat, 01/21/2017 - 5:12pm
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@JtC
... as our usernames?
/ducking

I just am in a mood to throw silly bombs at anybody. Starting next Monday, I will behave.

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Submitted by JtC on Sat, 01/21/2017 - 5:16pm

@mimi

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Submitted by mimi on Sun, 01/22/2017 - 2:22am
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@JtC

before I ask, my apologies for my silly behavior last night. I already woke up here (and it's around 9 am on Sunday) and am a little bit better off.

I didn't follow exactly what the "problem" with C99p's image uploader is. It slows the loading process down and you kinda said, you regret that you have put it up for convenience of the users here to upload their images directly to your server's space. Then it looked like as if you would prefer we store our images on other hosting sites, may be flickr or photobucket or vimeo?

Not being a techie I sometimes regret that certain videos posted (probably from users inside the US) can't be seen by users outside the US. So I am alwasy appreciative, if I can post videos and would wish they can be viewed by anyone, no matter from where they look at them. And I wouldn't mind storing my images or other people's images, I downlooad, to my own flickr account. I don't know, if it's legal for me to download other people's images to my own harddrive and then upload it to another image host's space like flickr for the purpose to post them on a blog like C99p? I am still a bit unsure of what is proper and legal and what not? Can you clarify what your preferences are for us to do?

What is then the preferred method you would like us to use to not burden your side using C99p server space for our images?

There are many videos I have difficulties to embed, because the original site's producers of those videos don't allow it, I guess. I was quite happy that I could embed today's video from Al Jazeera, which I think was important to look at.

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Submitted by PriceRip on Sat, 01/21/2017 - 4:26pm
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Submitted by Arrow on Sat, 01/21/2017 - 4:30pm
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All good here on my Android tablet.

Thanks and keep the goodness coming.

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Submitted by Bollox Ref on Sat, 01/21/2017 - 5:03pm
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is a reply ending up in the wrong place.

But that could just be my incompetence.

Thanks for your time and patience JtC.

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Submitted by JtC on Sat, 01/21/2017 - 5:11pm

@Bollox Ref
It may be that it isn't really in the wrong place, but just appears to be because of the indentation getting out of whack because of the long usernames, to the left under the avatars.

When you think that your comment may be in the wrong place check the comment number under your avatar with the numbers above it, that will tell the story.

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Submitted by mimi on Sat, 01/21/2017 - 5:07pm
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I think it's easy to follow the threading subcomments due to your numbering system and the fact that you have at the beginning of each comment the "@userIcommentto" thingy. Looks great on my laptop and as I will never read anything of the C99p on a cell phone, I am a happy camper with your site's design.

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Submitted by katchen on Sat, 01/21/2017 - 5:10pm
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--thanks for all your work.

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Submitted by jwa13 on Sat, 01/21/2017 - 5:15pm
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... but the font is too large. Takes up too much space on the screen -- maybe a reduction by 2 points or so?

BTW, how's the funding going? I am not a subscribed contributor, but send something in when I can (generally, just after a client pays up - I now am a participant in the "gig economy", as are many of us) --

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Submitted by travelerxxx on Sat, 01/21/2017 - 6:01pm
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@jwa13

JWA13, be certain your browser is set to "normal" text size. That is, be sure you haven't recently increased the text size to one or two steps above normal. I found that I had done that; once I set things to the browser's default size all was wonderful.

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Submitted by JtC on Sat, 01/21/2017 - 6:09pm

@travelerxxx
I'd much rather that folks adjust their browser settings than constantly adjusting the site settings.

It's impossible to make the font perfect for everyone, there's just too many different devices being used with too many different resolutions.

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Submitted by snoopydawg on Sat, 01/21/2017 - 5:22pm
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I have been forgetting to ask about why it takes so long for the image uploader to show up.
Would it help if old images were removed or not?
It's not a big deal, just curious.
Thanks for all you do to keep this site up and running JtC.

I figured out why my comments weren't posting in the right spot. I thought when you said we could remove the 'reply to ' in the subject line that I should remove those numbers that show up too.
Silly dawg.

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Submitted by JtC on Sat, 01/21/2017 - 5:25pm

@snoopydawg
Yep, the image library needs to be cleaned up badly, but the problem is which images to delete without also removing them from the essays they were originally published in.

Sometimes I wish that we didn't allow local uploading, it's become a problem.

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Submitted by snoopydawg on Sat, 01/21/2017 - 5:40pm
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@JtC I can deal with the time delay and didn't realize that deleting photos would also alter people's essays and probably comments too.
But I should have because when I cleared out my images on DK, I got the message that I had altered my diaries.
No big deal because they were of Charlie when she had puppies years ago.

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Submitted by JtC on Sat, 01/21/2017 - 5:53pm

@snoopydawg
the old method of uploading images to a image hosting site and then pointing to them. The local uploading is a convenience for the c99 members.

I have no probs using the uploader, but folks with CPU/memory challenged devices will experience long loading times and possible errors. I also suspect that the overloaded image library is the cause of some of the site slowdowns that we periodically experience.

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Submitted by PriceRip on Sat, 01/21/2017 - 6:34pm
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@JtC
          As I get up and running in the coming months I will be producing a lot of image intensive articles. In deference to your situation I think it would be best if I served my images from my non-c99p account at DreamHost thusly:


MidWest Home
A Home on the Prairie !



MidWest Home
A Home on the Prairie !

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Submitted by JtC on Sat, 01/21/2017 - 6:43pm

@PriceRip
If you're building a site don't forget to give me the URL so it can be included in the Blogroll.

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Submitted by PriceRip on Sat, 01/21/2017 - 7:11pm
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@JtC
          I am building content (laying pipe as we say) here at c99p to be used to build Beamer Presentations that will be housed here: www.RipPhysics.com. My intention is to get issue oriented individuals from the Medford area involved in the discussions here at c99p. I thought I mentioned all this some time ago.

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Submitted by JtC on Sat, 01/21/2017 - 8:10pm

@PriceRip
to the blogroll, in the Member's Sites section.

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Submitted by PriceRip on Sat, 01/21/2017 - 8:39pm
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@JtC
          · · · it should be one section down in the Non Political section of the list. Thanks! · · · now I should get to work putting up stuff instead of procrastinating.

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Submitted by Oldest Son Of A... on Sun, 01/22/2017 - 1:30am
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@JtC Perhaps limiting it to 20 or so and making pages of the list would speed things up.
Also a useful image search as it is a difficult task to scroll through them all attempting to find something. The scrolling delay is a problem resulting from the memory hog of this...

On my WordPress sites I get about 20 images at a time showing (never counted them) but the search gets what I'm looking for very quickly...

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Submitted by sojourns on Sat, 01/21/2017 - 5:37pm
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that was the culprit. Thought so. The last door checked.

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Submitted by JtC on Sat, 01/21/2017 - 5:42pm

@sojourns
thanks for your help sojourns.

How does the main menu look on your lappy?

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Submitted by sojourns on Sat, 01/21/2017 - 6:58pm
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@JtC @JtC It looks good but the splash/landing (before I login after which that page is no longer referred toward) page font in the main nav bar is still at 18px causing the nav leaf to word wrap so that the login leaf is forced to appear on a new line.

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Submitted by Alligator Ed on Sat, 01/21/2017 - 5:59pm
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It looks great and the font is not too large--I like it as is

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Submitted by JtC on Sat, 01/21/2017 - 6:04pm

@Alligator Ed
Boy Howdy, I don't want to be on the wrong side of no dang gators!

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Submitted by travelerxxx on Sat, 01/21/2017 - 6:06pm
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Running c99p on Firefox browser, macOS Sierra, 15" laptop. Everything up-to-date.

Looks fabulous! Very easy on my old eyes!

Thanks for the hard work!

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Submitted by Sunspots on Sat, 01/21/2017 - 7:19pm

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Submitted by karl pearson on Sat, 01/21/2017 - 8:48pm
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I am having one problem and that is that the Username of the Commenter is too small. I can see everything else and it is fine. If I change the Zoom > 100%, then the type is quite large and I still have trouble seeing the Username of the Commenter. I am on a 14" laptop. Is it just me? If so, what can I do?

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Submitted by JtC on Sat, 01/21/2017 - 9:57pm

@karl pearson
a bit larger, karl. I don't want to make them any larger because the longish usernames push the comment indentation over out of alignment.

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Submitted by karl pearson on Sat, 01/21/2017 - 10:23pm
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@JtC Thanks, Jtc. I can see the usernames now.

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Submitted by asterisk on Sat, 01/21/2017 - 9:01pm
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Thanks for everything you do JtC; there is no need for bubble wrap.

Speaking of bubbles, here is a thank-you video:

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Submitted by Bisbonian on Sat, 01/21/2017 - 10:13pm
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The all-caps was too hard to read.

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Submitted by riverlover on Sun, 01/22/2017 - 1:48am
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but I like it. Quite legible. Not so pleased with Typewriter font for commenting, but I will get over that.

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Submitted by Oldest Son Of A... on Sun, 01/22/2017 - 3:08am
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Johnny, I gave it a thorough run through on the iPhone 6S...

  • The Front Page looks great in portrait, and landscape views. Done!
  • The Community Content Page looks okay in landscape, but portrait requires side-scrolling to read.
  • The Essay Pages accessed from front page in portrait require side-scrolling, and landscape the text is cut off on the left side and am unable to side-scroll to see it.
  • The Essay Pages access from community content look great in landscape, and require side-scrolling in portrait.
  • Contact Us page looks great, type in message box wraps good. Done!
  • Log In page looks great. Done!
  • My Account Page looks great. Done!
  • My Comments Page requires side-scrolling in portrait, looks great in landscape I'm not sure what you can do with a table to make it responsive.
  • My Essays Page is the same as the my comments page.
  • When accessing an essay from the my essays page it appears okay in both landscape and portrait I'm not sure why it appears wrong accessing from front page and community content page.
  • Editing An Essay takes side-scrolling in portrait, but landscape is okay.
  • Messages look okay both portrait & landscape, composing looks okay as well. Done!
  • I had a helluva time finding how to create a new essay or blog entry, hitting navigation then a second navigation comes up and hitting that got me to the create a blog entry.
  • Create A Blog Entry required side-scrolling in portrait, and was okay in landscape.

On the MacBook it looks great in Safari, Mozilla, Chrome, & Opera, I don't have IE but does anyone use that anymore?

I hope this helps, you've come a long way...
Thanks for your hard work...

Have you tried using the Chrome Browser and the Developer Tools built into it to check how pages show up on different mobile devices?

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Submitted by Citizen Of Earth on Sun, 01/22/2017 - 8:17am
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to my bifocaled eyes on my laptop with 1080p 24 inch monitor connected. I don't browse the web on my smartphone.

I would add spaces to my user name to fix the indenting problem, but I could not find the form to edit it.

Great job as usual JtC.

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Submitted by JtC on Sun, 01/22/2017 - 11:04am

@Citizen Of Earth
Check your email.

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Submitted by dkmich on Sun, 01/22/2017 - 8:23am

I'm on my 15" laptop, and I can read it fine. Like that the caps are gone.

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Submitted by Tall Bald and Ugly on Sun, 01/22/2017 - 5:25pm

body of posts is fine, the header or title is unclear on my iPad. The comments and comment headers are better. Still unable to enlarge on iPad with finger gestures, on my iPhone SE it works though. Confused? Yes. But we'll make it work.
Overall, I like the look. Any kinks will work out in time.
Thank you so much for all you do, JtC!

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Submitted by CS in AZ on Sun, 01/22/2017 - 6:28pm
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the new font is much better. : ) I'm a happy camper with the new design. Thanks again for all of your hard work to make this a great site.

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Submitted by yellopig on Sun, 01/22/2017 - 10:16pm
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Maybe there is a way to cut them off at 8 characters or so, just for the purpose of display on the left comment-threading margin? Just a guess.

I really like the way the site looks now. Thanks for all your work! Really. Smile

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Submitted by travelerxxx on Tue, 01/24/2017 - 12:26am
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I see my little grey friend, the "back to the top of the page" button has gone on a diet! I liked it large, but I'll bet I wouldn't if I used a mobile device ... so I understand. Just happy to have it; I use it a lot!

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