Forum upgrade

[TTM]

I agree about the waste of space. In fact this format change reminds me of what I see pretty much everyday in IT these days - it seems that people deciding on new formats, whatever the application, don't care at all about ergonomics, at the expense of the end user. Sorry if this sounds harsh but this format is honestly useless to me, and it pains me to say that it may have cost something to pcgb, even if I'm not a member.

Whoever has designed this format should be steered cleared from any IT topic right now.

 

[Mike Pink]

This isn't some massive change to a different format Hopefully most of you won't notice any change, but I look forward to seeing you on the other side! []

Nope. Didn't notice a thing! All looks just the same to me.

Ahem....[8|]

Perhaps that was badly phrased....

What I meant was this is just the new version of the old forum, rather than a new platform, so it should work the same but look more up to date. All the functions should be pretty much what we had before, plus some new stuff.

Please be reassured that the same old rubbish set of smilies have been carried across. That's the important thing.

paul

where do I find the button/ link to press for "posts since last logged on"? There seems to be a "today's posts" and unread, but neither quite does the same job.

and it is hard to navigate on iPad.....

the Club website part now offers me a chance to join the club and register my car. Both I did ages ago!! Are we Required to repopulate the club's database?

mike

 

[tscaptain]

Mike, there isn't a "posts since last visit" tab.

Odd about the iPad thing - it alls works fine on my cheap old Nexus 7!

And no, you don't need to repopulate the club's database, as far as I know!

 

[ralphmusic]

I can't find the forum via Tapatalk, will this be possible soon?

There are several threads re "How to use the new forum" - would it be possible to consolidate these into a special Q&A based on all the points?

 

[John Sims]

having read some of the replies here I thought I best check what details are held on my car....I don't recall giving vin numbers etc but there was info there and my memory is very bad these days so it's possible that i did give details...registration was wrong though. So in true modern security fashion i thought it best to remove the critical parts, alas the VIN chassis and reg numbers are mandatory and it wouldn't let me edit the car info without these, however the delete button did work so my only option was to delete my car from the database....sad perhaps although like i said i don't remember giving the details in the first place but in this day and age perhaps the safer thing to do...

Peter

If you click on someone else's profile you will see that their car details aren't listed Peter so the information relative to your car is only visible to you and Club Office/admin.

 

[Mark Elder]

Why are the lines of text

(big gap) so far apart?

Could we please switch back to 1.0 line spacing!

This looks like it's been designed by someone on a screen the size of a desk.

 

[edh]

This is just so bad - I can't quite believe it...

I tried it on my phone first - I often used the old forum on my phone (nexus 5), without too many problems. I'd expect a newer tech board to have a mobile friendly setup, but this is just appalling. When used in portrait mode you can hardly see anything (apart from white space). In landscape it's marginally better.

Must be better on my PC I thought... well just about. 1680x1050 res, small font, 22" screen, and still only a few lines of text displayed.

This will dramatically reduce forum traffic (well it'll increase for TIPEC, Boxa.net, 986uk etc..)

 

[Geoff_Fields]

Why are the lines of text

(big gap) so far apart?

Could we please switch back to 1.0 line spacing!

This looks like it's been designed by someone on a screen the size of a desk.

Line spacing is using up a lot of screen space on my home pc. On my Samsung S6 Edge the effect is far worse, just loads of white space, requiring constant scrolling.

Can anyone see the toolbar on their phones as I can't?

 

[jellytott]

Thanks Pauls, didnt appreciate all this change and changes your having to do now with the new roll out

John

 

[PSH]

Thanks Paul/John...I think I'll leave mine blank, I have become a little more IT savvy over the years, hence why my avatar no longer has my location and why it's the same on my FB account.

Cheers

Pete

 

[pauljmcnulty]

Geoff, the toolbar is different on my android phone as well. Strange, as the android tablet gives the normal tool bar.

On the left should be a "list" icon. All the options and sub-headings are available from this. I imagine it's to fit a portrait layout where there isn't room for all the options on the toolbar but I have pointed it out to the team.

 

[Geoff_Fields]

Thanks, Paul.

 

[PSH]

it seems to me that the visitor count to the forum has dropped significantly since the update.... i wonder if some are doing as I was for the first 24 hours and just refreshing the update page which won't direct them to the new site but give an error message? perhaps a general email sent to members informing them of this may help?

Pete

 

[pauljmcnulty]

it seems to me that the visitor count to the forum has dropped significantly since the update.... i wonder if some are doing as I was for the first 24 hours and just refreshing the update page which won't direct them to the new site but give an error message? perhaps a general email sent to members informing them of this may help?

Pete

I think you're correct, Pete. The email was due to go out early yesterday so I don't know why it's still not happened. [&o]

 

[zcacogp]

I hate to bleat but it's not quite as it used to be. There always will be problems getting the new forum working and everyone on it (I've done a few IT system migrations in my time, oo-arr oo-arr) but the fundamental design of the new forum seems to make poor use of the screen space. The new colours are nice, and it generally looks pretty but just a little ... sparse. (And I'm VERY glad the same old rubbish set of smilies are still going!)

Oli.

 

[PSH]

ahh.. another for you Paul.... i noticed earlier that you had posted after me in this thread but couldn't see your post? I thought it was a glitch...thought the same again when seeing that Oli had also posted until i saw the 'page2' tab... the problem is there's no icon showing multiple pages on the actual thread listing so you have to start at page 1 before going to the last post on whatever page that may be, perhaps the IT guys can sort this out? I also don't like the spacing...it's bad enough on the desktop, it's a nightmare on the phone....

Cheers

Pete

edit: scrub that.. I just found the page 2 tab.. perhaps it could be a little more prominent?

 

[Peter_Bull]

Mike, there isn't a "posts since last visit" tab.

Odd about the iPad thing - it alls works fine on my cheap old Nexus 7!

And no, you don't need to repopulate the club's database, as far as I know!

There is no "posts since last visit" - it now called "unread posts". It's on the pull down menu under Forum on the blue tool bar above.

We can look into what can be done about the wasted space, but as this is an upgraded off the shelf product of the previous version, I feel sure that it will have to be re-coded. The problem with doing that of course is that each time we upgrade we will have to pay again for the re-coding!

 

[Chrishazle]

the problem is there's no icon showing multiple pages on the actual thread listing

There is actually a little orange envelope thing just to the right of the thread title that takes you to "last post visited on this thread". It's VERY small, so took me a while to realise it was there - unlike my other forums that have this facility but make the "envelope" more readily visible (along with a pop-up when you hover your mouse pointer over it).

 

[John Sims]

it seems to me that the visitor count to the forum has dropped significantly since the update.... i wonder if some are doing as I was for the first 24 hours and just refreshing the update page which won't direct them to the new site but give an error message? perhaps a general email sent to members informing them of this may help?

Pete

And I was starting to think I was the only one who had experienced that Peter.

 

[pauljmcnulty]

We can look into what can be done about the wasted space, but as this is an upgraded off the shelf product of the previous version, I feel sure that it will have to be re-coded. The problem with doing that of course is that each time we upgrade we will have to pay again for the re-coding!

Might be a small amount of money well-spent?

Pete, I've looked at the various pages/menus and there are the links to show more than one page on a thread. There is a number on the forum post list that indicates this: for instance this thread has a small number "2" on it. Not instinctive, but it's there.