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Captain_nemo

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I'm using a Moto g6 Play, a Samsung S8 and a Lenovo tablet. It's the same on all.

I didn't get the notification for this btw, i only saw it because i checked back.

I take it the notifications don't work on the giffgaff site either then.

meezaan

Captain_nemo I got notifications about your posts here. Are you following the the discussion thread?

Captain_nemo

Just for @mentions, not the whole discussion.

Prosperous

Welcome to the Flarum family, giffgaff! Great to have you guys aboard and we look forward to the journey ahead. 😃

hrvoje_hr

Captain_nemo I found it well organised on mobile, but don't like such a high font-weight text, it's tough to read.

meezaan

@Captain_nemo perhaps have a look at https://discuss.flarum.org/settings and see what you are subscribed to?

tankerkiller125

For a true understanding of just how well flarum works for them take a look at https://community.giffgaff.com/d/23468746-wishing-giffgaff-friends-a-wonderful-day/

That's 32K post in one discussion and the entire thing just works like a charm, load times are extremely reasonable and overall experience is amazing.

Search does need some fixing though it seems faster than normal but still slower than I would expect to see on a forum.

mrnemesys

tankerkiller125 i'm jealous of this page 😂

Captain_nemo

tankerkiller125

The link doesn't work.

And if there are no pages anymore, is that 32k thread one looooooong scrollfest?

No thanks, the place looks more amateurish now than it did before, and that takes some doing folks! :/

tankerkiller125

Captain_nemo This is the new location, https://community.giffgaff.com/d/33002140-wishing-giffgaff-friends-a-wonderful-day/33747 I don't know why the link changed

Edit: They also have one with more than 208K post https://community.giffgaff.com/d/21692125-wishing-giffgaff-friends-a-wonderful-day/208077

Captain_nemo

tankerkiller125

But again, you can't go straight to a page like before, it's one long mess of a scrollfest.

I've never used a forum where the threads have no pages, be it 10, 30 or 50 posts to a page, but to have no pages at all is just ridiculous.

I wasn't a huge fan of Lithium, but this lot have made it ten times worse. I'm being kind with that comment btw :/

rob006

tankerkiller125 Edit: They also have one with more than 208K post https://community.giffgaff.com/d/21692125-wishing-giffgaff-friends-a-wonderful-day/208077

Hmm, this one does not work very well. Flarum needs to initially load almost 7 MB JSON to browse this thread, and it is extremely slow. It looks like Flarum has the same scalability issues with big topics as Discourse.

jordanjay29

Captain_nemo Ultimately, I suspect you are going to find difficulty garnering sympathy here. This is Flarum's official site, everyone here is interested in Flarum in some fashion and are using it because they like it over the alternatives. No, Flarum isn't perfect, no software is, but its design choices and technology appeal to a lot of people, enough to make them convert their own sites to use it. I'm not sure what you hope to gain by continuing to discuss your issues here, as they seem (and correct me if I'm wrong) relate less to Flarum's own UI design and more with Giffgaff's choice in a software move.

I suggest that you continue this discussion at Giffgaff's official site, or on more diverse discussion communities where you might receive a more balanced set of feedback. This line of commenting is starting to get off-topic.

Captain_nemo

jordanjay29

I'm not looking for sympathy, i'm just telling it like it is.

The site looks amateurish, that's my opinion.

jordanjay29

Captain_nemo Please tell it like it is at Giffgaff's community then, that is the more appropriate venue for this line of comments. It is no longer relevant to the discussion here.

Captain_nemo

jordanjay29

Why? Their car crash of a site has come from you so that's why i'm posting it here.

jordanjay29

Captain_nemo Because you have run the gamut of your critiques here, and they boil down to a dislike for the choice of Flarum. That choice was made by Giffgaff, and it bears discussion with them and no longer here. If you have valid criticism or ways to improve the product of Flarum, feel free to open a new discussion for them, we welcome suggestions for change and questions about design choices, but they do not belong in this discussion here either.

This is specifically about Giffgaff's implementation of Flarum and how they have crafted their new site, and your dislike of their choice has been made well known. Continued discussion of it is dragging this off-topic, and violating our community guidelines. This will be my last post on the matter, please continue back on topic.

Kayo

Pagination is so 00's, an option, not the first one anymore. Thank's for Flarum team for being different in a time that forums are dying for wrong choices of UX and other provlems

tankerkiller125

Kayo Flarums UI choices are exactly why I stopped using the other forum software. I even managed to convince a community I was part of a long time ago (beta 2 I think?) to make a switch from their payed software to flarum at the time. It helps that I was very important to operations (managed the actual servers) but never the less the decision came form the top to switch.

tankerkiller125

rob006 this may be fixable in the future hopefully, maybe later tonight or something I'll look into the code responsible for handling loading data on scroll and see if I can find a way to only load 10 post at a time or something.

rob006

tankerkiller125 It is 7 MB of stuff like {"type":"posts","id":"22004419"},{"type":"posts","id":"22004428"}, I doubt it would be easy to fix (probably scrolling relies on this list). It may require some bigger changes, like introducing some kind of chapters in big topics - this is not only server or client performance problem, big topics are also really hard to navigate for users.

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