Also try loading a large topic discussion and navigating back and forth - this one Only get documents where ID of person logged in in array is a good example and it caused most delays and problems on my mobile probably because it has lots of code snippets (colourized by js?). 
I wouldn’t consider the smilies a top prio. The displaying of double content is most definitely more important. Do you two consider it “OK” that users end up reading content twice for no apparent reason?
I am also not a user of the Discourse software, just of this forum (and granted, not a dedicated user either), so my suggestions are to you. It is up to you to take them (or not.), as it was your decision to put this software to use.
I seem to often read, “get used to it” for a lot of the feedback people are giving. If you think that is the answer, then I’ll leave it at that too and I will just not use the “Reply(ies)” button and rarely use the smilies (since I can’t find the ones I want anyway) and hope people use quoting smartly, as it seems most people are getting the hang of doing anyway, which means this forum software’s fantastic new post relationship features are being ignored to use the forum like an “old skool” forum. Go figure! LOL!
Oh, and the fact the content is in place, being added to constantly and people can find facts, still help each other, and have fun doing it with the right attitudes, means the forum is a success. The software is only the means to that end and is rarely, if at all, the reason for that success. 
Scott (over and out)
Well said, sir.
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Yup, tags are currently under work. Hang fire on those. I’m testing on staging this morning. Anything else is new to me.
[quote=“molona, post:150, topic:741”]
Yesterday I had serious problems with both the notification box and the forums in general.
[/quote] Ok. If it continues, please ping me on it specifically and I’ll look into it.
Yep that was painful.
For me it hasn’t been a speed “issue” but I tend to notice more and more websites in general (and all SO-style forums as well) do waaaay too much work when I hit the back button.
My browser does have a cache, you know : ) I’m assuming the constant re-requesting of pages and running ajaxy stuff even when I hit Back is trying to keep things up to date (I guess they think they’re saving my a ctrl_f5 after hitting Back??).
I’ve also noticed the issue Lemon_Juice mentioned for the main category page, but again I assumed that was because that page gets requested again and treated as if I’ve never been there before.
I also do get treated to the little spinner gif often when clicking anything with a dropdown (like the menu stuff by my name).
But even with Opera 12, I seem to be running all this JS pretty fast and I’m not generally waiting a long time for a page to give me content. Only time I’m noticing this is if I’m flitting from topic to topic to see start-post dates or quickly skim multiple threads. Right now, there is no such thing as “quick skim” due I guess to the heavy processing.
But just loading a page to read it, has so far been mostly okay.
I remember slow loading on the old forums. It seemed back-end related then.
I wonder, were all page requests there done as direct calls to the DB, or did you use a search engine to call page elements? (We’re using Sphinx to basically load all our products per category on our shopping carts, which is so, so, so much faster than Postgres, and postgres is no slow DB!).
I suggested something similar, except you know that reply to poster thing is absolutely positioned, so it can’t easily sit next to the name of the poster because name and title lengths vary. So I suggested sitting it underneath the name, because the avatar is a set width and so we can set the left: to width-of-avatar+ some gutter.
Then the post body needs some good amount of top padding, 2 or 3em, to make room for it.
And then it looks pretty good.
So actually in one browser I’ve got this in my override stylesheet, and it works well, but adding it to each browser is a bit of a pain.
Arg, I would like to be able to be typing, highlight text in someone’s post and hit ctrl-c, but I can’t, I get a little quote popup but then it’s not in my clipboard. We can only quote people the easy way if we haven’t started typing yet?
So as usual by hand…
Most of us have learned not to touch the fake-reply button, so we only read the content once.
I think this is another thing that can be solved with CSS: display:none the fake-replies thing and then it’ll never temp you to click : P
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This isn’t an “issue” but I notice at the bottom are “suggested topics”. But all they are are old posts by “le moi”. Is there a better algorithm out there? Or is this just because everything’s so new, the system doesn’t have any data to work with, so goes by “well you posted here once, you might be interested in it!” ? : P
But it has made me start reading old rants of mine. Wow. Old times.
indent preformatted text by 4 spacesIf anyone wants it:
nav.post-controls button:after {
content: “\0a” attr(title);
}
nav.post-controls button.create:after {
content: “”;
}
nav.post-controls button div.read-icon {
display: inline-block;
vertical-align: top;
padding-right: 7px;
}
nav.post-controls .show-replies {
display: none !important;
}
.post-cloak .reply-to-tab {
right: auto !important;
left: 4.5em !important;
top: 2em !important;
}
.topic-body .contents .cooked {
margin-top: 1.8em !important;
}
(no, I’m not fixing this, the code button should have Just Worked. Learn to love it.)
[quote=“Stomme_poes, post:159, topic:741”]
Arg, I would like to be able to be typing, highlight text in someone’s post and hit ctrl-c, but I can’t, I get a little quote popup but then it’s not in my clipboard. We can only quote people the easy way if we haven’t started typing yet?
[/quote]If you click on the grey “quote” pop-up, it will auto-paste the quoted text into your post. If you don’t want that facility, you can disable it in your preferences (near the bottom):
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it’s not doing that for me.
Something to do with, maybe because I already have the post-box open??
Ah wait, you mean if I disable the quote thing, I get my clipboard back?
No, you should be able to add multiple quotes by this method, even after you’ve started typing.
[quote=“Stomme_poes, post:163, topic:741”]
Ah wait, you mean if I disable the quote thing, I get my clipboard back?
[/quote]Yes.
test test
aha, thank you!!! My built-in clipboard function is now working!!
This is going to save me sooooo much hairloss. I thought I had everything un-checked in that preferences, but the quote was the one thing checked!
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You just prevented a major case of plucked-chicken-syndrome
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Glad I could help.
We’ve been testing Discourse for months, and I’m still discovering new things. If I can pass on the benefit of all the time I spent stumbling around before I found enlightenment, I’ll feel it’s been worthwhile.
Can you provide the stylesheet changes and a screenshot? I don’t think the SP Staff is against such an alteration, so long as it fits with their overall concept of the forum.
I wish I could repro this… Every time I do it, it just works. I realize this is frustrating you but can you try it in Firefox (to rule out it being an old version of Opera)?
The parts being useful from my stylesheet are the reply-to-tab code and then the .cooked increased top margin (I thought initially there was some margin collapse but I haven’t added anything to address that).
Also the ems might be real specific to my Desktop application font settings, and may not work x-OS well.
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I’ve started an internal discussion about this. I think there are good reason to perform the reply to indicator changes.
Yes, I believe that’s the case. It works quite well at Meta.
[quote=“felgall, post:177, topic:741”]
With the edit problems I have already found I am getting close to deciding to abandon this forum
[/quote] Whoa, that’s not good. I’m a bit lost though. What edit problems?