Some questions (and congratulations)
- Thread starter Christof
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sleepy hollow
unconsciously incompetent
Try this one: https://vi-control.net/portal/
The layout looks totally strange on my browser - does it work for you?
EvilDragon
KSP Wizard
Why cannot we edit our signatures anymore?
I am very grateful for all your questions, and tomorrow I will go through them one by one. /the new software is very deep and complex, and I'm just one guy... so it matter very much that I get your feedback so I can complete the work to your satisfaction and enjoyment.
If the site looks "funny" I need to know which browser you're using.
EvilDragon: can you try the signature now?
Good night all!
If the site looks "funny" I need to know which browser you're using.
EvilDragon: can you try the signature now?
Good night all!
sleepy hollow
unconsciously incompetent
The little house is linked to the "community", not the "portal".Click on the little house icon on the top menu...
sleepy hollow
unconsciously incompetent
It looks good now! The site just didn't load fully, probably an issue with my internet connection.
I think the portal page is pretty cool!
Yes, I'm working on it... thanks for pointing it out!
EvilDragon
KSP Wizard
Works, thanks!
EvilDragon
KSP Wizard
And yes, we can't seem to be able to edit our posts. That's mandatory.
EvilDragon
KSP Wizard
Some subforums have & showing instead of &
EvilDragon
KSP Wizard
Also, I'd like it if collapsing/expanding the subforums were much faster... it's way too slow now. I also noticed that the collapsed state doesn't get remembered consistently. I'd be visiting the forum in some hours and they're all back to expanded. Cookie that!
Frederick Russ
Founder Emeritus
thanks to all of you for your comments and questions. We are sorting them out one by one. In the interim, please know that Andre has been probably up for at least 24 hours getting this up. He's a machine but even machines need downtime.
OP
OP
Christof
Senior Member
We totally understand!Thanks again for your big effort!
paoling
Developer
Hi Frederick and Andre, congrats for the new forum. Just a couple of things in the visual style, maybe it's a easy fix with CSS.
1) There's a big blank space under the signature which ruins a bit the style of the posts and the readability, it makes the signature to appear as a quoted post.
2) The black horizontal bar which separates the posts has a too strong color and it gives the idea that the posts are separated elements, and the eye, or at least, my eye, doesn't follow the flow of the discussion. More over it has some information redundancy with the lower bar under the signature (number of post, time), maybe it could be removed completely to allow for a cleaner design. In general many layout elements distract the eye and the design trend of our times goes into the direction of simplicity.
3) This was already noted by some other user, but even if I'm a developer, I feel that the ads are a bit too much present. In particular the animated banner at the end of any thread, which is a bit distracting and possibly derailing from the topic thread. Moreover when it rotates to another ad the whole page flips to accomodate the change in height and this is quite irritating if you are writing in the reply box.
4) The big list of developer icons on the bottom is nice, but it should be reserved in few pages, to save resources, and it makes the mobile navigation experience a bit odd.
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If ads are a necessity maybe a right vertical banner as you can see in gearslutz can be helpful.
Just my two cents, anyway I'm going to explore further the functionalities of the new forum!
Thanks for your work
1) There's a big blank space under the signature which ruins a bit the style of the posts and the readability, it makes the signature to appear as a quoted post.
2) The black horizontal bar which separates the posts has a too strong color and it gives the idea that the posts are separated elements, and the eye, or at least, my eye, doesn't follow the flow of the discussion. More over it has some information redundancy with the lower bar under the signature (number of post, time), maybe it could be removed completely to allow for a cleaner design. In general many layout elements distract the eye and the design trend of our times goes into the direction of simplicity.
3) This was already noted by some other user, but even if I'm a developer, I feel that the ads are a bit too much present. In particular the animated banner at the end of any thread, which is a bit distracting and possibly derailing from the topic thread. Moreover when it rotates to another ad the whole page flips to accomodate the change in height and this is quite irritating if you are writing in the reply box.
4) The big list of developer icons on the bottom is nice, but it should be reserved in few pages, to save resources, and it makes the mobile navigation experience a bit odd.
---
If ads are a necessity maybe a right vertical banner as you can see in gearslutz can be helpful.
Just my two cents, anyway I'm going to explore further the functionalities of the new forum!
Thanks for your work
OP
OP
Christof
Senior Member
I don't know if this is possible, but in Facebook when you edit a posting everyone who wants can see the edit history.Not sure if this is possible here, anyway it is not a must, just a fancy feature that would prevent some users to edit their posts after some critical or negative repliesTesting 1, 2, 3.
Yeah - editing is a must
