Forum - View topicANN 5.0 Updates
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Tempest
 I Run this place.ANN Publisher  Posts: 10461 Location: Do not message me for support. |
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Dan and I have been looking over your comments, and, not including bug fixes, here's a list of additions we're going to be making to the site:
1) White - It really perplexes us that this bothers some people. It's the same white that's on Facebook, Google, etc... But, we're going to be adding a user option to change the background color to a slight shade of grey instead of pure white. 2) Compact View - Some people don't like any of the new layout options and want the old format back. We're going to make a "compact" view that will be very similar to ANN 4.x's main feed. It will look a lot like this. This one is actually going to be a lot of work (we can't re-use the code from ANN 4), and we're prioritizing bug fixes and quicker things, but expect to see this in 3 or so weeks. 3) Marquee - We're going to create an option to disable the marquee. On ANN 4 this was a subscriber option, we'll be bringing it back on ANN 5, and possibly giving it to everyone (still TBD). We may also automatically remove the marquee whenever there are no new articles in it. 4) "Grey" Text. The forum text is by default #333333 black right now. We'll be changing it to #000000 black. We'll also be adding a user option to change the default text color in content. This will be tied in with #1 above. Changing text size might be possible too - remains to be seen how much of a challenge implementing that would be. 5) New user menu - Separate from "my ANN" with user settings and log-out. Log-out will still take 2 clicks (sorry for those who want 1-click logout. Log out doesn't happen often enough to give it that real-estate. If you look at Google, Facebook, Twitter, logout takes 2 clicks on all those sites), but it will be more apparent. 6) Forum Sidebar and ROS Side Bar - Changes will be made, but we haven't decided exactly what yet. You guys will be consulted. We know a lot of people want the sidebar gone from the forum, but people with big screens probably want to keep it. And of course Dan is spending a lot of time on all the bugs that have been reported. Between bug fixes, and changes, please bare with us as some things might take a bit of time. |
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Dan42
Chief Encyclopedist
 Posts: 3792 Location: Montreal |
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fixed Nov 29 17:33
- changed forum text color to black - redirect beta to www - skin on front page |
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Dan42
Chief Encyclopedist
Posts: 3792 Location: Montreal |
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fixed:
- password reset - register with email, add email to account - empty space appearing above menu when clicking a tab - skin will be remembered after logging in - added menu item for subscription settings |
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Dan42
Chief Encyclopedist
Posts: 3792 Location: Montreal |
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fixed:
- registration resulted in "email already taken" message; if you got this error before you'll need to use the password reset - added subscriber setting to turn off ad skins |
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Dan42
Chief Encyclopedist
Posts: 3792 Location: Montreal |
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fixed:
- subscriber setting to turn off marquee - old articles will not appear in marquee; marquee may not appear at all - anonymous visitors participating in survey were getting "you must enable browser cookies" message when submitting |
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Dan42
Chief Encyclopedist
Posts: 3792 Location: Montreal |
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fixed:
- redirect to fast server for subscribers - option to turn off "around the web" for subscribers - bookmark/share buttons for articles in Firefox |
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Dan42
Chief Encyclopedist
Posts: 3792 Location: Montreal |
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fixed:
- IP address always logged as 127.0.0.1 in forum |
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Tempest
I Run this place. ANN Publisher Posts: 10461 Location: Do not message me for support. |
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Changed:
- The marquee will now only appear on the front page when there is new/recent content. |
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Dan42
Chief Encyclopedist
Posts: 3792 Location: Montreal |
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fixed:
- In the forum, not all links to ANN are "fixed" to the current hostname anymore (details) |
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Dan42
Chief Encyclopedist
Posts: 3792 Location: Montreal |
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fixed:
- can now type ampersand in search box [#160] - do not show rectangle ad on front page for subscribers who have rectangles disabled |
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Dan42
Chief Encyclopedist
Posts: 3792 Location: Montreal |
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fixed:
- Encyclopedia "compare" link is back, in sidebar instead of top menu |
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Dan42
Chief Encyclopedist
Posts: 3792 Location: Montreal |
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split the "My ANN" menu for logged in users into:
- "My ANN" menu similar to anonymous visitors - user menu with new Quicknav feature |
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Dan42
Chief Encyclopedist
Posts: 3792 Location: Montreal |
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fixed browser compatibility:
- Front page view mode and sidebar preferences will be remembered in Internet Explorer. - Layout bugs in Opera seem to already be gone. Fixed in a previous update? Marking this as done. |
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Dan42
Chief Encyclopedist
Posts: 3792 Location: Montreal |
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added:
- Long-awaited, long-overdue "Compact" view mode on front page - various layout tweaks on front page (date header, position of filters & toggles, color of visited links) |
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Dan42
Chief Encyclopedist
Posts: 3792 Location: Montreal |
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- Restored subscriber ability to block specific advertisers ("block" link under ad)
- Added system to file complaints about inappropriate/invasive/illegal ads ("report" link under ad) |
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