New forum software

[Rick Denney]

...There's always been a lot of vertical scroll on TubeNet, and software ain't helping that.

Yeah, some of those guys who have long sigs, like, say, those that have movies of their cute kids, can take up a lot of vertical space, too.

I don't really need the text to be too wide. Proper column width is no more than about two alphabets. Here's the test:

ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ

Yup, I count about four alphabets on my screen. A paragraph with more than a couple of sentences might require a straightedge to keep from losing the line.

I block the ads mostly to prevent flashing displays that attract the attention of people who might walk by my computer. The software will render everything else at full width in that case.

Rick "short sig" Denney

[Rick Denney]

Sean, one issue cropped up for me just now. I had been logged in since earlier in the day, and when I restored that browser window and reloaded the page, I found I was logged out. I hope that doesn't suggest this software is going to require me to log in frequently. The previous software never required it. Yes, I checked the box for staying logged in on this computer, and I have cookies enabled.

Rick "who often visits via dialup where every screen rewrite is an annoyance" Denney

[WoodSheddin]

I block the ads mostly to ...

Starve my wife and children.

[WoodSheddin]

Sean, one issue cropped up for me just now. I had been logged in since earlier in the day, and when I restored that browser window and reloaded the page, I found I was logged out. I hope that doesn't suggest this software is going to require me to log in frequently. The previous software never required it. Yes, I checked the box for staying logged in on this computer, and I have cookies enabled.

Rick "who often visits via dialup where every screen rewrite is an annoyance" Denney

I have been tinkering all day. Earlier today I had the cookies misconfigured. Perhaps you logged in while that was the case. Try to reproduce it again.

[Tubaing]

I don't like the poster information on the right.

I really like that when I want to go to another page I can type in the page number since before it was something like 3 page increments, the first page, and last page.

I don't like that when doing a search each result does not have the title in big bold letters on the top, but I do like the search options.

I bet I know of a former president who would have liked the enemies list feature.

[rocksanddirt]

I'm a forum software luddite. The one I like best is what Craigslist does, absolutely no frills.

That said, this seems like an upgrade to the previous, and I like the names and whatnot being on the right.

Keep up the good work!

[drandomtubas]

It seems fine, except...
The font looks absolutely enormous to me, though. I tried changing the size, but all of the other font options are bigger!
I tried zooming out, but that screwed up the tables and made things very messy... Could we get smaller fonts, please?
I read that other people are having difficulties with the font being too small, |-: I think it's got to be that I have fairly large moniter.

[gwwilk]

Do it yourself. You can change your vote. Another cool option in the new software. Polls can be setup to allow vote changes.

Hey, Sean, that's awesome! Done

[GC]

Is there a key to the topic icons somewhere? Rollover help pop-ups make them a bit clearer, but for example, what's the difference between the animated text icon and the static one?

It takes a while to take care of all of the details of a new board. Another board where I'm an admin opened in December, and it's taken three of us almost 5 months to finally get it running like we want it. Every time we fix one issue another one pops up. Handling trolls and spam has been our biggest issue.

[MaryAnn]

I liked the software two softwares ago (at least)...before the forum moved. You could see who was posting to a topic right up front, and avoid the ones that were being responded to primarily by people you weren't interested in having a discussion with. I think changing away from that software, when the forum moved, had as much to do with the lessening of the quality of Tubenet as anything else.

MA

[CJ Krause]

i like the control panel
lots of choices
would be nice to have maybe some other choices on skins or color choices

no opinion on the save button yet. does nothing for me

at 54 it is hard for me to read as well

[Yosef: Tubist]

I'm at school, and tried IE, Mozilla, and Safari(windows version) and all three look the same..

[NC_amateur_euph]

The new software is fine by me.

I'm just thankful to Sean and the others who put in the time and effort so that the rest of us can click and enjoy.

Would there be life aftrer TubeNet? I'm not so sure.

[trseaman]

I liked the software two softwares ago (at least)...before the forum moved. You could see who was posting to a topic right up front, and avoid the ones that were being responded to primarily by people you weren't interested in having a discussion with. I think changing away from that software, when the forum moved, had as much to do with the lessening of the quality of Tubenet as anything else.

That's true... I had forgotten about that. But these days things are all so pretty. Sometimes simple is better...

Tim

[sloan]

I know that others have asked for larger fonts - but I'd like to put in a plug for a smaller font. Is it possible to get a wider *spread*, or more options? The smallest font now available is considerably bigger than anything else on my screen and I'd *really* like to go one or two steps smaller.

Perhaps my preference will change as I age...

[Lew]

I teach information systems in a University school of business (none of that computer science stuff Dr. Sloan), and I still find the navigation on this new version more difficult. I liked being able to navigate between threads, not just between pages of each thread. I can't figure out how to do that with this version. It seems that with this I have to go back to the main page and then select the thread I want to read. It adds another 2 clicks every time. Is it just me, or did the ability to go to the previous or next thread go away? Also, for some reason I find this harder to read. Font size doesn't help, I think it's contrast. Maybe it's my slight colorblindness, but I find my eyes tiring more quickly with this version.

Other than that I think this is an improvement.

[Wyvern]

I know that others have asked for larger fonts - but I'd like to put in a plug for a smaller font. Is it possible to get a wider *spread*, or more options? The smallest font now available is considerably bigger than anything else on my screen and I'd *really* like to go one or two steps smaller.

I would second that request! I sometime look at TubeNet on my mobile when i am out with time to kill, such as at a rehearsal where the tuba has a break. That happened yesterday and I found this new forum absolutely hopeless to navigate. Text way too big and does not display well on the small screen. Also the downloaded file sizes seem a lot bigger.

Is there any facility on this version for WAP access?

[AndyCat]

I'd also request a more PDA / Mobile friendly option. I use my PDA phone a lot for keeeping up with these boards!

[BVD Press]

Any chance of adding a more space between topics or even between subject, poster and topic? To me eye, it is hard to filter everything. Just too much on a page to separate it all out and find what you would like.

Kind of similar to:

http://drudgereport.com/" target="_blank

too many topics to just just pick out the one you want quickly.

Just my 2 cents. The look is quite good,

[sloan]

The vertical scroll problems would be alleviated if you enforced a 3-line maximum on advertisements^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^Hsignatures.