Update to Sinodefence?

Webmaster

Webmaster

The Troll Hunter
Staff member
Administrator
by78 said:
I hope I'm not being unnecessarily anal-retentive. Here are my thoughts on improving the readability of the forum further:

1) The main text display area for each post should have a white background as opposed to the present light gray. Right now, the contrast between the text and background is insufficient.

2) Areas other than the main text display area should switch to darker backgrounds. Specifically, the member display card to the left of each post and the likes-received box should have a slightly darker background. The reason for this is that white background grabs more attention than darker backgrounds. Presently, I have to consciously bat away the non-essential (white) areas to focus on the (gray) main text areas.

3) The member display card stands out too much and clutters the view. In my opinion, it shouldn't be a 'floating box'. It should rather be like a column running the entire vertical length of the post, sharing the top, left and bottom borders with the post itself.

4) There should be a header band for each post. The band should contain the date and time of the post, in the same manner as the old forum. There should also be a footer band that contains options such as reply, quote, and like buttons, again in the same manner as the old forum.

5) The forum body width should be reduced by about 15% to reduce eye traverse.

Thank you for your patience. I really appreciate it!
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Thanks, i will look into these in coming days.

Quote area has been improved, now includes avatar of the quoted user, plus few minor enhancements.
 
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kyanges

Junior Member
The site looks about a billion times better on mobile now. I use a Windows phone, and for some reason, the body text in posts was always ridiculously tiny. If the whole trend in pixel density hadn't caught on by now, it would basically have been illegible.

However, now everything is nicely sized and proportioned, and readable from more than, oh, 1 inch away.
 
Webmaster

Webmaster

The Troll Hunter
Staff member
Administrator
Thanks Kyanges.

What do you guys think about loading speed of the forum pages? It will improve in next couple of days but so far?
 
Jura The idiot

Jura The idiot

General
WebMaster said:
top posters of the day added to the sidebar ;)
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hi! so far I found just one button useful: MEMBERS/Recent Activity
(I didn't do any "tweaking" of email alerts, preferences ... one of the reasons is the number of posts is much lower than it used to be only a week ago ... or it's not? of course I don't know any exact figures, just comparing to what I saw back then -- I was using the button called something like What's New)

EDIT
but thanks for the Preview button!
(for anybody interested, it's
More Options .../Preview ...
 
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TerraN_EmpirE

TerraN_EmpirE

Tyrant King
" Poor Webby I knew him Horatio... A fellow of Infinite patience and wisdom... Signature or not to signature that tis the Question.."
I happened to have been around the old forum long enough that I had one then Signatures went away then came back with the new one It seems almost random when my quotation appears and when it does not.
 
Air Force Brat

Air Force Brat

Brigadier
Super Moderator
Looking so much better now Chief, and I'm getting to like it, nice to be able to retrieve our old Data from the archives, love blowing the dust off those old posts, and there is some awesome stuff on the original Sino Defense, and a lot of "blood, sweat, and tears", thanks for all your hard work, now if we could have our likes back??????? that's just pride isn't it, but hey, I do care what my bros think, you know I do?
 
FORBIN

FORBIN

Lieutenant General
Registered Member
You do great job Webmaster ! look very nice now with this blue :) we getalso now big pictures and forgotten these laborious accommodation images ! :cool:
But sorry i repeat there are space on the sides, on my 20 pouces PC easy 5 cm for each side and possible get more big pictures directly.
 
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