I think the wait was deffo worth it. it looks alot more posh/affluent and more stylish.

well dones mods.

Darren

 

Hear hear

:-)

 

just need avatars

 

avatars just make everything chug and look messy IMO

 

but i think i know why the mods have not allowed avatars or signatures, as this would make the forum messey and cluttered. plus halh the time poeple would be commenting on them and messing about with them rather than just talk shop.
Darren

 

Then we would be able to reconise people more easily if we had them.

This forum looks like its a 1999 webring in the backend of nowhere sometimes.

 

You should have gone to spec savers

 

Nasioc does not have avatars. just thouoght i would mention that.

 

I dont use NAISOC So dont care.

 

Why is everyody's title got a line through it like it's been crossed out? (Firefox 1.0.7)

 

more than likely?
try IE?

 

Just don't like having to go off a page to go to another section!!!!

 

Not while I have breath in my body.

 

lol

 

Updated to Firefox 1.5, still got the same problem.

 

The rest of it looks nice, BTW

 

The reason that there are no avatars and graphical sigs is that it would slow things down even more than they already are, and right now, this thing is as quick as a dead horse!

 

Fair enough mate.

 

is it just a firefox thing to do with the lines


John

 

Dunno, haven't tried it with any other browser.

BTW, for those moaning that avatars would slow the site down, they wouldn't as long as they only allow avatars to be hosted off-site. And if you don't like them, you can turn them off. I like avatars personally, gives a more personal feel, IMHO

 

Oh, and I love that fact than when you do a quick reply it doesn't re-render the whole page, it just adds your reply. Seems pretty damn quick to me!

 

Yeah more personal feel,

that is right mate.

 

It seems to be that firefox is to blame for displaying the line underneath.


Runs fine in IE

Its supposed to be the underlining for the users name, but it seems have dropped slightly so looks like "Scooby Regular" is crossed out.

 

looking fine and dandy to me so far, but its only been 2 mins
just checking .....

 

Hang on a moment. You chaps are not talking about the new default style? The one which does not have the alternating background colors for odd/even posts? The one which makes it look very cheap and nasty compared to how it used to look, let alone how other forums look, and how this one should look, given it's meant to be a professionally run forum?

 

Ooh, ooh, try the search function and add a username to search for, you get a nice little drop down as you type displaying the possible names you can use! Nice touch.

 

Alternating what now? It's all white with a box round each post, very clean and simple with the occasional orange (or ginger) banner.

 

right, ok so i have had 5 mins playing with the new look and not happy

* 1. the preview has nor come back and that, reading other ppl's posts, was one of the best features. how many times on other forums, have you hovered over the thread titles to see a quick preview, see if its of interest and then click. This is a big loss and should be reinstated.

* 2.Drop down menu at the bottom. I know corrodoboy has given some alternative suggestions, but as i didnt use it that much no big loss, but i can see how it was useful and was thinking of using it more (now it was pointed out to me )

*3. Plus members had the ability to turn off goodle adsense. but its still there at the blooming bottom not happy. Please fix that.

*4. The extra lines in each post is nice and clean and the overall look is much better, but the extra lines/spacing just means that the page length is longer and more scrolling. well IMHO

* 5. the overall speed is much appreciated so something has improved, dunno whether the speed increase is down to time of day (i.e most ppl are at home) or down the fact that we have lost some useful bits, whcih might have been slowing it down. i am sure over the next few days we will be enlightened to what was needed to change to see the benefits but for now simon, i am afraid the jury is definately out !!!

 

Im not liking this at all

 

guys

We're only about 1/3 of the way there. This is not the end result. We're still in testing, and the asthetics are purely due to the upgrade to the newest version, plus a few tweaks.