this is the worst site possible

[JasonBModerator @jasonb]

Had the same Yesterday Nick, I sent Darren & Andy this screen shot and a video

 

[Nicholas FarrParticipant @nicholasfarr14254]

Hi JasonB, thanks for your video, that is exactly what I had, and confirms I’m not quite bonkers yet.

Regards Nick.

[peak4Participant @peak4]

[Anonymous]

It occurs to me that by far the largest user of time for me is not site access delay (decently acceptable in my case). It’s that when I click on the the latest post listed, I have to spend a long time scrolling through messages seeking the last message that I, personally, read. This completely swamps any other site tardiness. Being in a different time zone exacerbates the problem since, by the time I get on, UK members have been at it (as it were) for hours. Going to the last post in a thread is not normally useful.

I can of course click on the topic column (on the latest posts page) but that just takes me to the other end of the thread.

IIRC it was like this on the previous site too. I do realise that saving specific thread statistics for every member would be a sizeable task.

[Peter Greene]

On Peter Greene Said:

It occurs to me that by far the largest user of time for me is not site access delay (decently acceptable in my case). It’s that when I click on the the latest post listed, I have to spend a long time scrolling through messages seeking the last message that I, personally, read. This completely swamps any other site tardiness. Being in a different time zone exacerbates the problem since, by the time I get on, UK members have been at it (as it were) for hours. Going to the last post in a thread is not normally useful.

I can of course click on the topic column (on the latest posts page) but that just takes me to the other end of the thread.

IIRC it was like this on the previous site too. I do realise that saving specific thread statistics for every member would be a sizeable task.

Peter, I may be wrong but I don’t think that its the site needs to save details, I think its the sort of thing that cookies on your PC do. I’ve no idea how complicated it is to incorporate into this particular forum and/or whether it was ever in the specification of the upgrade.

Not knowing the location of the participants is another missing feature of both the old and the new forums, all we know is that you are not in the UK timezone.

Ian P

[websnailParticipant @websnail]

Well, I have trouble with the fonts, colours and brightness of the site.

The first thing it needs for me is a dark mode, until it does, it’s unusable foe me.

I’ll just check in every couple of months.

[TomfileryParticipant @tomfilery]

websnail,

I think it’s your browser which needs dark mode, not this site.  I’m using Firefox and can enable the Add-on “Dark Reader” if I need it.  Similarly, ublock origin hides the ads.

Regards Tom

[JasonBModerator @jasonb]

Do people not use other sites with a predominantly white background such as Google? or complain to Google about the amount of white?

[Ian PParticipant @ianp]

That’s a bit of an odd reply Jason😉

For me, all the text on a Google page is a readable size and colour. on this site though some text is unreadable without changing zoom level and in some places the colour difference between the characters and its background is so similar that its hardly visible at any magnification.

Your Google screenshot like most screenshots (of this site) that are included as part of a participants post are generally blurred and have very small text so are unreadable.

Ian P

 

 

[Michael GilliganParticipant @michaelgilligan61133]

[Maurice TaylorParticipant @mauricetaylor82093]

Hi, this screenshot was taken with an IPad 2nd generation (2011)

All of the forum is clear and readable on my iPads .

Maurice

[Ian PParticipant @ianp]

[Maurice TaylorParticipant @mauricetaylor82093]

Hi, I can read those on my 12 year old iPad and my new iPad . The one I read was from 20 December.

Maurice

[duncan webster 1Participant @duncanwebster1]

It’s actually a lot better than when it first started. However, it’s running off the right hand edge of my phone screen, android, so I can’t see whether I’m logged in or out.

Edit, having just submitted that and gone back to the top, it now shows ‘log out’ on 2 lines, before the ‘out was just not there and the display looked cropped

[Robin GrahamParticipant @robingraham42208]

[JasonBModerator @jasonb]

Bill, my question was about the Brightness of the site, prompted by Websnails comment.

To me this site actually has a darker background than the Google site which is near enough pure white whereas this site has a similar area of blank down the left that is off white so noyt as bright.

I would also say that the Google Font is not a black a sit is here both in the editor and the posted reply. Yes the snipping tool is low res but that does not affect the brightness or otherwiseof teh background.

If In doubt split your screen an look at this site and others like this

[Nicholas FarrParticipant @nicholasfarr14254]

Hi, to compare the whiteness of the background, I find comparing pages from different sites difficult, because of different fonts and sizes of the text. I do it by a rubber test, by first making a screenshot of each of two (or more) pages, and then do some rubbing out from top to bottom as shown below, although the top one may not be totally accurate, as it’s a screenshot of a screenshot of a earlier post on this new forum, but you should see that the new forum looks whiter. Both screenshots were edited using Paint.

Regards Nick

[Nicholas FarrParticipant @nicholasfarr14254]

Hi, Another problem I’ve found, is that when I go to Engagements or Forum Replies Created in my profile, the pages are stuck on page 1 and won’t advance, so one cannot view any of your old posts or photos.

Regards Nick.

[peak4Participant @peak4]

[Neil WyattModerator @neilwyatt]

Are people aware that using <ctrl> and <+> you can zoom in and out, or use <ctrl> and mouse wheel.

I don’t know about other browsers, but in Firefox it remembers what zoom to use for different websites, looking at my open tabs they range from 90% to 133%, I use 120% for this website (I used to use 130% for the old one which suggests I find this one easier to read).

Neil

[File HandleParticipant @filehandle]

I have seen several comments about the site being difficult to read, but have never had a problem since it was changed. I know that there have been a few usability issues, but I often wonder if the main issue is that it is different cf the old site and many people don’t like change.

[JasonBModerator @jasonb]

[Neil WyattModerator @neilwyatt]

[Ian PParticipant @ianp]

[John HaineParticipant @johnhaine32865]

Have got an Apple account?

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