Time for a forum upgrade?

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ptsf1111
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7 Mar 2026 8:19am
Looks nice and fresh but also a bit bulky. Posts take up quite a bit of space. Here you can see that in the old design, 3 posts fitted on a screen, now only 2 due to the margins and component placement.



I'd make sure the date is one line and embed the "Quote" button in the top as an icon or only show it on click/hover or so.






Also, the "Report a bug" button sits over the "Post" button so it's tricky to try to hit that button on my phone.
airsail
airsail
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9 Mar 2026 4:40pm
We seem to be missing topic headings






laurie
laurie
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9 Mar 2026 8:59pm
Hey everybody - thanks for your input so far, all the items that have been brought up have been addressed. Let me know if not. Let me know of any bothersome stuff, no matter how small. You can write direct, or post here, or use the feedback tool

Cheers ..
Obelix
Obelix
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9 Mar 2026 6:41pm
laurie said..
Hey everybody - thanks for your input so far, all the items that have been brought up have been addressed. Let me know if not. Let me know of any bothersome stuff, no matter how small. You can write direct, or post here, or use the feedback tool

Cheers ..



??????, ah, you mean the Beta site...
Tardy
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11 Mar 2026 7:35am
HI Laurie I would add more colour ...emojis are great .?....your emblem Seabreeze is a little small in the left corner ...just a few thoughts if you are making changes ??took me a while to figure out how to get post again you have to push emoji again ..I was trying to scroll down .to find post ..for some dummies like me it could be confusing .just my thoughts for a Wednesday
laurie
laurie
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11 Mar 2026 8:34pm
Tardy said..
HI Laurie I would add more colour ...emojis are great .?....your emblem Seabreeze is a little small in the left corner ...just a few thoughts if you are making changes ??took me a while to figure out how to get post again you have to push emoji again ..I was trying to scroll down .to find post ..for some dummies like me it could be confusing .just my thoughts for a Wednesday


Thanks Tardy!
Not sure I understand the "how to get to post again you have to push emoji again" ... could I trouble you for more details on all this. Appreciate the feedback.

Speak up guys .. any gotcha's, nothing is too small to fix/adjust. ?
Gestalt
Gestalt
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12 Mar 2026 5:14am
Bit of a long shot Laurie,

is it possible to add MetEye and Access models? That would be a game changer. No longer need to go to bom site.
Tardy
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12 Mar 2026 3:15am
laurie said..

Tardy said..
HI Laurie I would add more colour ...emojis are great .?....your emblem Seabreeze is a little small in the left corner ...just a few thoughts if you are making changes ??took me a while to figure out how to get post again you have to push emoji again ..I was trying to scroll down .to find post ..for some dummies like me it could be confusing .just my thoughts for a Wednesday



Thanks Tardy!
Not sure I understand the "how to get to post again you have to push emoji again" ... could I trouble you for more details on all this. Appreciate the feedback.

Speak up guys .. any gotcha's, nothing is too small to fix/adjust. ?


ok .yes so I went to put a emoji on up top push ed the smiley emoji near the B I U S ,so I push the emoji and they all appeared ,great .....?I applied this one ....now I found you have to go back up to the top to the little emoji to get the emoji bar to disappear ,before posting ,I worked it out eventually ,but maybe another smiley face emoji with a X through it would be easier to work out for dummies like me .but I found it in the end .it had me stumped for a while ..but other than that ,I really like the bigger display on the reply pages .



I really liked the blue tab that we had coming from the bottom saying you have mail ,can we have that back that was cool?.I see you have a report a bug on the left ,I've never had one .but good to know where the button is now .I miss the water back ground ...as we are all water babies .



ps... I like the changes .?
Tardy
Tardy
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20 Mar 2026 4:28am
Hi Laurie ,me again ,can we have or use emojis in our messages .? ?

I Like the new change on the emoji posting page .
MobZ
MobZ
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534 posts
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31 Mar 2026 8:42pm
hello
MobZ
MobZ
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31 Mar 2026 8:45pm
ah it worked, standby i'm having some difficulty posting here from the beta.. ?
MobZ
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31 Mar 2026 8:46pm
ptsf1111 said..
Looks nice and fresh but also a bit bulky. Posts take up quite a bit of space.


It looks clean, but alot of scrolling to see messages.
?
Weather page looks good.
Seabreeze is may be The Windsurfers Bible?
Thanks for the good site Laurie.
MobZ
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31 Mar 2026 8:52pm






Thecursorgoesmissinganditwillnotletmemakeaspacenowwtf??


This was from a previous message that wouldn't post.

test photo (if you can call it that, sorry, bad qaulity screen grab from 1.5k away) is Greg K and Byron at Budgy. Low res but i wanted to see how it posted.
At first i just dragged the image onto text body, it was there, i finished writing big long post then it went to error 500 page when posting.
Ah but i knew it doesn't work this way, it's an error from trying to send that image not propelry uploaded, anyway i got back here.
I had weird glitches making things very laggy in the text window.



laurie
laurie
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10 Apr 2026 12:16pm
Hey all


Been many many updates to the site and forums - thanks for all the feedback. ?

Check out the latest version, and let me know of any dramas/errors/rubbish etc... still tweaking. If I hear nothing, I shall assume you're all enjoying it.

If not using it already, join up here: seabreeze.com.au/Members/JoinTheBeta
Tardy
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10 Apr 2026 12:36pm



here's my test photo .mobzie .. Wats happening .?
sboardcrazy
sboardcrazy
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10 Apr 2026 3:04pm
I love the way you can choose your local forecast spots into favourites and then order them .?Scrolling on the phone is good now.
laurie
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10 Apr 2026 5:16pm
sboardcrazy said..
I love the way you can choose your local forecast spots into favourites and then order them .?Scrolling on the phone is good now.


WooHoo!

Just put thru another update.. ?
MobZ
MobZ
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534 posts
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10 Apr 2026 8:09pm
Tardy said..



here's my test photo .mobzie .. Wats happening .??

Oh yeah that board does look good. Even just sitting there it looks good. I see why you like it so much.
Obelix
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11 Apr 2026 2:48pm
for Laurie:





laurie
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12 Apr 2026 5:21pm
Thanks.. shall fix that. ?
Seabreeze
Seabreeze
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13 Apr 2026 10:13pm
All fixed, and just added a new feature I'm sure you all have needed at one point...

No More Lost Posts!


Ever had a post lost because of a server error, or a network error, or your browser crashed?

When you're typing a post now, it's saved every 5 seconds to local browser storage.

This post, I typed .. closed the browser .. came back here .. hit "Reply" .. and here it is! ?

This only works on the new beta site

Many thanks to @decrepit for the finger-in-the-ribs on this one. ?
decrepit
decrepit
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13 Apr 2026 9:29pm
OK testing this.
Firstly pasting a pic into this page, Laurie says pic was too big, so I'll halve it.

now hit post.
edit, yep so that works with a medium size image, lets try making it full page.

so that's 900 X 622.
The one that crashed the site was 1000, my normal scale down size, so lets try 950 and see what happens.

Now I just have to try 1000 again

So weird, that's the same size that crashed the site before.
Don't know what you've done Laurie, but it's working great now. I didn't have to use the crash recover feature.

Oh yes this is about 2009, I have the first GPSTC T shirt on. Wish I could still wave sail like this. But 81 is a lot different to 64
Seabreeze
Seabreeze
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14 Apr 2026 12:32am
Great stuff, the new "auto save post" is great. It even saves across different posts, so you can always come back to a post.

Any other dramas/features, time to speak up, else looks pretty complete, and everybody is happy?
decrepit
decrepit
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14 Apr 2026 7:47am
Just a preference from me. This is what I see.
The time is only readable if I halve the distance to the screen and squint, just making the font normal black would help.
I doubt I'm the only one that's interested in how long ago the last post happened.

Obelix
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22 Apr 2026 4:51pm
For Laurie:





AUS 808
AUS 808
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30 Apr 2026 8:45am
The filtering in buy & sell doesn't work right & not sure it offers to filter by brand.
jksmurf
jksmurf
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30 Apr 2026 3:02pm
Not bad not bad... I can live with it, eventually..

However I echo the comments about it looking a bit bloated... I tried to find a setting for smaller text (yeah I I know I can mouse scroll or ctrl scroll the whole webpage but that makes everything smaller), as In the posts are essentially a strip occupying the middle thrrd and theres white space for Africa each side?

Also really pale. Like sickly; any chance of changing the background colours at will?
Seabreeze
Seabreeze
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30 Apr 2026 5:23pm
decrepit said..
Just a preference from me. This is what I see.
The time is only readable if I halve the distance to the screen and squint, just making the font normal black would help.
I doubt I'm the only one that's interested in how long ago the last post happened.



How's this?




Seabreeze
Seabreeze
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30 Apr 2026 5:25pm
AUS 808 said..
The filtering in buy & sell doesn't work right & not sure it offers to filter by brand.


Thanks for this .? .. got any more info for me? Just had a look, and seems ok? i.e. is a brand missing in a particular category, or ... ?
decrepit
decrepit
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30 Apr 2026 3:56pm
Seabreeze said..

decrepit said..
Just a preference from me. This is what I see.
The time is only readable if I halve the distance to the screen and squint, just making the font normal black would help.
I doubt I'm the only one that's interested in how long ago the last post happened.




How's this?






That's much better thanks!
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