Dunno if it’s just me somehow, but seems like the forum front end just got updated:
Gotta say, it’s only slightly worse.
Everything’s a bit larger, as if trying to copy Reddit’s new redesign that’s set up this way to push more ads. Since there aren’t any ads here, there really doesn’t seem like a point for it. Are we supposed to view the site at 80% zoom now for no particular reason?
I kept getting notifications that the world was ending and that I needed to update now. I updated now. I got some error messages. I scratched my head real hard, tried again like 3 times, then it told me “failed to migrate database, if you want to keep using the old one do this”. I did that, and it worked. I’m done scratching my head for the day.
Even though I’m a bit annoyed with everything being slightly bigger, on mobile the update fixed the header. Before you got the links that go to the absolute top of the website on desktop sticking out from beneath the header, now they aren’t there at all. A welcome change if you ask me.
EDIT: While we’re at it, what happened to PWA? I loved using the forum without firefox’s top bar showing up every time I scrolled up but then it just stopped working one day and now even the button to install the forum as pwa is gone.
Progressive web app, I assume. It’s a fairly hidden thing on mobile chrome where you can export a site as an “app” that executes in chrome but runs in full screen. It requires the site to have some metadata json set up properly to work.
I’m not sure how Remy ended up restricting upload sizes, whether it was a setting in discourse or further up the chain. Some kind of ruby php.ini style setting or whatever. I think the limit is 20kb though. I’m pretty sure it’s a blanket setting and status doesn’t override it.
Discourse seems really cool and all… but the fact that you can’t limit users from posting images in a post while simultaneously supporting proper gravatars is a huge smell coming off of their codebase.
Makes me doubt everything else just a little bit more.