Issues with the new theme

'Recent posts' in FF 10.0.2: all posts are rendered to the right of the screen, with the top half obscured by the content that i think should be on the right hand side, if that makes sense?

Like the feel to the new look though!

Lol, so I just turned on the new theme, thought it looked okay I guess, then went to "Recent Posts" and encountered the problem Anatta mentioned above (list of threads obscured by a bunch of crap). Decided to change back to the old look at least until this is fixed, since the recent post tracker's the main way I use the site, and found that there was also a bunch of crap obscuring the box where I was supposed to enter my password on my user screen!

Have managed to change it back now, but this seems like a pretty urgent thing to fix?

Screenshot:

http://imgur.com/8eiVd

I use Firefox 11.0 running on OSX 10.7.3 if that's any help.

~J.

Yeah the tracker page is borked as is the messages page on my profile.
Think I preferred the grey background as it's easier on the eyes than stark black on white. I think the threads now look a bit like Comment is Free on the guardian website.
soz

Is the text in the "libcom.org is a resource for all people who wish to..." box in the right hand column meant to touch the bottom of the grey box?
Also is there supposed to be the dotted line behind thread titles?

It is an improvement, but my initial underwhelmed reaction is now satisfied knowing that there are still changes to come.

I did notice that links in the blog comments don't always display well if they are long. For example, check the last comment by Rank on my blog here. It doesn't fit in the box.

Good work guys!

I also got the same with 'recent posts' as Jolasmo & Annatta in firefox 11.0. And agree with welshboy that grey background is better.

Just thinking about why I was a bit underwhelmed with the design was probably because of the header. I know there seems to be some planned changes for that, looking at your list, but my personal suggestion would be to stretch out the black and grey link bars to the width of the page.

I like the new set-up, find it much easier to read. However, I'm having the same problem where I can't access "recent posts". When I do, no threads show up and the mat'l on the right hand side of the page is obscured.

The re-design will presumably sort out the posting weirdness below blog entries and news articles?

This is probably already known, but in both themes if I go to

> Recent posts
> My recent posts

I get an error message.

Oh, I've also decided I like a slightly toned-down background, even something a like a light blue (darker than the 'old' greyish-blue) I find makes the screen that much easier to read.

All that said, big props to the libcom admins. I know y'all put a ton of work into the site, even if you are all, collectively, the thought police of the anarchist movement

To fix the float problem on the tracker page, you can try adding "float: left" to #main-content in your css sheat.

You checking in older browsers? like IE7 and IE8?

Make sure you use firebug for Firefox to make it easier to solve any styling problems (if you aren't already anyway)

Looks good. Reminds me of one of the UK newspapers, maybe The Guardian?

I like how the library articles look particularly. I'll have to read through that list, but I noticed a couple things, mainly the problems with firefox vs chrome.

Oh, that the posts aren,t numbered and you can't link to them.

Perhaps weirdness is the wrong word, but I'd much prefer if the comments under blogs and articles were the same set-up as comments under a forum post.

one thing I've noticed; when going to the "new posts" link for a topic, the new theme takes you to the relevant page but not to the relevant post on that page.

that aside it looks good

edit: doesn't seem to be doing it now, probably a problem with my browser or somesuch.

re the tracker float problem a solution using the overflow: auto; trick might help when the double floats are causing problems.

was thinking css media queries would be good to make the site more phone friendly, adapt to small screens. Might whip something up, I've got very little time to spare atm though. (hacking some css is a perfect procrastination maneuver when the flat is already spotlessly cleaned though.)

Small thing, but can you add the CSS to round boxes' corners. It would look nice, I think and would be an easy thing to add to the site's visceral improvements, I will add it for you if you want.

By the way, adding float:left to the main-content ID fixes the problem of tracker not working in Firefox just fine.

I've made the float: left; change for #main-content and that also fixes ff for me. Firebug has been broken on ff for me and I'm incapable of fixing CSS without it at this point. Thanks Felix!

personally i find the text width both on forum posts and articles is not great enough....

Looks fine to me -- might as well stick with using it. Would echo Harrison's post above, though -- the posts do seem squeezed over to the left a bit.

Haven't seen it brought up before: On multi-page threads, the list of page numbers ends with a comma. Now that I've noticed it, it's actually irritating....

So has this gone live yet? Which version do non-members see when they visit the site?

The following will break long urls to multiple lines in new browsers. I set it to only activate in urls posted in comments. The Pay cuts thread looks fine in firefox but not webkit based browsers (chrome etc.)

div.forum-post-content a {
    word-wrap: break-word;
}

Another way which can get messy (scrollbars everywhere) ,depending on the details of the whole layout scheme, is to set the following.

div.forum-post-content {
    overflow: auto;
}

Which should give a scrollbar to long posts only. However as mentioned it can cause a mess.

test it first!

The layout is quite complex and my diagnosis on what actually causes the problem might be wrong. I would set it up so I can test it properly and fix some other issues but I've got not time atm. My partner would kill me if she saw me take on more stuff and she's right.

It's nowt to do with the URL. If you take the #main-content {float: left;} style off it displays ok. The CSS needs a bit more investigation.