@Russ said
Confirmed - I broke it recently. Now fixed.

The forum's drop down menu might become dynamic in future, so the contents are loaded when selected (like the Clan & Club menus). The items listed would always be correct and direct link to clan/club forums could be provided.

I notice that when you click the "Community" lozenge button, that drop-down menu also includes a "Forum" link, and it works fine from there. The forum links at the top navigation bar and the one at the bottom of the page also look like they are all working fine, and are working exactly the same.

I guess the redundant forum links are not a problem as long as they all work the same, but they could become a nightmare for you to keep them all working the same when you start tweaking the forum page links, since I suspect you would have to go through the whole site package and upgrade every occurance of a forum link.

Another issue with the "lozenge" buttons.

The "Forums" lozenge button drop-down menu does not work correctly.

Start with the top 3 links on its' drop-down menu, when you click "Forums".

Public Forums does take you to the current public forums page.
Clan Forums takes you instead to the public forums page again.
Club Forums also takes you to the public forums page.

So from the lozenge button for forums, you will get 'Public Forums' from any of those top 3 links.

Below those top 3 links is an inaccurate list of the public forums.
The Site Ideas and Spirituality forums are not listed there.
The Announcements forum is there but is labeled slightly differently, as "Site Announcements".
(I would just delete that whole list. It isn't needed because the "public forums" link at the top will take you to the current and correct page of public forums.)

When you do get to the Public Forums page, there is a strip at the upper part that goes all the way across the page and is divided into 3 links for Public, Clan and Club forums. That does work correctly when you click on it and does take you to those 3 forums.
I am not in any clans, so when I click that I see nothing.
I do belong to one club, and when I click that I do go to that one club forum.

I'm on an HP laptop running windows 7 and the Firefox browser.

@Russ said
@divegeester

Strange, on my iPad and iPad simulator, the lozenge shaped "My Home" button is the same size as all of the others (in a vertical dimension).

Anyone else?

The lozenge shaped buttons located at the top of the page all look the same size to me.
I am using an hp laptop, running windows 7 and the current firefox browser.
Those same buttons also appear at the top of this page and all other pages I have looked at so far.
Am I looking at the same buttons that are being discussed?

@Russ
Understood, and at least it's on the 'list' for a future upgrade!

@Russ
ok, Clearing cookies for the beta site took care of it, I think. It looks like it's behaving like it should again. 🙂

@Russ said
@mwmiller

I'm not able to reproduce this - can you do a shift-f5(Win) or ctrl-R(mac) in case of some lingering cache issue?

OK, I tried shift/f5 and ctrl/f5 and it didn't make any difference.
Shift/f5 tried to put firefox into some kind of recording mode, which I have no idea of what that is.

But it's not staying on my selected setting for the 'my games' page. I selected the 'compact' view, but it doesn't stay on that selection. If I open a specific game, then return to my games, it goes to the new option you just added I think.

@Russ
I think there is a problem again with the 'my games' page. It came up earlier in the beta, and was fixed, but now it's back. I set the 'my games' page up to show the 'compact' view, but that doesn't stay selected. If I leave the page then come back, or just refresh it, the view reverts back to whatever the default is.

I'm still using a laptop running win7.
I don't usually care for 'dark mode' but decided today to try it in the beta.
In one of my games, my opponent sent an 'in game' text message, and in dark mode I way barely able to read it.
I composed a reply and it was fine as I put it together, but when I finished the message and made and sent it with my next move, my reply was also nearly invisible.

I did try switching between dark and normal mode, and in normal mode the text visibility was just fine. When I switched back to dark mode, it again almost became invisible.

Also, while in dark mode I took a look at the 'chat log' option for that same game, and the in-game messages were fine and readable there in the chat log.

So is this just a problem with the beta, or does it need further attention?

Here's something that could be added to the FAQ, on the section that provides the formula and explanation of how rating points are determined for the players when a game is completed. For those who go crazy trying to figure out the formula, this chart may be helpful and easier to understand. It has been posted in the help forum a few times over the years, but would be much easier to find if it were in the FAQ.

*** It probably should be verified for accuracy, just in case. 🙂

Rating Chart

Point Change is based on who wins the game:

H - Higher rated player wins that number of points.

D - Draw,
Higher rated player loses that number of points,
Lower rated player gains that number of points.

L - Lower rated player wins that number of points.

Rating Point----------Who Won
Difference------------H -- D -- L
________________________
0-10 __________ 16 - 0 - 16
11-32 _________ 15 - 1 - 17
33-54 _________ 14 - 2 - 18
55-77 _________ 13 - 3 - 19
78-100 ________ 12 - 4 - 20
101-124 _______ 11 - 5 - 21
125-149 _______ 10 - 6 - 22
150-176 _______ 9 - 7 - 23
177-205 _______ 8 - 8 - 24
206-237 _______ 7 - 9 - 25
238-273 _______ 6 - 10 - 26
274-314 _______ 5 - 11 - 27
315-364 _______ 4 - 12 - 28
365-428 _______ 3 - 13 - 29
429-523 _______ 2 - 14 - 30
524-719 _______ 1 - 15 - 31
720+ _________ 0 - 16 - 32

Is there a plan to update the FAQ section? I have found one thing that should be changed.

I recently recruited a new member for RHP, and explained to him that he needed to take a little time to think about what he wanted as a username, as it cannot be changed. He could change his email or password if he needed to, but the username could not be changed.

And then just a few days later I discovered in the beta that he now has 30 days to change it, and that if he becomes a subscriber he could change it once a year.

The beta FAQ username topic is not updated with this new username policy.

Here are the two places where I found the conflict in information. It's nothing very serious, but still should be consistent.

Beta: FAQ: How do I change my user name?
Unfortunately this is not possible. For consistency and to prevent confusion for other users, the registered name must remain as it was entered when you signed up. Subscribers can request that their name be modified to correct spelling and capitalisation.

Beta: My settings/Account settings:
Account names can be updated by new users once within first 30 days. Subscribers can also update once every 365 days.

@Russ
I just took a look at the "My Performance" page and it looks fine, and is sorted in alphabetical order, it looks good! 🙂

I'm starting to sound like a nag, but here's another one already mentioned.

On the "My Home" page, at the bottom is a link to the "My Performance" page. This is a list of all my opponents. It appears to be in alphabetical order, but it actually is broken up into numerous groups of opponents, and each smaller group is sorted in alphabetical order. So I think the smaller groups need to be changed into just one big group, and then sorted alphabetically. Hope that makes sense!

@Russ said
Thanks, I missed that. If no folder has been previously chosen, the default will be All Games now.

Good going Russ! That is working again, but now the other problem comes up. 'All Games' is now on a single ten mile long page, since there aren't several shorter pages.

But it isn't limited to just this one data list. It's going to be an issue for any of the 'single long page' of items.

So maybe at some time you can incorporate the 'fast find' system you pointed out on the Blogs page on all 'single long page' lists, where we can go quickly to a year and month without having to scroll down that long single page!

🙂 I know, there is no rest for the weary!

I just noticed on the beta that the 'game history' button is no longer there on the game board display page. Is that a bug, or intentional?

Also, on the 'My Games' page, the 'All Games' main folder does not bring up a list of all games played by you. It just shows the games from your 'Inbox' sub-folder. (already posted this one a few days ago, so a reminder)

@moonbus
I just looked and what is happening in the beta is when you get to a players' profile page and click on 'view games', the beta is adding hyphens between the words in the players' name in both of the examples you mentioned. So I think what you mentioned about replacing spaces with hyphens is exactly what is happening!

The regular webpage does not do that. To verify this on the beta, edit the players' name by deleting the hyphens and just leave a space, then you will see what you are looking for.

Perhaps this has to do with usernames that have more than one word? Beta is replacing the space with a hyphen. I just tested this theory on a couple of other usernames with more than one word, and it does the same thing. Replace the hyphen with a space, and it's OK then. Single word usernames work fine on the beta.

A code monkey will probably know how to fix it! 🙂