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Warboc, on 19 April 2012 - 09:39 AM, said:

Sorry for the late reply, not been on much lately.

This works on 3.2.3.  Modify the template (inboxList in OtherGlobalTemplates).  Here are my changes from default:

<h4 class='ipsType_sectiontitle'>{$this->lang->words['inbox_at_the_top']}<p class='ipsPad_half ipsType_smaller right'><a href='{parse url="app=members&amp;module=messaging" base="public"}' class='configure'>{$this->lang->words['inbox_list_view']}</a> · <a href='{parse url="module=messaging&amp;section=send&amp;do=form" base="publicWithApp"}' title='{$this->lang->words['compose_new']}'>{$this->lang->words['compose_new']}</a></p></h4>
<ul class='ipsList_withminiphoto'>
<if test="hasTopics:|:count($topics)">
  <foreach loop="loopynotify:$topics as $topic">
  <li class='<if test="$topic['map_has_unread']">unread</if> ipsType_small clearfix'>
   <img src='{$topic['_lastMsgAuthor']['pp_mini_photo']}' alt="{parse expression="sprintf($this->lang->words['users_photo'],$topic['_lastMsgAuthor']['members_display_name'])"}" class='ipsUserPhoto ipsUserPhoto_mini left' />
   <div class='list_content'>
	<a href='{parse url="app=members&amp;module=messaging&amp;section=view&amp;do=findMessage&amp;topicID={$topic['mt_id']}&amp;msgID=__firstUnread__" base="public"}'>
	<if test="$topic['map_has_unread']"><strong></if>{$topic['mt_title']}<if test="$topic['map_has_unread']"></strong></if>
	</a>
	<br />
	<span class='ipsType_smaller desc lighter'>Last by {$topic['_lastMsgAuthor']['members_display_name']} - {parse date="$topic['msg_date']" format="short"}</span>
   </div>
  </li>
  </foreach>
<else />
  <li class='row1 ipsPad_half ipsType_smaller'>{$this->lang->words['inbox_list_none']}</li>
</if>
</ul>

Also I notice you use topic descriptions.  Those are no longer supported.  I upgraded from 3.0.5 about 2 months ago.  Biggest issues were obviously redoing skins, no topic descriptions, and the new editor which is still causing user difficulties.  Over all though users like the new features and I did find a mod for topic descriptions.  There were a handful of other changes (features dropped) that I found ways to retrofit with skin adjustments.

You can create feed blocks with 1 to n items and with an offset.  So you could create first block with length 1 offset 0 and then next block with length 4 offset 1.  Or if you really need 4 separate boxes (versus just formatting each article to look like a box) you could do each with length 1 offset n.

Matt, on 13 February 2012 - 03:19 AM, said:

It is really not a matter of useful.  It is different.  Every time you take a feature away, or change the way it works, we have to "reeducate" our user base.  We have a lot of 50yr on up users and it takes along time to get them up to speed on forum software and any change in functionality I/we will get questions and have to explain for the next few weeks after a change.  I've had 1/2 dozen people ask where the last unread post link icon is (now the little dots).   We upgraded  3 weeks ago and I still have users who are not posting because of the new editor, or lost trying to find their way around profiles and such.   I've had to add back in the little arrow icon for last past, topic descriptions, media bbcode in editor, etc.

My biggest issue is there is no list of things that get dropped or changed on a new release.  You talk alot about new features, but not the ones going away.  So I have to spend a lot of time trying to test new releases for user visible differences, search these forums for complaints about things being missing, different.   When something is billed as a minor release it would be nice if features did not go away or radically switch, at least without being identified.

Hopefully a bug.  Some members use that for copying links to paste.  Also current functionality of taking the post you click on to the top of screen seems sort of useless.