Welcome to the new Forum look – give us your feedback

molerat

HillStreetBlues said:

molerat said:

Swipe said:

I am happy with the forum now with the following ublock origin tweaks to remove the quick links drop down menu and to widen the page width:

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Doesn't seem to do that for me in FF

That happened to me,  but I had already played about with uBlock.
I decided to start again and when I put just those filters in it did widen the page, then added the other stuff I wanted to block like the whole drop down menu bar.

It does have some effect.  Makes the right hand boxes slightly narrower and moves the forum up closer to them.

dave2319

Grumpy_chap said:

The landing page is far too heavily loaded with click-bait.  It makes it "not safe for work".  It would be much better if the "View All Categories" link was brought to the top and prominent position rather than needing to scroll down.

I posted yesterday on how to tidy up the homepage.

You could just copy and paste those into "My filters" at uBlock Origin and then "View All Categories" comes right up the page.

Yes, it shouldn't be necessary but I've found it's a brilliant extension for getting rid of content on any site.
Initially wondered how to use it but it's straightforward when you discover you can right-click to block almost anything. It really works wonders, so many thanks to Poppellerant and HillStreetBlues for mentioning it!

Newcad

I've just accessed the new forum for the first time on my Android phone.

Apart from the red-nose-day joke most things seem reasonable, and in fact easier than the old look.

However I think the red nose is still there because there doesn't seem to be another way to start a new thread?

I do use a number of different fora on different base softwares, accessing them on both Windows computer and Android phone, so maybe I'm more tolerant when things are working a bit differently?

Swipe

molerat said:

Swipe said:

I am happy with the forum now with the following ublock origin tweaks to remove the quick links drop down menu and to widen the page width:

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forums.moneysavingexpert.com###themeHeader
forums.moneysavingexpert.com##.WarningMessage.DismissMessage
forums.moneysavingexpert.com##.MainContent.Content:style(width: 99% !important)
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Doesn't seem to do that for me in FF

Add this then to remove the whole side bar but you'll lose the create thread button:

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MikeJXE

It seems to me the top of the pops for the most hated part of this forum is the RED BUTTON

I hope the team can do something about that, maybe smaller maybe in the menu bar at the top,  maybe a completely new idea from someone thinking outside the box 

Overall I'm happy with it on my Macbook (no red button) not so much on iPad 

Swipe

One other thing I didn't mention is that it says I have 2 threads bookmarked when I only actually have one and can't figure out how to reset it. Anyone got any ideas?

HillStreetBlues

Swipe said:

molerat said:

Swipe said:

I am happy with the forum now with the following ublock origin tweaks to remove the quick links drop down menu and to widen the page width:

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forums.moneysavingexpert.com###themeHeader
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forums.moneysavingexpert.com##.MainContent.Content:style(width: 99% !important)
forums.moneysavingexpert.com###themeFooter

Doesn't seem to do that for me in FF

Add this then to remove the whole side bar but you'll lose the create thread button:

forums.moneysavingexpert.com##.Panel-main.Panel

That's what I have done.
For anyone worried about losing the button, just pause uBlock and refresh the page it will reappear (along with everything that's blocked), once thread is created just unpause and refresh.

Newcad

Moving the red nose to the top is a good suggestion if it can be done.

That would give less chance of hitting it by mistake with your thumb - but it it may then mean that it covers some content.

Swings and roundabouts.

badmemory

Swipe said:

One other thing I didn't mention is that it says I have 2 threads bookmarked when I only actually have one and can't figure out how to reset it. Anyone got any ideas?

I agree but mine is 8 bookmarked threads more than I actually have

One-Eye

After the minor improvements made over the last few days I am now quite happy with the new forum. It is readable and usable and as I get used to where everything is I find I can work almost as quickly as the old design.

"Forum View" (screen shot below):

1. Happy that the notification bell is now showing the number of new notifications you have. Notifications are now working properly according to my settings (although I don't have any set for emails which I understand is not working correctly yet)
2. I have disabled and removed the menus (using Adblock Plus) and this has made a massive difference. I think this is one of the prime annoyances for users not able or confident enough to disable them. Please make the menus active through a click rather than by hovering over them.
3. The second line - on "Competitions Time" this shows number of views (which is great) but where there are replies it only shows the "Most Recent" poster and does not show the "Started by" poster (which is poor). On other sections (such as Site Feedback) the reverse applies. Now that the text sizes have been amended, I am sure there is enough room to show "views", "Started by" AND "Most recent" - please can this be amended.
4. I like the bold text for threads you have not opened.
5. The 3 dots for threads you have started is great and the fact that they appear to the right, thus moving the "bookmark" icon makes them easier to see.

"Thread View"

Now that images work correctly and links are automatically bold and underlined the only remaining problem for me is the position of "report". It is slightly better in its new position than where it was at first, but would be even better further away. I understand it would be problematical if it was right justified, but moving it even just 5 characters to the right would help with accidental clicks. Could all the elements on that line have a few more characters space between them?

Editor

The Editor and Preview is poor, and bears no relation to the final post. I know this has been acknowledged by MSE and requires major work to solve. One aspect that has been a problem ever since the movement to Vanilla and is still relevant, is that there is no easy way to post a working email address. Experienced users know the work around, but I still come across non-working email addresses in posts.
We end up with forumteam@moneysavingexpert.com
We should get forumteam@moneysavingexpert.com
Both the correct and incorrect email links fail if the post is subsequently edited. This is a fault that has been around for years.

Search

Search is working just the same as it was before the change, but Search Results show only 10 per page (compared to Forum View's 20). Please can Search Results show 20 per page.