Unraid Forums Upgrade

[SpencerJ]

PSA - The Unraid forums will be undergoing a substantial upgrade tonight (1 May, 2024). We expect an outage of around 6 hours starting at 2 AM EDT.

 

Upon successful upgrade, forums will look different (better IMO): the

 

[bmartino1]

?what time zone?

https://www.utctime.net/edt-time-now#:~:text=EDT (EDT).-,EDT Time,-15%3A23%3A43

1AM so May 2nd?

https://www.worldtimebuddy.com/

Edited May 1 by bmartino1
timezone caulations.

[binhex]

17 minutes ago, SpencerJ said:

We expect an outage of around 6 hours

But but but, what am i going to do for 6 hours?!, are you saying i might have to....go outside? 🙂

[Revan335]

A New Major Forum Version?

Only Design/Cosmetic Changes?

No New Features, Bug Fixing, other Changes ....?

[ConnerVT]

2 hours ago, binhex said:

But but but, what am i going to do for 6 hours?!, are you saying i might have to....go outside? 🙂

 

I have a pair of solar eclipse glasses you can borrow if you do.

[SpencerJ]

2 hours ago, bmartino1 said:

?what time zone?

https://www.utctime.net/edt-time-now#:~:text=EDT (EDT).-,EDT Time,-15%3A23%3A43

1AM so May 2nd?

https://www.worldtimebuddy.com/

Ah yes- time zones are hard. 🫨

[SpencerJ]

3 hours ago, Revan335 said:

A New Major Forum Version?

Only Design/Cosmetic Changes?

No New Features, Bug Fixing, other Changes ....?

Mostly cosmetic and security updates. 
 

[jpowell8672]

Looks Great!

[Rysz]

Light Mode does not seem to work at the moment - otherwise looking good!

[primeval_god]

I preferred the orange text in the old dark mode. The text in the new dark mode feels to bright. The rest of the styling looks great though.

[elibosley]

Hi all, 

 

Thanks for any and all bug reports as we work to get the new theme update refined.

 

We also have upgraded Invision versions by quite a bit, so you should see a dramatic improvement in mobile browsing, as that has been a major focus of the IPS team recently. Site performance should also be better, and random outages much less common.

 

All feedback is helpful at this time, we'd like to make the experience as seamless as possible.

 

EDIT:

 

Light mode theme should be fixed, thanks for flagging the issue @Rysz

I'm currently tracking a bug preventing sign in and forcefully redirecting to account.unraid.net - This issue has been resolved also.

[Sebastiansuisse]

Was kind of a shock when i opened the forums. But new gui looks good.

[jojo345]

I do like it as well since light mode is working.

 

perhaps some little theme optimisations would be usefull in this case?

 

[elibosley]

15 minutes ago, jojo345 said:

I do like it as well since light mode is working.

 

perhaps some little theme optimisations would be usefull in this case?

 

Thanks for flagging this, we'll get this resolved soon. 

[JonathanM]

1 hour ago, elibosley said:

Light mode theme should be fixed

That was the first thing I noticed, it wouldn't toggle to the light side.

 

Working now, but it got me thinking. Do you have statistics on dark vs. light usage? They would be skewed to the dark side, since that's the default, but I'd be curious what the statistics say.

[ffhelllskjdje]

the font on this is making my eyes bleed, i wish we could make it larger text

[alturismo]

sadly dark mode has also some ... glitches ...

 

inserting code

 

[Revan335]

32 minutes ago, alturismo said:

sadly dark mode has also some ... glitches ...

 

inserting code

 

 

We are not alone!

[Revan335]

On the Dark Mode, the Icons are correct?

[alturismo]

also some headers seems ...

 

[limetech]

Thank you for reporting all the glitches.  The devs working on the forum migration are on the East coast and were up most of the night.  Hopefully we'll get most of this sorted by tomorrow!

[ChatNoir]

It looks ... different. Not sure yet if it is better or worse.

Is it me or is there more unused space vertically ?

[ChatNoir]

On Dark Mode, in the Bug Report forum, the inserted text (code ?) and box to another thread barely have a color difference on the background.

 

[ConnerVT]

Meh.  First impression?  Not impressed.

 

Font is chunky.  Poor contrast in many places (page number highlight, for example).  Overall seems less readable than previous.

Edited May 3 by ConnerVT

[Rysz]

 

The last active topic seems too cramped in comparison to the huge part with the forum name (having lots of unused white-space).
Removing the width: 100% on .ipsDataItem_main it'd look like this (better in my opinion):

 

 

I know it's a work in progress and I love the new forum software, but I'm not too happy about some changes myself. I think the light mode is too bold (better lower font-weight?) and bright (better light gray instead of full white?), while some layout (example see above), font and color choices still look a bit hacked together rather than feeling "native" yet (in lack for a better word). Perhaps a better choice would have been to keep the fonts and color palettes that people were used to, while upgrading mostly the forum software and the layout around it. Nonetheless thankful for all the (ongoing) hard work put into improving the website and community. 🙂 

 

Edited May 3 by Rysz