Forum layout changes

Just noticed, whats wrong with the avatars. Is the aspect ratio correct ? My sign looks like a blue Billy Bunter, which reflects well for myself, but not the club's badge

gloswhite wrote:While I'm at it, do we really need to press the 'Go' button after we have already chosen which forum we want. The old system was better for this.

Can we have a decent set of icons/emoticons instead of the ragtag bunch we have ?

Otherwise, change is good 

I'm currently looking into getting more emoticons, that's the next thing on my to do list.

Good man

Sorry guys but this is God awful. Please put it back to how it was. One of the things that I most liked about the forum is how easy it was to read and navigate around it. This doesn't work at all for me.

I don't come on for one night and look what happens 

it looks ok to me by the way, i did do a double take when i first logged on this morning but it doesn't look that much different to me.

one thing i would change - a bigger logo on the main page would be better 

Natasha Whittam wrote:Hate this. It's a Wanderers Ways clone.

I'm off until you restore the old look.

I'm not around much at the moment so although I knew a change of layout was on the way I was as surprised as most people to find out that it had been done, I had thought we were going to give a few days notice of it happening to allow people to expect a change and possibly not to 'knee-jerk' to it quite as much as they seem to have.

It's certainly not the finished article and updates and tweaks will take place to improve the look and layout, so give us a chance please.

I quite like Wanderers Ways new look and I don't think it would be such a bad idea if we could achieve freshening up our forum as they have seemed to have done imo.

I've certainly not had any time to find my way about the forum so I can't really comment on that but I do think from a visual point of view there are things we can do to enhance what we've done so far, such as removing the tiny margins we seem to have, replace the black background to white where it is showing behind our banner at the top of the page, and I think if we can also change the pale blue background behind the posts to white, it would help significantly in making the site look much 'crisper'.

Ok, the new look is not to everybody's taste but I've been through numerous forum changes in my time and disliked everyone of them BUT after some time I gradually got used to them - then some years later moaned like hell when things were changed again because I had grown to like the changes that I originally hated!

As far as I understand it, everything we had and could do before, is still available to us, we just need to get use to everything again.

Let us all give it a chance but if you are having trouble with anything about the new look please just say on here what it is and we will try our best to sort it out for you.

Thanks.

Just my opinion... but the old format was easier to read.  This new version seems wider to scan and to me, is much more difficult to comprehend.

Looks fine to me.

This is shocking. Change it back

Unless you are zoomed in trying to read the front page is nigh on impossible. Threads aren't that bad to read but still looks like you are reading a word document because of all the white, especially when reading any long winded post about Brexit or Ken Anderson.

Sorry guys but I'm not a fan either. 
 
I would have done a bit of user research - perhaps via a suggestions box, a dedicated discussion thread and a sandpit site to trial and get feedback on changes before taking a corporate decision and forging ahead with it - design isn't about designers, it's about users. 

Honest feedback rather than a "knee jerk reaction".

Presume there's no chance of going back now?

You'll find white print, on a black background much easier on the eyes.

These changes have come suspiciously soon after the buckets were out in force.

All this white  is really hard on the eyes and does not make me want to stay on here for too long. ( perhaps a good thing)

Give over mithering- you'll get used to it

Not liking it so far. I appreciate it is a work in progress but it is harder to read and I haven't found the navigation as user friendly as it was before. Perhaps I have missed something but what I want when I visit is to be able to go to posts since last visit and then only the new posts on a page not the whole page.

And as for more emoticons - WTF! I only use about three and I don't know what most of the existing ones mean anyway (probably an age thing I admit).

Didn't like having to click view my message rather than being taken automatically to my post either.

Definitely a thumbs down from me to the redesign.  

Although this post did appear automatically!

I just tried to add a picture on here and it won't go on? I'm using the insert image button but nothing comes up?