New Look Forum!!

Yeah always Richard :-)

I'm just a simple country boy. What the hell is going on?

Regards

Kim

Yeah it looks good.
Everytime David does a change everyone whinges for the sake of whinging!!!
After 5 minutes you get used to it and the world moves on.

or instead of being a sheep and just following what your given people can think for themselves and comment..

Yeah and everytime a change is made you start with I hate it, Its crap syndrome.
After 5 minutes your over it and all is good, give it time Bruce give it time. :-)

agree new layout is total crap
Truckster use IE7Pro freeware and right click on the ad and click Filter Image and you never see the ad again. You can block all the Flash and other great stuff. Never see any Flash and loads pages heaps quicker. If you want to see the Flash you can click on it to see it.

Truckster (Vic) posted-> "why do we need a thread summary in the middle of the screen? is it just to allow the other 1/2 screen to house a massive advert?"

The thread summary does appear to get lost by the inclusion of the add and the “first reply” all in the same area, however I realize the add HAS to be available to be seen and therefore placed ‘somewhere’ - maybe the "thread summary" could be placed above the add on the rhs border ??

In the case of this thread the first “reply” is reduced in size greatly and appears almost as an add-on or afterthought in this thread, however in most other threads it is much larger than the add and looks ok.

I actually like the graded colour sceme.
I believe the “information” posted is more easily read and that is more important to me than seeing the posters name in bold print.

My comments would be more to the large amount of blue (waste screen) background seen on each side of the available forum "page" it could be a case of it has to be there for a logical reason but it appears to waste "page" size, or maybe it's because I view on a wide screen monitor that it's there, I don't know and can live with it.

Just my opinion.

CRAP!!!!!

Like you two, I'm having difficulty grasping the new view and asking myself "why was it needed". However, I have said that each time David has made changes over the past 4 years or so and I guess it's a bit like getting used to a new brand of beer each time I've moved interstate (or up to PNG etc). At first it's just plain "different" and I find it difficult to accept. However, once I've used it for a while (or in the case of the beer analogy........once I've sunk a few slabs), it just seems like it's normal......and to go back to the old way would seem ; .... wrong!!

The one thing I would like to see happen, would be to instigate such changes as necessary to make the site respond "faster". I'm thinking there are too many moving advertisements etc. It's okay here at home on the broadband, but I think I might get the short end of the stick if I was to ask my employer to up the ability of the work computers cos they don't like EO!!!!!! hahahahaha. It's the only site that slows my browser at work down to a crawl and in the end I have to shut it down. hahahahaha

Perhaps David is in league with the bank to up your productivity?

Roachie,

I am interested in this type of feedback and any more details you can give would be appreciated - the new view is a lot less data download than the old system. Just ran a test on the New thread post - Currently old views 146KB new view 116KB - that is 30KB or around 21% less data download. So it should be better - there is a speed issue with caching of the pages that I am trying to do today and this will make it respond to the initial click quicker.

Slows down to a crawl to have to reboot seems very weird I use the site on about 4 different browsers all open all day moving around all over the place testing and re-testing everything and think I would notice this. Only browser that seems weird can be Opera crashes due to a bug in the Flash plugin and Opera - apart from that there should be no problems.

David,

I just opened those two threads (Old view and New view) that you put up, one after the other each in a new window. Am using plain ol IE7 on XP Pro.

The new one took several seconds longer than the old one but mostly seemed to be the browsers anti-phishing filter that was holding it up. Maybe that is something you would like to do some testing on.

I am on 8Mb/s Cable so I don't think the link speed is the issue! but there was definately a difference between the two.

Cheers

The new one is a caching issue that I have not yet finished - Due to the keyword replacement system - that links words to articles around the site ( a new feature in this view) the renders take a little longer to start with - this is to be fixed ASAP. I knew it would be an impact and have a method to fix it just need to install it.

As for Phishing - just turn off automatic - it will leave a button to allow you to manually check if you suspect a site - the MS phishing system is really slow and it does not matter which site you are visiting.

>> I'll reserve final comment until David has advised all of the 'benefits'

revenue ;)

So whats the matter with dollars??
Its how he actually feeds his kids, remember???

Hahaha Truckie, you are a worry :))))

Im horrified to say that I agree with the old codger Gramps 100% on this.

Are you 'attacking' me again fisho64 hahahahaha You can never be too sure in these politically correct times when surrounded by fragile egos :)))

I'll save revealing myself as a disabled member of a downtrodden minority group until the time is right!

Firefox and Adblock will sort that out.

There is no 'moving add' visible to me for the previous 20 replies, the moving adds only appear when the thread and first few posts originally appear on the monitor.
As you scroll down they are gone, well they are on my screen.

Baz,
That would have been excellent feedback should it have been sent to me in the past. I do not use the system that way and had NO idea it was doing this. So please tell me how the hell can I fix if it I do not know it is broken?

I will attend to this today - it should come back to the page you are on, that it what it is meant to do. Got nothing to do with $ got lots to do with telling me about the problem there mate.

Baz,

Logon issue should now be resolved. Let me know if it redirects to the wrong page.

yep, very messy, not nice at all.

If everybody had that philosophy you would still be living in a cave .

but our cave had a broken airconditioner so we moved

Ah but it was broken - you may not think so but the server system and coding to keep it running was broken - So it was, is and needs to be changed.

but did you get that request in triplicate

NO!
i rest my case

yer cant b numbayun cause he haz a pitcha