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MacRumors Forums Theme Change and New Platform
- Thread starter arn
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Can we modify the configuration to NOT allow the "FULL" size image? My preference would be to only allow "thumbnail" images. If I want to see the image in detail, I can click/tap on the thumbnail to see it full size.
This has always been a pet peeve for me - threads with good discussions back and forth, and all is good until someone decides that they need to post a full-size screen print that takes over the thread. Personally, seems like a no-brainer to me.
This has always been a pet peeve for me - threads with good discussions back and forth, and all is good until someone decides that they need to post a full-size screen print that takes over the thread. Personally, seems like a no-brainer to me.
Yes, we're rolling dark mode out in stages. We've done mobile, Google AMP article pages, and forums. Desktop news side is the final piece, and it should be fairly soon.
That doesn't seem to be currently available.
That aside, I've often found that the most liked posts in many threads (or perhaps at least many popular or news-related threads) tended to end up being less relevant as they usually turned out to be some sort "fun"/funny type of posts rather than meaningfully relevant ones. With that said, I guess it likely differs based on different types of threads.
Well, I’d rather everyone decide for themself what is interesting or relevant rather than relying on an admin. Right?
I hope you can bring this tool/method back. Without it, it seems very crippled.
maybe do like reddit to boost the cream to the top. Otherwise the threads can get badly polluted I think
I’m not sure how mod involvement or relevance is in play when threads are simply displayed with posts in chronological order.
That’s not to say some options related to sorting by something like likes shouldn’t be there, just that without something like that and with things simply being displayed in the order that they come in, basically with natural chronological flow, doesn’t make something polluted or anything like that.
(In fact, it could even be said that an opposite argument could be made that some posts could be made to mostly gather likes rather than meaningfully contribute.)
Chronological order is natural, and of course it is a useful way to view a thread. We agree on that.
it seems you are oblivious and resistant to users requests (even if the idea of it) to restore sorting posts by “most likes”. You have suggested that perhaps it is not needed!
“Meaningful” is something to be determined by the reader I suppose.
I agree that likes do not equate to value or meaning. I don’t care actually. I just want to sort the posts like I could do 2 days ago! Now I’m putting in time trying to explain again.
please consider that other users might have a different style of getting to the information (posts) that they want. You may not even be a participant here for all I know - I don’t usually chat with admins here, and am doing so because I wanted to help - in part by explaining the problem that has come with the removal of this function.
whew!
you are like my Mercedes salesman telling me that the perfume ionizer feature of the car is pointless - but he is telling me that “wisdom” without ever owning the high end model that has this feature, or maybe even being capable of appreciating it. I bought the car and it was missing the perfume bottle, and the salesman tried to distract and differ and dismiss (because it’s $150 that the dealer eventually had to pay for in my 1 year old car).
my bet is that it is a ton of work, or maybe it’s not possible for whoever runs this site to restore this function, but I already have seen 2 or 3 other users who are also taking the time to tell you that they miss it. Hope you will come around towards understanding the importance rather than dismissing this issue. I have made 1000 posts I’d bet. How many have you made?
I’m guessing and making assumptions a lot here - but I’m trying to “cut to the chase“. Hope it comes across clearly and not in an insulting way, ok?
Does this put some light in it and open your viewpoint somewhat?
Seems like most that reply was based and centered on that statement. And yet my post that it was in rely to had me rather clearly state basically the opposite of what that statement says.
Fairly certain I wasn’t dismissing anything and simply commenting on something. (Not sure what posts counts have to do with anything.)
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Look like it’s being looked into: https://forums.macrumors.com/thread...ting-in-threads-removed.2199458/post-27776304
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I don’t understand - I think you made some typos.
but to the point - sort by likes can come back? Or you cannot? Or won’t? Or ?
Post counts should give you cause to listen to a user who possibly has used this forum even more than the admins.
you say you don’t understand the importance of sorting by most likes - that’s part of the warning - you might be failing to realize the damage caused by removal of this feature.
None of that is up to me, nor was I commenting on if it could or couldn’t.
If you think that’s something meaningful, perhaps there’s something to listen to then based on that statement.
im listening. I’m assuming you are an admin even.
please tell me if you have any point to get back to me other than that you possibly have judged this “sort by most likes“ feature as “un-needed”. Anything else? Because that’s all I got from you - it amounts to a diversion.
whether you use the feature or understand a users’ use of the feature is not of great interest to me.
Imentioned that some of us really miss it.
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It appears that quite a few assumptions have been made, and are being made, most of which are not in line with reality or what was actually said.
In any case, as I mentioned before, what it comes down to is what’s mentioned at https://forums.macrumors.com/thread...ting-in-threads-removed.2199458/post-27776304
I like the forum upgrade overall, but there is one small thing: search used to default to most recent, now it seems to default to most relevant. Is there some kind of setting to change that? It was nice to just type in the term, hit search, and see if anyone is currently discussing a certain topic.
Click Search then Advanced Search and you can choose to get results based on date like in my screenshot. I just tested and this gives you most recent first.
Two things...
"thread starter" - hopefully coming back.
Links in posts in the light mode theme are invisible unless you mouseover.
"thread starter" - hopefully coming back.
Links in posts in the light mode theme are invisible unless you mouseover.
One more time, THREAD STARTER is there. It's the little blue icon under the avatar... the new verbiage is "Original poster"
Scroll all the way to the bottom of any page, and there is a theme chooser button on the right-hand side.
Was thread starter a different icon a few days ago (pencil) and now it’s a car? Am I imagining that?
My post above has a screen shot... posted Saturday... it was the car at that time. I don't recall what the icon has been all along, but it's always been a small blue circle...