Official Complaints/Concerns/Opinions

[Imp]

Would it be possible to name forums with the initials of the title included either before or after in the same way that all SIEV forums are listed. Reason for is if use new posts button would make obvious which game they apply to.
Example
All SPMBT prefixed SPMBT or MBT
All Eat Electric Death prefixed EED etc.

Also not really important but how do you spell check now?

[Tim Brooks]

Would it be possible to name forums with the initials of the title included either before or after in the same way that all SIEV forums are listed. Reason for is if use new posts button would make obvious which game they apply to.

Maybe. I guess I need to know how many really think it is necessary as it is alot of work.

Also not really important but how do you spell check now

There is an icon with a check mark and ABC in the upper right corner. Click that to download the speel checker.

[Imp]

Cheers

[HoneyBadger]

Ich, you're telling that to the very person who spent 20 posts or so just posting bitmaps of units. The smaller my posts can be, the more posts I'm forced to write, and the more for you to monitor

I just wish that when I went forward to another page-there's a button on my keyboard that automatically takes me to my homepage, for some damn fool reason-that when I went back, everything wouldn't disappear.

This doesn't always happen on every single forum, so I was just wondering if there's a way to make it not happen here?

If not, that's fine, it's my own fault when I do it, I'm not blaming anyone else, just hoping for a safety net.

[Annette]

HB,

What selection have you made for as your Message Editor Interface? I'm set to Enhanced Interface - Full WYSIWYG Editing, and I can begin typing a reply, go to other pages within this site or go to another site altogether, and get back to my reply using my back button.

[Fyron]

From a usability perspective, some parts of the forum theme are terrible. The shades of blue used in some areas have very poor contrast between the text and background colors, leading to difficult reading. Combine this with a lot of text being tiny (9px!), and it makes for a very hard to use UI. Some particularly nasty text includes the poster info (join date, thanks, etc.) on the top right of posts and the private message information in the big bar at the top of the page. 11px is pushing it as a minimum font size, but even that still needs to have high contrast between the font and background colors.

The white text on bright blue background in the nav menu on the left is also difficult to read, due to poor contrast.

[Imp]

Originally Posted by Fyron

From a usability perspective, some parts of the forum theme are terrible. The shades of blue used in some areas have very poor contrast between the text and background colors, leading to difficult reading. Combine this with a lot of text being tiny (9px!), and it makes for a very hard to use UI. Some particularly nasty text includes the poster info (join date, thanks, etc.) on the top right of posts and the private message information in the big bar at the top of the page. 11px is pushing it as a minimum font size, but even that still needs to have high contrast between the font and background colors.

The white text on bright blue background in the nav menu on the left is also difficult to read, due to poor contrast.

Sorry but I have to disagre some navigation could be easier but everything is very clear & easy to read. I use 1280 x1240 with a basic graphic card. If you are using a higher res remember some people cant afford & lots use lower still.
On contrast either adjust your settings or bin the monitor its fine. The light blue text background is there as does not strain the eye, white tends to.
If they change the blue someone will gripe over the new colour, there have to be more important things in life.

I just tested against a bit of Laser printed A4 & can read the screen from further away than the paper so its very clear, font size was the same.

[HoneyBadger]

And don't forget the dirty dishwater blue being aesthetically unappealing

[AstralWanderer]

Two problems I've encountered with the new forum:

• URL change from shrapnelcommunity.com to shrapnelgames.com - I keep very strict security settings which includes not allowing cookies by default. The domain name change necessitated updating these, but it is an easy thing to overlook and took some time to track down.
• The Rules Acceptance page requires Javascript enabled but does not inform users of this. There should at least be a mention of this requirement since having Javascript enabled globally is risky behaviour nowadays, given the number of compromised websites around.

[Azselendor]

Originally Posted by AstralWanderer

Two problems I've encountered with the new forum:

• The Rules Acceptance page requires Javascript enabled but does not inform users of this. There should at least be a mention of this requirement since having Javascript enabled globally is risky behaviour nowadays, given the number of compromised websites around.

While there is danger in malicious javascripting, it's important to keep in mind too that much of the modern web relies upon javascripting for usability and functionality. Care must be taken to secure the site and it's code against casual and moderate attacks, yes, but to sacrifice service and quality for the name of security is madness. Most people operate at browser defaults which have moderate javascript settings enabled.