New Forum Structure

I liked the old forum as it was kinda distinctive of Bit-tech.
But I will give the new layout a go.

 

Hey guys,
I applaud the revised layout, it's much clearer without the clutter of header categories. However, the 'message icons' are far too large - i'm finding the project logs almost unbrowsable. any chance they could be made smaller, eg 25px square instead of the current rectangular format? They just take up too much space to my eye, and make thread titles harder to read/browse through. What do other people think?

PS i'm not meaning to be rude - you guys do a great job. Just some constructive criticism

 

Is there anyway, that users who want the old layout back, can at least have the layout back to it, while user's who like the new style can continue as normal.
But my personal preference is that i do not like this layout at all.

Sorry.

Sam

 

Hey there,

Thanks for your feedback, we really appreciate it. I will stitch this one onto the other discussion that's going on. Hold tight.

 

Come to think of it, these icons are quite nifty and are just the right size. The mind can interpret imagery more readily than words, so it helps find topics by criteria quicker by just looking.

Suggestion: in the "For Sale and Wanted" section, the North American sales icon could probably use the addition of a Canadian flag (or other flag) in it because when lightly skimming the topics, it's far too easy to misinterpret UK sales for North American ones--they are the same blue-white-red colour.

 

I'm not a fan of this new layout at all! the colours are nice its just how the forums are all grouped together. Though I guess once I get used to it, it wont be so bad

 

My only concern is that some of the less popular subjects will disappear amongst the many other posts in the reduced categories.

Getting used to the filter system may be the answer, but that will rely on people consistently tagging their posts.

 

Looks good and all but can i please get the old school bit color scheme back? Pretty please? With a cherry? I loved that color scheme to death and this one just hurts my eyes.

 

I'm going to miss postcounts.

Call me old fashioned but i'd rather know at a glance if the user is a long standing member or just some n00b fanboy. in general discussion i tend to ignore fanboy or obnoxious comments made by newbies but will rise to the challenge if its someone long standing. In the for sale forum its essential for good trades and i know its available in profiles but its a lot of effort if your browsing 20 different threads.

Its not a huge difference to the aesthetics and would be a much better left in. What was the reason for removing it?

 

I have a comment that's kind of in line with what Yoda said here. In the Project Logs forum, what's the difference between "Case Mod," "Scratch Build," and "Project Log?" I just popped in there to see how it handles this new structure, and when I run the filter on "Project Logs", the Enzo Ferrari mod goes away. The three choices seem somewhat arbitrary, and the different tags could result in top-quality builds getting skipped over when people hit one filter or another.

-monkey

 

Hey nice work guys! New layout looks little bit too different to my eye but hey, I will get used to it.

 

Maybe ditch the join date, and put postcount in it's place?

 

it's growing on me I like the filters, but could you shorten the user info bar on the left? It seems a bit big

gave me a shock this morning when I refreshed my browser lol

 

There is a dark version of the theme selectable in your user profile, or did you mean something else?

 

Good call, this is why the change is good. This way you're more likely to see interesting things from forums you never used to visit.

 

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Damit!!!!

That's what I'm talking about!!

Bit-tech you ROCK!!



The best I ever saw in my life

 

A thread has to be tagged when created. There is no way to create a thread without it being tagged.

 

Yeah Tim, I did see that and I tried to activate it like the last time the color changed, but sadly dark, light and forum default are all the same color. Not sure whats going on, but my dark wont work

Edit: and why did my user tag change? it used to be "my money fights for me" and now its "I *am* a Dremel". What gives?

Edit2: Now dark works, but im afraid its not dark enough, not like the old bit layout from 4 years ago. It was classic and i loved it.

 

Wow, this was a bit of a shock at first, any chance of the option for ad's on the left ? (dark) pretty please.

Otherwise looking good, relatively easily to nav' hthrough once you get used to it.

 

Gonna take some getting used to but this looks excellent.