A few days (weeks?) ago, the display of the list of posts has changed. Instead of showing only the titles and authors of the posts, there is now also a preview of the posts showing text and maybe even some graphical stuff.
Questions (and rants) about this:
Questions (and rants) about this:
- Why was this introduced? I don't like it.
- The previews take up a lot of space, so I typically only see about one or two posts on my screen, and I have to scroll a lot to see more posts in the list. Before the change, the screen area was used much more efficiently to show about 10 posts, so much less scrolling was needed.
- The previews are not always there. For example, I do get the previews here, but not here. Why?
- I looked in the settings / preferences of my user account, but could not find anything to change this back to how it worked before. How on earth can I turn off the previews?
We recently upgraded to the latest minor patch version of XF, as well as performing a "clean slate" reset of various things so that I can personally get involved with forum development again.
This is a stock XF feature, and I agree with you, this feature doesn't suit and I think is annoying, which is why I disabled it previously. Somehow it must have crept back in during the updates. It's now been turned off. Thank you for the bug report.
This is a stock XF feature, and I agree with you, this feature doesn't suit and I think is annoying, which is why I disabled it previously. Somehow it must have crept back in during the updates. It's now been turned off. Thank you for the bug report.
Jason, I don't see any change (yet?). I attached two screenshots to illustrate what I tried to explain in my first post:
- The first screenshot shows the "front page" as I see it if I point my browser to https://www.diyaudio.com. This has to overly long previews, which I don't like.
- The second screenshot shows the list of posts that I see by clicking on "New Posts", i.e., at https://www.diyaudio.com/community/whats-new/posts
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You seem to have got your front page view into "card" mode instead of "list" mode. I didn't like "card" mode, so I asked for it to be removed completely. There shouldn't be any way via the current user interface to activate it. I'm not sure how you might have activated card mode, perhaps someone shared a link with the activation of card mode in the link?
You can force card mode like this: https://www.diyaudio.com/community/?display_style=expanded
You can force list (regular) mode like this: https://www.diyaudio.com/community/?display_style=condensed
Please try clicking on the "list" mode link.
You can force card mode like this: https://www.diyaudio.com/community/?display_style=expanded
You can force list (regular) mode like this: https://www.diyaudio.com/community/?display_style=condensed
Please try clicking on the "list" mode link.