Forum Changes

Strategia_In_Ultima · #1 March 5th, 2005, 06:29 PM

Ok. Bottom or right. Though I do think that for now, you should also try to compress the "we have made a change to the forum" text, perhaps skip the line breaks to avoid FOUR useless lines of text that could easily fit into one page-wide sentence instead of pushing the actual thread downwards and providing for much ugly empty space...?

Joachim · #2 March 5th, 2005, 06:45 PM

Or put the "its not an ad bar" in between every 3rd post. It would only take up a line or two, still get your message across, but give us back all the space that is wasted.

Fyron · #3 March 5th, 2005, 07:11 PM

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Joachim said:
Or put the "its not an ad bar" in between every 3rd post. It would only take up a line or two, still get your message across, but give us back all the space that is wasted.

That just makes the situation 10 times worse.

A collapsable press release bar would probably be best... just as forum categories are collapsable, why not the press release bar?

I never thought I'd see the day when Shrapnel Games was what caused me to bring Proxomitron out of retirement...

zircher · #4 March 5th, 2005, 09:59 PM

Personally, I think the side bar sucks big time. I want all the horizonal space I can get. I subscribe to the Shrapnel press release newletter so I don't need and do not want the side bar. Why not make it an option one can set up under their forum profile or something?
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Gandalf Parker · #5 March 5th, 2005, 10:03 PM

Right side or bottom makes no sense. No one would ever see it. Same with options to see or not see it. Those all would work as well as "let us post what we want without topic forums because we jump straight to SEIV and never see the other stuff"

Richard · #6 March 5th, 2005, 10:11 PM

Okay guys I want to respond to a few things brought up here today.

First off this isn't as much an attempt to get folks to see "ads" as it is to put into place a common nav area across the site. We have various community oriented projects coming down the pipe and we want a common top and left bar for those.

If we really wanted to put ads in, and force folks to see them, we would do as one poster pointed out and just put ads in every third post or so. That's fairly easy to do.

For instance most folks missed that we now have links back to other parts of our site above our press release area, which is something (along with an area to see what is going on with our company) that has been requested by quite a few folks.

Even though we tested this for awhile on our test board we have missed a few items, and you'll see a new version of this setup later tonight. Once we have the version up I think it will be a fairly good compromise between some of the concerns some of you have raised.

Again thanks for the input, we always will endeavor to find common ground between the needs of all of our friends here on the forum.

Captain Kwok · #7 March 5th, 2005, 10:19 PM

Perhaps add a few pixels of spacing between the left cell and the forum cell? It'd help to reduced the smushed look of text against the border of the left cell and make it look less cluttered.

Fyron · #8 March 5th, 2005, 10:52 PM

Richard:
The new images for the press releases make the text hard to read. The background colors change too much behind the white text, and black on darkish colors isn't very readable, especially for the ones where the text is directly over the darkest blue parts.

What is wrong with text links? It serves the same purpose without making the site really awkward looking. The blue does not match the rest of the color scheme very well IMO.

David E. Gervais · #9 March 5th, 2005, 11:23 PM

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Imperator Fyron said:
Richard:
The new images for the press releases make the text hard to read. The background colors change too much behind the white text, and black on darkish colors isn't very readable, especially for the ones where the text is directly over the darkest blue parts.

What is wrong with text links? It serves the same purpose without making the site really awkward looking. The blue does not match the rest of the color scheme very well IMO.

Did I miss something? Did you try out my background image? and Fyron didn't like it so now they are gone? Did anyone else see them in place? Or was it only up for a matter is minutes? But Really did I miss something? I know it's been about 3 hours since I last logged in here, but do things change that fast?

Richard I like how you have tightened up the press release section, I have no problems with this new format. FYI I'm viewing the forums at 1280x1024 and everything fits nicely on my screen. I think people will get used to it and eventually grow to like it. I remember this 'wave' of mixed feelings every time the forum underwent changes. In the end we all ended up liking the changes.

That said, why do I feel like I missed something? did someone get a screenshot? Or is Fyron seeing thing again?

Cheers!