MacRumors 2011 Redesign

[BillyBobBongo]

Job well done. Only one thing strikes me as odd, and that's the footer navigation on the blog to move to older and newer articles. I'm not complaining, just stating an opinion, but these would be more logical if they were reversed. To me going forwards is to the right (imagine turning a page in a book) and going back is going left.

The method you have works well when you have numbers 1,2,3,4,5,6 etc as you are stepping through the numbers, but when that's sort of system isn't being used it just looks odd.

 

[TechnoDestructo]

I guess the computer news site missed the clues that all computer screens work in a widescreen format.

The new narrow format is plain retarded.

 

[Rodimus Prime]

did we loss our iPhone friendly format. I was looking for that today when I log in on my iPod today and I could not find it.

 

[ChazUK]

did we loss our iPhone friendly format. I was looking for that today when I log in on my iPod today and I could not find it.

http://mobile.macrumors.com works on my Nexus for the main page.
https://forums.macrumors.com/wap/ works for the mobile formatted forums.

These what you wan't Rodimus?

 

[Doc69]

I don't like it. The new design is wasting a tremendous amount of space. Especially the headers are crazy huge. And too much borders everywere. I'm on 1920x1080 and can hardly fit one post per screen page. It seems like the design is made for smaller touch displays. On a desktop computer it looks like zoom is on. I want MORE information per page, not less.

Also, it was much better having the posts centered on the page, with links and advertising on both sides. It feels weird to read this far to the left.

 

[rhinosrcool]

Ok...

for those who want a smaller view.

choose "Fluid". It goes down to 950 pixels wide now. Note that I knew we were going a little wide, but only 1% of our visitors use a 1024xYYY screen.

for those who want an ugly wide view.

choose "Fluid-HD" (not recommended ) It goes to 2560 pixels wide. Enjoy.

arn

I don't understand your description of Fluid-HD. For me, it is not at all ugly. In fact, on my 15" mbp (1440 x 900) and my 22" dell 2209 (1680 x 1050), it looks great.

 

[Rodimus Prime]

http://mobile.macrumors.com works on my Nexus for the main page.
https://forums.macrumors.com/wap/ works for the mobile formatted forums.

These what you wan't Rodimus?

No that is not. On the old boards it was one of the things the bottom of the forums and it is different than the mobile site.

best way to decribe it the forum boards had some changes done to them were instead of having the User name on the side of each post it was above them and then the width of the page was set up for well the iPhone.

 

[OllyW]

i guess the computer news site missed the clues that all computer screens work in a widescreen format.

The new narrow format is plain retarded.

rtfm...

- fixed or fluid - the default view for the site is now a fixed-width design. For those who prefer a fluid (variable) width design, you can turn it on or off.

and...

Ok...

for those who want a smaller view.

choose "Fluid". It goes down to 950 pixels wide now. Note that I knew we were going a little wide, but only 1% of our visitors use a 1024xYYY screen.

for those who want an ugly wide view.

choose "Fluid-HD" (not recommended ) It goes to 2560 pixels wide. Enjoy.

arn

 

[Doctor Q]

According to many web design gurus, blocks of text should not stretch infinitely wide because it's too hard to read that way -- see example attached.

That's why many websites purposely use a design that adjusts to the window width only up to a certain maximum. In such cases it's a feature, not a bug. That's how the Fluid option works. If you want an even wider display and don't mind the very long lines, use Fluid HD instead.

The real debate should be about which of these layouts should be the default!

 

[ChazUK]

No that is not. On the old boards it was one of the things the bottom of the forums and it is different than the mobile site.

best way to decribe it the forum boards had some changes done to them were instead of having the User name on the side of each post it was above them and then the width of the page was set up for well the iPhone.

Aah, sorry Rodimus, I only use those mobile sites so I can't help further!

 

[Foxypaco]

Not too sure about the new site design. Feels like I'm on MacNN.com now.

 

[Born Again]

Something is off about the right Hand side
Does seem to waste space and throw everything over too much.

Any idea when a retina page version will be out?

 

[Rodimus Prime]

Aah, sorry Rodimus, I only use those mobile sites so I can't help further!

that is kind of what I figured. I have not viewed these forums as mobile in a long time so I am not sure how it will look. I will need to check it out and might switch over to that for my phone.

 

[1984world]

love the new look

 

[Astro7x]

I'll get use to the look, even though I don't really like it...

But am I the only one that stopped getting the blue start notification in Top Sites in Safari when the site updates?

 

[Dont Hurt Me]

Looks good Arn, nice job.

 

[MagnusVonMagnum]

I don't know if anyone has mentioned this or not (don't feel like wading through 26 pages to find out), but one change I don't like is the vote up/down for the overall front page news article appears to have disappeared with the new scheme. I liked being able to get a quick consensus feel for opinions on a given article sometimes without having to read through them and estimate for myself.

I don't like the default fixed width, but then it's easily remedied with the switch at the bottom of the page. Otherwise, I think it has a much cleaner look to it.

 

[emaja]

I don't know if anyone has mentioned this or not (don't feel like wading through 26 pages to find out), but one change I don't like is the vote up/down for the overall front page news article appears to have disappeared with the new scheme...

No need to wade through 26 pages. It was on page 2.

 

[kzoojason76]

Anyone else having issues trying to get to www.macrumors.com using Chrome???

Getting the following error:

Requested Range Not Satisfiable

None of the range-specifier values in the Range request-header field overlap the current extent of the selected resource.

Additionally, a 404 Not Found error was encountered while trying to use an ErrorDocument to handle the request.

 

[MagnusVonMagnum]

No need to wade through 26 pages. It was on page 2.

Sadly, the 26 pages deterred me from going beyond the bottom of page 1. Taking a look now, I see a quick one line mention, but no responses (i.e. this is a staff feedback kind of thing) so once again I'm looking at 26 pages. I guess I'll wait and see if it's remedied at some point. If not, oh well. I'll get over it.

 

[arn]

Anyone else having issues trying to get to www.macrumors.com using Chrome???

Getting the following error:

Requested Range Not Satisfiable

None of the range-specifier values in the Range request-header field overlap the current extent of the selected resource.

Additionally, a 404 Not Found error was encountered while trying to use an ErrorDocument to handle the request.

Is this still happening?

arn

 

[arn]

Sadly, the 26 pages deterred me from going beyond the bottom of page 1. Taking a look now, I see a quick one line mention, but no responses (i.e. this is a staff feedback kind of thing) so once again I'm looking at 26 pages. I guess I'll wait and see if it's remedied at some point. If not, oh well. I'll get over it.

There wasn't a final decision to remove it. I just kept putting off what we were going to do with it, so it didn't get done.

I'm going to look into it again...

arn

 

[Michaelgtrusa]

Looks good.

 

[machan]

FWIW, Safari 5.0.5 on OSX 10.6.6 doesn't update and notify in Top Sites whenever new content is added. At least, for me it doesn't anymore.

 

[QuarterSwede]

I don't know if anyone has mentioned this or not (don't feel like wading through 26 pages to find out), but one change I don't like is the vote up/down for the overall front page news article appears to have disappeared with the new scheme. I liked being able to get a quick consensus feel for opinions on a given article sometimes without having to read through them and estimate for myself.

I don't like the default fixed width, but then it's easily remedied with the switch at the bottom of the page. Otherwise, I think it has a much cleaner look to it.

While that was sort of helpful I really like how you can see the top liked posts now on the article's main page. Really nice addition Arn and a lot more helpful in determining if I want to read the thread.