What’s with the dummy advertisements? I have to assume they’re embedded as part of the skin package, because they’re not blocked (entirely) in my browser-environment-of-choice (Firefox + uBlock Origin), and they’re non-clickable. And the only one that’s for an identifiable product is for a 4-5 year old Google tablet.
Also, quote boxes shouldn’t apply italics to text. I want to italicize for accent or emphasis, and indicating a quote is already take care of by the mere fact that it’s in a quote box.
And the “join date/location/post count” block wanders all over the right edge. That’s a little annoying.
Appreciate the offer, but my guys don’t get paid till they fix this and by God that’s what’s going they’re going to do. I may be in touch privately with a few people re: tech issues.
I’ve had the same thought. My plan at the moment is to get the immediate problems fixed - color changes and such - then see where we are. If we need to start digging into the code I don’t want to be testing that on the production site.
No prob. Also, multi-page navigation buttons now visible, REPLY and POST NEW THREAD buttons easier to read, VIEW FIRST UNREAD now visible in nav bar at top of thread display pages.
Not seeing this. Can you post a screen shot? What device and browser are you using?
Not ignoring concerns but one thing at a time.
I didn’t like this at first but it’s helpful on phones to get to the top nav bar if you’re at the bottom of a long thread. Now I think it’s handy. Give it a while.
I have a feeling BigT’s script might just be a permanent solution for me. It’s far more elegant than what is out right now. Even the new gray bars in the fix are still too dark and distracting. BigT’s hit exactly the right shade. And the columns for the poster info fields are aligned.
Actually, the width of the “Last Post” column appears to be inconsistent: In Cafe Society right now, there’s room to fit “Today 11:46 AM” on one line, but in GQ, the “AM” needs its own line. So apparently the width is being dynamically set somehow, and the way they’re dynamically setting it is stupid.
EDIT: Looking at it more closely, it appears to be because the longest thread title in GQ is longer than the longest thread title in CS, which is forcing the title field to be wider. No thread title is wrapping. A better solution would be to give the “Last Post” column a minimum width that’s sufficient to fit everything in, and then to force the title field to wrap if necessary: That way, we’d only stretch vertically on those few threads that have long titles, not on every one.
Firefox 55.0.3 64-bit, Windows 7, Dell U2412M 1920x1200, however it doesn’t really matter as it also looks big on other PCs with smaller monitors and on the laptop. Also, between the two complaint threads here quite a few other folks have made similar comments about the oversize font size. The only device on which the main text in post bodies doesn’t appear unusually large is on the 7" tablet.
In order to see the large font issue properly I think you really have to download the image and view it actual size. There is some text over on the left displayed in Word which is Times New Roman @ 12-point and is a reasonable reading size on most monitors. This is approximately the size of the text that now appears in quotes. Before, quotes and the main post body were both that size. Notice how huge the fonts in the main body of posts looks compared to the normal reading size fonts in the Word windows on the left; the big fonts look to be approximately equivalent to 14-point, which is more like a headline or chapter heading font than a normal reading font.
The way a post (with or without quotes) displays when doing a “Preview Post” is the way it looked before and the way in my opinion it should look, at least on desktops. As soon as it’s actually posted, the font size goes up 2 points and it looks like my screen shot.
OK, but can it be changed to display the transparent up arrow with a circle everywhere, like it does on the PC? On my tablet it appears as a dropdown box with the name of the forum and a “Go” button, which obscures part of the screen in an annoying way.
Just noticed this, too, in Firefox. This is a new problem as I have done “Reply with Quote” a lot in the past few days and didn’t have this issue.
Bloody hell! That obtrusive drop-down box in the bottom right that I only used to see on the tablet now displays on the PC, too! The reply with quote windows is still half-size, squished on the left half of the windows, and the amount of white space between thread titles has tripled because of bad formatting of the info on the right-hand side which spills over onto multiple lines. It’s getting worse instead of better! :eek:
Last post column was widened, an improvement, but not enough. user names that are too long still cause a bunch-up.
The thread title column is too wide. Lots of thread titles extend to the second line. this is not a problem because the last post entry is already that deep. The thread title column doesn’t need to be as wide as possible.
I agree with most of this. But the part of your message I’ve italicized (:)) must refer to the OLD design. On the new design, the boundary of the quote box is almost completely invisible.I have already had trouble identifying quotes.
BTW, I am one who occasionally indents for good reasons (though not in this case).
Like Code, indentation is no longer available — unless the invisible quote box boundary is fixed indentation is now how quotes are distinguished.
And I’m surprised that no one else is screaming about CODE tags. Fixing minor color errors, like white-on-white text, will be easily solved. BigT can do it in five seconds (or outsource to India as a $35 task. :eek: ) But more complicated bugs like the breaking of Code and Preview are intolerable and much more difficult for the $35 guy to fix. They should be addressed first to test the $35 guy.
The change from blue bars to grey might be construed as paying homage to The Confederacy. I think we should petition to have those grey bars torn down and replace with good ol’ Union Blue.
I keed, I keed!
But I’m not using a phone, Ed! Why should I have to see this at all? The ability to display pages differently on different devices was added to HTML years ago – have your overseas programmers not learned that part of HTML yet?
P.S. Newspapers of your owner, the Sun-Times Media Group, have published a fair number of editorials over the years arguing against outsourcing American jobs overseas. But that seems to be what you have done with this redesign. Why? Did they give you the lowest price? Seems like you’re getting the quality of work appropriate to that price.
Quotes look exactly the same to me as they did on the old interface, with a distinct black line forming a box around them with the word “Quote” just outside, making them unmistakable. Must be your device or browser – the new interface does seem to like presenting different features to different devices.
Not sure if this has been mentioned yet, I didn’t read all of today’s posts. Yes, I can see page numbers now, but the Reply buttons (top and bottom of the page) are now completely invisible. When the changes were first made, the background of these buttons was invisible but the words were there so you could at least see those. Now both are invisible.