Updated look for the site.

stimpson

Page buttons on the bottom left are bigger -> less mistaken ad clicks on iPhone.

That's all I ever wanted.

Tigger

can you unstick the baanner?

will it come in black

do ye really want feedback or just to explain how it will be better?

star-pants

Quazzie wrote: »

I'm a lazy hoor, that hovering is too much effort :P.
Seriously though I'm on a PC now but I'd imagine that hovering is a PITA when I'll be on my laptop later.

It's not actually that bad (I'm on a laptop) :P

Tigger

Lia_lia wrote: »

How do I get my purple skin back?!

hoover over yer name then menu then down to user cp then forum appearance then purple then save

Boards.ie: Danny

nkay1985 wrote: »

Other than that, it's not too bad at all and I'd say I could get used to using it. The header does make it feel a little bit cramped. I'm quite happy to just hit the home button to fly up to my header normally. The functionality of the new header without it following you mightn't be a bad thing.

Functionality exists. Check the box for "Disable Sticky Header" in your Edit Options

flyswatter

Boards.ie: Danny wrote: »

Hover your username, click Followed Threads. Added complexity - A 100ms hover Bonus with the new way? Cleaner menu bar

Don't see the advantage, it just desimplifies the process and increases the time spent.

mconigol

I hope you're not getting rid of the "old beta"...by far the best skin

nicklauski

Very nice.
Loving the drop down menus with the user name and threads followed.

RandolphEsq

It's too bright.

Quazzie

Another thing. On the old layout, if I made my browser half the width of my skin, or even smaller again the text used to conform to my browser size. Now I'm constantly browsing left and right trying to read posts. This is a BIG issue for me as 90% of my browsing is done in a minimized browser.

Boards.ie: Danny

magicbastarder wrote: »

Type: Bug
Issue: page up/down buttons have no effect
Browser & OS: Firefox 13, WinXP
Screen Resolution: 1366x768

Anybody else having this issue? I just installed Firefox on my Windows XP box, Page Up & Down are working fine for me

Tigger

Quazzie wrote: »

Another thing. On the old layout, if I made my browser half the width of my skin, or even smaller again the text used to conform to my browser size. Now I'm constantly browsing left and right trying to read posts. This is a BIG issue for me as 90% of my browsing is done in a minimized browser.

this

100 times this

Blowfish

Type: Design
Issue: A minor consistancy issue more than anything, but most menus have now been converted to mouse over drop downs. The exception to this are the original vbulletin ones that remain, e.g. the forum/thread tools, search this forum/thread and rate this thread ones. It would probably make sense to convert them to mouseover too.
Browser & OS: n/a
Screen Resolution: n/a


Type: Bug
Issue: Minor bug again, but the max widths aren't completely consistent across all elements at the bottom of the page. If you take a look at the right hand side of this screenie, you can see the borders aren't aligned. It's only off by about 10px or so, so nothing major.
Browser & OS: n/a
Screen Resolution: Anything over 1400px wide.


It's already been mentioned a couple of times, but I'll throw it in the 'proper' format in any case:
Type: Feature Suggestion
Issue: Given that usercp.php shows a summary of what are the most often viewed notifications, namely threads/forums/social groups, would it not make sense to change the behaviour when clicking on your username/notifications icon it goes to usercp.php rather than member.php?
Browser & OS: n/a
Screen Resolution: n/a

Mycroft H

Quazzie wrote: »

Another thing. On the old layout, if I made my browser half the width of my skin, or even smaller again the text used to conform to my browser size. Now I'm constantly browsing left and right trying to read posts. This is a BIG issue for me as 90% of my browsing is done in a minimized browser.

+1 I just noticed that. I'll usually have two text boxes open side by side and the text does not center.

Savman

Looks slick...I'll roll with it for a while.

Tigger

as a myspace user i don't like the like button

Professey Chin

I like a lot of the look about it but the bar at the top just takes up far too much space as a sticky but when disabled you lose the forum menus from the top
I preferred the old beta style where the actual forum menus are persistant but everything else stays at the top.

EDIT: Also it looks like theres a lot of wasted space. Everything is spaced really far apart, much further then it needs to be

miralize

There needs to be more space between the top of a thread.form and the top navigation. Looks too cluttered for me.

Also I'd think I'd prefer the black translucent bar to be a blue colour instead.

I guess its nice though.

Kylo Ren

Tony's only here a month and he's already fooking with out sh1t. For God's sake Tony.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=azyoGhQUOJI

Masked Man

Boards.ie: Danny wrote: »

Anybody else having this issue? I just installed Firefox on my Windows XP box, Page Up & Down are working fine for me

I'm having it with Firefox on Ubuntu 12.04.

New skin seems good, not sure if I like it over the old beta though. I know it's a small thing but hover auto-expand for sub forums would be better imo.

Richersounds.ie: John

We like it - evolution not revolution..

And at least you got Tony to do some work at last :D

ATB,

John Mc & Crew

SnowDrifts

Again, just fix these 3 things and it will be perfect...

1) Give me a User CP button ( I dont want to hover)

2) Give me a New Posts button

3) There is too much wasted blank space on the left and right hand side margins

Boards.ie: Tony

Hi All.

First off, thanks for all the feedback. Any bugs will be addressed and fixed as soon as they can be.
All other concerns and issues will be taken on board and appropriate action taken.

We are looking for feedback. We want to know if something is missing / slipped through the cracks, or if there is some aspect that we might have over looked.

As for existing skins. At the moment, there is no plans to get rid of them. In saying that, any new features / functionality that is being developed (or already deployed) won't be added to any of the old skins.

There have been a number of concerns about how the site now not taking up the 100% width on super wide monitors. The width of the site is now capped at 1400. This decision was made based on internal and industry research that shows how difficult it is to read something that is stretched over the 1400 pixel threshold.
We will be keeping an eye on ongoing research and doing many more test sessions ourselves to make the site as usable and as approachable as possible.

Please Keep the feedback coming, we are listening and keeping note of everything.

Tony.

Blowfish

I have to say, I like the keyboard shortcuts, e.g. Alt+X to compose reply and Alt+S to submit, can we get more of them?

The Recliner

As an aside

Isn't it great to see Boards with so many employees, old and new

Pretty cool how things have evolved and way back when who the hell would have thought that it would be employing people

*and bring back the new posts link and you will have me using the new skin *

phasers

I think it's too bright and there's too much empty space. And no New Posts link?


Pfft, I'm going back to my ugly classic skin.

mada999

yup like it... sweet

Tigger

i'm going back to cloud and i'm never leaving again

god's toy

Really loving this new look and feel.

Biggest change for me is that darn banner is gone., it followed me around the Page bugging me for the longest time.

Keep up the good work!

Doc Ruby

Nice but the text in the left bar should be made a lot smaller to reduce the whitespace. The boards.ie/search forums/doc ruby/my forums bar is useless to me and always on-screen, that's the only real annoyance. How about social media badges on the left bar, so people can share posts and threads on facebook and twitter?

Kylo Ren

Tigger wrote: »

i'm going back to cloud and i'm never leaving again

Cloud looks like something Lil Wayne would use.

Plus it reflects your ugly mug on the screen :P

munchkin_utd

phasers wrote: »

I think it's too bright and there's too much empty space. <snip>.

+1

too much space generally in posts and too much space (/padding?) on latest post listings.

if the posts were compacted a bit then maybe the "brightness" wouldnt be such an issue as all its doing now is highlighting how much nothingness there is on a screen!!

EDIT: I like the category listings layout at the top so a big thumbs up for that!

mark17j

I don't like it, looks kinda cheap:p - I prefer the present look. maybe i just need to get used to it.

rememberthis

Videos appear to not render in Firefox browswer - I'm not seeing any issues in IE9 however (makes a change!!).

Tar.Aldarion

An annoying thing is the 'my forums' drop down not showing them all if you have too many, and if you click more it just shows your usercp? I just want them all to pop up at once.

hardCopy

Could the menu direct to here: http://www.boards.ie/?filter=threads instead of the subbed threads section of the UserCP?



It just seems inconsistent to have two pages with totally different interfaces for the same thing.

Spear

rememberthis wrote: »

Videos appear to not render in Firefox browswer - I'm not seeing any issues in IE9 however (makes a change!!).

Videos are fine in FF for me.

DeepBlue

Blowfish wrote: »

It's already been mentioned a couple of times, but I'll throw it in the 'proper' format in any case:
Type: Feature Suggestion
Issue: Given that usercp.php shows a summary of what are the most often viewed notifications, namely threads/forums/social groups, would it not make sense to change the behaviour when clicking on your username/notifications icon it goes to usercp.php rather than member.php?
Browser & OS: n/a
Screen Resolution: n/a

+1 on this.

minidazzler

the groutch wrote: »

if it aint broke

But it was broke. vBulliten is not designed for a forum of this magnitude, so they are creating a whole new API for the website, and since the look of vBullitten is likely copyrighted, it has to look different.

In my opinion it is better, it's simpler and sweeter. The colours are a little jaring on first look, but that's because most people are too used to the old one. People need to think of this like a facebook update, you'll get fcuking used to it, or you'll leave, whichever, it's kinda stupid to leave a whole website for something so simple though.

I actually can't understand why people are complaining so much though, I suppose I've been using the Beta skin for years, and this isn't hugely different, but at the same time, it's not really hugely different to look at as the main skin, which was functionally woeful, scrolling to get down the forum lists? That's horrible.

Good Job lads.

JustAddWater

Max Power1 wrote: »

So it doesnt work on IE7 I see... seeing as the majority of boards surfing is (id imagine) office workers, thats unfortunate!

If it did, you'd be taxed for it

http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-18440979

delw

Not mad about it but would probably grow on me

tagoona

The posts disappearing under the breadcrumbs bar... is a bit off-putting. Would prefer it to be solid. That just an opinion.

The forums list though...... Is buggy. If the browser window is below a certain size, the Rec forum automatically exapnds left, past the edge, with no scroll bar to compensate

Sorry, not sure how to embed images.

galwaytt

flyswatter wrote: »

Don't see the advantage, it just desimplifies the process and increases the time spent.

....you see, you're doing it yourself: 'desimplifies' ?
You mean, 'complicate' ..??

Is 'desimplifies' even a proper word ??

Tigger

minidazzler wrote: »

I actually can't understand why people are complaining so much though

the op asks for feedback
its not complaining

flyswatter

galwaytt wrote: »

....you see, you're doing it yourself: 'desimplifies' ?
You mean, 'complicate' ..??

Is 'desimplifies' even a proper word ??

No, I don't think so. :pac:

Yeah, whatever you said.

bren50c

Type: Design
Issue: Like the new look but the horizontal scrolling issue that's been mentioned already, I think is a dealbreaker. Using the old skin i can read threads without any horizontal scrolling. Attached Screenshots
http://img837.imageshack.us/img837/6075/oldskin.jpg
http://img37.imageshack.us/img37/2106/newskinr.jpg
Browser & OS: Chrome 19.0.1084.56 m and Win 7 64
Screen Resolution: 1280x800 (max possible on my laptop, and presumably a good few other laptops)

Dermo

I've had to switch back to the old one. I can't seem to find a way to hide the header bar on top. It's way too big and when viewing boards in work it doesn't look good at all. I actually really like the design of the header, I just don't like that I can't remove it or hide it.

Can an option be introduced to hide/show the header or at least detach it from being permanently at the top of the viewing window?

apart from that, everything looks great, but the header is a dealbreaker.

Edit: This thread is a bit out of control. After searching for a while I was able to find a temporary solution. For anyone else who needs it, you can turn off the sticky header in Edit Options in the UserCP. Not perfect solution, but it will have to do for now.

genie_us

Sorry if any of this is already mentioned I did read all the replies -

I'm not gone on the new wideness of it - they did something similar in gmail a while ago and I was able to set it back to the narrower sort of view if you know what I mean. This view is too.. spaced out or too bright or something and for some reason I find that a bit harder on the eye.

Also if you hover on a subforum it doesn't automatically expand, I think it did before? I'd prefer if it did that.

I do like the drop down near my username and the My Forums being right beside it though!

* Edited to add that I don't like the new notification beside my username when a new post is added to a thread I've posted in! I'd find the email notification enough. Maybe it's cos I'm weird and I'd have to keep clearing that notification rather than just leaving them though...

gnolan

I'd like the option to pin and unpin the fixed bar at the top with the boards logo and search box. It takes up too much screen space imo.

chin_grin

Macers wrote: »

Like the new look!

Feedback suggestion: Possible to introduce infinite scrolling? ie scrolling down with load the next page?

You could break the pages with quick Post replies and pages numbers etc.

You can install an add-on (firefox) or extension (chrome) for this.

AutoPager.