Site upgrade of 2017, part II - All is Not Lost

Discussion in 'Customer Service' started by soccernutter, Mar 21, 2017.

  1. dark knight

    dark knight Super Moderator
    Staff Member

    Dec 15, 1999
    Club:
    Leicester City FC
    So this is back now - folks happy yes?
     
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  2. Thezzaruz

    Thezzaruz Member+

    Jun 20, 2011
    Club:
    Arsenal FC
    Nat'l Team:
    Sweden
    Yes, very much so.
    Would probably prefer to have it clustered with the page links but that's no biggie, more of an aesthetic thing.
     
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  3. Knave

    Knave Member+

    May 25, 1999
    I'm still kind of grumpy ... :whistling:
     
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  4. sitruc

    sitruc Member+

    Jul 25, 2006
    Virginia
    Never.

    It is great to see it back though.
     
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  5. Suyuntuy

    Suyuntuy Member+

    Jul 16, 2007
    Vancouver, Canada
    Tablets/phones don't have a Home button. At least not always. You have to switch to the second virtual keyboard, or if it's a tablet with a real keyboard, you have to keep pressing the ↑ until it works.

    The green arrows are useful when on a laptop/computer. On a phone, they need to be a bit smaller. Otherwise, most browsers allow for a quick-scroll way. For example, Firefox on desktops allows you to make the middle mouse button a "panning" one.

    I'm getting used to the new format on a big screen (laptop, desktop). Still not as usable on a phone/tablet. Redundancy is fine when the screen is big.
     
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  6. JayRockers!

    JayRockers! Member+

    Aug 4, 2001
    All I ever do is tap the top of the screen twice. It scrolls right up.

    Thx,

    Jay!
     
  7. Winoman

    Winoman Drinkin' Wine Spo-De-O-De!

    Jul 26, 2000
    Club:
    DC United
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    iPhone, Android, or other? I just tried that on my Android and it doesn't work. The green arrows do work for me, however, so I kind of like them, now that I'm used to them.
     
  8. holden

    holden Member+

    Dundee FC, Yeovil Town LFC, Girondins de Bordeaux
    Oct 20, 2009
    Los Angeles
    Club:
    Dundee FC
    It's an iOS feature. Android doesn't do it, or at least didn't when I had one.
     
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  9. Gamecock14

    Gamecock14 Member+

    May 27, 2010
    Club:
    Chicago Fire
    Thank you for doing this work.
     
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  10. soccernutter

    soccernutter Moderator
    Staff Member

    Tottenham Hotspur
    Aug 22, 2001
    Near the mountains.
    Club:
    Tottenham Hotspur FC
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    [​IMG]

    (Hopefully this will make Knave less grumpy.)
     
  11. soccernutter

    soccernutter Moderator
    Staff Member

    Tottenham Hotspur
    Aug 22, 2001
    Near the mountains.
    Club:
    Tottenham Hotspur FC
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    I'm not getting alerts for watched forums.
     
  12. blissett

    blissett Member+

    Aug 20, 2011
    Italy
    Club:
    --other--
    Nat'l Team:
    --other--
    There used to be alert for watched forums? o_O I believed alerts were for watched threads only...

    What people here was asking was a way to distinguish a forum where something new was posted from an inactive one, like in the past, not a system of alerts for whole forums...
     
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  13. soccernutter

    soccernutter Moderator
    Staff Member

    Tottenham Hotspur
    Aug 22, 2001
    Near the mountains.
    Club:
    Tottenham Hotspur FC
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    Maybe in the past, but I checked for the purpose of troubleshooting and saw that there was an option for alerts to be sent. That said, I think I had the setting set for new threads and not new messages. I'll check back on how that is working...

    I know. I'm on board with that. Knave gave us a nice couple of screenshots for comparison.
     
  14. sitruc

    sitruc Member+

    Jul 25, 2006
    Virginia
    Watched Forums lets you know if there are new threads on a forum. It's working for me.
     
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  15. sitruc

    sitruc Member+

    Jul 25, 2006
    Virginia
    I cannot confirm this, but a new alert notification may have taken me to the profile pop-up instead of the alert pop-up.
     
  16. dark knight

    dark knight Super Moderator
    Staff Member

    Dec 15, 1999
    Club:
    Leicester City FC
    @soccernutter - so we have my threads up top now too - maybe I should go through your list and update it? Some of the things I'm not sure I totally understand either.
     
  17. sitruc

    sitruc Member+

    Jul 25, 2006
    Virginia
    I clicked on My Forums because it was where I thought My Threads was going to be.:mad::p

    I know others find it useful, but there is very little for me to gain from looking at My Forums. What do people look for there?
     
  18. KensingtonSC

    KensingtonSC Still Lazy After All These Years

    FC Vaduz / Philadelphia Union
    Jan 7, 2010
    Andalusia, PA
    Club:
    FC Vaduz
    If you follow a bunch of threads in one forum, it's easier just to save the forum itself, as opposed to 7-20 threads in My Threads. I can see why it exists. I'd never use it, but I can see why it's there, especially for a moderator.
     
  19. Winoman

    Winoman Drinkin' Wine Spo-De-O-De!

    Jul 26, 2000
    Club:
    DC United
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    I look for general areas of interest, and then 'drill down' to particular threads. The forum titles used to be bold (indicating new threads/posts, and dimmed (indicating forum totally read/no new threads/posts), which was helpful. I do hope that feature will come back. (That particular problem/bug has been included on several prior posts, including one from Knave, which had screen-shots of attached examples.)
     
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  20. Knave

    Knave Member+

    May 25, 1999
    That's my landing BigSoccer page, and how I navigate to my regular forums. Basically, it's home base.

    I prefer to keep tabs on forums as a whole, and follow only a handful of individual threads.

    (Also, if it annoyed you, then its virtue is proven.)
     
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  21. sitruc

    sitruc Member+

    Jul 25, 2006
    Virginia
    There are a few forums where I watch every thread. For better or worse, I have no unread threads. Would they normally show up under the subscribed forum listed?
     
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  22. sitruc

    sitruc Member+

    Jul 25, 2006
    Virginia
    I'm not annoyed. I just don't know how to best use it.
     
  23. Knave

    Knave Member+

    May 25, 1999
    Subscribe to all your favorite boards, like Sacramento Republic FC's, and you'll have them listed for you there.
     
  24. blissett

    blissett Member+

    Aug 20, 2011
    Italy
    Club:
    --other--
    Nat'l Team:
    --other--
    Look, I follow a quite high number of threads (mostly where I also post). Then there are a good number of forums where I don't read every post in every thread, but I have a general interest for the forum itself: not enough for me to "watch" that whole forum, but, from time to time, I could want to land there and say "Oh, look, there are new posts in some threads of Forum X: let's look around a little through Forum X to see if there is anything interesting". While doing that, I could happen to say "Oh, I have unread posts on sub-forum Y of forum X: it's a subject I could like, let's give a look". And so on.

    This is doable, if forums with unread posts are marked in bold.

    Becomes quite impossible if I have to manually explore every subforum of every forum that's vaguley interesting, without knowing in advance if there are unread posts there or not.

    As I stressed multiple times, this is #1 issue for me among those who weren't already fixed, and what I miss more of the previous incarnation of this website.

    @soccernutter: a little thing that I didn't see in any of you recap-lists, but that I saw more than one person complain about: in the old website, weren't the posts written in a font "with serif" instead of the current one "sans serif"? I agree with those who complained: reverting to the old font would probably help "readability" (if such a term actually exists: sorry, I am not an English native-speaker).
     
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  25. soccernutter

    soccernutter Moderator
    Staff Member

    Tottenham Hotspur
    Aug 22, 2001
    Near the mountains.
    Club:
    Tottenham Hotspur FC
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    Yes, that would helpful.
     

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