Welcome to the new Forum look – give us your feedback

BobT36

Difficult to read tbh, thread list colours are all very similar and "white", hard for the eyes to focus on the pertinent bits of information. 


Also can no longer see the time of last post, only (presumably) the date? It used to be really easy to identify which threads I'd read or not by the date/time of the latest reply.
*Edit, Date/Time of latest reply does show, but only sometimes. Weird! 

dave2319

Here's a highlighted example of one of the worst things about the new design:

The display of that info's bad, and that's putting it politely.

Really hope it's possible to change it back to something similar to the previous version, which was considerably better, or at least get rid of some of it.

As has been mentioned, the new posts indicator needs to stand out much more, the name of the board should be removed, and likewise the unnecessary stat on how many thanks the first post got!

Martin_the_Unjust

I use the site on an iPad and this upgrade is not too bad (not sure it’s an improvement though) 

Just a few questions though.

Where’s the ‘latest posts’ or whatever it was called button?

Is there anywhere for the user to alter the contrast, colour scheme etc to set it for individual preference?

Can the user amend the number of posts per page?

Lumiona

I had made a suggestion of changing the colour or somehow highlighting the OP posts throughout a thread so it is clear in the thread (especially if it is 100s of pages long).

[Deleted User]

The forum homepage is so dominated by adverts it's clear that the forum is less important by being relegated to the far right strip of the page.

Once in there, the individual boards aren't defined and prominently displayed, it's too time consuming unless you've got lots of it to spare - some members just have a quick read, in and out.

10_66

badmemory said:

...I haven't read all the comments because I got to page 4 & my eyes had had enough.  Is this because I read on a desktop & these things are no longer designer for me?  I am less than mobile at the moment & so normally read for a few hours every day.

Unfortunately, I have to use a desktop due to eyes.  All too often these days, businesses pander to mobile devices at the expense of desktops, leaving those of us who are already struggling with our eyes to struggle even further 

Abbafan1972

King_Mustard said:

The new skin is very light.

I’m with you on that. 

prowla

This is the page full-screen on my 4k display.

The content doesn't resize with the window.

Content itself is about 5% of the page.

Fortunately, if I make the window a lot narrower, the frippery on the right-hand side disappears (down to the bottom of the page) and I get something which might be usable.

However, I've got to figure out how to navigate the site (ie. where the topics and latest discussions are!).

marcia_

 Ok on iPad but on my phone it only shows about 6 posts per page, the font is huge 

oliveoyl

I quite like the new homepage.

There's one thing I find super irritating, it's the way the drop down lists appear as you move your mouse past them (Quick Links & Categories) - could you make them click to reveal drop down?