davidh777

The Cow

Yowsa! I just tried IE11 and yeah, can't hardly tell what's going on. That's a wreck.

Norm de Plume

It's unusable on Mozilla as well. Opera seems fine so far.

The Cow

Boooo... The "Panic" button is gone. But the settings for it remain in the User CP. I used this all the time as my "New Posts" button and set it so the URL Jump didn't include the politics forum. BIG bummer.

The Questyen

I just tried editing a post and none of the buttons work once you get into it. I edited and then tried to save and the button does nothing. Same with cancel, go advanced, or delete.

Trevor

The panic button was a great tool.

GoldenJCJ

The forum looks clunky as shit now. The vast majority of time I spend here is done through my phone but I still use the “Full site” option. It looks like I’m going to have to get used to using the mobile site because this full site looks like ass. I’ll give it a few days to see if I can get used to it but if I don’t, I can see myself spending less and less time here.

dsa_shea

This new update sucks. The old format was really easy to use and slick enough that I would tell people about this site.

BobO'Link

I use Firefox 99% of the time with the rest split between IE and Edge (for specific sites I need at work). The site is partially broken with FF - the headers are completely missing (as shown in BigDave's post above - although the videogame section has always looked a bit different). It looks the same in Edge as it does with FF and is completely unusable with IE (though why anyone would use that browser unless absolutely required is a mystery).

I checked it on a chromebook I have for work testing. It looks the same as on FF but is glitchy and laggy. Scrolling the page is partially unresponsive, the parts that remain stationary (header for a minute and the side ad(s)) drag things down (I use uMatrix on FF and don't let any of that useless JAVA crap run so don't see those - just a huge white expanse).

The reviews section is almost completely broken. Links to reviews work but I've yet to find one that actually loads the review text.

Did anyone actually test this layout/design with *real* users? You know... people like us who don't design sites for a living (IMHO most of those folks have little idea about what makes good design sense and usability). The new design smacks of "Hey! Look what we can do! I bet people will love it!" crap so common in "modern" sites.

PLEASE - roll this "update" back to the prior design. It was usable and functional.

Gobear

I'm using Chrome,and the forum has become unusable. i'm done posting here.

dsa_shea

They have to do something before established users at this site pack up and leave. Just roll it back.

Trevor

How they heck does something this big not go through thorough testing with existing users?

DJariya

It's not broken for me on Chrome. But, I'm not a fan of making the pages scroll all the way back to the 1st page. If it's a really long thread, it makes posting tedious.

Mabuse

Mabuse

Norm de Plume

I agree, the new format sucks, but to be fair, many members regularly complained about the previous one.

candyrocket786

Roll back the update. Don't care for this new format.

b2net

I mostly use mobile. I can barely read a reply (small font). Can't tell which sections have new content. If it takes me longer to find content or view content, I will come here less. Most times I only have a few minutes to browse and this new format takes longer and is more difficult to find what I want to read.

Tom Banjo

People posting about white space on the right, do you have ad blocking? Cuz I’m getting ads over there. I’m using the iPad Chrome app which doesn’t have an ad block option.

kd5

On my laptop, 15.4" WS LCD, 1366 x 768, 2.5" of white space over to the right with everything scrunched over to the left, the header looks ridiculous.

A lot of people use their home computers to access this site, you CAN'T leave them behind, they'll just stop coming here.

Still looks dumb as shit, you're already losing users.

LorenzoL

Noonan

VinVega

In some ways you can never win. How long were people complaining "Update your site, you are so behind the times!," then the site is updated and people are saying, "The old site was the best, why did you update it?!"

I'm going to let it grow on me a bit. If you're worried about the panic button, Alt-tab does just as good a job if you're going to get found out by the boss. I'd like the font to be a little bigger on the post typing screen. This old bastard has trouble seeing small things these days (no dick jokes please).

Sonny Corinthos

Yeah, between the ads between posts and on the side, there's way too much going on. It's a huge step backwards for the site.

Noonan

Agreed; however there is a difference between upgrading the forum software and plastering adds everywhere for logged in members. I haven't tried yet but does logging out show even more? Or is member/non member experience the same now?