Anyone noticed the "new look" yet?

[ProviaFan]

With the good, comes the bad, and it seems that right now, there's a crapload of it.

While I don't mind the "look," the popups are highly annoying, and the posting time limit sucks. What do you all think?

 

[n0cmonkey]

So far I don't like it.

 

[RemyCanad]

I don't like it either.

1. Popups to login. I block popups. I can not think of one good reason to do it that way.
2. I don't like the design. I really don't like the button.
3. I do not like the text field changing colors on me. ERRRR
4. I hear people don't like the new PM system. I don't use them much so I don't know.

Do any of you know what advantages there were to the upgrade? I do not see any for the users....

ADD: Woohoo just got an error when I tried to post this!

 

[MDE]

I don't like it either, looks too cartoony and the Today window (now My Forums) is too friggin wide, I have to scroll to see everything.

EDIT: Plus it keeps telling me that my sig is too long now when I try updating my profile to set the right time zone.

 

[Coolkid]

I think its ok, havent noticed 1 popup using FireFox yet

EDIT: Just noticed the popups when posting this message, that could get annoying... :roll:

 

[ViRGE]

The popups are definately anoying. I'm also finding myself without my Elite Member tag, and emoticons aren't working in sigs.

 

[orion7144]

Originally posted by: MDE
I don't like it either, looks too cartoony and the Today window (now My Forums) is too friggin wide, I have to scroll to see everything.

EDIT: Plus it keeps telling me that my sig is too long now when I try updating my profile to set the right time zone.

I just noticed the Profile thing too...

 

[ProviaFan]

Originally posted by: orion7144

Originally posted by: MDE
I don't like it either, looks too cartoony and the Today window (now My Forums) is too friggin wide, I have to scroll to see everything.

EDIT: Plus it keeps telling me that my sig is too long now when I try updating my profile to set the right time zone.

I just noticed the Profile thing too...

I just saw in another thread that you need to change your links back to the standard [L=Link]http://www.whatever.com[/L] format. The FT upgrade screwed them up, converting them to the <a href="">Link</a> style instead.

 

[wischeez]

It's a pain in the Butt!! Took forever to load the page, and I'm on DSL:frown:
Reply window is too big also.

 

[orion7144]

O.k the profile error due to sig too long can easily be fixed. It seems that when they switched it added some code to our sigs.

You can redoo them by

Placing [L=Text] at the front of your link and /L in brackets at the end.

remove all of the other garbage that is in there and your fine.

 

[ICXRa]

SSSSSLLLLLLLLOOOOOOWWWWW!

Looks okay to me but way to slow

 

[kamper]

I think it's pretty ugly compared to the old one. Has anyone else lost the the threads they had stored as "favourites"? I'd kinda like to get those back.

 

[Slapstick]

I don?t like it.

1)Looks to ?Mickey Mouse?
2)Slow
3)Popups? My god everyone hates popups!
4)Did I mention SLOW



Well it fits in with the motto of the IT department where I work, ?If it ain?t broke you didn?t try hard enough. ? Apparently the folks here are trying really hard.

 

[MDE]

Originally posted by: jliechty

Originally posted by: orion7144

Originally posted by: MDE
I don't like it either, looks too cartoony and the Today window (now My Forums) is too friggin wide, I have to scroll to see everything.

EDIT: Plus it keeps telling me that my sig is too long now when I try updating my profile to set the right time zone.

I just noticed the Profile thing too...

I just saw in another thread that you need to change your links back to the standard [L=Link]http://www.whatever.com[/L] format. The FT upgrade screwed them up, converting them to the <a href="">Link</a> style instead.

Ok, that fixed the sig issue, thanks. It's sooo friggin slow though, I thought my router issues were causing it, but apparently not. Also I see that I was "demoted" to Senior member, but they probably changed the numbering scheme so there weren't so many Lifers.

 

[kamper]

Originally posted by: jliechty

Originally posted by: orion7144

Originally posted by: MDE
I don't like it either, looks too cartoony and the Today window (now My Forums) is too friggin wide, I have to scroll to see everything.

EDIT: Plus it keeps telling me that my sig is too long now when I try updating my profile to set the right time zone.

I just noticed the Profile thing too...

I just saw in another thread that you need to change your links back to the standard [L=Link]http://www.whatever.com[/L] format. The FT upgrade screwed them up, converting them to the <a href="">Link</a> style instead.

Allowing actual html code in the sigs is a major concern. Just wait until some little kiddie discovers he can do cross-site scripting :shocked:

 

[conjur]

What popups?

The reply windows? If so, I like 'em.

 

[Hyperfocal]

smileys aren't working for me at all

 

[MDE]

Anyone know how to re-enable the quick reply box?

 

[ProviaFan]

Originally posted by: Hyperfocal
smileys aren't working for me at all

I can see your frownie just fine.

IMHO, on the popups: This is the Fusetalk "Enterprise" AFAIK, and I can see how on an IE-only corporate intranet, this kind of stuff would be acceptable, even desirable. However, Zuni made a big mistake in thinking that the same kind of crap would go over well on a major tech site where everybody freaking hates popups, dislikes pukey color schemes (I changed it to Dark which looks much better), finds 30 second post limits a disgrace, and in general dislikes upgrades where the only things "upgraded" are the number of bugs and the amount of bloat. But since the admins have practically no accountability to the users here (hey, it's free, so we have no right to complain - that I can understand, to a degree, but how badly do they want to keep the more dedicated part user base?), and I am fairly certain that none of these relatively major issues will be fixed.

Call me a pessimist, but from past experience it seems that I'm just being a realist. :frown:

 

[n0cmonkey]

Originally posted by: ViRGE
The popups are definately anoying. I'm also finding myself without my Elite Member tag, and emoticons aren't working in sigs.

I'm not elite either. I'm just a senior member.

 

[GLeeM]

You got slow? It took 58 seconds for this page to load for me.

And then it pops up over the other page I was reading.

 

[toft-dk]

I Guess it takes some getting used to

 

[Zbox]

I'm sorry but the new setup sucks...

Completely botched load times & password retrieval information required (which for the record, is the offical stamp of crap sauce)

Major bummer

I'll be spending much less time browsing the boards now that it takes so long to get around

 

[MechEng]

I allready hate it.... :disgust:

1. It's slooooow.... I'm on ISDN
2. I don't like the look
3. When using popup-stopper, it is kind of
annoying that it works with popup windows.... :frown:

 

[orion7144]

It is on the last message of the topic only.