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Laser Jock wrote:

Craig Jessop wrote:[T]he text of the question is stuck underneath the bar to the side (the one with "home" "I'm Board" etc).

Could you give a link? Also, what browser (including version) are you using, and what operating system? (I haven't seen what you're describing, but certain browsers [*cough* Internet Explorer] can have odd bugs sometimes in how they show a page, so knowing this helps with tracking down the problem.)

Craig Jessop wrote:I'm very impressed! I have two things that I would like to see fixed (though that might not be ther right word). First, the text of the question is stuck underneath the bar to the side (the one with "home" "I'm Board" etc).

Yellow wrote:Heh. Congratulations! You found a bug!

So the colored bars and the stars are actually for internal use; they show the status of the question.

For the colored bars: Red means unanswered, orange means partially answered (someone has written an answer, but nobody has declared the question done), yellow means answered but not yet approved for posting, and green means all done, just waiting for 100 hours to come around. (Further answers could still be added after it goes green.) There's a key for all of this in the question inbox, but obviously you don't have access to that.

For the stars: it's a link that lets writers keep track of questions they want to come back to later. For readers, it does absolutely nothing.

Obviously, since the star does nothing for readers, we shouldn't be showing it to you. We hadn't intended for the colored bars to be visible either; we'll have to evaluate what we want to do there. It could be fun for readers to see that, but we'd also rather not have to deal with emails from readers like "Hey, my question is at 90 hours and it's still red! Aren't you going to answer it???!?" You can see why that would be annoying. (And yes, we do get emails similar to this.)

Anyway, there will probably be more bugs found in the coming days. If you find things aren't working like you'd expect, or especially if you find that you have access to information that you don't think you should, please let us know. You can email me at [email protected]. One of the most exciting things about Board 5.0 is that it's 100x easier to fix problems like this without breaking other parts of the website, so you're a lot more likely to see things get fixed a lot faster, and you're more likely to see new features crop up from time to time.

Dead Cat wrote:Example:
https://theboard.byu.edu/questions/53266/
has a link that yields this:
https://theboard.byu.edu/53153/
which, as of now, the Board says doesn't exist.
I'm guessing it has something to do with the <^#####> method of linking to other questions, because other links work that do not have it.

C is for wrote:I do, unfortunately, have one complaint: I find the new Board rather difficult to read, especially to skim. The scrolling's wonky and my eyes don't like Arial. Any chance we'll be returning to Palatino or another serif font?

Gimgimno wrote:Guys--I tried to fight for serif fonts but was shot down when I asked (though it's still not entirely out of the question). Please raise a huge fuss and make me feel like my crusade wasn't in vain, plz