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The forum upgrade has been completed, bringing the software to the latest current version.

There is large update to the text editor, so there are some differences with that in terms of look and feel, but most other things are back end orientated.

Any issues, please post in here.
 
Urm sorry to be a nuisance... How do I get the smileys/cog back, all the icons are greyed out? (it's the same with text in the box)
Its an android phone. @MattW
 

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GPTV said:
Urm sorry to be a nuisance... How do I get the smileys/cog back, all the icons are greyed out? (it's the same with text in the box)
Its an android phone. @MattW
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Click the 3 dots on the right hand side to expand the editor.

That will bring down another menu, and then click the [ ] icon to reactive the full editor
 
Ahh bingo! Icons now available.... Can't find the smileys symbol though?
... Sorry! X

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Darn it I looked there I didn't see it the first time :doh:
Found it! Its in the middle. Thank you...
There's always one techno idiot & it's usually me! It's going to take me a while to adjust ;)

Thank you muchly x
 

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Oh no its none tech Dave here.
@MattW
I'm following what you said to unlock the smiles etc but when I touch either of the dots nothing happens pal
 

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GPTV said:
Darn it I looked there I didn't see it the first time :doh:
Found it! Its in the middle. Thank you...
There's always one techno idiot & it's usually me! It's going to take me a while to adjust ;)

Thank you muchly x
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I’m glad you asked first. Saved me asking x
 
Thanks for the update @MattW :) It's a small thing but just wondering where the preview message button has gone?
 
I have a button with that same symbol on it (didn't realise it was the preview as on my phone it doesn't have the word next to it) but when I type something and press it nothing happens except the other buttons go greyed out.
 
Eddie & Elvis said:
I have a button with that same symbol on it (didn't realise it was the preview as on my phone it doesn't have the word next to it) but when I type something and press it nothing happens except the other buttons go greyed out.
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It makes the actual editor into the preview.
 
Hi @MattW

How do I get rid of the 'similar threads' bar clogging up valuable screen space and being a very unwelcome distraction.

I could really do without this added nuisance since I have to use a larger font in order to read text so there is even less text space available which slows me right down.
Especially as I really do not need this function at all and we are as a forum not happy to have lots of old threads revived by newbies posting on them and causing confusion instead of starting their own thread.

Thank you. Personally, I am old-fashioned enough to not like all these design adjustments for i-phones as I need a large desk screen to cope with the eye strain from working online and the resulting headaches when dealing with small fonts, no thanks to my bad eyesight.
 
Wiebke said:
I could really do without this added nuisance since I have to use a larger font in order to read text so there is even less text space available which slows me right down.
Especially as I really do not need this function at all and we are as a forum not happy to have lots of old threads revived by newbies posting on them and causing confusion instead of starting their own thread.
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It's globally enabled, and displayed on a per forum basis, it's not something controlled at a user level. As this was a new feature added in XF2.2, I've disabled it.
 
Thank you @MattW for your hard work in the update and indeed in its day to day running.

Can I ask please, is there any thing that can tell us what the various new icons and buttons do, particularly the text edit ones? There are some there that aren't obvious to the uninitiated :fog::hmm:

I was going to agree with @Wiebke , the similar threads thing isn't very helpful when on a mobile like I am mostly. Also, to check it out, I looked at a Chat thread, and the ones listed as similar were actually health and illness ones, not similar at all... However I saw you have disabled it anyway already. 👍
 
MattW said:
It's globally enabled, and displayed on a per forum basis, it's not something controlled at a user level. As this was a new feature added in XF2.2, I've disabled it.
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Thank you ever so much!

I do write long and detailed posts, which require quite a lot of scrolling up and down so I really can do without any extra visual distractions.

I am stuck on the screen for longer in a day than is good already. There is something to be said for the old times when you did meet people in a certain place at a certain time without gps and constant phoning or messaging, or being forced to listen to other people doing it.
 
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