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Family Support, Barnardo's, Merthyr Tydfil
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It might just be me, but is anyone else struggling with the redesign in the forum? I’m finding it really hard to identify sections & topis with new posts. There’s very little colour difference.
Any chance of a different icon or something, web-folks?
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Newcastle Welfare Rights Service
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It took me a few minutes to get used to it. I actually like it.
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Senior welfare rights officer - Salford City Council Welfare Rights Service
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From a visual impairment perspective there is a lack of contrast and far too much white. Makes it way harder to read and much more tiring in the process.
“Disappointing” would be by summary.
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Welfare benefits caseworker - Oldham CAB
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Lorraine Cooper - 09 October 2013 11:43 AMIt might just be me, but is anyone else struggling with the redesign in the forum? I’m finding it really hard to identify sections & topis with new posts. There’s very little colour difference.
Any chance of a different icon or something, web-folks?
I agree new posts definately needs a different colour or something, very difficult to identify
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Deputy Manager, Reading Community Welfare Rights Unit
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Ditto. I’m struggling too.
Looking for new posts produces a ‘new topics’ found screen
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Deputy Manager, Reading Community Welfare Rights Unit
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I know, but you can’t see at a glance what the new posts are as you could in the old-style forum.
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Welfare rights adviser - Sefton Council, Liverpool
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Too much grey. We need more colour, playmates.
hi there all,
yep, we don’t disagree - more contrast needed - leave it with us and we’ll get it adjusted…
cheers ros
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Newcastle Welfare Rights Service
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I still like it. If it must change can we have a shade of Farrow and Ball. That would certainly suit a champagne socialist like me.
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LSD WB supervisor - Bury District CAB, Lancashire
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why fix what aint broke
hi ikbikb ...
guess i’m thinking of it as us futureproofing the site against brokedness down the line ....
basically we’ve upgraded the platform that the site sits on which means that it’s more robust - and across most of the site you shouldn’t have spotted any change - however, because the forum has been customised to a degree (to make it more user-friendly), it is a part that gets a bit mangled in any upgrade ... apologies
... as ros has indicated above however we will be looking at knocking it back into shape over the coming days ....
ps - do let us know if you spot anything else untoward across the site
cheers - shawn
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Benefits and debt adviser - Esher CAB, Surrey
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I don’t like it at all. Far too much white, much more scrolling down to see things. It would be better if the actual details of the post were entirely in the white section (i.e. not starting in the left side grey part) & started near the top of the box rather than way down below the poster’s details.
hi derek -
wow that sounds like it’s all gone a bit wonky for you!
here’s a screen shot of how i’m seeing it ... can you let me have one from your end, either post it here or email me ... .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)
(ps - what version of what browser are you using?)
cheers - shawn
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Welfare benefits - Craven CAB, North Yorkshire
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Derek seems to be describing what happens when the browser window isn’t using the full width of the screen.
ah i see ....
thanks for that ... will add it to my list ...
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Welfare benefits - Craven CAB, North Yorkshire
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Since the forum change, I am defaulting to subscribing to any thread that I post in. I thought there was a way to change the default to having that box unticked. Is there a settings page somewhere?
hi ... yes you’re right .... think we had to get that changed last time .... am on it !
thanks again ... cheers - shawn
Gareth Morgan - 09 October 2013 01:19 PMLooking for new posts produces a ‘new topics’ found screen
I meant that when you ask it to show new posts it tells you it’s looking for new topics.
hi all -
thanks again for your feedback ... we’ve made some progress, including -
- added orange folders to highlight new posts (TomH: i’m afraid the nearest farrow and ball match was ‘india yellow’ ... http://www.farrow-ball.com/india-yellow/colours//fcp-product/100066)
- added more contrast in the forum thread view - eg darker grey horizontal banner between posts; and a vertical line to sit between a user’s name/org details and the text of their post
- have combined ‘new posts’ and ‘new topics’ into a new ‘what’s new’ search
- have fixed Derek’s and Craven CAB’s display issues
- have changed the settings re the ‘Notify me via email when someone posts in this thread’ feature, in order that you have to elect to be notified rather than that being the default
again, do let us know if you spot anything else untoward across the site ... .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)
cheers - shawn