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Just what we needed, TR.

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by ansugisalas

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More clutter.
I'm talking about the "Best of Network" bar - taking up even more of the already woefully reduced vertical center space, despite a veritable abundance of left over sidebar space.
Take it out, please. Kill it.
Dump it next to Hoffa.

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by hal 9000

If they must have it at the very least allow those of us who need the Screen Real Estate to have a way to turn it off.

Col

by purpleskys

put it somewhere else...or give me the option to close the frikkin thing. It's right up there with toolbars to me...i hate toolbars :\

by slayer_

Yeah, what purpose does it serve really? We already have that bar its at the top of the page.

by purpleskys

if i wanted a "toolbar" or whatever the frikkin' thing is, i would have asked for one. I guess that's my point, give folks the option, don't shove it down my throat cause that just makes me pi$$ed-off

by tony hopkinson

Yet more real estate gone.
I know UI experts, who would sack, if not summarily execute whoever you have doing your web design...

by charliespencer

to the bottom of the article. That way, after I read a useful article, I wouldn't have to remember to scroll back up to the top. I got half my wish, I guess; it was moved, just not where I wanted.

The switch to voting on external sites is going to handicap those who work where social sites are blocked. Of course, there's the assumption those who want to vote have accounts on those external sites. It reminds me of that discussion last week when the new member expected us to join another site for the privilege of responding to his questions.

As to the 'Best of Network' bar, I'm afraid to click it. Partially it's my not knowing what it does and my trained aversion to unexpected toolbars, and partially not wanting to have it record a click and thus encourage such behavior.

And I can't get an answer to the new, annoying, 'Auto Enroll for Alerts to Every Discussion You Post To Regardless of Leaving the 'Subscribe' Button Unchecked' feature.

by keighlar

I knew if I clicked around enough I'd find a topic to add my voice to about that real estate stealing eye sore at the bottom of my screen. I'm also one of those people that opts out of social networking in full - no Twitter, no Facebook, no LinkedIn. Additionally, I now find myself having to go into "My Stuff" to unsubscribe from posts to which I never subscribed in the first place. You would think TR would want to clean up the mess in their back yard before throwing more clutter on the pile.

by seanferd

So i looked to the bottom of the article. :^0

It's a damned good idea to have them at the bottom. But even with the outside site "hey, there's this cool article at TR" - buttons, they ain't got one any longer that I'd use. Some of them are OK, but there is no compelling reason for me to create an account at any of them, certainly not FarceBook.

"As to the 'Best of Network' bar, I'm afraid to click it. "

I don't think it actually does anything at all, at the moment. If it does, I'm certainly not inclined to allow more scripts from more external domains, though I have all C|Net/ See BS properties allowed already. Websites are getting ridiculous with this 50 external domain reference stuff. Every improvement in computer, OS, or browser speed is taken up by this dreck, and its a malware security risk.

"'Auto Enroll for Alerts to Every Discussion You Post To Regardless of Leaving the 'Subscribe' Button Unchecked' feature."

Uh-oh. I'm not aware of this one yet.

Waiting for the TR apologists...

by slayer_

Although I notice it doesn't always get stuck to the bottom of my screen, occasionally it stays put at the bottom of the page :).
But frankly, I think this is a browser feature that should be able to be disabled.

by charliespencer

if you're scrolled all the way to the bottom of the page. You'll find it attaches itself at the top of the blue 'TR' section at the bottom. As soon as you scroll up enough for the blue section to fall off the bottom, the bar detaches itself and floats along the bottom of your browser window.

At least, that's what it appears to be doing to me in FF4.

by charliespencer

I've opened several discussions in the last couple of minutes, and many of them are missing the annoying 'Just In' and 'Top Rated' posts from the top of the page. I notice they're still on this one. I'm not sure if it's just a temporary quirk, if they're gone for good, or if I've just forgotten my meds again.

Try '10 reason not to buy a tablet for a student' or 'Tablets for people who hate computers' and let us know what you get.

by charliespencer

I don't care what's top rated, and the 'Just In' was usually out of context. You often have to search for the post to find out what the poster was referencing, or if you wanted to respond to him / her.

I want my blasted indentation dotted lines back, along with my 'New!' flags. Six months and this format is not growing on me.

by slayer_

Leaving behind only that new black bar, and that subscribe to everything error and the not knowing which posts are new.

by charliespencer

When I use FF4's feature to search for text on the displayed page, the located string appears at the bottom of the window. This places it behind the new bar.

by charliespencer

I could even live with the 'Subscribe to everything' error and the new bar if we could get the old format back.

by hal 9000

Has been shot to hell with the recent Redesign.

The Discussions are impossible to follow any more and just about as easy to find. It's impossible to work out which are new or existing posts in most discussion threads.

So what have the Web Designers achieved a Destruction in the [b]Sense of Community[/b] that used to be TR and Lies on the front page of Site Activity.

Anyone else have trouble believing the listed figures? Maybe it's just me and that the new posts are disappearing through the Magic of the Web Site Developers Coding Practices. :^0

Either way it still looks less popular and unbelievable. Why is it easier to find Articles/Discussions on TR by Googling them than using the Site Search Feature or look at the list of recent new threads?

Col

by charliespencer

It's always been easier to use Google to find TR content than any version of the in-house search utility. That doesn't mean this is an desirable condition, but there's nothing new about it.

by slayer_

Though its obvious in the case of this progression, we did go backwards, the website is buggy, unintuitive (even more so than before) and now they are adding even more junk to a site meant for content consumption.
I would rather they just fix this new version and give us some features we actually want.

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