Feedback on Forum Upgrade

[Ady34]

Once you get used to the new one, you won't even remember how crap the old one was

No truer words spoken!
I was a huge fan of the old site, it was easy to navigate and use and I was worried about the change to a new format. I'm not one for change, and had become familiar with the old forum, but I really do find this site far better now that I've used.....perhaps over used.....it. I don't even consider the old one now and really like many of the new features for ease of use. It looks great and works really well.

I haven't used the website as much as I did before the upgrade.

I'd say give it a chance and spend some time using some of the features to see what they do, just press on stuff, it seems very different but many of the same formats are here just worded differently, plus there are many more added ones too.
Cheerio,
Ady

 

[LondonDragon]

I use the settings that are best for my monitor to get best colour matching between PS and reality, bit of a waste of time to keep changing it all the time.

Tweaked it a little bit so hopefully not so "bright"

 

[Nathaniel Whiteside]

hey paulo,

Would an alphabetical ordering on the 'online now' list be an idea? just for quicker reference of someone specifics status.
I don't know what others think? would save reading through the whole list

Cheers,

 

[LondonDragon]

Would an alphabetical ordering on the 'online now' list be an idea?

thanks for the suggestion, I have now changed it to alphabetical which makes more sense!

 

[Nathaniel Whiteside]

Thank you paulo sir!

 

[ghostsword]

I cannot believe how slow the site is.. tried it using ie, chrome and firefox.. from home, from work, etc..

The site looks great, but too slow..

 

[LondonDragon]

I cannot believe how slow the site is.. tried it using ie, chrome and firefox.. from home, from work, etc..
The site looks great, but too slow..

Slow? that's the first I ear about it, its flying here!!

 

[AndrewH]

Slow? that's the first I ear about it, its flying here!!

I would echo that. Its as fast (if not faster) than any other forum that Im a member of. Very quick indeed.
And thats even on my home connection which is a crappy 3Mb broadband connection (through O2)

 

[ghostsword]

Well, then the issue is on my side.. this thing is slow as hell.. hence why I have not been active as much..

Many times I get:
The following error occurred:

The server did not respond in time. Please try again

 

[ghostsword]

The following error occurred:

The server did not respond in time. Please try again.

 

[AndrewH]

The following error occurred:

The server did not respond in time. Please try again.

Hey Luis, try flushing out your browser history and cache, and reset any security settings to DEFAULT.
There are some deeper things we can try, but I would start with the above.
What browser is it you are mainly using?

 

[LondonDragon]

The server did not respond in time. Please try again

I have seen some mention of this error when using Chrome for various sites, the previous version of Chrome did that to me all the time on various sites, noticed a lot on ASW as well, I don't see it now, only see it at home when my connection is maxed out downloading something.

 

[ghostsword]

Thanks will try.. I am sure that the issue is on my side then.. if nobody else is experiencing the issues.

I am using chrome.

 

[LondonDragon]

I am using chrome.

I am finding Chrome a pain in the butt recently, I am considering changing it soon to Opera, has been giving me loads of issues on various sites, including displaying images on some sites, they show up then just vanish!

 

[AndrewH]

Mozilla Firefox if you are on a PC.
Fantastic all round performer, and very easy to debug and tweak should anything go wrong.

 

[ghostsword]

I got right of the cache, and done a Chrome upgrade.. must better now.. thanks Paulo..

 

[ghostsword]

I got rid of the cache, and done a Chrome upgrade..

Still times out .. will continue to troubleshoot.

 

[LondonDragon]

I got rid of the cache, and done a Chrome upgrade..

Try a different browser to see if you get the same issues!

 

[ghostsword]

yeah, will have to.. but I am getting there, replied to two posts already, so just need to figure out what I am doing wrong..

For example it keeps flashing Draft Saved..

 

[LondonDragon]

For example it keeps flashing Draft Saved..

that is fine, just keeping your message in memory so that you can retrieve it using the last button on the first row of icons, there is an earlier post about that in this thread with pictures. This allows you to move between pages on a thread and reply to various posts without the need to copy and paste. (this is an addon I installed and not part of the standard package)