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Posted by: PyRo Tek NikS
Posted by: A Deaf Boy
Hey Achronos. Is there any way, since the pinned topic boxes kind of take up a lot of space, that we could have the option to open and close those boxes? Kinda like minimizing it into a small thin column? Than, this could expand the main body of the forum more. If the user wants to see the stickies, they could open it up again. This would be REALLY cool.



We'd all close it and it would be pointless.

;-)

Plus, for the sidebar now, why can't I skip to a page in those topics? It's annoying to have to open the topic, than click on my page. This will be a problem when lets say a sticky gets 100 pages. I would have to hit a lot of buttons...
Gosh I sound lazy...

  • 01.30.2008 1:27 PM PDT
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I'd be interested to see the feedback starting on February 7th

See if opinions change or not.

  • 01.30.2008 1:28 PM PDT

Oh my?
This is awful...
I have never seen such a change for the worse since they started putting those frustrating plastic seals on Milk-bottles...
Change it back!
This almost makes me want to use the Bioware forums...
*Shudders*
*Cries*
Fix it, please!
I beg of you!
If I want to see stickies and what-not I'll scroll to the top of the page!
Get rid of those tabs on the side...!
They're ugly.
Please!!

  • 01.30.2008 1:28 PM PDT

Posted by: Grunt lover
Oh my?
This is awful...
I have never seen such a change for the worse since they started putting those frustrating plastic seals on Milk-bottles...
Change it back!
This almost makes me want to use the Bioware forums...
*Shudders*
*Cries*
Fix it, please!
I beg of you!
If I want to see stickies and what-not I'll scroll to the top of the page!
Get rid of those tabs on the side...!
They're ugly.
Please!!

Comparing it to plastic seals on milk bottles? It's alright, like Recon said: Take a deep breath. You will get used to it in time. =)

  • 01.30.2008 1:31 PM PDT
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Posted by: Grunt lover
Oh my?
This is awful...
I have never seen such a change for the worse since they started putting those frustrating plastic seals on Milk-bottles...
Change it back!
This almost makes me want to use the Bioware forums...
*Shudders*
*Cries*
Fix it, please!
I beg of you!
If I want to see stickies and what-not I'll scroll to the top of the page!
Get rid of those tabs on the side...!
They're ugly.
Please!!

Yeah bioware's forums are terrible =(
But this looks like a rip-off of their forums just with huge font.

  • 01.30.2008 1:31 PM PDT
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Once the search feature is upgraded I'll half to take a vacation to celebrate.

  • 01.30.2008 1:31 PM PDT

I like the separate stickies box, maybe people will actually notice they are special now. However, I'm not so keen on the small posts, it feels cramped. Maybe shorten the background by a third or so on each side, so the posts would still be pretty long and you could keep the stickies box. Besides the side though, the new post layout is great, with the member info along the top, and the drop-down information.

Edit, Just realized another great thing, I don't need to go back to the forum home page to switch threads! If I want to jump to a popular thread, I can just click the link on the side page! Very helpful.

[Edited on 01.30.2008 1:40 PM PST]

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So now I'm a beta tester. Let's see where this goes.

Posted by: Achronos
Possibly, but that would be a complex change and also make the posts page way wider that it was before. It is being considered, but I wouldn't bet on it.

Posted by: A Deaf Boy
Hey Achronos. Is there any way, since the pinned topic boxes kind of take up a lot of space, that we could have the option to open and close those boxes? Kinda like minimizing it into a small thin column? Than, this could expand the main body of the forum more. If the user wants to see the stickies, they could open it up again. This would be REALLY cool.
If this could not happen would there be a chance they would at least get their own space. Seeing all of that dead area inside the boarder for most of the page bugs me. If anything maybe some sort of pattern image that extends after them.

  • 01.30.2008 1:32 PM PDT
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Finished the fight on September 26,2007, 10:49pm EST
Remembered Reach on September 15th, 2010 9:30pm EST

I don't know if this is intentional, but on the files forum, when a new content is published, why can't I see the author until someone replies to it? Is there a reason for this?

  • 01.30.2008 1:32 PM PDT

Estne volumen in toga an solum tibi libet me videre?

Nothing suits me like a suit.

Nothing is true. Everything is permitted.

I'm not a big fan of this new update.

1. Cluttered. Is there a way to spread everything out a little more?

2. It doesn't say who posted last on the thread.

3. The unleash ninjas button is a little to close to the reply button (I'm a moderator in a couple groups)

4. Everything is a little to narrow, now.

5. Its ugly.


I will get used to it over time, but it doesn't mean I'll like it. One of my groups threads has about 990,000 posts. There are so many ghost pages I can't even count. The top forum topics and the sticky topics to the right are to big and take away from the forum. It just isn't as user-friendly to me as these same forums that I was on last night. Signatures also have a lot less room now.


[Edited on 01.30.2008 1:37 PM PST]

  • 01.30.2008 1:34 PM PDT
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Posted by: Grunt lover
Oh my?
This is awful...
I have never seen such a change for the worse since they started putting those frustrating plastic seals on Milk-bottles...
Change it back!
This almost makes me want to use the Bioware forums...
*Shudders*
*Cries*
Fix it, please!
I beg of you!
If I want to see stickies and what-not I'll scroll to the top of the page!
Get rid of those tabs on the side...!
They're ugly.
Please!!


Now, Now it needs to be completely constructive criticism. I've already been castigated so I'm just trying to help here. So if you notice an issue, tell them what the issue is.

1. Headers are cut off
2. No Last Reply Label
3. Too Cramped
4. Ghost pages that can't be caught up to
5. Staff that acts like the IT department off of "The IT Crowd"

  • 01.30.2008 1:34 PM PDT

ODST Recon

The official ODST Recon Clan Furry =D

Well, I am not the strongest when it comes to constructive critism, so I'll just say this.
SUX0R =(

  • 01.30.2008 1:36 PM PDT
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***Aberrant Designs***

Finished the fight on September 26,2007, 10:49pm EST
Remembered Reach on September 15th, 2010 9:30pm EST

Being able to see more threads on the page is a definite plus though...

  • 01.30.2008 1:38 PM PDT

Posted by: Coffey4780
Posted by: Grunt lover
Oh my?
This is awful...
I have never seen such a change for the worse since they started putting those frustrating plastic seals on Milk-bottles...
Change it back!
This almost makes me want to use the Bioware forums...
*Shudders*
*Cries*
Fix it, please!
I beg of you!
If I want to see stickies and what-not I'll scroll to the top of the page!
Get rid of those tabs on the side...!
They're ugly.
Please!!

Comparing it to plastic seals on milk bottles? It's alright, like Recon said: Take a deep breath. You will get used to it in time. =)
No, I will not. Not unless I tear my eyes out.
...and I still hate those infernal seals.

*Vomits*
It is so ugly!
Can't they put a "Hide annoying Tabs on the left" option?

  • 01.30.2008 1:39 PM PDT
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Posted by: A Deaf Boy
Being able to see more threads on the page is a definite plus though...


I disagree it may have been mildly more work to look for an older topic, but it wasn't that hard. This is way more inconvenient.

  • 01.30.2008 1:40 PM PDT

Turn west on Broadway, and right at the second light on Welchester Road. There is a dirt path about a 1/4 mile way up, turn onto it. When you hit the interstate 56 sign pull back onto the road. From there take the road 38 miles towards Wisconsin. Get off at Exist 73 and take that street to Vermont Road, and take a left at the stop sign. Go down that street to the fifth house on the left. Go into the backyard and open the shed. There you will find my leaf blower, its yours to keep.

im sry... its fugly....=,(

  • 01.30.2008 1:41 PM PDT
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The End

‘The conscious is cancerous if allowed to linger’

"Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there."

Achronos killed my thread :-(

I agree with everyone about the skinny post column, it needs more pies.

  • 01.30.2008 1:42 PM PDT
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***Aberrant Designs***

Finished the fight on September 26,2007, 10:49pm EST
Remembered Reach on September 15th, 2010 9:30pm EST

Posted by: Empire Bones
Posted by: A Deaf Boy
Being able to see more threads on the page is a definite plus though...


I disagree it may have been mildly more work to look for an older topic, but it wasn't that hard. This is way more inconvenient.

Well, for the files forum its good! Now my pic stays on the first page longer!!!

  • 01.30.2008 1:43 PM PDT
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Posted by: Primum Agmen
A tosser is the same as a wanker. To toss oneself off is to fondle the trouser weasel.


Achronos

Joe Staten

I'm still trying to get used to the new layout, posts are easier to read now but the forums sitll look confusing and make my eyes hurt.

All in all this update is greatly appreciated.

PS: now the images at Community home need an update, i.e. the Optimatch Forum has an Xbox, it should have an Xbox 360 or the Xbox Live logo.

  • 01.30.2008 1:46 PM PDT
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Posted by: Goat
Bungie, oh Bungie, oh Bungie,
Know what would really be fun, G?
I don’t wish to nag
But remake Coag,
Or die from a purple sword-lungie.

Posted by: PhrozenFox
Well, I am not the strongest when it comes to constructive critism, so I'll just say this.
SUX0R =(


lol


Even though I rarely do this, I'm gonna have to agree with the majority. It's not very good.

There are a few things I like, but the cramped feeling just destroys all the good things.

  • 01.30.2008 1:47 PM PDT
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Remembered Reach on September 15th, 2010 9:30pm EST

2. Dont have the thread boxes IN the threads, but instead just in the main forums
I like that idea. Just on the main page.

Does anyone else seem like they can quote faster? I do...

  • 01.30.2008 1:47 PM PDT

Call me Wolfie | My anti-drug
New Flood for life <3

We’re looking back laughing because they called us crazy, but we took that chance on that feeling, living for the moment, we were spinning in. Maybe we were a lot of things, but we weren't crazy.

Temporary solution to my page issue: Un-stickying it.

Hmm, also in the groups, we have to click on the title on the banner instead of just the banner now?

I want to make my own banner for my group...

  • 01.30.2008 1:47 PM PDT
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You know for many of us this place is a kind of get-away. A place to go and get rid of stress and not have to worry about too much, this is our home, our playground if you will. You've taken out all the cool toys, put in a bunch of animals on springs and told us to enjoy. When we tell you we don't like it we're told to give you constructive criticism. When we point out we enjoyed the old playground the way it was you say that's too bad and don't give reasons for the change. If this is for aesthetics then just change it back, it's obvious that many people are just irritated with it and there weren't that many complaints about the old way. And if I may give a suggestion for future changes, make small changes over time and you won't get so much complaint.

  • 01.30.2008 1:48 PM PDT
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Posted by: Shishka
Everything will be gone long before me. When the first living thing was born, I was here, waiting. When the last living thing dies, my job is finished. I'll put the chairs on the tables, turn out the lights and lock the universe behind me when I leave.

Wow, it's wierd. I don't like that they tried to cram everything inside the space provided, instead of increasing the width a little....there is still quite a bit of blue space to either side.
My main issues are:
- Looks a little crowded
- Can't see who posted last
- sig resize (which is a bug I guess)

It will definatly take some getting used to. Right now, I don't like it so much, but I might post a different response in a few days when I've gotten a little used to it.

[Edited on 01.30.2008 1:51 PM PST]

  • 01.30.2008 1:49 PM PDT