It's going to get a little weird.

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Wow what a change! Nice improvement, although a few things could change to make it an awesome improvement.

* Get rid of the yellow/mustard text – it’s hard to read on a grey gradient.
* The site is incredibly slow now, maybe less is more?
* The titles headlines should be in 1 colum. It’s hard to read the outline of the story in a 1/2/3/4 column structure.
* The like/dislike is distracting and pointless
* Whats with the logo reading Rio Tact? I think someone else mentioned the white space as well.
* The main photos at the top fade on too slowly (could be my connection)

Overall it’s great to see something new.

Wow what a change! Nice improvement, although a few things could change to make it an awesome improvement.

* Get rid of the yellow/mustard text – it’s hard to read on a grey gradient.
* The site is incredibly slow now, maybe less is more?
* The titles headlines should be in 1 colum. It’s hard to read the outline of the story in a 1/2/3/4 column structure.
* The like/dislike is distracting and pointless
* Whats with the logo reading Rio Tact? I think someone else mentioned the white space as well.
* The main photos at the top fade on too slowly (could be my connection)

Overall it’s great to see something new.

I’m also getting a lot of “Error establishing a database connection” messages when I try to access any page on the site.

FF with NoSquint at 120% helps with the tiny font.

Jazz said :

will also be increasing the size of the font in comments.

I actually think the font size is fine so long as the whitespacing and layout formatting was better, but reducing whitespace and removing the comment gradient would actually improve readability even if the font size were smaller (Ctrl+minus a few times, see the improvement).

Put the userid actions near userid references (ie: friend\block this user near the name\photo), comment functions alongside comments (Quote\Report near the top, where you always have comment data…).
Kill off the minimum size of a comment block, and you’d have a greater amount of usable real estate.
(A single line comment does not require a usage block of 85mm on a)

I come for content, not the joy of buttons designed for the visually impaired and usability issues of forever scrolling down through whitespace.

Also, the recent comments box needs greater thread&comment. 4 threads with 9 comments is way down on where it was.

PS: Internal sitesearch is fucked, as is your google indexing now that you’ve changed url formats.
Google will eventually improve if you request re-indexing, though.

…and where’s the ‘home’ buttom at the bottom of the garden? did the faeries do a heist??

(am i the first three post nutbag on v.4.0?? 😉 )

ok, hit ‘preview’ for the previous comment and the ‘semi-colon close parentheses’ looked just like two punctuation marks – then the ‘live’ version turns it into an emoticon. now, i will applaud it going into the spot where i put it [:)] but why doesn’t ‘preview’ do what it says on the box?

Jazz said :

will also be increasing the size of the font in comments.

yay… 😉

PM is nothing new skid. load on the other hand is.. we’re looking into that issue as with your comment editing problem

will also be increasing the size of the font in comments.

Jazz said :

mobile version with stripped down options being worked on

Huzzah! I’d been meaning to ask about that on the old site.

mobile version with stripped down options being worked on