Technical feedback

I’ve added the logos, can always tweak them in the future as needed if we want something like “discuss” or “forum” in the header etc.

I suggest we have two color palettes light (default now) and dark and delete the rest, and just one theme that we can customize if needed. This theme works perfect on mobile and we can use the “install webpage as app” thing, works perfect also.

Since this theme works good we use it as base and just tweak it slowly to get some branding without breaking anything :slight_smile:

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@solvann nice work on the logo! I agree with your suggestion about themes

Looks good to me! The only tweak I had was logo size hack but looks like thats fixed (looks good on my mobile phone anyway)

Seems like the mobile version uses dark mode automatically if you have that enabled on you mobile which is nice

Agreed

Cool, I can see that you are typing @Miguel. I’m really liking this forum, very live feel to it.

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any thoughts on subcategories vs categories? Not sure what makes-a the sense …

Yes: the less the better :grinning:. No one tend to stick to them ver much (at least not in actualism where, as @Alanji has said, we are not very thread disciplined either)

It’s better to create them as needed BUT then the moderators/administrator have to enforce users to used them, move messages around, etc. It’s more work if one really wants to make the categories work.

So, is good to have music or random so that stuff is not going to general, but I don’t know if, for example, “method” vs “experiences” would be categories respected/appropriately used…

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Oh, but now the messages seem to have appeared nested as well… Look

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And THIS thread:

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So, I think I know what happened: it is possible that the software waits until there are enough messages to start nesting them per thread.

Oh, that’s what my tech savvy friend told me: not long ago, one of the characteristics that differentiated the forums from the chats was the INABILITY to see in the forums if someone was writing, to avoid what happened in the chats (especially political, etc.): someone waiting for that one to publish something to IMMEDIATELY “step on him” with his comment (which would obviously would go “on top of the attentional pile”).

Precisely the forums tried (and still try to some extent) to force more reflexive ways of communication and one way was that: NOT KNOWING if someone was writing. In older times, you couldn’t even know who was online).

However, my friend told me that THIS is one of the “hybrids” softs that had incorporated that and other chat functionality.

Not sure how that works but all the replies are visible at the bottom at least, and in latest post etc. So it’s never lost like in Slack.

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And I like that you can show both replies and the post replied to inline if you click for context.

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I can’t find a way to get pop up notifications (using safari on iPad). Is this one of the (possibly) very big drawbacks on all forums atm?

Seems to work for me. I “installed” the web page as an app but I’m on android. And you need to enable notifications in your settings:
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That’s right. Please let us know if ir worked now

Another cool thing if you are really old school: if you have email notifications enabled you can reply to the email and it gets posted directly. Great for when we try to convince Richard to join us :wink:

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Well, @claudiu, this forum configuration is advancing fast.

What do you think about intalling now this plugin?

I know that I am a kind of emoji-addicted-freak :blush:, but I think that the inability to react with something other than likes will be immediately missed, so it would definitely make the forum “more Slackish”.

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It came up as a “hidden message” for some reason. Maybe cause there were more posts after. Clicking opened it.
I haven’t yet found how to enable notifications on iPad.

Did you try the “Discourse Hub” app? I have it but don’t get any notifications on my phone from it. My phone is strange with notifications so might be that. Anyways, I don’t need push notifications or emails so haven’t looked into it too much.

I’ve just downloaded the app. More experimentation needed. So many options!!!

Let’s see that app…