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For one, i've just had to re-register my account so am a little peeved by that right now. Tried to use forgot my password mechanism and it claimed there was no such user! Oh well, back now.

 

About the new layout / theme. The skin looks nice but the typographical choices are abysmal to be perfectly honest. Small font sized emboldened is an usability nightmare imho. If you were to set the fonts to normal instead that would be an improvement for readability / usability issues. Other than that this theme in particular is nicely crafted. Maybe the ads could be more discreet.

 

Nice to have the choice :)

 

Quick edit:

 

Using FF 3.06 bold fonts = fugly.

In IE7 looks better.

Safari good but bold fonts noticeable again.

Opera 9.62 looks good.

 

Also didn't mean to sound harsh if it came over that way :)

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Wow.. The new forum layout is pretty horrible. Sorry, but the old one was so much cleaner, so much tidyer, and frankly looked newer than this does. I'll be sticking to the Insanely Beautiful forum layout thanks.

 

Now to make a Greasemonkey script to revert to the old hompage.

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Here's some bugs I've noticed:

 

- Font is too small on the forum / topic listings.

- There's additional spacing in Safari around the topic names.

- There seems to be an additional space at the beginning of every post.

- When you are in full screen mode, the site seems to re-stretch every time the page loads.

- The EDIT button doesn't work on your existing posts. MAJOR PROBLEM!

- In-post ads should only show for guests, logged-in members shouldn't get them.

- I would personally prefer the blog comments to be oldest at the top / newest at the bottom (in line with the way the forum works)

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Hmmmm... New design looks pretty slick in my opinion. Gonna take some getting used to, though. One thing: site theme is a lot darker than before, and with the light blue, it kinda hurts my eyes. Maybe it's just me. Again, overall, looks nice! :o

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Also pressing the EDIT button for my posts displays a big white window with some html gibberish at the bottom. Also ... do we really need to know how the Apple stock market quotes are doing ? But all in all is a great looking update

 

I just noticed that... Plus, when I was posting, the box where you insert your reply is a little far down. Above it, is this big space of nothing.

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Thanks for all the feedback guys, keep it coming

 

We're aware of the re-stretching issue when going to full-screen - we're already in the process of improving this so that both the fluid width and also selected background load up instantly rather than loading the default setting and then loading the user's settings.

 

Blog comments order - would be interested to hear what anyone else has to say about that - my argument is that newest at the top for the News section would be more in keeping with a blog, but I'm open to suggestions on this!

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Edit and Options buttons broken. Here's what I got clicking on one of them:

 

function () { var B = this[0], C = this[1], J = this[2]; var G, F, H; var I = Math.max(B, C, J), E = Math.min(B, C, J); var K = I - E; H = I / 255; F = I != 0 ? K / I : 0; if (F == 0) { G = 0; } else { var D = (I - B) / K; var A = (I - C) / K; var L = (I - J) / K; if (B == I) { G = L - A; } else { if (C == I) { G = 2 + D - L; } else { G = 4 + A - D; } } G /= 6; if (G < 0) { G++; } } return [Math.round(G * 360), Math.round(F * 100), Math.round(H * 100)]; }

function () { var C = Math.round(this[2] / 100 * 255); if (this[1] == 0) { return [C, C, C]; } else { var A = this[0] % 360; var E = A % 60; var F = Math.round(this[2] * (100 - this[1]) / 10000 * 255); var D = Math.round(this[2] * (6000 - this[1] * E) / 600000 * 255); var B = Math.round(this[2] * (6000 - this[1] * (60 - E)) / 600000 * 255); switch (Math.floor(A / 60)) { case 0: return [C, B, F]; case 1: return [D, C, F]; case 2: return [F, C, B]; case 3: return [F, D, C]; case 4: return [b, F, C]; case 5: return [C, F, D]; default:; } } return false; }

 

 

The ad-space at the top is way too dominant, and the icon images should be reduced because this is eating much screen real estate. Too much in my opinion.

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I see there is now 2 addspaces, one above the InsanelyMac and one just above the forum pages? Luckily for me the second one doesn't show any adds, just a big grey box!! Another messup on the new look!

It kinda like reminds me off the first Smart Car(Mercedes) that came out, it was a great little car but overturned if one went around the corners at speed! This made it great for going in a straight line but hell to turn into the driveway!

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@SticMAC, thanks for the feedback - we've moved that 2nd ad right down to the bottom so we're not taking up quite so much screen real estate up the top

 

@Master Chief, your queries have been addressed, please let me know if you've got any other feedback!

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