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Your thoughts on the forum upgrade (launch date 18th Feb)

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I would prune more. The less unnecessary stuff on the page, the better.

- Who has any interest in the "statistics" sections? To me they're just clutter.
- Why is it interesting to show number of threads/posts in a sub-forum?
- As everybody says, ditch the profile posts.

Generally, accessability should trump branding/retention/stickiness features.
 
Ljc said:
I didn’t realise that about the animated smilies , I sometimes use them on here, I will stop.
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Thank you, Lin x
I'm fine with one or two in a post, especially if they're not moving too much - it's several moving a lot (especially if they're all doing something different) which are a big problem for me. Jodee's "more smileys" post is fine for me now - when she originally posted it it had several different smileys all moving quite a lot.
 
Ljc said:
Perhaps re name conversations/start a conversation to private message , when I first come here it took me awhile to realise that’s what PM’s were called here .
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Me too Ljc
WL
 
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Pine Marten said:
I've just discovered a strange thing...the smilies etc which don't now work on my pc (list of forums appears instead) come up fine on this laptop. Which suggests something but I'm not sure what...o_O😱
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A while back I installed a tracking blocker on my iPad , if I use it to to come here and other sites I lose smilies and one or two other things, could it be something like that with you.
 
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Jodee said:
More smilies
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I am OK with these tiny animated ones - not sure if the problem with the tennis ball that was your signature was because of the size, or the amount that the ball travelled. But lovely to be able to linger to read your posts properly now Before I would have to position the text very carefully to read, but on a bad day would end up scrolling past at top speed.
 
Interesting @Northerner. That’s a little less clear I think, but I wonder whether screen settings / contrast / gamut might be playing a role? I know I’ve had that with colour/tone balance on client websites during the design phase - clients have said a colour is too pale/too dark and I’ve only understood why when viewing on their specific laptop which was rendering the colours very differently to all the ones I had access to.

I get the links as the dark ‘Diabetes UK’ logo blue colour, which is noticeably different to the black text colour (though I confess it doesn’t hugely ‘pop out’ because the line weights of the text are quite thin and tonally both colours are only a few % apart).
 
everydayupsanddowns said:
Interesting @Northerner. That’s a little less clear I think, but I wonder whether screen settings / contrast / gamut might be playing a role? I know I’ve had that with colour/tone balance on client websites during the design phase - clients have said a colour is too pale/too dark and I’ve only understood why when viewing on their specific laptop which was rendering the colours very differently to all the ones I had access to.

I get the links as the dark ‘Diabetes UK’ logo blue colour, which is noticeably different to the black text colour (though I confess it doesn’t hugely ‘pop out’ because the line weights of the text are quite thin and tonally both colours are only a few % apart).
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It doesn’t really stand out on my ipad either, I've often read a post and thought, 'well you might have linked to the thing you’re talking about' and then gone back and examined the text carefully and found there was one.
 
everydayupsanddowns said:
Interesting @Northerner. That’s a little less clear I think, but I wonder whether screen settings / contrast / gamut might be playing a role? I know I’ve had that with colour/tone balance on client websites during the design phase - clients have said a colour is too pale/too dark and I’ve only understood why when viewing on their specific laptop which was rendering the colours very differently to all the ones I had access to.

I get the links as the dark ‘Diabetes UK’ logo blue colour, which is noticeably different to the black text colour (though I confess it doesn’t hugely ‘pop out’ because the line weights of the text are quite thin and tonally both colours are only a few % apart).
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I would say same and I'm pretty sure things will definitely appear differently on different devices, its why I mainly use the PC on line as pages are pretty consistent and you can read pretty much everything without having to scroll back and forth, left to right, up and down so much.
 
silentsquirrel said:
I am OK with these tiny animated ones - not sure if the problem with the tennis ball that was your signature was because of the size, or the amount that the ball travelled. But lovely to be able to linger to read your posts properly now Before I would have to position the text very carefully to read, but on a bad day would end up scrolling past at top speed.
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Perfect 🙂
 
There has been some discussion on colours and pictures, but the Elephant in the room is the standard font. A sans serif font is more difficult to read below about 10 point, which can happen on smaller devices. Jodees' post above demonstrates this beautifully - the red type in the signature is easy to read, the black text in the personal info above that is sans serif Arial but the same point size, and more of a struggle.

It's subtle, but British Rail realised this effect when they standardised all their signage to a new sans serif design. It just didn't work for smaller text in their leaflets.
 
Interesting. Does this site have mostly sans fonts? I have my computer set to override fonts wherever possible and turn them all into sans because I struggle to read serif fonts! But then I also have my computer set to override sizing and make everything bigger. The black and red bits of Jodee's sig are both too small for me to read comfortably - the red is no better or worse than the black at that size, but I'd need to do control + to read either of them if they were any longer ... and having tried control + the black bit is much easier for me to read than the red bit.

Sorry Jodee, not picking on you, just as Mike said your sig happened to be immediately above his post!
 
Ljc said:
A while back I installed a tracking blocker on my iPad , if I use it to to come here and other sites I lose smilies and one or two other things, could it be something like that with you.
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Hmm, I really have no idea. I haven't installed anything (as far as I know!) and when it happened, other people mentioned it too, so I assumed it was this site rather than me...??
 
TheClockworkDodo said:
Interesting. Does this site have mostly sans fonts? I have my computer set to override fonts wherever possible and turn them all into sans because I struggle to read serif fonts! But then I also have my computer set to override sizing and make everything bigger. The black and red bits of Jodee's sig are both too small for me to read comfortably - the red is no better or worse than the black at that size, but I'd need to do control + to read either of them if they were any longer ... and having tried control + the black bit is much easier for me to read than the red bit.

Sorry Jodee, not picking on you, just as Mike said your sig happened to be immediately above his post!
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@TheClockworkDodo If you are using windows 10 have you tried messing around with Ease of Access in the settings?
There are colour filters, high contrast settings and a screen narrator.

Dez 🙂
 
Has there been some changes? I can't tell. I'm not very observant. 🙂 Looks fine to me.
 
I take your point @Docb 🙂
It can't be that difficult to incorporate different "themes", "colour schemes" for individual users.
Having said that, this forum and the new one havn't been designed from scratch, they are based on a template by this company.

Forum software by XenForo™ © 2010-2018 XenForo Ltd
If you follow that link you'll see how very similar their support forum is to ours. 😱

Dez
 
Ditto said:
Has there been some changes? I can't tell. I'm not very observant. 🙂 Looks fine to me.
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Nothing here has changed.
There is an updated version that is in testing phase at the moment.
Josh was just posting some pictures of what it might (or might not) look like. 😛

Dez 🙂
 
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