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  • The USCHO Fan Forum has migrated to a new plaform, xenForo. Most of the function of the forum should work in familiar ways. Please note that you can switch between light and dark modes by clicking on the gear icon in the upper right of the main menu bar. We are hoping that this new platform will prove to be faster and more reliable. Please feel free to explore its features.

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jmh said:
While you're right that people always complain about new designs, and always get used to them, that certainly doesn't prove that new designs are always better, just that people's memories fade about what they preferred about the old designs.

Personally, as I said upthread, this isn't about aesthetics (I don't really care if there's a new icon for rep), it's about performance. The pages are essentially the same (provide the same utility), and load more slowly. This is a thorny issue for me because I browse the board at work (SHOCKING, I know, given my ridiculous post count), and my computer here is a piece of crap that gets bogged down by pages with too much going on "under the hood", so to speak, so I strongly prefer sites with simple design. If I'm typing in a text window and the display doesn't keep up with my fingers, it's tremendously irritating.
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How much of the board's performance change is due to cached information from the prior build? I don't know, but it wouldn't altogether surprise me if people see improved performance with increased time on the board. My complaint, however, is aesthetics. Things were more crisp before. Like I said before, this new look has the Candyland feel to it, something fuzzy and indistinct about it.
jmh said:
There's a "Remember Me" check box by the login fields on the top right, but nothing happens when I click on it.
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You're just not special enough to be remembered. It remembers me just fine. :p

ETA: And the Quick Navigation on the old board setup was better before this upgrade. vBulletin did not improve that at all.
 
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I don't like change!!!!

And I can't tell where posts end and signatures begin.
 
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walrus said:
Their is a faint line across the screen where posts end
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USCHO is just getting us used to linemen who also can't tell where a faint line is on a light colored surface...
 
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jmh said:
There's a "Remember Me" check box by the login fields on the top right, but nothing happens when I click on it.
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Who are you?
 
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At least the upgrade is smart enough (or dumb enough) to recognize the favorites I had made in my iPod for all the old forums (=4 Div1, =10 Cafe, =20 Cafe Polls, user_cp, etc).

They all redirect to the new "and improved" file names.
 
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Who wants to be my friend?

Also, I vote Danny Devito plays the poster formally known as MEg.
 
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Has anyone figured out a way to get "remember me" to work? I am using the latest Firefox and I have to login each time. Someone said that if I clicked on the words rather than the box that it would work, but it doesn't.
 
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Zudnic said:
Has anyone figured out a way to get "remember me" to work? I am using the latest Firefox and I have to login each time. Someone said that if I clicked on the words rather than the box that it would work, but it doesn't.
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Tab over to it.
 
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Does anyone else actually like the changes? The forum upgrades aren't perfect, but I like a lot of the new features. Especially groups and being able to quick reply with quotes. The redesign of the USCHO front page is a massive improvement though.
 
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crazypotatoes said:
Does anyone else actually like the changes? The forum upgrades aren't perfect, but I like a lot of the new features. Especially groups and being able to quick reply with quotes. The redesign of the USCHO front page is a massive improvement though.
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The front page is okay. I get a MySQL error on the front page though with the Extra subscription.
 
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I think they still have some kinks to work out on the front page. I'm getting quite a few MySQL errors myself.
 
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FadeToBlack&Gold said:
I think they still have some kinks to work out on the front page. I'm getting quite a few MySQL errors myself.
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I think it has something to do with the Extra information. I only had one team's worth of information show up and had the whole left side filled with MySQL errors (as posted earlier).

I went in, picked two more teams, and the errors went away. I think it has something to do with the " null " team names when you don't want to show more than one team.
 
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St. Clown said:
My complaint, however, is aesthetics. Things were more crisp before. Like I said before, this new look has the Candyland feel to it, something fuzzy and indistinct about it.


ETA: And the Quick Navigation on the old board setup was better before this upgrade. vBulletin did not improve that at all.
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I agree the new look is more bland and seems to all run together the old one was more crisp and had a better feel. But meh either way I'll get used to it.
 
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