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Daystar Clarion said:You mods and your perks.TimeLord said:Shiny update is shiny. By the looks of the comments already in this thread I'd say the ability to alter the colour of the post header bit where the username and post time/dates are would be a cool addition but everything is beautiful as it is already so colour options are a secondary thing for me.
Some of us have been test driving it for even longerDaystar Clarion said:
[sub]One day, I will have such power.[/sub]
[sub][sub]One day...[/sub][/sub]
NO DAYSTAR! You would go mad with powah!
Not enjoying the changes Escapist. There was precisely nothing wrong with the former style. Adjusting to the new quote button position is going to be tedious and as mentioned earlier, having the report button a few pixels away is going to bite you in the arse. The whole site now just looks bloated in my opinion. The front page header is also, horribly bloated. Trim the fat people!
I understand I can change a few settings so I'll look into that but there is one thing that is really bugging me.
Please for the love of all that is good and holy CAN YOU PLEASE SORT OUT THE BANNER ADVERTS ON EITHER SIDE OF THE BOARD. THEY ARE EATING UP THE SCREEN AND MAKING BROWSING THREAD PAGES ON BOTH DESKTOP AND MOBILE IMPOSSIBRU!!
Sorry to be obnoxious but I've complained about this problem for around a month with no success or response. If you can't fix it, I'm just going to have to find somewhere else to post because this site is currently BROKEN. Adverts, even the obnoxiously obtrusive ones are bad but when they actually impede my ability to read and use the website, something has gone horribad. It basically chops off the board on the right hand side making the page number and quote buttons disappear. On my mobile, where I do 75% or more of my browsing and posting, this problem actually prevents me from using the site. And this upsets me
Help me escapist staff, you're my only hope.
I understand I can change a few settings so I'll look into that but there is one thing that is really bugging me.
Please for the love of all that is good and holy CAN YOU PLEASE SORT OUT THE BANNER ADVERTS ON EITHER SIDE OF THE BOARD. THEY ARE EATING UP THE SCREEN AND MAKING BROWSING THREAD PAGES ON BOTH DESKTOP AND MOBILE IMPOSSIBRU!!
Sorry to be obnoxious but I've complained about this problem for around a month with no success or response. If you can't fix it, I'm just going to have to find somewhere else to post because this site is currently BROKEN. Adverts, even the obnoxiously obtrusive ones are bad but when they actually impede my ability to read and use the website, something has gone horribad. It basically chops off the board on the right hand side making the page number and quote buttons disappear. On my mobile, where I do 75% or more of my browsing and posting, this problem actually prevents me from using the site. And this upsets me
Help me escapist staff, you're my only hope.
I can control it!Evil Smurf said:Daystar Clarion said:You mods and your perks.TimeLord said:Shiny update is shiny. By the looks of the comments already in this thread I'd say the ability to alter the colour of the post header bit where the username and post time/dates are would be a cool addition but everything is beautiful as it is already so colour options are a secondary thing for me.
Some of us have been test driving it for even longerDaystar Clarion said:
[sub]One day, I will have such power.[/sub]
[sub][sub]One day...[/sub][/sub]
NO DAYSTAR! You would go mad with powah!
Think of the good I could do!
I don't like the mustard yellow "new!" notifications on the ends of thread names. I don't think it fits the colour scheme at all. It would be much nicer if it went back to red, or any other colour really.
Please?
Oh, the report button doesn't seemed ideally placed either, but as long as you guys are prepared for an increase of accidental reports I guess that's your decision.
Edit: I just realised my post is terribly negative. I think it looks quite good.
Please?
Oh, the report button doesn't seemed ideally placed either, but as long as you guys are prepared for an increase of accidental reports I guess that's your decision.
Edit: I just realised my post is terribly negative. I think it looks quite good.
contact us about ads that are bothering you. We'll be happy to look into itRaven said:Please for the love of all that is good and holy CAN YOU PLEASE SORT OUT THE BANNER ADVERTS ON EITHER SIDE OF THE BOARD. THEY ARE EATING UP THE SCREEN AND MAKING BROWSING THREAD PAGES ON BOTH DESKTOP AND MOBILE IMPOSSIBRU!!
Sorry to be obnoxious but I've complained about this problem for around a month with no success or response. If you can't fix it, I'm just going to have to find somewhere else to post because this site is currently BROKEN. Adverts, even the obnoxiously obtrusive ones are bad but when they actually impede my ability to read and use the website, something has gone horribad. It basically chops off the board on the right hand side making the page number and quote buttons disappear. On my mobile, where I do 75% or more of my browsing and posting, this problem actually prevents me from using the site. And this upsets me
Help me escapist staff, you're my only hope.
I don't like the position of the quote button. It makes way more sense to have it below a post, because you've just finished reading it.
I'm not the biggest fan of the new look, but it IS making it load much, much faster for me. So that's a plus, if nothing else. Plus I guess minimalist design is better than anything too cluttered.
My father... was seduced by the Dark Side of the Force, don't to the same! (unless you have a hot twin with a gold bikini)Daystar Clarion said:I can control it!Evil Smurf said:Daystar Clarion said:You mods and your perks.TimeLord said:Shiny update is shiny. By the looks of the comments already in this thread I'd say the ability to alter the colour of the post header bit where the username and post time/dates are would be a cool addition but everything is beautiful as it is already so colour options are a secondary thing for me.
Some of us have been test driving it for even longerDaystar Clarion said:
[sub]One day, I will have such power.[/sub]
[sub][sub]One day...[/sub][/sub]
NO DAYSTAR! You would go mad with powah!
Think of the good I could do!
Meh, It's alright but 'twould be nice to have the username bar in good ol' Escapist blue, to add some colour.
Low content ruleNasrin said:
Talking about that rule, you ever thought about putting a automated system for it? I see a lot of people not getting the correct punishment for a low content post because nobody bothers to report them, for example fappy did one in this thread and nothing happened, even though it was breaking the rule. I would find it for you, but I'm on an iPod and it's laborious browsing through this site.
OT: I like it, but I think I prefer the old style. Change the grey to the good ol blue and this style would be amazingly awesome.
It concerns me greatly that people in the Publisher's Club, through no other qualification than their wallets, are able to influence things before the rest of us even know that a change is being planned. That suggests something to me that is deeply concerning.ThyNameIsMud said:
Surely we all use this website, even the people who aren't paying for it directly out of our own (or our parents') pockets. So to not even know that an update is coming until a select few have had a chance to use it and make changes strikes me as deeply unfair.
as an unrelated aside:
I seem to recall saying this exact thing would happen when the Publisher's Club was first introduced, and I was told not to be alarmist because they wouldn't start cutting the rest of the users out of important changes. I would consider changing the entire update of the forum to be an important change, so perhaps I was misinformed?
And I'll reiterate my previous points. It's too big. I'm using the old forum view right now and everything is close enough to the right size. In the new layout the dividers between the posts are too thick. And it's not the inclusion of the avatars/badges/quotes that annoys me, because I can usually ignore them, but it seems like the space where those avatars go has been at least doubled, which means a whole lot more white space intruding on the actual post from the left. With the new forum disabling the badges etc makes the problem even worse, because there is nothing but a big block of white space with some text in it.
And the text is the right size as is. It strikes me that when you have a problem that normal size font (I'm assuming size 10-12) looks too small, then the problem is that the space around it is too big, not that the text is too small.
Before all the information fit into the space designated for the avatars perfectly. In a total width of 35cm, 5cm was taken up by the user info, and 30cm was forum post. Now of a total width of 35cm nearly 7cm is taken by by user info, of which 2cm is just white space. There was barely 2mm of white space in the old design, and a regular sized avatar fit in line with the badges, leaving 1mm either side for the margins of the box. Now the avatars and the badges are out of sync and there is 1.5 cm of space either side of the avatar.
Another concern is putting the date and time above the post itself instead of above the user info. If I read left to right, scanning down a page, currently I start reading at the edge of the user info box and can read all the way to the bottom of the page seeing nothing but people's posts. In the new layout I read someone's post, then have to skip past the date and time to read the next one. I'll concede that this may become more automatic with time, but right now it's greatly disrupting my reading experience.
Also, there are issues with how it actually works. It seems to be running off the edge of the page, which means that it's too big for the 17inch work monitor I'm currently on, and that is a ludicrously big monitor to begin with. On my 16inch laptop the words are pressing right to the edge of the screen, which is serving to accentuate the 'user info on the left is too big' problem.
Also, on Internet Explorer there are problems with: loading times (they have increased dramatically) and a problem I'm running into where if I hover over the 'quote/report/reply' buttons they stick on blue and then I can't access those same buttons on someone else's post.
Finally, I am restricted in my internet use, and have been using a dongle for internet service. Since the new forum update my dongle has now been overtaxed to the point where using the Escapist with the new forum layout means I can't do anything else with my laptop period. This new layout is very unfriendly to anyone with a slower (or even a medium) internet connection. I can't believe I'm the only one who isn't running high speed fibre optic broadband, so other people must be having this problem.
I think it looks good.
More "solid" than the previous version.
On a side not I'm still amazed at how people just don't take well to change, even if there's nothing wrong with the change.
More "solid" than the previous version.
On a side not I'm still amazed at how people just don't take well to change, even if there's nothing wrong with the change.
I think it looks good, and as stated in a thread before and possibly already in here, I would love to be able to change the color of the gray bars. I checked the browser options just to be sure before hand.
In any case, thanks for the hard work.
In any case, thanks for the hard work.