New Boards (Verdict?)

[Velmont]

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[uv23]

I haven't had a chance to explore many of the new feature but I feel like my eyes are being assaulted by all of the clutter. The boards are very very ugly right now: icons and useless information ("viewing"??) everywhere, and those hideous purple "general" icons. In fact, I'd say that the UI clutter is what has kept me from exploring too deep so far.

 

[Maraxle]

The boards no longer seem to refresh on my system, unless I hit CTRL+F5. That's really annoying. Also, those message icons in general are pretty hideous. Not only that, but I can't see the buttons for bold, italics, etc. Overall, I give the "upgrade" a huge thumbs down.

 

[LightPhoenix]

Haven't played with the boards much, but I think it would be really great if the default tag thingee was blank (ie, no image), and that general was a seperate one. Or even better, if there was a way users could turn them off via the control panel, like avatars.

 

[hong]

The new boards have been up for about 8 hours, and people are already complaining. You'd think this was EN World 3.5E or something.

 

[Mathew_Freeman]

Just noticed something. When hong quoted that long string of code, it's stretched this thread off the side of the screen, so that I have to keep scrolling left and right to read all the messages.

Now, whilst this of course happened previously, it only affected the post in question. Now it's affecting the whole thread. Figured it's something that can be sorted out, or looked at.

 

[Zogg]

Well hong, there are similarities. There wasn't really anything WRONG with ENworld 3.0...but now they've gone and added a bunch of unnecessary bells and whistles that really amount to nothing but clutter. This board now needs to be cleaned up and streamlined, much like 3.5!

 

[doghead]

I had a couple of comments but most of them have been mentioned (purple icons (Edit: whoops, didn't read the "Posticons, Please read before posting" - sorry.), clutter, seems slower (the extra features? - I'd vote for speed over features).

But what really concerns me is that the posts now exit stage right and I have to scroll across (and back to read them). It didn't happen last time I logged on, but that was using the old url. I'm hoping that its just a glitch cos its a real concern. (Edit: Ah, its Hongs fault ) I'm going to check out some other threads so I'll let you know.

Edit: Ignore me doing this. Ignore me doing this.

 

[Brother Shatterstone]

I think if you go to your "user cp", hit up options, scroll down to the very bottom (above your avatar settings) and change the style set to "use forum default". I think the font is a bit bigger but I wasn't having issues before hand so I would need someone else to try it.

Did this help anyone..?

 

[Brother Shatterstone]

Did this help anyone..?

Never mind, it didn't have the same effect at home that it did at work... Must have just been perceived change. Sorry guys and gals.