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LeTiss
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Do new posts appear on the homepage? - that looks empty
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LeTiss
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Any additional swear filters for me to try and avoid?
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to75ne
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in my opinion this is a downgrade but having said that its the content that matters not the image.

bit of a shame really, A for effort but a F for outcome, just like when the enhanced ladder screen was upgraded, resulted in a backward step, a solution to a non problem.
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LeTiss
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I suppose it's a question of familiarity - It's like asking a right hander to have a wank with his left

Not a lover of the new design at present, but I'm sure everyone will get used to it
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workpeter
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I view website on mobile.

Agree the scrolling is annoying.
Would be good if I could see 8 active topics without scrolling.currently I have to scroll down then I can only see 4 in my screen.
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LeTiss
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No longer able to view topics unless logged in?
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ShaunWhite
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Sorry but it's a rant:

I know these things happen, but what a terrible layout! What's the ideal viewing device...a watch ffs? This always happens when you code for a tiny tiny tiny mobile screens and then view it on a pc . Even at 200% zoom, granted it's on a 2560x1440 its sooooooo gappy.

Why is it so difficult to have a pc version and a mobile version?
There is so much empty space

The old version was fast and looked and worked fine! Who's benefiting from this new look? Probably people playing on their phones on the train. Who doesn't trade on a decent sized screen? and if you're not trading then reading the forum doesn't need to be slick and high speed.
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ShaunWhite
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You say a key objective was to make it easier to access key elements.

Can you give us a clue where those new features are hiding? They might make up for some of the aclimatisation issues.
steven1976
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I dont like on the mobile version not being able to see the last post from the home screen.
Online version seems nice and clean though
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ShaunWhite
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Right Shaun, deep breath, calm down.....I've gone from being a hater to trying to be a helper......

Reading up on phpBB, I see you CAN have different styles for different types of device, this becomes possible when you use a mod (see ** below) :D
If you make .forum-block {width} a bit small on non-mobile and I think it would look miles better.

Isn't this just a matter of choosing a nice style that's appropriate for each device type and all our (well, 'my') moaning will be over?
They also have 100's of styles much nicer than this huge expanse of white. It's just a bit 'version 1.0'... I'm sure we can get there.

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phpBB Resolution Width
This Mod Adjusts the width of the classes using CSS3. Depending on the resolution of your screen, the post profile widths are adjusted for optimal view.
The resolution stylesheets can be used to adjust the width of your sidebar menus and forum blocks also.

When viewing the viewtopic page the profile section gets very wide with a 1920x1080 resolution.
This little addition will control the widths in all of the different resolutions.

Now, if you have a sidebar menu in your style the menu can get very large also.
If you have a sidebar menu with a class="sidebar-block" and the forum section next to it has a class="forum-block"... with classes in your common.css as .sidebar-block { width: 20%; } and .forum-block { width: 80%; } then you can add these classes to each one of the resolution stylesheets to control their widths.
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to75ne
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LeTiss wrote:
Sun Feb 12, 2017 11:08 pm
I suppose it's a question of familiarity - It's like asking a right hander to have a wank with his lef
:lol:
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EyePeaSea
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I like it. My browsing is 90/10 (PC -v- phone). It looks much nicer than before on both types of display. In design terms (readability wise), and only in my opinion, *white-space is your friend. Although I can understand peoples irritation about more scrolling.

But for me - definitely a thumbs-up. 8-)

Just one thing - the FavIcon. I know that it is the BA logo, but it's so 1990's. Perhaps that can be upgraded as well?

Ian

* In an attempt to back up my opinion, I searched high and low for reference material to support my assertion that white space is good. Ok, well, the first result in Google... We've all heard of the Gonzaga University and they have something to say on the matter:
http://www.gonzaga.edu/academics/colleg ... WR/IDR.asp
Bluesky
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ShaunWhite wrote:
Mon Feb 13, 2017 1:57 am
Sorry but it's a rant:

I know these things happen, but what a terrible layout! What's the ideal viewing device...a watch ffs? This always happens when you code for a tiny tiny tiny mobile screens and then view it on a pc . Even at 200% zoom, granted it's on a 2560x1440 its sooooooo gappy.

Why is it so difficult to have a pc version and a mobile version?
There is so much empty space

The old version was fast and looked and worked fine! Who's benefiting from this new look? Probably people playing on their phones on the train. Who doesn't trade on a decent sized screen? and if you're not trading then reading the forum doesn't need to be slick and high speed.
I know it takes time to get used to a new design, but Shaun has posted exactly how I feel about it. When I logged in last night and saw it I though it was just a temporary thing and the proper version would be on this morning. Unfortunately all this white space does seem to be the proper version.
foxwood
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LeTiss wrote:
Sun Feb 12, 2017 11:08 pm
I suppose it's a question of familiarity - It's like asking a right hander to have a wank with his left
So, so need a Like button :lol:

Bit cumbersome with too much white space but at least that's free exercise courtesy of BA - it's the info and exchange of trading thoughts that counts !
foxwood
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The "New Posts" summary shows the last post date but doesn't show the original thread start date which the old version used to do.

Found that quite useful to avoid getting sucked into the start of threads I'd forgotten about instead of just opening the end of the thread to see the latest comments,
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