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Posted by citylimits on Wednesday, October 15, 2008 4:10 PM

Approve

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Posted by dbradley on Wednesday, October 15, 2008 4:05 PM

I think I got it right. Welcome back everyone.

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Posted by trainfan1221 on Wednesday, October 15, 2008 3:56 PM

Wooooowwww!  Like it!  And it's easy to figure out.

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Posted by Pruitt on Wednesday, October 15, 2008 3:49 PM

Whoever designed the "new look" should be fired.

Home page is cluttered as heck, and very user-unfriendly.

Forums are harder to follow and more cluttered as well.

Oh, well, who cares about usability anyway?

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Posted by csxns on Wednesday, October 15, 2008 3:49 PM

I like it.Thanks.

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Posted by fiatfan on Wednesday, October 15, 2008 3:49 PM

steinjr

 Did a little testing - they change colors, but it is not obvious at first - threads you haven't read have grey paper sheets in the icon. Threads you have visited have white paper sheets in the icon. Kinda opposite of "normal" - where links you have visited get darker.  But at least - there is a visual clue there if you know what to look for.


 Smile,
 Stein

 

 

 

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Posted by fwright on Wednesday, October 15, 2008 3:46 PM

Without a doubt, a change for the worse. No way to know which threads have new posts since I last read them (the color coding was nice). No easy way to jump to the last post in a thread. Can't sneak a peek at work anymore due to ads. Old version looked somewhat like corporate web page from distance. New layout reduces number of threads listed per page, and amount of information per page. On the good side, will probably spend more time modeling due to frustrations with this forum. just my thoughts, Fred W

edit: Auto-formatting of posts is apparently missing, at least with the IE7 that I am using. Have to insert HTML tags for paragraphs and the like now.

edit2: After posting, jumps you to first page and top of thread instead of end where your post is.

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Posted by Flashwave on Wednesday, October 15, 2008 3:44 PM

I partially agree with above, I can libve with the ads, but they are WAY to far over. The Forum should take priority, not ads.

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Posted by simon1966 on Wednesday, October 15, 2008 3:21 PM

So far it looks good to me.  If you are using IE7 with the zoom feature, at least on my PC 150% zoom shoves all the ads off on the right side of the screen and leaves the entire screen width for the forum text.  It works really well in this aspect for me.

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Posted by Bill54 on Wednesday, October 15, 2008 3:10 PM

Can't say that I'm a fan of the ads to the right taking up so much space. 

I had a lot of problems regaining my user name also.  The system wouldn't reconize my password.  Fianlly got that solved.

They say change is good.  I guess it'll take some time to get use to the new site.

Bill

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Posted by steinjr on Wednesday, October 15, 2008 3:09 PM

fiatfan

 I don't like the fact that the thread titles don't change color after you read them.

 Tom

 

 Did a little testing - they change colors, but it is not obvious at first - threads you haven't read have grey paper sheets in the icon. Threads you have visited have white paper sheets in the icon. Kinda opposite of "normal" - where links you have visited get darker.  But at least - there is a visual clue there if you know what to look for.

 I am still looking for "my topics" or similar functionality.

 Edit: finally found "my topics" - button labelled "more options" beneath post list - can filter the list of posts to just show threads you have participated in, or hide threads you have already read or other options.

 Smile,
 Stein

 

 

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Posted by OKrlroads on Wednesday, October 15, 2008 3:03 PM

Updated site looks good, seems to work alright too. Nice job crew!

Just had to drop in and post to see if it still will work with old system I'm using here at work.Laugh

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Posted by West Penn Nscale on Wednesday, October 15, 2008 3:00 PM

I like the new look of the site ... It is running alittle slow on my end and I had to logout and then log back in  to reply .... It will take awhile to get around the site .... good job

 

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Posted by Robby P. on Wednesday, October 15, 2008 2:54 PM

Nice looking website.

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Posted by Bapou on Wednesday, October 15, 2008 2:43 PM

 Nope, too many ads. Not bad though for software.

Cut and copy does work for me.

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Posted by fiatfan on Wednesday, October 15, 2008 2:43 PM

 It's directly below your profile on the right side of the page.

 

Tom

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Posted by jeffrey-wimberly on Wednesday, October 15, 2008 2:26 PM

 I don't see our old friend the 'Search' button anywhere.

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Posted by MisterBeasley on Wednesday, October 15, 2008 2:17 PM

The layout makes very poor use of screen real estate when viewing a topic.  The ads in the right colum, which take up about a third of the screen, only go down so far, maybe one or two posts.  The rest of that column is blank, which means that the posts get scrunched over to the left and require more scrolling, just to leave room for all that blank space.

If there must be ads, why not put them up at the top, so the screen can be used more efficiently?  Or, re-write the display code so that first few posts share column space with the ads, but once you scroll below the ads, then the blank space is given back for posts, and that window gets wider.

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Posted by MOJAX on Wednesday, October 15, 2008 2:05 PM

 Just trying it out.

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Posted by mainetrains on Wednesday, October 15, 2008 2:05 PM

I feel your pain on unlocking my screen name. Kept throwing different combinations of e-mail addresses and password at it until I finally hit on the right one. Have to cut down on the different passwords. Getting too old to remember much of anything.

Also I need to start posting more so I can get at least one green bar!!!!!

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Posted by DFerg on Wednesday, October 15, 2008 2:02 PM

Personaly I think the new look looks pretty good. But that's just me. Sure it took me a little bit of time to unlock my new screen name, but other than that I think MR realy did a good job.My 2 cents

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Posted by fiatfan on Wednesday, October 15, 2008 2:00 PM

 I don't like the fact that the thread titles don't change color after you read them.

 

Tom

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Posted by rrinker on Wednesday, October 15, 2008 1:48 PM

 Bigger ads, more 'stuff' on the screen so it's slower. Yeah, the old layout with some of the software changes would have been better. But hey, it's the Web, and everyone knows you have to get flashier and flashier, makign the pages bigger and bigger since everyone had huge bandwidth these days.

It does appear to work though, even if getting my screen name unlocked was more of a chore than it should have been - it wouldn;t take my password so I had to req a password email, the password it sent was a random one, not the one I had been using all along, for sure. But then it let me in.

 

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Posted by fiatfan on Wednesday, October 15, 2008 1:46 PM

 Can you say STARS!  The stars are back only now they're little green boxes.

 

Tom

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Posted by ajgaudy on Wednesday, October 15, 2008 1:45 PM

Hi,

There is a paste from Word feature on the new forum that you may with to try.  It is the folder with the "W" on it near the end of the tool bar.

Hopefully it will help you with the issues you may have with copy and paste.

Thanks,

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Posted by Loco on Wednesday, October 15, 2008 1:43 PM

There is a spell checker in the task bar.....

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Posted by 1train1 on Wednesday, October 15, 2008 1:40 PM

Way Too Busy  with the adverts - and no I do not have Firefox so I guess those adverts down the right side of the page will just get longer and more self serving.

We'll see how it goes.

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Posted by Burlington Northern Rails on Wednesday, October 15, 2008 1:37 PM
Nice new layout, congratulations. Now it takes longer to load a site. The user is online image () don't match with the background.

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Posted by easyaces on Wednesday, October 15, 2008 1:27 PM

 I guess this is just like the Borg, resistance is futile! Nice new lay out anyway!Bow

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Posted by inch53 on Wednesday, October 15, 2008 1:21 PM

 I can see I'm not going to like this. Copy/paste don't work for for me anyway with Vista, so can't use word and i'm not that good a speller. Maybe they'll get that worked out before long.

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