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    #392
    Nevyn
    Closed Accounts Posts: 43,045 ✭✭✭✭Nevyn


    The functionality is great but the colour scheme is too hard for me to read boards comfortably.


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    #393
    Overheal
    Registered Users Posts: 82,254 ✭✭✭✭Overheal


    I was about to gripe about the Responsiveness/Delay until I discovered its a tweakable feature :pac: Well done!

    I still miss how Compressed the original Menu Feels - Theres so much spacing in between the Main Category Headings that just feels like wasted space. It results in a lot more mouse-panning across the screen. The popup categories themselves though are class and hopefully will result in a bit more awareness of some of the more obfuscated forums.

    One big annoyance is sometimes if youre hovering over a category and you pull away to type in a post, the popup sometimes doesnt disappear despite any amount of clicking like the old one does: You have to go and hover over the category again.


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    #394
    El Weirdo
    Registered Users Posts: 11,647 ✭✭✭✭El Weirdo


    Overheal wrote: »
    One big annoyance is sometimes if youre hovering over a category and you pull away to type in a post, the popup sometimes doesnt disappear despite any amount of clicking like the old one does: You have to go and hover over the category again.
    I have noticed this especially with the search popup.


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    #395
    AlmightyCushion
    Moderators, Education Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 35,062 Mod ✭✭✭✭AlmightyCushion


    El Weirdo wrote: »
    I have noticed this especially with the search popup.
    I raised this before. It happens when you leave a dropdown and enter the scrollbar on the right of your browser. It seems to think you haven't left the dropdown pane for some reason. Ross said it was a browser issue. I had it in firefox. Using chrome now with no issue.


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    #396
    Overheal
    Registered Users Posts: 82,254 ✭✭✭✭Overheal


    I like it, what are the chances of making it the default, and degrading the current default scheme to an Option?

    Not great for a laptop trackpad, but its fantastic with a trackball mouse


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    #397
    GLaDOS
    Moderators, Regional East Moderators Posts: 23,219 Mod ✭✭✭✭GLaDOS


    Overheal wrote: »
    Not great for a laptop trackpad, but its fantastic with a trackball mouse
    The trackpad is a pain in the hole with the old one I think for the likes of soccer, where you have to go into sub categories

    Cake, and grief counseling, will be available at the conclusion of the test



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    #398
    GLaDOS
    Moderators, Regional East Moderators Posts: 23,219 Mod ✭✭✭✭GLaDOS


    Bumping this to say I'm having a bit of an issue with ads and the menu, when I scroll down, the ad seems to "catch" in the menu if you know what I mean (I've a screen shot attatched to illustrate) I'm using vista and firefox 3.5.6.

    I usually use ad block, but I have it disabled for boards because the ads are non intrusive, this is quite annoying however

    screenie.jpg

    Cake, and grief counseling, will be available at the conclusion of the test



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    #399
    Overheal
    Registered Users Posts: 82,254 ✭✭✭✭Overheal


    with some flash ads the ad slaps itself on the first layer or something, so you cant see the menu behind it. very annoying.


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    #400
    eVeNtInE
    Registered Users Posts: 7,020 ✭✭✭eVeNtInE


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    #401
    Ross
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,150 ✭✭✭Ross


    The beta menu has been a successful experiment thusfar, thanks for all your feedback and suggestions on how to improve it from it's initial introduction.

    Development of it is suspended for the moment as we work on projects with higher priority, but I hope to revisit user interface improvements again when we have time.

    Unfortunately, this means the menu is going to start developing quirks as browsers continue to update, etc. If any particularly serious issues crop up, I'll see what I can do, but for now consider it unsupported (like a beta!) :)


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    #402
    WanderingSoul
    Registered Users Posts: 2,419 ✭✭✭WanderingSoul


    I've been using this as my theme since about August and I much prefer it to the classic version. Thank you Ross. :)


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    #403
    Sherifu
    Registered Users Posts: 17,727 ✭✭✭✭Sherifu


    I'm seeing the forum search box hidden behind the nav bar using Opera on xp sp3. Dunno if Opera is supported or if anyone else had this problem. FYI anyway.

    menu_1.png


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    #404
    JohnK
    Registered Users Posts: 4,780 ✭✭✭JohnK


    If, or hopefully when, you get around to working on things like the menu again how about adding an option to temporarily disable notification emails? While I generally *do* want the notifications I don't really want them while I've got the site open in one of my browser windows and so far today I've had about 60ish topic reply emails for about 6 or 7 threads that have come into both my laptop and my phone. Certainly its handy to know about the new replies but given that in most cases I'd already read the reply in the thread before the email even came in its fairly pointless.

    Anyway, the way I'd see such an option working, and heres how it could tie into the new menu, would be to have an icon on the top right similar to the settings, new PM & new reply icons that would call back to the server at similar intervals and simply record the time so when it comes to sending an email notification you could check if its within perhaps twice the call-back interval and if so then just dont send the email on the basis that the user is currently on the site and can see if theres updated posts by the flashing icon.

    Just something for you to think about :)


    Oh, and while I'm at it, the find a forum feature cant find Plumbing & Heating (http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/forumdisplay.php?f=1320). Tested it on IE8 & Chrome.


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    #405
    AlmightyCushion
    Moderators, Education Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 35,062 Mod ✭✭✭✭AlmightyCushion


    JohnK wrote: »
    Oh, and while I'm at it, the find a forum feature cant find Plumbing & Heating (http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/forumdisplay.php?f=1320). Tested it on IE8 & Chrome.

    It can't find any of the five newest forums (glee, russian etc.). Whenever a new forum is created it musn't be added to the entry that find a forum searches.


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    #406
    Steve
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Entertainment Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 22,584 CMod ✭✭✭✭Steve


    I've had to give up on this because of the subbed list bug.

    Look forward to it becoming live again :)


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    #407
    JohnK
    Registered Users Posts: 4,780 ✭✭✭JohnK


    Anyone else having trouble with the new post notification icon? It doesnt seem to be working for me anymore :(


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    #408
    JohnK
    Registered Users Posts: 4,780 ✭✭✭JohnK


    JohnK wrote: »
    Anyone else having trouble with the new post notification icon? It doesnt seem to be working for me anymore :(

    Just noticed that it actually works on the homepage but not anywhere else.


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    #409
    Simply Red
    Registered Users Posts: 1,291 ✭✭✭Simply Red


    When im using the find a forum feature, for some forums, it just refreshes the page im on instead of taking me to that forum. It works for the majority of forums, but some gives me this problem, the gentlemans club being one. Have tried clearing the cache but it didnt make a difference, any ideas? have tried on chrome and firefox but same result.
    Thanks


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    #410
    El Weirdo
    Registered Users Posts: 11,647 ✭✭✭✭El Weirdo


    JohnK wrote: »
    Anyone else having trouble with the new post notification icon? It doesnt seem to be working for me anymore :(
    I've noticed that the new post notification thing isn't flashing red as it should be over the last couple of days.

    Using Firefox 3.6.6 on Vista Business SP2 if it makes any difference.


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    #411
    JohnK
    Registered Users Posts: 4,780 ✭✭✭JohnK


    Its not been flashing for me since my posts above in March. Seems to have stopped working on the homepage too but I'm not sure when that happened.


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    #412
    El Weirdo
    Registered Users Posts: 11,647 ✭✭✭✭El Weirdo


    JohnK wrote: »
    Its not been flashing for me since my posts above in March. Seems to have stopped working on the homepage too but I'm not sure when that happened.
    Pretty sure it only stopped in the last week for me. But maybe I just haven't noticed it before.


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    #413
    Sully
    Moderators, Education Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators, Regional South East Moderators Posts: 24,056 Mod ✭✭✭✭Sully


    El Weirdo wrote: »
    I've noticed that the new post notification thing isn't flashing red as it should be over the last couple of days.

    Using Firefox 3.6.6 on Vista Business SP2 if it makes any difference.

    New Post and New PM notification stopped working sometime ago. Assumed it was pointless reporting it, as its not being worked on anymore I think.


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    #414
    El Weirdo
    Registered Users Posts: 11,647 ✭✭✭✭El Weirdo


    Sully wrote: »
    New Post and New PM notification stopped working sometime ago. Assumed it was pointless reporting it, as its not being worked on anymore I think.
    Aye. I see that from a quick read through the more recent posts on this thread.

    Hope they get time to start work on it again soon. Really like it.


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    #415
    DeVore
    Business & Finance Moderators, Entertainment Moderators Posts: 32,387 Mod ✭✭✭✭DeVore


    We'll be working on it shortly in fact... trying to plan when it will be released etc... not sure yet.

    As to the specific issue, I'll ask and see if something is broke...

    DeV.


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    #416
    Rabies
    Registered Users Posts: 15,258 ✭✭✭✭Rabies


    need cloud skin soooooooooooo bad :(


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    #417
    Sully
    Moderators, Education Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators, Regional South East Moderators Posts: 24,056 Mod ✭✭✭✭Sully


    DeVore wrote: »
    We'll be working on it shortly in fact... trying to plan when it will be released etc... not sure yet.

    As to the specific issue, I'll ask and see if something is broke...

    DeV.

    Any updates on seeing if something is broken? :)


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    #418
    DeVore
    Business & Finance Moderators, Entertainment Moderators Posts: 32,387 Mod ✭✭✭✭DeVore


    We're testing internally, i'll put it in the lads inbox to make sure we review it on monday.

    DeV.


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    #419
    Conor
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,479 ✭✭✭Conor


    The new post/new PM notification icons should be working now.


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    #420
    JohnK
    Registered Users Posts: 4,780 ✭✭✭JohnK


    Thanks Conor I had just spotted a flashing on the top of my screen :D

    Not working on the homepage though.


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    #421
    WanderingSoul
    Registered Users Posts: 2,419 ✭✭✭WanderingSoul


    I just noticed too. Thanks Conor.


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