Bit of a long comment here because tons of quotes on stuff I mostly agree with.
Edit: on, one more thing: Email Alerts are now practically useless for anything but saying there was a response in a thread. Used to be you could at least get a freaking message preview? Not sure if that is possible to change.
+1. But yes, not sure if the new setup supports this.
How do you see people's signatures now?
Only divided from the post proper from a nearly invisible pixel-wide line. If it's text it's at least in a different font, but if there are spoilers...
Definitely like having a Mark Unread feature for notifications now, though. We definitely went way too long without it before now.
If I ever manage to feel sufficiently unannoyed about the new style to start actually reading QQ again, I'll check that out - accidentally setting alerts as read was a big problem to me before!
Also, a test example:
Uncoloured
Coloured1
Coloured2
Coloured3
Coloured4
Holy shit, yeah, any of those colours are better, jesus. Anything other than GREY ON GREY. Because shockingly a colour on the same colour is a terrible idea for readability.
Please do not set your stories to any of those four colors, which are absurdly low contrast in light mode.
Holy shit, the update got even worse - now emailed updates don't include the fucking chapter in it, just a link to it, so you HAVE to come and read it on the site now.
Seriously, everything about this change has basically ruined the usability of this forum for me on my phone. This fucking sucks.
I don't read QQ on phone, but definitely agree about the emails.
Tbh I really liked the old look. I think it was closer to my platonic ideal of a web forum.
very mood
Honestly, people may be better served just waiting a few days for the most egregious kinks to be worked out, because while we're not supposed to kinkshame, these kinks are absolutely awful.
A few days might be optimistic... by the looks of it more like a few months.
This transition was a long time coming, though I only found out it was happening today about 12 hours before it began because an author helpfully announced it in their chapter.
I didn't find out until after it had already finished.
I still don't like the little banners on every post that make them take up more room than they need to, the locked top bar, and a few other annoyances, but they seem relatively minor in the grand scheme of things.
Pretty much... there's a bunch of annoyances but the top bar isn't really among them (except for how it messes up direct post links).
Bigger text, wider margins, text box issues, and the weirdness that is having the post time added above the post and the profile picture spacing issues are the primary things that I have stylistic issues with.
I hadn't really been looking at the margin issues (I've seen worse...) but yeah it's not very convenient to have the posting time be in a separate block above the post.
Gonna be honest, yeah. As it is things aren't great. I get that XF1's no longer updated or supported but I think everyone was expecting it to be more of a 'backend' thing with the only real changes being additional features rather than everything getting jumbled such that no one knows shit about fuck, 80% of the bbcode's borked, and none of the actually good themes exist anymore.
I understand that it'll probably be fixed with time, but uh... maybe you guys should've left this bun in the oven for a bit longer?
98% this, 2% "I guess they had to do this really quickly because the risk of ending up like the xkcd fora was too big but still ugh".
4. Before, I could post a link to (for instance) Twitter and just have it stay like that. Now it detects and expands to an embedded twitter post automatically, even if I just want the URL. Is there a way to prevent that?
...wait is that actually a thing? Ugh.
I liked the QQ default theme! I want it back as an option!
Finally! I felt like everyone was just using the dark mode.
- Date/time of post shifted to top from bottom. A minor added layer of annoyance when you need to check the last post's date to see if you're about to necro a thread with your reply.
Yeah, it used to be tiny and low-contrast but at least you didn't have to scroll all the way up to see how old the most recent post was.
I'm not reading 25 pages to check, but I would appreciate a clearer line between the text of the post and the signature. Very confusing right now, even for posters who I've seen often enough to know what they have in their footer.
AFAICT you're the first one to point that out. Possibly it works differently on the dark themes.
And I'd rather get the emails at all over not getting them, but them containing the entire update.
If alert emails not containing the entire update is unavoidable (I'd be surprised if it is, but just in case), my preference would be something similar to the alerts themselves: just a short text saying "X posted a N word long post [link] in Y thread on [date]" or something to that effect. Nothing extra.
The current email style does a good job of pretending the update would be there, surely, like in a spoiler or something, maybe just a bit? ...and then there's absolutely nothing at all (not even a word count which I'm pretty sure used to be included).
I'm wondering what exactly is causing the reports of blurry text, because while the current styles aren't ideal, they don't contain any sort of blur element
+1, I see absolutely no blur. I'm using Firefox though so maybe it's different in Chrome.
Other stuff that I didn't quote and now don't feel like finding:
- the autoscroll to new messages announcement while writing the reply is indeed really annoying
- it was even
more annoying when I accidentally pressed 1 after clicking outside the reply box (and not noticing I had it deselected) and got redirected to the home page
- I hope someone saved the old default avatars because the new ones are ugly as ch*rp
- I really, really, really miss the post preview button oh, it's still there, just not in the corner I expected
- having strikethrough under the (barely visible) three-dots button is also annoying
