Sooo how is everyone liking the new ENWorld?

[StreamOfTheSky]

To be quite honest? I preffered EN1. I like the speed, I like the multiquote option, now that I've gotten the hang of it. The avatars for supporters and staff are nicely done, if that's considered part of the shift. The rest? I have no need or desire for blogs and wikis, I liked actually having a formatting/smily/etc... interface, cause I have trouble remembering the text codes for them. In fact, I preferred the design of the old smilies. The wink looks like a pirate now, what the heck? And I liked the old maniacal laughter one.

These are minor things, and while i prefferred 1, 2 is certainly still a very good site, and I suppose if I had more use for the new features I'd be ecstatic about them.

EDIT: Forgot to mention, it's probably just me, but I don't like the Fork thread option. It just looks unsightly on a main forum page to see so many "Forked" titles in large print, and i don't see the need for it at all. I never had a problem copying an address, going to the appropriate forum, and pasting it in my new thread.

 

[Kor]

I used to like just clicking on my shortcut and BAM there is all the latest text in news all there in my face. Now I my eyes just glaze over at all the prudict reviews and other stuff that I have no interest in whatsoever in my face. I dont expect it to change and I guess I'll have to find a different site for my 4th edition news....

My thoughts as well. All the little windows that I have to use to scroll to see if the news within is interesting are getting annoying as hell.

If there's any chance of changing back or having a more "text based" display, then please consider it. All these windows are just far too annoying.

 

[Michael Morris]

My thoughts as well. All the little windows that I have to use to scroll to see if the news within is interesting are getting annoying as hell.

If there's any chance of changing back or having a more "text based" display, then please consider it. All these windows are just far too annoying.

I've recently adjusted the CSS so that now only Internet Explorer has scroll bars. Other browsers have auto-adjusting heights on the boxes. Internet Explorer doesn't fully display the images if the div height isn't explicitly set, yet another example of its thousands of violations of the CSS 2.1 specification.

 

[Jonny Nexus]

The advert interface is a lot better. In the past, once you'd created the ad it would simply blast away at full speed until it had exhausted all your impressions. If you were the only person advertising, then you could blow a million impressions in a few days, which is pretty pointless. Also, you couldn't turn advertisments on and off, so you had to keep deleting them and then re-creating them.

Now you can set a number of impressions you want them the advert to show, and the date range within which you want them shown. And you can toggle the advert on and off.

That's a big help for advertisers.

 

[Michael Morris]

Speaking of which, animated gifs should be working now. And btw - I have other feature ideas for that section - one of the first is figuring out a means to have an ad evenly distribute over the course of it's run. That is if you buy 1000 impressions and want it to run 10 days the system will make sure only 100 ads run per day.

 

[hewligan]

My view: first the positives:

Faster. Actually, it is much faster and generally more responsive.
The forum posting interface is better.

Now the negatives:

I cannot spend much time on the site at the moment due to the white text on black issue. I need my papyrus mode (or black text on white) back so that I can use the site without getting a headache.

The front page needs work. It is crowded and the importance of text has been relegated. I used to read the front page every day. Now I skip it and go straight to the forums.

 

[iwarrior-poet]

bottomline (for me)

Frontpage:
I like the look of the icons, but I miss the wealth of info/links on the front page. I don't really have time to drill down into each of the article/icons. I would prefer being able to read through the info and then select what to follow-up on.

Forums:
I do think that the form improvements are mighty, mighty slick!

 

[iwarrior-poet]

Hmm... I may have spoken too soon. The elimination of the myriad scroll bars is a vast improvement. Now I can easily go through the whole page. Also now there is more helpful text along with the icons.
Nice Job!

 

[Merkuri]

Forgot to mention, it's probably just me, but I don't like the Fork thread option. It just looks unsightly on a main forum page to see so many "Forked" titles in large print, and i don't see the need for it at all. I never had a problem copying an address, going to the appropriate forum, and pasting it in my new thread.

You may not have a problem making your own new threads, but a lot of other people do. I think the fork button is great. It encourages people to start new threads instead of derailing old ones (though we still have a little bit of that).

Speaking of the fork option, I haven't used it much myself, but does it put a post in the thread you forked from? If it doesn't do that already I think that would be a great addition (if it's simple). That way you could make sure people already in a discussion could follow your fork if they were interested in your tangent, and it would be an easy way to tell if somebody had already forked about that topic. Say a topic does go off on a tangent. I'd like to be able to fork a new thread and make it obvious to everybody in the first thread that they should go to the new one for more on that topic instead of continuing to clutter the original thread with the tangent topic.

 

[Arnwyn]

Not bad so far. It looks a little early, so I'm not sure I can fairly comment, but still not bad.

The speed is good, and some of the features (forked threads, multiquote, etc) are spiffy.

Still missing a bunch of things (a useable stealth skin, options for the # of threads per page) as well as an inferior front page and worse smilies compared to ENW1, but like I said, still early.