New New Forums Feedback Thread
Hello,
So about those new forums.... they should be up and live for everyone.I locked the previous feedback thread so we can keep everything in one place for me to follow. Drop bugs as you guys find them here for rewards (bug hunter badges!) and I will continue to patch them as you experience issues. If you want to leave other general feedback on the forums you can do that here as well, in fact it's encouraged
We returned to a more classic forum layout. You will find your user profile, notifications, inbox, bookmarks and more options in the top-right of the screen. We've also removed the sidebars and set the color scheme to match our mobile site (which you guys seem to like). We'll continue pushing buttons and pulling levers until we get these forums into tip-top shape.
We hope you guys like the redesign!
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NOW THAT’S WHAT I’M TALKING ABOUT.
Heck yes, this looks nice. I don’t know why they didn’t just push this initially, but it’s very pretty now. Super clean! Boxes, delineating colors, all the information we like to see about users… and visible avatars now, so hey!
Not jazzed about the 4 hour edits, but I understand why, in some cases, limited editing makes sense. And the new post and quoting formatting will take a while to get used to (is multiquote still somewhere?), but the image uploading UI/X is sure better than Huddler’s.
Props, guys. I’m one of the few who thought Huddler was better than vBulletin (come on; it was certainly better than vBulletin 3), and I’m liking this better than Huddler.
EDIT: Now just to figure out how to get my 132 inbox messages (read: every conversation I’ve ever been sent) marked as read so that I can tell when someone messages me in the future.
Yeah I think that may actually be a bug, I will look into it today.
There are a lot of good reasons for this. Revisionist history being one obvious, but the other, less obvious, is that it stops spammers from making 'placeholder' posts and then going back to edit them with their actual spam messages later. You guys have been doing a good job of flagging stuff as you see it, but our mod team is small and we have to do what we can, in an automated sense, to help out.
1) replies *need* a "go back" link that links back to the post i replied to. this way i can get back to where i was in the discussion before replying.
2) the black message-headers on each post are very heavy. they also compete w/ the black header-bar on the top. IMO the message-headers should be lighter.
3) mousing-over the Like/Dislike count should popup a list of who voted that way.
4) i dont seem able to see the Like/Dislike counts on my own posts.
thanks!
I like this suggestion, even if it doesn't translate to mobile. We had a few threads where people felt it was unnecessary to see the likes... maybe just a text list with the first few and ' and x others'? I will see what I can do. Not being able to see your own counts may be a bug.
What would you expect the behavior of the cancel button to be? Just clear the input field?
As for the color, right now we're "on brand", so I don't know if we will update that right away. @kasper and I have meetings this week about modernizing the site a bit more sometime in the new year. @kasper has mentioned multiple times that he finds the dark blue too close to black, so I would expect that to be addressed at some point, I just don't know when exactly that may be.
1) "Jump to first unread message" link.
2) A link back to the news page (www.appleinsider.com) from the forum.
Am I missing something?
2) You use the main site? I never go there.
2) Yeah, I like to see who actually wrote the article sometimes instead of just Kasper's Automated Slave.....which seems to be gone too.
3) And another thing, I don't see the little red number on the header which use to tell you when you had a response to an article you posted in.
2) This is something that has been not working for literally years. It's possible we can fix this, but it's super low priority ; )
3) Bookmarking an article (the little star) will alert you to any replies and also display new reply counts.
This behavior should be changed as of this morning. You will have to manually save your drafts going forward (once the server decides to sync, i forgot to actually turn on the plugin).
Doesn’t seem like we’d need a cancel option, then, but wiping HTML (to get formatting back to normal) will still have to be done manually if someone decides not to quote a certain post. Not a big deal, I guess, but @jupiterone (does that still link?) might have a different opinion.
I see that you’ve added personal locations back in, but I don’t see where to edit that in the user profile. Maybe it hasn’t been pushed to everyone yet. It’s a little thing, but everyone always seemed to take advantage of it.