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We’ll be sorting the clock out next week, hopefully, when we migrate the site to a new server Porky.
I have one suggestion though. Can you up the minimum picture size a little so i can upload a half decent picture for my profile once you sort it out. Maybe up the size to about 13kb from the current size of 6kb as there’s plenty of space anyway ?
sure, this is something we can look into Graeme
Unfortunately Corm, the adverts slow the site down considerably, perhaps you might consider running it off donations rather than like this?
as cormack mentioned we are changing the hosting setup next week which should improve the speed of the site. we are also planning to look at optimising the site in other ways to help speed the site up
It always seemed to me a great shame that we never had a proper debate on how to fund the running of the site .. Daylight was adamant that we would never have adverts all over the show and he was to be supported for that.
I don’t like adverts if I want to buy something I’ll go out and buy it, not click on a link on the internet.
Good luck with the new site. Hope the glitches can be sorted out quickly and those ads can be made less obtrusive, the less clutter the better.
That chatroom is too friendly for my reserved disposition
[b:qcd58prn]I’d advise people to download Firefox whilst tweaks are still being made. The ads are no problem whatsoever, it’s Microsoft internet explorer that is using up a lot of memory. It’s very quick to download and makes the difference.[/b:qcd58prn]
I am Sorry I hate it. I will keep on trying but why was it so wrong before it felt like home, now it does not. I am not against change I assure you but I am not sure I will log on as quick. I would ‘vote’ to keep it as it was. I know lots of work has gone in to this but that’s my opinion.
CrizzyWell done guys – No issues from me… Will take a little while getting used to it, but things have to move on
Accessed via Firefox and if anything, quicker than the old version, though can anyone tell me how to add the advert blocker thingy??
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Accept it’s a work in progress, but fail to see why grey-on-grey is perceived as the most legible colour scheme?
Also agree with Equi, that the most important thing is the forum content, so why is one third of the message space used up by ads and other frippery?The – lag – is — bad!
Not so much an issue with the speed of the website. It seems fine and loads quickly until halfway, then freezes, and completes the task afterwards.
A thumbs up from me overall, would just like to add my weight of support to those against the gigantic right-hand column, however. I’d go as far to say that losing a third of the page to bumf is frustrating.
Design is good and I am sure new features are great and the ads don’t bother me BUT it is just painfully slow to use…so much so that it is just not usable.
I see the performance is better on firefox but I remember changing browser to solve another website speed issue (Racing Post I think) & whilst it was better in some areas it had problems in others (I think it had problems playing video from ATR & RP).
Not being a techie at all I don’t know the answer but it does seem to me that each time any website is revamped the consequent issues fall into 3 categories:
1) Issues of layout, font, colours etc which are just personal taste issues & often a simple resistance to change. A weeks usage closes the issues!
2) Menus & routes into certain features are different – again just a change issue & that one quickly dissipates.
3) Speed of loading etc. This is the big one & the one that has people switching off. In days of high speed broadband, we (perhaps unfairly) simply will not wait longer than milliseconds for the page to appear.
I understand that 1&2 can never be addressed to everyones satisfaction but why is 3 not priority number one when testing etc is done?
I think the look of the site is good, much more up-to-date and professional and once the problem of loading speed is sorted, I’m sure the site will attract more sponsors to it, which can only be a good thing
Should have given us another smilie or two.At the moment the new TRF looks like a raw boned 2yo with plenty of scope.
Please take the above as constructive feedback
Fast to load in Firefox and Chrome, quicker than the old site. It’s a mystery to me why anyone uses Internet Explorer for anything.
The grey background to the posts is welcome but needs to be somewhat lighter . A very dark blue is the best default text colour on a light grey background.
The little ‘square arrow’ thing signifying new posts should be a contrasting colour like the orange it was on the old site.
As several pointed out when asked for feedback on the ‘beta’ version the right hand adverts et al is far too intrusive and detracts from the message boards.
Why the need for a ‘Hot Topic’ section particularly one having long-dead threads such as ‘word association’ and ‘one a day’; minority interest such as ‘first favourite’ and ‘all weather lays’; and a system revealed as bogus in ‘an old boy’.
Why do we need to know who are the most active members? No criticism of those on it intended, but the number of posts an individual has submitted means sweet f a.
‘Recent forum topics’ I can live with. Which means all that is left are that, the dismal but necessary adverts and the search facilty
Put them horizontally across the top between the red TRF header and the Board indices, and stretch the message boards across the entire page where they rightfully belong.
Other than that, nice work chaps
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Unless I’ve missed it there isn’t a ‘mark all forum topics as read’ option. Useful if you have no interest in reading a particular thread
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