Announcement Forum system known issues

[ray_burnimage]

Great job on the new forum system!
I think I’ve found a minor configuration issue. The “more” link in a posters gear list doesn’t take you to the actual gear list. Instead it takes you to the members “profile posts” tab.

 

[adew1]

The “more” link in a posters gear list doesn’t take you to the actual gear list. Instead it takes you to the members “profile posts” tab.

You are right. I see the same issue.

 

[JoeIR_C]

The verification code email went to spam, might be worth checking up on the sender reputation if it's a common issue.

 

[Hubertus Bigend]

New DMs not appearing in the new DM system?

Over the past two days I received two DMs:

• which the "direct messages" indicator did not notify me about (I only became aware of them through e-mail notifications which have always been switched on),
• are not visible in the new DM list,
• while I could and can see them in the old DM system (only) after following the e-mail message's "reply" link in the e-mail,
• where I could and can also reply,
• with the replies also remaining in the old DM list and not turning up in the new one.

Did I miss something that said this is still to be expected for some time or is this a bug?

 

[Morris0]

Preview photos are sometimes quite soft yet when you open them big there crisp

 

[Bill Ferris]

As others have reported, EXIF displays over images in posts on my laptop. However, I'm not seeing EXIF for images in posts on my Android phone.

Previously when I selected "Desktop mode" on the old platform, EXIF would display when I tapped and held on an image. There's no "Desktop mode" option (that I've found) and pressing & holding on an image doesn't display EXIF.

On a positive note, images in posts that look muddy on my desktop monitor until display full-size look good on the phone screen display when viewed in a post.

 

[Stig Nygaard]

Are RSS feeds working?

There seem to be content in a "global forum feed":

https://www.dpreview.com/forums/forums/-/index.rss

But I haven't found forum specific feeds working. For example I expect an EOS R specific feed at (typical Xenforo forum rss address, I believe):

https://www.dpreview.com/forums/forums/canon-eos-r-talk.1070/index.rss

But it is in the list on the OP. So there's hope.

... Except Xenforo feeds - as I remember it from other places where Xenforo is used - are a bit confusing and doesn't always really deliver what I expect or want. However once they got the forum-specific feeds working, I think I have a tool to process them into "logically ordered new topics only" feeds,... the way I want them

 

[xpatUSA2]

How do I know who all the quoted members were?

 

[knickerhawk]

The search index hasn’t been updated since Oct. 31. When can we expect to be able to perform searches of post-conversion forum content? Sorry if this has been asked and answered already, but reading every post in 9 pages of unstructured flat posts is impractical and , of course, I can’t circumvent the problem by using search.

 

[gary0319]

Am I missing something or is the "Embed gallery image" not working. I can highlight my image but where is the "Embed" button. The "Continue" Icon does nothing. Also asked earlier about when the rest of the image upload to my gallery might be expected, and now I have less images than I had last week.

UPDATE. this seems to be an issue on my Windows 11 desktop machine, not on my iPad.

 

[Superscroll]

Preview photos are sometimes quite soft yet when you open them big there crisp

I echo this as I've brought it up a few times already. I can't speak for others but this particular issue fundamentally cripples the forum for me. If the DP folks have no intention of fixing this (or if it cannot be done) I'd appreciate a forthright statement to that effect so I can move on, sadly, to sharper pastures.

 

[mosswings]

Reading the posts doesn't remove them for me - the alerts are no longer flagged with a blue dot, but they remain.

That may just be how XenForo works - there might not be a setting to change that. Worth the DPR team checking though, but with some of the requests flying around, we have to accept there will just be some things that can't be changed, as is usually the nature of proprietary software.

Apparently I missed this: when you click on "mark all as read" at the bottom of the alerts list, the underlying page will change to request that you confirm that you actually want to mark all as read. Then the alerts list will be cleared, as I hoped it would.

Problem solved.

 

[Lisa Horton]

Can you PLEASE either fix the forums to not use hard to see blue text, or give users an option to change it? The light blue text on white background is hard to read, tiring on the eyes, and a constant irritation.

 

[Ken Gosden]

I just noticed that some photos embedded in thread migrated from the old system which were correctly portrait are now landscape oriented in this new system. Page 5 of this thread below has examples in several posts. It is not consistent as one of mine is still correctly portrait and one is rotated.

 

[jrsforums]

RSS feed for an individual forum, such as ‘Micro Four Thirds Forum’ does not seem to work.

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[jiberlin]

Another issue of the new forum software is the alerts. With the old forum software, clicking on an alert showed the first unread entry in the topic and removed the thread from the alert list, perfect. With the new forum software, clicking on an alert jumps to my old post and the alert entry is not removed, very bad!

 

[drynn]

Another issue of the new forum software is the alerts. With the old forum software, clicking on an alert showed the first unread entry in the topic and removed the thread from the alert list, perfect. With the new forum software, clicking on an alert jumps to my old post and the alert entry is not removed, very bad!

It's also showing one alert yet when I click on it, more than one entry appears. And the list includes alerts that I had previously cleared.

 

[robert1955]

Another issue of the new forum software is the alerts. With the old forum software, clicking on an alert showed the first unread entry in the topic and removed the thread from the alert list, perfect. With the new forum software, clicking on an alert jumps to my old post and the alert entry is not removed, very bad!

I can't copy that behavior, goes to the first unread post. Note that the difference in the list between Read and not read is very small, just a slight change in the tonality of the background and none in the boldness or color of the letters. This is an issue that has been flagged.
Apart from that, it behaves the same as My Notifications used to work

 

[Benjamin Kanarek]

Hello,

Where is the rest of my gear list? I had a huge list of gear that was not included in your data base that has disappeared.

 

[Alan Sh]

Hello,

Where is the rest of my gear list? I had a huge list of gear that was not included in your data base that has disappeared.

I clicked on "+33 more" in your signature, it came up with your profile. I clicked on 'Gear' and it showed me 37 devices.