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by cactus pete

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So you changed the layout again, in the middle of the day.. I missed the announcement again...

But WHY is the first "Featured Discussion" the urgent staff post????

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by cactus pete

ALSO...

Now when i click on one of the discussions, the visited status of the link doesn't change to let me know I've seen it already.

Please revert back to that.

by deepsand

The link color, denoting status, is controlled by your browser; it determines whether to use colors set by the site visited, or by those chosen by you or your browser.

More importantly, it is your browser that remembers where you've been, not hte web site. And, the browser only has a history of activity on a particular machine.

Change machines, or clear the history, and your view will change.

by cactus pete

On the main discussion page, when you click on one of the new discussions, does the color change?

Mined used to, and it still does on all the links within the discussion...

This CAN be controlled by the server, so I think that's where it is.

by tbragsda

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I personaly am haveing very urgent happy feeling that that post made it to the "Featured Discussion", I would have missed a golden opertunity to get in the ground floor with a guy that will change the world.

As for the format change, I don't care much for it.

by oz_media

I haven't noticed any major changes since last week's updates.

The My Discussions loink seems the same, as for it being a visieted link, if the discussion is updated it is at the top of the list but the most recently updated,works in my eyes.

by smorty71

"AARGH," "crap" and "bleah!" That's what we like to hear!

Seriously, though, what is it (besides the link color and featured discussion) that you dislike about the page? Is it the layout? The choice of content sections?

Let us know. And thanks for providing us with candid feedback.

sm

by oz_media

I think it's PUUUURDY!

(hey it's better than my usual opinions on site changes :) )

LOL, Great post though, you should link to that in the Friday Yuk.

There's a question for you, how come you and Jay never post to the Friday Yuk?

by cactus pete

I like that the discussions are higher on the page. I always had to scroll down from the top to see them otherwise.

So a big thanks to that.

by gralfus

The initial page seems to be trying to do everything. The "Featured discussions" takes up a lot of real estate, and the portion beneath that about profiles takes up another chunk. Lower on the discussions page we have whitepapers and audiocasts, along with a large advert for the roadshows. I can understand wanting to make these all available, but it seems like a quiltwork of various things that aren't necessarily discussions. I typically bypass everything and click immediately on "View more new discussions"

by oz_media

The new Profile page is kinda odd.

I really don't care for the list of Discussions My Contacts are having, that is just all over the place.

My take, when I am engaged in a discussion, it generally involves some familiar peers and contacts anyway. I don't share ALL interests with my contacts though. Now I have a limited list using up more Discussion page real estate that links to a bunch of posts I'm not interested in.

If I was interested in what 'house' or 'Colin' are discussing, I can go to their profile and have a look.

I have tried the new one out for a few hours and find that if I click on someone else's post, I end up in the middle of some topic (that I am not involved in)and the dialogue would require backing up and reading all the posts to follow it.

Example: If I got to a thread Colin has just posted to, I may find myself dumped in a post that says, "I know what you mean, in Australia it's no better"

!?!??!?!?! What the..?

I look for NEW Discussions, I look through My Discussions, I can even look for HOT Discussions and SEARCH the discussions AND peer databse (often just reordered repeats of each other)and if all else fails I could subscribe to DIscussions. This is just too much now. I think the Discussions are becoming OVER accessible. The peer data is becoming TOO integrated/cross referenced.

For the VERY rare time that Colin is engaged in a topic I MAY have missed (as he would say, 'Not bloody likely') then I will either pick up on it through other dialogue with him or just have to pass it up until it becomes listed as Hot, then MY Discussion.

It also makes it harder still to FOLLOW a topic I am already interested in.

I might see it in My Discussions, then I'll find it in Hot discussions too, wondering if i have missed a new post and often checking it several times throught my TR surfing only to find it hasn't been. NOW that SAME thread and post will be pointed at again?

No thanks, nice work but enough's enough I think.

by cuteelf

On the My Profiles page, the first tab has contacts on the bottom left corner. Great.
So why make a tab just for contacts? Either or, IMO.

I was a bit thrown off the first time I loaded site today. Taken by surprise, really. Let me twiddle with it and I'll get back to you *hows that for management reply :P *

CuteElf

by smorty71

Oz,
Thanks for the feedback on Posts from my Contacts.
The thinking was that for newer members or members with just a few Contacts or members who don't visit every day, it would be a way to help them stay on top of what their Contacts had been posting.

I agree that clicking on a post will sometimes drop you into the middle of a thread; however, I often look at the post titles and, if it looks interesting, I will click the thread title to start at the beginning.

I have used it quite a since we launched just to keep up with the latest posts in the piracy threads. For a thread I was familiar with, it was helpful (at least for me anyway).

Thanks again for the feedback. And thanks for killing my buzz over your PUUUURDY comment. :)

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by tomsal

I don't really like the list of discussions my contacts are having, pretty much OZ said the reasons why on that.

Strange it must be *update* week or something...

last night couldn't log into World of Warcraft for my evening fix due to a major patch (the dumb arses did the patching during peak hours -- you should of seen the posts on the forums how po'd folks were).

then on Monday, my bank's website was down temporarily for a re-design.

now today TR is sporting a new layout.

...is everyone done changing things? LOL

by oz_media

Brown in the FRONT and Yellow in the back this month! :) And I FEEL GREEEEEEAT about it!

by dwiebles

Didn't log into World of Warcraft yesterday, a new patch you say? This warrants investigation :)

As for the site, I personally like it, but being one of the less active members, many of the features that some of the regular members are reffering to don't necessarily apply to me, or at least, I don't use them.
Sumation: my opinion is useless, disregard it!

Cheers

-Dusty

by smorty71

What a coincidence :)

Look for me in this week's Friday Yuk. I have a feeling my post will have something to do with feedback on this new page.

by jessie

All the other "stuff" on the discussions page is fine... but IMO, it should be BELOW the main links to the categories. Most of the time, I just want to go in and see what's in my favorite categories, and as it now stands, with my res at 1280x1024, I have to page down in order to get to the categories.

We're a lazy bunch really...

by smorty71

I have a feeling that one of the stylesheets used for the new page has visited links set incorrectly.

I'll take a look and see if I can get a fix out.

Thanks,
sm

by thechas

sMoRTy,

I tried both Firefox 1.01 and IE 6 SP2.

For both browsers, on the main discussion center page the link color does not change for me either.

On the list of new discussions page, the link color does change.

In fact, the link color is shown as a clicked on link for any discussion that I had clicked on when I was on the main page. So my browser does recognize that I had clicked on the link.

Hope this helps.

Chas

by deepsand

On all the machines that I regularly use, link colors for each state remain as always.

While the server can "suggest" colors for links, the browser is the final arbiter.

And, only the browser can remember which links have been visited in previous sessions.

by deepsand

I thought that you were referring to the links on the Home/Discussion Center/New (Hot) Discussions pages.

As I never use the links that you are referring to, I never notices any problem!

I did notice, now, that the same occurs for the Featured Discussions links as well on the page in question.

by tomsal

With the WoW update --- about time you gave the interface more action bars...Thanks. But can we work on the uptime of the servers now? LOL

With the bank update --- ummm....during the update your team accidentally withdrew $50,000 from my checking account can you please make sure you re-deposit this as soon as possible?

thanks.

;)

by tomsal

With the WoW update --- about time you gave the interface more action bars...Thanks. But can we work on the uptime of the servers now? LOL

With the bank update --- ummm....during the update your team accidentally withdrew $50,000 from my checking account can you please make sure you re-deposit this as soon as possible?

thanks.

;)

by tomsal

Wow was nasty Tuesday night to get into. The patch was a pain in the arse big time.

But worthy improvements to the GUI and brighter colors now (oooh purdy).

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