editor Posted June 7, 2010 Share Posted June 7, 2010 In this thread I will post information about the most recent software upgrades, and take questions. Please note that I'm still making adjustments and working out bugs. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
editor Posted June 7, 2010 Author Share Posted June 7, 2010 As always, you can get system status updates and information from our Twitter feed and Facebook page:HAIF on Twitter: http://twitter.com/HAIFHAIF on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/HoustonArchitecture Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ricco67 Posted June 7, 2010 Share Posted June 7, 2010 Well, it threw me into mobile mode (on my phone), but I don't mind it because the interface looks much better than the previous version. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
editor Posted June 7, 2010 Author Share Posted June 7, 2010 Well, it threw me into mobile mode (on my phone), but I don't mind it because the interface looks much better than the previous version.Which phone are you using? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Highway6 Posted June 7, 2010 Share Posted June 7, 2010 Editor, In reply to your final post on the HD4 thread... "The old forum software didn't have a 12/24/48-hour topic list. But what it did was defaulted to the option to show you all posts you hadn't read. That feature still exists. It's in your Settings area: That solution does not solve the problem I laid out. That is how my search setting is configured. If a thread I visited yesterday has not received a new post by anyone since my last visit, then neither of those two settings above will allow me to find it. Only a "show me active past 24 hrs" button would. If that's never been nor ever will be an option.. so be it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
editor Posted June 7, 2010 Author Share Posted June 7, 2010 Editor, In reply to your final post on the HD4 thread... "The old forum software didn't have a 12/24/48-hour topic list. But what it did was defaulted to the option to show you all posts you hadn't read. That feature still exists. It's in your Settings area: That solution does not solve the problem I laid out. That is how my search setting is configured. If a thread I visited yesterday has not received a new post by anyone since my last visit, then neither of those two settings above will allow me to find it. Only a "show me active past 24 hrs" button would. If that's never been nor ever will be an option.. so be it. Sorry. I must have misread what you wrote. I don't remember if there was a 12/24/48 hour option before. I'm fairly certain there wasn't, though there's no way to go back to be sure. I've added your request to the list of things I'm going to try to implement with the new upgrade. If I'm able to make it happen, I'll post here. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Highway6 Posted June 7, 2010 Share Posted June 7, 2010 I've added your request to the list of things I'm going to try to implement with the new upgrade. If I'm able to make it happen, I'll post here.Thank you !! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ricco67 Posted June 7, 2010 Share Posted June 7, 2010 I'm using my trusty G1 android.The only thing I don't llke about it is the fact you can't respond to a particular post to include a quote, but I could always switch versions to do so. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
editor Posted June 7, 2010 Author Share Posted June 7, 2010 A quick update about some things I'm working on --It looks like we'll go back to the "classic" HAIF colors. The current color scheme is a little jarring, IMO. Also, I think the old blue shades kind of defined HAIF in the old days and made it stand out. I think I'm going to be able to bring that color scheme back from the dead. If you are new, or don't remember what the old colors looked like, they still exist on HAIF:Now.Sharing a topic on Facebook, Twitter, etc... will be a little easier, or at least more explicit.If someone shares a thread on Facebook, you will the number of people who have done so.I think HAIF:Maps is coming back. Maybe not today, but likely soon. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
editor Posted June 7, 2010 Author Share Posted June 7, 2010 OK, I'm going to switch everyone over to the new system now. It's not quite complete. There are a number of features that have to be re-enabled or migrated or merely switched on. It will take a few days to shake everything out.If you notice a feature missing, something not quite right, or a way to improve things, let me know. I don't commit myself to tinkering with the guts of HAIF very often, so if you want something, this is your chance to ask. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
editor Posted June 7, 2010 Author Share Posted June 7, 2010 I've changed the way HAIF pushes CSS to your computer.It used to be that all of the so-called "styling" (colors and formatting mostly) were delivered to your web browser as a separate file. This was done to speed up the loading of HAIF pages. What would happen is your browser only had to check once a day or so to see if the CSS file changed or not, and if it hadn't would just use the old copy it cached on your computer rather than fetching a fresh copy from HAIF.Well, not everyone's computer wants to play nicely. Some people using older browsers (*cough* Internet Exploder *cough*) or unusual connections (often satellite connections to oil drilling sites in the Gulf of Wyoming or other remote places) wouldn't get the styles right. For various reasons their browsers would load the text and pictures, but not the style file. These instances have been described as HAIF looking "low resolution" or "1994."So, what I've done is jam a compressed version of the style file into each HAIF page as it is delivered to you. This makes page loading slower for people who aren't on broadband connections. But I just checked, and these days only 1.79% of HAIF visitors are on dialup. So, I'm afraid you guys are going to have to suck it up for the benefit of those with outdated browsers. I know this affects about 600 people, but I'm not sure what else to do. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
editor Posted June 7, 2010 Author Share Posted June 7, 2010 If you're a HAIF subscriber, let me know if you see ads on HAIF. You shouldn't, but I'd like confirmation to make sure.Also, for those of you who haven't signed up for ad-free HAIF -- With this new system, you no longer have to wait up to 24 hours for the ads to disappear. Once you pay for your subscription, the ads should disappear almost immediately. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lockmat Posted June 7, 2010 Share Posted June 7, 2010 What about making sticky threads for those developments that are popular/in the planning/under construction/likely to be commented on over a long period of time? Ones that are more than just, "Michael Jackson RIP" that we know we'll come back to later? I'm not sure who would decide, I guess the mods (maybe via user request?).They could stay in their regular forum and then maybe duplicated into a "popular" sub-forum? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
editor Posted June 7, 2010 Author Share Posted June 7, 2010 I removed the forum icons from the front page. They just seemed like so much clutter with the new/old design.I'm also updating the forum section descriptions. Some of them are a few years out of date. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
editor Posted June 8, 2010 Author Share Posted June 8, 2010 I fixed a bunch of color problems. Facebook login doesn't work right now. So... don't use it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IronTiger Posted June 8, 2010 Share Posted June 8, 2010 Yeah, I found out through my iPod that something was up...the mobile version looked a lot better. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
editor Posted June 8, 2010 Author Share Posted June 8, 2010 You can now sign up or log in to HAIF with your Twitter account.You can now sign up or log in to HAIF with your Facebook account. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
editor Posted June 8, 2010 Author Share Posted June 8, 2010 You can now push your Twitter profile picture to be used as your HAIF profile picture.You can now push your Twitter avatar so it is used as your HAIF avatar.You can now push your Twitter About Me bio so it is your HAIF About Me bio.You can now link your Twitter tweets so they become your HAIF status.You can now export your HAIF status so it becomes a Twitter tweet. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
editor Posted June 8, 2010 Author Share Posted June 8, 2010 You can now sync your HAIF profile picture with your Facebook picture.You can now sync your HAIF avatar with your Facebook picture.You can now update your HAIF "About Me" with your Facebook "About Me"You can now sync your HAIF status to your Facebook status.You can now sync your Facebook status to your HAIF status.!! ALERT !!If you sync both your Twitter and Facebook accounts with your HAIF account, be sure not to select overlapping options. For example, if you set both Facebook and Twitter to update your HAIF status, they will constantly overwrite each other.You can now quickly share HAIF discussions through Twitter, Facebook, Digg, Google Reader/Wave, Del.icio.us, Reddit, StumbleUpon, or e-mail. You can also print or download a PDF. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
editor Posted June 8, 2010 Author Share Posted June 8, 2010 HAIF now has a new (easier to remember) Facebook address: http://www.facebook.com/HoustonArchitectureIf you had the old one bookmarked, it will still work.I just changed a whole bunch of settings to make it much easier, yet more secure, to sign up for a HAIF account. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
editor Posted June 8, 2010 Author Share Posted June 8, 2010 You can now reply directly to other people's status updates. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
editor Posted June 8, 2010 Author Share Posted June 8, 2010 People have long requested the ability to preview a topic without actually going into the topic, itself. All of the implementations I've seen to date have been really ugly and obnoxious, with windows popping up all over the screen. Really brutal. Now it is possible to do that on HAIF -- but it's been implemented in a civilized manner. When you hover your mouse over a thread title, there is an icon with a green arrow. Click it and the preview appears. I think this is a pretty good compromise. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheNiche Posted June 8, 2010 Share Posted June 8, 2010 I think that you'll get more traffic if "View New Posts" is more prominently displayed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ricco67 Posted June 8, 2010 Share Posted June 8, 2010 How's this: Be able to just blank out a topic you don't have an interest in reading or mark it read by clicking a button? Sometimes the "Mark all read" can just blank stuff you don't mean to. The system looks great, Ed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lockmat Posted June 8, 2010 Share Posted June 8, 2010 the location of the ads makes everything look much better, too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jesse Posted June 8, 2010 Share Posted June 8, 2010 Looks great... my only sugguestion would be that the icons for "no new posts" and "new posts" are *really* similar looking. Hard to tell the difference (to me) at first glance Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
editor Posted June 8, 2010 Author Share Posted June 8, 2010 Be able to just blank out a topic you don't have an interest in reading or mark it read by clicking a button? Sometimes the "Mark all read" can just blank stuff you don't mean to.Do you mean mark a single thread read with a single click, or do you mean click something to cause a thread to never show up in your unread threads list ever again?Looks great... my only sugguestion would be that the icons for "no new posts" and "new posts" are *really* similar looking. Hard to tell the difference (to me) at first glanceYeah, the default icons are really fugly. They look like they're straight out of the internet's mid-90's Playskool era.Fortunately, Highway6 is taking a stab at making some replacement icons for us. Hopefully we'll see what he comes up with by the end of the week. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AtticaFlinch Posted June 8, 2010 Share Posted June 8, 2010 Fortunately, Highway6 is taking a stab at making some replacement icons for us. Hopefully we'll see what he comes up with by the end of the week.If they're anywhere near as awesome as his Bagwell/derrick/shuttle monument idea, he might be the first person ever to win a Nobel prize for icon design. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
editor Posted June 8, 2010 Author Share Posted June 8, 2010 the location of the ads makes everything look much better, too.Don't get too excited there. I still have some tweaking to do. There are certain items which have disappeared that I'm still obligated to put back in once I find a way. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ricco67 Posted June 8, 2010 Share Posted June 8, 2010 Do you mean mark a single thread read with a single click, or do you mean click something to cause a thread to never show up in your unread threads list ever again? I would prefer to just click and never see that thread again, but if I can just bypass by just clicking it and disappear for that session, that would work too. Oh yeah, put the "-" back on? Please? Pretty please? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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