Thanks very much for the feedback so far, and keep it coming. There are (and will continually be) too many posts for us to individually reply to each one so for now I'll just address a few key issues.
1) Using the desktop skin on mobiles/tablets
We'll take a look into the issues with scrolling and being able to view the full width of the page.
For now please use our mobile version of the forums.
2) Navigating the forums
Some users aren't seeing the 'Home > Forums > General Discussion Forums > General Discussion > Forum design feedback' bit at the top that is used to navigate back to the forum listings.
We'll look into this as a matter of urgency in the morning
2) Design looking different to other users
Unfortunately some users are still seeing an old version of the HTML used to render the page. This will cause the forums to look malformed for a while until the cache on both your browser and our servers update. Hopefully this will have happened by the morning, but to get it sooner click here.
With such a large, busy, forum, it is hard to please everyone. Our old design had barely changed since the early 2000s and was showing its age. We believe, with a few tweaks, that we'll have a much better forum and we hope with time that it'll win you all over.
Saying that, there has been some valuable feedback posted here and we'll look into it all starting tomorrow morning.
with the new smilies, the blurred icons. the morbindly obese bar at t he top....i am remembering with fondness the level of shit it was a few hours ago....who knew it could get shitter?
how shit can it get?
I shall improve the design I'm working on and post it again, unless I get banned and then well, if they're really that attached to their new design that they ban members for making it readable then so be it
Cheers, I have made a note of your use name to search for tomorrow. Assuming the search facility isn't ****ed up.
I've seen some incompetent IT crap in my time but this is quite special.
Pretty much sums it up.
If
you
post
like
this
people
can
read
it
all
you
just
need
to
get
used
to
doing
it
and
who
are
these
new
imposter
smileys?
is
there
an
influx
of
ten
year
olds
expected ?
Probably someone has mentioned this earlier (there is no way I could possibly read the 70 odd pages of these abrasive and eye watering painful colours) but can you imagine trying to keep up with a fast moving forum like the X-Factor. My eyes would be streaming and I'd have such a headache trying to keep up
Thanks very much for the feedback so far, and keep it coming. There are (and will continually be) too many posts for us to individually reply to each one so for now I'll just address a few key issues.
1) Using the desktop skin on mobiles/tablets
We'll take a look into the issues with scrolling and being able to view the full width of the page.
For now please use our mobile version of the forums.
2) Navigating the forums
Some users aren't seeing the 'Home > Forums > General Discussion Forums > General Discussion > Forum design feedback' bit at the top that is used to navigate back to the forum listings.
Please correct me if I'm wrong but this appears to only affect mobile browsers and those using Safari with adblock enabled?
Use our mobile style on mobiles/tablets or try disabling adblock until we've sorted out the issue.
3) Design looking different to other users
Unfortunately some users are still seeing an old version of the HTML used to render the page. This will cause the forums to look malformed for a while until the cache on both your browser and our servers update. Hopefully this will have happened by the morning, but to get it sooner click here.
With such a large, busy, forum, it is hard to please everyone. Our old design had barely changed since the early 2000s and was showing its age. We believe, with a few tweaks, that we'll have a much better forum and we hope with time that it'll win you all over.
Saying that, there has been some valuable feedback posted here and we'll look into it all starting tomorrow morning.
For now....new smilies!
Can you please, please change back the 'unread posts' image next to the thread titles to the 'clean looking' circles. These ones you've put in now makes the design look pants and clunky.
At least the circles fitted in with the current design.
Also, yes, I'm using Safari with AdBlock and cannot see the breadcrumbs. I think Chrome users are having the problem too.
Oh no, now they've even finished all the dear old smileys off!
Digital Spy, right now I hate this site and everything about it. After 7 years and over 30, 000 posts it's come to this. (And I'll never use those stupid new smileys).
Thanks very much for the feedback so far, and keep it coming. There are (and will continually be) too many posts for us to individually reply to each one so for now I'll just address a few key issues.
1) Using the desktop skin on mobiles/tablets
We'll take a look into the issues with scrolling and being able to view the full width of the page.
For now please use our mobile version of the forums.
2) Navigating the forums
Some users aren't seeing the 'Home > Forums > General Discussion Forums > General Discussion > Forum design feedback' bit at the top that is used to navigate back to the forum listings.
Please correct me if I'm wrong but this appears to only affect mobile browsers and those using Safari with adblock enabled?
Use our mobile style on mobiles/tablets or try disabling adblock until we've sorted out the issue.
3) Design looking different to other users
Unfortunately some users are still seeing an old version of the HTML used to render the page. This will cause the forums to look malformed for a while until the cache on both your browser and our servers update. Hopefully this will have happened by the morning, but to get it sooner click here.
With such a large, busy, forum, it is hard to please everyone. Our old design had barely changed since the early 2000s and was showing its age. We believe, with a few tweaks, that we'll have a much better forum and we hope with time that it'll win you all over.
Saying that, there has been some valuable feedback posted here and we'll look into it all starting tomorrow morning.
Dear god this is dreadful. Its like a teacher set up a dummy site to show student web developers what not to do when designing a site redesign. What I can see immediately (and without delving too deeply);
1. Horrid mishmash of old and new. DO NOT LAUNCH A NEW SITE DESIGN UNTIL IT IS COMPLETE MORONS!
2. Boxes with black backgrounds and dark grey text. Do you have a specific reason why you don't want me to read this information?
3. Header with a strangely pointless amount of unnecessary white space. Is there some reason you think this blank nothingness is more important than the actual content?
4. Odd text alignment issues. What's with the post number being directly in contact with the edge of the post header? It looks like the site is broken.
5. Mismatched fonts. Why are the post fonts different to the font we type in the reply box? Moreso, why is the font in the reply box the one from MS-DOS 6?
I could go on indefinitely. Whomever ok'd this live switchover should be pulled up on a disciplinary. This is shockingly amateur. I've seen amateur websites do a better job than this.
2) Navigating the forums
Some users aren't seeing the 'Home > Forums > General Discussion Forums > General Discussion > Forum design feedback' bit at the top that is used to navigate back to the forum listings.
Please correct me if I'm wrong but this appears to only affect mobile browsers and those using Safari with adblock enabled?
NO its happening on laptops on chrome firefox safari whether you use adblock or not or haven't you bothered to read the 2000 odd posts saying this????
Pretty much sums it up.
If
you
post
like
this
people
can
read
it
all
you
just
need
to
get
used
to
doing
it
and
who
are
these
new
imposter
smileys?
is
there
an
influx
of
ten
year
olds
expected ?
Comments
Trust that sarcastic bugger to still show his face!
I miss the green one, that was my favourite!
Thanks very much for the feedback so far, and keep it coming. There are (and will continually be) too many posts for us to individually reply to each one so for now I'll just address a few key issues.
1) Using the desktop skin on mobiles/tablets
We'll take a look into the issues with scrolling and being able to view the full width of the page.
For now please use our mobile version of the forums.
2) Navigating the forums
Some users aren't seeing the 'Home > Forums > General Discussion Forums > General Discussion > Forum design feedback' bit at the top that is used to navigate back to the forum listings.
We'll look into this as a matter of urgency in the morning
2) Design looking different to other users
Unfortunately some users are still seeing an old version of the HTML used to render the page. This will cause the forums to look malformed for a while until the cache on both your browser and our servers update. Hopefully this will have happened by the morning, but to get it sooner click here.
With such a large, busy, forum, it is hard to please everyone. Our old design had barely changed since the early 2000s and was showing its age. We believe, with a few tweaks, that we'll have a much better forum and we hope with time that it'll win you all over.
Saying that, there has been some valuable feedback posted here and we'll look into it all starting tomorrow morning.
For now....new smilies!
That was supposed to be an embarrassed smiley btw.
how shit can it get?
Pretty much sums it up.
If
you
post
like
this
people
can
read
it
all
you
just
need
to
get
used
to
doing
it
and
who
are
these
new
imposter
smileys?
is
there
an
influx
of
ten
year
olds
expected ?
My thoughts as well about the header.
Can you please, please change back the 'unread posts' image next to the thread titles to the 'clean looking' circles. These ones you've put in now makes the design look pants and clunky.
At least the circles fitted in with the current design.
Also, yes, I'm using Safari with AdBlock and cannot see the breadcrumbs. I think Chrome users are having the problem too.
The one smilie all users profess to hate remains :rolleyes:
WTF is this ---->
That will never be used on DS!
Digital Spy, right now I hate this site and everything about it. After 7 years and over 30, 000 posts it's come to this. (And I'll never use those stupid new smileys).
IT IS CRAP of the highest order!!!!!
:rolleyes:
I have to use :rolleyes: because it's all I have left.
I'm using Chrome.
1. Horrid mishmash of old and new. DO NOT LAUNCH A NEW SITE DESIGN UNTIL IT IS COMPLETE MORONS!
2. Boxes with black backgrounds and dark grey text. Do you have a specific reason why you don't want me to read this information?
3. Header with a strangely pointless amount of unnecessary white space. Is there some reason you think this blank nothingness is more important than the actual content?
4. Odd text alignment issues. What's with the post number being directly in contact with the edge of the post header? It looks like the site is broken.
5. Mismatched fonts. Why are the post fonts different to the font we type in the reply box? Moreso, why is the font in the reply box the one from MS-DOS 6?
I could go on indefinitely. Whomever ok'd this live switchover should be pulled up on a disciplinary. This is shockingly amateur. I've seen amateur websites do a better job than this.
Is he high blood pressure smiley?
Ay up, you changed him from red. So you don't know what they all mean either? (insert smiley because I can't)
The screen resolution of my tablet is 1280 x 768.
NO its happening on laptops on chrome firefox safari whether you use adblock or not or haven't you bothered to read the 2000 odd posts saying this????
Home >Forums>TV>Shows> how can I....
Where has that feature gone, sometimes I forget what section of the thread i'm on, please can we have that back,
Anyone agree,
http://xkcdsw.com/dump/20110706-ds-sshot.png
actually, i will say something - the smilies are shite!