Hello PHers and welcome to your new look forums!

Hello PHers and welcome to your new look forums!

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Puggit

48,781 posts

254 months

Thursday 30th March 2017
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Switched back to PH Classic (for now), can't stand how close the lines are in GTI

valiant

11,251 posts

166 months

Thursday 30th March 2017
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fk gti.

fk classic.

Keep Big Blue.

Maybe we should have had a poll? You know, like, consult your members before hand?

krallicious

4,312 posts

211 months

Thursday 30th March 2017
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Just checked and I have been using Classic for all this time. GTI and Big Blue are virtually the same layout, are they not?

VGTICE

1,003 posts

93 months

Thursday 30th March 2017
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krallicious said:
Just checked and I have been using Classic for all this time. GTI and Big Blue are virtually the same layout, are they not?
No, Big Blue looks like a modern version of Classic. GTI looks crap.

B'stard Child

29,152 posts

252 months

Thursday 30th March 2017
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Question for the Management

If I put a poll in General Gassing on skin usage - would it get moved to here or health matters wink in order to limit the traffic?

Haven't seen one before but a while back I tried all the skins and like many I kept reverting back to what I knew and liked

PurpleAki

1,601 posts

93 months

Thursday 30th March 2017
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garyhun said:
PurpleAki said:
No report button on GTI or the ability to delete a topic from "my topics".

I've been using GTI but had to go back to classic in order to do the above.
I've been using GTI for ever and I have both those functions you mention!
Perhaps it's because I'm on my mobile. Will we be able to delete posts in my stuff and have a report button on mobile GTI once the permanent change takes place?

-Michael-

4,079 posts

181 months

Thursday 30th March 2017
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This "new" look now gives me a headache, well done type

krallicious

4,312 posts

211 months

Thursday 30th March 2017
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VGTICE said:
krallicious said:
Just checked and I have been using Classic for all this time. GTI and Big Blue are virtually the same layout, are they not?
No, Big Blue looks like a modern version of Classic. GTI looks crap.
I find that Classic looks like a modern version of the other two....

jeremyc

24,443 posts

290 months

Thursday 30th March 2017
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B'stard Child said:
If I put a poll in General Gassing on skin usage - would it get moved to here or health matters wink in order to limit the traffic?
It's clearly a Website Feedback subject, and nothing to do with limiting traffic.

Jon321

3,004 posts

194 months

Thursday 30th March 2017
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Every time I've seen GTi having not logged on I shudder. And now it's to become the norm. Oh dear.

Straight back to classic for now.

B'stard Child

29,152 posts

252 months

Thursday 30th March 2017
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jeremyc said:
B'stard Child said:
If I put a poll in General Gassing on skin usage - would it get moved to here or health matters wink in order to limit the traffic?
It's clearly a Website Feedback subject, and nothing to do with limiting traffic.
I appreciate that - however as you well know not many people visit website feedback unless there is a problem

So if you want to see how many people use which skin the based place for the thread to be is the largest discussion area..... Which I believe traffic wise is GG

If you want to bury the thread then health matters (skin issue) or website feedback

TonyRPH

13,126 posts

174 months

Thursday 30th March 2017
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I got the option to select PH Classic, so I returned to that right away.



An attempt at some constructive evaluation:

The font in the GTI skin just looks plain odd to my eyes.

The spacing is odd, and the sizes are also inconsistent.

Also - in "My Stuff" the forum names are not underlined (indicating a link), but the topics are - more inconsistency.

As for the liberal use of the "Verdana" font - do you guys realise that there are better (and free) fonts out there?

Verdana is so 1990's.

If you used a more modern font, you wouldn't need to fiddle with the spacing.

And before I'm told - yes, I know the 'Classic' skin uses the Verdana font, but it doesn't have that weird spacing.

And you're not offering a broad enough selection of fonts.


font-family: Verdana, "Verdana", sans-serif;


You should at least have Helvetica in there.

I selected site at random (one that just happened to be open in my browser) and:

font-family: apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol";

You do realise there are other operating systems out there?

Not all operating systems have common fonts - this is why you need to declare additional fonts - otherwise any attempt at making your site render correctly fails...



menguin

3,770 posts

227 months

Thursday 30th March 2017
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WinstonWolf said:
I've been on GTI for yonks, just tried Classic and it's bloody horrible yikes
Agreed. On a mobile device it's so much better. On desktop it looks like a forum. I don't have any formatting or display issues. That's the problem - old people don't like change. PH is full of 'em hehe

Amused2death

2,502 posts

202 months

Thursday 30th March 2017
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Currently browsing using a 10 inch tablet.

Font is so thin and pale coloured it's barely legible.

Please, please, please do something about it.

I know I could revert to classic, but as you're going to dump it anyway there's no point doing that.

anonymous-user

60 months

Thursday 30th March 2017
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PurpleAki said:
garyhun said:
PurpleAki said:
No report button on GTI or the ability to delete a topic from "my topics".

I've been using GTI but had to go back to classic in order to do the above.
I've been using GTI for ever and I have both those functions you mention!
Perhaps it's because I'm on my mobile. Will we be able to delete posts in my stuff and have a report button on mobile GTI once the permanent change takes place?
I was talking about desktop GTI; I agree there is no report or delete of threads on your mobile.

Re. your last Q - that I do not know.

Galileo

3,147 posts

224 months

Thursday 30th March 2017
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Is that bloody info pop up going to get in the way everytime I go to a different page? how can I get it to ps off, it's infuriating. PH - PHuging things up that aren't broke, matters.

funkyrobot

18,789 posts

234 months

Thursday 30th March 2017
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B'stard Child said:
pinchmeimdreamin said:
funkyrobot said:
There's a reason why I never went with the GTI skin.

It's utter st.

Thanks PH.
Yes but they don't care. frown
That's a shame

I thought I was logged out when I was logged in - fking horrible and very obviously doesn't blend in with my other active windows....

Thank you PH for the forced change but more importantly thank-you for allowing me to change it back to what it was before - please don't do it again!!
Just look at the Phonesafe and https threads to see how much of a st they really give. hehe

LordGrover

33,674 posts

218 months

Thursday 30th March 2017
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Seems to be going well so far. smile

lucido grigio

44,044 posts

169 months

Thursday 30th March 2017
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I've just changed back to " classic ph" skin.

Is that allowed ?

Is it cos I is special ?

Have I broken it ?....typemoan

funkyrobot

18,789 posts

234 months

Thursday 30th March 2017
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LordGrover said:
Seems to be going well so far. smile
I love the way they just changed it and didn't even ask opinions on the type of skin people prefer.

If they had done a poll and one was chosen as the favourite, fair enough. To simply make a change and say it will be stuck that way in April is an absolute joke.

The only thing that will make them respond is a reduction in traffic to the site. Whether or not this happens as a result of this is yet to be seen.

Incidentally, the changes they have made have probably made the site busier for a bit. Win! smile