dream34 wrote:hands11 wrote:The time and date and title of thread are GRAY making it hard to identify. The posters name is in color but I can already see who the poster because is displayed larger to the left so already have that information. Listed it twice isn't needed. And the combination of graying out the information I wont while coloring information I already have which makes reading what I want to see harder.
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Lastly, I would change back to time date stamping vs the today, yesterday and then eventually time date that you did in the last change. The today, yesterday stuff looks kind on interesting on a main forum page with lots of thread but inside a thread, not so much. Part of the problem is that the page needs refreshed for it to be accurate.
I'll look at darkening the post information tomorrow to see how it looks. I think the order and placement of everything else is fine though. The username is listed twice for mobile users who scan down the right column only, so it does have importance. I think the timestamp is more important than the author in this case, which is why they are in that order.
If you don't like the yesterday/today timestamp then you can change it in your preferences.hands11 wrote:Just saw the new plus 1 thing under the thread posts count number.
Not a fan of it. If I go into a thread and read the posts, you can see what posts where and 1 by someone. That is where its useful. To be honest, I pay more attention to what is written, not who writes it. The content and message is whats important over the messenger. We have enough egos and people posturing without give them more fuel to side track conversations.
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Along those lines. The PM was good where it used to be. You PM a user so PM should be next to their name and picture if they have one.
Team icons: They are kind of cool. not overly important but a nice splash of color and something this is interesting. But I would put them under the profile icon. They are like badges to who the poster is. They fit well under the posters image. Like badges on a shirt.
In your preferences, you can disable the +1 and you won't see it again.
The PM button was moved to make the short posts more compact and take up less scrolling. It still fits in, because you are usually PMing someone about a specific post so it fits in with Quote.
Team icons can also be disabled in user preferences. We put them vertically to save space on short posts and make things tighter. It looked nicer horizontally, but fits better this way.
We've tweaked a lot over the last couple weeks and have things just where we want them now.
Thanks for taking the time to explain those things. Very professional and it is appreciated.
I have enjoyed contributing to the look. I'm actually involved in this kind of thing for my companies website as part of what I oversee, and we have vbulletin, though never implemented it. Pretty cool options it provides. But man are the menu setting deep.
You darkening the time date information helped a lot. Thanks. That's way easier on the eyes to spot the information I want to see. Great adjustment. Funny.... I was looking at that information and didn't notice per se that you changed it and was thinking.... hmmm.. That actually looks pretty good. I wonder if my suggestion to change it was a a bad idea.. lol.. Now I realize you actually did change it .. lol Again. Good tweak.
I just noticed the rounded corners on the gray boarder of the posts. That's a more modern look that usually works well. I notice its creating a little white boarder between the posts though. I also see the round corners are only implemented on the bottom half of the frame. Did you trying top and bottom and change the padding so there is not separation between posts ? I would also try rounded top and both with a little white between the post to see what that looks like.