UncleTom Posted April 17, 2012 Share Posted April 17, 2012 Are terribly hard to read Try adding some visual separation between the forum posts please... While there is a slight separation of black vs gray, it's hard to see and I agree the forums look very cluttered now. The two colors pretty much blend together on my monitor. Also, white or yellow on black is murder on your eyes for long periods of reading. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DexenOnone Posted April 17, 2012 Share Posted April 17, 2012 Changing the forums??? THATS IT! /unsub Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FaithWhisper Posted April 17, 2012 Share Posted April 17, 2012 Also, white or yellow on black is murder on your eyes for long periods of reading. Yup - which is why I've made it a habit to simply "mark" everything so the text gets white.... Shouldn't have to do that. Give us TWO options of forum colors - please Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tikigit Posted April 17, 2012 Share Posted April 17, 2012 (edited) Examples: What I see every time I access the forums: http://content.screencast.com/users/Tikigod/folders/Jing/media/ca7568e9-6221-4ac2-9da3-61ad7fe7f24c/2012-04-17_1746.png How far I have to scroll down through the enlarged images and small handful of initial super links just to get to the forum section overview: http://content.screencast.com/users/Tikigod/folders/Jing/media/5516ff0a-c434-4328-b691-3ca56be6ee49/2012-04-17_1747.png I am liking the new style itself.... but certain aspects of the design just feel counter intuitive from a perspective of navigation and quick access to where you need (or rather want) to go. Front page suffers the same problem, all the top news uses to be expandable and collapsible... now it's a whole scroll down the page affair, but with a fancy Javascript/PHP slide show at the top for marketing. Edited April 17, 2012 by Tikigit Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lethemback Posted April 17, 2012 Share Posted April 17, 2012 (edited) I don't like the change either. They're harder to read now and, what's worse, the combination of the dev font color and the current background hurts the eyes (not aesthetically, but literally). Easy fix: let us choose which design we want to use (old or new one), via our account config. It shouldn't be that hard to do so, if the website/forums are properly implemented. Cheers. Edited April 17, 2012 by Lethemback Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yakito Posted April 17, 2012 Share Posted April 17, 2012 (edited) I hate it. No frames, background merges with everything, the grey/silver colour is ugly and it's hard to read anything. I think I'll be visiting the forums less often, to some people it may be a good thing. Edited April 17, 2012 by Yakito Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Glarsaahl Posted April 17, 2012 Share Posted April 17, 2012 My biggest complain is that the new layout and color scheme is hard on my eyes. Like...literally difficult for my eyes to adjust and read. I can feel the strain in them as I read over this very thread. I think the color scheme is way too dark and the layout does not focus your eyes where they are supposed to go, which is the first thing you learn in any college design course. All this frameless/borderless stuff is terrible on the eyes. I agree with this. I am finding it difficult to read these new forums, this is just not agreeing with my eyes at all Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StealthStalker Posted April 17, 2012 Share Posted April 17, 2012 I don't like the change either. They're harder to read now and, what's worse, the combination of the dev font color and the current background hurts the eyes (not aesthetically, but literally). Easy fix: let us choose which design we want to use (old or new one), via our account config. It shouldn't be that hard to do so, if the website/forums are properly implemented. Cheers. Agreed, why there isn't an option to choose between the two I'm not sure. I'd understand if this were a completely new forum system (eg: Warhammer Online's change of forums), but it isn't. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
V-Serp Posted April 17, 2012 Share Posted April 17, 2012 It's pretty dark, I don't like the new default. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DexenOnone Posted April 17, 2012 Share Posted April 17, 2012 seriously, you people will ***** about free money Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Foxcolt Posted April 17, 2012 Author Share Posted April 17, 2012 I bet this is why ranked WZ's were delayed..cuz y'know they had to get this new snazzy website up and running! THANKS BIOWARE.. GOOD LOOKIN OUT BRAH Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Miyaka Posted April 17, 2012 Share Posted April 17, 2012 I bet this is why ranked WZ's were delayed..cuz y'know they had to get this new snazzy website up and running! THANKS BIOWARE.. GOOD LOOKIN OUT BRAH Oh grow up. The WZ's ranking system was bugged...and the team who works on web content is TOTALLY different than the team that designs in game content. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
grania Posted April 17, 2012 Share Posted April 17, 2012 Some new avatars would be spiffy, Bioware (: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lethemback Posted April 17, 2012 Share Posted April 17, 2012 seriously, you people will ***** about free money Actually, we're giving our opinion/constructive criticism on the change. And it's a fact that some parts of the new forums and website are bad (with all due respect to whoever designed it). The old design wasn't the 8th marvel, but at least it was easy to read. Also, a minor complaint that I could add is that it feels less starwarsy than the old one, and that it resembles A LOT the WoW's one Cheers. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Titimario Posted April 17, 2012 Share Posted April 17, 2012 Be happy mens, French Forums does not work... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pathlight- Posted April 17, 2012 Share Posted April 17, 2012 The new forums look great. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FaithWhisper Posted April 17, 2012 Share Posted April 17, 2012 Sure the forum "looks" great - just not nice to the eyes! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Foxcolt Posted April 17, 2012 Author Share Posted April 17, 2012 Oh grow up. The WZ's ranking system was bugged...and the team who works on web content is TOTALLY different than the team that designs in game content. let me troll in peace..don't come in here with your "sense" and "logic" and stuff... btw wz ranking system wasn't bugged...it was the queuing system they had issues with, if ranked WZ's would have gone live ranked teams of 8 would have been paired up with pug's queuing for regular wz's. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancrizans Posted April 17, 2012 Share Posted April 17, 2012 I have to agree somewhat with the OP...the fact that every other post is not distinguished from the rest of the page has a kind of unsettling effect on the eyes. A simple black border around the lighter colored posts would solve this problem. Also on a functional note...if we are not logged in and click reply...then go about logging in, the site should take us to the post box to reply to the thread we intended to, not make us navigate all the way back via the Community menu. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ukonius Posted April 17, 2012 Share Posted April 17, 2012 New forums are great and easy to read. thumbs up BW Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Akella Posted April 17, 2012 Share Posted April 17, 2012 Love the change and the font. Looks great on my iPad! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thoffs Posted April 17, 2012 Share Posted April 17, 2012 Link to 1.2.0b patch notes is currently bugged. http://www.swtor.com/patchnotes/1.2.0b/4172012 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Raoul_Duke Posted April 17, 2012 Share Posted April 17, 2012 /whistle This is sexy . . . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fredcat Posted April 17, 2012 Share Posted April 17, 2012 They're easy to read but ugly. Black/gold is just tacky as hell. Blue with white type looked much nicer. The one change they really needed but didn't do was add separate forums for each server. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tahyri Posted April 17, 2012 Share Posted April 17, 2012 I like the new look, only issue I have with it is that when the page loads, my cursor is automatically placed in the search box, so I can't scroll the page with arrow keys without first clicking outside of the box. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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