New Forum Look

monica wrote:Here’s a little

monica wrote:

Here’s a little bit of blue, a more modern font …

The more I look at this page, the more I think you should use a ‘sans serif’ font for the comments. I think it gives the page a more modern look and it’s easier to read. Look at the difference between the title of the thread “Forum New Look” and its font and the font used in the comment boxes.
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I find it hard to
I find it hard to differentiate between the pale blue and the white in the comments with the effect (for me) that I don’t immediately link the poster’s name with the post. I have to look twice to see if the name goes with the post above or below.

Is there any chance of separating them with a border? A “border-bottom: 2px solid;” in the comment-base class (possibly with a few pixels of bottom margin) works well for me. For some strange reason, this helps me see the blue box and arrow to the name better as well.

most of the “argh it’s too
most of the “argh it’s too big” comments seem to be from people viewing on a tablet that’s defaulting to mobile view. so a ‘full site’ option would fix that

Dave Atkinson wrote:…

Dave Atkinson wrote:

… anything else?

Can you add an option to add polls to the forum, like the cyclingnews.com forum does? Then you can tabulate results, like how many visitors like the new look, without relying on people having to comment. I think only die hards comment, but maybe you’d get more opinions from a simple poll…

I’ve left this a few days to
I’ve left this a few days to see if my initial impressions changed after some use but alas…I still hate it! 🙁

I generally view the site on a tablet (galaxy note 10) – on the old version I could see pretty much the whole main page on a single screen and zoom to my hearts content. The layout was pretty logical and easy to use and the “scrolling” latest news section at the top gave a good overview of any updates without taking up too much space.

Now one headline takes up nearly the whole screen. I have to scroll endlessly to find anything and I cant zoom in or out. The text is stupidly big.

The layout seems clumsy and not particularly logical (lots of repetition).

Road.cc replaced bike*****r and cycling***S as my site of choice about 8 months ago but since the change I seem to find myself back there much more.

Sorry to be a luddite as I’m sure tons of work has gone into this but I really don’t think the change is for the better.

netclectic wrote:monica

netclectic wrote:

monica wrote:

Here’s a little bit of blue, a more modern font and a cool use of white space that reminded me of maybe what this might strive for:

http://www.ozy.com/presidential-daily-brief/pdb-3034

I actually got there by folllwoing a link from cyclingnews.com.

Sorry. but that right there is my worst nightmare. If road.cc ends up there then I for one will not be back.

That blue IS nice though 😉

One thing I feel should be
One thing I feel should be changed is the variable width of comment boxes in the forums.

This is particular prevalent in the Binche-Chimay-Binche thread where the comment box only appears to be as wide as the text in the comment leading to all sorts of differnt width boxes as people list their teams. Just don’t like the look of it and think a consistent box width would look better.

Also, I was kind of hoping for something to stop people from editing posts hours/days after they’d been submitted in order to show it as unread again and try and prompt a response to something that had otherwise been ignored… *cough* *enrique* *cough*.