I’m starting a new thread because many of the problems reported in earlier threads reflected formatting problems we believe we have now resolved. Take a look and let us know what you think.
Be aware that this is a simply a re-skinning of the existing board. The purpose was to make the SDMB easier to read on mobile devices. We didn’t upgrade the underlying board software, and basic board operation should remain substantially the same. If you think something is broken, please let us know.
Some of the complaints seem to be primarily aesthetic. While we’re not opposed to tweaking, the major concern right now is to make sure everything is working OK. If your major objection is that things look different, give it some time. The new design may grow on you. We appreciate your patience.
Huh. The “Add new thread” and “Reply” buttons are now blue with Chrome, and still red in IE. Personally much prefer the blue, but I’ll survive.
I like the larger sized text (old, with bad eyesight) but I hope the floating arrow thingie on the bottom right, and the heavy blue line marking each post go away.
I’d like to suggest changing the color of the blue bar at the top of each post to something with a more subtle contrast, perhaps the blue-grey color that surrounds the Quick Reply box?
Edit: Oh, and have the Show Signature box unchecked by default on both Quick Reply and regular reply.
Everything still looks huge. Also, when I get to the end and the reply button is the wrong color it’s a bit jarring (I know, that’s a huge problem, right). My first thought is that the reply button should be dark blue, but I’d rather see the bars (ignoring their size) be light blue to match the button. In either case, between the reply buttons and the bars and the grey I saw somewhere the whole board looks like someone fiddled with the customize settings and never really finished. It just doesn’t match.
Also, everyone has been mentioning the stats not being right justified, I just noticed that they’re not even lined up where they are. As you scroll down (at least on my monitor) they’re all +/- about an inch. Again, it looks unfinished.
I posted in the huge thread, but I’ll post here since it’s a bug not an aesthetic thing.
On an iPhone 6+ using Safari, latest iOS, if I switch between portrait and landscape mode while composing a quick reply it refreshes the page and I lose what I typed, and I get the error message at top that says, “A problem has occurred with this web page and it was reloaded.”
Is there no way you could simply issue mobile versions of pages to mobile devices like countless other websites do? This is a significantly worse experience on desktop.
The “Multi Quote” text link doesn’t do anything on either Safari or Chrome under Mac OS 10.12. The icon next to it works fine, but not the link. For the other reply tools (“Reply with Quote” and “Quick Reply”), both the icon and the text link work.
The text next to these icons should be removed. Only the icons are needed, anyhow, as rolling over them will give you a pop-up telling you what they are.
Also, I’d kill the way quoting something puts it in italics. That’s lame and might destroy the original formatting by the OP.