Forum Upgraded 15th April, Please report any problems here

[Patrick Connor]

These Affinity forums will be unavailable from around 6:00 am GMT on 15th April 2021.

The Affinity forums are being updated to the latest release version if Invision forums software 4.5.4.2, which has many fixes and some improvements over the existing (4.4.9.2) version.

The maintenance is expected to take up to 4 hours hours so we would expect them to be available again around 10:00 am 15th April. There will be significant visual differences this time, and you will certainly need to log back into the forums when they return.

The Affinity Team

[Old Bruce]

Erghhh....

Hoping it all goes well.

[GarryP]

Good luck from me too. Hope it all goes smoothly.
I hope you’ve got a good set of stock answers ready for the inevitable “What’s going on?”, “Where has this gone?”, “How do I do this now?” and “How can I put things back the way they were?” types of posts. (After a quick look at the release notes I may need to post one or two of these myself.)

[Petar Petrenko]

Hoping I remember password.

[walt.farrell]

Thanks for starting this while I'll be asleep, and finishing (we hope) just as I'm waking up. Excellent planning

[h_d]

8 hours ago, walt.farrell said:

Thanks for starting this while I'll be asleep, and finishing (we hope) just as I'm waking up.

You'll miss all the fun. 

[Patrick Connor]

As you can see the forums have now been updated. If you have any problems please report them in this thread below.

[loukash]

55 minutes ago, Patrick Connor said:

the forums have now been updated

Great theme with less visual clutter. I like it!

55 minutes ago, Patrick Connor said:

If you have any problems please report them in this thread below.

When clicking Submit Reply, the page doesn't reload, stuck at "Saving…"
The post is apparently being saved, however.

El Capitan, Firefox 78.9.0esr (with quite a few "aggressively" set security filters and add-ons, but it worked flawlessly before the update)

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Edit: worked now. D'oh…

Edited April 15, 2021 by loukash

[thomaso]

On 4/13/2021 at 3:59 PM, Patrick Connor said:

you will certainly need to log back into the forums when they return.

Patrick, I got auto-loggedin directly after the update, no login dialog appeared.

But now I don't see an Edit button any more, just "Quote".
… though I get offered an "+ Add Tag" button at a topics title (… which now appears in a separate box above the topics text ).
… though here right above some minutes ago @loukash apparently was able to edit a post.

Any idea how to solve it?

EDIT: solved & sorry: Just found the missed button in the pulldown menu:

Edited April 15, 2021 by thomaso

[walt.farrell]

15 minutes ago, thomaso said:

But now I don't see an Edit button any more, just "Quote".

Look for the "..." icon (upper-right area of the post on my screen).

[Dan C]

58 minutes ago, loukash said:

When clicking Submit Reply, the page doesn't reload, stuck at "Saving…"
The post is apparently being saved, however.

(...)

Edit: worked now. D'oh…

FWIW this happened with my first post on mobile since the upgrade but I have not had any further issues with this since - though I will continue to monitor this so please do let me know if any other posts are caught in 'Saving'

[Joachim_L]

I guess this cannot be changed, but I wanted to type lately 3 (of 8 ) - without the extra space before the closing parenthesis - which gave me 3 (of 😎

[walt.farrell]

4 minutes ago, Joachim_L said:

I guess this cannot be changed, but I wanted to type lately 3 (of 8 ) - without the extra space before the closing parenthesis - which gave me 3 (of 😎

It works if you type "3 (of 8 ) " (note the trailing space) and then delete the space before the ")".

Edit: No, not always. Must test that further...

 

[Joachim_L]

1 minute ago, walt.farrell said:

3 (of 😎

Sure?

 

[Hilltop]

The forums look much cleaner. Good upgrade. 

[walt.farrell]

5 minutes ago, Joachim_L said:

Sure?

 

I was fooled by the Preview function, where it worked.

Too bad the Preview doesn't accurately show what will actually be posted.

What does work, so far, is putting a  punctuation mark after the ")". So far I've tried "." and ",".

3 (of 8).
3 (of 8),
 

[Patrick Connor]

I have turned OFF "Replace text with emoji"  :) 3 (of 8) these are DTP forums and (8) and :) are important and you can still use emoji if you want 😉

[MEB]

Currently the external links appear underlined in black (this is a link) rather than in blue (both text and underline) which would make them much more noticeable and
distinguishable from simple underlined text.

[Patrick Connor]

the engineer who upgraded the forums (starting this morning at 6am) has stopped for the day, but we can ask him to change the styling on hyperlinks. I prefer something more obvious too, as they are always included for a good reason, (and it makes spam links easier to spot too)

[garrettm30]

This looks nice. First impression is good.

[HANDJOJO]

It's look fresh and eye catching 👍 🙂 so far I didn't find any problem here.

 

[Renzatic]

It's definitely a snazzy upgrade. Haven't had any problems so far.

[p_mac]

Any chance of a dark format?

[NotMyFault]

Looks nice, thanks 🙏 

[A_B_C]

Love the new theme! Congratulations, Patrick! 😀