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[mjmarmo]

Love the new look!

[Monroe1218]

Thanks for the heads up - and also for all the things you all do to keep ACOT running smoothly for us cherries!

[Birgit55~Chickadee]

The new message board looks fresh and clean!  Thanks for letting us know in advance, what to expect.  A visual shock that early in the morning for me could be dangerous.    .....why did my emoji turn green???  

[suewho372]

Hi all, thanks for your patience while we worked on this - I know there were a few unintended hiccups along the way. All of the changes should be live now, as you’ve likely noticed. A few things I wanted to point out:

• We’ve added the ability to “like” posts. Clicking or tapping the thumbs up icon on the top right of each post will show that you liked it underneath the post. The poster will also get a notification that you liked their post (if you don’t want to get notifications about likes on your posts, you can disable those in the User Control Panel under Board preferences -> Edit notification options).
  
• Emoji are back! We figured out what was causing regular emoji to not display and you should now be able to insert whatever you want with the emoji keyboard on your device or the emoji icon in the post editor. We’ve also refreshed the smilies and you have the option of adding those to your posts as well.
  
• Some profile info (like number of posts and gallery images) is no longer displayed directly on the page. You can view anyone’s info by clicking on their name or their profile picture at the top of any post.
  

Other than that, we’re hoping the rest should be self-explanatory, but please feel free to post questions, issues, or feedback here!

[suewho372]

Wooooowzers!!! Looks so fresh and very cool! I’m looking around to figure things out. Thanks so much!!

[pawprints]

I love it! I was checking out the scrap a day thread and clicked on page 2 and the new board popped up! It is so great and matches the rest of the site and I love the new modern look! Thanks for all you do for us!

 

[VickiR]

Wow, lots of changes.  I am feeling my way around.  Thanks, Matt.

[hsblair]

Wow!  Came back from an errand and the MB looked different!
So... I was going to like your post, Matt, but I didn't see the "thumbs up" button?  Am I blind?

[emmapaige]

I just checked out the MB and I love it!

[hsblair]

Wow!  Came back from an errand and the MB looked different!
So... I was going to like your post, Matt, but I didn't see the "thumbs up" button?  Am I blind?

Give it a try now, we had to tweak some permissions.

[hsblair]

It worked!

[Mycreativerootscrafts]

The site looks amazing! Y'all did a great job! Thank you for all the hard work!

[DMarie]

Wow!  The new look is wonderful!

[Charleneanne]

Refresh is great but when typing a reply or whatever, the lighter print isnt easy to see. And the message board type is smaller. Difficult for this old(er) gal to see even with bifocals.

[Matt Kent]

Refresh is great but when typing a reply or whatever, the lighter print isnt easy to see. And the message board type is smaller. Difficult for this old(er) gal to see even with bifocals.

When you say lighter print, do you mean that the text is less bold? A lighter color? Smaller? Just want to make sure I understand and see if there's anything we can do to help there.

As for font size, the whole board should scale pretty well if you zoom in. On desktop you can hit Ctrl and + at the same time (or Cmd and + on Mac), and on your phone there should be an option to zoom in somewhere in the settings. On my iPhone, for example, I can tap the puzzle piece icon to the left of the website address, and at the bottom of the menu that pops up, there's a bigger A and a smaller A that you can tap to increase or decrease the font size. Hopefully that makes sense and I hope that helps!
 

[DrSonja]

How do you clear the notifications list? Do you have to click on each red button to indicate "read"?

[DrSonja]

How do you clear the notifications list? Do you have to click on each red button to indicate "read"?

If you click on the "See All" link at the bottom, that will take you to a page that has a "mark all as read' button at the top. Let me see if we can get that added to the notification menu as well...

[Nana01]

Refresh is great but when typing a reply or whatever, the lighter print isnt easy to see. And the message board type is smaller. Difficult for this old(er) gal to see even with bifocals.

I agree that the text should be bolder when replying. It’s tough to see.

[mizz_kitty21]

Refresh is great but when typing a reply or whatever, the lighter print isnt easy to see. And the message board type is smaller. Difficult for this old(er) gal to see even with bifocals.

When you say lighter print, do you mean that the text is less bold? A lighter color? Smaller? Just want to make sure I understand and see if there's anything we can do to help there.

As for font size, the whole board should scale pretty well if you zoom in. On desktop you can hit Ctrl and + at the same time (or Cmd and + on Mac), and on your phone there should be an option to zoom in somewhere in the settings. On my iPhone, for example, I can tap the puzzle piece icon to the left of the website address, and at the bottom of the menu that pops up, there's a bigger A and a smaller A that you can tap to increase or decrease the font size. Hopefully that makes sense and I hope that helps!
 

I feel the same. I think the font - when writing/replying - is “Courier New”, and its not as bold as say, Arial. Does that make sense? The font when reading, does not match the reply/write font.

[Birgit55~Chickadee]

The new board looks amazing!  I'm so glad I'm able to get back on again.  Two days without chatting with you crafty friends was hard.   Thanks Matt, for all you do.