We have just upgraded this forum to its latest stable version (Discourse 2.8)!
The last update was already in June 2021, so quite a bit has been changed/improved/fixed ā a large part of the changes are not visible, but quite a few things are. Some of the ones worth mentioning:
Clearer distinction between regular topics and message topics by using different colors and speech bubbles (rounded corners). This has been a long standing request and itās great to have some changes for that.
Faster image uploads: in most cases the image is now resized locally before it is uploaded making it faster and saving bandwidth for everyone.
The search box allows to more easily choose to search just within topic, all topics, all messages, etc.
Remember the latest search queries to make it easier to go back to it.
Fast edits: ever wanted to change a small part of your own post but need to load the whole composer/preview to do it? Now, in most cases, you can edit in place by just selecting the bit to change.
New emojis ā because one can never have too many emojis! Thereās also a fix for a bug we reported to Discourse.
If you hit any trouble with a change that is not working as expected and/or donāt understand a new feature/behavior, please report it on this topic so we can look into it with you.
Very good to know that my inability to access the forum for a bit this morning was an update and not some hacker deleting it (the imagination of this not IT person runs wildā¦)!
Thank you so much for this update on the update. It does seem we have some nice new features!
This is great! Many will appreciate it a lot and it will help forum newbies to get along better
I love the sticky avatars, too. But it seems that it is slightly buggy (not too responsiveā¦ sometimes it only happens after scrolling up and down again).
I just noticed that too.
If you scroll up from the bottom, it works perfectly for every post.
But from top to bottom you have to start over with every new post, so to speak.
I donāt know if itās the right place to say it but,
After the update Iām having difficulty uploading pictures from my phone (I use android). Theyāre loading but failed after reaching around 40% , or is it my internet? If anyone has been experiencing the same
EDITED : yes itās my slow connection
Is it also a new update feature that we can only upload 5 pictures max at the same time?
This is because the favourite walls are behind a Log In pageā¦ you just donāt see it usually, because youāre a member of Postcrossing, and already logged in. But the forum software is just a machine so they are not logged in, nor is anyone outside of Postcrossingā¦ so they will not see the contents of that page ā theyāll just see the Log In page. Up until now, the forum software wasnāt being very consistent in how it addressed links that had redirects on them (like that page), but theyāve made it consistent in this last updateā¦ hence the change in appearance.
To go around this issue, you can either link a word or sentence using the link in the toolbar above the editor, or paste your URL between < >, like this <https://postcrossing.com/user/meiadeleite/gallery/favourites>. This will show the full URL and not the just the title of the Log In page.