Forum Changes - Page 3

Atrocities · #21 March 5th, 2005, 11:03 AM

This is going to take some time to get used too.

Atrocities · #22 March 5th, 2005, 11:05 AM

I have to be honest, I really dislike how everything is shifted to the right. To me it would be better if the add things, or whatever they are, were on the left or just the top and bottom of the forum.

Atrocities · #23 March 5th, 2005, 11:25 AM

Well I have been browsing now for about an hour and I am become use to the forum again. I still would like to see the adds and such on the right but other than that, nice work.

Captain Kwok · #24 March 5th, 2005, 12:46 PM

David - it looks too churchy or like the cover of one of those devotional books.

Strategia_In_Ultima · #25 March 5th, 2005, 01:11 PM

PLEASE put the press releases on the right side of the screen. Or the top, even better. Now, as I've got my settings showing me 25 replies per thread, I've almost always got this big ugly brownish-greyish-sidebar-like-thing taking up approx. 15% of my screen width. No offence, but...

Ugly.

And David, no offence either but I agree with Kwok.

Alneyan · #26 March 5th, 2005, 01:17 PM

I like David's picture myself, and I much prefer to have the press releases on the left than on the right. If possible, the top would be much better though.

Phoenix-D · #27 March 5th, 2005, 01:24 PM

Stick em on the right and its fine..much less disruptive to reading that way.

Spoo · #28 March 5th, 2005, 01:25 PM

Why does the sidebar need to be shown on the individual posts level (i.e. this page)? Why not just have it go as deep as "Malfador Machinations >> Space Empires: IV" and no deeper? That way, when I'm browsing the current topics, I can also look over and see what's new at Shrapnel. Once I click on particular topic, I no longer need to know what's new, since I've already read the sidebar.

Strategia_In_Ultima · #29 March 5th, 2005, 02:01 PM

OMG... it's... it's... BROWN! They've changed the color! Much better looking guys, but then don't do the top bars of posts as well... leave that the same color as the body/side of the post. This way, it kinda cuts into the coherentness of a thread. But that's just my opinion.

Suicide Junkie · #30 March 5th, 2005, 02:57 PM

Having an option for the sidebar being on the left or right would be nice.
Personally, I'd go with the right.

The press releases need to have sanity checking on their spread. When you only see one every other page of text (show all on this thread) it looks very silly.

I think david's backgrounds would be nice, if they were desaturated to match the overall atmosphere of the forum. They're just too bright and colourful as is

I've got a pretty high resolution going, and when at the top of a page, the bars and banners take up approximately 55% of my screen

At 800x600 resolution, there is only 20% of a screen's worth of actual thread showing when you click one.
Thus, it feels cramped in here now.

I highly reccommend that the sidebars be reined in while forumites are reading posts or replying to posts.
The top, black background bar that says shrapnel forums is good, but the sidebar should only be shown on the thread browsing page and the forum browsing page IMO.
IE:
Show the sidebar and announcements on these pages:
http://www.shrapnelcommunity.com/threads/ubbthreads.php
http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/forumdisplay.php?f=22
Not these pages:
http://www.shrapnelcommunity.com/thr...&Number=336922
http://www.shrapnelcommunity.com/thr...Number=337007&

The buffer issue came up before as well...
There definitely needs to be a pixel or two of space between the black separator line, and the black text on the content page.
The "F" in "Fill out the form below to post..." is touching the black bar on my screen, merging into a slighty fatter black vertical line.