So the new forums are here. It will take a little getting used to ... it's certainly different than the old forums. However, I've bounced around for a bit - and haven't gotten a single "Page Cannot be displayed message - which alone makes it worth the trouble! As long as the new forums continue to work - I'm confident I can learn to be happy with the new format. Now if I can just figure out how to control the word wrapping in the "Rich Text" dialogue box ......
guido61 wrote:Oh my!
David,
You may very well have been right about the forum's overall resistance to change. There sure are alot of negative comments out there about the new forum. Personally, I've been able to find pretty much everything I've been looking for ... and haven't experienced any of the issues that made the old forum pretty much unusable (i.e., prolonged delays, page not found, unable to display, etc.) Granted, the ads are definitely prominent ... and the general use of screen real estate certainly isn't how I would have designed it ... BUT, if performance is there and the only real differences are in where I need to go look to find features/function/controls .... I'm reasonably confident that I'll be a happy camper once I get used to the new look, especially if it consistently provides the response times I'm seeing thus far.
As far as the adds go - they seem to be most prominent on the general "home page" and on our individual "home pages". However, they seem clustered at the top of the page such that once you scroll past 'em - they're not embedded around the "meat and potatoes" of the forum posts. The half turn of the scroll wheel required to get past the ads ain't that big of a deal to me.
At this point - my primary frustration is the mismatch between the width of the the "rich text" input screen and where the word wrap kicks in. I'm not crazy about having to use the scroll bar to read a single line of text that I've input. I've looked to see if I could find where that's a configurable parameter and haven't found it yet. I've seen enough comments about it in other posts to make me think that it may get tweaked by the board administrators relatively quickly.
Everything is so tiny, and it's using only a center area..there's a huge amount of unused real estate on both sides of my screen. Word wrap does finally wrap around with a slide bar, but when I backspace to re-type something, it just leaves me at the front of the page and I'm typing in an unseen area. This IS going to take some getting used to... 
I miss the Vbulletin style
Kramerguy wrote:Everything is so tiny, and it's using only a center area..there's a huge amount of unused real estate on both sides of my screen. Word wrap does finally wrap around with a slide bar, but when I backspace to re-type something, it just leaves me at the front of the page and I'm typing in an unseen area. This IS going to take some getting used to...
I think it really depends what you're using.
When I first logged in this morning on my old computer at home which still has Windows XP and god-only-knows what version of IE, it looked like how you're describing and I thought "WTF! This Sucks!" Then I come to work on my computer running Windows 7 and whatever-the-latest version of IE and it looks much much better. Much bigger with only a small amount of real estate on either side. I haven't yet opened it in Firefox or Chrome to see what that looks like.
And I liked looking at it on my iPhone---the old version had no mobile version at all. I'm not enough of a computer guy to know if the difference between my two computers is due to the version of Windows, or of IE, or for some other reason, but it's night and day.
guido61 wrote:
Kramerguy wrote:Everything is so tiny, and it's using only a center area..there's a huge amount of unused real estate on both sides of my screen. Word wrap does finally wrap around with a slide bar, but when I backspace to re-type something, it just leaves me at the front of the page and I'm typing in an unseen area. This IS going to take some getting used to...
I think it really depends what you're using.
When I first logged in this morning on my old computer at home which still has Windows XP and god-only-knows what version of IE, it looked like how you're describing and I thought "WTF! This Sucks!" Then I come to work on my computer running Windows 7 and whatever-the-latest version of IE and it looks much much better. Much bigger with only a small amount of real estate on either side. I haven't yet opened it in Firefox or Chrome to see what that looks like.
And I liked looking at it on my iPhone---the old version had no mobile version at all. I'm not enough of a computer guy to know if the difference between my two computers is due to the version of Windows, or of IE, or for some other reason, but it's night and day.
I'm using windows 7(64) and chrome. There's several ways to adjust it, via the preferences in the forums, or just by using CTRL + / - to change it in chrome (or any browser). The problem is the formatting doesn't work well with changing the font, and ends up jumbling things together. I sent the dev team some screenshots of various text sizes, and how I have this huge amount of unused window space, with the forums concentrated in the middle- at their request (after I complained in the feedback forum), and they agreed it wasn't "right", and are working on it.
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