New forum vs old forum

[=4c=Nikola]

So i feared that i would come! I am a bit angry withmyself since i have heard of a new forum being in development for quite some time and i didn't write a post why and what was so great about the old forum. Let me state this here:

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100% agree.

 

Btw, it's not obvious but sections are still collapsible if you click on the gray bar with orange text - which is completely useless when it doesn't save the setting.

Edited October 21, 2020 by =4c=Nikola

[Furia]

The actual forum format is the ugliest I have seen for a long time. It really looks old and cold. I was surely expecting something more aesthetically pleasant to read. :(

[Davee]

Please revert or provide option to revert. I miss being able to shrink forums I don't watch like foreign language forums etc.

[Nate--IRL--]

I'll Echo others - too much wasted space on screen.

 

Nate

[DUSTY]

Yeah new forum is pretty awful imo. I didn't have any trouble with the old forum on a mobile device!

[mondaysoff]

This new forum is HORRIFIC. I had a list of organised saved threads, can’t find them anywhere as yet, so much harder to navigate and looks awful, please revert back, life is to short. Took me long enough to find the recent activity, don’t feel much encouraged to return here.

[Sr.]

Wow, need a new DCS module...

 

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Rocket League xD

[Sr.]

Hate it..

[Harzach]

It's clearly optimized for mobile, where it looks good:

 

 

...which is more than can be said for how it presents on my desktop:

 

 

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I've seen other forums and sites make a similar move. Apparently mobile users are more important.

[wilbur81]

Not a fan of the new design when viewed on a PC. Text is too small and there's a lot of wasted space. It looks unfinished.

[Beirut]

I wonder if the DCS person responsible for this new forum design cares that people don't like it, or simply thinks "GFY, you're going to use it even if you hate it, you're using it right now while you whine about it, so who cares if you don't like it"?

 

That's actually not a shot at the person, more a thought about how business people handle the realities of business.

[freehand]

Well done on the new look your forum now runs on par with the simulator.

[Taz1004]

Just after 1 day, I'm navigating a lot better. This is not the worst layout of the forum. We could ask for improvements.

 

If you're gonna save space by making subsections smaller fonts, why not move the foreign language section to different page altogether?

And please remove the scrolling animation when you click on last post icon.

[DerNeueMensch]

But it isn't. Boy are we a conservative lot. The old forum was a pain to read on a mobile device. This isn't. It was a pain to maintain and secure. This one most likely isn't. It's called progress buddy. And yea, that entails change.

 

This progress has to stop!

Edited October 21, 2020 by DerNeueMensch

[Wrightie]

On the old forum i used to open the forum, then could go to Official Updates for example and with a glace you could see if the thread you were interested in had been updated as the heading was bold and then jump straight to the last page.

 

Is this possible here? Atm i'm seeing Sticky's highlighted (in yellow) but cannot tell if the thread has been updated and can't see if it's possible to quickly go to the last page. Anyone know if this is doable on the new forum.

[rrohde]

I am getting used to the new forum design and features already. Not bad at all.

As always, we (as humans) usually struggle with change initially, but then it all works out in the end...

[Taz1004]

On the old forum i used to open the forum, then could go to Official Updates for example and with a glace you could see if the thread you were interested in had been updated as the heading was bold and then jump straight to the last page.

 

Is this possible here? Atm i'm seeing Sticky's highlighted (in yellow) but cannot tell if the thread has been updated and can't see if it's possible to quickly go to the last page. Anyone know if this is doable on the new forum.

 

Updated posts will still be in bold. And you can click the fast forward icon next to the last post indicated on each thread to jump to last post. This icon seems to be missing in couple themes. Use Default theme. Not Forum Default but just Default.

 

It's still too bright for me but all features seems to be working in Default.

[norbot]

In my opinion the new forum is pure bullshit. Where are today's posts? How do I go to the last post of a thread? I just can't see at a glance, when the last post was written. If this is progress, I want to go back to the "Cold War" era. :ranting:

[_mu110_]

I don't know if it's related to the new forum, but is anyone else not able to see comments on the User Files?

[norbot]

After trying to use the new forum for something like 15 minutes, I have the feeling I've got to vomit. I'm out of here. Will be back in a few weeks, maybe...:puke:

[Rudel_chw]

... Simply shitstorming "revert to old forums" won't do it, that's a dead end....

 

Thanks a lot for such an enlightening post :thumbup:

 

 

[Foxmike]

It really sucks. Thought my Android died away and let Firefox restart. Think this will be my last time here around, my eyes hurt. Please stop that covid 19 theme and put the manwork to really needed updates.

[canadianbaken]

The big problem I have right now, and it might just not knowing how to do it, is once I’m done reading a post and I use the back arrow on the iPhone I have to start my search all over again. Is there a way to set Latest Post as default and have it to where I don’t have to go searching for where I left off. I have to go back through all the posts again.

[Eldur]

I do miss the thread page links where you could go directly to a specific page next to the thread titles BTW. Now you can only click the thing and go to page one or click a tiny thing next to the user's name and go straight to the latest post where you'd have to scroll up first which is just cumbersome.

 

Also, the date line on top of a post is just way too small, the font is very much thinned out and almost impossible to read.

 

And I won't change my opinion on the design until mankind finds a way to repair opticus nerves and I'll quote Nick Grey on this: The new default design "sucks balls" (that applies to any design that lacks colours) and sadly, the dark theme is utterly broken at this point and doesn't really look nice even though it feels better to the eyes. The old colour scheme with the blues and reds just was [CORRECT AS WAS]. And now somehow I feel my pastance pun on [CORRECT AS IS] doesn't work quite well...

 

 

 

​Also, I'm constantly getting

 

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When switching pages while reading a thread. The thing just seems to timeout at some point and with my impaired vision, I'm one of the slowest readers on earth. I always have to MiG28 the page before I can open up the next page. This whole scripety script interface is just pain in the plot nowadays. Why can't we just have simple, good old GET requests with parameters loading a new page anymore? It was sooo much faster with the old board version. ED having bought/licensed this for hard earned money must now feel like a customer of a former 3rd party they had ​​

 

 

 

And trying to edit this once again showed how cumbersome it is when middle clicks on vital functions don't work anymore...

Edited October 21, 2020 by Eldur

[Terry Dactil]

Eventually I managed to get here to post!

For me this new format is unusable.

It may be great for mobile devices, but I run DCS on a desktop computer and I want this forum to be usable on a desktop computer.

Sorry, but while it remains like this I am out of here.