The New D3 Go! Forums

orbitalint

Could you work on the positioning of the "go to latest post" link of any topic? Maybe anchor it to the top of the post instead of the bottom? Whenever I go to a long post it looks like this -

Unknown

For a moment there I thought the old look was gone forever, but I noticed that if I add "style=1&" between "http://www.d3go.com/forums/viewtopic.php?" and "f=7&t=29425" (this second part is for this topic), I get the old look, which I prefer. So the world won't end today, and this is good news.

Punisher5784

Not sure why I do not see the link to the "old theme." I am on a PC, Is it only viewable on mobile? The new forum site is hurting my eyes and is actually harder to navigate. I didn't see much of a problem with the old site, it was plain and simple like it should be.

With all the ideas and suggestions the community has been posting, how come those haven't be implemented? I don't recall anyone ever asking for an "improved" website.

Could someone post the link to the old theme, please?

David [Hi-Fi] Moore

Appreciate the feedback everyone. There's still some work to do and we're looking into your further suggestions and bug reports.

MarvelDestiny

Not a fan of the new look/layout. The white-on-white is painful to look at, finger-pinch zoom is disabled, signature graphics are too big, and all graphics (signature and otherwise) are cut off. These are the things I see first. I don't see a huge benefit to the audience with this new format. I will be sticking with the old format for as long as possible.

David, I have a question: What is the improved functionality you speak of? I only see the same functions and features from the old site. (Well most of them, a few are missing; a couple of which I listed above.) I'm not trying to be a smartass, I sincerely want to know.

Lastly, a few applicable pithy sayings:
--Change for change's sake is rarely a good idea.
--Don't fix what ain't broken.
--Keep it simple, stupid. (KISS principle)

Hope our feedback helps.

EDIT: Ok, I've looked at the new forum on my desktop and it isn't all bad. The white-on-white still hurts my eyes though, and I still don't see a real benefit to the end-user with the new format.

Unknown

adamLmpq wrote:

For me, the old theme being less flashy makes it a bit easier to get away with browsing while at work. If someone walks by and sees my screen it doesn't stand out so much. (I can't be the only person wasting time on the clock on here, right? )

Bingo!!!!!!!

generalTsobot

I primarily use Chrome, which seems to have an issue with displaying thin, light grey fonts on white backgrounds. I have trouble reading the Google Play Store, ironically, and parts of the new D3 forum layout (e.g. the sub-forum descriptions). I can confirm that this appears to be a Chrome issue, at least for me, as Firefox is much more readable. Anyone else having this issue?

Also, I miss having the "Advanced search" feature for the forums, since I often want to search a particular sub-forum to narrow my search results. Is this still forthcoming with the new design?

CrookedKnight

Once I switch to the old theme there doesn't seem to be a way to go back other than logging out and back in.

JamieMadrox

Punisher5784 wrote:

Could someone post the link to the old theme, please?

Scroll to the bottom of the page. At the bottom -right of the page, just above the redish bar, there should be text that tells you whatever time zone your post times are adjusted for and then next to that is the link. For example:

All times are UTC - 4 hours [ DST ] - Old Theme

Moon Roach

It's only a 6 on the hideous scale (0 = old, 10 = previous new). I might even be able to live with the intrusive bar at the top.

And the reputation system is still here, which is a pleasant surprise.

The only showstopper problem I've experienced so far is an inability to see the log on popup on my tablet when running chrome. I'll have to check the settings, though what settings I'll have to check is a mystery.

Punisher5784

Jamie Madrox wrote:

Punisher5784 wrote:

Could someone post the link to the old theme, please?

Scroll to the bottom of the page. At the bottom -right of the page, just above the redish bar, there should be text that tells you whatever time zone your post times are adjusted for and then next to that is the link. For example:

All times are UTC - 4 hours [ DST ] - Old Theme

Thanks Jamie. I have to be logged in to view the Theme, normally I view the site logged out until I need to post something. The site is somewhat easier to view on a Mobile but worse on a PC.

_RiO_

Well, the usability on desktop PCs is completely in the toilet with the new board look:

• Wasted screen real-estate by overshot padding and margin on many elements.
  (And then going on to have too little around a few other elements; e.g. the toolbar above the editor...)
• Extremely poor contrast between background and borders or text in some important places.
• Bad choice of font size for condensed reading; 12px works out far better than 14px. This is not webpage copy that you're reading at a glance.
• Ridiculously oversized sticky header bar taking up far too much of the screen vertically and not even collapsing once the user starts scrolling.

So: to Stylish we go!

@-moz-document url-prefix(http://d3go.com/forums/) {
  .navbar-nav > li > a {
    padding-top    : 15px;
    padding-bottom : 15px;
  }

  .navbar-brand > img {
    max-height : 100%;
  }

  .navbar-form {
    padding-top : 0;
  }

  .divider_top_big {
    height : 80px;
  }
  
  p.author {
    margin-bottom : 5px;
  }

  .post {
    padding : 10px 20px;
  }
  
  .postbody {
    font-size : .857em;
  }
  
  .postbody .content {
    padding-top : 10px;
  }
  
  .notice {
    padding-top : .5em;  
  }

  @media (min-width: 1200px) {
    .container {      
      margin-right : 20px;
      margin-left  : 20px;      
      width        : auto;
    }
  }
}

And with just a minor bit of retooling, we already get a 200% better result:




Oh and by the way...CAN WE PLEASE FINALLY GET THE FORUM RUNNING ON AN ACTUAL SECURE HTTPS CONNECTION!
The casual leaking of passwords over plain text and the trivial session hijacking leading to the exposure of private data is really at odds with the privacy policy...

udonomefoo

Wow, Rio, that's the first time I've seen someone give actual code fixes in a feedback post. Good show (I like yours better).

I'm getting a lot of jitter when scrolling. I'm using Chrome (current ver) on Win7. The top bar is the worst offender for the jitter effect, but the whole thing isn't smooth. I opened in in IE to see if it's common across browsers and it's much more stable there and looks a little better too. The fonts seem clearer.

Please don't make me go back to using IE. I'd also echo the comment that the link to switch to the old format is there, but once on the old format, there's no link to come back to the new one.

_RiO_

udonomefoo wrote:

Wow, Rio, that's the first time I've seen someone give actual code fixes in a feedback post. Good show (I like yours better).

I make a living doing frontend web development work. This level of fix-up was quite easy to quickly knock out.

rixmith

Punisher5784 wrote:

Not sure why I do not see the link to the "old theme." I am on a PC, Is it only viewable on mobile? The new forum site is hurting my eyes and is actually harder to navigate. I didn't see much of a problem with the old site, it was plain and simple like it should be.

With all the ideas and suggestions the community has been posting, how come those haven't be implemented? I don't recall anyone ever asking for an "improved" website.

Could someone post the link to the old theme, please?

You need to be logged into the new forum to see the link. I had the same problem, but once I logged in the link was there.

Arondite

Definitely using the old theme, since I'm always on mobile.

The new theme is Not mobile friendly. Images are cut off, text in quotes is squeezed into unreadable fragments due to line size being so small, the banners block part of the theead / posting box and don't slide with the screen properly, etc.

Thanks for including the old theme, it's going to prove to be a life saver.

_RiO_

And another bug:

Cross-Origin Request Blocked: The Same Origin Policy disallows reading the remote resource at http://d3go.com/wp-content/themes/d3go/fonts/glyphicons-halflings-regular.woff. This can be fixed by moving the resource to the same domain or enabling CORS.

Well; that explains the broken icon in the top-right quicksearch box.

elvy75

Its hard to read when you have nested quotes. Pictures are cut in half, too bright, but has potential to be improved.

Unknown

New theme is still noticeably slower to load than the old one, and harder to read. Honestly, I would just go back to the old theme as default (maybe change the blue top-banner to be more MPQ themed, without changing the size or layout of it), and call it a day.

You could also add a setting in display options to pick which theme you want. Make it a permanent option to keep using the old theme. Thanks!

Marty17

Not a huge fan of the new look (probably take time to get used to) thankfully there's the old theme option!