Have we lost JFM?

[Mr Googler]

How do you set the file size?
This thread has drifted so much I think I can sneak this one in

on the iPad....Attach files....photo library.....once you tick the photo/s you want, it comes up with choose image size. I normally go for large

 

[Sticky Fingers]

@jrudge I agree with all of that. The new software works perfectly for me on all my devices and platforms and I greatly prefer it. Yet others have reported issues ranging from the irritating to unusable.

 

[Hurricane]

The forum is a responsive design, or at least it is on my android phone.

And with regards to ads I use brave browser which automatically blocks ads and various cookies, its very good, give it a try.

Yep - agreed - it is definitely responsive - I just think they could have done a better job.

One example of ease of use - again the use of fonts.
In theBoard Index, they use a bold font to indicate that you have a new post to read but, IMO, it isn't bold enough.
Likewise any threads that you have contributed to have a small version of your Avatar - this, IMO, isn't prominent enough.
All this kind of stuff (and I'm sure there is lots more) leads to making it more difficult to use - certainly for us older gits.

 

[Hurricane]

Mike, have you actually taken a look at a Facebook Group. I have a Fairline one with 1200 members now, over a 1000 of whom are active (reading posts, commenting, liking, etc). I think it works rather well for special interest groups. The searching works too. Your problem is that you like to include other bit and pieces on SCMCHAT that you couldn't do on Facebook. But you do run the risk of persisting with a Forum and then someone creates a Facebook Group and everyone starts using that instead.

The Facebook concept works but for me and www.scmchat.com particularly, there is a lot of static information that a forum can display that doesn't work in a Facebook environment.
Way back when I first set up www.scmchat.com , I wanted it to be half a forum and half a website,
Over the years, it has ahieved this very well.
Likewise, the YBW forums have a focus that leads to their published magazines.
On www.scmchat.com for example, I have static pages interactively displayed in the way I want - the webcam is an example - AIS tracking is another.
Yes, you can do all this stuff inside Facebook but you have to "make do" with the way they work - doing it yourself gives lots more flexibility.
As regards the numbers, yes, I agree that the Facebook audience is huge but don't underestimate how far these YBW forums get within the search engines.
How many times have you googled to find a YBW forum hit.
And www.scmchat.com 's audience is only the small numbers of the berth holders in Sant Carles Marina - quite a few who refuse to use Facebook anyway.

 

[Croftie]

A s whilst on font ... why does the magazine always put black type on photos so there is so little contrast you can’t read it ?

Agreed, one of the reasons I stopped buying it on a regular basis

 

[DavidJ]

on the iPad....Attach files....photo library.....once you tick the photo/s you want, it comes up with choose image size. I normally go for large
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Ah thank you....as easy as that. I downloaded an app for doing it which I didn’t understand.

 

[Deleted User YDKXO]

I'd be surprised if the lag that you are experience is affected by the number of users logged in.

What browser are you using Mike?

Chrome

 

[Hurricane]

I can't answer for Mike but for me its simple. For some reason that I dont understand there is often a slight delay between hitting a key and the character appearing on the screen such that sometimes I'm double typing characters because I think I've missed the key. This isnt all the time but some of the time particularly in the evening when I guess more users are on the forum. Also, I dont know whether there is a connection but my laptop seems to get very hot when I'm on the forum

I get delays sometimes as well - I think they are due to the adverts on the page - some adverts can be quite large and animated which, IMO, might contribute to the delays.
There you go - a bigger font!!!

Thats too big though - maybe this would be more like the size to have used.

 

[Chris H]

on the iPad....Attach files....photo library.....once you tick the photo/s you want, it comes up with choose image size. I normally go for large
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I don’t get the option of re sizing on my i pad.

 

[petem]

Chrome

Mike, what happens when you disable "BB code" (click on the little cog on the upper right of the text editor)?

 

[Mr Googler]

I don’t get the option of re sizing on my i pad.

sometimes I have to select more than one picture before it appears.

 

[DavidJ]

More thread drift. Just trying out the re sizing suggested

 

[Chris H]

sometimes I have to select more than one picture before it appears.

Bloody hell.....it worked !

 

[Just_sayin']

Have we lost JFM?

 

[northwind]

Have we lost JFM?

I think we are still complaining about the romans...

 

[Assassin]

Funny you should mention it M, because my feeling is precisely the opposite.
Maybe, I'm just becoming an older old fart, so to speak.
But I'm with Scott McNealy of Sun Microsystems fame on this.
He used to urge programmers to not reinvent the wheel every time, his reasoning being that consistency is what the users want, not perfection.
He stretched that to the point of not worrying too much about bugs, because users can cope with them.
As long as they find the same old bug consistently repeated everywhere, it's OK.
It's the new bug out of the blue, appearing with some software supposed to fix the old one, that drive users nuts.

Me, I rarely access the forum with mobile devices (mostly for screen size reasons), but every time I do, I select the "Desktop site" option.
I did that with the old forum engine, and also with the current one. And also with other forums.
Sure, looking at a webpage designed for a PC on a 6" screen ain't exactly exciting: lot of zoom in/out, etc.
But it's a matter of priorities: to me, not having to bother learning a different interface to access a webpage I'm already familiar with in its "standard" format, is much better than any RWD-based optimization.
I.e., consistency, rather than efficiency.
Bu that's me, obviously.

So, the blind, older, old fart it is then.

 

[Assassin]

I only asked about JFM and it ended up a Brexit argument and a whinging session about the forum,

Brexit argument, what Brexit argument? the UK is out of the EU but not out of Europe and when I looked on Google Earth earlier none of the European countries had moved, neither had the UK, if the UK had moved then somewhere warmer would have been nice but hey.

Seriously, just as long as JFM is fine and well is the main thing.