Vivaldi Forum mod
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@ImaginaryFreedom When you open the composer there is a button with a double arrow on top. When you click that you can enlarge the composer. Zen mode can also be used, as @bariton mentioned. This has nothing to do with the mod, it’s standard nodeBB functionality.
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By the way, 3.9 should be out now. In the meantime I pushed 4.0 with some fixes and the migration to manifest version 3. Turns out Vivaldi was buggy when I first tried almost a year ago. But the commits I did back then work flawlessly now. For the record:
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@ImaginaryFreedom said in Vivaldi Forum mod:
I'm sorry I don't have the time to scroll through 61 pages looking
Your sincere apology is graciously accepted.
Btw, if you change your forum setting to disable pagination, then there's only one continuous page here for you to read. Huzzah!
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@luetage said in Vivaldi Forum mod:
@ImaginaryFreedom When you open the composer there is a button with a double arrow on top. When you click that you can enlarge the composer. Zen mode can also be used, as @bariton mentioned. This has nothing to do with the mod, it’s standard nodeBB functionality.
Thanks for that tip, I would have never guessed this because there's no label on that round thing.
It helps, though the whole "static overlay with tons of wasted space" thing is still not very good UI design IMHO.
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@bariton said in Vivaldi Forum mod:
Without this mod, that provides a nice dark mode that i like a lot, you can press the "Zen Modus" in the default forum. Its this button:
That way you get a full screen double edit feature, but you cant see other posts.
Using the nice mod extension, you get themes/dark one, other good things, and can use the CSS above to get a full with edit section, and be able to scroll the last posts.
What do you mean "the default forum"? How would someone know to even look for this?
And what do you mean by using the extension with "the CSS above"?
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@guigirl said in Vivaldi Forum mod:
@ImaginaryFreedom said in Vivaldi Forum mod:
I'm sorry I don't have the time to scroll through 61 pages looking
Your sincere apology is graciously accepted.
No apology forthcoming nor necessary.
Having done online conferencing longer than 99.9% of the people here - long before the WWW existed - and having been in IT for about 30 years now, I know a bit about the concepts and netiquette.
Expecting readers to read through 61 pages to ascertain whether the topic's subject has a particular functionality is an outrageous expectation unless the author assumes that people don't have any responsibilities in life. (I did check the extension's details on its Chrome store page as mentioned, couldn't find the info there either)
Btw, if you change your forum setting to disable pagination, then there's only one continuous page here for you to read. Huzzah!
Thanks. I'll now discount whatever you have to say going forward.
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@ImaginaryFreedom Wow.
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@guigirl said in Vivaldi Forum mod:
@ImaginaryFreedom Wow.
I am coming here for "support", not for "entertainment" or "socializing".
Perhaps that explains your "shock".
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@ImaginaryFreedom And your charming attitude certainly enhances your opportunities for peeps to feel inclined to assist you. I mean, who could resist such a pleasant humble poster? Shirley
nobody
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Perhaps you should think about making sarcastic jokes at someone else's expense because it appears you don't seem to value the intentions of those who come here to get help with technical issues rather than have sarcastic snarky responses thrown at them when they are just trying to solve a technical problem.
Just a thought.
(PS: I love sarcasm as much or more than the next person. But people I have never interacted with before who throw such sarcasm at me while I am clearly trying to have a serious discussion about a technical matter don't have that privilege until I know who they are and what their general attitude is.
Because it could easily just be a caustic and disrespectful comment that no one should expect to tolerate. Since, yanno, lots of people just spew that kind of thing at everyone. Especially online where the social cost of being a jerk is typically nil.)
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@ImaginaryFreedom Chill, chill... after all, y'know...
@ImaginaryFreedom said in Vivaldi Forum mod:
I'll now discount whatever you have to say going forward.
Anyway, fear not, henceforth i'll save you the discomfort of needing further interactions with me. The user filter block is a marvellous thing indeed.
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@ImaginaryFreedom Ok, let’s go through this point by point.
What do you mean "the default forum"?
The forum without the Vivaldi Forum mod extension.
And what do you mean by using the extension with "the CSS above"?
When you open the extension’s options page, there is a »modifications« tab at top. There you can enable User CSS and write or paste and save CSS that will change the styling of the forum, for example the bit of code @bariton wrote recently.
Expecting readers to read through 61 pages to ascertain whether the topic's subject has a particular functionality is an outrageous expectation unless the author assumes that people don't have any responsibilities in life.
All the extension features are explained/listed in the original post ☛ https://forum.vivaldi.net/post/151410. You don’t have to read through this whole topic and I don’t expect anyone to.
As mentioned before, the extension doesn’t change the layout of the composer. But when you open the composer you can either click the double arrow button, or click the zen mode icon in the toolbar of the composer (as mentioned/pictured by @bariton), which will enter a fullscreen composer overlay without distractions.
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@luetage said in Vivaldi Forum mod:
@ImaginaryFreedom Ok, let’s go through this point by point.
What do you mean "the default forum"?
The forum without the Vivaldi Forum mod extension.
Uhh, OK. That was not obvious with that wording. Thanks.
For what it's worth, @bariton was referring to a button that does not appear here.Correction, see below.
And what do you mean by using the extension with "the CSS above"?
When you open the extension’s options page, there is a »modifications« tab at top. There you can enable User CSS and write or paste and save CSS that will change the styling of the forum, for example the bit of code @bariton wrote recently.
OK.
I already have Stylus installed which can do such things.
But I don't mess around with it a lot because I have never bothered to learn CSS. (I am currently using it for one purpose: run some CSS that was published here that makes the default page scrollbars large and visible, since I find the Vivaldi default small and hard to see/grab.)
Expecting readers to read through 61 pages to ascertain whether the topic's subject has a particular functionality is an outrageous expectation unless the author assumes that people don't have any responsibilities in life.
All the extension features are explained/listed in the original post ☛ https://forum.vivaldi.net/post/151410. You don’t have to read through this whole topic and I don’t expect anyone to.
I'm glad someone here is reasonable about that matter.
As for the features, the extension page on Chrome Store implied that there were several things not mentioned in those documents, and since the screenshots there did not depict any pages with an active editor window, I wondered whether the themes made any changes to the editor or could be capable of doing so - that's why I posed the question.
As mentioned before, the extension doesn’t change the layout of the composer. But when you open the composer you can either click the double arrow button, or click the zen mode icon in the toolbar of the composer (as mentioned/pictured by @bariton), which will enter a fullscreen composer overlay without distractions.
Now that's an extremely non-obvious UI.
Every WYSIWYG web forum editor I have ever used used the buttons in that position strictly for in-edit-box functionality.
Neither would any human without prior knowledge of this particular platform be able to ascertain what the heck "zen mode" even means in this context.
Anyway, thanks for the tip. I will test it after posting this.
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Though i use Stylus on many of my fav sites, either with my own css or Stylus-hosted ones, when it comes specifically to the V Forum in V ofc i use the brilliant VFM, and my own css in FF-Nightly. Dunno why, but til now it never crossed my mind to see what V Forum Stylus-hosted ones there were. There's actually quite a lot, to my surprise. Some of them seem pretty narrowly-focused though, vs trying to style the whole site.
I wonder how many users of those V Forum Stylus-hosted ones are using V browser, without ever realising that VFM exists? Ofc though, for anyone who might cheat on Vivaldi with Firefox , thank goodness there's Stylus [hosted or not].
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@guigirl said in Vivaldi Forum mod:
@ImaginaryFreedom Chill, chill... after all, y'know...
@ImaginaryFreedom said in Vivaldi Forum mod:
I'll now discount whatever you have to say going forward.
Anyway, fear not, henceforth i'll save you the discomfort of needing further interactions with me. The user filter block is a marvellous thing indeed.
I don't know whether you're planning to use that feature yourself or you are making yet another sarcastic comment as if you are doing me some kind of "favor" by supposedly illuminating me about it.
If the latter, I tend to prefer to keep an eye on participants I find annoying, rather than block them. All too tempting for people to start ragging on you behind your back and such. Or do other annoying things that break fora rules and which deserve to be reported.
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First time using the user bookmarks in this forum, "found" them only via VFm.
It's hard for me to see the clickable links to the threads, so this helped me:.page-user .topic-title { color: #ff9e64 !important; }
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@bariton You can assign an existing color variable, if you like. Has the advantage that it will change depending on theme in use. The link color would probably be best, but you would need to set a different hover color too then.
e.g.:
.posts-list .posts-list-item .topic-title { color: var(--colorLi); }
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Ah great thank you, I tried --colorHi, but without the var() - thanks : )
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I messed up the update. Not enough testing on my part. The advanced formatting mod is still broken. Shouldn’t have removed the z-index. Moreover the guiding lines don’t show up in zen mode on either version, but are gone from the normal composer too now, as is the emoticon popup. We got to find a solution for this.
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With the pseudo-class :has() you can highlight your posts with a different color. (A little dose of personal vanity is not a bad thing )
For example the @guigirl posts would look like this:
ul.posts > li:has([href*="guigirl"]) {border-left: 3px solid #a99be0 !important; border-right: 3px solid #a99be0 !important; border-top: 3px solid #a99be0 !important; border-bottom: 3px solid #a99be0!important; border-radius: 15px !important;}