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Does [ Ctrl ] + [ - ] work for you in such a case to shrink the scale of all of the screen's elements?

Anthus wrote:Glad it worked. I was just going on a whim, since I had some unrelated issues with the site being bookmarked. With me, it kept 404'ing due to a bad link. I just figured since nothing else worked, it might. I also had cookie-related log in issues.

Thanks for the b-day wishes too.

EDIT: On a completely different note, the rep button is busted. For me, clicking on the star for rep brings up a window underneath the border of the post window, allowing you to see only the edge of it. As a result, I can't do anything from there.

Hope the screen helps.

Has anyone noticed that the bar on the font color icon for the quick post sometimes goes berserk? Usually it floats a few hundred pixels above where it should be.

If I hover over the bar with my mouse, the bar snaps to where it should be. Weird.

I think the code tags are bugged. There is no vertical scroll bar.

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Your whole message appears here o_o

No, Vertically.

I just didn't want to make it take up too much room, just big enough where there should be a smidgen cut off at the bottom.

Hold down enter for a minute then stick it in code tags and hit preview post!

G'haa, I take it back; The solution didn't help the cookie problem. It works fine out of Sandboxed mode though. Going to have to do a bit of research into that; I definitely cleared the cookies.sqlite files from the sandboxed WinExplorer, cleared all cookies and private information from Sandboxed Firefox, the bookmark, all history, .. hm.

Curse you Obama, and your promise of change.

ShadowTiger wrote:Does [ Ctrl ] + [ - ] work for you in such a case to shrink the scale of all of the screen's elements?

DarkDragon wrote:Yeah, it's something that I'm looking into. Usually you can fix it by scrolling the window up ro down a few lines, and clicking on the star again.

Pineconn wrote:Has anyone noticed that the bar on the font color icon for the quick post sometimes goes berserk? Usually it floats a few hundred pixels above where it should be.

If I hover over the bar with my mouse, the bar snaps to where it should be. Weird.

ShadowTiger wrote:G'haa, I take it back; The solution didn't help the cookie problem. It works fine out of Sandboxed mode though. Going to have to do a bit of research into that; I definitely cleared the cookies.sqlite files from the sandboxed WinExplorer, cleared all cookies and private information from Sandboxed Firefox, the bookmark, all history, .. hm.

Curse you Obama, and your promise of change.

Oh, sorry. x X. I'm a dunce sometimes. www.sandboxie.com - Sandboxie is like its own self-contained environment on your computer, where you can open virus-ridden programs and such without fear of harming the rest of your computer, as they will only affect the area within the sandbox. You can then flush out the sandbox and start anew. It's like a virtual environment.

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Something needs to happen to the sig formatting. When people with big signatures make one-line posts (it's amazing how strong the correlation between the two is) then here's how my eyes seem to go:

OK here's the post uh it looks like an advertisement for a quest with a bunch of images WTF? Oh, wait, that's the signature. There's a tiny line of text above it. "Yeah me too." What a productive post!

Franpa's post slightly before mine displays this, but his sig *isn't* ridiculous other than its assumption that any of us care what hardware is in his computer at the moment. The post is one line long, but the first thing I see is a billboard for newegg. I have to consciously look for the post.

Maybe the sigs could float down to at least flush with the bottom of the postbit, thus leaving a huge blank space showing that the most important content of the post is the observation that it contains no content? This would help instill shame, and shame is an important part of life.

Holy crap, seconded. That's all that needs to be said.

I am not sure I get what Atma' is driving at but does it have anything to do with why some members like franpa, Pineconn, and Gleeok and, to a lesser extent, ST have extra blank space below their signatures while members such as Atma' barely have any blank space below their's?

/me goes off to check own signature in other posts before continuing

I just noticed that the amount of blank space beneath my signature varies from post to post. I can probably figure out the "why" if I compare enough posts (I am guessing it has something to do with length of post versus size of signature) but does someone else know the answer already?

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Oki, I get it now. The entire post field has to be a minimum height that matches the member info to the right of a post (screenname, stars, title, reputation, avatar, et cetera) so any "unused" space after post content and signature content is merely blank space beneath where the signature would be. Yeah, I feel like a dunce now, particularly because I appreciated that several years ago and did not remember until just now.

-m.

He's talking about this:

With a short post (green) and a large sig (red), you think they're the same.

If the sig was floated to the bottom, though, you'd be able to see that they are not the same:

Also, someone please increase the max attachment size! In resizing my images, the forum turned two 3.4kb PNGs into two 9.3kb JPGs!

Yeah, the factor that contributes to space under a sig in a short post is the postbit (avatar/post count/username).

Anthus wrote:I'm not seeing this. It must be a computer by computer thing. Does this always happen for you, or is it random? It is really strange though.

Just curious, where do I go to view my reputation now?

Icey wrote:Just curious, where do I go to view my reputation now?

I'm one of few that hate large or distracting signatures. So I make mine simple text and a less attractive size to normal post text size.

On the old theme it was fine, I can make it even smaller though afaik. I list my specs as I like being able to report bugs and not manually type out my specs each time?

Mercy wrote:I am not sure I get what Atma' is driving at but does it have anything to do with why some members like franpa, Pineconn, and Gleeok and, to a lesser extent, ST have extra blank space below their signatures while members such as Atma' barely have any blank space below their's?

/me goes off to check own signature in other posts before continuing

I just noticed that the amount of blank space beneath my signature varies from post to post. I can probably figure out the "why" if I compare enough posts (I am guessing it has something to do with length of post versus size of signature) but does someone else know the answer already?

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Oki, I get it now. The entire post field has to be a minimum height that matches the member info to the right of a post (screenname, stars, title, reputation, avatar, et cetera) so any "unused" space after post content and signature content is merely blank space beneath where the signature would be. Yeah, I feel like a dunce now, particularly because I appreciated that several years ago and did not remember until just now.

-m.

I had a big portion of my post made up as a thinly-veiled suggestion that this is actually a feature to help highlight posters who typically have more content in their signatures than their posts and thus contribute little to the forums. Then I realized that A) there are people like Franpa with big signatures that aren't the kind I really hate and B) there aren't enough members to bother calling people poor performers, so I took it out.

I think it still stands though. The posts that I'm having the hardest time reading due to giant brightly colored images consist of little more than "I agree" or "I'm bored so I'm just going to add a sentence."

In the end I think the real problem is the only separator between post and signature is a very feint horizontal rule that doesn't span the width of the post. In the old theme I believe it was a solid white line that expanded across the entire post.

On the old theme it was fine, I can make it even smaller though afaik. I list my specs as I like being able to report bugs and not manually type out my specs each time?

Just curious, where do I go to view my reputation now?

-m.

This just brings up a blank page for me. I've also gone to all the subpages under that and haven't found anything.

That sounds like a glitch to me but I am sure DD will look into it. I originally found it by going through the "private messages" link under the header and clicking on "settings" but either way should reconcile to the same page so it sounds like your "settings" page may be borked. It should show you subscribed threads (even if it just tells you that you have no subscribed threads) and your recent reputation gains/losses.

-m.

I believe with the old forum software, font size of 1 was smaller, anyways here is a more compact variation.

Icey wrote:This just brings up a blank page for me. I've also gone to all the subpages under that and haven't found anything.

Ah okay, thanks. It works now. The reason I was suprised it was a blank page is because on the old forums software it would show my last four/five reputation updates regardless of how recent they were.

Edit: Does it display anymore who gave you the reputation? Just curious as I don't see the name anywhere now.

Icey wrote:Edit: Does it display anymore who gave you the reputation? Just curious as I don't see the name anywhere now.

Thunderbird wrote:I don't know about vB4, but vB3 had a permission setting per group for whether or not to allow group members to see who left reputation. Though the default for regular members was off.

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I did not want to make a post just to say this...I like the solution to empty space below signatures on short posts. There isn't any now. Good job, DD!

-m.

Is it just me or is the " views = posts + 1" thing happening again?

Also didn't realize it much before, but threads are much more readable with the sig seperated more from the post.

Yup, it looks a lot nicer, now. Here here!

Gleeok wrote:Is it just me or is the " views = posts + 1" thing happening again?

It is.