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Jacob Bugge
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February 12, 2009
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Just one question about basic performance

  • February 12, 2009
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Will the free flow of unified threads be retained, with successive posts filling the entire width, and with simple forum lists of threads, or:

A) Are we going to be put in boxes with forum member information to the left and possibly buttons to the left/right/bottom, so the flow is broken up and takes up far more space?

B) Will the threads be branched, so everything may become fragmented, and so subjects deserving their own threads will be buried deep?

C) Will the forum lists of threads be furnished with dividing lines and possibly arranged by subject rather than latest posts?

I believe those are the most fundamental question about the new forum; most other issues can be solved within the right frame, if needed.

Several times, strong pleas for mercy have been raised concerning threats A) - C).

It is so nice to easily find and pick a thread with new posts in the forum list, and then to run/read through and partake in a coherent and focused thread of successive posts, without things fading away in different directions, without the disturbance of having to cross unnecessary lines and perform unnecessary scrolling because of disturbing information, which might as well be reached by clicking the poster name or some popup button next to it in the line containing the poster name and time of posting.

Question(s) asked while anxiously waiting to see a preview.
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    117 replies

    Harbs.
    Legend
    February 16, 2009
    I'd vote nay on Avatars as well...

    I'm really not interested in seeing exactly how ugly the people I'm dealing with really are! ;) (Not to mention that I'd never put up a picture of me...)

    Harbs
    Participating Frequently
    February 16, 2009
    Avatars aren't too horrible, because they'd be pixel-dimensions-constrained.

    Signature files, on the other hand, even when constrained (either so many characters for text, or pixel dimensions/file weight for images) quite often push the annoyance factor to the limits.

    Additionally, most contemporary forum scripts give each user the option to either view these things or hide them.
    Inspiring
    February 16, 2009
    Please: No avatars. All they do is waste a lot of space.
    Jacob Bugge
    Community Expert
    Community Expert
    February 16, 2009
    I used to be able to start up the IE6 browser several times and enter the forums differently/separately without logging in, and that has been a great thing.

    Now, when I do that, I have to log in to post, and sometimes even to enter a forum (Web Design in the latest case).

    I do not know whether it is possible, and, if so, how to start IE6 up only once and then open different windows.
    February 16, 2009
    Yup, and only Forum Operations can fix it at the moment.
    February 16, 2009
    is that spam, right above me there?
    February 16, 2009
    > please, don't put a flash UI on top of it or on an intro page.

    may i add, PRETTY please?!!
    Participant
    February 16, 2009
    POP ART CANVAS

    The term Pop Art was coined for art characterized by themes and techniques drawn from popular mass culture, such as television, movies, advertising, comics, and consumer products. The movement impacted not only painting and drawing, but extended to sculpture, graphics, advertising, product packaging, photography, and most recently - computer generated images. It coincided with revolutionary social changes on both side of the Atlantic as well as the rise of a more youth-oriented culture and the pop music explosion.

    POP ART CANVAS
    Chris Cox
    Legend
    February 16, 2009
    After looking at those example sites, I have one request: please, don't put a flash UI on top of it or on an intro page. Due to some as-of-yet-unfixed Flash bugs, those were painful sites to visit.
    Ramón G Castañeda
    Inspiring
    February 16, 2009
    Dorothy,

    Customer service can merge all your Adobe accounts if you call them on the phone. They did that for me a few years back, because I ended up with several accounts for variations of my name (with and without diacritics, with and without middle initial, and combinations of all of the above.)