New Forum software thread. . .

Boy is that a sight for sore eyes....now going to advanced mode to add a smiley - this new software is so advanced.

 

Just open 2 windows and look at the soft pastels compared to the older colors amd daker seperators. Still look better. I'm getting used to this software I suppose, but I admit to spending far less time here now because of changes, YMMV. Go to advanced and add smiley now....

 

The main problem I'm having is that other than using the quick reply I can't post. When I hit reply to thread it takes so long to open both my work and home computer time out.

Also the time it takes to open a thread it'self has slowed WAY down. I pretty much stopped posting on knifeforums because it was so slow after they upgraded not BF is the same?

 

I agree load time is the same - probably better (I haven't put it through any utilities for testing). I think any problems members have are directly a result of their equipment, connection speed or at times "perhaps" surfing the forum at peak hours like evenings and weekend evenings. Just my $.02

 

I think by little stuff like darkening colors, including the seperator bars on all 4 corners of the format, from the softer pastels will reduce a lot of the "staring at the sun" complaints, but that just my personal opinion. On thing I don't like is not having access to emoticons from Quick Reply. That would be a nice tweak if it could be pulled of. Sometimes ya just have to give somebody a thumbs-up! :thumbup:

 

cziv, double-tap Reply to Thread at the bottom of the page and you will get that advanced window with emoticons.

Or double-tap Reply at the bottom of each post for it. (Edit Post Reply Reply With Quote )

 

I just figured out to go straight to the "Go Advanced" reply button and push it. That brings it to the same amt. of clicks as the old forum (1) :foot: . Thanks!

 

Hi Spark,

I noticed that when replying to a thread, the text color popup moves around on hover making it difficult to use. Here's a couple pics to show what I mean...

When hovering over the green, note the gaps without a color box...


When hovering over the orange the gaps and colors move around...


This is using BFC Style 1. I haven't tested other templates.

Thanks!

 

+1 on replacing the horrible envelopes. Saw that you said it was low priority, just stating my opinion.
The contrast of background to text in the Dark style seems way too harsh to me.

Also voting for this:
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Also could the "Forum Categories" dropdown menu eventually contain all the subforums in nested menus?

 

wrong section.

 

Same here -- it's only when I hover over the rightmost column of color squares. I am using large print and Firefox 3.