I like the idea of having custom user titles, either instead of the DVD Talk rating or above it as an an additional title. Maybe that will be something for the eventual pay site.

yep
i would assume so

I certainly hope we don't ever have the option to set our own titles. Titles are like nicknames. You can't give yourself one; it has to be given to you. Between username, sig, and apparently soon-to-be avatars, that's more than enough for us to express ourselves.

das

I don't have time to read all of this thread, so sorry if this has been covered, but can we please reduce the size of everything (fonts, images, etc.) on the new forum (more to the size of the old forum). The old forum was much smaller and display friendly. This new thing eats up my whole screen, the reply button's and thread icons are huge. The amount of empty space seems like it has doubled. I can change the font size myself but I can't do anything about the image or the whitespace. Now if someone wants to send me a bigger display, now thats a different story...

I don't see how some people can handle it. I run at 1600x1200 with a very narrow browser header bar, and it's too big even for me. Thinking about those at 800x600 gives me a headache. With 100x100 avatars, giant fonts, and poofy buttons, a single line post (without a sig) appears to take about 300 pixels in height! I'm all for everyone expressing themselves and having fun, but I guess I just don't see the need for all that (not to mention all the wasted whitespace) other than the simple novelty of it all.

Don't get me wrong ... I love much of the new functionality, and I appreciate the changes that have been made between when the forum was reborn and today. In the end, the forum will be much better off for the change, and I'm happy for it, but I think there's still some work to be done to make this place user-friendly for everyone.

das

I'm on 800x600 with dial-up.. best of both worlds (turned off avatars immediately).

I would love it if they altered the colors to make them easier to read. The white backgrounds with the light purple links makes for eye strain, atleast for me.

I'm not a big fan of the following forum because since they upgraded the site takes so long for it to load that I no longer visit but I like the color scheme much better.. http://www.thedigitalreview.com/forum/index.php?s= and http://www.thedigitalreview.com/foru...isplay.php?f=2

You know what might help with size issues? Not signing every post you make.

Your name is right next to it, we already know who is writing.

For the record, I don't sign every post I make.

das

Yeah, ya do too. Which is a good thing. Makes it easy to spot forgeries.


(Is that kid saying what I think he’s saying? )

I prefer that color scheme too

Nevermind. You're right.



das

Since it didn't get a reply (yes or no), I'll ask again. Is this something that could be done?

Late last nite [or early this morning, your choice], I typed up the weekly "What DVDs Are You Getting?" poll.

Usually, I hyperlink the poll options with the DVD Talk Amazon.com referral...however, after I had everything formatted, it told me that the options had more than 100 characters and it wouldn't let me post 'em.

Unless there hasn't been an update since the 6th, it appears that it isn't running correctly yet.

I have had countless times that FireFox 1.0 (not pr) has been crashing since the upgrade. I have NOT had any extensions installed since the upgrade to V3. Anybody else have FF 1.0 crash since the upgrade. It NEVER happened previously.

I'd hate to resort to using IE just for this site.

XP Pro SP2

I'm running Firefox 1.0 and I haven't had any problems, for what it's worth.

(It's SUCH a better browser than IE!)

Well, I thought I'd give it a week before posting again. I haven't seen either of these two issues addressed at all. I was hoping these would at least show up on the "Open Issues" on the first page of this thread. I'm sure things are still in flux, I just wanted to get the word out again.

1. The thread title display puts the original poster below the thread title. Before, there was a column for the original poster. Putting the original poster on a line below the thread title makes the whole thread listings cluttered, there is no flow at all. In addition, it adds a lot of extra lines that are unnecessary, you can't see as many thread titles in one page, and it is much more difficult to scan thread titles quickly.

2. The "subscribe to this thread" link is nowhere to be found. I believe the only way to subscribe is if you actually post a message.

The subscribe-to-thread link is hidden in the "Thread Tools" dropdown at the top right of the thread. I sure do miss having a direct subscribe link on the page.

Alright. I can't say I'm too keen on that either, but at least I can subscribe to threads now! Thanks.

Aargh. I automated it in a different way than before and futzed it up. It should be working now. If you see a problem like this, please e-mail me since I check my e-mail more frequently than the 9th or 10th page of a thread like this.

It's back!

Edit: I thought it was back, but for some reason, it only shows up as a link in my old Netscape browser, not in IE. Completely different navigation scheme in Netscape.

maybe I just missed it....but I'm wondering why I can't delete or add anything in my sig? I'm having no other problems except for that. no problems staying logged in or anything, either. btw...I save everything in the sig when updating....but it then goes back to the older sig if I jam out a new post.

Thanks!!

I am trying to update my sig at it is giving me this error when trying to save:

The following errors occurred when this message was submitted:
Your signature can not be longer than 300 characters.

I removed some characters but it still won't rename the URL name. It will only let me update and save the actual URL

My total sig must be wayyyyy over 300 characters, though
Is there a way to count the characters in the sig?

code (for links, color, bold, etc) all count

so if you use [b]twikoff rocks[b] (with a / in the 2nd one)
that would count as 20 (not 13) characters

I've had DVDTalk crash my FireFox 1.0 as well too.