New Layout of Forum - Good or Bad

[RedheadDane]

I dunno. It's probably just a case of needing to get used to the change but I kinda think the new layout makes the text look smaller...

 

[nowhereman]

Another case of "New and Improved" not being what it's cracked up to be. This format has totally ruined the most viewed thread on the forum. Babes on Bikes is no longer properly manageable. So I will be ceasing to contribute to that thread. Did the modification that has rendered this thread useless really have to be put in place to achieve the goals that needed to be met. It seems to me either very shortsighted, or it was a deliberate effort to destroy this thread and justify that the thread was just a casualty of progress and change. Such an impactful change should not have been needed. But hey, it's your site, have it your way. I just know that I am not going to "just get used to it" It's time for me to move on too. There are plenty of other cycling sources online. Enjoy yourselves

 

[The Hitch]

I don't like the fact that if you press quote on a post which already has 3 quotes, all the quotes turn up in your edit box, but then when you press post it tells you you can't have that many quotes, wtf. This morning I quoted a MI post which had like 7 seperate quotations. Then when I pressed post it said I had to cut down the quotations to 3. So I had to manually, on my phone edit out all these other quotations that weren't even meaningful to my post anyway. WTF was wrong with the old system. You quote only the post you want to. If you want to add others, you can do that manually.

Also I don't know where the smileys are. And I don't think its neccesary to reask if you want to post if someone else posts before you.

 

[May0maniac]

Re:

The polls are something else we've got on our list of things to fix.

Lots of stuff will be getting fixed/updating in the coming days/weeks. Migrating all the data over from the old forum and releasing it this way was the necessary evil which now allows us to fix the forum up so it's more user friendly and has all the features people want.

vBulletin was very aged and was starting to be a security concern. We'll get much more life out of this one. :]

@patricknd: We're working on a fix for that now.

The one complain that I have is the fact that the library of the race design thread is no longer working, that's a real shame. I feel bad for Libertine, he put a lot of work into it an made this forum an even better place.

 

[Amsterhammer]

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It's a simple fact of internet design that nobody likes change, then they get used to it. It's way too soon to judge, especially when many of the intended features haven't been ported yet.

This is absolutely true. Having said that, I can't recall ever having been so totally turned off to any forum upgrade since I started using forums in 1999. There is way too much white, set off by light gray and darker gray, with bright orange blobs. Revolting.

I think this look is horrendous. While I don't claim to be any kind of expert, I'm pretty sure that pages don't 'have to' look like this. At least there has been communication from the developers this time, which is a step in the right direction.

 

[King Boonen]

It'll take a little while to get used to, but so far I quite like it. It's much quicker, I don't have a problem with any of the text size and I like the cleaner look.

It would be nice to be able to see the last thread posted in from the board index like the last forum, I found that very useful. Any way that can be added?

 

[Pete]

I've added a "View New Posts" link and a "Mark Forums Read" link to the board index. We'll be posting more as we update things over in the main feedback thread, so please continue with any comments there:

http://forum.cyclingnews.com/viewtopic.php?f=11&t=28288&start=220

 

[Amsterhammer]

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I agree it's definitely faster, and cleaner. I do however agree with most of the input. I have very good vision, and the font type is pretty small to me too.

I can't seem to figure out how to multi-quote, like you could in the last forum. Anyone figure out if it's possible?

I notice in the Babes on Bikes thread all the photos were cut off. Really sucks. Probably my biggest complaint. If we're going to limit file sizes, then at least make them forced to scale.

The pics in chaos and cuisine are also askew.
YouTube embedding is needed.
I'm old and confused the buttons on top are not making sense to me but it seems we have less options than before.
oh yeah text is a little on the small side
A plus I now have AdBlock turned off your ads are not as intrusive at this point. Cyclingnews was the only site on the web I blocked. Also ads with sound that come on unwanted warrant adblock.

at first impression the change looks pretty good but the response from Immediate Media has been a most welcome change

Let's get chaos back on track. I have a backlog of 9000 pics waiting to be posted and cyclingnews is already about 18 months behind.
let us now put are chaos ducks in a row.

Oh just as a side note Babes on Bikes is sacred. If you take time and look back it almost shut down the forum when it was closed.

I couldn't agree more, especially with the bold..

I am now seeing smilies for the first time. Good job.

 

[Amsterhammer]

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Another case of "New and Improved" not being what it's cracked up to be. This format has totally ruined the most viewed thread on the forum. Babes on Bikes is no longer properly manageable. So I will be ceasing to contribute to that thread. Did the modification that has rendered this thread useless really have to be put in place to achieve the goals that needed to be met. It seems to me either very shortsighted, or it was a deliberate effort to destroy this thread and justify that the thread was just a casualty of progress and change. Such an impactful change should not have been needed. But hey, it's your site, have it your way. I just know that I am not going to "just get used to it" It's time for me to move on too. There are plenty of other cycling sources online. Enjoy yourselves

Red alert!!

We cannot let this happen, people! BoB must not die!

 

[Semper Fidelis]

Bad.


I will check back later with the hope it is better than now.

 

[Armchair Cyclist]

Am I the only one not seeing any results of this poll?

 

[Amsterhammer]

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Am I the only one not seeing any results of this poll?

I'm sure I saw somewhere that polls don't work yet, but they're 'working on it'.

 

[skippythepinhead]

Obviously neither this forum nor the previous version were mobile-formatted. This version, though, will not stop twitching and jumping around on my phone. I'm going to try it in a non-Safari browser, but so far it feels closer to listserv and 1997 than the Interwebs of 2015.

 

[python]

this is a test - font colour works !

Bold works !

smilies: work !

quotation

works !

navigation to the latest post from the board index - yep, works !

hyper linking ?

http://www.cyclingnews.com/
seems not working for me, but i saw it did for others...

Edit: thanks to pete, it works now !

can't speak for others, but this is more than 90% to make me happy...

what else ? oh, yeah, for those who want to stay logged in for longer than 1hr (after which an auto cut off seems to kick in), it is easy - just check the appropriate box during the log in !

overall, GOOD JOB developers, and dont get discouraged by the few who *** and moan.


font size ? works for me. i guess for some it still is too small, but i would think it is highly dependent on the browser...i use fire fox

 

[Red Rick]

I don't really like it, but that may come. What I do like is how the quoting works now

 

[Tyre Byter]

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Obviously neither this forum nor the previous version were mobile-formatted. This version, though, will not stop twitching and jumping around on my phone. I'm going to try it in a non-Safari browser, but so far it feels closer to listserv and 1997 than the Interwebs of 2015.

Exactly!

I was complaining about this Sat pm. I needed meclizine after trying to read a couple of threads.

I tried Puffin which was stable but the font was incredibly tiny.

Also, I kept hitting the 'Sort by' button when I wanted the 'Jump to' button at the bottom of the page.

(Thought I'd add some unnecessary white space in formatting this post.

You're welcome!)

 

[Dear Wiggo]

It's also incredibly simple (check out tiwtter's, "bootstrap") to have a mobile version and a desktop version CSS configuration all rolled into one.

SO much wasted space with this new version on the desktop now. Ugh.

 

[Dear Wiggo]

Too fricken funny that they auto disable your sig and prevent you from having URLs in your sig.

BUT

There's the Korean spammers right on cue.

Form over function sucks.

 

[Dear Wiggo]

Fricken hilarious.

Good grief, they can't even implement auto image resize? 800 pixels max? They have to have the smallest budget for forum upgrade in the history of forum upgrades. I feel sorry for the developers.

 

[Dear Wiggo]

Just brilliant security upgrade

 

[Susan Westemeyer]

Yeah, I just zapped 6 spammers with over 200 postings......

 

[sniper]

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sucks big ones. how do you click on a quote in a post to go back to that post to see what prompted the response in the one quoted? in the old format you can one click back through a conversation without having to search manually

this is indeed one of the things that i miss pretty hard.
the searching machine doesn't work as it used to, either.

seems like it was a badly prepared transition, done by people who clearly weren't using the forum in the first place.

 

[Chris]

Re: Re:

Obviously neither this forum nor the previous version were mobile-formatted. This version, though, will not stop twitching and jumping around on my phone. I'm going to try it in a non-Safari browser, but so far it feels closer to listserv and 1997 than the Interwebs of 2015.

Exactly!

I was complaining about this Sat pm. I needed meclizine after trying to read a couple of threads.

I tried Puffin which was stable but the font was incredibly tiny.

Also, I kept hitting the 'Sort by' button when I wanted the 'Jump to' button at the bottom of the page.

(Thought I'd add some unnecessary white space in formatting this post.

You're welcome!)

Some of the adverts are causing this, and they're adverts which should not be appearing on the forum (we've said we don't want anything which takes over the screen or moves the screen once loaded). The ads team are going to be removing them again soon.

 

[Chris]

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Just brilliant security upgrade

Spam isn't a security breach. When we talk about security we refer to the security of data we hold, as well as the security of the software in itself being far less open to manipulation by dodgy third parties.

Too fricken funny that they auto disable your sig and prevent you from having URLs in your sig.

BUT

There's the Korean spammers right on cue.

Form over function sucks.

Sigs should not be auto disabled. I'll look at amending that now.

Having URLs in your sig has been disabled for now so that while we sort the spammer issue, we don't get accounts made which then forever have a malicious link in their sig.

You know, there's a thread in this subforum where people have been constructively letting us know of any broken/missing features and having them fixed by us rather swiftly. Apparently, being constructive is the way to go.

 

[sniper]

Re: Re:

...
You know, there's a thread in this subforum where people have been constructively letting us know of any broken/missing features and having them fixed by us rather swiftly. Apparently, being constructive is the way to go.

you gotta be kiddin me.
were users informed or consulted beforehand?
they weren't and it showed.
a transition characterized by ignorance of the users' needs and lack of constructive thinking.