XenForo 2.0 Upgrade: Announcement and Feedback Thread

[Anubis]

This is prob the last post I'll make in here. The site 100% does not work for me at work . Forums simply do not load. I just get a blank white page. Something our IT dept is blocking prevents anything from loading . The only other site I've ever seen this happen to is dpreview. Which loads txt but no css so it's unuseable

Seeing as I browse the forums mostly at work I think this is the final nail.

Tested in both IE and Chrome same thing


Posted this from my phone

 

[allisolm]

Forums simply do not load. I just get a blank white page. Something our IT dept is blocking prevents anything from loading .

Tested in both IE and Chrome same thing

Shortylickens is reporting the same problem https://forums.anandtech.com/thread...-feedback-thread.2556627/page-7#post-39653341.

 

[LTC8K6]

For me it's just the main forums link that does not work.

If I go straight to a forum, Like Hardware and Technology, or Social, the board works fine.

 

[LTC8K6]

This works, for example:
https://forums.anandtech.com/categories/hardware-and-technology.27/

This link does not:
https://forums.anandtech.com/

 

[amenx]

This works, for example:
https://forums.anandtech.com/categories/hardware-and-technology.27/

This link does not:
https://forums.anandtech.com/

Works for me.

 

[LTC8K6]

Still not for me on Firefox or Chrome.

 

[LTC8K6]

Cleared the Firefox cache.

Main link still no go.

Neither the Home link or Forums link in the upper left works.

Direct links to specific forums do work, though.

 

[LTC8K6]

I'm just going to bookmark the Hardware and Technology page.

I can navigate from there.

 

[purbeast0]

It is really really stupid that I can't see how many pages a thread is and can't click to a specific page from the list of threads on the forum.

 

[balloonshark]

I can't even get to the site without using a proxy. I couldn't even post without disabling scripts. Am I banned? If not what changed between now and right after you first upgraded? I use Firefox 62.0.3 with noscript and ublock Origin but I could always get the site to work before. I can't even use Chrome to get the site to work. This link just brings up a blank page. https://forums.anandtech.com/

My issue seems fixed today. If it was intentionally fixed thank you.

 

[Carson Dyle]

Suggestion for the "Ask the Community" form in the right-hand sidebar: It should select the current forum, not the first one in the list (CPUs). Otherwise, you're going to see a lot of threads mistakenly started in that forum.

 

[Jaskalas]

Since you posted it, they already changed that one!
(Good suggestion, btw)

Wait a minute, I notice it changing when viewing a forum and its list of threads, but once you start viewing a thread it loses track and defaults back to CPU.

 

[Carson Dyle]

I notice it changing when viewing a forum and its list of threads, but once you start viewing a thread it loses track and defaults back to CPU.

Yeah, I hadn't really noticed that. It works as you'd expect at the forum listing level, but not when viewing an individual thread. Probably more of a bug than a feature suggestion.

 

[13Gigatons]

The font is not the whole issue in terms of readability.

Looks nice with no technical issues, but it's a bit small

Don't forget you can "Zoom Text" in your browser (Firefox has the feature maybe others).

 

[LTC8K6]

I'm just going to bookmark the Hardware and Technology page.

I can navigate from there.

I have no more issues today.

 

[mxnerd]

Why text editing formatting capability is gone?

Can't format any text while editing!

==

Stupid me, I accidentally clicked Toggle BB Code button.

 

[Carson Dyle]

For anyone interested, the theme that's being used here for XenForo 2, is called UI.X 2 from ThemeHouse:

https://www.themehouse.com/xenforo/2/themes/ui-x

As you can see from the live demo, it's not supposed to appear as it does here, and the reviews are excellent. I get the impression that XenForo 2 itself wasn't nearly as radically changed as the broken interface here would imply. What I'd guess happened is that someone customizing the theme for the AnandTech forums screwed something up.

I'd like to suggest that when (not if) Purch fixes this with an update, they post a public beta and take comments and bug reports from users.

 

[Stg-Flame]

I've noticed when I try to post, I'll get the loading bars in the top right that never seem to quit, then they will disappear but my post won't show. I'll click post reply again and now I have two identical posts.

Happens on both Chrome and Pale Moon.

 

[mxnerd]

Now you don't see how many views a thread has and don't know if the topic is attracting viewers.

 

[Ken g6]

A couple of observations which lead to a suggestion:

1. There is no easy way to jump to a forum anymore, except from the homepage. The little box-above-three-boxes icon is gone.
2. There is a list of all the forums on the right column, but all it lets you do is post.

So, wouldn't it make sense to add a button there to "Read" or something, to go read a forum?

 

[zebrax2]

The join date or at least the post count of each user needs to be shown by default so that we can easily identify if a reply is a spam.

 

[Ken g6]

The join date or at least the post count of each user needs to be shown by default so that we can easily identify if a reply is a spam.

It's in the dropdown area, and at least a basic indication of post count is shown by default. Generally, spammers will be "Junior Member"s.

 

[Carson Dyle]

It's in the dropdown area, and at least a basic indication of post count is shown by default. Generally, spammers will be "Junior Member"s.

If you're working on an alternative, see below. This is something, though, that I think Purch should easily fix.

/* unhide user info: join date, post count, etc. */
.thThreads__message-userExtras {
    height: auto;
}

/* hide toggle switch */
.thThreads__userExtra--toggle {
    display: none;
}

 

[Zorba]

When typing a message on mobile Firefox, if someone else posts in the thread the page will jump up to the last post every time I stop typing for a few seconds. It is very annoying.

 

[Zorba]

It is also way to easy to click stuff by accident on the mobile page. There seems to be more and bigger button near the right hand side. The floating buttons appear and disappear like crazy. And the page in general seems to scroll up and down a few lines all the time for random reasons.

This is easily the second worst mobile experience I've had on any forum (worst is cruise critic).