I described this a couple days ago. When not logged in, the site defaults to "Light" theme. It only goes to "Classic" theme, which I selected the first time I logged in, after logging in again. Why can't it use cookies to remember the desired theme? Other websites do it.
Did the old website remember your settings via cookie? Sounds like it did. It seems this one does not and just shows default settings to anyone not logged in.
I don't know the answer to that, I don't recall having to futz with any display format settings with the old one.
I suspect that's what is happening. I've completely changed my settings here and as soon as I log out, the forum pops back to its default look.
Log back in and "pop" it's back to the way I set it. So you have to be logged in to see your appearance settings. Only Jason and the Development team know if that can be set by a cookie. Maybe it can be.
Just curious, a number of people have mentioned this problem. Why would you read the forum without logging in? Are you reading on a shared device?
Log back in and "pop" it's back to the way I set it. So you have to be logged in to see your appearance settings. Only Jason and the Development team know if that can be set by a cookie. Maybe it can be.
Just curious, a number of people have mentioned this problem. Why would you read the forum without logging in? Are you reading on a shared device?
It can be, it's quite common.
To flip the script: Why would I log in if I'm only reading? Normally I only log in if I'm posting something.
I'm an old-fashioned IT guy and still adhere to IT rule #1 : Use lowest possible access rights to do the job. If I can read posts without login (as this is a public forum) it's incomprehensible to use higher access rights than needed. I don't login as root on my linux machines either, unless really required.
Beautify/UI options should bind to cookies, not only to log-in state, for the same reason.
On mobiles, login is tedious for me (I'm very bad/slow at typing on a mobile and avoid it as much as I can).
@jbau Well at least on the old forum you had to be logged in to see images. And being logged in shows you what you have and have not read, takes you to where you were in a thread and other things that I find important. The only reason I ever visit not logged in is for test purposes. I find not logged in to be a much lesser experience.
So I find it interesting that other people prefer to read while not logged in.
So I find it interesting that other people prefer to read while not logged in.
Of course as a moderator, I can't do any mods duties if not logged in, so I am always logged in unless testing. That is the lowest practical access for me.
I do understand this approach, but again I'm using old fashioned plain remembering etc. ;-)
Old fashioned remembering doesn't work for me. Shootz, I often forget what thread I'm in.
Sorry, what were we talking about?
Sorry, what were we talking about?
Not even close to the same, but you know that. Typical standards today are that personalizations bind to un-authenticated states only if that is the intended default state, or only state.
Regardless, if @Jason wants to pursue this I personally hope it can be done without changing the public default theme to classic.
And to think I used inline references to DIYA hosted images because I thought they would be more robust and less prone to broken links in the future (future proofing). I do hope this gets fixed because there are literally hundreds of images that are important to the build and construction of this and other projects that reference inages from DIYA. I am not sure how a migration software, thinks that migration means the links get appended a new and different address .xxx extension to every referenced url link?
Even the root directory of the forums was changed. My old bookmarks for all the forums stopped working because they are all different now. The longer this persists, the more likely that this is the new url.
It used to be a very standard url that went something like this: http://www.diyAudio.com/communityforums/forum_name
now it has become something like this:
http://www.diyAudio.com/community/forums/forum_name.xxx/
The xxx probably sequential numbers on how the software scanned and “migrated” the website to a “sandbox” website. Final migration probably was meant to go back to original url but instead the sandbox url was kept as the new standard.
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Greets!
What's with the strike thru? The first of two I 'knee jerked' used the 'report' tool with no response, so didn't save the link: https://www.diyaudio.com/community/threads/apex-tqwt.232553/post-4131880
What's with the strike thru? The first of two I 'knee jerked' used the 'report' tool with no response, so didn't save the link: https://www.diyaudio.com/community/threads/apex-tqwt.232553/post-4131880
You wrote "and the internal divider[s] are..."
It is the optional 's' you put in the square brackets, which is being taken as code for strikethrough. (I have fixed it)
It is the optional 's' you put in the square brackets, which is being taken as code for strikethrough. (I have fixed it)
Ah! Thanks! Throughout and can continue to [I've done it a lot] or just these two?
I am missing the spelling check. I did like it, though. Can we have it back?
I am not a native tongue and when I write fast I sometimes spell the word how it would sound in my language. I loved the check. Some words I just had to look up everytime to know where they have additional characters that you don't hear.
I am not a native tongue and when I write fast I sometimes spell the word how it would sound in my language. I loved the check. Some words I just had to look up everytime to know where they have additional characters that you don't hear.
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