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Is it possible to undo the current reverse-chronological order of the posts? Maybe I’m just an old stick-in-the-mud, but I preferred “forward in time” as the old forum (and most other forums IME) did.
Argument for newest-post first: the last post is often the “final answer” to a question posed *directly* above in the original post. Argument against: the last post can be the most irrelevant as people “spread the love” across the related topics to the initial post.
Either way I suppose it’s the same number of clicks. But there’s more “mental scrolling”, where you read from the top of a post to its bottom, then must scroll upward, searching for the head of the next (in time) post.
Hi,
I’m not trying to front off potential improvements over the new site. I’m sure it has been a really unappreciated challenge of stopping problems and funding a new site and implementing a change over in just a few days. No criticism from me here.
What I would like to do is offer some suggestions on improving the site cosmetics. I find the current very difficult to read because of the mixtures of weak font colours and bold background colours. I’m many ways, it is very un-B&O.
Some armchair suggestions.
1. Use a slider/dropdown to move to different forums.
2. Pinned topics minimised. I did not like that 50% of the old (MK2) forum had pinned topics on does and don’ts.
3. The forum display on my PC occupies only 50% of the screen width. One of very few web pages that still do this.
4. Do we really need to know the number of topics and reply’s?
5. The Topic subject line (light blue on yellow/white background has really poor colour vibration
6. The Topic and started by is very cluttered. Suggest delete “started by”
7. Last post. Suggest that is keep to indicating minutes up to an hour. Hours up to a day and day upto a week.
8. Recommend closing topics after a given period of time.
9. Have topic, views, replies, last post, poster all on one line
Attached is a screen shot of Auralics forum page. Yes they are a commercial operation who can fund themselves a lot better than Beoworld ever could (Frankly, Bang & Olufsen should be doing it this way and should in my opinion morally contribute to Beoworld for the information provided).
However, it is clean, easy to navigate and easy to search. The forum page is very easy on my eyes.
All these notes are given as my opinion for improvement rather than chastising the job lots or people are actually doing to make Beoworld work.
Best regards
Hi,
I’m not trying to front off potential improvements over the new site. I’m sure it has been a really unappreciated challenge of stopping problems and funding a new site and implementing a change over in just a few days. No criticism from me here.
What I would like to do is offer some suggestions on improving the site cosmetics. I find the current very difficult to read because of the mixtures of weak font colours and bold background colours. I’m many ways, it is very un-B&O.
Some armchair suggestions.
1. Use a slider/dropdown to move to different forums.
2. Pinned topics minimised. I did not like that 50% of the old (MK2) forum had pinned topics on does and don’ts.
3. The forum display on my PC occupies only 50% of the screen width. One of very few web pages that still do this.
4. Do we really need to know the number of topics and reply’s?
5. The Topic subject line (light blue on yellow/white background has really poor colour vibration
6. The Topic and started by is very cluttered. Suggest delete “started by”
7. Last post. Suggest that is keep to indicating minutes up to an hour. Hours up to a day and day up to a week.
8. Recommend closing topics after a given period of time.
9. Have topic, views, replies, last post, poster all on one line
Attached is a screen shot of Auralics forum page. Yes they are a commercial operation who can fund themselves a lot better than Beoworld ever could (Frankly, Bang & Olufsen should be doing it this way and should in my opinion morally contribute to Beoworld for the information provided).
However, it is clean, easy to navigate and easy to search. The forum page is very easy on my eyes.
All these notes are given as my opinion for improvement rather than chastising the job lots or people are actually doing to make Beoworld work.
Best regards
Hi,
I’m not trying to front off potential improvements over the new site. I’m sure it has been a really unappreciated challenge of stopping problems and funding a new site and implementing a change over in just a few days. No criticism from me here.
What I would like to do is offer some suggestions on improving the site cosmetics. I find the current very difficult to read because of the mixtures of weak font colours and bold background colours. I’m many ways, it is very un-B&O.
Some armchair suggestions.
1. Use a slider/dropdown to move to different forums.
2. Pinned topics minimised. I did not like that 50% of the old (MK2) forum had pinned topics on does and don’ts.
3. The forum display on my PC occupies only 50% of the screen width. One of very few web pages that still do this.
4. Do we really need to know the number of topics and reply’s?
5. The Topic subject line (light blue on yellow/white background has really poor colour vibration
6. The Topic and started by is very cluttered. Suggest delete “started by”
7. Last post. Suggest that is keep to indicating minutes up to an hour. Hours up to a day and day up to a week.
8. Recommend closing topics after a given period of time.
9. Have topic, views, replies, last post, poster all on one line
Attached is a screen shot of Auralics forum page. Yes they are a commercial operation who can fund themselves a lot better than Beoworld ever could (Frankly, Bang & Olufsen should be doing it this way and should in my opinion morally contribute to Beoworld for the information provided).
However, it is clean, easy to navigate and easy to search. The forum page is very easy on my eyes.
All these notes are given as my opinion for improvement rather than chastising the job lots or people are actually doing to make Beoworld work.
Best regards
Hi,
I’m not trying to front off potential improvements over the new site. I’m sure it has been a really unappreciated challenge of stopping problems and funding a new site and implementing a change over in just a few days. No criticism from me here.
What I would like to do is offer some suggestions on improving the site cosmetics. I find the current very difficult to read because of the mixtures of weak font colours and bold background colours. I’m many ways, it is very un-B&O.
Some armchair suggestions.
1. Use a slider/dropdown to move to different forums.
2. Pinned topics minimised. I did not like that 50% of the old (MK2) forum had pinned topics on does and donts.
3. The forum display on my PC occupies only 50% of the sceeen width. One of very few web pages that still do this.
4. Do we really need to know the number of topics and reply’s?
5. The Topic subject line (light blue on yellow/white background has really poor colour vibration
6. The Topic and started by is very cluttered. Suggest delete “started by”
7. Last post. Suggest that is keep to indicating minutes up to an hour. Hours up to a day and day up to a week.
8. Recommend closing topics after a given period of time.
9. Have topic, views, replies, last post, poster all on one line
Attached is a screen shot of Auralics forum page. Yes they are a commercial operation who can fund themselves a lot better than Beoworld ever could (Frankly, Bang & Olufsen should be doing it this way and should in my opinion morally contribute to Beoworld for the information provided).
However, it is clean, easy to navigate and easy to search. The forum page is very easy on my eyes.
All these notes are given as my opinion for improvement rather than chastising the job lots or people are actually doing to make Beoworld work.
Best regards
Likewise both drag&drop and click to bring up the file browser give the “The image could not be uploaded. Please check that it is a valid JPEG, PNG, or GIF file and that the file size is no larger than 128 MB.” message. From a Mac. Using old Firefox 45.9.0 (that’s what “ESR” really means!-). Via a squid proxy. [Edit: FF 48.0.2, no proxy; still NG. .jpg, .png, or .gif, all same. Safari 13 Mac, no joy either. Likewise a .jpg downloaded from the forum then attempted to re-upload, same NG.] (If any of that matters, couldn’t find the “other thread” mentioned, to hunt for work-arounds.) [Edit: As suggested, attaching a file to a message to be sent appears to work, but of course it isn’t trying to parse any image format.]
Sorry, didn’t see that you needed to update per-user field(s). Worked fine after you tweaked me just now, editing a message in the “Flash Your B&O” thread. Thanks!
You said:-
“Last couple of days I had some problems logging in but seams to be OK now”
That was almost certainly me as I was updating all users account permissions to allow everyone to post images.
You should be fine now.
I am currently working on the ability for all users to be able to use some inline HTML tags. You may have noticed in the “Testing” thread I added a post with inline HTML
Keith..
Hi Keith,
Not a problem but a suggestion: you’re in the way to publish the previous forum as read only under the name “Archived Forum 2”, right?
May I suggest to name it more B&O, like “Archived Forum MK2” or “Archived Forum NG”?
Obviously “Archived Forum C” would be too confusing…Just a pun.
I can certainly make it “Archived Forum MK2” or anything else.
All suggestions welcomed..
Keith..
How about naming BOTH of them “Archived Forum thru <mm/yyyy>” or “Archived Forum <m1/yyy1> thru <m2/yyy2>” so you’re presenting a bit of information, in addition to “not the current one”? (Archived == “previous” and “before the previous”… ¿huh?)
I like the idea of using the date, but as I need to keep it as short as possible to fit in the menu, then something like:-
Archive 2017 to 2012
Archive 2012 to 2022
perhaps or similar..
Hi Keith,
I noticed that the subscription status appears for some members.
In the old forum, my status was displayed with the F of founders.
In the new one, no status is shown near my avatar.
What to do?
Kind regards,
Yann.
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