Ok, several of us have been setting up and tweaking the Discourse forum today and we are ready for some beta testing.
Now, IMPORTANT for you all to understand - give it some time! Play around a little bit! It took me a couple hours to get used to it, and I have my own feedback on it, but suffice it to say I absolutely love it and I personally think it a massive upgrade to what we have here. Functionality is all the same, but much better.
There is an FAQ page that will answer a lot of the basic questions, and please post your feedback, questions, etc in the Site Feedback forum. I did not import any threads from here as this is just a TEST run - post all kinds of things, wine, random stuff, even politics - see how it works.
You will need to register, so you can either do it yourself or with one of various sign-ins you already have (Apple, Google, Facebook, etc). This is only temporary, nothing will be retained from this test forum but the settings, if we are all settled with them, should we move to a live system in the future.
Register and play around. Users can mess around with the visual A LOT on discourse. You can change the theme, text size etc in your account preferences interface. itās not a one size fit all option. Itās very customizable.
This is what I get, 24" monitor 1920 x 1129 This is more what is expected?
No eye bleed but some wasted space maybe. Future comments will be on the site, and after Ive played around some.
Overall I donāt mind it.
But it is the text coloring that is a bit off to me.
Black text on wite works well for headings but not so much for walls of (normal) text. I would switch around the color you use for names (adjust it a bit) and normal text. It becomes less hard for your eyes. It works for Google and Wikipedia so it is rather proven i guess .
I might be in the heavy minority but I really donāt see the need to change to this format.
The way this board is laid out is, in many ways, perfect. If William Gladstone can figure it outā¦and I mean that with all the respect in the worldā¦it must be quite intuitive to all levels of tech intelligence.
If we switch, we might lose a lot of our āold dogsā to new tricks. Plus thereās a charm to this boardā¦the other one seems kinda sterile.
But Iāll follow into the breach with whatever is chosen. Onward!
Iām the opposite - I canāt handle white text on black background. Easily switchable in your āpreferencesā - there are a bunch of themes and text sizes you can choose from