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Offline Oldsmobile_Mike

Re: main screen looks too cluttered
« on: September 03, 2018, 06:36:32 AM »
I agree. Too cluttered. You could eliminate 80% of the lines of text on the home screen, would probably be an improvement.  :'(
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Offline Oldsmobile_Mike

Re: main screen looks too cluttered
« Reply #1 on: September 03, 2018, 04:56:40 PM »
The topic here _is_ the "main screen", aka "the portal".

But allright, here is link to forum - the argument remains.

https://web.archive.org/web/20180217174950/http://www.amiga.org:80/forums/forumdisplay.php?s=ec617ead184210fd548e1089eb6060b0&f=17

Thanks for posting that screenshot.  Ah, memories.  It sure looked better back then.  @F0LLETT - more text does not necessarily equal better.  Just because "everyone else does it" is not an answer, either.  I used to check amiga.org 15+ times a day and have something like over 6,000 posts.  I like to think at least a few of these posts have been helpful to the community over the years.  The screenshot Kolla posted accurately reflects what I, personally, would want to see.  Succinct and clear, one can see the titles, reply count, last poster, and forum category.  Not a wall of text that I neither care about nor have time to read (and which also looks terrible on mobile devices).

Also, how the @#($& do you attach a picture to a post?  Seems the built-in forum tools for doing that are gone?   :'(
« Last Edit: September 03, 2018, 04:59:40 PM by Oldsmobile_Mike »
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Offline Oldsmobile_Mike

Re: main screen looks too cluttered
« Reply #2 on: September 03, 2018, 07:17:09 PM »
To be fair, EAB's layout (for example) is even worse, which is why I always preferred this site.  I go to "eab.abime.net" and I see links and links and links.  "Amiga scene", "Retrogaming", "Nostalgia", "support.whatever.whatever".  "Request.whatever.whatever".  No "main section" showing the most recent posts.  I don't care about a bunch of sub-forums that may not have been posted in for months.  Main website should open to a simple "at a glance" list of the most recently updated threads.  Just IMHO.  :)
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Offline Oldsmobile_Mike

Re: main screen looks too cluttered
« Reply #3 on: September 11, 2018, 05:46:23 PM »

I think people are going to have accept change and stop complaining about little things that have no bearing on forum usage. Having someone say the forum is completely useless now is completely crazy.

Change is hard.  Russian proverb I heard a long time ago: "New is first enemy of old".  ;)

That being said, you haven't replied to either of my questions about attaching pictures to forum posts.  Is that feature gone for good?  Seems it would make it a lot easier to communicate exactly what the issue is, if we could just post a picture highlighting what's wrong with such-and-such a thing.  ;)
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Offline Oldsmobile_Mike

Re: main screen looks too cluttered
« Reply #4 on: September 13, 2018, 10:09:20 PM »
I’d post a screen shot of the unusable site from my iPhone, but there is no way to attach an image to a post!

To follow up. There is an issue your end.
Site looks and works perfectly on my IPAD3 using Safari. Same for IPhone 7 using Safari.

"perfectly".   ::)
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