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New Site Design (2020)
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Overall, it is an improvement. I don’t like the featured stories because I hate horizontal-scrolling “strips” like this. But I know it is popular - BBC does this for featured videos.
Took me two days to discover the icon to reveal the right sidebar on iPad. I figured that section had been completely removed.
The right sidebar does not scroll correctly on (at least) iPad. you can scroll doe, but not back up. Instead, the page will scroll while the sidebar stays scrolled dow.
Took me two days to discover the icon to reveal the right sidebar on iPad. I figured that section had been completely removed.
The right sidebar does not scroll correctly on (at least) iPad. you can scroll doe, but not back up. Instead, the page will scroll while the sidebar stays scrolled dow.
Ok, it’s not quite so simple. There seems to be a specific sequence of operation that triggers this. Try scrolling both the main content and sidebar up and down to limits. Eventually, the sidebar will fail to scroll.
I haven’t look at page source. But I’ll bet the scroll of main content is scrolling the page. And sidebar of course is then scrolling a node div, etc.
You need to stop events from “falling through” the sidebar to the underlying page or node.
I haven’t look at page source. But I’ll bet the scroll of main content is scrolling the page. And sidebar of course is then scrolling a node div, etc.
You need to stop events from “falling through” the sidebar to the underlying page or node.
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Redesign looks great on desktop site. However the mobile site feels too zoomed in (like there should be more info on screen than there is) and the featured list of articles at the top is jarring due to this since it takes up almost the entire screen on an 11 Pro.
I guess I am the minority here.
The old one was better because the core stories are on the front page and sales stuffs are on the side.
Now, they are all in the same place and have to scroll right by...
The old one was better because the core stories are on the front page and sales stuffs are on the side.
Now, they are all in the same place and have to scroll right by...
Can we have smaller article preview with smaller images? browsing the front page, each article takes about all my browser window screen and 90% of that is a huge image. I literally get about 1 article before I have to scroll down to the next article that will the whole screen.
I've got one other color request: in the comments on the article pages (not in the forum itself, but directly following the articles), the poster's names have been made a darkish blue that fits with the whole blue theme, but... I put forth that there is a little too much blue in the theme... the dark blue looks almost like the surrounding black text and ends up just looking a little bold. The old (dark red?) names seem to set off the comments a bit more from each other. I'd like to see the names go back to the color from the old theme (keep the rest of the colors as-is). Submitted for your consideration.
I made the name color same as forums for consistency. FWIW. It was red before. I’m not sure i feel that strongly about it but that was the reasoning
Hmm I notice there are no ads in Chrome on the iPad but on the iPhone, there are heaps of overly large sized ads.
Edit...Chrome on iPad has one small ad on the top of some pages, but it’s no where as intrusive as those on the iPhone.
Also, is that Hamburger menu to jump between forums still on the cards??
Edit...Chrome on iPad has one small ad on the top of some pages, but it’s no where as intrusive as those on the iPhone.
Also, is that Hamburger menu to jump between forums still on the cards??
Ah, but in the forums, the name was set in a broad ribbon of light blue with a bold darker blue bar across the top, while under the articles, the name itself is the primary separator (other than whitespace) that stands out the most to separate the comments. I still suggest that something other than blue for the names in order to set off the comments from each other a little better (drawing the broad blue ribbon across between each comment probably wouldn't work in this context).
But this is not to detract from the amazing job you've done on the redesign. The name color is a little thing.
now more than ever, since there is no more place where we can immediately access what was relegated only to the Mac Blog before, pls remember to put noteworthy Mac related news on the Front page.
and you can easily backburner apple TV-Guide program content to a Round Up level instead of having it on the Front page.
overall new format is a better, clean look.
thanks.
and you can easily backburner apple TV-Guide program content to a Round Up level instead of having it on the Front page.
overall new format is a better, clean look.
thanks.
Send me screenshots of what you’re talking about
arn@normalkid.com
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I think I see where u might be talking about. Seeing about improving that..
Still email me screens if u can.
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Agree. Featured dark mode text has too much weight and draws too much attention. Find it hard to move my eyes to content below.
Red should generally be used only to indicate error/danger. (Of course, accompanied with an additional clue, such as an icon). Users might think he user is on suspension, etc. Obviously, MR users are accustomed to the way it was, though.
Autodetect? What do you mean by that? It is a responsive xxxx adaptive design. NOT a desktop site and a mobile site with some kind of “detection”. This is the way going forward!
Actually just checked on desktop browser. I was wondering if it is responsive, or adaptive. It’s a bit of a hybrid. It adapts to the device/window width, up to a maximum where it then has a fixed width layout. “Responsive” is now becoming old school and passé. Responsive implies fixed break points. The design with changes smoothly over the range where it adapts.
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The buttons for both left and right panels are absent on desktop, at least Firefox on MacOS. No idea how I would open them!
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Still a ****-load of advertising and tracking scripts. Including a (presumably unneeded) duplicate for Google Ads. Just a duplicate line, on after the other.
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kudos on using Web Components. I see you are using a framework called AMP.
AMP - a web component framework to easily create user-first web experiences
Whether you are a publisher, e-commerce company, storyteller, advertiser or email sender, AMP makes it easy to create great experiences on the web. Use AMP to build websites, stories, ads and emails.
amp.dev
I didn’t look to see how extensively.
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Am I correct that the site is now (or maybe always was?) basically a SPA? So then all those scripts get loaded only once, and then not loaded again, not even from cache?
I see there are a bunch of iFrames (I am very “meh” on the iFrames... they aren‘t needed to make a SPA) I’m assuming they are filled with content with some Ajax?
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there are some errors on console that should be looked at. Including repeated CORS request every few seconds that my Firefox browser rejects. cafemedia-d.openx.net
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I only took a quick look, and hadn’t inspected the site before the redesign, so no point of reference for before/after comparison.
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Oh. Embarrassed I didn’t recognize AMP is that google thingie that makes smaller pages for mobile, squishing images as appropriate for bandwidth etc. didn’t realize it was built with web components but makes sense. Never had any interest in it.
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