Welcome to the new Forum look – give us your feedback

boingy

poppellerant said:

 uBlock Origin

Wow! Thanks for that, not just for this site but for everywhere. I've been using Ad Block Pro but it has been becoming less and less effective recently. 

Sapindus

There are three links on the forum home page which do exactly the same thing:

• "All Boards" under quick links on the right hand panel
• "View all categories" under the scroll-across menu of forum categories
• "View all boards" on the right of the Forum Categories menu

The other very inconvenient thing is that the teal bar at the top with "Quick links" (which also has another link to "all boards") and "Categories" (likewise) opens up and hides a big portion of the page whenever I move my mouse over it.  This has been noted already, but I don't want to have to disable it using an adblocker.  Many people won't be able to do that or know how to.   

Anyway, maybe if you think people want to see all the boards so much that you need to put links to do that in five places, you ought to have that as a main feature of the forum home page.

the_goon

I agree with everything already mentioned.
The most urgent thing that needs addressing is the contrast / colour scheme / brightness. It actually hurts my eyes to read more than a couple of pages.

Secondly, the wasted white-space everywhere, with child-like font sizes is weird.

99% sure they won't change it, though.

eastcorkram

Pollycat said:

This may have already been mentioned but...
I have a number of boards marked as 'favourite' (now called 'followed content'.

I usually look at this list to see if any new threads have been posted.
This used to be easy as the date and time of the latest post was shown.
If no new content, I just pass that board by.

However, with this new version, my 'followed content' does not show any date or time information.
It just shows what the latest post is. That may be 3 weeks old on a quiet board.

It does however inform me that I started following a particular board on dd/mm/yy and that there are xxxx discussions on that board.
What use is that information to anyone?

So now I have to go into the board to see if there are any new threads/posts that I may be interested in.

Why?

Not sure if this is what you mean, but it does say if there are new posts, and how many, under each thread title. Well it does on an Android phone anyway.

Pollycat

eastcorkram said:

Pollycat said:

This may have already been mentioned but...
I have a number of boards marked as 'favourite' (now called 'followed content'.

I usually look at this list to see if any new threads have been posted.
This used to be easy as the date and time of the latest post was shown.
If no new content, I just pass that board by.

However, with this new version, my 'followed content' does not show any date or time information.
It just shows what the latest post is. That may be 3 weeks old on a quiet board.

It does however inform me that I started following a particular board on dd/mm/yy and that there are xxxx discussions on that board.
What use is that information to anyone?

So now I have to go into the board to see if there are any new threads/posts that I may be interested in.

Why?

Not sure if this is what you mean, but it does say if there are new posts, and how many, under each thread title. Well it does on an Android phone anyway.

This is what I see when I click on 'followed content':

Followed Content

Manage Followed Categories

Sort By:Most Recently Followed 

• 

  Pensions, annuities & retirement planning

  Following since Apr 19, 2023

  46495 discussions

  Most recent: 

  State Pension - will it eventually be means tested?

   by hyubh.

  Unfollow
• 

  Praise, vent & warnings

  Following since Apr 19, 2023

  31393 discussions

  Most recent: 

  Is there really such a thing as Free Crypto - Bitcoin scam!

   by caprikid1.

so I have no idea on what date or at what time the latest posts were made.

This is on my laptop. Exactly the same on my mobile.

However, if I view all boards, it does actually tell me the date and time of new posts.

The point of having 'Followed content' is that I just look at boards that are of interest to me.

MSE_James

If you want to see the latest posts on your followed boards only, then this link:

https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussions?followed=true&sort=-dateLastComment

might be the one you want to bookmark in your browser - it's the latest threads page with the filters set to your followed boards only, and recent comments (as opposed to new threads). 

Strombidae

poppellerant said:

Strombidae said:

I view the forum on a PC, not a mobile, and I'm afraid I find the new design so awful to read and navigate that it is now putting me off using it.

Edit - The most annoying thing for me is that every time I move the mouse across my screen, for example to use my browser 'back' button, when it passes over the top page menu containing 'Quick Links - Categories - Forum Rules - Help', without any input from me it automatically shows submenus. It's very annoying.

You can fix this if you have uBlock Origin installed as one of your browser's add-ons to block adverts etc, by adding the below line to the list called My filters:

forums.moneysavingexpert.com##.css-x717dg-titleBarStyles-container

Brilliant - that works perfectly - thank you very much.

redux

If Quick Links is on a taskbar at the top, does it also need to be in a column on the right side of the page (with 2 or 3 non-forum News items)?

That's on a PC. On a mobile phone, Quick Links is at the bottom of the page, so people are going to either use the menu dropdown link at the top or scroll all the way to the bottom.

But on the Forum Home page, View All Boards and View All Categories (which seem be be the same) are somewhere halfway down the page. 

Some featured threads or board sections are above those links, and some featured threads are below. The ones above seem randomly chosen, haven't altered in a couple of days, and some of those aren't very active (1 reply in a board since 12th, 4 replies, 5 replies)

But you know all this already

It seems a little inconsistent.

dealyboy

@Sapindus said:

There are three links on the forum home page which do exactly the same thing:

• "All Boards" under quick links on the right hand panel
• "View all categories" under the scroll-across menu of forum categories
• "View all boards" on the right of the Forum Categories menu

The other very inconvenient thing is that the teal bar at the top with "Quick links" (which also has another link to "all boards") and "Categories" (likewise) opens up and hides a big portion of the page whenever I move my mouse over it.  This has been noted already, but I don't want to have to disable it using an adblocker.  Many people won't be able to do that or know how to.   

Anyway, maybe if you think people want to see all the boards so much that you need to put links to do that in five places, you ought to have that as a main feature of the forum home page.

"The other very inconvenient thing is that the teal bar at the top with "Quick links" (which also has another link to "all boards") and "Categories" (likewise) opens up and hides a big portion of the page whenever I move my mouse over it.  This has been noted already, but I don't want to have to disable it using an adblocker.  Many people won't be able to do that or know how to."

I take your main point regarding the repetitive links, but do not agree with the comment re the MSE Forum (teal) bar.

I actually like this feature because the bar stays in place when I'm scrolling down a thread and so I can select a 'Quick Link' or 'Category' without scrolling and with just one click. The hover menus only appear for those two options so just avoid moving the mouse over them, but if a hover menu does appear across the top of the screen just move the mouse pointer away.

Using Windows 11 laptop.

Swipe

Please could MSE confirm if they have plans to add these forum links to the bottom of each page: