Someone has broken in! Things aren't the way I left them! (New forum layout)

[Dairyman]

Is there a way to change recent activity to new post in the nav bar?

 

[Woody Stover]

If there's anything you don't like, go to the bottom of the page, click on 'Hearth.com' and select 'default'. Should look a bit more familiar

Much better, thanks!

I like the new style where it's more in the center. Old style, it was work to go all the way across the page from the thread title to see how many views, last poster etc.
I used the buttons at the bottom of the page, but then couldn't switch back when I went into my preferences. Had to close the tab and open a new one.
Is the site slower or is that just my imagination? Speedtest shows my normal 15 Mbps...

 

[dougstove]

The new interface is unusably slow for me (FireFox 41.0.2, AdBlockPlus, MacBook Air 2015, high speed cable internet).
Too bad, I really liked the discussions, but I will not be participating when each discussion thread takes many seconds to load.
bye for now,
Doug

 

[saskwoodburner]

I don't really care for the new look, but then again, no one asked me. It runs slower as well.

I liked the member location, as it could help (potentially) formulate a response. A guy having problems with draft in the dead of winter in Georgia or Texas, might be different than the same guy up here in Canada at the same time, being a big temp difference.

Or, a member looking for duravent pipe, and I saw some on sale at Peavey Mart or Canadian Tire. Do they have those in the USA?

 

[RSNovi]

One reason why I like the Tapatalk app. Still all same as it ever was.

 

[Husky]

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The new interface is unusably slow for me (FireFox 41.0.2, AdBlockPlus, MacBook Air 2015, high speed cable internet).
Too bad, I really liked the discussions, but I will not be participating when each discussion thread takes many seconds to load.
bye for now,
Doug

I agree. They need to figure out how to make it run faster. This is not an upgrade. I would prefer older look with faster speed.

 

[begreen]

I've never liked too bright and light backgrounds, it's not easy on the eyes and it kills mobile batteries quicker. The new setup looks very clinical and cold in my opinion where in the older format seemed to have a degree of warmth to it if that makes any sense to anyone. Haven't yet messed with the features yet so can't comment.

When we switched to xenforo I advocated for the tinted background to keep white space down. It is fatiguing and hard on the eyes. Fortunately you can go back to the default old look, but I would like the new format with it's larger font to also have no white spaces. Regardless, it's great to have the option to choose what works best.

 

[begreen]

I agree. They need to figure out how to make it run faster. This is not an upgrade. I would prefer older look with faster speed.

Speed is server related, not based on the look. That is being worked on.

 

[Warm_in_NH]

Agree w the speed issue. Painfully slow on a mobile device.

I'm sure the bugs will get worked out, no reason to believe otherwise.

 

[BrotherBart]

Can't get it to work on my phone. Well, nothing else does either.

 

[jharkin]

Im having the same problem as Doug - unusably slow even after switching to default. It literally takes minutes to load each page.

This occurs both in Firefox on my desktop and Chrome on my tablet. I have 50mb/50mb fiber internet and the site used to load in a fraction of a second just yesterday.

 

[jatoxico]

Is there a way to change recent activity to new post in the nav bar?

There's a new post if you hover the Home or Forum drop downs.

Put people's location back and put the "top" of the page function on permanently. Right now I have to start to go up before it appears then go over and use it.

 

[jatoxico]

Im having the same problem as Doug - unusably slow even after switching to default. It literally takes minutes to load each page.

This occurs both in Firefox on my desktop and Chrome on my tablet. I have 50mb/50mb fiber internet and the site used to load in a fraction of a second just yesterday.

It is slow, even hovering for alerts takes a long time.

 

[Dairyman]

There's a new post if you hover the Home or Forum drop downs.

Put people's location back and put the "top" of the page function on permanently. Right now I have to start to go up before it appears then go over and use it.

How do I do that on a phone?

 

[klxrelic]

Well...I am new here, but I prefer the old look.

Miss the location info under avatar... definitely bring that back..

then again, I am new, so no one will listen to me anyways....come to think of it, even if I werent new, no one would probably listen to me either!hahaha

 

[hossthehermit]

 

[jatoxico]

How do I do that on a phone?

Oh, don't know. Took me a little while to find it on my PC. Can you click the Home button? Haven't tried using the phone yet.

 

[Fake coal burner]

Yes location in avatar. One other question the new format seems a lot slower to load pages. Any body else have slow loading?

 

[DougA]

Both old & new are a bit slower now than normal - a few seconds for me, compared to instant. Maybe so much traffic.

 

[brad wilton]

Ya have to agree about location id ,helps alot nobody likes change we'll get used to it i suppose ,by the way my fingers have problem with size of font bar

 

[firefighterjake]

Getting a little more used to things here . . . miss the locations . . . definitely seems to load slower . . . also miss the fact that with the new set up I am now seeing all posts as unread vs. with the old format I only saw the new posts.

 

[Woody Stover]

Can't get it to work on my phone. Well, nothing else does either.

Here's my backup phone...rockin' it old-school! My main one is a "feature phone"....at least it has a keyboard. Got a lot of minutes on the Nokia...might have to get a cheap smartie.

 

[saskwoodburner]

Yes location in avatar. One other question the new format seems a lot slower to load pages. Any body else have slow loading?

Yes to both.

 

[Bioburner]

Way slower, and it just triple posted and gave me grief when I tried to delete

 

[jatoxico]

Too slow, unusable right now.