Forum style update & Attachment cleanup <=31.12.2014 (1 Viewer)

[high]

As you may have noticed, we updated the forum-style here last night after it became clear that the old one has too many flaws in several areas to be fixed. Especially the mobile view was affected by that. Not that much changes elsewhere (mostly minor restyling) so i guess you figured them out already. Just some short hints:
-Everybody prefers a different font-face/font-size for reading, you are now able to choose within Preferences:

Same for content size, it's always hard to find a usable wide for a forum while some prefer small for readability while others want to go full screen. You have some options now:

-default avatars are now generated based on username. Makes it easier to separate while reading a thread.

If you stumble upon any bugs let us know please.

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Furthermore I want to announce that we will once again start cleaning attachments next days based on filename & date. This includes especially logs (for example *MediaPortalLogs*, *logs*.zip or *.logs) and some large installers (mainly skins) uploaded before 31.12.2014 when more recent ones are available. This affects posts and conversations.
Images or small attachments that are not log-related will be kept, even before 2014.
If something gets accidentally deleted or you know something that needs to be kept for whatever reason please drop me a PM, I will keep any file available on a backup-system.

 

[CyberSimian]

If you stumble upon any bugs let us know please.

If I use "What's New" to list new posts, and select "English Forums only", near the bottom of the page there is a clickable "button" labelled "Top", which previously would scroll to the top of the page. It now seems to do nothing...

-- from CyberSimian in the UK

 

[high]

should be fixed now, thanks

 

[breese]

There are 2 buttons
The one on the left takes you to the Top and then to the Forum Home screen
The one on the Right - Does nothing

 

[HTPCSourcer]

@breese,
Regarding the right two buttons, the upper one works for me in terms of moving me back to the top of the list. The lower one does nothing.

@high ,
@morpheus_xx mentioned in another thread that the MP2 icons have disappeared from the thread overview screen.

 

[high]

in case someone has issues with the sticky navigation, there is a personal setting in preferences now:


also related: fixed a bug in IE where the navigation bounce on mouse-scroll

 

[Pat Clark]

Would it be possible to add a "serif" font to the font choice list? It seems all choices are sans serif, which are hard for me to read.

 

[high]

sure, we can/should add a serif one. Something like https://www.google.com/fonts/specimen/Droid+Serif or https://www.google.com/fonts/specimen/PT+Serif ? Any other preference?

 

[Pat Clark]

In my case, not needing Cyrillic, the first would be sufficient and is smaller causing less impact on the servers. But if only one is offered, then the second will serve more readers.

But since many (most?) readers are on Windows PCs, using native fonts would be even better, such as Times New Roman or Bookman Old Style.

 

[high]

But since many (most?) readers are on Windows PCs, using native fonts would be even better, such as Times New Roman or Bookman Old Style.

added Georgia (font stack: Georgia, Times, 'Times New Roman', serif) as option, give it a try please