I think I got it right. Welcome back everyone.
Den.
Wooooowwww! Like it! And it's easy to figure out.
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?
Mark P.
Website: http://www.thecbandqinwyoming.comVideos: https://www.youtube.com/user/mabrunton
I like it.Thanks.
Russell
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
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
Thank you!
Tom
Life is simple - eat, drink, play with trains!
Go Big Red!
PA&ERR "If you think you are doing something stupid, you're probably right!"
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.
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.
-Morgan
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.
Simon Modelling CB&Q and Wabash See my slowly evolving layout on my picturetrail site http://www.picturetrail.com/simontrains and our videos at http://www.youtube.com/user/MrCrispybake?feature=mhum
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
fiatfan I don't like the fact that the thread titles don't change color after you read them. Tom
I don't like the fact that the thread titles don't change color after you read them.
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.
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.
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.
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
Nice looking website.
"Rust, whats not to love?"
Nope, too many ads. Not bad though for software.
Cut and copy does work for me.
It's directly below your profile on the right side of the page.
I don't see our old friend the 'Search' button anywhere.
Dr. Frankendiesel aka Scott Running BearSpace Mouse for president!15 year veteran fire fighterCollector of Apple //e'sRunning Bear EnterprisesHistory Channel Club life member.beatus homo qui invenit sapientiam
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.
It takes an iron man to play with a toy iron horse.
Just trying it out.
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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!!!!!
Mainetrains
'there's something happening here, what it is ain't exactly clear' Modeling the Hard Knox Valley Railroad in HO scale http://photos.hardknoxvalley.com/
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.
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.
--Randy
Modeling the Reading Railroad in the 1950's
Visit my web site at www.readingeastpenn.com for construction updates, DCC Info, and more.
Can you say STARS! The stars are back only now they're little green boxes.
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,
There is a spell checker in the task bar.....
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.
Kon
Modelling the BN 1970-1995
I guess this is just like the Borg, resistance is futile! Nice new lay out anyway!
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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