I agree. This site has great content but indeed appears quite outdated. An update to vbulletin at the very least should happen.
+999999999999 to the guy who suggested IPB. Almost always those sites look far nicer.
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Will we see a Macrumors site redesign?
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I agree. This site has great content but indeed appears quite outdated. An update to vbulletin at the very least should happen.
+999999999999 to the guy who suggested IPB. Almost always those sites look far nicer.
Hence the smilies. Old Codger indeed!!!
You so old, your fonts are in a different font!
Me, I was born middle-aged. And, now that I really am in the ripened, gloriously mature, stage of life which is termed middle-aged, I sometimes feel that I have been around as long as Methuselah.
When I do not use my MBA, I write with a fountain pen. Sometimes, (partly to get up the noses of arrogant fashion conscious teenagers), I am tempted to try writing with a quill.
Haha!
. I'm so old I had my third endoscopy and first colonoscopy today. TMI, for sure. I need a redesign.
Will a re-design improve the content?
...or just make the silliness on PRSI look different!?
It will make it look better. And looks are all we have now.
Or do you really want to scratch the surface and go deeper?
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Anyway, I want a touch friendly interface my mouse is not afraid of, and if the design language of the main website could be incorporated into the forum software, it would be nicer than AI is now. I stopped going there regularly (once a day) after their redesign, but mostly due to the loading times.
And just a question, the SUBMIT REPLY and PREVIEW POST buttons look like Mac OS X buttons probably due to having a different command behind them. What if the POST REPLY and similar buttons would look like that? Is that even possible, since they are only graphics with links? It would cut loading time down to less than what it is no, even by an ms.
I visited avforums again for the first time in years and the forums there are now really good, certainly some of the best I've seen for looks and ease of use. Although they are not perfect by any means, I cant find a way to emulate the fluid mode we have here so it fills across the screen.
Gross.
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If we had an iOS7 "update", you'd have people yelling left and right how terrible it looks on non-retina screens, elitists telling them to upgrade from their Core Solo's, and a group of veteran PowerBook G4 users who get all hissy because the new graphics are too heavy for their ancient web browsers to cope with.
You don't really want that, do you?
To be fair, it looks horrible on Retina *and* non-retina displays. iOS 7 and Yosemite are just hideous, and I'm more than a bit disgusted with whomever it was (Ives?) came up with the moronic, flat design. Ives is an idiot (yes, you can crow about how much money he makes, he's still a moron), and I honestly *DO* doubt that Jobs would have greenlighted this. Obviously I could be wrong, but I have some doubts. I know I wouldn't have =P
And for the record, PowerBook G4 users have access to TenFourFox, which is actually quite nice, based off recent versions of FireFox, and very heavily optimized to take full advantage of AltiVec, specialized for both 74x0 (Max/G4) and 745x (Apollo/G4e/G4+) machines.
A simple forum page really shouldn't require more than a 400-500 MHz G4. It's a forum. For words.
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Still ugly, and a step or five backwards.
Not your fault really, you're basing it off an already-ugly interface.
Personally I like the old school look of the forum. Although, I do think the Macrumors Logo is ugly. With the kind of traffic this site generates, I'm fairly certain they could afford a logo and identity refresh. Maybe Milton Glaser is available.
MR is great but I do agree that it looks very outdated. It needs a modern UI design. I love the new design of the iMore forums. Looks modern and current.
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In my opinion, I find the iMore forums too 'busy' to look at. There's too much extra stuff all around the actual content of the members' posts which I find distracting. Maybe the MacRumors design is a little dated, but it still looks nice and gets the job done with less distraction than compared to iMore and other sites.
Yeah, I can also agree with that. No need for all the extra stuff, just a bit of a "modernization project."
It never occurred to me that MR should have a redesign.....
I suppose that accurately reflects my opinion on the subject.
I suppose that accurately reflects my opinion on the subject.
If the iMore fora are something that are held in high regard, shoot me now.
There's far too much going on, animated widgets dropping down, text blinking... definitely there's some "hey we can do this now" without wondering if it *should* be done.
On the iMore fora, I can't even see all of the headline of the first post. There are *6* different headers to the page, all taking vertical space. Two of them are actually quite tall, which doesn't help things. But hey, HTML5! Let's drop down a header if the user scrolls up, that will be cool!
Contrast this to MR, where there is much less wasted space, and I can read all of the typically sized first posts, and there's no monkeying around with drop-down elements.
Also, it should be noted that iMore sells stuff. There's a high potential for conflict of interest in promoting items on the forums that they sell. No such conflict on MR (that I know of).
Having said this, tweaks wouldn't be unwelcome. I don't rock retina right now, so the fonts that I see are OK, but I could see that being a bone of contention for retina users.
I've also been on other fora that have easy upload of files - drag and drop. That would be nice to have.
There's far too much going on, animated widgets dropping down, text blinking... definitely there's some "hey we can do this now" without wondering if it *should* be done.
On the iMore fora, I can't even see all of the headline of the first post. There are *6* different headers to the page, all taking vertical space. Two of them are actually quite tall, which doesn't help things. But hey, HTML5! Let's drop down a header if the user scrolls up, that will be cool!
Contrast this to MR, where there is much less wasted space, and I can read all of the typically sized first posts, and there's no monkeying around with drop-down elements.
Also, it should be noted that iMore sells stuff. There's a high potential for conflict of interest in promoting items on the forums that they sell. No such conflict on MR (that I know of).
Having said this, tweaks wouldn't be unwelcome. I don't rock retina right now, so the fonts that I see are OK, but I could see that being a bone of contention for retina users.
I've also been on other fora that have easy upload of files - drag and drop. That would be nice to have.
Yep, we're rolling out a new header. Still in progress though, so there may be some bugs for a little bit.