Hello PHers and welcome to your new look forums!
Discussion
TooMany2cvs said:
Something I said
SomebodyElseEntirely said:
Something I didn't say
NoIP said:
TooMany2cvs said:
Most stuff's appearing like the first image (basically, as it's done since the start of this saga), but I've just seen a single isolated example of the second in the middle of a thread... WTF?
It seems to be your own posts. If someone quotes one of your own posts then you (only) see your name in bold and then your post starting on the next line, with no formatting or bubble or text speech arrow thingy. At least that's how it's appearing for people quoting my posts anyway. Everyone else's quotes have those stupid text speech arrow thingies.It's broken, but it makes sense...
loudlashadjuster said:
It's a huge improvement in terms of appearance, looks coherent now at least and it significantly cleaner/more modern.
I can only imagine the layers of cruft and tactical bodge that have had to be stripped away to get the forum to this point. Having supported some fairly large forums in the past (although probably only 1/10 size of PH), both vBulletin & phpBB, I do sympathise.
All those little plug-ins, customisations, layout tweaks and other things that seemd such a good idea at the time really come back to bite you on the arse when it's time to upgrade/change things.
The fact that so many obvious and effective changes can now be made within a relatively (in PH terms) short time period. It's not perfect, but it's progress from where we were and hopefully a good indication of where you see things going.
Don't worry, PH techs, at least some of us appreciate the effort
<nods> Agreed.I can only imagine the layers of cruft and tactical bodge that have had to be stripped away to get the forum to this point. Having supported some fairly large forums in the past (although probably only 1/10 size of PH), both vBulletin & phpBB, I do sympathise.
All those little plug-ins, customisations, layout tweaks and other things that seemd such a good idea at the time really come back to bite you on the arse when it's time to upgrade/change things.
The fact that so many obvious and effective changes can now be made within a relatively (in PH terms) short time period. It's not perfect, but it's progress from where we were and hopefully a good indication of where you see things going.
Don't worry, PH techs, at least some of us appreciate the effort
The Ceefax analogy - well, that's what we've just come from. Sometimes, there is a lot of whinging about anything approaching change, just because.
k, what an absolutely atrocious mess.thegreenhell said:
rscott said:
FourWheelDrift said:
MitchT said:
Bookmarks still take 30+ seconds to load. Ah well!
How many do you have, I have 114 and it takes 2 seconds.
I'm partially colourblind, as are a significant % of males. This new colour scheme makes reading almost painful.
I'm all for change, but there must be tests you can do to ensure that those with a slight disability are not marginalised.
Can you not provide an alternative for those of us who struggle with Laura Ashley?
I'm all for change, but there must be tests you can do to ensure that those with a slight disability are not marginalised.
Can you not provide an alternative for those of us who struggle with Laura Ashley?
Derek Smith said:
I'm partially colourblind, as are a significant % of males. This new colour scheme makes reading almost painful.
I'm all for change, but there must be tests you can do to ensure that those with a slight disability are not marginalised.
Can you not provide an alternative for those of us who struggle with Laura Ashley?
There are plenty of places where websites can be tested for accessibility purposes to avoid exactly this.I'm all for change, but there must be tests you can do to ensure that those with a slight disability are not marginalised.
Can you not provide an alternative for those of us who struggle with Laura Ashley?
You would expect a site with the level of traffic this one gets to bother about it but, apparently not.
I don't mind the new look but I do have two requests:
On threads with multiple pages could the page numbers be in the same size font to the thread title as they are very small at the moment.
When you change the look of the forum could you give us a warning - nearly gave me a heart attack!
On threads with multiple pages could the page numbers be in the same size font to the thread title as they are very small at the moment.
When you change the look of the forum could you give us a warning - nearly gave me a heart attack!
skahigh said:
Derek Smith said:
I'm partially colourblind, as are a significant % of males. This new colour scheme makes reading almost painful.
I'm all for change, but there must be tests you can do to ensure that those with a slight disability are not marginalised.
Can you not provide an alternative for those of us who struggle with Laura Ashley?
There are plenty of places where websites can be tested for accessibility purposes to avoid exactly this.I'm all for change, but there must be tests you can do to ensure that those with a slight disability are not marginalised.
Can you not provide an alternative for those of us who struggle with Laura Ashley?
You would expect a site with the level of traffic this one gets to bother about it but, apparently not.
rscott said:
thegreenhell said:
rscott said:
FourWheelDrift said:
MitchT said:
Bookmarks still take 30+ seconds to load. Ah well!
How many do you have, I have 114 and it takes 2 seconds.ETA. Same time to load on Chrome 49.0.2623.112 and Safari 5.1.10 - obviously both out-of-date too.
Edited by MitchT on Tuesday 25th April 17:37
Alucidnation said:
Must admit, the pale blue colour does make things a little more difficult to read.
What is this pale blue colour you're referring to? On desktop it's all white and light grey alternating post backgrounds with black lettering. The only (dark) blue (I have no pale blue anywhere) on my screen is the small amount as the header background and the forum title font.
edit: the background to my own posts is pale blue, but that's all.
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