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pliny · Oct 26, 2002, 11:44 PM

Don't you? The Lounge is at the top; software is collapsed into one; and different forums for 9 and X. Yippee.I didn't liek the way classic had been banished into its own little corner like nobody used it or referenced it at all. It's very useful. AnywayI like the new layout it's easy to navigate. okthanksby.

Zimphire · Oct 27, 2002, 12:26 AM

My user control page is messed up, kinda screwed with me when I first logged in.

CaseCom · Oct 27, 2002, 02:07 AM

I think having the Lounge at the top is strange. This is a Mac Web site; put the Macs at the top. I mean, someone visits here for the first time, and the first thing we want them to see is the Lounge? God I hope not.

Zimphire · Oct 27, 2002, 02:09 AM

Originally posted by CaseCom:
I think having the Lounge at the top is strange. This is a Mac Web site; put the Macs at the top. I mean, someone visits here for the first time, and the first thing we want them to see is the Lounge? God I hope not.

They are likely to never come back again.

gorgonzola · Oct 27, 2002, 08:07 AM

Originally posted by CaseCom:
I think having the Lounge at the top is strange. This is a Mac Web site; put the Macs at the top. I mean, someone visits here for the first time, and the first thing we want them to see is the Lounge? God I hope not.

Yeah, I agree. We've moved the "General" section to the bottom for now (where it was) because site-specific stuff like Feedback, Lounge, Marketplace, etc doesn't make sense as the first category. I think this way is much nicer, but we'll see how people like it.

We've also cleaned up the nasty archive system. We might clean it up a little further, but now the 4 OS X archives are one big "Mac OS X" archive, the iMac archive has been merged back into the iMac forum (since both are relatively small), all the Third-Party Software posts are now in the active forum, and the two Lounge archives have been merged together.

I like it too. Things are looking much cleaner without all that dead weight lying around.

Thanks for your feedback.

CaseCom · Oct 27, 2002, 11:15 AM

Thanks, looks good

I like the overall reorganization.

Brien · Oct 27, 2002, 02:39 PM

Can us themers possibly get our own forum???

austeros · Oct 29, 2002, 09:03 PM

i definately like the simplified arrangements, good job guys!

ReggieX · Nov 1, 2002, 11:58 AM

Well, great, but when are you going to fix the drop-down menus on the Fourms proper and the MacNN home page?

This happened during the UBB -> vB transfer too. Don't you guys talk to each other?

Amd are you ever going to fix the friggin' Instant vB code buttons?

gorgonzola · Nov 1, 2002, 01:57 PM

Originally posted by ReggieX:
Well, great, but when are you going to fix the drop-down menus on the Fourms proper and the MacNN home page?

This happened during the UBB -> vB transfer too. Don't you guys talk to each other?

Amd are you ever going to fix the friggin' Instant vB code buttons?

The drop down menus on the forums have never been broken...and as for the main page, we just updated it. The actual links worked, we just hadn't updated the names yet.

What's wrong with the Instant vB buttons?

wdlove · Nov 1, 2002, 02:03 PM

Since I'm new don't know what it was like before. Like the way it looks, thanks!

reader50 · Nov 1, 2002, 06:01 PM

Originally posted by gorgonzola:
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What's wrong with the Instant vB buttons?

He means the missing "Hmm..." and "Errr" icons.

I would also mention all the missing icons in the User CP / Private Messages area, but since I don't want to make the new icons myself, I will not bring them up.

ReggieX · Nov 1, 2002, 10:57 PM

Originally posted by gorgonzola:
The drop down menus on the forums have never been broken...and as for the main page, we just updated it. The actual links worked, we just hadn't updated the names yet.

OK, never mind. I think I was seeing the old X-General, X-Software, etc. in my head.

What's wrong with the Instant vB buttons?

They don't all work, and if we can't change the Font style, why bother having the menus there?

Boodlums · Nov 8, 2002, 12:27 AM

Hmm, I deleted all my macnn.com cookies, based on info at
the vbulletin.com site. Let's see if I can post again...

Boodlums · Nov 8, 2002, 12:35 AM

Originally posted by Boodlums:
Hmm, I deleted all my macnn.com cookies, based on info at
the vbulletin.com site. Let's see if I can post again...

Yay! I'm so glad it was that easy to fix. Whew!

Now, my only comment is that I don't like the new "centered"
text -- I much preferred the old left-aligned categories. It
was much easier to visually scan for titles; now it's taking
five times as long to locate titles.

I find forums by vertically scanning a compact list. Can you
please set up forums.macnn.com like that, closer to the way
it was under UBB? The current layout is too hard to use.

thanks,
-Walter
(who hasn't been here since the forums were UBB)

gorgonzola · Nov 8, 2002, 09:10 PM

Originally posted by Boodlums:

Yay! I'm so glad it was that easy to fix. Whew!

Now, my only comment is that I don't like the new "centered"
text -- I much preferred the old left-aligned categories. It
was much easier to visually scan for titles; now it's taking
five times as long to locate titles.

I find forums by vertically scanning a compact list. Can you
please set up forums.macnn.com like that, closer to the way
it was under UBB? The current layout is too hard to use.

thanks,
-Walter
(who hasn't been here since the forums were UBB)

I don't understand. What's centered? The category titles and forum titles look left-justified in the table to me...