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Love the new theme. However it's not perfect, so I made a few tweaks which makes it look like this:


Summary of changes:

• Get rid of the Georgia font. It's ugly as hell
• The post information (author, time, etc) blends in too well with the post. So I copied the "like" box and applied it to this "meta" box. I think the meta should be at the top, but I can't adjust that with CSS. Could write a userscript.
• The dashed line above the signature is almost invisible. Made it darker and shrunk the font slightly.

If anyone's interested, here's my override code:

HTML:

    .message .messageText, .message .signature, body, body.mceForceColors
    {
        font-family: Verdana !important;
        font-size: 14px !important;
    }
    .messageMeta
    {
        border: 1px solid #D7EDFC;
        border-radius: 5px 5px 5px 5px;
        margin: 10px 0 0 0 !important;
        padding: 5px !important;
        background: url("/styles/flexile/xenforo/gradients/category-23px-light.png") repeat-x scroll center top #F0F7FC;
    }
    .message .signature
    {
        border-top: 1px dashed #0C649E !important;
        color: #999;
        font-size: 90% !important;
    }

I'm also probably going to adjust the post column width to make it not so squished. It feels cramped and I don't even use widescreen monitors.

 

how do I see all new posts since my last visit?

 

I can't find a direct way to do that like we used to be able to, but

Option 1: Click on "what's new", it's like the old way except it doesn't tell you when you get to the point where you signed off last time.

Option 2: Click on "mark forums read" before you leave the forum, the next time you log on, click on "what's new". That will only show new posts since you logged off.

 

is there some trick to make the search function to search?

 

This might help finding new posts when you logon a bit. The "What's New" button generates this url

Code:

http://priuschat.com/find-new/7539/threads

where the 4 digit number, 7539 appears to advance one count in 6 seconds. I found that by making a book mark:

Code:

http://priuschat.com/find-new/999999/threads

The system automatically substitutes the latest legitimate number for the 999999 and shows me the newest posts.

I've only used it a short time so am not guaranteeing it will work forever.

Edit: used "code" format to make urls show properly[/code]

 

1. Can we please have a "Dislike" button?
2. How do we get Points?
3. Still need a real chatroom.

 

Definitely the top three. More compact. (If I want to see someone's details I can just click on the avatar, not have it in my face the whole time.)

 

Maybe I missed it, but what's up with the points and trophies? Please explain.

 

+1

 

Danny, once you have drained the swamp and killed the alligators....

I would really like to have a "What's new" function that would only call up the forums I have selected. Other than the Gen3 forums and few general interest forums I would just as soon not see posts from most other forums. You would probably also want to make a "forum announcements" or some such forum mandatory so everyone saw forum announcements you deemed important

 

CookieGuru, how do you insert your own CSS into the page?

 

I tried posting a URL at Plug In Security | PriusChat and my post got really messed up, with this huge area of white space. Any idea what's up with that? I tried editing it to fix it, but to no avail.

Here's the URL again. I wonder if it'll get messed up here too:





J1772 'combo connector' shown at the 2012 Electric Vehicle Symposium
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Vehicle Electrification - SAE .
Yep. It did. For reference, it's

Code:

http://ev.sae.org/article/11005

.

 

^^^
Oh. You're right. Bizarre. Within the <title> tag they do have all that weird whitespace. Doesn't make sense since title's are only disabled in a browser's title/tab bar.

I guess the next question is how to disable the link text parsing that could be disabled on vBulletin.

 

It is on the new format. Just click the posters avatar spot and all that info is displayed in neat pop up window that lets you interact with the poster if you want to.

 

Click on "What's New" at the top menu bar. It shows you what topics have had new posts since your last logon. Then each topic has a blue button to the left, you can hover your mouse over it and it will say "Go to first unread message", that will take you to the first unread by you message.

 

The front page doesn't look so hot right now: 2 spams at the top of the page.

 

Ok, gone now.