Oolite Bulletins

The new <wiki> and <wp> tags are froody, the addition of the <*> tag comes in handy as well, and <icode> is nice, too.

Another change is that some topic icons now have a bullet on the left side. It seems these are the topics where I've made a post (during the last six months; older posts seem to be ignored). Can someone knowledgeable confirm this assumption?

Oh, one thing I'm missing is the pull-down menu for directly jumping to another forum (used to be in the lower right corner).

Empirically I'd agree with your assertion about the bullets on unread threads - they're only on the ones I've previously posted.

Commander McLane wrote:

Another change is that some topic icons now have a bullet on the left side. It seems these are the topics where I've made a post (during the last six months; older posts seem to be ignored).

Yep... that's what I think it is too.

Using the 'View your posts' button I get a list where they all have those cute little dots for a while, then they disappear. My last post in the last one with a dot was Sat Aug 07, 2010 4:46 pm, whereas my last post in the first thread without was Sun Jun 27, 2010 6:12 pm.

I'd call the 6 month thing plausible, for now.

Commander McLane wrote:

the addition of the <*> tag comes in handy as well,

I’m pretty sure we had lists before. :-)

Commander McLane wrote:

Another change is that some topic icons now have a bullet on the left side. It seems these are the topics where I've made a post (during the last six months; older posts seem to be ignored). Can someone knowledgeable confirm this assumption?

To quote the button for resetting the cache for that feature, “…marks topics that have seen any activity during the past six months.” I think this is misleading, though.

Ahruman wrote:

Commander McLane wrote:

the addition of the <*> tag comes in handy as well,

I’m pretty sure we had lists before.

Yes, we did. But you had to type '[*]' yourself. The handy button next to the '

• ' and '
  • ' buttons is new, and is what I was referring to.

A couple of minor things: the bb font is not very good. In the index and the side bar, it’s fine, but not in the message pane.
Is it my eyesight, or are embedded links much harder to spot? A slightly different colour would be nice.

Try this on for size.

Ahruman wrote:

Try this on for size.

I really don't like it. Please reset the size.

It wasn't the size... just the font itself that I didn't like (only a personal thing, though).

Font sizes, whether too small or too big, ceased to be a problem for me the moment I discovered the + and - keys.
That being said, I'd err on the small size myself, since reducing the page zoom can also make images and such smaller.

El Viejo wrote:

It wasn't the size... just the font itself that I didn't like (only a personal thing, though).

Which font? Since I don’t have your computer, I don’t know which one you end up using.

Good point… my browser (Firefox) was set to ‘allow pages to choose their own fonts’… I’ll alter that.

Done... that's better.