Flash Message Improvements
When digitalpoint heard that the primary aim for XenForo 2.4 was to implement some tangible quality of life improvements, he was very quick to offer up some code he has written over the years - some released, some not - which he wrote for his own sites. Is there a somewhat ulterior motive to this code philanthropy aside from our eternal gratitude and ongoing respect? Yes. Now he no longer has to maintain any of this code himself! No better motive required, in our opinion, and of course it still comes with our eternal gratitude and respect.
It's 2025 so I hate the term "flash message" with a burning passion because it reminds me of the unpleasant days of having to manage third party browser extensions just to make sites a little bit "flashier" (lol does anyone remember Microsoft Silverlight?) but in this context, just to ensure we're on the same page, flash messages are the slide down messages that appear within XenForo at times to confirm successful completion of an action without reloading the page.
They work fine, but they can be a little cumbersome, covering too much of the screen, they don't stack and that three second timeout before it disappears somehow feels like minutes especially when it's covering something you want to interact with next.
So meet the next iteration of flash messages:
On wider displays, messages now adjust their width to avoid spanning the entire window. If several messages appear simultaneously, they now stack vertically rather than covering each other. There's also a subtle visual cue indicating when a message is about to disappear. Plus, if a message is obstructing your view, you can quickly dismiss it by clicking the close icon.
On narrower displays the messages will fill the display accordingly, just as now, but with all of the new goodies:
Finally, if you don't like the position of the flash messages, you can adjust that under Options > User alerts and notifications:
