Like or hate new bigsoccer

I've given it a few weeks, biting my lip most of the time. But I have to say I'm squarely with the 73% who HATE the new system.

I honestly can't think of 1 thing that it does better than the old software. The UI and the features seem very immature & naiive for a bbs/forums platform.

I won't bother to itemize anything (that's what the "Bugs" threads are for) but I have to wonder what on earth was the motivation to get off the old software and replace it with this sad substitute?

 

Like.

I hate it when anyone moves the furniture, but after a period of adjustment on this, like.

The difference in speed is obvious and terrific AFAIAC, and a justification for any number of disadvantages, and I see no reason to believe that the forum tree is gone forever.

I agree that the look is bland and the fonts hard to read; but raising my page to 125% seems to be a worakable palliative-- gets rid of much of the gray and raises the font legibility.

Only problem I have had is not related-- I tried to upgrade to premium, and it won't let me do it without going through the Paypal account that I haven't used in so long I no longer remember how... might want to give us the option to ignore our past there...

 

What happened to "Forums" on the home page? Blogs aren't forums

 

Member since 04 here. I've been coming to the site last couple days and leaving immediately cause it's so hard to read and navigate.

I made it a point to actually find this thread so I can add my name to the "hate it" list. Please do something, this site sucks on so many levels, the last version of BS was perfect minus the occasional jams on big games. Seems like the specific forums I visit have been a lot slower lately too. It's just a hassle to read, navigate, and post here now. Hope it gets fixed or I will not be coming back that often anymore.

 

It is the Community link

 

No server hiccups at all during record CL traffic. Move seems smart to me.

 

The site still looks like crap, but hey, congratulations on upgrading or whatever you want to call this mess.

 

"Forum" (singular) is back. Not sure what happened to Community. Maybe put out an APB.

 

What's up with everything being in the center of the screen? Is that to give more ad real estate to the right and left sides?

 

The old site was centered too Mike

 

I don't understand why it can't both look good and run well. It's a database driven website. Running one is nowhere near as hard as you're all making it out to be.

Do you have any sort of configuration management process?

 

Hate so far. The color scheme/contrast hurts my eyes. The massive amount of white space is driving me nuts. Why is there so much wasted space per post? I used to see multiple posts on 1 screen but now see 1.2-1.3 posts per screen at most. That plus the inability to change posts per page sucks. I assume the latter decision was made get more page views for ad revenue. When I hide sigs, why does all the space for sigs remain? Silly.

The loss of multipage multiquote kills something I used all the time. As others have mentioned navigating after the upgrade sucks. I know the left side menu is coming back but right now I just don't check some boards I used to read because quick nav and using the forums tab to get around is so slow. Probably a bad sign when users have to study a 14 page guide to use a forum.

 

My posting is way down since the upgrade. I guess one way to make the site run faster is make it so unusable and ugly that people stay away and don't post. That would certainly make the servers respond better.

 

Just logged on for the first time in a couple of months.

Visually it looks a lot better than the previous version to me; don't feel I have to spend twenty minutes with Adblock and RIP to remove the rubbish which littered the last one. More restrained all round, though it would be good to see an option to disable any mention of facebook (and similar).

 

I think we've down for a while. Arsenal, and a couple of other premiership teams where I lurk, are down, as is books, coaching, and some weeks, Movies and Music. I had noticed this before the changeover, but it does seem a bit more pronounced now.