Jan. 3rd 2019 Upgrade Master Thread
 

Hi everyone. As you've no doubt noticed, the site has a new look. Please use this thread to report any problems you find. Try to include screenshots of the problem as much as possible.

The first thing you'll probably notice is Infinite Scroll. If you would like to disable that feature, go here: https://forum.dvdtalk.com/profile.php?do=editoptions

Check "Disable Infinite Scroll", then hit "Save" at the bottom of the page.

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Why does the table not fill the frame anymore? Lots of white space down the right side.

https://i.imgur.com/EZKImn6.jpg

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That's where ads are displayed.

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I'm having the same issue with my 27" monitor except it's like half screen is white. Also it appears that the only affected forum is the Video game Talk. All of the other forums are normal.

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Okay, I solved the problem. My "Quick Style Chooser" was set to DVDTalk Mobile. I switched to DVDTalk NG and everything is normal now.

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Yes. Click the "Hamburger Menu" in the top left. In that menu, you should see "View Full Site".

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no offense, but this looks horrible. it looks amateurish and bad now. so much white space. i thought something happened. this is really a terrible layout sorry to say. we struggled for members for so long, this ain't gonna help new comers...

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I'm curious about the new "user is online/offline" thing. I tend to leave the site open in a tab. Does that mean I'm showing up as online, even if I've long since wandered off to make tuna sandwich?

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Yeah, sorry, but I have to agree. Even with ads, all the white space isn't filled up and it just looks plain BAD.

Also, there's some issues on the top of the screen, by the user icon here:
https://i.postimg.cc/rFB6k4rK/Screen...2-22-13-PM.png
There's a pull down menu that is invisible unless you hover over it:
https://i.postimg.cc/XJzHgMKp/Screen...2-22-16-PM.png

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The mobile site looks slick! I like it. I haven’t had the chance to see it in a browser yet, but it’s definitely easier to navigate on my iPhone

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Yeah, I'm not really feeling it, and now there are ads between posts even when I'm logged in?

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Thank you. That fixed the weird looking formatting.

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Where's this "quick style chooser" option? Can't seem to find it in the user CP.

Also, twitter embeds don't seem to work like they used to.

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Scroll to the bottom of any page/thread. Look for the drop down menu in the lower left corner.

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The chooser is on the left side of the wide (i.e. full width) blue bar, just up from the bottom of the page.

Is there any way to enable pages within threads, like the old software?

As it is, I go to the first unread post, and as long as I keep scrolling up, I'll get to the beginning of the thread.

I suppose I would get used to it, but it's pretty strange.

Actually, not the beginning, but more than the current page. It loads more as I'm scrolling up.

And, yes, I agree with others, there is too much white space.

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I agree that there's way too much white space - and I'm seeing that on my notebook with a lower resolution.
I'm sure it's going to look worse on my monitor.

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Youtube links aren't embedding video, or even showing the link.

For an example, check out the most recent posts on this thread:
https://forum.dvdtalk.com/movie-talk...railers-3.html

Older posts that use the yt tags seem to work, but other forms of embedding aren't working, like this:
And if it's just a link, like
The embedded video doesn't show up, but neither does the link.

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Whatever happened to combining the DVD/HD sections into a "Software" section?

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Switching to Mobile on desktop got rid of the white space. Not sure if it has any other effect.
I guess the goal nowadays is targeting mobile users?

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They turned off HTML embedding a recently. See this thread on how to post those:

Fix Twitter Embedding

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HTML is turned off, so those won't work. But thank you for the note about the links. I'll get tech on that.

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:up: I agree, good improvement to the mobile site! Outside of the ad formatting issues, I think the desktop site looks cleaner too.

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OK, I see you used the YT tags. Other videos/links are not appearing, however and I have asked tech to fix.

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I'm not feeling it at all... Too much "white space" - I miss the header info - I don't like the drop down mini-menu that shows up only when you scroll up - Don't care for the WYSIWYG editor.

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The site looks nice and clean, but I sorta don’t care for how small the text is when replying now. I can still read it but it was easier before.

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The white space at the top and sides are definitely weird. I don't even use any ad blocking and see a few ads followed by tons of white space. I'd rather have everything be centered somehow.

I have the same issue joeblow mentioned earlier with the invisible link to my user name on the top right as well, with just a picture showing.

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Horrible. I especially love when an add pops while reading a thread and pushes everything up and off the screen then I have to go scroll and find where I once was. I guess this is the last gasp of DVDtalk.

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3-column looks good for the main website, but I'd recommend the forum section go to a 2-column format. Menus are better, quicker navigation, etc I'm assuming somebody did a very much needed database dump.

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Many reviews don't seem to show up. You get the menus and the top of the screen but the reviews themselves are blank. Maybe it's just me, but I've noticed this for the DePalma & DeNiro review and the old Waterworld review and several others listed under Latest/Newest Reviews...

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Post a picture of that. That doesn't sound like what I am seeing at all. I think it looks a lot better on he mobile view than it did prior.

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I don't mind it, but the biggest issue for me is on mobile. I liked the clickdown box that would take you to the individual subforums. I don't see that anymore, so it appears to be multiple steps to get to another subforum. :/

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It does seem that many of our complaints are specific to the full site option. I was reading this thread on my phone, and it had defaulted to mobile view. I didn't see all the white space issues or ads showing up within threads, but then I switched to the full site view ...

Now everything does look a mess. Lots of awkward empty space on the right, a clunky looking top bar, and an ad that sprang up between posts. The mobile site is definitely improved, but now I don't quite like either view. I'm sure I'll get used to it.

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The only thing bothering me is the big white bar on right hand side. If you can get that to go away, I'd be happy.

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Honestly, the site looks like a mess and the reason is because the update made the forum more ad friendly instead of user friendly. I don't mind ads on the side, top and bottom of the screen but I do mind the ads between the posts. Made everything harder to read and follow. At the end of the day, I don't see how this "update" improves anything and brings more users to this site.

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Do you mean this? This screenshot is from Google Chrome on iOS.

https://i.postimg.cc/d71TDqZM/593229...B379-C2-C6.jpg

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On mobile, it used to be a box. You click it to open and then can pick which subforum, with all of them listed. What you are showing is another way of doing it, but requires you to either know, or trial by error, where the subforum is you are looking for.

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Some of the sections like Streaming Talk and Video Game Talk only go halfway across the screen.

https://i.imgur.com/LBDY1JCl.png

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Not a fan of the way it looks. What happened to the mobile
site for phones and tablets?