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

[silentsquirrel]

Oh dear that is a shame Juliet, I will take a few off, there are loads of still smiles too of course 🙂

Yes, I am like Juliet, and find your bouncing tennis ball very difficult to cope with!

 

[Northerner]

As for being the first member of this Forum, I am still fighting with myself as regards to leaving the group.

Don't you dare! 🙂

 

[Northerner]

Thanks, @Josh DUK

Jodee, I agree more smileys would be great, but those moving ones might make the forum unusable for people like me who have visual or neurological problems - I can't actually look at your post properly as the movement is overwhelming, and I'm having to type this with my eyes closed, and then cover half the screen with my arm when I look up to proofread. So the option to immobilise smileys for those of us who can't cope with the moving ones would also be good!

I used to have a flying pig avatar, but it even drove me mad after a while! 😱 🙂

 

[Ljc]

@ukjohn . I totally agree with Alan

Don't you dare! 🙂

 

[Ljc]

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 .

 

[Pine Marten]

That's great for people with smaller screens/phones/tablets, but please don't forget that some of us have old-fashioned computers with large monitors and we want it to work for us too! Please make sure some of the people previewing are using computers rather than phones etc, and also that not everyone previewing is using Windows (I'm using Chromium on a Linux machine).

To me the picture in Josh's post at the top looks confusing because:
* there are pictures where the current version doesn't have pictures, for no apparent reason
* the dark blue has gone, and everything looks very, very pale which makes it hard to distinguish anything
* profile posts - which no-one likes and which are confusing to newbies, and which several people asked to have removed - are still there
* I can't see the top menu of things like watched threads and new posts, as Ralph commented (though I realise that may be because the screenshot has cut those off the top)

Ditto to all of this from Juliet, especially the bit about everything being pale, there seems to be no dark blue bolded type any more.

 

[Docb]

Going back to your picture Josh. I do not have poor eyesight but I find the light blue on dark blue and light blue on grey colour schemes uncomfortable to read. I understand that you want to keep a "corporate" colour palette but readability for ageing and sometimes damaged eyes has got to come first. One day your young tyro programmers with their 20-20, high acuity, vision will see what I am talking about.

I sometimes wish that colour computing was impossible leaving everything in black and white!

 

[Hazel]

I do not know if this issue is because of the upgrade, but the top line, from right to left Alerts, Hazel, media is blank and the whole below that is complete illegible nonsense

 

[Northerner]

Linked text should be more obvious so people realise there's something there to click on. Currently very indistinct from ordinary text (on my Windows PC).

To be honest, I don't think we need more bells and whistles, just an easy to navigate and search site - it's the exchange and store of information that makes the site beyond that. The famous adage about user interfaces applies - 'Don't make me think!' 😱 🙂 Profile posts are a classic example - we didn't have them before the 2015 upgrade and they have caused nothing but trouble and confusion since their introduction You shouldn't need to have to stop and wonder how to accomplish something, it should be obvious - especially when you consider that many people may be visiting a forum for the first time and may not be thinking straight if they are upset, worried or confused about a new diagnosis.

 

[Pine Marten]

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...😱

 

[grovesy]

Linked text should be more obvious so people realise there's something there to click on. Currently very indistinct from ordinary text (on my Windows PC).

To be honest, I don't think we need more bells and whistles, just an easy to navigate and search site - it's the exchange and store of information that makes the site beyond that. The famous adage about user interfaces applies - 'Don't make me think!' 😱 🙂 Profile posts are a classic example - we didn't have them before the 2015 upgrade and they have caused nothing but trouble and confusion since their introduction You shouldn't need to have to stop and wonder how to accomplish something, it should be obvious - especially when you consider that many people may be visiting a forum for the first time and may not be thinking straight if they are upset, worried or confused about a new diagnosis.

I thought we had not always had profile posts.

 

[Jodee]

Yes, I am like Juliet, and find your bouncing tennis ball very difficult to cope with!

oh dear sorry you have endured so long SS, only happy to oblige, will go see if I can locate the signature to change it for all the special people who can't cope with ani stickers and smiles 🙂

 

[Lizzzie]

Must admit to barely noticing upgrade but looks a bit slicker

 

[everydayupsanddowns]

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...😱

I wonder if you can clear the cache on your PC browser?

 

[silentsquirrel]

oh dear sorry you have endured so long SS, only happy to oblige, will go see if I can locate the signature to change it for all the special people who can't cope with ani stickers and smiles 🙂

Many thanks, Jodee, appreciated! Love the tree!

 

[everydayupsanddowns]

Must admit to barely noticing upgrade but looks a bit slicker

Nothing has changed on the actual forum yet Lizzzie - it’s just the pictures that Josh posted at the start of the thread which show a suggestion of what the new style might look like.

 

[everydayupsanddowns]

Ditto to all of this from Juliet, especially the bit about everything being pale, there seems to be no dark blue bolded type any more.

I’ve said that while the lighter look has a nicely clean, crisp feel to it, the lower contrast section headers do stand out less, so the new style page doesn’t have quite the same sense of structure. The overall lighter look also means that the column of avatars really do stand out - as they are visually much stronger than most of the other late content.

Interestingly @Northerner, the dark blue link colour seems quite different to the black text colour on my devices. I think it would be helpful to have a ‘high contrast’ option (I think the forum supports this option).

 

[Jodee]

To be honest I am not noticing anything different on my PC 🙂

I am still seeing the dark Blue link text on peoples names and un read post titles.

 

[everydayupsanddowns]

To be honest I am not noticing anything different on my PC 🙂

I am still seeing the dark Blue link text on peoples names and un read post titles.

Josh is only asking about the images of the suggested new style at the top of this thread. Nothing about the look of the actual forum has changed yet 🙂

 

[Jodee]

Josh is only asking about the images of the suggested new style at the top of this thread. Nothing about the look of the actual forum has changed yet 🙂

I'm not sure the washed out look is an improvement on what we already have.