Miss Prism Posted January 1, 2020 Share Posted January 1, 2020 Last night, and mid-session, the RMweb presentation of topics changed from my usual 'condensed' mode to 'expanded' mode, and I can't get it back again - the toggle no longer works for me. Anyone else finding this? 8 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tim Lewis Posted January 1, 2020 Share Posted January 1, 2020 Yes, same here. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold RFS Posted January 1, 2020 RMweb Gold Share Posted January 1, 2020 (edited) Me too. Seems to have happened precisely at midnight as the year changed. Has the software not handled the change of decade correctly? Edited January 1, 2020 by RFS Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold DaveF Posted January 1, 2020 RMweb Gold Share Posted January 1, 2020 It's happened for me too. David Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators AY Mod Posted January 1, 2020 Moderators Share Posted January 1, 2020 Bizarre, nothing has been changed which should impact that. I'm in condensed view and it won't change to expanded. I'll have to look at it next week when I'm back at work. 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Moxy Posted January 1, 2020 RMweb Premium Share Posted January 1, 2020 If it's any help, another forum I frequent that uses Invision Community software is having similar issues. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
alastairq Posted January 1, 2020 Share Posted January 1, 2020 same here too. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark Saunders Posted January 1, 2020 Share Posted January 1, 2020 And another! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
jpendle Posted January 1, 2020 Share Posted January 1, 2020 One more here. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nimbus Posted January 1, 2020 Share Posted January 1, 2020 Ditto here. The 'view=condensed' switch is present in my browser address field. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
gr.king Posted January 2, 2020 Share Posted January 2, 2020 I've only been able to get "condensed" option in "view new content" since yesterday too. I can click the button for the "expanded" option and the button changes colour as if it has worked, but the view remains stubbornly "condensed". By the way, is it the forum software itself annoyingly highlighting every proper English spelling I use as if I should be using the awful American version instead, or is it Windows 10 being awkward? There's enough illiteracy around without promoting it...... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators AY Mod Posted January 2, 2020 Moderators Share Posted January 2, 2020 41 minutes ago, gr.king said: is it the forum software itself annoyingly highlighting every proper English spelling I use as That will be the spellchecker in your browser. Check to see if you can change any settings for locale and language. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
eastwestdivide Posted January 2, 2020 Share Posted January 2, 2020 I've got similar results to gr.king above: - with a personalised stream for my followed content, it stays expanded even though the button appears to work (changes state) as you toggle between expanded/condensed - with the defaults unread content, it stays condensed even though the button appears to work (changes state) as you toggle between expanded/condensed So maybe it's the function to change view that has stoped working, rather than a failure in either of the views themselves. Not a big inconvenience, just a bit more scrolling. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold martin_wynne Posted January 2, 2020 RMweb Gold Share Posted January 2, 2020 2 hours ago, gr.king said: By the way, is it the forum software itself annoyingly highlighting every proper English spelling I use as if I should be using the awful American version instead, or is it Windows 10 being awkward? There's enough illiteracy around without promoting it...... If the spelling is correct, right-click on the word, and then Add to dictionary. Martin. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium brushman47544 Posted January 3, 2020 RMweb Premium Share Posted January 3, 2020 I don’t know if it’s connected to the expanded view, but in addition to being unable to select the condensed view, I am finding it much more difficult (using a tablet) to select the star to go the the first new content. Maybe chubby fingers but I keep selecting the RMWebber image by mistake and go to their profile. Can selecting the star be made easier, perhaps by increasing the space around it or its size, please? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold RFS Posted January 3, 2020 RMweb Gold Share Posted January 3, 2020 2 hours ago, brushman47544 said: I don’t know if it’s connected to the expanded view, but in addition to being unable to select the condensed view, I am finding it much more difficult (using a tablet) to select the star to go the the first new content. Maybe chubby fingers but I keep selecting the RMWebber image by mistake and go to their profile. Can selecting the star be made easier, perhaps by increasing the space around it or its size, please? Just clicking the "nnn replies" spot will take you to the last reply. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
gordon s Posted January 3, 2020 Share Posted January 3, 2020 They are two different things. Clicking on the star should take you to the last reply that you read. If you haven't been on for while or it is a popular subject then there could be 20 replies since you last were on the topic. Clicking on the nnn replies number simply tales you to the last post and you would then have to scroll back to find the last reply you read. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium brushman47544 Posted January 3, 2020 RMweb Premium Share Posted January 3, 2020 2 hours ago, RFS said: Just clicking the "nnn replies" spot will take you to the last reply. Yes it will but that’s not what I want. the star takes you to the first post since your last visit. That is usually much more useful. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold martin_wynne Posted January 3, 2020 RMweb Gold Share Posted January 3, 2020 If you use one of the custom activity streams (or create a new one of your own), clicking the topic title is then the same as clicking the star or bullet, it goes to the first unread post in the topic: I don't know why custom streams should work differently from the default streams, but Invision software is never very logical. Martin. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Butler Henderson Posted January 4, 2020 Share Posted January 4, 2020 Yesterday evening I got the condensed version but this morning its gone back to the expanded version only. With regard to going to the first unread message that I find works when clicking on the topic title apart from yesterday evening when with the condensed view it took me to the first posting. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
jwealleans Posted January 5, 2020 Share Posted January 5, 2020 (edited) Mine has just expanded itself and will not revert. Firefox 71 on Windows 10, patched up to date. Edit - since then it's meandered between the two formats depending on how it's feeling but blithely and consistently ignoring the format selection button. Edited January 6, 2020 by jwealleans Additional information. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold D9020 Nimbus Posted January 6, 2020 RMweb Gold Share Posted January 6, 2020 Still the same problem for me on iPadOS 13.3, Safari. Using the Chrome browser instead is just the same (but then it would be, as Apple forces all browsers to use the same rendering engine). Yesterday, trying Microsoft Edge on W10, condensed appeared to be working to some extent (a bit like expanded versus even more expanded). The same issue has also appeared on NGRM-online, which also uses the same software, so it's likely been caused by an update in the underlying Invision software—so probably nothing @AY Mod can do about it. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators AY Mod Posted January 6, 2020 Moderators Share Posted January 6, 2020 1 hour ago, D9020 Nimbus said: it's likely been caused by an update in the underlying Invision software—so probably nothing @AY Mod can do about it. I believe that's the case so I'm awaiting a fix now. Sorry all! 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Ray H Posted January 22, 2020 RMweb Premium Share Posted January 22, 2020 I'm puzzled (and probably a bit dim into the bargain)! The Expanded/Condensed options still don't appear to show anything different when I'm checking those threads that have changed since my last visit. I recognise that this has been reported so that's not the purpose of this post. It matters not whether I select the expanded or condensed version. What I see is the thread title and the initial three or four lines of text of the last post made on the thread. This obviously takes a definable amount of time to load. However, when I click on one of the sub forums - e.g. Boxfiles, Micro layouts & Dioramas, I see a list of just thread titles, the number of pages, the originator and the start date plus details of the last contributor all within two lines. I presume that loads quicker. Is it a format that can be selected for the whole forum? Would it improve forum performance. I'm not criticising, just asking if it is an option and whether it would go some way to speeding things up? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold RFS Posted February 24, 2020 RMweb Gold Share Posted February 24, 2020 On 06/01/2020 at 16:21, AY Mod said: I believe that's the case so I'm awaiting a fix now. Sorry all! Any idea when this is likely to be fixed? Thanks Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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