OGS Forum upgraded. I hate it. 😡

Notifications UI looks very terrible. It becomes very long.

I don’t even want to see this button. Please hide it.
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The overall style is completely awful and unusual. It seems to be the same, but something is wrong. I hate it.

Why do we need these changes?

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No change on my mobile.

I see the change. OGS just uses Discourse and probably updated to latest. Maybe complain at meta.discourse.org?

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I don’t care about Discourse in general. I care about OGS.
Look and feel could be customized. There is such an evil feature that makes it possible. It is called CSS.

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Fair enough. But I don’t think OGS devs should spend time removing features that every other Discourse instance has just because you don’t like it..

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Discourse development moves quickly and trying to customize the site beyond the standard options available would probably require hours of work for every upgrade. And for what? Why should we think that our community is special compared to the ones that are participating in the central development process and making these decisions?

Like that “rich text” button. You hate it, and personally I prefer raw text too, but isn’t it likely that most people prefer to type in editors like that, since that’s how almost all popular text editors (Word, Google docs, etc.) and Email clients work?

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I complain not so much about its presence as about its appearance. I don’t want to see it like this. It confuses me.

Please look here.


Is it the plain text mode? This is indicated by the icon as a simple glyph “A” combined with a placeholder. But it is a rich text mode.

And now look at simple text mode state.


The placeholder is the same. But the active icon is to complex to associate is as a text mode.

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The Capture d'écran 2025-08-26 173943 button works fine.

With M enabled:

With M disabled:

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@jlt Thanks a bunch. I’ve wondered what that button was for. :wink:

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That is exactly what I’m talking about. With ‘A’ enabled you got rich text mode. Is it obvious? Not for me. It confuses me.

An why placeholders are exactly the same for both?

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If the OGS website were half as nice as Discourse I’d be so happy. You’re complaining about details like placeholders, while when I go to an OGS discussion I often end up on a total disaster of a page like this:

I can type but not see where I’m typing or what I’m replying to, and even the normal title/menu bar is missing! So I really don’t think the best strategy here is for us to apply our CSS skills to Discourse.

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To clarify, I’m not complaining about anything. I’m afraid you’re responding to the wrong guy. :thinking: I happen to think that OGS is awesome in every respect.

FWIW, I participate in a number of other forums of special interest to me, and yes, on mobile and tablet screens, Discourse edit screens are typically weird and messed up. This isn’t an OGS thing.

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Indeed, I meant to reply to @mikhail.trusfus and must have clicked the wrong “reply” button.

Discourse generally works quite well for me on mobile, with all features accessible, so I’m surprised that you have that impression. I did notice with this latest update that I can no longer pinch-zoom in the text editor though :enraged_face:

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No worries 
 I’ve done the same myself many times over the years! :peace_symbol:

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I love the new options button [1]
:innocent:


  1. did not know about footnotes before ↩

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It’s not obvious, but if you hover your mouse on the icon you see the explanation.

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Thank you for pointing this out. :slight_smile:
The standard after the update was the feature being disabled and I just thought that it was just gone and didn’t think anything else of it. Glad to see that there is an option to restore it.

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I am surfing the Internet on my PC.

It is not about knowledge. It is about obviousness and confusion.
I’m aware of toolbar behavior. This irritates me a lot.

The update before it basically broke the functionality of being able to do small inline edits on mobile for me, the text I’m editing ends up out of the screen.


I guess this is the new version:

Support for auto translations - maybe that can weigh in on the AI conversation.

Is that implemented somewhere? I can’t see it.