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What happened to forum?!! posted: Nov 8, 2009 11:17 PM

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Anton V Zhban…
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May 26, 2008
First of all, it's a complete mess in Firefox.

I can not even browse selected forums list without scrolling the screen. When I tried to post this new discussion I had to scroll through ALL the possible forums. Hey, did you hire 7-year old web developer?

What the hell did you do to forum?!

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Eric wrote: removed improper word from thread title

Tags: communities

Re: What happened to forum?!!

1. Nov 8, 2009 11:18 PM in response to: Anton V Zhban…
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Dave.Mishchen…
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Moved to the Communities Website Feedback forum.




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Re: What happened to forum?!!

2. Nov 8, 2009 11:18 PM in response to: Anton V Zhban…
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ericni
62 posts since
Oct 19, 2006
Hi Anton,

Try clearing your cache!

  • If that doesn't clear it up, please let us know your browser and your OS.

Thanks

Eric

Re: What happened to forum?!!

3. Nov 8, 2009 11:18 PM in response to: ericni
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Dave.Mishchen…
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Eric, is the "My Communities" menu meant to be gone? I have All Communities, but not My Communities.

I also have the some problem with Anton, in that to get to a forum I have to select for example, General and then once there I can select one of the subforums.

Re: What happened to forum?!!

4. Nov 8, 2009 11:18 PM in response to: ericni
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Anton V Zhban…
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Eric, I see. That was just a complete surprise for me. Thanks.

BUT!

But all other problems still exist! When I hover "All communities" I still have to scroll screen to see full pop-up menu on 1680*1050 resolution.
Posting new topic became absolutely non-intuitive.

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Re: What happened to forum?!!

5. Nov 8, 2009 11:20 PM in response to: Anton V Zhban…
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ericni
62 posts since
Oct 19, 2006
Were taking a look at the feedback on All Communities.

Re: What happened to forum?!!

6. Nov 8, 2009 11:29 PM in response to: Anton V Zhban…
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VladN
235 posts since
Jul 17, 2008
Everything looks OK for me in Firefox except I can't find My Communities. I see same thing as your screenshot in Chrome when trying to login...

Re: What happened to forum?!!

7. Nov 8, 2009 11:30 PM in response to: Dave.Mishchen…
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Anton V Zhban…
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May 26, 2008
Why did they make forum 1000 pixels fixed wide with all the borders?

I suppose time of 15" LCDs is already gone, I have 22" LCD with 1680*1050, which means they made 40% of my screen completely useless on forum. Was it THAT difficult to make dynamic design and leave browser width choice to you?

P.S. it took some time to browse to "VMUG Russia" forum:
1) All Communities (scroll down) - click VMUG
2) Wait till it loads
3) Click EMEA
4) Wait till it loads
5) Scroll to Russia VMUG
6) Click Russia VMUG
7) Wait till it loads

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Re: What happened to forum?!!

8. Nov 8, 2009 11:35 PM in response to: Anton V Zhban…
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Anton V Zhban…
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ROFL

With tons of new AJAX code they made "Helpful answer" / "Correct answer" old-fashioned links. It was AJAX in old forum!

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Re: What happened to forum?!!

9. Nov 8, 2009 11:39 PM in response to: Anton V Zhban…
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ericni
62 posts since
Oct 19, 2006
Hi Anton,

Yes, we have confirmed the menu navigation to be an issue and will work on a fix for the large drop down menu. If you have a scroll wheel, you
won't see this, but if you don't, you need to use arrow keys, and that is a problem.

We are looking for feedback on the mycommunities feature, it didn't get ported, but we would consider porting it if people
express interest in the mycommunities feature. The traffic numbers indicated almost no one was using it, so it didn't rank
high on our porting list.

Thanks

Eric

Re: What happened to forum?!!

10. Nov 8, 2009 11:40 PM in response to: Anton V Zhban…
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K-MaC
478 posts since
Jun 16, 2008
I suppose time of 15" LCDs is already gone,

Unfortunately not, I am stuck with a 15" monitor with a whopping 1024x768 resolution. The old layout was a pain in the butt to navigate and now i've lost a tonne more real-estate with the new layout. At least the site displays correctly at home.

Cheers

Kevin

Re: What happened to forum?!!

11. Nov 8, 2009 11:40 PM in response to: Anton V Zhban…
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ericni
62 posts since
Oct 19, 2006
Thanks.. keep posting what you find.. we are reading.

Eric

Re: What happened to forum?!!

12. Nov 8, 2009 11:48 PM in response to: K-MaC
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Anton V Zhban…
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May 26, 2008
Kevin, I understand your problem, but can't understand why forum design is now fixed width. It can be flexible so both low-res and hi-res users can browse forums with good experience.
This design also leads to name cropping - is my name that long?

Eric, I marked your comment about cache as helpful but it still looks like any other comment.

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Re: What happened to forum?!!

13. Nov 8, 2009 11:55 PM in response to: Anton V Zhban…
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K-MaC
478 posts since
Jun 16, 2008
Hey Anton,

I agree 100%. As for names I think that they did it to prevent the communites from being displayed incorrectly. Every few months people would create logins that are 50+ chars long and it screws up the thread display. I'd say 20 chars should be enough and it would accomidate your name ;)

Cheers

Kevin

Re: What happened to forum?!!

14. Nov 8, 2009 11:59 PM in response to: Anton V Zhban…
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dnetz
148 posts since
Dec 5, 2008
I like the new redesign even if it seems a bit messy and hard to find at the moment. However Anton is right about the width of the layout, everything is now so cramped together and the actual text in the threads is hard to read. For longer discussions with lots of text this will get quite annoying. I hope you'll consider doing something about it.
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