New Forum software thread. . .

I hate this
The last one was better
Most all of my surfing is on g2 and the names of everything are right next to eachother I liked them when they were stacked this is one of the reason I never went to the usual suspect forum and now u have made the same as them much harder to navigat just one complant from me tonight before I end up in the wtf thread that's ok though my membership is almost done anyway

 

If you read previous posts you'd see that constructive criticism is being taken to make the forum more user friendly...instead of having a tantrum and threatening to not renew membership, tell Spark what is going on with how you browse the forum. Be very specific so he can tackle these things, have a little patience mate.

 

Some browsers have add-ons that will let a user tweak the appearance of pages. I use the NoSquint add-on for Firefox whenever I run into a forum whose color scheme or text size doesn't appeal to me.

 

Tantrum grrrrrr tantrum grrrrrrr tantrum grrrrrrrrrr aaaaaaaaaaagrrrrrrr
It would be great if we had an option to use old styl
And being very specific is hard with this stupid phone it takes to long that is why I liked the old forum
And I will still stay a member I was planing to upgrade to platnum when mine ran out
But I still hate the new set up

 

Much better - pretty much as easy as it was with the old site. :thumbup:

 

Spark,

PM popup notifications lead to a 404 Not Found error if used to access the Private Message box.
However, the PM Notifications tab up at the top is working fine.

 

IE8. Someone shoot me a PM and I'll see if it repeats.

ETA: Dunno if it makes a difference... I usually click cancel on the open in new window option, then click view the message. If it happens again, I'll let you know.

 

Seems a bit slower than the old forum.

 

I dunno if this bugs anyone else, but the gradient at the bottom of each line separating posts in a forum is bugging my eyes.



Other than that the current color scheme works fine for me.

Also, why is the latest posts list on the frontpage so short now? I *think* right after the upgrade it was longer like the old one was.

Do super huge pics still break the entire thread table or do they just stretch out that single post now?

 

The RSS feeds are more accurate!!!:thumbup:
+1 for improved RSS capabilities....

 

I have the brightness on my monitor turned way down. BF is by far the 'brightest' forum. JD and USN are both more muted. USN more so. Reversed out print is best for the eyes so this is the opposite of that. You could add a light grey or blue tint just to reduce the glare and then make the type bold. Just sayin....

 

Anyone work this out? normally there is a "mark as read" option but for some reason i'm not finding it.

 

Could the font size of user's names be increased, like it was before? Thanks.

 

Thanks a lot for that tip. This was the best thing I found all morning. It's hard to get old and blind haha. Like I had mentioned before...for all of those that do not like the color (white/black) of the page. Spark can add different views to the forum. The one I used to run had a tan page with black text, a light blue page with dark blue text, white page with black text and so on and so on.

You can just pick the view you want your forum experience to be. I'll attach a screen shot to show you where you can find it. It's up to him if he wants to add different styles so don't shoot the messenger. Just a suggestion.

I am really liking the new forum. I do agree with members names being bigger and more pronounced (bold) but these are all just tweaks. We'll get there. Thanks Spark for all your hard work on this. Much appreciated!