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We don't really have a lot of members that fall into this category , do we?
True :) I've gone ahead and changed it. This will be good for mobile devices with not so much vertical horizontal space.

I'm planning to remove the Vegetarian Directory menu and add-on, which will free up even more space up there, but there are a couple of things I need to sort out first.
 
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There was a new Xenforo release today, just bug fixes mostly, so no new flashy features. I'll be installing it tonight once I've done the online Christmas shopping I promised to do ....
 
Will probably start installing it in 30 mins or so. The forum will be unavailable for 5 - 10 minutes.

Edit: The upgrade was successful. All done.
 
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I can report that the 'save to drafts' feature now works across different computers no matter if you log in or out. There were several posts I started last night from my home comp - but for whatever reason never actually posted them. (I was a little drunk and thought I'd better review them this morning with a clear head.) This morning I logged in on my work computer and there were all my drafts from each and every post I had started commenting on. Nice!
 
I usually use Tapatalk, so I didn't notice a change on mobile, but I checked it out on my iPad Mini and it's showing two columns, which is a lot crammed into that tiny screen. I'm not sure how other brands of tablets handle websites, by my iPad tends to show the full desktop sites where my phone will default to mobile styles when available.

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I've been talking to the add-on developer and made some tweaks so that the forum descriptions are no longer written out in full, only one line that gets truncated so you only see the one line.

Also, there is an issue with the default browser (it's called Android v4.1) on my Samsung Galaxy Tab: It won't display the forums side-by-side as in RabbitLuvr screenshot on the right above. This may be fixed in the next update to the add-on. (It works fine in Google Chrome though, which you can also get on most Android tablets, and which is probably better anyway.)
 
I've attempted to remove the annoying pop-up (trying to make you buy Tapatalk) that you get sometimes in browsers on mobile devices. I think it's displayed if you visit the site while not logged in.
 
We were offline for a minute just now while I was increasing our disk storage. Now there is double the size we had before.
 
We were offline for a minute while I was upgrading the forum software to the latest version. This version is just a maintenance release, so no new features, but hopefully a couple of bugs were fixed.
 
Academic disciplines then
Social Sciences & Humanities...I think..
 
I should put stuff about black holes in the mythology section....the great myth of science......If science comes to its senses, I'm not sure that the radiation that comes from frozen stars will be called Hawking Radiation.
 
I didn't know there was a religion forum. I just looked (in tapatalk) and don't see it. What category is it under, am I just not seeing it?
Yes, KLS52 is correct. It's a sub-forum, so it's not so visible.
I should put stuff about black holes in the mythology section....the great myth of science......If science comes to its senses, I'm not sure that the radiation that comes from frozen stars will be called Hawking Radiation.
If that's the angle/spin you want to use, sure, go ahead :-)
 
is it really a good idea to lump things that people might hold personally sacred with a bunch of old myths and Greek God stories etc?


Just saying...:p

It is bugging me so I thought I would just post it rather than brood on it.

edit: also mixing up things that people believe to be true about reality, with things that people hold to be stories, even if they were once religious beliefs.

Would it be that difficult to create a subforum, in Social Sciences & Humanities, just for mythologies?
 
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Well, I really just wanted to broaden the scope of the forum a bit. I see your point!

How about Religion & Spirituality? That way it caters to organised religion, the new age crowd, and those with more unique beliefs etc.
 
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that seems ok. To me 'religion' would cover that anyway, as I don't differentiate between organised and non-organised, but some people do....
Maybe other people might want to chime in..
 
I think... there's a benefit to keeping things simple. It's less overwhelming to people new to the site.

I like religion, or religion and spirituality, or even just spirituality. I am neither religious or spiritual though so maybe my thoughts don't count much!
 


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