In the old forum you could title your individual posts, that's now gone.

Not sure that you can actually see the over all title of the thread either...

Dan

What, again?!? Obviously I didn't do it well enough during beta.

Ooh, hang on, got to make a cup of tea for the wife... Back in a bit.

Dan

Okay, it did seem a bit "right, we're doing this tomorrow", albeit after a week or so's testing. But, the beat testers could have been doing it for another fortnight, and not found the problems, or come up with the suggestions, that have been made, and actioned (notice total posts and little medals for the forum veterans everyone ) this afternoon.

Undoubtedly it will take some getting used to, and there will be times when people think 'how the hell do I do that?', but hopefully it will be for the best. We shall see...

Main sticking points seem to be the fixed size, and the small pictures. I'm still hoping we can reach a compromise with the gallery images being bigger by removing the ads from there. I'm hoping if I mention it enough, it will happen.

Dan

[quote:3496ace15f="Unlocker]Tip.

Post new thread in Announcements.

Job done.[/quote]George, a message was posted in Announcements asking for Beta Testers. It said:

"Hi everyone,

For the past month we have been working on a major upgrade to the Pentax User website. We have now completed the upgrade and are looking for beta testers to go through the new site and help find any bugs/errors that there may be.

If you are interested in beta testing, please email us at [email protected] with an email of the following:

- Your name
- Username
- Why you would be a good beta tester

If your application is accepted we will send your information regarding the beta site so you can start testing.

Please note, you MUST email us your application.
Replies to this topic will not be considered a request to be a beta tester.

Thank You "


I'm really tempted to say something really sarcastic about how the good old forum would surely have alerted you to this post, but I really, really don't think it would be a good idea.

This change over has obviously not gone down well with some, perhaps many, people, but it's also been pretty well recieved by others. Personally I like it as much as the other one, bearing in mind it will take a bit of time to get used to.

There does seem to be a problem with the 'remember me' option when logging in, and the forum remembering which posts have been read. I would hope that the team will address this asap, as this is one of the main problems with regard navigation, I would imagine.

Dan

No, that's spelled perfectly. That's the name of the company.

Dan

George, there's a 'bit of a chat' going on about this in the General Chat foarum, which I'm sure you'll agree is a much better place for it.

Unless you're talking about one of your K10Ds...

Dan

I'm seeing them at full size too, in IE7.

Dan

And just to show the reporting system works, I made a suggestion that we have these links:

Home > Pentax User Forum > General Chat Forum > New forum Style

at the bottom of the page as well as the top, and what do you know, 20 minutes later they appear...

Of course, someone else may have made the same suggestion earlier on, but still.

Dan

I think, from that last paragraph, that we agree, just that you didn't understand what I meant, and I can't quite understand what you mean in your 2nd paragraph.

With the old forum, a large photo would shove the ads off to the side. Now large images aren't allowed, that doesn't happen. That's what I meant to say, sorry if it was ambiguous. "But why should I have to resize the browser all the time?". Surely that's just what you don't have to do now. It's a fixed size. To be honest I found it a pain 'in the old days' when someone posted a big picture that then meant you had to scroll back and forth sideways to see the text in the thread.

Well, I think I will , otherwise my photos will be 'trashed'. I might try 1100pixels to see if that keeps them looking nice. I made the suggestion that the gallery page should do away with the ads, and the images here should be sized to 800 pixels on the longest side. I don't think they'd lose too much revenue this way, as most people are going to be reading the forum than looking in the gallery.

Dan

By the way, I'm finding the 'new post' button to be working at the moment, but haven't tried logging out and back in again yet.

Dan