Forum Upgrade

The new division between posts, i.e. the fat dark grey bar across the page, looks terrible. My brain is getting all irritated from looking at so many fat grey bars following one another, dominating the thread or is it a dominating threat? Hmmm. Too much bad design to take for my eyes. Can we please go back to the previous format? While not perfect, it was certainly better than the current derangement. 

TA

Darke Bear posted:

J.N. posted:

... I really like the new forum format. It's much easier to read on my field telephone too.

Perhaps we should have a different format every week.

DB.

All personal choice of course, but I'm not keen.  Harder to read then before and while the layout is minimalist there seems to me to be too much wasted space.  But personal opinion

A lot of what people write is pointless, so it has a good home in the wasted space. The new forum seems fine to me, I don't see what the fuss is about. 

How many folk singers does it take to change a light bulb? One to change the bulb and six to sing about how good the old one was. 

Hungryhalibut posted:

How many folk singers does it take to change a light bulb? One to change the bulb and six to sing about how good the old one was. 

I was going to guess six folksingers - one to change the bulb, and five to complain that it's electric. 

Either way, the point is well taken.

Hmack posted:

A thumbs up from me in favour of the changes you have made to the forum in response to earlier posts. A great improvement, and now back to something close to the usability of the old format.

Thanks for listening, and for using your influence to push the changes through.  

 I also think Hoopla and Naim have been very responsive to users' concerns and should be commended. Many "bugs" addressed and a much more friendly and readable format than existed on day one of the change. Ten+ days in its a better place. Two minor quibbles remain on my part; 1) I still feel the need to reduce the zoom 20% on my PC relative to other sites, and 2) the maximum size of embedded images allowed is larger than really necessary.

Not sure I wholly agree the folk singers analogy.  Just occasionally, old versions are better than new.  Look at Manchester United managers for a start!! Or covers of Fleetwood Mac, Bob Dylan, The Beatles etc which are almost invariably worse than the originals

The green seems very John Lewis. So we can all roll out the old "matches my wellies", "same colour as the Range Rover" jokes

Seems all right now. Not perfect but better. Good enough.

Why cant you guys at Naim use the same Ubb system as everyove else?

The new look/function is even worse than the previous verson. 

Naim can't do that without losing all past posts - many years of knowledge, history and useful information.. 

Oh, i didnt thought about that. Btw, the search function er great. 

Harry posted:

Seems all right now. Not perfect but better. Good enough.

Yep. I agree.  Seen some worthwhile improvements over the past few days showing that the guys at Naim/Hoopla are listening to feedback.  Well done.

Mike

For some reason, even though I've activated the 'Follow content' options in my profile, I don't receive notifications when a new post is added to a thread I'm following. What am I doing wrong? (and my email address is OK).

Apologies if this is a stupid question. Have you checked your junk mail?

HI Harry, yes I have, and no notifications there either.

OK, found it. I had not activated 'Email me..' under 'Notification settings'. It's not enough to 'Follow content'.

Thanks Harry, you got me on the right track.

Jan

Glad you kicked it into life. Now watch your inbox start overflowing....

+1 on the in-box overflowing.    I tried it & its something you very soon get tired of,  its same with getting alerts for "liking"  & such like.   I get enough garbage with e-mails & don't want more time wasting just to trash'um.    

I see what you mean. The solution is to untick 'Follow content when you comment / reply'.

If there was a "dislike" function I'd follow it.

Just kidding.

RodaSmith has mentioned in another thread that when posts incorporate "nested" text, and particularly when the nesting gets "deep" eg 3 or 4 nests within the post, he has difficulty reading them on his ipad or iphone or whatever device he is using, as they come out in a single character vertical line.

I appreciate we could avoid "nesting" but then some people complain their text has been taken out of context if it's been "cut & Pasted"

Is this a device problem or a Hoopla problem ?

Don, paring down quotations is always fraught with hazards and difficulties - the old forum just as much, maybe even more than the new one. 

Best policy with quotations is to limit their use to instances where it is deemed most necessary.  Most of the time there's really no need for quotes because the responses being quoted are still so fresh.  

The "look" is about as good as we can get it (within the constraints of the platform) for now...

Thanks Richard. We live in a dangerous world Forum

Hi Chris

You can use any browser on any platform to access the forum. There are no system requirements.

But right now, and only since late yesterday evening in the UK, there is a bug which means that if you try to go to a room on the forum from the main menu, you get taken to a "this forum has been deleted" page.  No doubt this will get fixed soon.

What is the problem that stops your forum experience being meaningful? Maybe someone here can help. Most of the original complaints about the new forum post-upgrade have been fixed.

best

David