We have been updated!!! ​?​

[Bruno de Souza Lino]

3 hours ago, craigb said:

Apparently, dark grey on black is a thing now?

Yes. It is a thing that breaks several accessibility standards, but why care about all those which have some sort of vision related handicap when you have to flex your graphic design muscles?

Also, in some threads you have this right column which steals screen space, gives irrelevant information to people that participated in the thread, attachments, who posted more and so on.

Now, the buttons for multi page threads are almost invisible unless you hover your mouse over...assuming you can actually see them.

The reputation thing has been removed, which renders post reactions as useless as the unnecessary space between your post count and avatar.

But the best part about is you can't ask or complain about those issue in the relevant forum section because it has been set to read only.

Edited July 26, 2023 by Bruno de Souza Lino

[craigb]

There's more blue (links, surrounding the reply area, etc) and the notifications and message icons are very hard to see.

[Bapu]

7 minutes ago, Lord Tim said:

 Let's not throw any shade until it's all settled.

It's too dang hot here in So Cal, we need all the shade we can get.

[Bapu]

@craigb yer an author now? ?

[craigb]

Me thinks someone is reading our feedback! ?

The icons I couldn't see are now white on black.  Much better!

(Thanks!!!??)

[craigb]

59 minutes ago, Bapu said:

@craigb yer an author now? ?

Who knew??! ?

[jesse g]

Thanks CbB,

I can see again, I can take off these Coke lenses and stop squinting.     ?

[InstrEd]

2 hours ago, jesse g said:

Thanks CbB,

I can see again, I can take off these Coke lenses and stop squinting.     ?

Lucky you. I still need my Coke Lenses to see

[Shane_B.]

I guess this falls under the heading, "Be careful what you wish for, you might get it.".

[Bruno de Souza Lino]

After some checking, contrast ratio of the page buttons to the background when you're not hovering over them is 1.03:1, which fails all WebAIM standards for accesibility. The acceptable ratio for them would be 3:1

[InstrEd]

10 minutes ago, Bruno de Souza Lino said:

After some checking, contrast ratio of the page buttons to the background when you're not hovering over them is 1.03:1, which fails all WebAIM standards for accesibility. The acceptable ratio for them would be 3:1

I wish this was more widely followed but alas the few always seem to be forgotten

[Grem]

Looks good on my S10 phone. And as I was browsing the forum this afternoon at my music machine I noticed some changes.  Mostly that righthand column... I just thought that I unknowingly changed a setting.  LOL!!

Nope, not me this time.

Edited July 27, 2023 by Grem

[Bruno de Souza Lino]

Is the right column thing gonna be permanent? If that's the case, will there be an option to turn it off?

[craigb]

2 hours ago, Bruno de Souza Lino said:

Is the right column thing gonna be permanent? If that's the case, will there be an option to turn it off?

Is that a phone question?  I don't see any new right column!

[Canopus]

I think that side bar has a positive side effect (no pun intended); it makes each post become less wide which in turn makes it easier to read. The rows are otherwise on the verge of being uncomfortably wide on my WQHD monitor.

However, for anyone who desperately wants to get rid of it, and also got AdBlock Plus installed in their web browser, you can always add a custom filter to remove it completely. I did exactly that, but in the end decided to return to the way it was for the reason mentioned above.

 

[Grem]

Funny thing is, on my music computer with Win10 I get the bar on the right. On my home PC that I am using right now, there is no bar!! I have no idea why it's there on my music PC and not this one.

Missing the notifications thing up on top of the page too.

[Bruno de Souza Lino]

5 hours ago, craigb said:

Is that a phone question?  I don't see any new right column!

At least in my phone, it appears right below the first post of a new page. And because it was not dimensioned with the page layout, it clips the top banner.

I was gonna upload a screenshot, but I don't seem to be able to do it from mobile. After I select a file to upload, it deletes my entire post text, which then gets restored after I click the text box again.

[Keni]

1 hour ago, Grem said:

Funny thing is, on my music computer with Win10 I get the bar on the right. On my home PC that I am using right now, there is no bar!! I have no idea why it's there on my music PC and not this one.

Missing the notifications thing up on top of the page too.

No bar?

 Where is a man supposed to get a drink? 

[Bruno de Souza Lino]

9 hours ago, Grem said:

Looks good on my S10 phone.

The numbers thing also looks okay in my phone too. But I don't think requiring everyone to own a HDR display so the forum color scheme can have the proper contrast to be a good idea.

[Grem]

On my phone, the page number of threads is a nice color. 

On my desktop they are faded, unless I hover my mouse over them, then they get brighter.