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Miramonti

Miramonti

Lifer
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It looks MUCH better after ctrl+scrolling down a few points on the font size.

I would love to change the color tho.
 
Muse

Muse

Lifer
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tasmanian said:
Real men know the codes by heart. Such as bold biotch
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Oh, I know the codes but I prefer to get them by a mouse click rather than, say, 4 keystrokes. :rolleyes:

I finally found out that I can get an enhanced editor in options. We never had to do that, it was there by default. I don't think they are helping things by making them so configurable and ill-configured to start with. If we have the same playing field, it's better for all.

This shit is slow!!! It's taking a minute to edit, yikes! It's not even saving and updating. They are killing the forums...
 
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dainthomas

dainthomas

Lifer
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KingGheedora said:
Nice, those are all great examples of great looking forums.

The new AT Forums' look just has too many different things going on. Clunky. The old avatars weren't great but were at least better than the new because they had a consistent look to all of them.

When choosing my new avatar it felt like I was choosing an avatar for a Dungeons & Dragons forum. It was embarrassing actually. Threads look really messy now because there are all sorts of random avatars and animated smileys that don't go together stuck on top of a generic 2003 website color scheme going on.

The embedded images is a good thing in theory but I feel like it might get abused and add to the chaos. Overall it just looks like the dreggs of the internet forums that you stumble onto via google every once in a while. I think of AT as a brand name online, at least among the tech website niche, and I expected better from them.
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The Photoshop forum was the best looking from that link, but probably not techy enough. I'd say the runner up is the Australian Infront forums. They actually make full use of my widescreen monitor. The giant white blocks on each side when I'm typing a post on here look like ass.
 
Ika

Ika

Lifer
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jjsole said:
It looks MUCH better after ctrl+scrolling down a few points on the font size.

I would love to change the color tho.
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Wow... you just made my Anandtech life like 6.7x better.

Now if I could only get my black theme back...
 
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theprodigalrebel

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Oct 4, 2004
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Yeah, this looks like some random forum that crops up when searching for pr0n passwords. Hardforum looks pretty decent to me and that's also 'Powered by vBulletin.'

Time for some copypasta?
 
Shawn

Shawn

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Muse said:
We never used to have to do that shit. I don't even see the text that YOU quoted in this post, wtf.
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That would be nested quoting. Fusetalk only did that because it sucked. vB removed those so there isn't a reply with 30 other replies all nested together like we used to have.
 
Homerboy

Homerboy

Lifer
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BlahBlahYouToo said:
this looks like any other vb forum.
guess you find those ugly too.
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yes. I do find them ugly too.
The old FT layout was clean, simple, and efficient. There is so much space and wasted white space in these (and other) vB forums its a joke.
 
Homerboy

Homerboy

Lifer
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BriGy86 said:
I concur. You could fit all the forum links on one page in FT.
even the VB website has better looking forums
http://www.vbulletin.com/forum/
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Those are just as shitty.

I didn't even get to look at the avatars before I posted too.
Wow.
Spiderman, a dragon or A Hummer? Awesome.
Not to mention I wonder what the legalities of having some of those copyrighted items as avatars are.

These forums used to somewhat stick out on looks alone. Professional, clean, simplified.... now it looks like any other forum on the internet that is set up by a 12yr old. Don't even get me started on embedded pictures....
 
Muse

Muse

Lifer
Jul 11, 2001
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Shawn said:
That would be nested quoting. Fusetalk only did that because it sucked. vB removed those so there isn't a reply with 30 other replies all nested together like we used to have.
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Yeah but without nested quoting you lose the thread, you lose the meaning because you don't know what the other person was responding to. :rolleyes: If you have nested quoting it is the poster's prerogative to edit them, delete some of the quotes, bold, etc. No system is perfect, but if you have nested quoting you have more tools. Sure many threads are filled with gratuitous quoting, but you are not required to read it all, just what you want. Between the two choices, quote all and quote only the last, I prefer the former. I've had lots of experience with both.
 
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LinuxIdiot

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Muse said:
Yeah but without nested quoting you lose the thread, you lose the meaning because you don't know what the other person was responding to. :rolleyes: If you have nested quoting it is the poster's prerogative to edit them, delete some of the quotes, bold, etc. No system is perfect, but if you have nested quoting you have more tools. Sure many threads are filled with gratuitous quoting, but you are not required to read it all, just what you want. Between the two choices, quote all and quote only the last, I prefer the former. I've had lots of experience with both.
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I hated nested quoting so much that I installed a script that hid it. You may say it is the poster's perogative, but I call it being a dick, there is no reason to have 15 nested quotes in a discussion.
 
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