Originally posted by: dullard
I've been here through a lot of FuseTalk changes. Each one I didn't like initially. After the bugs were worked out, I came to appreciate some of the new features.
Whining and complaining DOES help. For example, during one FuseTalk change, the font size was altered. I had a 21" monitor with 1280x1024 resolution at the time. The fonts were unreadable since they were FAR too small. I'd say the average letter was 0.1 mm high. For about a week I had to increase the IE font size dramatically just to read Anandtech, then whenever I left the site, everything else had maybe 3 lines of text that could fit on the screen. So I whined and moaned. I posted threads and polls in every forum. I nearly got my only ban of my life, but in the end the polls spoke for themselves. Over 60% of the users were EXTREMELY frustrated as they couldn't stand to change the fonts like that all the time. These 60+% said they would leave Anandtech forever if Zuni didn't change the font size.
Guess what, Zuni listened to the whining, and put in a font size option in your profile. Whining works.
My complaints so far:
1) Cartoonish look, hopefully I can find an option to make it look professional again (gray looks the best,but none get rid of that useless bar between posts).
2) I took about an hour to get into my profiles due to all the bugs. Of course this will eventually be fixed.
3) The icon that matched my alias is now gone (probably forever).
4) Elite status is gone. Oh well, status didn't mean much to me. But others are probably angry.
5) Threads you have clicked on do not change color. Thus it makes it difficult to find the threads I've visited before and want to visit again/avoid in the future.
6) The << and >> buttons on forum pages don't work correctly.
7) Ack the font size option is now gone. I'd like the fonts one size larger than they are now. Not too bad of a problem, and at least they are readable.
My likes so far:
1) Today screen no longer has 5-10 listings of the same thread if I post multiple times in a thread.
2) I like the subtitles on threads.
3) I actually like the reply in a new window since now I can always see the full post(s) that I am replying to (in the past you often lost those and had to manually keep two Anandtech windows open).
I'll add to this list as I find more complaints.