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MacRumors 2011 Redesign

Wiki?

Maybe I'm just not seeing it: Where's the wiki? I liked the pages that had a comparison of the macs over time.
 
Refreshes are always welcome, but this one just doesn't seem to be finished. Padding and spacing of text and page elements seems off, and the text seems to be one point larger than it needs to be.

Carry on with the tweaking, it's not finished.
 
Hmm...it'll take a while to grow on me, but I'm sure I'll get used to it.

But bring back positive and negative ratings for news stories! That was my favourite feature of this site, it helped to give me a general gauge of how well different bits of news was received by the community.
 
It looks nice! Glad to see a change after all this time of seeing the old one. And for once, a site's style change didn't totally confuse me by moving everything.

Oh, and for everyone saying that browser windows shouldn't be bigger than around 1000px, tell that to my OCD-like tendencies that tell me to have it fill most of the screen, just so I can easily browse any site without distractions.
 
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jerry333 said:
I thought the old look was better. The new look is so "flat" looking. Also there are no positive/negative accumulators.
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That's one of the most professional improvements. This isn't grade school where we rate or get gold stars.

notor1oustg said:
You guys are all suck ups and clearly have no eye for visuals.

This website looks like my 5 year old nephew made it.

Actually, it looks like it was constructed in MS Word or iWork and just converted.
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The old site was painful. The developers aren't concerned so much with which gradient to use or not. That's the point of CSS which can improve it quickly, on a site-wide basis.

However, the old site was truly painful.

Sure, they could provide a new theme to replace the blue hues and get rid of the legacy red header over the articles.

Sure, they could replace the More Mac Stories blue and overly large look with a more tightly positioned header and that's where CSS can easily fix it.

The 3 series vBulletin is the most painful part of it all.

I find it ironic for such a butt ugly Forum structure that is the stock vBulletin there very own corporate Web Site is all Mac'i'fied.

http://www.vbulletin.com/

Personally, I'd move off of vBulletin and onto Drupal 7 with PostgreSQL 8.x/9.x and MySQL 5.1 and 5.5 support.

I don't know what the ISP bandwidth is but the Forums puke with heavy loads routinely.
 
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InfoTime said:
HATE HATE HATE that the Positive / Negative rankings are gone!
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Why? No one ever really knew what the "positive" and "negative" buttons were supposed to be used for, so people were clicking the positive and negative buttons for all kinds of different reasons, so the total poll numbers were meaningless anyway. Some people thought they were supposed to be voting on how accurate they thought the story was, while other people thought they were supposed to be voting on if they liked or disliked the news that was reported, and other people thought they were supposed to be voting on whether or not they wanted MacRumors to be covering the type of news that was reported in that specific story, etc. And most people probably didn't even notice that those voting buttons were there, and of the people who knew they were there most people probably weren't voting anyway because they were aware that there were no definitions for the voting buttons and the vote total was meaningless. So if you were putting any interest into voting positive or negative and caring about the total poll result numbers, then your interest was pretty misplaced.
 
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On the homepage I saw that there were two Best Buy adds, but I never have any adds, maybe its because of adblocker extension on Safari?
 
dejo said:
No, just like I wouldn't like it if my newspaper was one continuous, painfully-wide column. There's a reason newspapers are multi-column. 🙂
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Yeah, but the default view of many sites is as if the newspaper only had one column down the center of the page, while still keeping the entire page width.

Sure, narrower websites work well if you only have one tab open, and that's the only site you're looking at, but the browser is for all intents and purposes, my working environment 70-90% of the time, with 15-25 tabs open, a long list of bookmarks and other extensions and tools loaded. If I re-size the window to the 1000 pixel wide default that has recently become the 'in' thing for web developers, all those other controls get cut off. If I keep my browser full screen like I want it, half of the screen is empty white space. Awesome.
 
I honestly preferred the old site. Especially the links of left hand side.

As everything seems 'bigger' its harder to see everything with a glance (whatever option I choose).

Find it harder to read whatever is on the right hand side

Just my feedback!
 
I also don't like it. Most things are still there but there is too much white space. I do miss the positive/negative ranks on the articles. They gave you a sense of how important the MacRumors audience thought the article was. I'll keep looking at the site for a week or two but if it doesn't grow on my, I'll probably go elsewhere. Ironic as of all the Machead sites, this was the best but now seems disappointing.
 
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Oh, ok this is nice.
 
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