Opinion on the new look of the board

[RUScrew85]

You guys know you can change the zoom in your browser right?

 

[mildone]

Yes...please bring back the red highlighted messages!

I think the messages you've already read are non-bold now (as opposed to red).

 

[Sir ScarletKnight]

The worst part is that there is only a fraction of the previous smileys. Horrible. :mad:

 

[Jesse_C]

So this the custom CSS I'm using on the site. I'm using the Stylish Extension for Firefox to apply it to the page. On both the topic list and the individual thread page, I'm finding it increases information density by about 50%. So I can see 15 threads on the topic list vs 10, and an extra post or two on the individual thread. It does feel a lot more cramped, since I've cut out most the whitespace and shrunk down all the avatar stuff. I've got zero interest in supporting this or helping people out who don't understand CSS, but for those who might care, here is the style sheet.

@namespace url(http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml);

@-moz-document domain("rutgers.forums.rivals.com") {
.message .messageContent {
padding: 4px;
min-height: 35px;
}

.messageList .message {
margin: 4px auto;
padding: 4px;
border: 1px solid #000000;
border-radius: 12px;
}

.messageUserBlock div.avatarHolder {
padding: 2px;
width: 50px;
margin-left: auto;
margin-right: auto;
}

.userBanner {
background-image: none;
padding-top: 0px;
padding-bottom: 0px;
box-shadow: none;
}

.message .messageMeta {
font-size: 9px;
padding-top: 0px;
padding-bottom: 0px;
}

.message .messageDetails {
font-size: 9px;
padding-top: 0px;
padding-bottom: 0px;
}

.messageUserBlock .extraUserInfo {
font-size: 9px;
padding: 0px 4px;
}

.messageUserBlock a.username {
color: #131313;
text-align: center
}

.messageUserBlock .userTitle {
text-align: center
}

.messageUserBlock h3.userText {
padding: 2px;
}

.discussionListItem {
padding: 2px;
}

.discussionListItem .lastPostInfo .username {
font-size: 8pt;
}
.discussionListItem .stats .major {
font-size: 10pt;
line-height: 14px;
}

.discussionListItem .posterAvatar .avatar {
padding: 2px;
}

.discussionListItem .posterAvatar .avatar img {
width: 30px;
height: 30px;
}

.discussionListItem .posterAvatar .miniMe img {
padding: 1px;
width: 20px;
height: 20px;
}

.discussionListItem .posterAvatar .miniMe {
position: absolute;
left: 20px;
width: 20px;
height: 20px;
bottom: -1px;
padding: 0px;
}

.discussionListItem .lastPostInfo .dateTime {
font-size: 11px;
}

.discussionListItem .secondRow {
padding-left: 22px;
}
}

 

[bac2therac]

hating it more and more by the day

 

[Jesse_C]

And here are some before/after shots.

 

[RC1978]

I want one darn thing. I want to see that I visited a thread already! not some are grayed out because no one has posted since I looked.

I find myself more frustrated when scan the threads and in the big picture it should be less frustrating and I can see myself not coming to the site as often because of it.

 

[mildone]

And here are some before/after shots.

Nice work. I love Stylish and have been using it elsewhere - it's GreaseMonkey for CSS. I'm not particularly bothered by the whitespace on this forum though.

@RU848789 - You should do this - let me know and if you need help setting it up. Then you can stop whining like a three year old about the new forum's wasted whitespace. ;)

 

[mildone]

I want one darn thing. I want to see that I visited a thread already! not some are grayed out because no one has posted since I looked.

I find myself more frustrated when scan the threads and in the big picture it should be less frustrating and I can see myself not coming to the site as often because of it.

For me, threads I have not visited are listed in bold font. Threads I have visited are listed in non-bold. Does that not work for you?

 

[imbazza]

Change for change sake is not improvement How much did you pay these software geeks? Too much I suspect! you still can not post a graph YO! it is the 21 century hey with the technology
And yes the old format was sleeker then this clumsy one you have now!
If had just seen Jesse two sites and ask which one was the update I would have said the old one as it look better than your new and not improved one. Glad it was your money on the upgrade:D

 

[Scarlet16E]

I generally like the new format. The main downside is that there is a new Ad the top of the board that loads after the rest of the page, so just as I'm about to read something the page often jumps/scrolls back because the ad has loaded at the top (out of view). This is very annoying.