it is by complaining that we can get the admin to fix stuff.
and the new look sure need LOTS of fixing...
Pointing out issues is one thing. Complaining and whining like little children, i.e. ``I hate the new look" etc isn't going to help. The new software is here too stay. Get over it and figure it out. In the end this is a big upgrade to vB.
There is no more desktop or mobile theme for the forums, it's one theme that adapts to your screen size.
When the change over happened I think all the threads that were subscribed to carried over and were tagged to send emails when there were replies. I went in and "unwatched" a thread and then "watched" it again and chose not to have emails sent. Seems to have worked!
On Retina displays they look quite a bit blurrier than the old ones... so I would agreeNot sure if serious...
11. It works. XenForo still shows you as online to yourself and those with permission to see you while invisible.ok, after playing around a bit this morning, here are some my initial critiques, some are correlated so they might seem redundant critiques, but i just want to emphasize different aspects.
1. everything is too expanded. it takes up a huge amount of space an most of it is just bright, empty space. each post takes literally several inches of screen, even if it is a single line
2. default font size is way too big. i have to zoom out twice to make it 'normal', and then all other sites become miniscule if i move. plus quoted text now becomes too small and barely readable
3. "report" button is in the way. Too highlighted, wrong position. it interferes with reading a thread because it looks like a bolded part of a post. i would suggest to put it top right, and make it white-on-green like the post number or navy on light blue like page numbers.
4. "edit" button is in the way. same as above
5. buttons add too much space between posts. instead of giving a full think row to the buttons, put them on the left next to the post's message, so they don't bloat the post
6. "likes" names add yet more space between posts. i would eliminate this entirely, but as a minimum make it come up only as a mouseover
7. quotes are hard to differentiate from posts. add some subtle shaded background, bring back the italicized formatting, and indent it a bit. also it shouldn't be significantly smaller than the regular text. it just makes it hard to read
8. avatars are too big
9. avatars are only circles. could it be set optional?
10. animated gif don't work as avatars. at least mine does not anymore
11. control of online status does not work. turned it off, but still puts me as online
12. opt-out from receiving emails about threads does not work. i opted out, but i keep getting the emails. do not want.
13. forum menu page is a chaotic. very hard to find threads.
14. site navigation requires multiple clicks/mouseovers. where before things were compact and you could find stuff at a glance, now it requires multiple clicks or repeated mouseovers. very inefficient
15. can't increase posts/page. i like to have more than 25. it should be customizable
16. need to scroll all the way to the top to get to some useful information, like forum navigation directories. they should be repeated at the bottom.
17. too much clutter at the bottom. too much real estate for the 'similar thread' section. just have a link or mousover. same for the macrumors blue box at the bottom. should be one inch thick, not ten
18. bottom ads are intrusive. they bleed into the posts. especially some of them. should be more 'isolated', put them in box, so it is clear they are ads.
19. smilies are harder to 'read'. plus you changed their color codes
20. replying to post in full-option mode doesn't have list of previous posts below. so now we need to open a separate tab to double check on things
i'll stop at 20, but there are more coming
When the change over happened I think all the threads that were subscribed to carried over and were tagged to send emails when there were replies. I went in and "unwatched" a thread and then "watched" it again and chose not to have emails sent. Seems to have worked!
The feature where long quotes are cut off comes in handy hereok, after playing around a bit this morning, here are some my initial critiques, some are correlated so they might seem redundant critiques, but i just want to emphasize different aspects.
1. everything is too expanded. it takes up a huge amount of space an most of it is just bright, empty space. each post takes literally several inches of screen, even if it is a single line
2. default font size is way too big. i have to zoom out twice to make it 'normal', and then all other sites become miniscule if i move. plus quoted text now becomes too small and barely readable
3. "report" button is in the way. Too highlighted, wrong position. it interferes with reading a thread because it looks like a bolded part of a post. i would suggest to put it top right, and make it white-on-green like the post number or navy on light blue like page numbers.
4. "edit" button is in the way. same as above
5. buttons add too much space between posts. instead of giving a full think row to the buttons, put them on the left next to the post's message, so they don't bloat the post
6. "likes" names add yet more space between posts. i would eliminate this entirely, but as a minimum make it come up only as a mouseover
7. quotes are hard to differentiate from posts. add some subtle shaded background, bring back the italicized formatting, and indent it a bit. also it shouldn't be significantly smaller than the regular text. it just makes it hard to read
8. avatars are too big
9. avatars are only circles. could it be set optional?
10. animated gif don't work as avatars. at least mine does not anymore
11. control of online status does not work. turned it off, but still puts me as online
12. opt-out from receiving emails about threads does not work. i opted out, but i keep getting the emails. do not want.
13. forum menu page is a chaotic. very hard to find threads.
14. site navigation requires multiple clicks/mouseovers. where before things were compact and you could find stuff at a glance, now it requires multiple clicks or repeated mouseovers. very inefficient
15. can't increase posts/page. i like to have more than 25. it should be customizable
16. need to scroll all the way to the top to get to some useful information, like forum navigation directories. they should be repeated at the bottom.
17. too much clutter at the bottom. too much real estate for the 'similar thread' section. just have a link or mousover. same for the macrumors blue box at the bottom. should be one inch thick, not ten
18. bottom ads are intrusive. they bleed into the posts. especially some of them. should be more 'isolated', put them in box, so it is clear they are ads.
19. smilies are harder to 'read'. plus you changed their color codes
20. replying to post in full-option mode doesn't have list of previous posts below. so now we need to open a separate tab to double check on things
i'll stop at 20, but there are more coming
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