New site new host bug report

Hi

please post any bugs you are having with the site, including any screenshots as well

thanks

Fats

I know it's on our list, but Recent Topics in the forums still not functioning

ElF

lfan wrote: I know it's on our list, but Recent Topics in the forums still not functioning

ElF

fixed.

fats

castor wrote: nice

this isn't a bug but a design comment-if your going to push the paypall buttom maybe it could be on the part of the page that loads up imediatly so people don't have to scroll to see it. you could use the landing page a little more efficently.

but looks good.

noted

fats

i've tweaked some settings, please tell me if that has made any diffferance.

fats

geekseven wrote: It is still happening, but it looks like a sizing issue. It looks fine with the browser maximized. However, I often run with it in one half of the screen so I can be doing something else in the other half. It looks like things start to pile up when the width gets below around 1500 pixels (on my browser, at least).

I’ve resized the image down to 900px wide as a temp measure, i will look in to other options this week.

fats

Sarge395 wrote: Unable to create new subcategory in my gallery. Also unable to see any images in a few of the existing subcategories. Darma and Greg for example.

ok, i'll look in to it.

Fats

Sarge395 wrote: Unable to create new subcategory in my gallery. Also unable to see any images in a few of the existing subcategories. Darma and Greg for example.

i've increaed the number of categories, you hit the limit and i increased from 20 to 40 so there should be no issues there.

the darma and greg images are there and you should be able to access them

fats

This is less of a bug and more of a note: the Classic Library layout may use a bit of a fix. Currently the titles are in a smaller font than the rest of the entries, which is odd.
Also, the "Heading 2" style is currently impossible to distinguish from the "Heading 1", which makes some of entries harder to read.

sorry for the outage, it was a server software update, these will happen once a month and should only last at most 5 mins..

fats

geekseven wrote: A couple of things. Not bugs as such.

1: Is it possible to allow a user to hide the chat widget? It can be very distracting and on a mobile device it takes up a lot of the available space.

2: If it's not possible to hide the chat widget, is it at least possible for the minimized state to persist across pages? At the moment, minimizing chat is the first thing I have to do on every page.

3: Is there any possibility of an optimized mobile theme?

Thank you for your consideration.

i've set it to be minimised at all times, hope this helps.

on the issue of the mobile theme, can you please let me know what device you are using.

Fats

I’ve made some tweaks to the mobile theme, please let me know if the changes have made a difference.

fats

OK, I’ve edited the responsive layout for the site, all the front-page content should now be showing in a single column the full width of the screen .

the masthead size still needs work, something that i will work on tomorrow.

the forum appearance is one that I’m not happy with, I’ve not been happy with it for months, but it's the only one that is available for the current version of the forum software, the next version of the software will not support joomla 2.5 so later on in the year, we will move from the current version of joomla to joomla 3.x with it will be changes to appearance and other back end changes so the site's appearance is not finalised.

Fats

circes_cup wrote: Two questions

1- It seems that the story ticker and the Library are visible only to registered members that have logged in. I seem to remember that the stories used to be available to everyone, whether or not they registered. Was that an intentional change?

2- In the Library, I've always had trouble with sorting functions on the Modern Library - Selectable. If I choose to sort by, say, author, it will sort the first 10 or so entries correctly. But then, when I go to the second page of entries, it defaults back to a title sort.

The story was locked to registered members only as an experiment to see how this impact on the site bandwidth.
As for the Selectable Library I was going to bring it up sooner, after a bit more testing.