Welcome to ENWorld 2

[fba827]

Next request ... how about a direct link back to a couple of common forums from the front page (General, 4E, 3E). Saves some menu and click-through effort.

Well there is the forum jump at the bottom of threads, if that would help you.

Or you can subscribe to forums themselves that you like, and thus, from your user control panel have your own personalized forum list of what you want.

 

[Michael Morris]

First, wow smoking fast. Love it. (FF3 on Vista)
Second, I would rather read the news on the front than have to link to each section.

Yeah, but the server appreciates not having a 400K news page (the second most frequently hit page on the machine btw, after the general forum list) by giving us all more speed.

 

[Olgar Shiverstone]

Well there is the forum jump at the bottom of threads, if that would help you.

Or you can subscribe to forums themselves that you like, and thus, from your user control panel have your own personalized forum list of what you want.

You misunderstand my request. I bookmark the front page. I then want a link directly to most-use forums from the front page (like the old front page used to have). I used to be able to 1-click directly into the General RPG or 4E forum. Now I have to go to a small area in the center of the page, click to the forums, then select a forum.

That plus the required click through for each news item (then click back) means the new front page is prettier, but less usable, than the old front page. I understand the desire to reduce the size of the front page to speed loading .. .so why not only have one day worth of news posted at a time, and cut some graphics?

The lightning speed of the boards, however, is a major win.

 

[Relique du Madde]

Sir Edmund Blair Leighton was responsible for the first two, the last by Sir Lawrence Alma Tadema. They belong to a group of Victorian artists collectively known as the "Pre-Raphaelite Movement" and favor classical and medieval themes in their paintings, though some of their works where modern for *their* time - still useful for a steampunk game though.

Thanks for the info

 

[talinthas]

does no one else miss the news? Not having it available at a glance really seems to defeat the purpose.

And really, that's the only disappointment i have with this otherwise good upgrade.

 

[SlyFlourish]

Looks fine

It looks fine but most importantly ITS FAST! Blazing fast. I love it.

 

[Joe030984]

The only thing I'm missing so far is the RSS, which appears to be MIA. I assume it will be coming later, but I used it all the time to watch for new articles.

Other than that, site looks and runs great!

 

[Michael Morris]

does no one else miss the news? Not having it available at a glance really seems to defeat the purpose.

And really, that's the only disappointment i have with this otherwise good upgrade.

The News area has several bugs that are being worked on Tal. I'm aware of them, and your complaints about the frontside of it aren't have as loud as the newshounds on the backside of it. Still, it's a work in progress.

 

[JoeBlank]

The lightning speed of the boards, however, is a major win.

I agree. A great time for someone to start a 4e PbP!

I bring this up because I am unlikely to get to play 4e in person any time soon, and because I think Olgar would be a great person to run such a PbP.

 

[Olgar Shiverstone]

Thanks for the vote of confidence!

Best to the family & the gaming group!

 

[reytheist]

The only thing I'm missing so far is the RSS, which appears to be MIA. I assume it will be coming later, but I used it all the time to watch for new articles.

Other than that, site looks and runs great!

QFT. RSS is an essential element for me, as keeping track of news items and blog posts and the like would be rough without having feeds to keep track of everything.

The new look is fantastic, though. Very good job!

 

[JoeBlank]

Thanks for the vote of confidence!

Best to the family & the gaming group!

Thanks. Same to you and yours.

I suspected you might have subscribed to this thread. If you ever do decide to run a PbP please let me know!

 

[AdmundfortGeographer]

I hope you can make this work better . . .

When I choose the "Make Text Bigger" option in my web browser to bump up the size of the type the main page gets all busted-looking.

Article text flows outside the box it is within. "Read More" and "View Comments" are bounced outside their boxes. Interestingly, the forums pages work just fine when making text bigger.

It's a very unpleasant appearance. I hope you can fix it.

 

[fba827]

What is forking to a new thread? Split to a new thread for a tangent topic?

Edit: Okay, I got the answer to this in meta (it is what I was assuming it to be). Thanks!

 

[GFrantsen]

Well I'm going to have to agree with some of the others on here. I don't spend a lot of time in the forums, I mostly come here to read the news. Sometimes I miss a day or two and get caught up in a single visit. Unfortunately, the new layout is NOT very conducive to that so I'll probably be spending a lot less time here. Now, instead of just being able to scroll down, I have to go into different pages, go back out, get into another section, etc.. Not user friendly at all.

I understand having to advance the technology, but as the saying goes "if it ain't broke don't fix it" and I don't think the old news page was broke.

 

[Eosin the Red]

Wow.

Tremendously well done. I also look forward to the wiki implementation with all the plans that you guys have for it.

 

[Cyberzombie]

Coolness. It's shiny. I can't wait until you have all the bugs out.

 

[Mustrum_Ridcully]

The online video-embedding feature is pretty nice, too.

 

[Fifth Element]

Whenever I reply to thread, the default text colour is black (including any quoted text), which makes it difficult to read since the background is black as well. I have to change it manually every time. Is it something I've done wrong?

 

[RSKennan]

Looks great to me. Good work.