Welcome to the new Forum look – give us your feedback

HillStreetBlues

poppellerant said:

I don't expect everybody to agree on my personal opinion, but I find the above far easier on the eyes.

Much better for me.
I would put everything to the right on the top line. Would also remove the thumbs up  as to me it's just unneeded clutter.

dealyboy

@MSE_JC ... I'm impressed, thank you.

MikeJXE

Just tried it on my MacBook and it's ok I can put up with only using part of the screen  although I'm usually on iPad so no comment for that yet 

Malchester

MSE_JC said:

Hello,

It's been a few days since we rolled out the Forum's new look, and we've had a LOT of feedback from you. The he changes were applied to the .....

Thanks for this response which is very helpful and much appreciated. It would have been good to have known that continued use of the old board was not a possibility - it maybe would have saved many critical posts. 

It is good to know that further improvements to the new board will come in time

naf123

I would appreciate it if there was some more background colour between posts - it's really hard to navigate. What is wrong with the previous green? I imagine for those who are visually impaired - this would be a nightmare. 

10_66

MSE_JC said:

Font size and line height in posts - Adjustments have been made to these to make posts more readable.

I wish you hadn't adjusted the font size though, for me, it was the only plus side .  Now, the font and spacing just looks squashed together and the squashed appearance makes it too hard for me.  Again, I can only ask, please will you involve people with visual issues when you make any changes to the Forum.

MikeJXE

2 points 

Good to NOT see the Red Cross 

Good to be able to jump to the last page at the top of the first page instead of scrolling to the bottom 

Thanks MSE  for your continued effort to get it right 

HillStreetBlues

ForumUser7 said:

For some reason I can only see what is under 'spoiler' by quoting the post - clicking on it doesn't seem to work. Is this a new bug since the update?

No issues for me with FF or PM  but issue seems to be with Chrome.

the_goon

Slightly easier to read now. I've packed away the headache tablets for a minute, however...

• Font is still too big (15.5px is crazy). I have had to reduce the zoom level on my browser (PC - Chrome) to 90% so it's more readable. The font within the text box for typing a new comments is ridiculously big.
• The white behind the text is still too "white".
• There is still too much margin around the post text.
• Massive amount of wasted space on every page on PC.
• Too much emphasis on design and not enough on usablility, making the whole forum look amateurish and clumsy

I miss the old forum look. 

Zanderman

Massive font and masses of white space. Not very helpful really - can only see 2 or 3 replies in a thread at a time.

Listing the threads on a board is similar - only a handful visible, loads of white space.

Navigation menu on the wrong side - why on the right? No one has a nav menu on the right!

Nav menu includes 'my threads' and 'my replies' and 'my drafts' - why waste headings for those - I'm using the forum to look at what others have written, not to admire my own work!  And why do I want my bookmarked threads to be in that menu either?  Waste of a menu. Use it for something else please!

Nav menu might actually be useful if it expended into drop downs of the headings - but it doesn't, so it's not.

All in all - not good for me, could reduce my reading - and modest input - completely.