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[catweazel]

I prefer ⤴. To me it more says "this, is found up there".

It's very difficult to see for some of us.

[xenopeek]

How about fa-fast-backward, fa-toggle-up, fa-arrow-circle-o-up, fa-arrow-circle-up or fa-chevron-circle-up from https://fontawesome.com/v4.7.0/cheatsheet?

Click to enlarge examples:

Using Firefox' Web Developer Tools, use the element picker to select ⤴, right-click the highlighted code and select to edit as HTML and replace ⤴ with following (replace X with the copied FontAwesome glyph): <span style="font-family: FontAwesome;">X</span>

Only fa-chevron-circle-up looks somewhat nice. But it's confusing as that same icon is in the bottom right of every post, to jump to the top of the page.

[MintBean]

@xeno, I find the grey on grey buttons above the text area when typing a forum post to be very washed out. Any chance of going to black on grey and (possibly) even adding a splash of colour to a couple of the icons (like 'font colour' and 'insert image?') I find this makes it quicker to differentiate the icons quickly and I think at least an improved contrast could help users with visual impairments.

(If this has already been raised, my bad... couldn't be bothered to read every post.)

[MintBean]

Only fa-chevron-circle-up looks somewhat nice. But it's confusing as that same icon is in the bottom right of every post, to jump to the top of the page.

I like the chevron. Could replace the other use of the chevron (which let's face it how often do users ever interact with) with something else if it creates the potential for confusion.

[Lucap]

I prefer ⤴. To me it more says "this, is found up there".

I suppose it's the best of a bad bunch but personally id rather the original arrow in bold if it was possible . ↑

but it's not that important , it just seems odd compared to other forums formats that it sticks out and is rather phallic.

It's very difficult to see for some of us.

If possible would bold be any better ⤴ ⤴

*edit*

I think it might be already in bold by the looks of the thickness?

[Cosmo.]

The fa-chevron has the problem, that it does not look like a link on the first sight; it simply looks like an ... icon. The blue current arrow does look like a link. As I already wrote, even for my old eyes it is very well visible.

[MintBean]

A chainlink icon would be ideal.

[xenopeek]

If possible would bold be any better ⤴ ⤴

*edit*

I think it might be already in bold by the looks of the thickness?

It's not already bold. But like I wrote before, making it bold doesn't make a difference. It does here in a post, because posts use a large enough font that bold makes a difference.

Here I've added the ⤴ arrow a few times to one post. I've made at least one of them bold. Can you tell me which of these are bold?

[xenopeek]

A chainlink icon would be ideal.

I disagree:

[Lucap]

Can you tell me which of these are bold?

I see what you mean they all look exactly the same , CatWeazel will have to click about until he hits it.

[xenopeek]

I see what you mean they all look exactly the same

The 2nd and 4th one are bold. If I remember correctly

[xenopeek]

Many thanks to everybody that shared their feedback on the forum upgrade and new theme! Your eyes for detail and suggestions are much appreciated. The forum is better for it

I especially want to thank prestonR and MrEen for noticing the issue with the forum search index, Schultz for zooming in on the search box theme issue and catweazel for stumbling over the http links I shortly broke. If these hadn't been spotted so quickly the cause of them would have been a lot harder to track down.

If anyone finds any further issues from the forum upgrade or the new theme, please let me know.

Suggestions for further forum or theme improvements, like tweaks of buttons or icons, are welcome though I'm not going to change anything more this month unless I broke it (or if somebody has the ultimate suggestion for the quote link)

For theme suggestions, I'd appreciate if those come accompanied with a screenshot or mock-up showing the suggestion.

[xenopeek]

As there were a few changes from the original list, I've updated the forum and topic icon legend: viewtopic.php?f=17&t=263886

[Penn]

I have no idea if not addressing what I said about nearly 3 month old cached page in the thread means you didn't address it with the most recent changes but it isn't happening any more. No changes on my end.

[xenopeek]

I didn't address it as I couldn't relate a 3 month old problem to changes I did last week. Gremlins, it must be gremlins

[Flemur]

"Insert image" is listed twice - the "hover" text looks the same**.

image.jpg

**Edit: nope. The landscape icon = "http", and the "rimg" icon = "https".

[xenopeek]

They are different.
- img is limited to 640x480 size images. For small screenshots.
- rimg allows bigger images but resizes them to 640x480 (they can be clicked to enlarge them)
This way we keep topics readable.

We'll cover this in an upcoming topic. In any case, we'd rather we only have the rimg option and use the img icon for it but that needs heavy editing in the phpBB code as there is no easy option for that.

[Flemur]

They are different.
- img
- rimg

I didn't notice that difference!

I just noticed that in
"User control panel -> Profile -> Edit signature"
it inserts the [size][/size] but the text between them stays the same size (in a preview anyway).

[xenopeek]

The font size on signatures has always had maximum of 100%.

We don't need signatures like this

[Flemur]

The font size on signatures has always had maximum of 100%.

It wouldn't get smaller.