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[PoleDriver]

There's some serious OCD going on here!

[SarGara]

PoleDriver said:

There's some serious OCD going on here!

My thoughts exactly. First world problems folks!

[rscott]

hornetrider said:

Show me What's New or My Stuff.

So no major complaints about the two pages I captured? I'm sure they're most visited pages for pretty much every user.

Why not take your own screen captures and highlight what's wrong?
Only issue I can see with both is the topic title is wrapped for no apparent reason.

Edited by rscott on Thursday 9th July 15:24

[LordGrover]

Really don't like. So much wasted space.


Beta 2


Big Blue

[jammy_basturd]

Slim window on Windows 8 using Chrome:

[hornetrider]

rscott said:

hornetrider said:

Show me What's New or My Stuff.

So no major complaints about the two pages I captured? I'm sure they're most visited pages for pretty much every user.

My two most used pages are What's New and My Stuff. The formatting is all off as illustrated by LG. My entire point is it would take about 5 minutes for someone to sort it.

[jammy_basturd]

Is Big Blue supposed to be responsive?

[rscott]

jammy_basturd said:

Is Big Blue supposed to be responsive?

No - Beta2 is the new responsive theme. It's a fairly close approximation of Big Blue on PC and very different on mobile.

[LordGrover]

The betas are great on mobile, on desktop not so much. Can't we just have a cookie based skin rather than a one size fits all?

[jammy_basturd]

It seems it's a bit too complicated to have one skin do both mobile and desktop. I'd say create two skins, one for each - I say create, they're already done (beta2 on mobile and Classic on desktop).

[rscott]

hornetrider said:

rscott said:

hornetrider said:

Show me What's New or My Stuff.

So no major complaints about the two pages I captured? I'm sure they're most visited pages for pretty much every user.

My two most used pages are What's New and My Stuff. The formatting is all off as illustrated by LG. My entire point is it would take about 5 minutes for someone to sort it.

I thonk, from what RacingPete has said in this and other threads, that some of the fixes can't easily be made while they're supporting multiple legacy themes. I'm sure some others could be done without this though.

Bear in mind that they need to get support for mobile working properly pretty urgently as the old mobile site is all but dead.

[hornetrider]

I'm not complaining about legacy skins, beta2 is the problem. This is the skin they're going forward with.

[grumbledoak]

Has it gone live? Want a list?

Vertical alignment on the tables is still all over the place - My Stuff is all top aligned, but What's New and the subject folders are a horrid mish-mash of up and down. e.g. Username top, everything else bottom:


The brackets and the 'dot, dot, dot' of the page links are underlined but are not links.

Fonts vary, some are Verdana by the look of it, some are not:


I assume we are sticking with the cellspacing (my pet hate) and having everything different widths?

Edited by grumbledoak on Friday 10th July 12:58

[rscott]

grumbledoak said:

Has it gone live? Want a list?

Vertical alignment on the tables is still all over the place - My Stuff is all top aligned, but What's New and the subject folders are a horrid mish-mash of up and down. e.g. Username top, everything else bottom:


The brackets and the 'dot, dot, dot' of the page links are underlined but are not links.

Fonts vary, some are Verdana by the look of it, some are not:


I assume we are sticking with the cellspacing (my pet hate) and having everything different widths?

Edited by grumbledoak on Friday 10th July 12:58

Weirdly, I only see the usernames out of alignment when using IE. It's fine in Chrome & Firefox.

[hornetrider]

hornetrider said:

RacingPete said:

Right, we have had internal discussions - and we are going to do the release today, but still allow you to switch for the moment.

Have a look, feedback to us, on this next iteration (by the way we are moving out of Beta and going to GTI - all those on Beta2 will automatically be moved to GTI [well we are just renaming it so it isn't exactly a migration]).

Ok thanks Pete and will do

Looks like nothing's changed yet? (Beta2 on the desktop). Can you let us know what has changed so we can give a view?

What's New and My Stuff just look 'wrong'. The column widths are all over the place, which causes problems with text spacing and column graphics looking broken.

Also, columns are in a different order for the two views.

My Stuff has; Forum, Topic, Last Message, Last Contributor
What's New has; Topic, Forum, Posts, Last Message, Last Contributor

There's various formatting which is wrong, fonts are all different with seeming random use of bold... just looks like amateur night. Sorry

Incidentally I've never really noticed that My Stuff and What's New are different to each other on Big Blue as well, but you don't really pick up on it because the fonts are the same and the formatting is tidy so nothing really looks 'out of place' even though they are different.

[LordGrover]

^^

[RacingPete]

Sorry, haven't been in the office since Wednesday so news from the front is that the release is going out tomorrow... I am currently having a play on our QA servers (PM me if you would like a play on it too before we release)...

[hornetrider]

Pinged you

[hornetrider]

Any progress?

[RacingPete]

hornetrider said:

Any progress?

Funny you should say that... about to send you a link.