Anime Your test site sucks

[Lokiamis]

The font size is incredibly small on high resolution monitors. Thankfully every single browser in the world has site-specific zoom settings to allow users to adjust it to their liking!

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[Tacgnol]

Before you all harp on too much, be aware that DU is jumping between 2 basically incompatible versions, and so he basically has to redevelop the entire style.
Give him some time.

Yeah it's going to take some time to sort all these issues. IIRC DU has always said the plan was to get it shifted over to XF2 with only the most basic features (ratings etc) ported and then work on the rest later.

 

[samuraigaiden]

Everything is shit nowadays and the codex is trying to keep up with the times.

Seriously tho, abort that shit. It's completely awful. Leave this crap the way it is. If it isn't broken don't fix it.

 

[Ranselknulf]

Is the poll for the current site or the test site?

 

[†††]

Everything is shit nowadays and the codex is trying to keep up with the times.

Seriously tho, abort that shit. It's completely awful. Leave this crap the way it is. If it isn't broken don't fix it.

I bet when they see donations drying up they'll change their minds (in case it gets implemented). Even Leddit allowed (and still do) access to the old design.

 

[shywn]

Actually, I think the new one should default to 16px, as is the recommended *minimum* standard. The AmigaLove website I linked above uses 1.6em, which translates to 16px, and is just perfect.

...no, 1.6em means 1.6 times the parent element's explicitly set font size, and in the case no such parent element exists, 1.6 times the browser's default font size. The browser's default font size is usually 16px (12pt).

If your site is 16px, it's not because of the em size.


Not sure why your site advocates a "minimum" of 16px; I personally consider that to be a wee bit large. Never needed any glasses, good enough eyesight, ageing poor-quality monitor positioned a metre away.
The site loses credibility for not having any goddamn margins though. That's a big faux pas for a supposed typography site.


The last and only web site I made was in the GeoCities days but I sure know a lot of things about web design...


Anyway, thanks to this thread, I realised I accidentally had a microsoft font on my system: Tahoma. Deleted it, and now you're all rendering in Helvetica.

I'm 40 and I can read the codex just fine without magnification. I am a bit surprised my eyeballs haven't been fried with how much I stare at computer screens. Never needed glasses or anything.

 

[Grauken]

to all the members who leave over the redesign. I will miss you but there was nothing we could do to stop it.

 

[The Decline]

Jesus Christ you dumb goombas, it is not an issue of "FONT SIZE". Fixed width Codex scales perfectly fine with zoom. Zoom in if you have a big screen. Fixed.

nuCodex looks like donkey shit, no matter how you scale it. NO FIX.

6 forums v.s. 4 forums at the same resolution. THAT is the issue. And the obnoxious scrolling header and avatar and other assorted faggotry. Grey text on grey background on side panel. And so forth.

The comparison shots say it all, nuDex has an incredible amount of wasted space and looks incomplete. The font size is fine on either IMO, but my god that's a huge amount of blank space between elements.

 

[Verylittlefishes]

yeah, this font thing is fucked up

 

[Ranselknulf]

I think the "fluid" layout is better than the "fixed" layout. (they are the buttons at the bottom left of the webpage.) They both have wasted space, but the fluid wastes less space.

The nu-codex functions better on my mobile phone, but the PC/desktop website is worse looking, and the PC/desktop site is what most people care about.

Others have mentioned the space usage of the nu-codex, and it definitely needs improvement, but I think it can be tweaked as needed. It definitely could be worse and I hope it is improved before the nu-codex goes live.

The shoutbox looks ok to me. I think time stamps should be turned off though, and also turn off button ratings for shouts. There are too many other things to work on with the nu-codex to worry about incorporating new features into the shoutbox. Add the button ratings or other things back later if you decide its worthwhile.

I don't like the font either.

 

[Absinthe]

Layout is currently being improved. Still not quite where it ought to be, but already doing much better than it was yesterday. Font size on test site is now 13px (same as the current Codex, unless you're using custom stylesheets/userscripts/etc), fyi.

 

[Skinwalker]

IMPROVE THE COLORS

 

[InD_ImaginE]

Can you please not make it looks like some random modern forum with those mobile blocky design and space wasting?

It looks awful. I like the squareish feel we have today.

Is there any critical reason we are upgrading to XFR2? Just for official support or something?

 

[†††]

Is there any critical reason we are upgrading to XFR2? Just for official support or something?

Yeah I don't get it. If the only reason for change is Goolag crying about font size, why not make the font bigger in the current forum?

 

[Absinthe]

Is there any critical reason we are upgrading to XFR2? Just for official support or something?

Correct. According to Saint Proverbius the problem is that they are no longer supporting regular XenForo so if you want security patches, you need to upgrade to XenForo2 (or make your own patch, I suppose).

 

[†††]

Correct. According to Saint Proverbius the problem is that they are no longer supporting regular XenForo so if you want security patches, you need to upgrade to XenForo2 (or make your own patch, I suppose).

I haven't seen a single good looking XF2 site. The Codex is doomed

 

[Absinthe]

Well, you can make XF2 look like XF1 with enough effort.

 

[†††]

Well, you can make XF2 look like XF1 with enough effort.

Do they want to put the effort into it though?

 

[Absinthe]

Effort is being put into fixing up the UI right now and if the staff doesn't do it, someone will probably make a relevant userscript (although that only helps the people who both know of this userscript and install userscripts) or stylesheet (and that also requires a certain addon, unless it gets added as a codex official layout option).

At any rate, as I said, it's already looking much better than it was yesterday, even if the UI overhaul is nowhere near finished.

 

[Scruffy]

If you've ever wondered what happens behind closed doors whenever people complain on this subforum about anything at all:

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[racofer]

to all the members who leave over the redesign. I will miss you but there was nothing we could do to stop it.

No more boobs and vagene for you.

 

[Grauken]

to all the members who leave over the redesign. I will miss you but there was nothing we could do to stop it.

No more boobs and vagene for you.

I will always have google picture search to keep me entertained

 

[Bibbimbop]

So... each post has the username UNDER the text, so you don't realize how shitty the take will be until after you've read it.

 

[Tacgnol]

to all the members who leave over the redesign. I will miss you but there was nothing we could do to stop it.

No one will quit over it. There will be a lot of jawing and empty threats and maybe some leaving "forever" (for 2 weeks) and then they'll get used to it.

Most of the bitching is about things that can easily be fixed with scripts if DU doesn't have time.

 

[Maxie]

good that chris avellone died before he could see this travesty or he'd die again from shock