Interesting how people have different perspectives. I find the new format extremely easy to read. Well spaced, minimal interference and readable fonts. The old site gave me a headache. The actual content was buried among protruding ancillary data and you had to scroll past vast areas of white space to get to the meat of the next post. Plus, the old site was pretty much useless on mobile devices.
The other cool things is, you can highlight a few words or sentences in the post you want to quote. Then a little balloon will popup that says "Reply." Click on that and it takes you to the form to enter a post with the selected text quoted... which is what I did for this post. Much better than repeating an entire encyclopedia page when you just want to comment on one small point. When I see someone quoting an entire large post, I just skip it.
We can put that one on the something to consider list. I want to collect everyone's ideas for a week. Then we can go over them at the same time and see what is the best way to proceed.
I think it was there on the Test Forum, to the right just below Staff Online. Maybe it didn't make the crossover.
I looked on cafe.somd.com and I don't see that feature. If it was there, I never noticed in how ever many years we ran that software. What am i Missing?
Hi, It is actually there, but it only appears when someone has a birthday that day. I set my birthday to today on the test system so you can see what it looks like. The user even get a special banner when they come to the site.
Good info. Thanks for the feedback!
Yes, that is not what I meant. I can see them that way but I would like to see them on the front page like they used to be. For example:
