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Forum Software Upgrade!!!

Wombat

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I liked having the FORUMS tab at both top and bottom of the page, as previously.
 

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@amirm Looking better yet since this afternoon. Your geisha hooker avatar is square again and I don't seem to remember it looking like that a few hours ago?
 
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I have not made any changes for it Sal. It is possible they are cached images and are expiring. That would explain why I did not see the problem with Firefox since I had not used it to browse the forum before.
 

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cool! Nice to see additional pics of her/the outfit

also update is nice, very clean VERY well executed! Good job
 

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Did we run these aesthetic "improvements" through any kind of empirical test to determine if they're actually an improvement?

Or, lacking that, at least double-blind blind ABX test?

I find these naked assertions that the new forum "looks better" to be potentially influenced by confirmation bias and placebo effects influenced by (ideally recused) comments on the part of site management.
 

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No. Sal said we didn't need to. And if anyone complained he would handle it.

Is Sal applying for a job at Stereophile? :eek:
 

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In the previous version the user name appeared above the New Posts list. This included different options and information than the User Name in the topmost toolbar, e.g. Avatar, Signature, personal details, etc.

Is there a new option that I am missing?
 

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Still seems to be the case.

I see a Forums(return to) tab at the top of a page. At the page bottom I see a file path(small letters) - Forums>xxxx>yyyy.
 

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I see a Forums(return to) tab at the top of a page. At the page bottom I see a file path(small letters) - Forums>xxxx>yyyy.
Ok, there is a little arrow that appears at the bottom right hand corner when you get to the bottom of a page, it takes you to the top instantly so hopefully that will suffice.

It’s intresting how we all interact with this type of software, deal with changes like this etc . I hate it initially but in this case have found the ‘upgrade’ to be a genuine improvement.
 
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Ok, there is a little arrow that appears at the bottom right hand corner when you get to the bottom of a page, it takes you to the top instantly so hopefully that will suffice.
That is strangely implemented. I am not sure why it fades off. Regardless, it was only coming on when scrolling up. I just changed it so that it comes on whether you are scrolling up or down.
 
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I see a Forums(return to) tab at the top of a page. At the page bottom I see a file path(small letters) - Forums>xxxx>yyyy.
Just click on the Forums text and it will do the same thing:

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i.e. take you to the top level forum.
 

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That is strangely implemented. I am not sure why it fades off. Regardless, it was only coming on when scrolling up. I just changed it so that it comes on whether you are scrolling up or down.
Well it came on when you scrolled down to the bottom , when it’s needed. Bit distracting and unnecessary to be seeing it otherwise imo.
 
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