THE FORUM UPGRADE

Whoa, this new look is gonna take same gettin' used to!

It's Loud!

It looks good, Rich.  Works fine on my laptop.

Cool(ish)

All I can say is WOW! Don't know how it looks on a computer but it's great on my Google nexus 7 tablet. Rich, thanks for the upgrade

WOW, if this is the "upgrade", I'm not impressed!

The width is compressed and the forum list runs for pages and pages!  This sure doesn't look "adaptive" to me, at least on desktop displays!

Look at the massive wite space, everything is squished into the center of the screen!

Apparently, the forum thinks I'm on a very skinny screen!

WHOA! I want to update my cool(ish) to dissapointed after seeing it on my dev machine with a large monitor... 30% whitespace.

It does work ok on a tablet or phone.

Nicer Avatars of people.

Alibatwomble posted:

I thought it my computer upgrade to windows 10 that caused the formate to change , looks like 200% zoom in & all squshed to the left of my screen & large white area on the right.

James

James, just a thought but since you are in win 10 go to Desktop --> Display Options and make sure the first setting sets the font to 100%... 

Ted

 The jury still out I'm trying to get used to it whenever there are big changes like this take some time to get used to 

It's all wright, I will have to get use to just like when i got window's 10 that took a wile , if you want to fill your screen just up your setting to 125 my 32'' is full

Any chance for a black background option for desk tops?

Well, this is one of many web upgrades I've seen over the years (work and play), and very few users over those years have initially liked the upgrade.  This one is no different.  Like all the other upgrades I assume I will get used to it over time.  

What I will miss is the ability to run the curser over the generic Avatar in "Recent Posts" to see who did the post.  I used that function all the time because it allowed me to skip over posts from members whose posts never interested me.

Tough on the eyes to see where one post ends and the next one begins.  Some shading on alternating post is definately needed.

So far, not so good. I will need to look at it using other browsers.

Not all bad, I do like the fonts, colors and  white space

Well, it better than Lionel's...

It was a shock to the eyeballs after looking at the old format earlier today.  Looks like the spellchecker doesn't work on Firefox, either.  Got 3-1/2" of empty white space on both sides of my monitor.

Thumbs sideways until I drive it around a little.

Doesn't seem to be a way to jump from forum to forum without going through the directory.

Rusty

Bob Rumer posted:

My mom always told me, if I don't have anything nice to say remain quiet.

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And that, Bob, would be doing the the folks at OGR a HUGE disservice in this case!

But to play by your Mom's rules... I will say something nice.  On an iPad, it does appear that we now only need to click on thread titles ONCE to get to that thread.  But if it takes this forum upgrade to deliver that feature, I'll gladly roll back to the former version of software where we needed to click on thread names twice (on mobile devices).

And now that we're on the topic of iPads... I'm noticing a slight DELAY when I swipe my finger over the screen to scroll up/down.  Not a long delay, but enough to be noticable.  Yet when I switch to another tab in the same browser instance, it scrolls just fine.  Just the hoopla OGR Forum tab encounters this sluggishness while swiping.  Very annoying.

David

Itll take some getting used to

Mr. Melvin,

Does the Hoop.la platform allow adjustments that could make the new forum look a bit more like the old forum? At the least a little more contrast between the background and the substance?

Thanks,

I agree with the foregoing "less than pleased" comments. Big problems:
----The type should be black, not blue. ---Too much open white space, and everything takes up way too much room. ---Takes much longer to go through the contents. ---It's hard on the eyes. ---Oh, and the editing function is screwed up so your changes are not properly reflected in the revised version.

-- Overall much more difficult to use, tiring on the eyes, and plain irritating.

I think it looks good. ����

Now i think it looks weird but I'll get used to it. My real question is this, how would everybody be reacting if this is how it looked since day one and the upgrade made it look the way it used to? Curmudgeny ol train guys just dont like change.

More importantily, whta heppanrd too the speel chekc

This maybe an improvement for smaller screen phone users but a BIG loss to us pc/laptop users!! 

I'm using the iPad.

There are a few things I like - the add reply box at the bottom of the screen and the take action drop down using words instead of confusing icons. 

Things I don't like - too much white space, lack of contrast between the white and the light blue/gray blocks, and the way everything kind of runs together. 

I'm confidant Rich will read our comments and continue to work with hoopla to see what can be done. The last thing he wants is for members to be upset and leave the forum - if members exit, advertisers and their dollars will likely follow.

The whitespace on the laptop will take a little adjusting to, but the upgrade is a big improvement when viewed on an iPhone. From a style perspective, I like the new cleanliness.

I don't like it either, but I'm willing to give them some time to change things to make it readable, like the colors, font size, spacing, etc. I now have to page down 4 times just to get past all the stickied topics. I get all the advertising, but I never have understood all the stickies appearing on every forum.

And the signitures are not working properly?

I love how you can reply now!  The box at the bottom of the page "add reply" is cool.  I don't mind the colors or the fonts.  The width and the content in the center of the page should be an easy fix in the CSS.  

I don't like it at all.  Too much white space. Too spread out. Too hard to scan topics for what's of interest.  Between the topic title and the page numbers there are 3 lines of data that I question the need for,  especially right in your face.