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The new forum layout is nice, I like it.

I find the double columns to be more unusual/clunky/gimmicky than they are useful. If there were an option in profile to return to the usual forum display, I'd use it.

Posted: 9/27/2006 3:18 AM

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nfq

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oh my god, what the hell has bisqit done to the layaout!!!!!1

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Posted: 9/27/2006 3:28 AM

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xebra

Joined: 5/3/2004
Posts: 1203

The new layout effed my Opera in the a.

Posted: 9/27/2006 3:31 AM

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Blublu

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Location: Reykjavík, Ísland

I don't like it at all. It's all crammed together and looks cluttered. There's too much information in too little space. The old way was much better. I also have a minimum font size which is slightly bigger than the default on this site, which makes it look ultra-cluttered for me, even in a high resolution. (I use 1152*864) Just look at this beast: http://img213.imageshack.us/img213/2043/asdfoc2.png

Posted: 9/27/2006 3:36 AM

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Inzult

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http://img165.imageshack.us/img165/2027/tasdexps0.jpg Safari has been bested. I think all forums are still there, only underneath. The column is simply half the screen...

Posted: 9/27/2006 4:05 AM

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minglw

Joined: 4/3/2006
Posts: 269

Given all of the different opinions from different people, maybe the layout should be implemented in such a way that each user can set it ---- like my.yahoo.com. For my.yahoo.com, each user can set their own layout. It's the user's choice on how they want it to look.

Posted: 9/27/2006 4:10 AM

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Phil

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Joined: 3/16/2004
Posts: 2623
Location: America, Québec

I didn't noticed it because I only posted on some topic using direct link but seriously the way it is now is somewhat "How the hell can we like it!!?" and "Omg that sucks!". This is my opinion.

Posted: 9/27/2006 4:25 AM

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samurai_goroh

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Joined: 12/25/2004
Posts: 634
Location: Aguascalientes, Mexico

I first though that the browser was screwing around... I like the idea of making the page more compact, but splitting in 2 rows it's ugly. Personally, I really like the format on http://www.cyberscoreforums.com/

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Posted: 9/27/2006 4:43 AM

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pirate_sephiroth

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I didn't like the design, but the description text of the threads is 100% better. But I think I found a use for that empty space... [URL=http://img150.imageshack.us/my.php?image=tasvidzrs6.png]

[/URL] LOOK! 400 posts! Now I can access the l33t TAS cheaterz thread!

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Drama, too long, didn't read, lol.

Posted: 9/27/2006 4:52 AM

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Zurreco

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Joined: 8/1/2004
Posts: 2687
Location: Seattle, WA

samurai goroh wrote:

Personally, I really like the format on http://www.cyberscoreforums.com/

Isn't that basically what we had earlier today? I'm going to blindly assyme that near 95% of all serious forums use that set up.

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Posted: 9/27/2006 5:34 AM

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Xkeeper

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Inzult wrote:

http://img165.imageshack.us/img165/2027/tasdexps0.jpg Safari has been bested. I think all forums are still there, only underneath. The column is simply half the screen...

(I expected this to be in Sites, oops) Regardless, I get the same effect in Opera. It looks a lot worse than it did before...

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Posted: 9/27/2006 5:37 AM

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xoinx

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Joined: 9/20/2006
Posts: 287
Location: Singapore

I'm actually fine with either layout, but this new one just require some getting used to.

LOL, good idea! It might just convert some others to retain this layout

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Posted: 9/27/2006 7:10 AM

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Twisted_Eye

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Joined: 10/17/2005
Posts: 636
Location: Seattle, WA

All day I've been seeing what Inzult sees, it was horrible. I'm getting the two columns now, and I'm not comfortable with it. Yes, I understand the thinking, but even at 1280x1024 that I use, it just really feels way too cramped. And my eyes don't like looking to the right on a forum to look for boards. I honestly could get used to it, to be fair. I'm not going to say I like it, or prefer it, but I could get used to it. As far as layout design goes, I've always wondered just how necessary it is to have a specific forum for each system's EMULATOR, like, it just always seemed to make the journey to the last three forums just that much longer, so I almost never went there. How often do threads there get new posts? GOOD new posts? I dunno. Like the two columns thing, I underSTAND it, but I wonder if there's a better way.

Posted: 9/27/2006 7:48 AM
(Edited: 9/27/2006 7:57 AM)

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Bisqwit

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Blublu wrote:

Just look at this beast: http://img213.imageshack.us/img213/2043/asdfoc2.png

You have large fonts. I only get that if I press ctrl+ to enlarge the fonts. Which indeed makes it look a bit cluttered.

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Gruefood is under Finished Movies because a judge completed the necessary input to do a Finishing Move.

No, but because all submissions are finished movies; i.e. they are not work-in-progress movies. Gruefood is rejected submissions; a subgroup of submissions, and thus a subgroup of finished movies.

Zurreco wrote:

As far as I knew, no one had a problem with the old set up.

At least Maza said in IRC that "it was already a bit messy to newcommers (at least that's what all of my friends have said)". By grouping them logically and making it easy to spot the right thing I attempted to avoid situations where one searches the forum list by scrolling it up and down and stops at the first "this might be it" because he hasn't seen the entire list, and thus posts in or reads the wrong forum.

Posted: 9/27/2006 9:44 AM

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Kyrsimys

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Joined: 4/16/2004
Posts: 1286
Location: Finland

I didn't like it when I first looked at it. However now, after I've used it a bit, I see that it is a lot easier to use because everything is there right away and I don't have to scroll down. In conclusion: I like it.

Posted: 9/27/2006 9:54 AM

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Bisqwit

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Joined: 3/8/2004
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"Fixed" the one-column problem by substituting the floating boxes with a two-column table. Damn non-compliant browsers.

Posted: 9/27/2006 10:04 AM

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AnotherGamer

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Joined: 2/2/2005
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Just give up and give us an option to change it back, Ceej.

Posted: 9/27/2006 10:12 AM

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AngerFist

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Kyrsimys wrote:

I didn't like it when I first looked at it. However now, after I've used it a bit, I see that it is a lot easier to use because everything is there right away and I don't have to scroll down. In conclusion: I like it.

I think I agree with Kyrsimys even though I did not like it last night. Now all the sudden, I get two columns. Its like the Wiimote, you would eventually get used to it but its gonna take some time :)

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Posted: 9/27/2006 12:02 PM

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Inzult

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Joined: 9/27/2004
Posts: 650
Location: Canada

Bisqwit wrote:

"Fixed" the one-column problem

Haha fantastic. I'm totally pacified ;)

Posted: 9/27/2006 12:59 PM
(Edited: 9/27/2006 1:16 PM)

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bobxp

Joined: 2/15/2005
Posts: 246
Location: Torquay, England

What happen? O_O;; Revert plz. [edit for rather less extreme comment]

Posted: 9/27/2006 1:10 PM

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Bisqwit

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bobxp wrote:

HOLY S2T!! WHAT HAPPENED O_O;; Revert plz. This layout sucks ass.

I must say I'm quite surprised by the magnitude of reactions it causes, like that of yours. Probably, you are seeing something different than I see. Here's how it appears on my Windows computer… (work): http://bisqwit.iki.fi/kala/snap/tafmzw.png

Posted: 9/27/2006 1:13 PM

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