Redesign update: changes to comments and search

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• TGLoyalty says:

  15 Sep15 September 12:15

  I can see gravatars are back but they seem to be showing one small image and one large next to each other?

  • Rhys says:

    15 Sep15 September 12:16

    Clear your browser cache – try CTRL & F5 simultaneously

    • Optimus Prime says:

      15 Sep15 September 12:17

      Lol @Rhys I think you now need to sort out the avatars size!

      • the_real_a says:

        15 Sep15 September 13:06

        +1 the gravitars are showing as too huge to me too. About 5cm by 5cm. Nice to see them back though.

    • TGLoyalty says:

      15 Sep15 September 12:31

      learn something new everyday

      They are now tiny though!

      • Rhys says:

        15 Sep15 September 13:00

        Yes, they are very small 🙂 just a small identifier. We don’t want them to dominate or waste space!

        • the_real_a says:

          15 Sep15 September 13:07

          Ctrl F5 trick worked.

    • Save East Coast Rewards says:

      15 Sep15 September 13:06

      On the Mac shift-cmd-R works in Firefox and Chrome at least

      • EwanG says:

        15 Sep15 September 13:14

        Thanks that worked for me, although the RSS ‘comments’ feed is now broken…. (it broke after my comment (currently) above, and before I did my refresh)

        • Save East Coast Rewards says:

          15 Sep15 September 13:16

          Today I learned something new, I never knew there was an RSS feed of the site. It should be simple enough for them to fix it though.

        • Rob says:

          15 Sep15 September 13:31

          All WP sites have it unless disabled, under .com/feed

• TGLoyalty says:

  15 Sep15 September 12:38

  Was it a conscious decision for comment pages to go from newest to oldest?

  i.e. in general chat the pages flow 1 to 4 with oldest on 1 and newest on 4 but each individual page has the newest main comment first. find that very confusing. My cache has been cleared many times and can’t see anywhere to set a personal cookie setting so assuming its site wide?

  • Rhys says:

    15 Sep15 September 12:59

    Site wide, has always been that way. But we CAN change it in Wordpress, and we may still.

    • Save East Coast Rewards says:

      15 Sep15 September 13:14

      Is there a way to save a users preference? Does the Wordpress commenting system allow a user to set a cookie so that they can see oldest first or even better remember where they left off.

      It’s easy if you have logins but I think it’s best in the current form where we don’t need to register

    • TGLoyalty says:

      15 Sep15 September 13:17

      Strange as it wasn’t this way before the update.

      It went from oldest at the top on each page and page 1 was the oldest comments etc

      • Rob says:

        15 Sep15 September 13:30

        No, P1 has always been newest unless you click the link in the chat thread to reorder it.

        • Allycat says:

          15 Sep15 September 13:39

          I hate to disagree with Rob or Rhys but my memory is the same as TGLoyalty and others, on my browsing over several years with multiple browsers and cache clearing, comments always appeared oldest on page 1, newest on page x, with them being in ascending time order from top to bottom of each page. I can’t see a link in the chat thread to reorder things ? It would be great to have it the way I and others have described as it seems illogical to have to scroll to the bottom of each page and then go upwards to read things in order. Maybe we are all too OCD 🙂

        • Rhys says:

          15 Sep15 September 13:55

          There was a slight change, which was down to a miscommunication. Should be back to how it was before 🙂

        • Allycat says:

          15 Sep15 September 15:06

          Brilliant, looks great now in proper CDO date & time order (because if you have OCD its offending that the acronym is not alphabetical 😉 ).

          Thanks, and a great improvement on the comments functionality overall

• EwanG says:

  15 Sep15 September 12:47

  Gravatars are now feeding through to the RSS feed too – layout looks v odd. I don’t think they ever used to before.

  Is there a way for the RSS feed to be modified to take such gravatars away again??

  • Rhys says:

    15 Sep15 September 12:58

    Try clearing your cache first – if you’re seeing two gravatars, then that’s the reason why.

    • EwanG says:

      15 Sep15 September 13:07

      Only seeing one gravatar Rhys on the feed and the webpage, so not a caching issue. The gravatars are significantly larger than they should be (6-7 times the height of the text)…
      Back to my point, the gravatars did not used to show on the feed, and being 6-7 times the size of the name, it makes the formatting look dreadful. Can/will the feed be changed to ignore the gravatars?

      • Tom H says:

        15 Sep15 September 13:11

        agree with the size, they are MASSIVE

        • Rob says:

          15 Sep15 September 13:32

          That will flush as your cache expires during the day.

      • BJ says:

        15 Sep15 September 13:43

        Jill’s popped up in the chat articlea. I was a bit surprised and then realised what was going on. It is not aligned properly though. To be honest I’m quite happy with the redesigned site, only issue for me was the reply button on mobile..

    • TGLoyalty says:

      15 Sep15 September 13:23

      Clearing the cache m and browsing data doesn’t seem to have done anything on iPhone chrome so might be why people are having issues still.

      It worked for Laptop and safari on my iPhone.

• Andrew says:

  15 Sep15 September 12:50

  So glad you moved the reply button – I scroll on my phone with my left thumb and was continually hitting reply by mistake!

  • AJA says:

    15 Sep15 September 16:48

    Me too! It was annoying to say the least. Glad it’s fixed 🙂

  • Anne says:

    15 Sep15 September 18:24

    Same here – I know it could have been fixed more easily with basic user competence (i.e. mine!) but a very welcome update

• Save East Coast Rewards says:

  15 Sep15 September 13:12

  After clearing my cache (as the old stylesheet was still loading) I think this is a great improvement. I DIDN’T LIKE ALL THE NAMES IN UPPERCASE 😁 and the shading helps with the clarity of the comments flow. It’s also good to highlight when there’s a real HFP person replying as otherwise anyone can be ‘Rob’, ‘Rhys’ or ‘Anika’ and can sound official until it gets deleted.

• ChrisBCN says:

  15 Sep15 September 13:25

  A great improvement, and the first time I have been able to scroll through comments without the reply box popping up!

• Char char says:

  15 Sep15 September 13:25

  Not having set usernames you can register and being able to access previous posts of yourself or others is the most important thing to update, otherwise it’s ground hog day every day especially as the chat threads are now being removed??

  • Rob says:

    15 Sep15 September 14:36

    The chat threads are not removed, just hidden from the home page. You can find them by:

    Selecting ‘General’ under the categories menu in the desktop sidebar
    Typing headforpoints.com/category/general-discussion into your browser
    Clicking ‘General’ under the categorisation of the current thread

    All of these bring up all the ‘General’ posts which are mainly chat threads.

• Jill (Kinkell) says:

  15 Sep15 September 14:03

  Success! Had to google what to do to clear stuff on my mini iPad. Certainly an improvement.

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