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Hi everyone,
We're hoping to launch updated version of UKC/UKH very soon and could do with some beta testers for general feedback and bug reports.
Anyone wishing to give the new site a whirl please head to https://www2.ukclimbing.com.
Login to the popup using
User: beta, Password: t3sting
There's a link at the top of every page to a separate forum for feedback and faults: https://www2.ukclimbing.com/forums/development/
Main changes:
UKC & UKH branding - We have new logos
Homepage
The featured posts slider has been replaced with a static cards (it never resized particularly well for mobiles).
More news and articles and the Weekly Top Photos shows a lot more content (on bigger screens).
News
Updated layout for News homepage and you can now filter news by activity eg. https://www2.ukclimbing.com/news/activity/sport/
Competitions page now lists comps you've entered differently to those you have https://www2.ukclimbing.com/news/competitions/
Articles
Updated layout for Articles homepage https://www2.ukclimbing.com/articles/
Digital Features index page that list them by series https://www2.ukclimbing.com/articles/digital_features/
Gear
Incremental changes sicne the last update, product videos on Gear homepage
A lot more info on the brand pages - Sponsored Athletes and links to Directory listings https://www2.ukclimbing.com/gear/brands/dmm/
Forums
A few improvements for tablets here and there but not many changes. The forum icons are SVG now so should look better, a few have been changed slightly.
Directory
Pretty big changes - The search page is updated and individual listings pages are a lot better eg https://www2.ukclimbing.com/listings/climbing_walls/the_depot_climbing_cent...
The popup image viewer to enlarge thumbnail images (used on News, Articles, Gear and obviously Photos) has been reworked and is a lot better on mobiles now eg https://www2.ukclimbing.com/photos/dbpage.php?id=322335. You will be able to comment and vote from a image popup in the future but it's not quite ready.
Cheers, Paul.
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In reply to Paul Phillips - UKC and UKH:
It’s working I’m posting from it now
In reply to Paul Phillips - UKC and UKH:
Everything seems fine here Paul , working with windows on a DT
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In reply to Paul Phillips - UKC and UKH:
The date format in "My Forums" has changed and isn't as useful as the time and weekday shown on the specific forum pages.
Post edited at 08:39
In reply to Paul Phillips - UKC and UKH:
I should probably be posting this in the 'leave feedback' section on the new site right...?
In reply to MeMeMe:
Yes please. Makes it a lot easier to track.
In reply to Paul Phillips - UKC and UKH:
Good looking logo
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In reply to Paul Phillips - UKC and UKH:
Looking at mainly the forums on an iPad using Safari, everything looked cleaner and resized better, however "like" "dislike" and more importantly the button that takes you back to "My Forums" were just blank boxes, OK if you are familiar with the UKC forum layout, but probably not so good as a new user.
In reply to Paul Phillips - UKC and UKH:
(On my MacBook Pro) some of the ads on the right column have jumped over the left, obliterating most of his main column (broken 'Float:Right'??)
In reply to Gordon Stainforth:
Me too - when I have the web browser full screen. When I narrow the window it stops.
Chrome on a Windows 10 PC.
In reply to Paul Phillips - UKC and UKH:
Don't seem to be able to scroll within the post entry box. Guess how I discovered that...
In reply to Gordon Stainforth:
Is it the same on www2 for you?
In reply to Paul Phillips - UKC and UKH:
No. I hadn't realized that I wasn't on your new design website. So I've no idea what I was looking at: it looked just the same as this www2 one.
In reply to Gordon Stainforth:
Can you try visiting this page https://www.ukclimbing.com/clear_cache.php. If that doesn't fix it can you send me a screenshot please? paul at ukclimbing.com
In reply to Paul Phillips - UKC and UKH:
That seems to have done the trick. But how odd that the cache should affect the page layout. .... The worrds had scarecly been written when it happened again. Will send screens hot. Can't see what I'm typing now. So apologies if there are typos.
Post edited at 23:22
In reply to captain paranoia:
What Browser/Device?
In reply to Paul Phillips - UKC and UKH:
Again, I'm doing this blind because reply box is half-obliterated. Here is a screenshot: http://www.gordonstainforthbelper.co.uk/images/Screenshot%202019-02-05%2023...
In reply to Paul Phillips - UKC and UKH:
Here's one showing the web address:
http://www.gordonstainforthbelper.co.uk/images/Screenshot%202019-02-05%2023...
Post edited at 23:34
In reply to Gordon Stainforth:
Looks like it's the sticky sidebar. I've disabled it on www until I can figure out what's happening.
In reply to Paul Phillips - UKC and UKH:
It's working OK again now.
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In reply to Paul Phillips - UKC and UKH:
On an iPad (10.3.3) using Safari I no longer see the icons for the different forums just a blank line, can guess the position and still brings up the forum. Also no icon for read/new post to the left of the topic name.
In reply to mjc1010:
I take it you can't upgrade to iOS 12? I'll add a work around to use the old icons tomorrow.
In reply to Paul Phillips - UKC and UKH:
No unfortunately not. However, having posted the above the read/ unread post icons have reappeared, some of the time, but the menu ones are still missing.
Post edited at 00:00
In reply to mjc1010:
The forum icons are an SVG sprite (which looks a lot better on modern browsers) and different from the rest of the icons which is an icon font (https://fontawesome.com/icons).
In reply to Paul Phillips - UKC and UKH:
Have you changed the actual forum format now? (I haven't looked at the beta). It's gone from neat to an overlarge overspaced mess! Desktop Mac. Don't know how to post a screenshot.
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In reply to Paul Phillips - UKC and UKH:
I think the ‘in reply to’ button is broken.
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In reply to digby:
Are you sure you're on 100% zoom? The forums has hardly been touched. Ctrl/Cmd + Zero key will reset it.
In reply to Tom Ripley Mountain Guide:
Thanks, I'm sure that was working yesterday before I pushed the changes... Typical!
In reply to Tom Ripley Mountain Guide:
Same with me.
Windows 10 and Chrome.
In reply to Paul Phillips - UKC and UKH:
> Are you sure you're on 100% zoom? The forums has hardly been touched. Ctrl/Cmd + Zero key will reset it.
First thing I thought of! It looks the same zoomed out as well. Previously all the text fitted on a single line, font was smaller and there was less padding above and below the text.
https://i1278.photobucket.com/albums/y520/digbymaass/Screen%20Shot%202019-0...
Post edited at 08:56
In reply to Paul Phillips - UKC and UKH:
Ah wait - somehow 'large font size in forums' was checked in the prefs.
Still doesn't look right though... Is the column narrower? There isn't quite enough width to not truncate some eg 'posted by' names. And there is a lot of padding.
https://i1278.photobucket.com/albums/y520/digbymaass/Screen%20Shot%202019-0...
Post edited at 09:06
In reply to digby:
The forum icons aren't showing for you either. What Browser/Device are you using.
In reply to Paul Phillips - UKC and UKH:
Broken Link
The page "/news/press/2018/10/https%3A%2F%2Fwww.glenmorelodge.org.uk%2F%3Futm_campaign%3Dukclimbing%26utm_medium%3Dgear_more_info%26utm_source%3Dgear_id_11355" was not found on this server.
In reply to Paul Phillips - UKC and UKH:
> The forum icons aren't showing for you either. What Browser/Device are you using.
Mac desktop. The icons are only not showing in my older Safari -
Console:
[Error] SyntaxError: Unexpected token ')'
(anonymous function) (forums:658)
> Selected Element
< <img src="/img/forums/fsprites6.svg#Layer_16" class="ficon"> = $1They are showing in Firefox and Chrome. No errors.
In reply to Paul Phillips - UKC and UKH:
Overall it looks really nice, and you don't seem to have sacrificed function for form in any noticeable way.
I particularly like night mode, and will keep it on all the time as it's much easier on the eyes. One think I noticed is that the horizontal dividing lines between posts are a bit obtrusive in night mode: could they be made slightly darker? Also, the colour used to indicate text quoted from another post* is rather too dark to be legible in my opinion. (I know, no pleasing some people...)
But again, nice work!
* Edit: and also used for headings on the right-hand-side of the user profile page.
Post edited at 10:10
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In reply to digby:
Can you try going to https://www.ukclimbing.com/clear_cache.php and see if that fixes the SVG forum icons please? There was a ) in the SVG file but it was in a comment so shouldn't have interfered with the rendering but there's no telling on how old Safari will deal with it.
In reply to Andy Johnson:
Thanks, still a few tweaks to do for night mode. I'll hopefully have that looking better by the end of the week and baked into the main stylesheet.
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In reply to scon:
Thanks, fixed that link. You'll need to hard refresh (Ctrl+F5 on PC) to see the change on https://www.ukclimbing.com/news/press/2018/10/glenmore_lodge_early_bird_dis...
This is the correct link https://www.glenmorelodge.org.uk/?utm_campaign=ukclimbing&utm_medium=ge...
In reply to Paul Phillips - UKC and UKH:
Don't know if it's intentional, but following a non-UKC hyperlink from a forum post no longer opens the link in a new tab, it replaces the current one instead.
Also, just noticed when writing this, the font when writing a reply is different from the rest (might be Arial of some sort I think)
In reply to Simon Caldwell:
That bug's just been fixed and the news post updated.
I'll have a look at the font in the reply window, looks the same here tho.
We are closing this thread.
Can people give feedback on the new thread here - https://www.ukclimbing.com/forums/ukc/ukc_and_ukh_web_site_and_logo_changes...
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