Find this new TE UI unusable

I am Still LOST out here ….. with the new TE UI

Been around TE for ages, was my 2nd home & I loved jumping IN & Out…… mostly on my desktop [On phone it :face_with_crossed_out_eyes: )

TODAY ….when I Dive inside TE …. my “parachute” just flips off me :sob: …… and then desperately rush thru the first patli-galli (to save myself) ….. and get LOST again :sob: ….. The old discord was easy too.

Why is it so difficult now to just hover over an ID I would like to follow @Heisen @icysmoke … but LOST again

But NO ….. I ain’t giving up …. not while I still have a few “teeth” left :laughing:

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There is no concept of Follow in this system unlike previous ones.

However there does seem to be official follow plugin from discourse which adds similar functionality, if admins want to they can install it.

But the less plugins the better is usually recommended for stability.


Ask away whatever questions you have, or hit me up in the DMs.

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Now all official plugins come preinstalled. They are disabled though.

Will look into the market navigation issue soon.

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I’m having a lot of trouble trying to view threads with a large number of posts 100+ it doesn’t show the latest but scrolls from the top of the thread :pensive_face:

Yes, this is annoying most of times ?

To go to the last post quickly click this button on the right side scroll bar.

GoToLastPost


If you want to directly go to the last post while opening the topic/thread. Click here.

GoToLastPostDirectly


Both of the above functions can be done on phone too.

MobileGoToLastPost


MobileGoToLastPostDirectly

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7 posts were merged into an existing topic: Discourse usability issues compilation

Back and forward buttons show up for me on the bottom of the page, they only appear after you scroll up a little, when you scroll down they auto hide. I’m on iOS 26.1 as well.

Everyday it seems mods and others are hell bent on making TE unusable.. (take this on a lighter note)… :smiley:

Many shortcuts are invalid.. I struggled a lot with the UI and was managing to find something new with shortcuts..

Separate market place is good, reminds me of Discord group , but then the icon / image are small , the details minimal to nil.. no clarity , frustrating..

TOTALLY UNUSABLE.. i would say its a MESS !!!

In addition to the back issue, also encounter issue with loading of the market posts on occasions as mentioned previously.

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Also it seems pointless to show the listings count upfront but to then have to select View all listings to actually see the listings. Having it hyperlink to the listings would be more intuitive.

glad to know that I am not the only way still trying find my way through this UI

I think people are looking for the Discourse ‘Categories’ view.
Here it is side by side vs Xenforo : -

The default Discourse view is New posts.
Which most people were using on xenforo as well. And is also the default on quite a few xenforo sites : -

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2 posts were split to a new topic: Theme designers unite

I wasn’t sure when @Renegade proposed the change, but its grown on me a lot. Gotta say, he was right.
To anyone else having issues, its just a huge change at first and takes some time. The visibility inside sub forums is still not that great, but it grows on you a lot in a month or two as you use it and literally everything else is much better than XenForo.

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Still can’t unroll twitter posts

I don’t know what is better than xenforo.

The reasons we were given is no more development ergo no security updates which means xenforo in its present state was a sitting duck from a security pov.

That’s why the change. Everybody was taken along kicking and screaming.

Yeah, you do get used to it after a bit when it dawns the old one isn’t coming back

My biggest niggle has been trying to find pinned posts, it would be great if they were visible in the root category instead of just the subcategories.

Also maybe a more customizable search with checkboxes instead of having to type out “in:title” or “with:images”

And it’d be really great if “with:images” gave us a gallery view of the results

Oh yeah, I just saw your post about not finding the ‘list of fraudulent members’ sticky and was checking if it’s pinned. It’s been pinned in Classifieds (same as on xenforo), and I see pinned threads are visible in root trading-post. But let me know where else is suitable.

These checkboxes are under Advanced filters

Twitter requires you to have a paid tier dev account for that. You can check on any platform.

No, there was a Discourse test site for months.
Zero feedback received during that time implied everything was fine.

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How did xenforo handle it assuming this was not some recent requirement.

The organisation of information and its density is quite bad even with the Categories view, to the point it just makes sense to stick to the default view, where not a lot of content feels worthwhile to go through.

The temporary Discourse site was not well promoted it seems because somehow I missed it altogether. If it was made clear that there is no option but to switch, then probably could have provided better feedback to make Discourse more palatable. Still think a completely different layout would make content more accessible.

Right now, it is mostly a matter of sticking with what’s there to be part of this community. Even now, when switching from the painful Safari experience to using Librewolf on a laptop, I find that “quote text” doesn’t work. It just breaks a lot of things on a lot of different setups.

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