Forum Upgrade

Interesting news. However please ensure the iPad and iPhone version can still be expandable by the user and allow scroll around the 'virtual' screen,  and not a locked down resolution which can't be scrolled around.

Does this mean it will no longer be possible to include YouTube videos in posts?

I don't like the existing 'mobile' version; if using my iPhone, I always switch to the standard view.

Very interesting.

All new functionalities appear to be very powerful.

Up to now when using my tablet I prefer just to read the forum, not very easy to do more interaction.

Regards.

Erich

Any change to the iphone version will be welcome its just terrible. Strangest of all the keyboard does not work right with it, its really hard to type accurately its like the software kills the keyboard, I know it should not, but it does. The silly bit at the top of the screen takes away to much estate, youc annot zoom into the tiny text etc etc.

Also on iphone/ipad every link on the forum has to be hit twice, ever noticed that?

Yes.

Improved widgets, eh?

I'm certainly looking forward to that.

Just remind me again...  what are widgets?

Oh, should have said... as an ex-IT person who has implemented too many new systems to underestimate the enormity of the task... I empathise with Ryan & his colleagues and wish them good luck.

Noting also that anyone who says "luck doesn't come into it, it's all down to good planning", has obviously never done this. 

So I hope it's get better and easier, which is not always a given with an upgrade - I will await with reserved excitement .....

How much easier can this site get?

As far as better .... well that's up to the contributors

Positively hope the significant architectural upgrade here beats my Windows 10 dalliance.

Very Helpful feedback all, much appreciated

Kind regards

Ryan

Some of the FAQs are a bit out of date. Some also link to web pages that are no longer there, or have photos that have vanished. Time for some new material here, maybe?

I hope that the updated forum will allow photos to be added to posts from files stored locally on one's computer.Annoyingly, I have tried adding photos stored on my Mac but cannot get it to work. Currently it only appears to be possible to add photos by means of a link to a photo-hosting website, to which I do not subscribe nor do I have any desire do so.

dsc, you don't need to specifically use a photo hosting website - you can host the file pretty much anywhere that it can be publicly web stored and accessed.  It's just that the photo hosting sites make it easier.  I use photobucket and it works well with not too much advertising and no annoying pop-ups.

Thanks Richard but I think you've missed my point. If I want to post a picture, I want to be able to do it directly from my computer without the hassle of having to first store the picture publicly on some other website.

Thanks ChrisSU, that's interesting. I have never been able to fathom out how to add a photo to a forum post from my Mac and I would regard myself as very computer literate. I would greatly appreciate it if you could let me know how to do it.

dsc, it used to be that way (local image hosting on the forum) some years back but of course Naim pay for the storage and bandwidth and as images proliferated the costs were really adding up. Remember that there is no direct revenue gleaned from the forum. There's no advertising or revenue from links to sale sites. It keeps the forum focussed, clean and straight. But it does cost money to run. As image hosting sites generally offer what is essentially a free service to individuals and their use is now pretty much ubiquitous, local image hosting on the forum makes little economic sense.  

Richard, thank you for the explanation. I didn't realise that pictures posted to the forum were not stored on the forum web server.

Click on the green '+ Add Attachments' beneath the reply box.

Select 'Photos' (bottom left, see screenshot below) and 'choose' the photo you want.

In the next box, select 'Insert all photos and videos into post body' and you're done.

If I remember correctly, you need to save images as JPEGs in iPhoto or it doesn't work.

Many thanks, ChrisSU.

Thanks Chris, I never did work out how to add photo's, that helps immensely.

+1

Sorry Chris still not seeing a green + anywhere on my reply page!

I can't see a green + either.

However, as Richard says, you really need to post your pictures on a hosting web site such as "flickr".

Its a bloody pain to set up and do so. Flickr keep changing their web layout. I now have to load via Explorer but retrieve via Firefox !!

But if you do set up a Flickr account (which is free) and you do manage to copy your desired picture(s) to that site, then Richard has still got a permanent topic in the Padded Cell explaining how to copy a picture from Flickr into a forum Post

The same instructions can also be found in the FAQ...