Hate! Hate! Hate! (take 2)

[Wayne]

@Cammy,

Edited post.  Upon Review, ?do=newposts was replaced with ?do=getdaily for everyone, so "New Posts" is now the same screen for everyone.

Wayne

[Wayne]

In my opinion remove the login frame from the top page and just leave the space on the upper right corner.
When logged, in the home page, always remove the frame with avatar and personal info from the top page, and place the same in the upper right corner (with avatar and other relevant info as well - more than now).

The "Welcome block" as it's called, has been deactivated.  If you still see it (and you shouldn't), customize the page to remove it.

Remove the popular tags frame as default.

Actually, I remembered WHY that's there.  That's there both for the users to work with and quickly find a topic (click A1200 to see all A1200 threads), but *also* and in a way, more importantly, for Search Engine Optimization (SEO).  Makes us popular.  We like popular.  Popular is fun.

Wayne

[Wayne]

Actually on the old site they appeared below the Amiga ones.  So you had a list of new Amiga/Computer posts followed by a list of new Coffeehouse posts.  As it is now you don't see new coffeehouse posts at all...

With apologies, the old "new posts" page was a custom written module (from me).  The new site doesn't provide a way to segment like that natively, and if we custom changed it, it'd have to be rewritten every time a new version came out (something we're trying to avoid).  

I can certainly add Coffee House discussions back to the new posts page if you'd like.

Wayne

[Wayne]

Actually on the old site they appeared below the Amiga ones.  So you had a list of new Amiga/Computer posts followed by a list of new Coffeehouse posts.  As it is now you don't see new coffeehouse posts at all...

Actually, I stand corrected.  Since I changed "new posts" to "Today's Posts", the CH discussions are showing up there.

Wayne

[Wayne]

While i *begin* to like this site (again) while using my sam and OWB I'm still not happy with a "quick browse" to amiga.org using my trusty OS3.9 systems. The fully fledged version is known to be creativly "reconstructed" by AWeb, IBrowse and Voyager and the mobile version is ... ahem ... not that sophisticated ;-)

I realize you probably haven't read the hundred or so posts explaining that the site is no longer 100% compatible with the classics, as well as why not, but suffice to say that time has marched on, and the classic Amiga browsers have not.  Don't use a dead, unsupported browser to try and reach a web site then expect it to work.. Go yell at the authors of those browsers and tell them to quit slacking off.  They've had 12 years worth of break, it's time to get back to work.. ..

Wayne

[Wayne]

Ah, my apologies I didn't know how the site worked...  That seems like a great compromise.

Thanks

You say that, until tomorrow morning when "Today's Posts" show nothing because there haven't been any posts yet...

You guys gotta make up your mind..  

[Wayne]

I accept that most users surrendered ;-) and browse amiga sites with a windows pc (or aquivalents).

We all -- myself more than most -- understand the loss of potential users, but 12 years after the most current classic browser was released, the number of people who got left behind were far, far outweighed by the advantages offered by the new system.

This, being 2009, is just one of those situations where -- if the authors of those browsers hadn't given up -- it would still be perfectly usable if they hadn't.

I had a choice.  Move forward, or close the site.  I hope I chose well.

Wayne

[Wayne]

Seems smiley text recog is too sensitive, look at the line below-

SYS:Devs/DosDrivers/PC0

Nothing that ANY system which uses smileys can do, except to change all smiley codes to phonetic, : smile : / : grin : and so forth, which would pretty much make things worse for everyone.

Try using the [ code ] feature for things like that.

Wayne

[Wayne]

Well, no hate here... just one little request, I have no idea why it bothers me.....

On the old Amiga.org , if you held the mouse pointer over the 'Random Pic' you would get a short description of the pic .....  no more :eek: I know, it's nit-picking.. but sometimes I can't tell what that shrunken pic is... :lol:

But beyond that, great job Wayne....

I'll see what I can do.  You might submit it as a feature request using the bug tracker.

[Wayne]

The grey bar at the top with the "Submit News", "User CP" and "Log Out" buttons does not seem consistent with the rest of the UI to me. Personally I preferred it when these links were part of the main links bar directly underneath the logo, in the same style as "Home", "Forums", "Gallery" etc.

The problem is that that bar is getting too long for lower resolution users, causing it to wrap.  

I'm still working on how to better get all of that done, but the reason it was separated was to give a secondary bar to promote the "submit" feature for each section.

If anyone is a graphic artist and has a better idea for how it should be done, I'm all ears.

Wayne

[Wayne]

One thing I don't know how to do is access my public profile without first finding one of my posts clicking on my id and going trom there...

I think there must be a quicker way (maybe in the quicklinks menu? But I can't get quicklinks menu to work on the ipod touch)

Quick Links >> Your Profile