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| magic:
--- Quote from: Whales on April 28, 2021, 01:45:04 am ---Hmm, actually wait a second... --- End quote --- LOL, but I prefer the status quo over having 10 huge images auto-load each time I open a topic in "beginners" >:D |
| Ranayna:
--- Quote from: MrMobodies on April 27, 2021, 09:51:58 pm ---I suppose I wouldn't mind if the appearance or skin can be made to match this forum and in size onto the next without the white spaces, convert any fixed element to absolute or a setting, get rid of eye hurting dimming or any overlay stuff on dialogues and loading spinners/animations to a point where I am going to notice 'much difference and don't have to do any work hidng the above elements that annoys me. --- End quote --- I understand where you are coming from. You are mentioning a couple of things that i also do not like about modern webdesign, but from what i experienced, Xenforo only uses these things in moderation, and in some cases i actually prefer it how they are doing stuff. I have to admit that my eyesight is not getting better. I rather like the larger default fonts of Xenforo and increased spacing. Whitespace on the sides can be adjusted, and the discussions of whether it is sensible or not to use the full width of the screen are as old as widescreen monitors are. I have a good comparison for this aspect, one forum that i am also active in has a narrower view, another that i am only occasionally visiting has a full width view. I personally prefer the narrower view, i find it easier to read. The full width view has enourmous amounts of wasted space, especially on shorter posts. Yes, the forum list, and the topic list as well are higher than here. You may reasonably see that as wasted space. But the separation works for me. Loading times indeed sometimes happen. Opening the notification panel sometimes takes a moment, as well as for some reason loading the smilie list. But none of these use full screen dimming or huge spinners, just a small loading animation. I don't think that i ever saw full screen dimming. Overlays are only used for attached pictures. True, they take a moment getting used to, but image handling in Xenforo works better than it does here. All said and done, i do not know what of these things are Xenforo defaults, what are plugins, and what are selfmade changes. Anyway, i sound like a salesman :D |
| EEVblog:
--- Quote from: dunkemhigh on April 28, 2021, 01:05:55 am --- --- Quote --- major prompting like something failing --- End quote --- Where 'datacenter burning down' clearly isn't anywhere near 'major'. --- End quote --- Why would it be? |
| ebastler:
--- Quote from: wilfred on April 28, 2021, 06:03:38 am ---I feel bad for the OP too. --- End quote --- I don't. Trying to pre-empt and disqualify criticism by listing "grumpy users complaining" as one of the downsides in his original proposal did probably not set the best tone for this discussion. |
| MarkMLl:
--- Quote from: Ranayna on April 28, 2021, 08:54:39 am ---I have to admit that my eyesight is not getting better. I rather like the larger default fonts of Xenforo and increased spacing. Whitespace on the sides can be adjusted, and the discussions of whether it is sensible or not to use the full width of the screen are as old as widescreen monitors are. --- End quote --- Regrettably, that sort of thing catches up with us :-( One thing I've found on one moderately-busy SMF-based forum is that the "Updated Topics" page also has a feed of newly-arrived questions down the side. That makes it an ideal base page, since as well as seeing if there's been an update to something in which one is involved one sometimes spots newly-active topics which one is able to help with. MarkMLl |
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