The new MSE forum. Good - Bad.

Strombidae

Sorry but it's not good. It's hard on the eyes (certainly my eyes!), there's too much white space and navigation is poor. After using it for an hour or so I suspect I'll end up reading less in future. The previous version was fine.

caveman38

I seem to remember in the past, after there as a similar facelift. There was an option to revert to old interface. Does that option exist still and how do I enable the particular thread to show first unread post.

housebuyer143

What have you done!?! This is terrible, if you are not careful you will go the way of Facebook... Destroyed for improvement sake.

1. Way to much white. I tend to read in bed in the mornings and it burns my eyes, where is a dark mode option?. Who thought white as the background colour on every page was appealing?
2. It's not nice to use on the mobile phone, it is just hard to read.
3. Navigation seems more difficult and the bar at the bottom with notifications and messages is gone. 

I'll probably not bother with the forum much now unfortunately thanks to these changes 

george4064

Not only am I not impressed, but this feels like a step backwards.

The new version is so wasteful with the space available, less compact and not as intuitive as the old forum.

lohr500

I am not a fan of the new layout either.
I find it very difficult to scan the post headings as they seem lost in sea of white.

It needs a "classic" view option as well, merging whatever upgrades have been made behind the scenes with the original look and feel of the old site. 

subjecttocontract

I can't see any benefits, improvements or advantages in changing to the new format. Seems like a waste of time and effort to me.

Catplan

annabanana82 said:

Not a fan, but I'm old-ish and don't like change. Not sure where to find my bookmarks either

Top of page quick links > Bookmarked threads
or bottom of page quick links is expanded and bookmarked threads is here also

shortseller09

What a massive downgrade.

If you click on a subject and read the first post, decide you're not interested in the rest of the thread, so go back to the main thread list, the subject line does not grey out to show the thread has been read. You have to go to the last page of a thread before it will show as read.

Utter rubbish, whoever made these changes obviously doesn't use the forum.

pearl123

I'm have mild dyslexia and it is just too busy for me. My attention is going all over the place. Just too many distractions. Ok, over the course of time, I'll get used to it. I don't understand why there  would  need to be such a big change.

Mr_blibby

Way too much white space between posts and the lines in the posts - more scrolling and makes it more difficult to scan a thread and quickly get the main points - its a NO from me