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Ace, thanks!

Appears to work great! Thanks for the quick update!

The problem with customisable selected state icons, is the inconsistency in the select state. Means it isn’t always immediately obvious whether something is selected or not. WB 2.04+ added borders around the icons to resolve this. Most of the time you don’t need them though, especially if people stick to the more modern GlowIcons style.

But otherwise, Workbench/Intuition did nearly everything right in terms of UI design. Close gadget nowhere near anything else you’re going to click on, menus at the top (pointer constrained by the screen, makes it easier to get to the menus), windows that don’t come to the front as soon as you look at them (makes it easier to rearrange windows the way you want them). If you want something full screen it can go on its own screen, and if something is multi window they can all be grouped together on their own screen.

Window drag bars shouldn’t be full of clutter.

Yeah, I’m looking at you especially Microsoft, with random toolbar buttons, search box (!), and lord knows what else crammed into the drag bar of your applications. So much so that there’s very little actual drag bar to grab should I (gasp) actually want to move the window somewhere else.

Which brings me onto windows should not all be full screen. Especially with the size and resolution of modern monitors, there’s no reason to have everything full screen all the time. But, from what I’ve seen, most people do. I think this is why drag bars are increasingly being filled with garbage. And probably why lots of apps seem to be designed to only run full screen size.

I do wonder whether the text next to the toggles changes depending on the state of the toggle. It seems to be arbitrary whether they do or not, leaving me unsure as to what the toggle actually does.

Swipe from the side to go back can be really annoying, if you’re trying to highlight text from the side or do some other operation that Android decides is a swipe from the side. I’m forever going back when I don’t want to.

No worries, I wasn’t sure if I should switch it but did anyway!

New version allowed me to re-import settings so all good.

That’s not what I’m seeing, but I think I’m in a slightly different view, as I don’t have the small image in the top left.

Ah, I see, with that off I get the gallery at the top which can be scrolled through, and the inline images in the post, which is actually the best of both worlds. I’m not seeing that unresolved link issue.

I see now why we were predicted to run out of IPv4 addresses, and also why we don’t appear to have actually run out of them yet.

Although why they still have such massive ranges of IPs is crazy.

Now showing (s). I appear to have my multi communities back. It hasn’t logged me back into my accounts though (only have the ones I’ve added back in since the change)

Got it! It’s still showing me the new settings, version shows “(db)”. I guess I need to delete the database to revert back?

Good to know this was an intentional change, rather than a bug which wiped out the settings.

Play is still showing me 293 so haven’t been able to update as of yet.

One of the recent updates logged all my accounts out too. I didn’t have a backup though. Maybe some sort of automatic backup or sync to Google Drive would be a good addition.

All good on 286, thanks!

Same here. You can post comments but not reply to them.

Thanks for the quick response! Unfortunately the new one is just giving me a grey screen when I go into any post 🙁

Smaller = cheaper to make, less space needed for storage, etc. They also look thicker, so might be more robust. I’d be surprised if any record player couldn’t play 45 rpm, the reason for 33⅓ will be because they are smaller they need to be slower to increase the playing time.

I think I actually won it in a mini competition. I had an AmigaOne XE previously (also ran Linux but the hardware had bugs so it was quite flaky). I’ve had it since ~2018. Linux is (or was) installed but I don’t think I ever used it much, so don’t want to comment. The distro I have will be very out of date now.

I like AmigaOS but can’t really recommend it to people who don’t know the Amiga. There’s not an awful lot of software support. If you want to try it though, it’s a fast, light, preemptively multitasking OS. OS4 is a PPC-native version which will also run old software (as long as it doesn’t hit the hardware directly) through a built-in 68k emulator.