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Time for a forum upgrade?

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Created by laurie 1 month ago, 5 Mar 2026
ptsf1111
WA, 558 posts
7 Mar 2026 8:19AM
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Looks nice and fresh but also a bit bulky. Posts take up quite a bit of space. Here you can see that in the old design, 3 posts fitted on a screen, now only 2 due to the margins and component placement.



I'd make sure the date is one line and embed the "Quote" button in the top as an icon or only show it on click/hover or so.






Also, the "Report a bug" button sits over the "Post" button so it's tricky to try to hit that button on my phone.

airsail
QLD, 1591 posts
9 Mar 2026 4:40PM
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We seem to be missing topic headings






laurie
NSW, 3877 posts
9 Mar 2026 9:29PM
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Hey everybody - thanks for your input so far, all the items that have been brought up have been addressed. Let me know if not. Let me know of any bothersome stuff, no matter how small. You can write direct, or post here, or use the feedback tool

Cheers ..

Obelix
WA, 1165 posts
9 Mar 2026 6:41PM
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laurie said..
Hey everybody - thanks for your input so far, all the items that have been brought up have been addressed. Let me know if not. Let me know of any bothersome stuff, no matter how small. You can write direct, or post here, or use the feedback tool

Cheers ..



??????, ah, you mean the Beta site...

Tardy
5327 posts
11 Mar 2026 7:35AM
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HI Laurie I would add more colour ...emojis are great .πŸ‘....your emblem Seabreeze is a little small in the left corner ...just a few thoughts if you are making changes 😜😜took me a while to figure out how to get post again you have to push emoji again ..I was trying to scroll down .to find post ..for some dummies like me it could be confusing .just my thoughts for a Wednesday

laurie
NSW, 3877 posts
11 Mar 2026 9:04PM
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Tardy said..
HI Laurie I would add more colour ...emojis are great .πŸ‘....your emblem Seabreeze is a little small in the left corner ...just a few thoughts if you are making changes 😜😜took me a while to figure out how to get post again you have to push emoji again ..I was trying to scroll down .to find post ..for some dummies like me it could be confusing .just my thoughts for a Wednesday


Thanks Tardy!
Not sure I understand the "how to get to post again you have to push emoji again" ... could I trouble you for more details on all this. Appreciate the feedback.

Speak up guys .. any gotcha's, nothing is too small to fix/adjust. 😎

Gestalt
QLD, 14911 posts
12 Mar 2026 5:14AM
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Bit of a long shot Laurie,

is it possible to add MetEye and Access models? That would be a game changer. No longer need to go to bom site.

Tardy
5327 posts
12 Mar 2026 3:15AM
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laurie said..

Tardy said..
HI Laurie I would add more colour ...emojis are great .πŸ‘....your emblem Seabreeze is a little small in the left corner ...just a few thoughts if you are making changes 😜😜took me a while to figure out how to get post again you have to push emoji again ..I was trying to scroll down .to find post ..for some dummies like me it could be confusing .just my thoughts for a Wednesday



Thanks Tardy!
Not sure I understand the "how to get to post again you have to push emoji again" ... could I trouble you for more details on all this. Appreciate the feedback.

Speak up guys .. any gotcha's, nothing is too small to fix/adjust. 😎


ok .yes so I went to put a emoji on up top push ed the smiley emoji near the B I U S ,so I push the emoji and they all appeared ,great .....πŸ˜‹I applied this one ....now I found you have to go back up to the top to the little emoji to get the emoji bar to disappear ,before posting ,I worked it out eventually ,but maybe another smiley face emoji with a X through it would be easier to work out for dummies like me .but I found it in the end .it had me stumped for a while ..but other than that ,I really like the bigger display on the reply pages .



I really liked the blue tab that we had coming from the bottom saying you have mail ,can we have that back that was cool😎.I see you have a report a bug on the left ,I've never had one .but good to know where the button is now .I miss the water back ground ...as we are all water babies .



ps... I like the changes .😜

Tardy
5327 posts
20 Mar 2026 4:28AM
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Hi Laurie ,me again ,can we have or use emojis in our messages .? 😎

I Like the new change on the emoji posting page .

MobZ
NSW, 521 posts
31 Mar 2026 8:42PM
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hello

MobZ
NSW, 521 posts
31 Mar 2026 8:45PM
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ah it worked, standby i'm having some difficulty posting here from the beta.. 😳

MobZ
NSW, 521 posts
31 Mar 2026 8:46PM
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ptsf1111 said..
Looks nice and fresh but also a bit bulky. Posts take up quite a bit of space.


It looks clean, but alot of scrolling to see messages.
πŸ‘Œ
Weather page looks good.
Seabreeze is may be The Windsurfers Bible?
Thanks for the good site Laurie.

MobZ
NSW, 521 posts
31 Mar 2026 8:52PM
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Thecursorgoesmissinganditwillnotletmemakeaspacenowwtf?😳


This was from a previous message that wouldn't post.

test photo (if you can call it that, sorry, bad qaulity screen grab from 1.5k away) is Greg K and Byron at Budgy. Low res but i wanted to see how it posted.
At first i just dragged the image onto text body, it was there, i finished writing big long post then it went to error 500 page when posting.
Ah but i knew it doesn't work this way, it's an error from trying to send that image not propelry uploaded, anyway i got back here.
I had weird glitches making things very laggy in the text window.



laurie
NSW, 3877 posts
10 Apr 2026 12:46PM
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Hey all


Been many many updates to the site and forums - thanks for all the feedback. πŸ™

Check out the latest version, and let me know of any dramas/errors/rubbish etc... still tweaking. If I hear nothing, I shall assume you're all enjoying it.

If not using it already, join up here: seabreeze.com.au/Members/JoinTheBeta

Tardy
5327 posts
10 Apr 2026 12:36PM
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here's my test photo .mobzie .. Wats happening .πŸ˜€

sboardcrazy
NSW, 8316 posts
10 Apr 2026 3:04PM
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I love the way you can choose your local forecast spots into favourites and then order them .πŸ‘Scrolling on the phone is good now.

laurie
NSW, 3877 posts
10 Apr 2026 5:46PM
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sboardcrazy said..
I love the way you can choose your local forecast spots into favourites and then order them .πŸ‘Scrolling on the phone is good now.


WooHoo!

Just put thru another update.. πŸŽ‰

MobZ
NSW, 521 posts
10 Apr 2026 8:09PM
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here's my test photo .mobzie .. Wats happening .??

Oh yeah that board does look good. Even just sitting there it looks good. I see why you like it so much.

Obelix
WA, 1165 posts
11 Apr 2026 2:48PM
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for Laurie:





laurie
NSW, 3877 posts
12 Apr 2026 5:51PM
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Thanks.. shall fix that. πŸ‘

Seabreeze
WA, 3525 posts
13 Apr 2026 8:43PM
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All fixed, and just added a new feature I'm sure you all have needed at one point...

No More Lost Posts!


Ever had a post lost because of a server error, or a network error, or your browser crashed?

When you're typing a post now, it's saved every 5 seconds to local browser storage.

This post, I typed .. closed the browser .. came back here .. hit "Reply" .. and here it is! πŸŽ‰

This only works on the new beta site

Many thanks to @decrepit for the finger-in-the-ribs on this one. πŸ˜€

decrepit
WA, 12866 posts
13 Apr 2026 9:29PM
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OK testing this.
Firstly pasting a pic into this page, Laurie says pic was too big, so I'll halve it.

now hit post.
edit, yep so that works with a medium size image, lets try making it full page.

so that's 900 X 622.
The one that crashed the site was 1000, my normal scale down size, so lets try 950 and see what happens.

Now I just have to try 1000 again

So weird, that's the same size that crashed the site before.
Don't know what you've done Laurie, but it's working great now. I didn't have to use the crash recover feature.

Oh yes this is about 2009, I have the first GPSTC T shirt on. Wish I could still wave sail like this. But 81 is a lot different to 64

Seabreeze
WA, 3525 posts
13 Apr 2026 11:02PM
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Great stuff, the new "auto save post" is great. It even saves across different posts, so you can always come back to a post.

Any other dramas/features, time to speak up, else looks pretty complete, and everybody is happy?

decrepit
WA, 12866 posts
14 Apr 2026 7:47AM
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Just a preference from me. This is what I see.
The time is only readable if I halve the distance to the screen and squint, just making the font normal black would help.
I doubt I'm the only one that's interested in how long ago the last post happened.

Obelix
WA, 1165 posts
Yesterday , 22 Apr 2026 4:51PM
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