Welcome to the all new all singing all dancing fixed.org.au!
Huge thanks to tech @Zach for migrating us across from vbulletin and @nickj for giving enough of a fuck to make it happen.
New stuff:
Emojis
Mention other users (type an @ then their name)
Easier embedding of video/photos/etc
Quick quote by highlighting the text and clicking/tapping quote
Massively reduced spam
keyboard shortcuts for pro level foruming (eg ‘g’ then ‘l’ will give latest posts, ‘g’ then ‘u’ for unread posts, j/k for jumping up/down. etc. Hit ‘=’ to open the hamburger menu and click on keyboard shortcuts to see them all.
Actual good working SEARCH functionality, to the post, not just the thread.
Light years better mobile view, no more scrolling/zooming in and out
More stable, lots of updates, tons of optional features should we want them (eg: if you want to upload photos by simply copy/pasting or taking a photo straight from your camera/phone gallery, we can do that, but it’ll increase storage/traffic so we’d have to pay for that somehow)
Group private messages, like an IG DM but without Zuck spying on you
If you have login/user account issues, ask @nickj or @Zach, If the standard password reset doesn’t send you an email, 1) check your spam folder, 2) what email address did you sign up with? If you don’t have that email anymore, we can reset your email, just contact nick at fixed dot org dot au
Whats happened here? its all different?
I was just teling Rolly, i feel like i just got out of prison and everything has changed.
Pressfit, 12mm thru axles, PF30, fukn discord…
can i get my buy sell rights back? can you still buy sell here?
Just a bit overwhelmed. i gotta sit down a minute.
you can change the file size limit to p much whatever you want, but if we (and by we I mean Nick J) are self hosting images, then we (and by we I mean FOA users) have to chip in real money to contribute towards the additional costs of hosting and serving them). and you can also set it to rehost linked images from elsewhere (which would have been great for the photobucket / flickr purges)
It will then let you either copy paste into the compose window, upload an image with the dialogue, or capture an image straight from your device’s camera. Problem is that modern smartfones are usually set to 0 compression 20+MP, so that’s a lot of 5+++MiB images that start getting hosted.
So… if @zach can setup an auto compress/resize to pull them down to a respectable filesize and @nickj is ok with it, AND enough people want to throw a few bucks a month at FOA, then sure, you can have magik image upload and never fuck with imgur/flickr/view-source-on-instagram again.
@Sh0rtsie outside of loopholing, you host elsewhere and paste the direct link to the image and discourse does the [img] type stuff for you.
The 100k doesn’t bother me really. But it’s a good explanation as to why
Also until now I’d been misreading it as
‘discord’ not ‘discourse’ spent like a good 20 mins last night trying to work out how to load the forum into the discord app LOL
‘add to home screen’ when you open in chrome on android, not sure about ios, then you have an icon that essentially loads the chrome mobile version of the forum but without the chrome address bar, other tabs etc.
Yeah that’s what I’m doing now, but on most other forums or Facebook or whatever I’m used to just clicking on them and they open in a new tab. It’s not a big deal, it just throws me each time
@Zach for migrating us across from vbulletin and @nickj for giving enough of a fuck to make it happen.
