Forum menu
Because it's nasty
AAAH!
WHAT DID YOU DO?!
I was huffing at them doing maintenance at lunch time but, ooh looks fancy!
Arghhhhhhhhh - its ugly and horrible
Wow, that didn't take long... 🤣
I'm liking the shiny new look!
Shame it seems to be the same software underneath, I'm sure there's loads of improvements STW would like to make but can't - a new lick of paint is welcome though 👍
I'm scared. Make it stop.
Too many lines and too much text on the forum list. It makes it much too hard to scan.
The thread pages are ok though.
Is it aimed at making it more phone friendly or something? Looks as ugly as hell on my PC.
Horrible.
Nav bar has TWO Video headers - both with same content - tut tut
It's Moe Szylak in forum guise...
Much more legible to be fair. Interesting to see if there are any subtleties I haven't noticed.
Thought it was just me.
Looks a bit busy, and doesnt fit a wide screen monitor. 1/2 my screen is just blank grey (maybe thats where all the ads will start appearing ?)
Impressed there wasnt any down time though
Edit: just checked on my iphone, looks way to busy and not easy to see thread titles etc.
STW has looked unique for years (good IMO) this makes it look a bit like any other forum
Ooft. Forum overview page reads more like a screenshot from Lings Cars. Brutal.
No back to the top button or menu pop out to get back to front page.
Ooft. Forum overview page reads more like a screenshot from Lings Cars. Brutal.
Nothing on the internet since 1998 is like the Lings website. But that's the charm...
I'll be used to it by this time tomorrow
I really ****ing like it. Well not really that much, but figured I’d try some user testing there
Edit: I assume hitting the wee person icon at the top right should take me to a profile page? Isnae working for me if that’s the case, does nothing
Edit 2: actually works from the higher levels but not within threads
fine for me on my phone, can now see more thread details rather than just the title.
I dont think it matters what happens to the forum folk will bitch about it .... unless it's a like button!
Yes no never always maybe sometimes.
Dislike the font changes.
Seems faster.
A bit more contrast would be nice - grey on grey on grey is a bit grey! 🙂
TBF, it was posted in the pinned story up top that we'd be getting the painters in...
We have plans.
The best way to ensure sustainability is to adapt and there are changes on the way. First of all, there’s a new look to the website coming. The decorators are in and in the next few weeks we will be launching the new site theme. We hope you are going to like it – it will organise our content better and make it easier to find stuff.
Still, change is change and some can't deal with that 🤣
As regards Android/Chrome..
Font seems bigger - good for my aging eyesight.
Fewer posts on index page but more detail on each.
Edit/Report/Reply buttons are thin black text in dark mode and very difficult to see.
We could still do with a "show me unread posts on this thread" button.
Fine by me.
Have we finally gone metric or is this the return to imperial?
Unexpected change(vague mind something mentioned), seems alright, take a bit getting used to, first impression is it feels more robust, which is a good thing.
yay - we can see who has most recently posted in a thread, from the forum homepage!
Have we finally gone metric or is this the return to imperial?
I'm fairly sure we're still pre-decimalisation.
Nice, I like!
Perhaps it is due to my new pc monitor? LOL!
P/s: oh yes I can see the login but how to logout?
Oh ffs. Even bloody harder to get back to overview.
Now we haven't even got a hamburger menu to return to it.
We used to have a button right at the bottom of the last post, but I understand that had to go as it was too easy.
Not wanting to be negative, but man, this is going backwards. 😐
I swear every new look we have gets rid of the ability to navigate easily back to overview. What have you got against it? 😂
Seriously, when we get to the bottom of a long page of posts, what then?
Hitting the back button doesn't refresh the posts on overview, and if you've gone through 5 pages, back through them all you go!
Scrolling all the way back up through all the posts on a page again to find a button on every single thread is just dire. 🙄
It does feel more 'snappy', does that mean we've got 2 hamsters Vs 1 now? Or the 1 has been fed some performance enhancing drugs...
unless it’s a like button!
I'm sure I recall Mark saying we were promised a 'like' button.
Gmail has had a revamp today too - not sure I can cope with so much change in one day.
I need a lie down!
I think it is very creative to run a forum on an excel spreadsheet.
Liking the site homepage - both on iPhone and computer.
Forum though... argh, especially on the mobile. Nowhere near as easy to identify the thread titles with the info for each thread split across a couple of lines. Hopefully I'll get used to it.
Oh ffs. Even bloody harder to get back to overview.
Swipe left.
Fine by me, no glitches so far. A bit retro with boxes around threads, it just needs the boxes to be coloured pink and blue to be properly retro. It's faster than the old version was last night (not difficult).
I'm not usually one to moan about STW, given that (for cheapskates like me) this shizzle is free, but that thread overview page is truly horrible to behold - both uglier and harder to actually see the thread titles. Looks like a forum from 20 years ago!
What fresh new hell is this madness!
I'm keeping the screenshot of old stw on my iPad, when I'm feeling confused and sad I'll stare at it wistfully.
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Oh ffs. Even bloody harder to get back to overview.
Swipe left.
No. I know how the back button works. That's not the same thing.
The overview page doesn't refresh if you simply go back.
And what if you've gone through 5 pages of posts?
Did we just go back in time to the origins of internet forums??!!
Swipe left.
No no no, it only works if you swipe a pentangle shape, then left.
Looks like a forum from 20 years ago!
It's a webpage from the 90s
I’ll be used to it by this time tomorrow
This. Two days from now, no-one will remember what it looked like before. 🙂
I'm with Kayak23 needs a back to top button or menu at the bottom to get back to relevant forum front page. It's doing my head in at the moment. I'll probably end up doing some work now!!