General feedback on new site HERE

[Libby2563]

Initial thoughts:

1. Agree with viney on the white. It’s glaring. There seems to be a lot of white space on all the pages too.

2. Agree with cilane that the indicator that you’ve posted on a thread blends in.

3. I also really liked the Today’s Posts feature. It was a quick way to catch up. I don’t like Current Events, OT, Menagerie, etc being included in the “Latest Activity” list. I also don’t like that it appears infinite, or that it’s harder to tell at a glance how many pages of replies there are. And “Latest Posts” seems not very helpful and also a bit redundant with Latest Activity. You can’t tell at a glance which category the post is in, whether it’s an OP or reply, or how many replies there are.

4. I liked being able to see people’s location without clicking on their profile, because sometimes it informs how you answer a question.

[trubandloki]

@cyberbay

Thank you, TandLoki. I like your pet picture, though. And I had a cat named Loki (the Norwegian goddess of mischief? She came with the name). When I have the time, I’ll go in and reset my settings. Right now, I am taken up with complaining, so it may be a few days…

Laugh, we will all be complaining for a few days. The poor people who did all this work and here we are complaining…

Tough I added an avatar photo, I am part of the small percentage of the world that prefers we not have them. I liked how clean and lacking of that stuff the old format was.

[poltroon]

@Wonders12

I miss the “Today’s Posts” feature. Since I’m involved in several different forums, it saved a lot of time.

There is a “Latest Activity” button that kind of has that functionality, but (a) sometimes it doesn’t work and (b) it only gives 10 results, which makes it a lot less useful.

(Edit: like just now I clicked it from here after this reply, and it just came back to this thread.)

In general, I’m finding navigation to “find something else to read” to be a little frustrating and inadequate, but I haven’t decided if that’s just me getting used to the site or if that’s a true situation. I’m definitely getting stuck into dead ends more than I’m used to.

[fordtraktor]

I couldn’t log in from Internet Explorer. Finally tried on Chrome and it is working. Just FYI.

[vineyridge]

That tiny blue double arrow on a forum’s index page lets you go to the last page, but not if you get to the thread by clicking on the topic in the forum index. I’d like to be able to go to the last page in the thread after catching up.

I do realize that a lot of my dissatisfaction is because the familiar is now strange.

[Wonders12]

@poltroon

There is a “Latest Activity” button that kind of has that functionality, but (a) sometimes it doesn’t work and (b) it only gives 10 results, which makes it a lot less useful.

(Edit: like just now I clicked it from here after this reply, and it just came back to this thread.)

In general, I’m finding navigation to “find something else to read” to be a little frustrating and inadequate, but I haven’t decided if that’s just me getting used to the site or if that’s a true situation. I’m definitely getting stuck into dead ends more than I’m used to.

Ahhh! Now that’s working more like I’m looking for. (Mostly.)

Mod1, please thank the people pouring all the time into this! We don’t do change well (remember how much we hated the last remodel!), but I’m confident this new site will be better in the end. Thank you for taking the time to listen to feedback and request improvements on our behalf.

[SmartAlex]

I miss Today’s Posts very much.
I think some shade of grey background would be better than white.
I miss being able to open into one of the middle pages on a particular post, although the “go to end” clicky is still there under the last posters name.

[tazycat]

It’s all working good for me had to do some hunting around on here to find where stuff is. Speed is faster then old site it loads fast for me,but i’m on the fastest high speed interent also.

[ohnoO]

I’m on an old cable modem and wi-if router using safari and my is loading much, much faster.

[gypsymare]

I see where I can edit the number of posts per topic page but not the number of topics per subject page. A list of 10 topics is really way too short. Even without the profile pics and ads it is running really slowly on my iPhone compared to the old site.

Im not seeing anything that notifies me that I’ve commented on a post before.

I do do like the clean mobile layout and lack of ads overlapping the screen. There should be a link somewhere to request the desktop site though.

[Simkie]

@trubandloki

Tough I added an avatar photo, I am part of the small percentage of the world that prefers we not have them. I liked how clean and lacking of that stuff the old format was.

Trub, I think there’s a show/hide avatar button in your profile settings

[danacat]

I agree that the new visuals are very tough on the eyes!! – especially in the morning when some of us have just woken up and are having our coffee. Would be so much nicer to not be blasted by a blizzard, white out page.

[Ceylon_Star]

I really like that there is a bar at the top of the screen that stays as you scroll that allows you to change pages within the thread. It’s really handy! Ooh, just noticed you can type in a specific page if it’s a longer thread, even better!

The mobile platform is really nice and easy to use on my Nexus 6P running Android 7.1.1. Will have to try on my tablet (also Android, not sure of the version off the top of my head) later. Buttons and such are spaced well enough that I’m not having bumblefingers and pressing the wrong thing constantly.

I haven’t gotten through all the settings yet on my end, but is there a way to make the board less white? Both on the desktop/main version as well as the mobile? It’s a LOT of white and a little hard on the eyes. I’ve had to turn down my brightness considerably. It was much easier to read when it had the dark green contrast.

Thanks, developers!

[Simkie]

Can the link to notifications at the top go directly to the notification page, instead of the message center?

Do “likes” generate notifications?

Thanks for all the hard work!!

[danacat]

Also…do wish that OP’s name and the title of their post were different colors – or that one or the other was a bit darker in color. They sort of ‘blend’ right now – another ‘tough on the eyes’ thing. But I guess change takes getting used to.

[AA_Hunter]

Please restore “Today’s posts.” Many of us have interests beyond just one category.

[danacat]

@Libby2563

Initial thoughts:

4. I liked being able to see people’s location without clicking on their profile, because sometimes it informs how you answer a question.

^^^^^^^^ this too! Okay, I’m done complaining!

[AffirmedHope]

Awww come on! No new emojis??? :lol:

[Trees4U]

Agee with others- slower to load, too much white on page- makes for more screen glare, small number of posts per page of individual topics.ie:bottom half of the Hunter/Jumper topic page is empty. Will someone tell me why the changes/ I thought it was running very smoothly before.

[cllane1]

The way the page automatically scrolls up to the top if you go back a page in a multi-page post is quite dizzying. It does the same thing (only downward) if you use the blue arrow to open a thread at the last post.

ETA: does it when you post, too!