Home Page Redesign

kaimera

Is there an option to display more than 12 threads on the front page?

Don't like the next page option

The_Morrigan

Is it just me or has the 'My Forums' option gone? Anytime I've clicked on it I get the latest posts from all forums in the new layout...

Mech1

No its terrible compared to the original!!!!!

Wheres the timestamp on posts?

Not enough, or even half enough posts on the page.

Call it back please.

How do I get to my subbed threads now?

Can't say I'm digging it just yet.

Wile E. Coyote

Please put it back, put it back, put it back, put it back, put it back, put it back, put it back, put it back, put it back, put it back, put it back, put it back, put it back, put it back, put it back, put it back, put it back, put it back!

I don't like it....:(

Boards.ie: Danny

Deleted User wrote: »

How do I get to my subbed threads now?

Can't say I'm digging it just yet.

The My Threads tab

TheDoc

Well for starters it seems to only work on the default skin. I'm on Dark and I still have the old homepage. I've moved to Default to give it a run for a while.

If I'm honest though, I don't look at anything on the homepage, I go straight to the usertab to check updates on threads I post in. I might be in the minority, not sure, but there is about maybe 2-4 forums I frequent and only a few threads I contribute to regularly. So the new homepage in one sense is kinda better, in that it reduces the clutter, but as I said, since I rarely take notice I'm not really interested.

Does seem to be alot of wasted space, but if the alternative is to have that space filled with ads, I'll happily take the white space instead of anything flashing, moving , or something for me to accidently click on. Are we looking into potentially allowing users to edit the tabs and what will be contained within the homepage slot as such?

I've zero interest in seeing high thanked posts, and definitely don't care about trending topics ( to **** do I want to read more ****e about Rugby). Be cool to have that sort of minimalistic approach.

While I appreciate the company requires revenue to operate and be sustainable, the increasing introduction of advertisements has been nothing short of a nuisance, and a bit annoying considering its a forum. Using the site via a mobile or tablet is actually painful with the intrusive advertisement.

Appreciate it is a big deal to move away from vbulletin, best of luck with the project

Toto Wolfcastle

Boards.ie: Danny wrote: »

The My Threads tab

Well I have the same problem I had the other day in that I have no tabs so perhaps it's the same with other people.

Princess Peach

If I click on a thread it's automatically brings me to the first page. With the time stamp gone I can't even go to the last post. Used to bring me to the first new post.

Zaph

Just had my first experience of the new home page and it wasn't a pleasant one. Apart from a technical issue that I've posted in Site Development, there are a couple of things that really aren't great:

- clicking into a thread I've already posted in brings me to the top of the thread, not where I left off.

- it's difficult to see what forums each post is in as it's buried in the text below the thread title

- the actual thread title gets a bit lost with the "Latest post less than 1 min ago by..." line below it. Despite the fact that there's now acres of empty space on the screen, each item on the list appears to be a bit "busy"

- one thing I'm more curious about than anything, what's the point of displaying the number of thanks each thread has?

Alun

If it ain't broken, don't 'fix' it.

Toto Wolfcastle

Princess Peach wrote: »

If I click on a thread it's automatically brings me to the first page. With the time stamp gone I can't even go to the last post. Used to bring me to the first new post.

If you click on the number of posts it brings you to the first new post. It's in no way obvious that it does that though.

nesf

Boards.ie: Nicola wrote: »

The one thing we are really mindful of is current standards in design, we don't want to design something which has multiple configurations-this leads to messy development which in the long term won't make the site any better.

I'm not outright saying no or that we won't review this but I'd really like to convey to people that we're doing our utmost to build something which is really great for everyone. We are a community at heart and the last thing we want is to make changes which ostracize our core community.

Then when no user is telling you the change is even a remotely sensible idea it's pretty obvious what you should do then yes?

Boards.ie: Danny

Boards.ie: Danny wrote: »

The My Threads tab

I don't appear to have one!

Sarky

Argh! Change! Kill it with fire!

Actually, it doesn't look too bad. I'd echo the concerns about the 12 threads limit, and to be honest the gaping blank space in the middle of the page really bugs me. Reminds me of early Google+ layouts, which got changed pretty sharpish after public outcry.

But nothing there that can't be tweaked. I'm hardly going to quit Boards in a furious strop over it. I barely pay attention to the front page anyway, when I have the subscribed list and the little asterisk to tell me if there's a new post.

kayos

The_Morrigan wrote: »

Is it just me or has the 'My Forums' option gone? Anytime I've clicked on it I get the latest posts from all forums in the new layout...

No your right clicking on the my forums link in the header no longer brings you to the My Forums list.

I preferred the older template of Forum Name: Thread Title. Also the way to get to the last unread post being the post count doesn't jump out at you.

The info/functionality is still there with the new layout but I think the UX is better the old way...

Boards.ie: Nicola

The_Morrigan wrote: »

Is it just me or has the 'My Forums' option gone? Anytime I've clicked on it I get the latest posts from all forums in the new layout...

That is a known bug which will hopefully be sorted soon.

Deleted User wrote: »

How do I get to my subbed threads now?

Can't say I'm digging it just yet.

As Danny said, the my Threads tab.

Princess Peach wrote: »

If I click on a thread it's automatically brings me to the first page. With the time stamp gone I can't even go to the last post. Used to bring me to the first new post.

You need to click the number of posts and this will bring you to your last unread post.

This will do the job for subbed threads: http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/subscription.php?do=viewsubscription

But ugh.

Not liking that homepage at all!

nesf

Also looks like this for me on Chrome 28.0.1500.63 m. Can't scroll up.

Chucken

How do I find new threads (Virgin) on the homepage?

Masked Man

If I'm in one of the tabs, lets say My Forums and click the forums tabs again it cuts down to the second thread in that section. Would it be possible to reload the threads when you click the tab?

It's also kind of annoying having to scroll back up to the top of the page after moving to the next set of threads.

Apart from those small things I think it looks good. I didn't like it too much when I first saw it yesterday, or whenever it was, but it's grown on me since. I didn't like the new skin either when it first came out but looking at the old beta now it just seems horrible. I'm guessing it'll be the same with this is a few days.

oh and I think a grey line in between threads on the dark skin would be nice.

helimachoptor

Boards.ie: Nicola wrote: »

- Likewise, we're aiming to expose more relevant content to logged out users who visit the homepage, so instead of seeing the latest post they'll see 'popular' content that people are actively discussing

Arent these the same thing?

tbh its a pretty awful layout tbh.

I generally always land on the homepage to see if anything takes my interest before jumping into my forums that i most regularly post it.

Frankly i'll be bypassing the homepage if i dont have the option to put it back to what it was and i'd imagine so will a lot of people.

Zaph

nesf wrote: »

Also looks like this for me on Chrome 28.0.1500.63 m. Can't scroll up.

You're not alone. Thread about this in Site Development.

Kylo Ren

Far too much wasted space. 12 posts per page? 12? What is this? A website for ants?

Increase this to at least 30 posts per page and it will look a lot better.

Just cleared my cache and checked the new layout. While I get the need to change, is it possible to switch "Latest Threads" and "My Forums" once you've logged on? I much prefer seeing threads in the forums I've subscribed to first over anything else.

af_thefragile

I don't like it. I can't quickly jump through different forums now. Everything I want to go form somewhere like After Hours to Photography, I have to go back to the home page and try to find my way from there which is kinda annoying...

Witcher

Preferred it the way it was but if the forum names were ut back in it's own column on the left it would be much better, thread titles seem too close to the edge or something.

mitosis

Only 12 newest posts is not good. No time of post is not good. Extra tabs for trending/thanks, not good. Perhaps this could all be corrected by a personalisation function in CP?

For the moment I would like to be able to choose the prior layout.

Mickeroo

There doesn't seem to be a way to look at the My Forums page anymore? When I click my forums it just takes me to the front page. Basically I've the same issue as boneyarsebogman said above, I don't want to be taken to the front page everytime I log in and would rather have a page that shows the latest posts in forums I'm subscribed to

challengemaster

nesf wrote: »

Also looks like this for me on Chrome 28.0.1500.63 m. Can't scroll up.

Better than how it now looks like for me

http://omg.wthax.org/6jDtin.png

Tested in Chrome (both incog. and normal), Firefox and Safari.

mitosis

And worst of all, so far, it defaults to the first post in a thread I've already read through, instead of the last page I viewed.

wnolan1992

This is what I'm getting at the moment. Can't scroll up any higher so the top of the page is obscured.

Win7 64bit, Google Chrome, ads hidden through subscription.

The_Morrigan

wnolan1992 wrote: »

This is what I'm getting at the moment. Can't scroll up any higher so the top of the page is obscured.

Win7 64bit, Google Chrome, ads hidden through subscription.

I'm the same...
*undo - undo - undo*

seamus

Danny says oops...

listermint

Keno 92 wrote: »

Far too much wasted space. 12 posts per page? 12? What is this? A website for ants?

Increase this to at least 30 posts per page and it will look a lot better.

Indeed feels like a website for ants

Boards.ie: Rónán

mitosis wrote: »

And worst of all, so far, it defaults to the first post in a thread I've already read through, instead of the last page I viewed.

The thread links on the homepage never functioned as described above. If you click on the postcount it'll take you to the last unread post of the thread, just like before.

Boards.ie: Rónán

wnolan1992 wrote: »

This is what I'm getting at the moment. Can't scroll up any higher so the top of the page is obscured.

Win7 64bit, Google Chrome, ads hidden through subscription.

Fix incoming, thanks for the info

GLaDOS

Using the old beta skin. Imposes the new skin for the front page, then switches to the chosen skin when you go into forums. Annoying inconsistency, especially with the recent differences introduced to the drop down tabs. Suppose it's another step towards making the old skins redundant.

Only 12 threads being shown is really annoying too, and there's too little information displayed regarding them. Functionality being compromised for aesthetics by the looks of things.

Overall, thumbs down.

Boards.ie: Rónán

Deleted User wrote: »

Just cleared my cache and checked the new layout. While I get the need to change, is it possible to switch "Latest Threads" and "My Forums" once you've logged on? I much prefer seeing threads in the forums I've subscribed to first over anything else.

Good suggestion, we'll take a look into it. Thanks

Boards.ie: Rónán

Mickeroo wrote: »

There doesn't seem to be a way to look at the My Forums page anymore? When I click my forums it just takes me to the front page. Basically I've the same issue as boneyarsebogman said above, I don't want to be taken to the front page everytime I log in and would rather have a page that shows the latest posts in forums I'm subscribed to

This is a bug, we'll do our best to get it sorted asap, Thanks for the heads up

super_furry

I like it. Good job.

dori_dormer

I agree with a lot of the above, especially the home page I dont like all the extra clicking. makes the home page practically useless to us lurkers and wanderers.

also

Thread titles dont seem to 'un-bold' like they used to when you've read all the posts in the thread. A few times now Ive clicked on a thread and realised Id read all the posts. Very annoying. Unless theres some new indicator Im missing?

Also a few threads have for example said 4 posts, 2 thanks when in fact theres only 2 posts in the thread and 0 thanks. Some kind of counting issue?

Also when you clicked on 'my forums' on the top right it used to display the 'my forums tab' now it does nothing. I used that all the time.

Toto Wolfcastle

Boards.ie: Rónán wrote: »

This is a bug, we'll do our best to get it sorted asap, Thanks for the heads up

It's working for me now, but not for my husband. Just so you know.

Boards.ie: Rónán

dori_dormer wrote: »

Thread titles dont seem to 'un-bold' like they used to when you've read all the posts in the thread. A few times now Ive clicked on a thread and realised Id read all the posts. Very annoying. Unless theres some new indicator Im missing?

Thread links never acted like this on the homepage

Also a few threads have for example said 4 posts, 2 thanks when in fact theres only 2 posts in the thread and 0 thanks. Some kind of counting issue?

Haven't encountered anything like that so far, but will keep an eye out. Any particular tab?

Also when you clicked on 'my forums' on the top right it used to display the 'my forums tab' now it does nothing. I used that all the time.

Fix incoming for this one

wnolan1992

The "Posted [TIME] by [USER] in [FORUM]" thing.

Could the TIME be replaced by the actual timestamp? "A moment ago" or "Less than 1 min ago" repeated for 6+ threads on the home page is annoying IMO.

Morag

IS there away to set my forums as the default?

I contour with the points being made about the lack of time/date stamp,
to much space, not enough content and why the thanks?

seamus

Chrome 27 is working for me now, Win 7 x64

Yeah, I'd be on the pro-timestamp side too. Never been a fan of the "about an hour ago", "a month ago" timestamp stuff that's become very popular, I prefer exact timestamps. There's probably some UX theory behind it though and I'd imagine it's a non-trivial change at this point.

testicle

OK, that looks horrible.

Boards.ie: Rónán

seamus wrote: »

Chrome 27 is working for me now, Win 7 x64

We got a fix live there a few minutes ago, thanks everyone for the heads up and patience. Any further issues don't hesitate to drop over to site dev and let us know.

Rabies

No need for a thanks count either I think.

For me the default view should be latest posts. I like to browse other forums.