First impressions

[benb]

Firstly, a huge thanks to Sean. I know how time consuming it is to do this kind of upgrade - your work is very much appreciated.

What I like:

• The Watched Threads page works perfectly. In the old software it was a right pain to keep track of topics I was interested in or had posted in, and the ordering was messed up. Now I have it set to automatically watch any thread I post in, and obviously I can manually watch any others, and it properly sorts it by the last posted date. This is excellent.
• The Like buttons
• The style - very clean and intuitive

What I don't like:

• Having 24h without access! Phew, it's back now.
• Nothing really.

 

[Simba]

Feels very strange to me atm.

 

[benb]

Oh, another thing I like is the text editor - it longer has to separately load the WYSIWYG editor when you click in the reply box. That's much smoother and easier.

 

[benb]

Feels very strange to me atm.

You'll get used to it, I'm sure.

 

[Mozzy]

Yes, as said elsewhere; a beauty of a forum change.

Mozzy

 

[Jezston]

• The Watched Threads page works perfectly. In the old software it was a right pain to keep track of topics I was interested in or had posted in, and the ordering was messed up. Now I have it set to automatically watch any thread I post in, and obviously I can manually watch any others, and it properly sorts it by the last posted date. This is excellent.

Oh hey that's good to know.

I used to work out what stuff I'd posted in that had new content by going into My Content, which would show a list of threads I'd posted in, and highlight in bold which ones had new posts.

Wasn't sure how to do the equivalent in the new forum software but this seems to be an even better way of doing it!

 

[BSRU]

Currently I do not like it, the new font size is too big, I can read it without wearing my glasses which is not a good thing and there seems to be an awful lot of white space.

 

[ianrauk]

Currently I do not like it, the new font size is too big, I can read it without wearing my glasses which is not a good thing and there seems to be an awful lot of white space.

hold down the ctrl key and use your mouse wheel to scroll through lower/higher resolution for a smaller/larger font

 

[XmisterIS]

Fantastic! Very fast now that the gremlins have been chased around and squashed with mallets, much more user-friendly than the previous one.

 

[sdr gb]

Easy to navigate, user friendly and the best looking cycling forum on the web. Really like the new look.

Thank you Shaun, the effort was well worth it.

 

[BSRU]

hold down the ctrl key and use your mouse wheel to scroll through lower/higher resolution for a smaller/larger font

Thanks for that.

 

[benb]

hold down the ctrl key and use your mouse wheel to scroll through lower/higher resolution for a smaller/larger font

You might find that changes your font for all sites - I have a feeling it's across the whole browser.

 

[ianrauk]

You might find that changes your font for all sites - I have a feeling it's across the whole browser.

Nope.. only the page you are currently browsing. Well for Chrome anyway.

 

[benb]

The more I use it, the more I like the watched threads feature. Not only does it automatically watch threads that I post in, but obviously I can also manually watch threads I am interested in but haven't yet posted in. Also, if I am just doing a drive by posting, and am not really bothered about that thread, I can unwatch it. (and even better, the alerts system will still let me know if I am quoted in a reply even in unwatched threads)

But the best bit is that it only shows unread threads, so the page isn't cluttered up with old threads that haven't had a post since last time I looked.

Watched threads + alerts = killer feature of the new software.

 

[RedRider]

It looks much cleaner to me, more white space makes it more beautiful. Cheers for the effort, it's well worth it.