I HATE this new format.
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I agree; it sucks. Hard to read and difficult to tell when you've already clicked on a post.
Yeah, the colors are so light its a whole lot tougher to read... Could never understand why once ya have a good thing, change it... Baffles me... I do like the new "Topics I contributed to (within the last year)" program though...
I like it. Looks cleaner to me and I have no problem reading it at all with my 74 year old eyes.
Looks washed out I liked the old format.
Well at least our annual fee to rant didn't change:)
It's ok but I liked the old format better.
Clean and easy. Old people find a comfort zone that is unsettling which becomes difficult to accept the new changes of anything.
The message reigns supreme. No change there. That is all that matters. All else is window dressing.
The Rock
Reading on Android tablet (Nexus 7), in portrait mode formatting is such that much of right died of screen cut off. However after rotating to landscape and back, a much better experience.
I wish the thread titles would change color as before so you can tell when new comments were added.
Understand that the changes were made to improve mobile use, but when screen dependency is landscape and mobile devices are mostly held and read in portrait, there is a problem.
Other than the minor problems that have shown up, the site does load faster and is easy to use as most of the old is still available and Pat has promised that the missing features will return.
shuteye,
My post was speaking from experience. I know how uncomfortable and irritated I am when somebody moves the remote from its anointed place and leaves it elsewhere. Another I can't stand is when my wife says "pasta sauce" and my blood pressure goes through the ceiling in place of "macaroni gravy" which we have said our entire lives. I ask for the bread and now she hands me a knife with it. Who the hell needs a knife for bread ? Not me never did. " Your getting old is what I get". Your getting old is my response. I am just getting older.
The Rock
Well, I'll be 75 in May and I have no problem reading these posts. I don't wear glasses either. Your wife hands you a knife with the bread so you can spread some butter on it? She is looking out for you.
There are some good things to the new format and several things that could be added or need fixing:
1. Return the Forum icons to the top.
2. Use a better color format. The new one looks 'washed out' to say the least.
3. Fix all of the buttons that take you to an ERROR page when you hit them.
4. Let people read their own Sent PM's. Right now you can only read them after the other person has replied.
5. Allow for at least some limited editing to Thread titles, to include spellcheck.
6. Enlarge the EDIT box!
I liked the old format better too.
shuteye,
If my wife put butter on the table with macaroni and Italian bread (real Italian bread I might ad) that would be grounds for divorce where I come from. Any Italians on here would understand. ;-)
Kyle
Pat said all the things we had will return and has fixed glitches rather promptly.
4. I can read my sent PMs. Waiting for a reply, but can see my PM.
6. Agree, but you can embiggen the edit box with the lower right corner.
I like green and white....GO SPARTANS!! LOL
it's fine
some of you fellers probly still miss msdos....i know i do, for certain things...
every site is heading this route, some worse than others. i prefer a choice between computer and mobile version, but i dont own a website
OTOH, maybe pat lost control of his site with the icann handoff
Green and white is fine, Wimpy green sucks!
Whoa! Just went to My Bowsite and was really redirected to outside advertising when trying to access my PMs. On tablet....need to go to to computer to see if same there. Did this four times to see if fast finger problem.
same here AM
got jacked for a survey after multiple redirects....
hoping all prior formats are backed-up...twice
i think the screen door is unlocked
I'm getting jacked also.... HARD. Makes site unusable. Must be the Russians.
Mouse,
I had the same problem a while ago.
E-mailed Pat to let him know the CF had been hacked.
I think it's not CF specific, it happened to me accessing My Bowsite from the BGF as well. Hard to get out of, keeps redirecting.
Just went to My Bowsite.
I saw Mouse had PM'd me, but two seconds later, I got the hack re-direct again.
f'ing detonated...thats the spirit!!
Pat,
Just replace the limp-wristed wussy green with something a little bolder and brighter and we'll all be fine.
Edit/update:
Kyle...did you get my PM? I don't see it when I checked.
Go Green! Go White!
I hate change. When I was a kid, they had to hang new clothes in my room for a week or more before I would let them put them on me. If I wasn't a freeloader here, I would complain. As it is, I will probably have to move on to something that doesn't make my eyes hurt. Give it time :-)
Hurts your eyes too Henry? I have to switch to Leatherwall for a while to rest mine.
Imagine that...a bunch of ultra-conservative men want everything to stay exactly the same....
Pat, I have a suggestion that you can probably implement before Monday. User specific configurations. Two areas I can think of right off the bat (I don't need royalties from these great ideas):
1) State forums. If I could configure a subset of the 57 states, I wouldn't have to keep scrolling past Connecticut and Pelucider to get to Minnesota and Wisconsin.
2) Forum Icons. Same idea here. I have never clicked on the Ferret or Creepy Clown icons. Let me configure my 5 ones i want to see displayed most often.
Sounds like others have issues with colors but I am seeing things just fine. Thanks for the work so far. Next big change, implement and then go on vacation for a month.
Well Pat, I guess we're just a bunch of old farts that don't like change..
Gotta add my name to the "hate it" list...
Mouse,
I did not get a PM from you.
I understand working out the bugs. That's to be expected. I'll get used to the new stuff. My biggest issue is that it's hard to read and after a while I get a headache.
It appears that the PM is not working. PatB...I have sent you two WRT computers. I see neither of them on "My Bowsite" as I had seen one I did send on this new version and wondered if it was working. Pat...it seems that I will have to look up the links I found and post them on your computer thread. I came across a couple of really good deals...and a desktop that came with Win7, 12 G RAM and a 1T 7200 rpm hard drive (vs a slower 5400 rpm). No monitor, but you said you had one. If I remember correctly, the price was around $450.
jack
I think it's hilarious how many people B#*^h about something that cost as much as bowsite. Thanks Pat and we will all get used to it. I kind of like the simplicity of it.
Edit space has been enlarged. Go Pat!
Jack, I'm afraid you've got your members mixed up..lol
I was asking about the computer, and did get your PM yesterday. Sent you a reply, as I'll be ordering that desktop (the Dell) asap.
Got your PM's...I'll check the expiration date for the listing.
Mucho thanks for sharing that link...It's perfect!
Mike (Mi nombre no es Pat)
My only issue is the font is a little light for me....but I am getting old. Other than that....I like it.
"Green and white is fine, Wimpy green sucks!"
I agree, this green is the same color as the late Paul Wellstone's campaign bus, which I hated. Make it darker green...like the pine trees his plane went down in.
I'm still not sure what to think of it, but hey, it works...
Cold bad flow color wise!
Good grief.... had no idea there were so many interior decorators here..... so worried about the color schemes....
Do any of you old farts even HUNT anymore????? (I'm 60, I can call anyone I want an old fart. And lots to choose from here for sure!) You quit being young when you start resenting.... well.... everything..... Personally I plan on being young right up to when the bugs start, um.... recycling me.....
Be grateful on the CF..... Leatherwall has been given up as a lost cause.... not worthy of.... well... pretty much anything.....
Wondered what happened to those ObamaCare website developers. Nice to see they found work and still working their "magic."
I havent been keeping up with changes or debugging efforts but I still can't get to this forum through the site on my ipad/Safari.
I agree. My Commodore 64 isn't showing the graphics and everything is a dingy shade of blue...
I wonder how much longer I am going to scroll 1/2 way down the Big Game forums looking for Community Forum on the right side before my brain rewires itself?
I was just getting used to the small edit screen, now it's back to normal, will the madness ever end?
TD, I’m guessing your LW “pretty much” qualification refers to everything beyond 20 yds. ;^)
Ya'll remember "New Coke?"
" (I'm 60, I can call anyone I want an old fart. And lots to choose from here for sure!)"
I agree, I'm pushing 58 and I consider myself an old fart. And from one old fart to another, I still hunt.
Bunch of damned kids! I'm 68 and Shuteye is something like 74.
I feel like a 30 year old.
Just wish I could find one interested.
:-)
not sure why phone has to be rotated to view count, date, etc
Greg...and you have to rotate it after reading a thread. How many people use their phones/tablets primarily in landscape mode? I find that in portrait, often formatting is such that the right side of screen is cut off and one cannot scroll to read. Must resort to landscape to read those threads.