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  1. 1. New forum vs old forum

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Dragon1-1
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...and we're fully in 2020s, with a layout designed for nearsighted babies who have their monitors in portrait configuration for some inexplicable reason. I hate IPS, I have to zoom it out one notch t

sirrah
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Mr. Big.Biggs
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Topic says it all. This is worse than AOL groups!! is there a “revert to classic” setting? Otherwise See Ya!!! Thanks

hornblower793

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@BIGNEWY - I think the problems are that this new layout is not hugely well structured, and is now using less than half the real estate of my monitor - I am really pleased that I have a 32" widescreen monitor because I would not be able to use this forum on a smaller screen without a lot of tweaking (or serious eyestrain). It seems to be a classic case of designers / implementers not asking users what they would like.....

 

I am not at all against changing it, but as someone who makes a living out of working with users to identify change requirements this is not a good way to do it

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sharkfin61

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Id like to know where the User CP is; I have a ton of subscribed threads I have no idea where they are now.

 

If you click the Notifications tab and go to Message center--> left pane-->Subscriptions

PITA anyway...

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Is there Reason why you done this? Think that was the only thing without complains..joke aside old Format was way better

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derammo

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@BIGNEWY read the posts by Desert Fox and others. It's not that this needs more tweaking. It's that these changes are actively bad. The old site was ugly and antiquated looking, sure. But at least it wasn't actively violating every principle of UI and UX design.

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Hammer1-1

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Let it go - change is always a must regardless.

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joker68

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Id like to know where the User CP is; I have a ton of subscribed threads I have no idea where they are now.

 

Hi Hammer1-1, while they don't enhance this "new forum", you can access your subscribed threads by clicking on notifications / go to message center way up on the right menu. Then, on the new page left menu click on correspondent option (Subcriptions / Posts).

 

I too didn't like the new format, hope they revert to something more in line with the old one.

Cheers.

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hornblower793

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Having now had a look on my mobile device it has clearly been designed for this at the expense of a decent desktop experience

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BuzzU

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I'm guessing they had to change servers. I got used to this one already. It's not as good but it will do if there's no other choice.

 

Although I can't figure out how to change my avatar.

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joker68

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I'm guessing they had to change servers. I got used to this one already. It's not as good but it will do if there's no other choice.

 

Although I can't figure out how to change my avatar.

 

Just click on it. It will take you to where you can change it.

hornblower793

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Although I can't figure out how to change my avatar.

 

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BuzzU

BuzzU

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Just click on it. It will take you to where you can change it.

 

 

Sometimes the obvious is the hardest to figure out. Thanks.

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YoYo

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Anybody Know were the user files are ie skins ect?

 

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BuzzU

BuzzU

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No sense in whining about it guys. This is what we have now. I'm sure ED didn't do this because they wanted to. No matter how much you ask for the old forum. It's gone.

Buzz

joker68

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I suspect that the move was aimed to be more suitable to mobile access (the ever present "mobile tyranny"). Maybe the stats showed the team that the majority of access are coming from small devices. Maybe they just wanted something new. If it was the first one, although I agree that nowadays everyone is using mobile access way more than desktop access (count me out!), I play DCS on a desktop, and thus most of the time I'm accessing the forums I'm on the same desktop, with a bigger screen on my face, not having to squeeze my eyes to read on a tiny little smartphone screen. Anyway, as all things in life, give it time and we will adapt. I see that we can have different themes on this one... it may be enhanced, I guess.

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JayBird

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This is very bad:puke:

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Emojis don't seem to work...
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Rudel_chw

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I dont care about looks, but I do miss a way to just see the threads with new posts :(

 

edit: I also wonder what happened to my photo galleries :(

 

 

edit 2: does anyone knows what is the meaning of the bargraph beneath the avatar pic, on the left sidebar?

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Baldrick33

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Even PMDG uses the same forum format software

 

The format looks nice and all.

Just had a look at that one. It seems to work better as it has Latest Activity and my Subscriptions set at the top level of the forum. Here it is set at a sub-sub-forum level which makes it nigh on unusable as a feature. So hopefully that is simply how it has been set up and can be altered.

 

 

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Baldrick33

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edit 2: does anyone knows what is the meaning of the bargraph beneath the avatar pic, on the left sidebar?
Hovering over it looks like reputation. You good, me bad

 

Edit: tried to add a smilie at the end of that and failed!

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docWilly

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Yes.Revert to classic wold be a thing for me,too !

Missing to be able to read the last post of a topic !

 

 

Well......all said. The old style was more "convenient"....

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