Forum Upgrade

The album covers on the "What are you listening to and why..." thread appear way too large, it's ridiculous!

Shouldn't this *upgrade* be under "Best Jokes"? It's an abomination and the last straw for me. I've had it with Naim ; I'm dumping all my green and black boxes. See you over on the Devialet forum.

Really?

Of course not.

Is it Groundhog day?

https://forums.naimaudio.com/to...messing-up-the-forum

Quite a new look!  Nice upgrade.

totemphile posted:

The album covers on the "What are you listening to and why..." thread appear way too large, it's ridiculous!

It's good! I don't have to wear glasses everytime!

Jan-Erik Nordoen posted:

Is it Groundhog day?

https://forums.naimaudio.com/to...messing-up-the-forum

Very good historical perspective Jan. Fun to read through the old stuff and all those predictions of doom and gloom for the forum.

"One might conclude that Naim actoally want to kill the Forum. and that would indeed be Paul  Stevenson's pre-rogative. But why not simply put it down like some old and kindly pet, rather than going through these painful death throws ...Put it down while the going was good rather than allow this wreck ... don;t watch the struggle, like some desperate old dog trying stoically to breath when the case for life has clearly been lost ... A suitable dose of phenobarbitone would be aweful, but prefereable to this ....."

I think we'll get by and so will the forum. 

Seems to be the audiophile's nature to nitpick, even when the product's free.

The density of information in the new layout is not ideal to say the least. There is so much fluff that you can hardly see anything at all. Pls fix the spacing of the topics, font-size and more importantly kill the duplicate id's in the html. It's unreadable as it is now, pls fix.

totemphile posted:

The album covers on the "What are you listening to and why..." thread appear way too large, it's ridiculous!

Prudent scaling of the album cover can be used rather tastefully as demonstrated below ...

Currently using an iPad mini and I am having to scroll up and down like crazy to see / find anything with only 4 or 5 thread titles visible on screen at a time. As others have commented, old style was too dense but this is way too far the other way. Really struggling with it.

I kind of like this new format.  Of course, many things are different...

Is there a way to filter out the whining?   

Charlie

I'm with Mike-B and others. The fonts and general scaling is a material retrograde step - unless there is a page settings to change (I cannot find - please do advise). I used to be able to quickly scan topics etc - now it involves alot of scrolling.

Presentationally, on a lap-top, the colour contrasting (predominant grey background now more intrusive due to scaling & spacing) isn't to my liking.

I much prefer dense presentation where I can quickly elect a thread/subject than having to scroll down large text presentation.

It's just a bit different, I'm sure I will get used to it.....

I do like the way it is now integrated better into the main Naim website though.

If this thread turns out anything like the one when the old forum changed to the current incarnation, we should be prepared to hang in there for the long run 

An annoying aspect is that when you add a picture it takes you to the top of the page in my iPad and then after inserting the picture you have to scroll down to post.

I think it was better when harder to add pictures

Concerning there is no spell check.

joerand posted:

totemphile posted:

The album covers on the "What are you listening to and why..." thread appear way too large, it's ridiculous!

Prudent scaling of the album cover can be used rather tastefully as demonstrated below ...

Personally I would have preferred the blown up version.

Happy Listener posted:

I'm with Mike-B and others. The fonts and general scaling is a material retrograde step - unless there is a page settings to change (I cannot find - please do advise). I used to be able to quickly scan topics etc - now it involves alot of scrolling.

Presentationally, on a lap-top, the colour contrasting (predominant grey background now more intrusive due to scaling & spacing) isn't to my liking.

I much prefer dense presentation where I can quickly elect a thread/subject than having to scroll down large text presentation.

Agreed. The contrast could be enhanced through better background color selection and elimination of grey fonts. Also, too much screen scrolling; I've compensated by reducing the zoom on my browser here but it's then not commensurate with mainstream web pages on other sites.

I've also noticed the spell correction is inactive.

Bug Report

i am not sure if this is the correct place to report bugs.

issue: scaling / zooming capability becomes disabled on the iPad 

how to reproduce: go to a thread and start to create a new post. Within the edit post window select the special character pop up. Close this pop up. At this point the zooming capability on the forum is page is suspended. The only way to then re-enable zooming functionality is to refresh the forum web page. 

Simon

Seems they're listening to you Simon ...

https://forums.naimaudio.com/topic/new-forum-bugs

Morning, so we are live as planned, please keep all the feedback coming, very useful. I can allready see some mods we can make for quick wins, we will do our best to refine as we go.

Many thanks
Ryan

Spacing and font size please. 

Spent 40 minutes here last night and lost 30% battery juice from iPad ,even with contrast turned right down.

Before upgrade I could spend an hour and only lose maybe 5 % .  Naim Forum could prove to be expensive.

+ 1 - font is enormous on a 21.5 retina iMac, and (imo) far too much empty space.

Also, I just did a "like" to Harry's post above, then clicked the "Reply" next to the Un-like - it did an unlike instead of asking for a Reply as I expected.

...plus when I  clicked "Post Reply" to the previous post it just hung with the "Please Wait" wheel whirring. It did actually post the reply though.