At least you have faint icons, right now on my Android phone the site does not show the time of the last reply, nor the last poster making the reply or the faint “last post” icon. It works on the tablet but then I told the tablet to report to all sites that the tablet is a desktop not a mobile device.
No major issues, looks OK to me, thanks for fixing.
Is the huge Reply button at the top of each page necessary?
I mean, it’s at the top of the page… presumably I can’t yet have seen anything to reply to, because that huge button is the first thing on each page.
Or anywhere else for that matter? That thing is about four times the size it ought to be.
I really dislike the new look, and especially the new font. Ugh.
Polling seems to be broken now. I just tried to vote and it didn’t record. I also tried to click on the link to see results, and no results were recorded at all, despite the fact that several people had replied in the thread.
Okay, I’m still seeing a lot of problems. What has actually been fixed?
Admittedly I just skimmed this long thread, but I don’t see the list of moderators for each forum at the bottom of each page. Now, that isn’t something I look for regularly, so that may have been eliminated in the past, but it is useful.
I would definitely expect those in charge to have a sunk cost fallacy. They paid for this skin. They won’t want to give up on it. They clearly already spent a ton of time trying to fix it up before launching, since the test site’s been up since Charter Member renewal time.
Crazyhorse’s option to enable the skin selector and let people switch back is a good one, though. Make this new one the default (so it will work on mobile) but everyone else can switch back to the old one. That way the new stuff doesn’t go to waste, but people can use the old one. If the new one gets fixed up to where people would rather use it, then great! If not, then, oh well.
I’m seeing them in Chrome on my laptop, but when I posted earlier (from a different machine - a desktop PC, not a phone), I was not seeing any post dates - I guess maybe I was getting served up the mobile template for some reason.
The colors are configurable, as are some features. I’ll see if I can get my guys to match the old colors, for starters - I acknowledge the blue bar is jarring.
Not horrible, but yeah, it could be better.
Everybody OK with speaking boldly all the time. If you do it too much it stops being bold. Like it just did.
Is there an explanation of what the changes made were? I’m busting my brain trying to figure out why this new thing is so annoying.
For one thing: look at page of one of the forums. It is not inviting, or readable. it looks like it wants to waste your time and intellect. Very difficult to read small letters in such a big space.
Is it intended that when you click on “The Straight Dope” in the upper left corner, it now takes you to the front page of the MB, not to the main Straight Dope webpage?
You’re looking at different things. He’s referring to the forum lists, not the thread postings themselves.
There are dates on those on my screen as well.
Not on mine. There is no way to tell when a thread was posted. Using an iPhone. IMO that and the blue bars should be the first bugs taken care of.
What were the problems that this version “fixed”? I’ve never had issues with reading the site before (other than the ad redirects.)
Thanks for those changes. The gray fades into the background as it should. Removing most of the text from the quote buttons also removes a major distraction.
Is there any way to get rid of the up arrow and drop down box? This is very distracting not so much the box, but the arrow.
Wait…are you seeing changes? Still looks the same to me when I turn off BigT’s fixer-upper.