Things We Find Irritating About the New World

[Guest]

Things We Find Irritating About the New World

Yeah looking at 'threaded view' that seems to be right. Hmm.

[Incandenza]

Things We Find Irritating About the New World

What's the advantage of the PDF feature under "Forum Tools"?

[Guest]

Things We Find Irritating About the New World

I see posts don't have dates or times on them any more, only "x minutes ago". That could end up being a problem.

I don't want to sound ungrateful, because this is a free service, but there are aspects of this new board that seriously suck.

[Guest]

Things We Find Irritating About the New World

I was wondering about saving my PMs from before. I suppose I could just cut and paste them.

[anton pulisov]

Things We Find Irritating About the New World

It's like OTF has been moved onto a PDA.

[hobbes]

Things We Find Irritating About the New World

It appears that the edit post button doesn't have a delete post option.

[blameless]

Things We Find Irritating About the New World

What Heironymus said, with the added gripe that the new board's server keeps logging me out without my asking it to.

[ursus arctos]

Things We Find Irritating About the New World

It also appears that if one enters a thread from the Active Topics view, one is always taken to the first page of the thread, which is a serious shortcoming with respect to multi-page threads (like this one).

[Guest]

Things We Find Irritating About the New World

I know this has been mentioned, but there's so much clutter around the user name, especially shorter user names, that you have to look twice to see who posted.
I would get rid of (User), make people's post count smaller, or not bold, and move all the little icons to the bottom.

[Reed John]

Things We Find Irritating About the New World

I remember when all of this was corn fields.

[Anton Gramscescu]

Things We Find Irritating About the New World

The formatting on the "x minutes ago" is really poor, too. Always goes over onto another line and makes everything look ugly.

Also, is it just me, or is this board noticeably slower than the old one in terms of loading pages?

[N est à?]

Things We Find Irritating About the New World

Far, far too cluttered. Too much WSC branding for my taste, and a flashing bet365 advert for heaven's sake, which isn't exactly what the doctor ordered for those of us who log on a lot at work.

[WOM]

Things We Find Irritating About the New World

Has anyone said cunt yet? If not, I'd like to claim firstsies. And I don't even like the word.

[beak]

Things We Find Irritating About the New World

It's slow, it's quite ugly and I'm a fuck of a lot less likely to get away with wasting entire work days on here.

Sadly enough, I'm currently looking at the "Topic History of:" box underneath this, and it looks like my dream message board, all plain text and grey. Mmm.

I'd probably flounce if I'd been around here enough to pull off a real top quality flounce. As it is, I probably just won't bother so much.

[Incandenza]

Things We Find Irritating About the New World

Not just loading pages, but I there seems to be a bit of lag time waiting to see a post go up.

[EIM]

Things We Find Irritating About the New World

Toro, probably.

[Andy C]

Things We Find Irritating About the New World

Where's Forum 8?

[Er Liquidatore]

Things We Find Irritating About the New World

Hmmm, I'm not sure about this. Not sure about it at all.......

[Incandenza]

Things We Find Irritating About the New World

reedjohnmiller wrote:

I remember when all of this was corn fields.

I notice Reed has made his username really complicated.

[ursus arctos]

Things We Find Irritating About the New World

Not to be alarmist, but has anyone been able to get to the old forum in the last hour or so?

I'm now getting a standard Plesk domain not configured/not registered default page for anything at onetouchfootball.com.

[Guest]

Things We Find Irritating About the New World

The character limits on your profile info are too small as well. I barely fitted in my life-changing book and can't fit my weblink in at all. Both of the above are unusually long, but still.

[blameless]

Things We Find Irritating About the New World

ursus: same here. So much for the gradual migration to the new board.

[Pinback]

Things We Find Irritating About the New World

I imagine the plan is to shift the archive onto this domain, but who knows?

Personally I'd have had a word with the 40% chaps and asked to borrow their lovely, clean super-fast message board code, but one mustn't complain too much. As others have said, this is after all a free service, and as sluggish, ugly and cluttered as this is, the new facilities like RSS feeds will be really handy in the future.

[WOM]

Things We Find Irritating About the New World

[to ursus]
Nah, the old board seems to be down. I'd imagine that will result in 'the masses' not showing up here for quite some time.

No more member numbers, right? Or am I looking in the wrong spot?
And what's the number on the right hand side represent? There are big gaps between some of them.

[Heliotrope]

Things We Find Irritating About the New World

But 40% is really a chat board.