New PU interface - URGENT!

Darkmunk · 2015-01-20T10:18:52+0000

Can't find the old thread or a feedback area so apologies for restarting this but some things need to be addressed fast.... I like the clean new look. The white is a little hard on the eyes, but it looks nice. However. The small photo size is an absolute joke on a photographic forum. This has to be addressed, it's ridiculous and incredibly tiresome. It doesn't even facilitate clicking through to a bigger image because it opens a new window which you have to close to get back to the next photo etc. etc. soooo crap! if I had designed this 10 years ago I would have been embarrassed. Come on! iPhone and presumably iPad issues still exist. The site basically doesn't work on an iPhone unless you keep it at 100% which means it's impossible to read the text or view the images properly. It all goes pear-shaped as soon as you try to zoom in. The DIVs making up the page are are not structured properly so they expand incorrectly, overlap essential navigation and OBSCURE the comments box. Rendering replies a tortuous process. Said DIVs auto-expand incorrectly even on my Mac, so they don't line up with each other when there's a small comment inside them - messy, careless coding. Images are resized! noooooo! So even when the viewer clicks through to see all the glorious detail, they are still delivered a tiny image. Crunching a 645 or K3 image down to 800 pixels just compresses the tones and renders a relatively dark, gloomy image with no detail. Even the appalling FACEBOOK at least allows 2048 pixel images if people click-though. Come on people! all computer screens are big nowadays and in particular, they are all WIDE! there is no need for all this white space space. I find it shocking that this was talked-through and given the go-ahead? ? so weird. [edit] oh yes, you missed a trick with the gallery - it would be really nice and really simple to allow users to hit the arrow keys to navigate. and on mobiles - to be able to swipe. Simple simple simple.

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Darkmunk Darkmunk

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Posted 22/01/2015 - 11:20 Link

John, that's your choice, but a site able to show big images will happily show small images also.

David, thanks, but that reply has left me further in the dark.
Is the site going to display larger images or not?
There really is no need for compromise here. Mobile devices and other technical constraints do not affect the ability of a browser to display large images if you wish it to.
It seems the site's dimensions are controlled entirely by advertising requirements. But you risk losing members to sites optimised for display of images - the absolute top priority for a photography forum, and your advertisers won't be impressed by that.
It also doesn't explain why the method of clicking through (and back again) is so hopelessly clunky and why the resulting image has been reduced even tho it is displayed on its own and has no size constraints.

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