New Forum Layout / Design Feedback
Nov 25, 2017, 6:11 am
#16
Join Date: Mar 2004
Location: Florida
Posts: 2,872
This is an "upgrade?" It's awful. And why did the Omni button disappear from the top of the page?
Nov 25, 2017, 5:34 pm
#17
Join Date: May 2005
Posts: 3,944
"Thread starter" to refer to whoever has started a thread. We were used to calling the person the OP, original poster. Will FT go back to all those posts in which we addressed the initial poster as an OP and change our post wording to TS? Will be interesting to see how that is handled.
Nov 25, 2017, 8:07 pm
#18
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Last edited by JDiver; Nov 26, 2017 at 8:48 am Reason: Redact to conform to rules
Nov 26, 2017, 12:44 am
#19
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Nov 26, 2017, 3:59 am
#20
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Join Date: Jan 2014
Posts: 416
only works when logged in though
Nov 26, 2017, 10:47 am
#22
Join Date: May 2009
Location: South Park, CO
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"Thread starter" to refer to whoever has started a thread. We were used to calling the person the OP, original poster. Will FT go back to all those posts in which we addressed the initial poster as an OP and change our post wording to TS? Will be interesting to see how that is handled.
Nov 26, 2017, 11:40 am
#23
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I haven't been on FT as much lately, so today is one of the first times I am seeing more of the new look. First impression: I don't like it one bit. Perhaps there is a way to shut it off individually, but I dislike how the page will constantly scroll until the very end. I'd rather see one page at a time, as was possible on the previous version. (found the setting for infinite scroll).
Any way to shut off the top bar from floating when I scroll? Seems like it, along with the bottom reply crap take up a lot of real estate on my screen.
Secondly, and again, perhaps there is some sort of setting I can change, but I feel as though the Reply button is too far down on the screen. I dislike websites which try to move stuff all over the page, rather than have it in a convenient spot. Only other thing I would change is the color- not a fan of the light blue.
Any way to shut off the top bar from floating when I scroll? Seems like it, along with the bottom reply crap take up a lot of real estate on my screen.
Secondly, and again, perhaps there is some sort of setting I can change, but I feel as though the Reply button is too far down on the screen. I dislike websites which try to move stuff all over the page, rather than have it in a convenient spot. Only other thing I would change is the color- not a fan of the light blue.
Nov 26, 2017, 1:33 pm
#24
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Join Date: Jan 2014
Posts: 416
Some people don't log in and just browse, I do that and only log in to post.
The new forum is like something out of the 90s or early 2000s at the latest. It's ugly.
The new forum is like something out of the 90s or early 2000s at the latest. It's ugly.
Nov 26, 2017, 1:39 pm
#25
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Nov 26, 2017, 5:06 pm
#26
Join Date: May 2009
Location: South Park, CO
Programs: Tegridy Elite
Posts: 5,678
It is indeed. The over-use of white space is truly awful - the wikiposts especially are very uncomfortable to read now. It's hard to imagine even one person looking at the redesign and thinking it's an improvement, much less the multiple people that I assume must be involved in approving and deploying this. Thus far user feedback seems to be falling on deaf ears.
Nov 26, 2017, 10:47 pm
#27
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Join Date: Jan 2002
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Someone who has no account is impacted, but for those with accounts, just remaining logged in would solve the issue
Is there a benefit to logging out?
Nov 27, 2017, 3:45 am
#28
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Join Date: Jan 2014
Posts: 416
I suppose not, but if you clear the browser's cache, it logs you out automatically
Nov 27, 2017, 5:07 am
#29
Join Date: Feb 2016
Posts: 826
The site is messed up after recent changes
The site has too many flashing adds, loads very slowly and not giving the same pleasurable experience as before. Always go to mobile setting even if I disabled going to mobile in profile settings.
Nov 27, 2017, 8:29 am
#30
Join Date: Dec 2015
Location: London - SW4
Programs: BA Gold
Posts: 320
Agreed - the floating menu at the top of the page never works correctly on my laptop or my phone.