New Forum Structure

Can we have development back please... It definitely doesn't help when it's lumped in with technical support for computers. At least a tag all of its own.

 

http://forums.bit-tech.net/forumdisplay.php?forumid=30&picon=18

Tag isn't very clear, sorry (we're working on that)!

 

We need the entertainment, news (bbc ect.\0 and the motors area back, aswell as one for electronics aswell.

And then possibly have a seperate section for entertainment, motors, news and general.

 

sorry but i thought it was better before, in the sales forum my eyes cant help but be dominated by the images on the left. and the lag caused by the opening of all the icons (links to other sites) is painful.

if this has already been covered i apologise - i haven't read all the thread.

 

if (true == PrefersForumsPrior())
{
DisplayOldStyle();
}
else
{
DisplayNewStyle();
}

?

 

What do you mean by other sites? Everything is hosting at Bit's servers.

 

thanks for the beginning of the change of the buttons! much more legible! could you do the modding forum now since thats where i spend all my time

 

I have given it time, but for me it now takes longer to do my browsing of this forum than it used to.

I am only here for the a/v, general and entertainment side occasionally browsing the other forums. But now its all mixed up i find it just a pain. I know about filtering but it is just added complication.
I only kept browsing bit-tech (since coming out of modding) because of a nice collection of people and the fact that the forums where clean and quick/easy to navigate.
The people are still nice, but i find the forums are neither clean or quick/easy to navigate.

 

I have an idea for the improvement of these forums - STOP PEOPLE POSTING FROM IMAGESHACK/PHOTOBUCKET! they have the worlds most awful servers and it takes half an hour to download anything from their servers! :'(

Either way, I appreciate the hard work that has gone into this. It'll take some getting used to, but I certainly don't hate it. It's evolution. The buttons IMO, need to be standardised though. From my eyes they look a bit messy with all those different styles. But thats just me. Otherwise good job guys... once you get your head around the filtering system it's pretty much like the old forums are back

 

After it took some time got get sorta used to the new strukture, the therad tagging/filter functions isn't that bad at all but the icons are imo a little bit to "clutterd" and hard to read. Why not just make simple tag-icons with plain and good to read text instead of small text and a picture that is in some cases hard to identefiy because it is so tiny?!

 

the ickle picture filter things are far too 'busy' and hurt my eyes when not viewed on the filter.
Can you sticky some of the more popular threads in the general category por favor? ie: what was stickied in it's respective forum previously.

 

Well surely you could add your wisdom to more threads now?

 

+vote for making the tags easier to read. yeah the pictures are cool and all but it makes it harder to actually see what a post is about in a glance.

 

Sorry, little chance. Im out.

 

I like it. Goes with the bit-tech theme. I don't like the existing tags tbh, look a lil tacky....sorry

 

I'm not sure which end this is on, but I've noticed that bit now locks up my browser until it finishes loading the page. (Opera 9.20 for linux)

 

We need Poll.. I will start it

1- Back to the old style.

2- Keep this style.

What do you think? I think the old style is way better

Good luck

 

I like Frank's Idea.

 

A poll would be a good idea. The new style is better than I though since I discovered the filter tags however I don't like the designs (fr4nks idea is way better imo). Although I do still prefer the old layout.

 

I'm not sure if any one has suggested this in the last 15 pages but heres my idea:

How about allowing members to select certain tags to be displayed under the section titles on the forum home page, like the old sub categories but only for tags we select, ie:

Hardware & Software ________ Most recent thread - boo user - 12-5-07 13:45
----HTPC __________________ A thread - Me - 12-5-07 10:45
----Graphics _______________ Look at my Uber GFX - PratGuy - 12-5-07 9:41

Just a suggestion and i imagine it'd be a fair bit of extra coding and the like but i would really love that feature. I used to scan the home page looking if there had been new posts in the subsections i liked every 30 mins or so now i have to open each section and look for tags in the huge list. The option i suggest would be even better than the old one has it would allow me to pick more accurately what i want to keep an eye on.

Thanks for a great forum though, that needs to be said more no matter how you change the design!!