I expected much worse. This looks alright to me. I liked the old BigSoccer design but this new one is not as bad as I feared.
Miss the forum bar on the left side of threads. I often navigated to forums from there. My watched forums lists all forums. My watched threads is not my big soccer. Where are the friends updates? Hate anywhere there is gray letters on white background. Can't read the date and time without hovering with mouse pointer - the date because of the gray lettering and the time because it doesn't show without hovering. The color scheme also makes it hard to see posts delineation or the delineation of quoted posts within a post.
The initial look after the update was not good, but I like this new look. Only major thing affecting user-friendliness for me so far is subscribed forums, make it come back asap please. And the happy smilie is an idiot, reminds me of this guy: Otherwise good job so far.
Thanks for the reply. Now when I went to my "watched threads", I just see a list of sub-forums (Asia, America, etc.) instead of the specific threads that I follow and post on. I am assuming you're still tweaking this so that eventually one can see the threads he/she regularly follows?
I think they said that was another dataset/table/whatever which was currently being imported and they wanted to get basic functionality up and running quickly.. Probably have to leave it a few days before giving any definitive statements as to whether it's an improvement or a step backwards. It does seem quicker which is never a bad thing. I'd be interested to know what software they changed from and to... anyone?
I know that not all the old threads have been yet loaded, but I don't see the thread about the italian women football championship, that I was ready to update with the last matchday results...pleeease don't forget it !
I just want echo what Knave said. There are about 25 forums that I regularly troll, and the rest of them, I don't give a rats ass about and don't want to read them. I don't care about soccer in 3rd world countries like England. I don't care about the backwater European Cups or whatever they're called. I don't care about leagues south of the Rio Grande, I mean do they even play soccer down there or call it some other silly name that I refuse to pronounce? I hope my post doesn't reflect negatively on Knave' request, but this needs to get fixed. Regards, Michael "The Reason People come to BigSoccer" Segroves
The old software was vBulletin. I think we were were using version 3.x. There was a version 4.0 apparently. The new software is XenForo, otherwise hereafter known as FaceBookLite. Though you should have seen it late last night when the site was first back up and running.
Let's get all the threads transfered over, please... I wake up this morning after sleeping 8 hours and it's like nothing missing last night was added... Let's get that going now...!
It looks a million billion times better this morning than it did last night. Sincerest thanks. The side forum tree was nice, I miss that too. I wish you could collapse forums on the main forums page. I don't care about, say, Equipment & Gear; I'll never care about Equipment & Gear. On vB I could make Equipment & Gear go away. Also, it seems like all cards have been clean-slated. Actually, are there even infractions anymore? I worked really hard to get a dude red carded the other day and now the thread is gone and his red card is rescinded. That's bull crap! No MyBigsoccer still sucks donkey balls. Watched Threads isn't the same at all, but maybe if you try Marking All Forums Read than it will only alert you when a recent thread updates? I don't really care about 5-year old threads, ya know?
Just give me back the side forum tree on the left and ill be completely happy. Good job guys on the update
Just thought I'd chime in agreement on the side forum tree. I can see where the other approach makes some sense -- but I actually do occasionally want to visit other odd forums, so I'd rather see a full list than just limit myself to seeing the few I visit regularly. All else, I'll wait and see how it goes as I use it more.
Hats off to all. Can't believe it's up and running so soon. I'm sure there are kinks, bugs, etc. -- but saludos!
How do you view a list of watched threads that have no new posts since you last viewed it (i.e. "list subscriptions" from mybigsoccer)?
Here's a glitch: When I click on a thread from the watched forums page, it takes me to the last post in that thread. It should take me to the first unread post. As it is now, I first have to go to the end of the thread and then click the button to go to first unread. Any time I click on a thread, the default should be to take me to the first unread post in it. Just like before the upgrade. The new look this morning is much, much better than it was last night. Thanks for fixing that up.