Dunno if a mod should be starting this thread but it might be handy to have somewhere to give feedback on the design or point out any bugs? I guess this might still be a work-in-progress with one or two things still to iron out...

- When I'm replying to a topic, there's simply some text saying { MESSAGE_HISTORY } - instead of the previous posts like on the old design
- Also (as has already been pointed out), it would be very handy to have 'Mark Forum Read' and 'Mark All Forums Read' buttons back

And a plainer background I'm fine with a header, but I do not like that picture

Oh, and some topics are in blue text, some in white. I can't see why. All my topics are read but some are still different. Doesn't seem to be popular ones etc, just random

Hoping the pages will load a bit more smoothly in time.

TBC.

I really like it!

A "mark forums read" option would be really handy though.

I love the new look!

Some of the topics i've read still look like 'unread'. The 'mark topics read' is a good idea, and also all the post box have different sizes, like the part of the avatar, if you know what I mean.

And once again, as we had to ask after the last redesign:

Bring back Ask Meggles!!!

Also, the "Active Topics" link is now gone, which I used a lot, though the url it linked to, search.php?search_id=active_topics does still work. Link was awful handy though.

I am liking the new look overall though.

Oh, and "View Your Posts" link is gone now too. Honestly, that and "Active Topics" were my main views on the Forum.

Z.

I like the new design, but i see some "strange" things about fonts...

For example, our usernames (except mods & administrators) appear in white (same as other texts)

And the quotes... I'm quoting you Patty as an example:



The part "Pisquita wrote" is too dark... it's hard to read who is the quoted member...

Mauro

Oh yes, very. Don't like that *at all*.

Z.

Another difficulty:

Space for posting is wider than before... now we have to scroll right and left to read complete posts...

But we could upload bigger images from now, i don't know... some signatures now appear modified with this new design

Mauro

That's weird. For me, the posts are narrower than before. But I think this is why, off the top of my head: I think that before, there wasn't a set width, and posts would just be however wide your window was. They looked wider for me because I usually browse full-screen on a wide monitor. If I happened to resize the window, the forum would resize with it. Now, the forum seems to be a set width instead, so it looks *narrower* to some but *wider* to others.

I prefer the free-form width, but I suppose they felt they had to make it static to have it match the background image.

Z.

Yeah, def a set width now. Much narrower for me.

I just realised I can ad block the background image so I don't mind anymore

I still prefer the original design. Also, I don't like the fact the picture of KT in the background suddenly stops after a few messages, leaving us with nothing. Just have nothing I say, or at least a continual fancy design.

Saying that, I do like the width of it, it seems to read easier.

Where has the View New Posts gone?
Also you can't tell which page you are on because they are all white.

I like that the posts are narrower, and black and purple is nice

I generally like the new design, but the user's name next to their post seems to be a bit small... also, there's no way to tell what page you're on in a multi-page thread.

It's a real drag that James isn't around still - it doesn't look like we have a 'direct line' (so to speak) to someone who can make changes to font colours/re-add Ask Meggles etc. any more!