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Old 07-15-2018
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Originally Posted by Don Cragun
I can confirm that having one or more "new" confidential posts causes my avatar to blink Smilie and that reading the "new" confidential posts does not cause my avatar to stop blinking. Smilie

I also note that if I click on where my avatar was after it blinks out, it is a no-op. I can only click on my avatar when it is visible to turn on or turn off the blue status region on the left side of the window. I'm not sure if this is a bug or a feature, but it is annoying to click on my avatar just as it is disappearing and have to wait to try again when it reappears. Smilie
Yes, after reading the "new confidential posts" you have to select Mark Forums Read to reset the notifications to zero (stop blinking).

Regarding blinking in general, I plan to make this go aways soon (no more blinking at all) and replace with little badges on the avatar image, like little circles or boxes with the number of unread PMS or unread confidential posts in the little circles or boxes.

I just need to download the new libs, and I think I will do this with Bootstrap and a little bit of CSS and JS code.
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# 9  
Old 07-16-2018
OK Don,

I have got the PM part basically done, where instead of a blinking avatar, there is a blinking red badge with the number of PMs unread in the center.

LOL

What should we do about unread confidential posts? Add another badge? Alternate them? Or just add another badge in another corner? Use one badge and just change colors? Or just change the blinking rate when there are unread confidential posts? Not sure how to proceed with badge notifications for CPs (confidential posts).

What do you think?
# 10  
Old 07-16-2018
I like the badge with a number, be it for PM or CP; why not for new posts?
It's a bit difficult to scroll down to the bottom to click "Mark Forums read" - mayhap a click on the avatar could suffice.
The line spacing is a bit generous now, making contents drop beyond the bottom, and some lines and boxes I was used to have disappeared. I will accustom myself...
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# 11  
Old 07-16-2018
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Originally Posted by RudiC
I like the badge with a number, be it for PM or CP; why not for new posts?
It's a bit difficult to scroll down to the bottom to click "Mark Forums read" - mayhap a click on the avatar could suffice.
I agree it needs something better to clear this. I am not sure why it does not clear after reading the posts, but I'll put it the TODO list. Thanks.

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Originally Posted by RudiC
The line spacing is a bit generous now, making contents drop beyond the bottom, and some lines and boxes I was used to have disappeared. I will accustom myself...
I'm trying to get rid of the very congested areas with so many unnecessary lines. If you have particular area you are not happy with, please post a screen shot with comments on that screen shot. Thanks.

It's a very big site with 100s of thousands of lines of code, so I need a bit more specific comments to address them. Thanks!!!

In a few areas, the lines have disappeared, but that may be because I moved some CSS out of the pages to be loaded via a link. Somewhere along the way, some lines got lots, and I'll try moving that CSS back onto the main code area and see if that fixes the problem... but on the other hand, I like less lines and grids, but it was by accident, LOL

Update, I found the code which caused the line spacing where it should not be:

Code:
td{ padding:10px;}

Which I added to a single table in a forum view template, but it seems to apply that TD CSS "across-the-board" so I've nixed it until I find a better way. Smilie
# 12  
Old 07-16-2018
Quote:
Originally Posted by RudiC
I like the badge with a number, be it for PM or CP; why not for new posts?
It's a bit difficult to scroll down to the bottom to click "Mark Forums read" - mayhap a click on the avatar could suffice.
OK, I think this is close to OK for now.

There is blue badge when there are new confidential posts with the number of posts inside. I added a "Mark Forums Read" item in the new member panel to clear these since they do not immediately clear after a post is read. I will think about how best to fix this later.

There is a slow blinking red badge when there are new PMs in your inbox with the unread number inside, and it will clear when the PMs are read and the page reloaded.

Cheers.
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# 13  
Old 07-16-2018
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Originally Posted by Neo
Which I added to a single table in a forum view template, but it seems to apply that TD CSS "across-the-board" so I've nixed it until I find a better way. Smilie
I reverted this CSS file back to "the old way" and it seems to work better; still some lines are missing, but I'm OK with that for now.
# 14  
Old 07-16-2018
Quote:
Originally Posted by Neo
Thanks. Fixed. Please confirm.
Yes, all present and correct...
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