Online Community - Comments, Improvements and Feedback

Dear Community,

We were pleased to see so many comments about the community on the recent thread about the Leader Board. We are always wanting to learn more about how we can develop the community and so have locked the previous thread so that all comments and suggestions about general improvements to the community can now be placed here on this thread.

Please comment here on any ideas, improvements or feedback you have about the Online Community. 

Please note that although we take on board all your ideas, we may not be able to implement all of them.

As always, please be kind and respectful when commenting to each other.

Thanks,

NAS Moderators

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  • I would like to see some help screens, even if they are in the form of a 'sticky' thread.

    Perhaps RSS icons can be added to the forum groups and threads.

    I also miss the ability to change screen colours. In the old system I could select a black background, which I prefer to the white. Firefox's reader mode does not work in the forum so I cannot use that to change the colour.

    I believe the old system also allowed users to change the font size and that can be useful.

    If any changes are to colours (including, for example, the buttons) then please remember to bear in mind people like myself who are colour-blind (I am red/green colour-blind but also have great difficulty with brown). I would be quite happy to see a different (and subdued) colour for buttons and usernames above posts.


  • I also miss the ability to change screen colours. In the old system I could select a black background, which I prefer to the white. Firefox's reader mode does not work in the forum so I cannot use that to change the colour.

    Perhaps check 'Colour That Site :: Add-ons for Firefox - Firefox Add-ons - Mozilla'


  • Thank you but the add-on is written using legacy technology and will not work from Firefox 57 onwards.

    In addition, and more importantly, allowing the user to change screen colours would (or should) be browser-agnostic.


  • caretwo wrote:

    Thank you, , for taking the time to post the link.


    Glad to have been of some assistance.


    caretwo wrote:

    I have had a good 'play' with the add-on and my initials impressions were favourable, however, after visiting a number of sites I have run into the problem of certain colour combinations working for one site but not another. The only way round this it to select different colour combinations based on each site. For me, this is not a practical option. This is a shame as I much prefer the black background.


    Although I  have had a 'play' ~ it is nowhere near as simple and easy to use as the Colour That Sight extension was, so I just reset the whole set up and have been using it on "Stylesheet processor" with black background since ~ and it works everywhere as such for me.

    Hope this information is useful perhaps.


     caretwo wrote:

    As I said in an earlier post, by a site not implementing a choice of colour schemes, the onus is on users to find out whether colour changes work with the site (and for every site they visit if they change the colours in their browsers). I still believe that sites associated with such organisations as NAS should be setting good examples for others to follow.


    I very very much agree with you on this matter.


  • Thank you, , for taking the time to post the link.

    I have had a good 'play' with the add-on and my initials impressions were favourable, however, after visiting a number of sites I have run into the problem of certain colour combinations working for one site but not another. The only way round this it to select different colour combinations based on each site. For me, this is not a practical option. This is a shame as I much prefer the black background.

    As I said in an earlier post, by a site not implementing a choice of colour schemes, the onus is on users to find out whether colour changes work with the site (and for every site they visit if they change the colours in their browsers). I still believe that sites associated with such organisations as NAS should be setting good examples for others to follow.


  • Former Member wrote:

    Thank you but the add-on is written using legacy technology and will not work from Firefox 57 onwards.


    I have just upgraded to Firefox 57 myself, and there is a "Dark Background and Light Text Preference" add-on that does page colouration also ~ down-loadable from:


    https://addons.mozilla.org/en-GB/firefox/addon/dark-background-light-text/


  • I really wish there was a very straight forward way to make the background a different colour or decrease the contrast somehow, I find reading this site very hard on my eyes.  Other sites that have greyer backgrounds are much more comfortable for me to look at.

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  • I really wish there was a very straight forward way to make the background a different colour or decrease the contrast somehow, I find reading this site very hard on my eyes.  Other sites that have greyer backgrounds are much more comfortable for me to look at.

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