Bingo 
Right, us demons don't care about these so-called studies, too ... 
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That's all perfectly fine, but that means that only half of the optimization job is done. Now just the optimization for people using a landscape screen needs to be done, so the whole thing can be considered completed.
Hi,
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My solution;
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Make the forum code and other social apps invalid in smartyphones.
No need for them in a primary ,communication device.
This would encourage people to look, see, listen, hear where they are, not just touch and not feel the object they run into or runs into them.
I see people watching 4K movies on piddly screens, that is an insult to the film makers.
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Tom... 
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you can get one
I was still, after more than 10-years, trying to get to grips with the old layout.
As far as I'm concerned, the old layout worked well enough and I'm already missing the page count.
In an already full day, dipping into Arduino now and again is a bit of a time luxury, so having something else to add to the list isn't always welcome.
All I can say is thank you to the Arduino team for continuing what has been one of the most interesting things I ever chanced upon.
Sorry if this has already been discussed, but is closing the topic after four months an option, or is it baked in? I don't think they should be closed, but in any case, I'm tired of seeing that notice at the end of every topic.
Edit: Well, apparently not every topic. But a lot of them.
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The whole idea is to let them die a natural death.
On the SMF site it also helped prevent spam on dead threads where people were no longer around.
It did and IMHO does still serve a good purpose.
Threads will be allowed to be re-opened given my understanding at the request of a new poster as they were in SMF.
Auto closing also promotes new discussion and you can always insert a link to a closed post as a reference.
The auto close should also not apply to posts that still get answers so many posts such as Larry's tips etc. will remain open regardless.
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Autoclose is especially useful here (or it will be in a few months when it's working) because there are so many users who join, ask a question, get an answer and then vanish forever.
At the moment, there are many zombie threads being posted to asking the OP for details and the chances of them actually replying are slim to none. Autoclose will filter that noise out.
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On SMF we asked users wanting to add to a closed topic to use "Report to moderator" to ask for it to be reopened.
The equivalent here would probably to flag the topic and the "Something else" category could be used for the purpose
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Some replies appear twice, I think it happens when someone clicked the "Reply" button that comes with every message.
Screendump #1080 - #1082: (https://forum.arduino.cc/t/do-you-like-the-new-forum/847695/1080)
I'm new to the Arduino world, slowly trying to learn.
The forums are unusable on older browser engines. Pages appear blank - nothing is rendered, although there appears to be some content in the DOM inspector.
I think it was working before, but now this mobile-like layout is a total mess.
There are tons of users with older systems - not everyone is able to smoothly run the resource hog which is Chrome (or its newest clone FireFox).
Add a fallback for older engines!
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The software is written for HTML 5, including CSS 3 as well as SCSS (a superset of CSS3). I don't think it will ever work in any older browser...
PS.: I'm curious, can you please show a screendump?
I'd like that too. Clean old-fashioned HTML, without all the fancy stuff, just pure readable text.
<h1>Arduino Forum</h1>
<h3>Do you like the new forum?</h3>
<h4>Erik Baas, April 24th 2021, 18:31.</h4>
<p>This is all you need to show text.</p>
.. etc..Sure, have a look:
The leftmost is Serpent52 (XP fork of Basilisk), the other two are New Moon 27 (XP fork of Pale Moon), both can be found at the MSFN forums . I am using the ia32 and SSE builds respectively.
The right-most window is archive of the same topic page from 2017 under older forum software. Unfortunately, the corresponding URLs are totally different (even the topic ID), so a current page can't be easily mapped to an archive.
As you can see in the middle window, nothing of the page content is rendered - it's completely blank.
I'm sure there are, but only few use them to go on the internet i hope. At least i never go online with my XP-partition, there haven't been any security updates and getting a reliable virusscanner is a hassle.
Yep, i don't think it should be noted at the end, and definitely not in that size.
The double reply bug also has me curious.
Clearly its a bug as it is showing both a continuation of a thread where the respondent hit the reply aiming at a specific poster (as was the case you show with my post) and the reply as a semi disjointed reply later in the page.
That is the only reason I can think of so clearly needs to be looked at. if that is the case.
Indeed, I did. That's what it's there for, isn't it?
Click the arduino-green button, not the grey-ish button at the post itself.
The latter will create something like a quoted reply (which i think is totally useless and waste of real-estate).
It is far from useless if you cannot otherwise tell which post the reply belongs to