On my phone the default is Samsung internet. On my iPad, itās Safari. And I donāt know about right clicking on the devices.
I donāt tend to read forums on a PC. Iāve never been to this forum using a PC.
I like how thereās more visual focus 
on the actual discussion instead of redundant presentation of the user.
In the old forums a short one-sentence reply could take up lots of vertical screen space as it sometimes came with various irrelevant and redundant information such as a larger avatar image, the userās account creation date, comment count, multi-line location, age, title, riding habits and maybe a multi-line signature that youāve seen hundred of times and donāt even find funny. 
I believe the current rather clean design is more beneficial to new users: Some new users are simply overwhelmed by all the visual information and cues presented to them. 
I also like, how thereās an even better ability to create an appealing user profile 
and also add a bigger image like e.g. @gockie, @pierrox or @UniMyra did.
And the links the Open Unicycle Calendar 
and Map 
at the top.
Oh, and did I mention emojis?! 
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So you are from Australia and canāt find the translate featureā¦ Let me help you real quick.
ĀæĘuį“oĘ É¹Ēpun uŹop Ęuį“lÉŹÉį“un s,ŹoH ĀæŹÉÉ„Ź ŹnoqÉ ŹoH
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Yes but you forgot the most important one of them: 
(also what nice is how easy itās become to add a photo, no more external hosting and img linkā¦)
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I could make a lot of jokes about this, including both Star Wars and your mother, but I wonāt.
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Iāll reinforce this issue. Compared to the old forum the thing I miss most is the age and location of members. With the large number of members I do not know these details of everyone and it is nearly impossible to engage in an relevant discussion without knowing if you are talking to a young kid or senior citizen or what part of the world they live.
If the current software does not allow this information maybe the software provider be encouraged to add these features.
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Thereās an official translation plugin: Discourse Translator - Plugin - Discourse Meta
Looks like this:
Though Iām a bit reluctant to install on the forum a plugin that is asked by so far only you I guess?
Also, you canāt choose in which language the message will be translated to. It uses the userās language interface.
Would you guys be interested in such a feature on the forum?
I asked in the German sub forum if something like this is needed. Maybe someone capable of speaking the other languages can ask in their sub forums? I think, everybody who reads and writes here (in the English main forum) does not necessarily need it. But there are a bunch of users only using the language sub forums.
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It would make it easier. It might even encourage users of more diverse languages to start participating in the forum if suddenly everything is easy to read in their language.
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About a year ago I asked Kevin about lack of FTP access to the personal web pages. Now, even the web pages themselves are inaccessible. In the past, before the upgrade, we all had problems with the photo albums and then they went away entirely. Will that stuff ever be returned?
No idea. Youāll have to ask @gilby for that.
I can point your subdomain to any IP address or cname record if you need that.
Yes. I want www.harper.unicyclist.com/ to point to staff.washington.edu/gharper/
Can you do that? Then Iāll see if that fixes all of my broken links scattered about.
Maybe I donāt understand. www.harper.unicyclist.com/ seems to now point to staff.washington.edu/gharper/www. which doesnāt help. I wanted
www.harper.unicyclist.com/<<(whatever else is typed)>>
to point to
staff.washington.edu/gharper/<<(whatever else is typed)>>
Is that possible?
Gilbyā¦moving in the background again. Thanks. That worked perfectly.
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I like the automated notifications. If I respond too much to a single user on a thread, Iām invited to include others in the conversation. And if I post on a thread that has been inactive for more than a year, I get a warning. Because anything more than a year old on the forum is old, out-of-date, boā¦ring. Why add to an old thread when you can make a brand new one?
Overall, Iām really happy with this version of the forum. Really smooth to use, good on mobile and desktop, doesnāt leave much to wish for other than getting more members.
Iāve put my opinion on the idea of a built in translate function out there before, personally Iām afraid it might turn the different language sections into āthe same people as on the English speaking section, but auto translated to another languageā. With a lot of technical jargon (as a discussions about unicycles tends to have), auto translation, as good as it has become, still sucks.
Iāve been annoyed by the āthis thread has been inactive for over a yearā message a few times too, as I think it is good etiquette to not open a new thread for the same topic multiple times. On the other hand, Iāve seen 7 year old dead threads getting revived to respond to completely off topic side discussions, if the warning message stops that from happening, I think itās good.
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Bumping very old threads could be bad practice on forums where old data becomes obsolete, which is not often the case here.
The setting can be tweaked.
What values would be good in your opinion? I can also completely disable this warning.
I think thereās oftentimes a value to starting a fresh thread. People arenāt likely to read through all the posts on old threads, equipment mentioned is often obsolete or unavailable, people who posted have frequently moved on, etcā¦
I use the search feature frequently and read a lot of old threads, but when Iām actually considering buying or learning something Iām usually looking for the most recent threads. Things have changed since 2006 or even since 2014. There arenāt many people running 170mm cranks, 24" wheels or rim brakes these days.
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