canukstorm said:

tele1234 said:

maestro64 said:

What will be the equivalent name for this similar to Glassholes, This is really unimportant in the big scheme of things. This ranks right with Google Glasses and 3D Glass for TV. Most people will not be seen dead with these strapped to their heads. It has the same social stigma of the wearing the geeky 3D glasses.

We know most gamers especially those who can not wait for these spend most of their time in their parents basements so they do not care what the rest of us think.

Yeah the will sell some and make money, but this will not make Face money like other Apple products make for Apple, Even Apple hobby products will make more than this will.

I am also willing to bet once people use these we will begin hearing about issue like people were getting headaches from wearing Google glasses and the 3D glasses.

So you have no idea what an Oculus rift is, then? Or haven't followed the 2+ years of devkit usage that's been public for ages? Headaches aren't the problem, it's motion sickness.

Oculus' beef with Apple is that Apple doesn't have a computer, or a computer cable of having, a graphics card that meets the minimum system requirements to use the oculus on a playable level. It's a device for gaming, Apple hardware is not. This whole article is about as irrelevant as saying I can't boil water pouring it in my toaster. Different machines, different purposes.

If you look the system requirements for Oculus, wouldn't a 27" iMac meet those, at least a high-end one? I would've thought so.

Nope, not even close.

sflocal said:

Oculus must have very low expectations of it's expected user-base then.  I wonder how big the market is of gamers that would be willing to buy this $600 add-on.  Most PC sales are low-end junk.

Either way, I would think the market of people with high-end iMac's would certainly be interested.  However, in the end it's their decision.  No love lost really.

I do wish that Apple would do more with their MacBooks Pros and get away from that Intel HD graphics crap.  I have a 2014 rMBP and it works great for what I predominantly use it for.  I gave up using it for the (very few) times I tried to play a modern FPS game.  The "Pro" models should have a graphics system worthy of that moniker, and this is where I feel Apple failed.

Top-of-the-line Mac Pro users are going to be left in the dust here as well. You can probably boot stuff up, but you won't be running it at 90hz, which is going to lead to a bunch of people ... getting sick. I think they probably expect to sell 2-3M units of CV1 over its lifespan. This thing isn't a mass consumer device yet, and won't be for another 3-5+ years. Right now they're addressing the 'core' base of about 20M 'hardcore' PC gamers, around 10% of which have the hardware required to run this stuff in the first place. PC gamers haven't had a compelling reason to do a serious upgrade in a very long time, so I'm sure there will be some upgrades caused by this stuff.

The timing is just super unfortunate with Pascal and Polaris right around the corner (April-ish). That's the major GPU performance bump people have been waiting way too long for *shakes fist at TSMC*

jupiterone said:

tallest skil said:

jupiterone said:

1) "Jump to first unread message" link.
2) A link back to the news page (www.appleinsider.com) from the forum.

1) I think it does that automatically now.
2) You use the main site? I never go there. 

1) Hmm, I didn't notice that. I'll look again.
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.

1) When you click on an article and it has unread stuff it will jump directly to the first unread comment.
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.

tallest skil said:

jSnively said:
What would you expect the behavior of the cancel button to be? Just clear the input field? 

Since drafts are now auto-saved (or did you change that to only manual saving?), clearing would allow people to change their minds about a reply and still be able to reply to another post without having to switch to the HTML view to wipe all the old formatting.

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).

gatorguy said:

I see the forum is inundated with spam this morning. A couple years back another forum I work with migrated to Vanilla and IIRC one of the reasons were the strong spam mitigation tools. Where i would typically have removed a handful every morning Vanilla tools essentially blocked every one of them. Relatively rare to have any to deal with now. 

We're still tweaking the filters. I put in some new automated protections this morning and re-imported a bunch of old IPs from our huddler ban list. Since those posts (understandably) keep happening while everyone is asleep, we're looking first at automated solutions.

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!

Update #3

I'm knee-deep in the redesign right now (it's going to look a whole lot more like a traditional forum). We're hoping to have it up in the next couple days.

Some things I saw in this thread that have already been addressed in the redesign:

1. thumbs down/up avatars are hidden by default.
2. Linking directly to a post has been made much more clear (currently it's the date on the post.)
3. Button sizes have been normalized and restyled.
4. Comments are in a much more traditional 'box' style layout.
   
5. We have pretty much completely removed the sidebar except on a few select pages.
   
6. Categories and Discussions pages got a complete format overhaul.
7. Image alignment in posts will be centered by default.
   
8. Over aggressive draft saving has been squelched. You will actually have to hit 'save draft' to save a draft now.
   

Keep your feedback coming, I am periodically checking this thread and using it to inform what we're doing going forward. We want to replace what is here pretty much as fast as possible. If we start to drag at all, i will start back porting some of the fixes to the current layout. Right now we're all-hands-on-deck.