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The Lounge What is on Your Mind? New Buttons to Create New Discussions and Reply to Existing One
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Old 01-29-2019
New Buttons to Create New Discussions and Reply to Existing One

You may have noticed a lot of big blue buttons" on the site, replacing the Font Awesome icons for creating new discussions and replying to discussions.

Here are the reasons for this change:
  1. A number of unix.com moderators, including Don Cragun and Ravinder Singh, have commented that new members often have trouble understanding how to post a new discussion.
  2. A number of new users have asked questions like "how do it post a new discussion at unix.com?".
  3. Some unix.com members seems to find the icons confusing and wanted something more direct and easy to understand.

So, it's done, I have replaced all the confusing icons for creating and replying to discussions with big, blue, easy to see and understand buttons using Bootstrap classes.

Also, because new members are often confused because discussions are created in specific forums, I went a step further and created a single, simple, big blue button on the home page for posting a new discussion in the "Question and Answers for Beginners" forum.

Yesterday, after making this change, there was bug discovered by wisecracker, one of our valued forum advisors, had issued with these new buttons related to the Firefox browser. That bug was squashed as soon as I got the message (around 4 AM my time... LOL).

So, enjoy the new buttons.

I hope these big, blue, simple buttons will make it much easier for new unix.com members to post a question here.

Please note, I'm not a big fan of the big blue buttons compared to the icons (for posting new discussions and replying); but I agree with all who mentioned that for new members, the icons are confusing.

Thanks for the great feedback, as always!
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Old 01-29-2019
Customized Favorite Forum for Creating New Posts

OK... I have updated the home page just a tiny bit.

When you are in each forum, you will see a little dark blue heart to the RIGHT of the forum title.

If you click on this heart, it will store this forum as your favorite forum in local browser storage.

Then, when you go to the homepage, if you click on the new button "Ask a Question or Create a New Discussion" button, the forum you selected as your "favorite forum" will be the forum your new discussion is created.

If you do not select any forum as your "favorite", it will default to the "Beginner's Q&A Forum".

It's simple, but at least you can easily customize the"quick create a new discussion" buttons on the home page to be in your favorite forum.

I've tested it and it works well.

Let me know in this thread if you have any problems.

Cheers.

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Old 01-29-2019
New button with text seems to be simple enough - and users should no longer wonder what to click to ask their question. Nice job.
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Old 01-29-2019
Yeah, and everyone can customize it to their favorite forums, if they wish.

Just combined a bit of jQuery with browser local storage. Pretty simple really. Hopefully FF will not "F" this easy one up. LOL . I'm getting a bit peeved at Firefox for such poor performance and breaking many web standards.
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Old 01-30-2019
Update:

The fun "fav forums" features for the home page "quick post button" now works on mobile too.

Cheers.
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Old 01-30-2019
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Originally Posted by Neo
Update:

The fun "fav forums" features for the home page "quick post button" now works on mobile too.

Cheers.
Tested on mobile version of google-chrome, android

--- Post updated at 06:26 ---

I clicked the heart on the android in the "What is in Your Mind?" forum
I went back on the laptop to the full version site on Google-chrome and I can't press the "heart" button at all
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Old 01-30-2019
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Originally Posted by nezabudka
Tested on mobile version of google-chrome, android

--- Post updated at 06:26 ---

I clicked the heart on the android in the "What is in Your Mind?" forum
I went back on the laptop to the full version site on Google-chrome and I can't press the "heart" button at all
Fixed. Thanks. Was a bug in the jQuery code related to color selection, so I changed it.

FYI:

Favorite forum selections between devices are different because the code does not sync between browsers and devices.
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