New Forums

[Siegmund]

I did forget to mention one big improvement (which I missed the first day since people weren't using the built-in auction formatter much):

 

Congratulations, you've finally got the auctions in W-N-E-S format! On the old forum, we were stuck with "dealer-first" auctions that caused nonstop "which person is bidding what?" puzzles.

[kgr]

In case it was not yet mentioned:

If you include a suit symbol, eg ♣ by then the text clubs between [ ] is included, but this text is selected and deleted if you continue typing

It would be easier if text was not selected with cursor after last ]

[1eyedjack]

First of all, apologies if this has been mentioned already somewhere in the 7 pages of this thread, but ....

 

Not that I intend to make use of the system for voting posts up or down, but I am just curious as to why some posts have the vote possibility embedded but others do not. Any takers?

[Finch]

Most things that are different just need getting used to, I think.

But along with a few other posters, I really HATE the amount of vertical space that everything takes up - both the individual replies, and the thread listing.

[kenberg]

First of all, apologies if this has been mentioned already somewhere in the 7 pages of this thread, but ....

 

Not that I intend to make use of the system for voting posts up or down, but I am just curious as to why some posts have the vote possibility embedded but others do not. Any takers?

 

 

I agree, but if I may expand: Is there, or could we have, a file somewhere that explains this and other features? If it exists, where?

 

I'm not unhappy, I seldom am, but I am a bit confused, which I often am.

[NickRW]

Not that I intend to make use of the system for voting posts up or down, but I am just curious as to why some posts have the vote possibility embedded but others do not. Any takers?

 

I'm guessing that it is the mods who you can't vote up or down - they're just gods anyway.

 

Nick

 

PS It appears you can't vote yourself up or down - but you can report yourself!

[NickRW]

None of the hand diagrams have the vulnerability shown it seems.

[TylerE]

I encourage those who are unhappy with the new look to try my user style: http://www.bridgebase.com/forums/topic/42400-alternate-style-for-forums/ (Requires Firefox/Chrome)

[gnasher]

Most things that are different just need getting used to, I think.

But along with a few other posters, I really HATE the amount of vertical space that everything takes up - both the individual replies, and the thread listing.

You could reduce your own contribution to that problem by telling us less about your interests.

[Aberlour10]

I have a minor problem >>> if I try to hide a segment of the forum clicking on (-), it doesn't work, the only action that happens is...I get to the top of the site

[NickRW]

I have a minor problem >>> if I try to hide a segment of the forum clicking on (-), it doesn't work, the only action that happens is...I get to the top of the site

 

You'll have to tell them what Browser and version of it you are using - coz it works OK for me on a really ancient version of Firefox.

 

Nick

[nige1]

[hv=pc=n&s=sakqjht987d6543c2&w=s2hakqjdt987c6543&n=s6543h2dakqjct987&e=st987h6543d2cakqj&d=s&v=b&b=7&a=pp1dd1s2hppp]399|300|The new format will be fine once we've got used to it and a few quibbles have been fixed e.g.

1. Choice of skin (in profile). The operators can include a skin something like the old one for traditionalists.
2. Scoring method in hand diagrams.
3. Replace Word "board" with "forum" in profile choices.
4. Avators.
5. For those who want variants, you can edit the hand contents between hv tags
6. Also, notice that if you use the hand comment facility, you use less vertical space (a worry for many).
7. But this effort demonstrates that there are still a few layout problems. For example, list numbers overlap the diagram.[/hv]

[TimG]

Most things that are different just need getting used to, I think.

But along with a few other posters, I really HATE the amount of vertical space that everything takes up - both the individual replies, and the thread listing.

Your post consisted of three lines of text (in my view) and about twice that in vertical whitespace because of groups, posts, joined, gender, location and interests along with "limit bidder" a row of dots and a couple if icons. All that stuff makes for lots of vertical empty space. I think it would be nice if the default was not to show most of those things. (But, nice to have them in the profile...which you can see when you click on a name or otherwise ask to see a profile.)

[hotShot]

Seems that we can really use Google search on the new forum.

[1eyedjack]

I'm guessing that it is the mods who you can't vote up or down

So does that mean that if you can go up and down you are rockers?

[hotShot]

So does that mean that if you can go up and down you are rockers?

LOL

 

 

Have you seen Quadrophenia?

 

[655321]

I find the format of the timestamps hard to read. The 'Today' and 'Yesterday' ones are fine, but when the time is separated from the date by a forward slash the numbers seem to run into each other (2010-Sep-27/11:18). Maybe a space instead of the slash, or some other way to make them more readable. I forget how they used to be displayed.

[Venom]

What was wrong with the previous version?

 

I had to change the name of my personna to a previous screen name in order to access this version. That OK, people have been telling me for years that I need a significant personna adjustment. Crawling on my belly ain't so bad. Just don't step on me.

 

DHL

[655321]

I find the format of the timestamps hard to read. The 'Today' and 'Yesterday' ones are fine, but when the time is separated from the date by a forward slash the numbers seem to run into each other (2010-Sep-27/11:18). Maybe a space instead of the slash, or some other way to make them more readable. I forget how they used to be displayed.

Haha, fixed, thank you!

 

Now, if I only knew why my kitten picture keeps disappearing...

[Gerardo]

Quite regardless of the layout, I find the extra space between lines in the content of posts to be incredibly annoying to read.

 

Also, I've just discovered that about half of every page the server sends consists of inline CSS. Wow, what an incredible waste of bandwidth. Everyone has a browser cache nowadays, you know.

 

The CSS data is no longer inline. Sorry.

[Cascade]

Psychic controls (Includes ANY partnership agreement which, if used in conjunction with a psychic call, makes allowance for that psych.)

 

I just quoted the above text in another post.

 

The added text "said:" to the quote header is annoying when the quote is not something that someone has said.

 

It would be better for more flexibility here.

[cherdano]

Why are upvotes disabled?

[whereagles]

where's my pic anyway? lol

[barmar]

Why are upvotes disabled?

Because voting is not yet enabled.

[Rain]

You can now make up to 10 positive votes for any post each day. There are no plans to enable negative votes at the moment. My first vote (and the forum's first!) goes to the Bridge Personality one. :)

 

More to come as we get more familiar with the new look.