The Forum is getting a new look

elsien

Newcad said:

Money saving - it applies to (forum) software as well.

Sometimes that means the software in use is not the best, but is acceptable.

I'm sure that if MSE used top of the range, paid for, forum software questions would be asked about making savings.

It probably wouldn’t because that wouldn’t impact negatively on anyone here. 

MikeJXE

Exodi said:

Bridlington1 said:

I just hope we don't end up with that ghastly text editor we had the other month.

Specifically what didn't you like about it?

The current quoting system is messy - I find myself in HTML view more often than not.

Judging from the negative replies in this thread already - I'd just like to say to the MSE team not to be discouraged. Humans are hardwired to resist change and I spend half my life dragging my team kicking and screaming onto systems which they usually end up accepting are superior later on.

I would like to say don't bother 

I have no problem with this edition, if it's not broke don't fix it. 

The only good thing about the last failed upgrade was it was pulled quick

powerful_Rogue

Newcad said:

Money saving - it applies to (forum) software as well.

Sometimes that means the software in use is not the best, but is acceptable.

I'm sure that if MSE used top of the range, more expensive, forum software questions would be asked about making savings.

(Or maybe not - how many forum users know how much the underlying software costs the forum owner to run?)

I do as I run two forums. However this isn't a change of software, it's an upgrade.

I also disagree with money saving applies to forum software as well. There is a vast different say between phpBB (free) and Xenforo (Paid).

born_again

So much negativity & we have not seen it yet 😶‍🌫️

I do like a good change for the better.

ScarletBea

MSE_JC said:

 better suited to mobile 

This is my red flag!
It usually means gigantic fonts, lots of white space and really narrow columns, totally unsuited to laptop screen view....

HillStreetBlues

elsien said:

Any improvement on the search function would be very much appreciated. 

All would be needed for that is a monkey and a typewriter.
In all my years I've never see a worse search function


How many users with their many thousands , some tens of thousands of posts, have been involved in beta testing?

cathybird

Please tell me this doesn't involve a new text editor like the one that was introduced in April, then quickly pulled? Does "no change in functionality" mean we'll be able to do whatever we do on the site now?

LadyLanc

Does anyone know for how long the site would be down on Tuesday 11th?  I mostly only use the site for competitions and wonder if I need to save all the "magazine daily" links somewhere else if the site's down for too long.  Echo someone else's sentiment that I hope bookmarks and the front page of "Competitoins time" won't change so I can find everything!  Thanks to everyone

The_Green_Hornet

Change is good and I look forward to it.

Suffolk_lass

Good luck with the upgrade.

I'll reference it in my diary, and on the threads I read and post in, to nudge people who may not have noticed this announcement yet