Site Update: Forum Changes
Hello, everyone! Our dev team is hard at work restructuring our forums to improve functionality, efficiency, and overall make them easy and enjoyable to use. You may have noticed some changes were pushed yesterday. Here's a summary of the changes (just for browser at the moment and not app):
Cleaning up the layout of the lead post when viewing a thread, and ‘pinning’ it to the top of the page when you load up pages 2, 3, 4 etc of comments.
Adding in an extra set of page navigation buttons below the lead post
Reducing the amount of reply to a reply you can do to max 5. This is because too many threads of replies to replies were crashing big threads. Not ideal but necessary.
Reducing the top and bottom padding of white space for lead posts and comments
The next change to be pushed out today is the ability to heart a post directly from the member homepage (feed). You can also click on the comment icon and be taken to the page to write a comment.
You can also click on the comment icon and be taken to the page to write a comment.
Going forward, we will be doing our best to inform the community of all site changes prior to rolling them out. Thank you for your patience and support as we progress.
Note: We understand there are still bugs to be worked out. If you encounter any persistent bugs, please feel free to leave your comments here.
@Heather225
Thanks for the great news!
@Heather225, thanks for the update 💓.
Glad to know about these changes!
@Heather225
Hi H! 😊❤️ Many thanks for the forum post with the update! I must say, I have a passion for compassion so I really enjoy how it shows up now as "hearting" the post! *high fives* 😊 and *hugs* ❤️
Between you, me and the lamp post, I kind of have to wonder if having the "heart" ❤️ up vote will emotionally connect even more strongly with people and encourage them to up vote the post (and perhaps, even possibly contribute to it). Moooo -hhhaa-haaaa (not evil laugh, happy joy laugh).
Not sure if the Devs can drill down deep on this one and see if the change has made an emotional connection and run the statistics? If the Devs can run the stats, I think it would be quite telling! For me personally, stats or no stats, I'm loving this! ❤️ Many thanks!
@Heather225 Thanks for updating us on the new and useful changes to the website!
In addition, I wanted to ask. Personally, I had some suggestions on how to change some other things around the site. I wouldn't say they're major, but just some adjustments here and there to make users' lives a little easier while contributing on here.
Is there any part of the "Site Update" forum or on the site in general where I could submit those ideas for further review, please?
Thank you💛
@LilacKalypso9
This post has a link to a form that can be used to submit feedback:
https://www.7cups.com/forum/SiteUpdates_100/Feedback_37/NewCommunityFeedbackProcess_264411/
@QuietMagic
Hi Magic! 😊❤️ *high fives* and *hugs* ❤️ That was a total rock star move on dropping that link and helping your teammate to have an appropriate outlet to voice their opinion, an avenue so that they will be heard and if the administration enjoys the concepts, it could create change in a positive direction.
Awesome looking forward to the changes.
@Heather225
Upvotes seem to still be broken in some way:
- I'm currently receiving alert bell notifications for posts that have been upvoted, but when I go to the actual post it shows 0 upvotes there.
- I'm counting 195 upvotes in this thread (that are visible) but the home page currently says that this thread has only 8 upvotes.
