Forum updates: new layout and image upload
p.4 #1Forum updates: new layout and image upload
When I come to this site now, I cannot find a place to click on the individual forums like the drop down list we had before. A work around for me was to bookmark a forum that I usually go to and navigate to the other forums from there. This is what I will keep doing if the main page stays as is. I no longer visit the main page.
Nov 06, 2026 at 12:03 PM
p.4 #2Forum updates: new layout and image upload
dclark wrote:
It's set to Next "up", or Previous "down". Perhaps I should name it better for clarity?You may want more opinions, but Up and Down would be more clear to me. Maybe my memory is wrong but I think Next and Previous worked to other way before this change. Regardless, I can adapt to whatever you decide.
Taking another look at the position of the icons, Up and Down may be more confusing. I think I may need to adapt. It only takes a minute to figure it out. I thought it may not have been your intention.
Thanks for the suggestion. I think that Up/Down is ambiguous. Inside a thread, 'down' already means scrolling to later posts, and members could read 'up' as the board list, the top of the page, or the previous post.
I changed it to: Newer/Older which says exactly what you get.
Fred Miranda wrote
dclark wrote
The Prev and Next icons move the wrong direction. At least not the direction I expected.Taking another look at the position of the icons, Up and Down may be more confusing. I think I may need to adapt. It only takes a minute to figure it out. I thought it may not have been your intention.
Thanks for the suggestion. I think that Up/Down is ambiguous. Inside a thread, 'down' already means scrolling to later posts, and members could read 'up' as the board list, the top of the page, or the previous post.
I changed it to: Newer/Older which says exactly what you get.
Nov 06, 2026 at 05:24 PM
p.4 #3Forum updates: new layout and image upload
The forum looks and works great over all! I only found this website earlier this summer, but I used to post on a lot of niche hobby forums years ago, that all eventually, one by-one died out after the great migration to social media, which I ultimately never gravitated toward. I'm glad to see the FM Forum is not only still going, but still being updated. It certainly takes a lot of time to maintain a community like this. However, I find interactions on an old school text/image forum so much more enjoyable than the Facebook Groups that have sucked so many hobbies dry.
Nov 06, 2026 at 06:21 PM