UI Changes

Post by **Sylvus** » July 21, 2004, 11:22 am

What do you think of the new VV user interface changes? Specifically, the cell color changes on mouseover, the ability to click anywhere on the cell as opposed to the tiny little text links, and the thread preview popup?

Depending on the outcome of the vote, I may or may not make some changes.

Feel free to post suggestions in this thread, I'll either implement them and take credit for them or ignore them entirely.

Truant · Post by **Truant** » July 21, 2004, 11:36 am

I like all of it. The only thing I miss, is that I cannot shift-click anymore. I'm a many window browserer...so now i have to right click and open in new window...no big. I'm sure most people don't open a billion windows when they read the board like me anyways.

masteen · Post by **masteen** » July 21, 2004, 12:04 pm

What if, hypothetically, I had a friend, yeah, who still huffs a lot of gasoline? And model glue. And gold spray paint. How should they vote?

Ennia · Post by **Ennia** » July 21, 2004, 12:10 pm

indifferent, it's as good as you guys make it and that's fine with me, I don't come to VV for perks and pretty colors so I'll take it however you wanna serve it

The less work for you guys, the better.

Dregor Thule · Post by **Dregor Thule** » July 21, 2004, 12:53 pm

Don't really like the topic preview

Siji · Post by **Siji** » July 21, 2004, 1:22 pm

Don't like the topic preview and especially don't like the mouse overs.

noel · Post by **noel** » July 21, 2004, 3:10 pm

Is there any chance that the detractors for these new features could explain why they don't like them? I'm just curious. I'm pretty much indifferent to them, and as such it surprises me that people have an opinion on them at all, but whatever blows your hair back.

masteen · Post by **masteen** » July 21, 2004, 3:11 pm

FIRE BAD!!! BREAD GOOD!!!

Post by **Sylvus** » July 21, 2004, 3:24 pm

noel wrote:Is there any chance that the detractors for these new features could explain why they don't like them? I'm just curious. I'm pretty much indifferent to them, and as such it surprises me that people have an opinion on them at all, but whatever blows your hair back.

I'm particularly curious about the highlighting of the cell you are currently over. The mouseover shade is not that far off from the mouseout shade, and it's a color that is used in the adjacent column... I don't understand why it's off-putting.

Lynks · Post by **Lynks** » July 21, 2004, 3:52 pm

I love it but the only thing I don't like about it is that I enter a forum or topic by clicking anywhere in the cell. Is there a way to make it so that you can only click on the text?

*~*stragi*~* · Post by ***~*stragi*~*** » July 21, 2004, 4:08 pm

how can you not like topic preview?
theres not one feasible reason other than you're a finnicky bitch!

Xzion · Post by **Xzion** » July 21, 2004, 6:12 pm

Its all good besides the actual blue color sceme, i liked the red one better as it came off to be a little more unique

On that topic the blue in general is really dull, any other color..shit maybe a yellow or orange color sceme would spice up the board!
no reason to bitch though

masteen · Post by **masteen** » July 21, 2004, 6:24 pm

I don't like the mouseover because sometimes VV won't be my active window, and I'll click somewhere in the window to activate it, and it'll take me to a forum or a post I didn't wat to go to. Like the NWS forum while I'm at work.

Boogahz · Post by **Boogahz** » July 21, 2004, 9:06 pm

I also click in other areas of the screen to activate or scroll the window at times. Clicking on links I have been to when things move slow enough on the site for me at work just slows down my VV experience

Winnow · Post by **Winnow** » July 21, 2004, 9:30 pm

Boogahz wrote:

I also click in other areas of the screen to activate or scroll the window at times. Clicking on links I have been to when things move slow enough on the site for me at work just slows down my VV experience

Ah yes, that's one of the main reasons I click on a window...to activate the window for the scroll wheel but not launch the URL.

Wheel scrollers need click space!

Nothing really bothers me though..except pure white text on a dark background! Light blue text on a black background is much easier on the eyes...but that's another board! : )

Truant · Post by **Truant** » July 21, 2004, 10:34 pm

Stragi wrote:how can you not like topic preview?
theres not one feasible reason other than you're a finnicky bitch!

in all honesty...it's pretty pointless...unless you are someone who can't remember the subject of a thread by the title. Most threads here don't stay on topic of the first post, or if they do...they're quickly beyond it. So seeing a preview of the first post, on a week old thread is pretty much pointless.

Asheran Mojomaster · Post by **Asheran Mojomaster** » July 21, 2004, 10:54 pm

Winnow wrote:
Boogahz wrote:

I also click in other areas of the screen to activate or scroll the window at times. Clicking on links I have been to when things move slow enough on the site for me at work just slows down my VV experience
Ah yes, that's one of the main reasons I click on a window...to activate the window for the scroll wheel but not launch the URL.

Wheel scrollers need click space!

Nothing really bothers me though..except pure white text on a dark background! Light blue text on a black background is much easier on the eyes...but that's another board! : )

Yeah thats the only prob I have with the mouseovers, when I am clicking to use mouse scroll I always end up going into some thread I didn't want to click.

Nilaman · Post by **Nilaman** » July 22, 2004, 12:00 am

I want my VVs back!

Sinzar · Post by **Sinzar** » July 22, 2004, 1:12 am

Asheran Mojomaster wrote: Yeah thats the only prob I have with the mouseovers, when I am clicking to use mouse scroll I always end up going into some thread I didn't want to click.

Ditto

I've been opening the wrong thread multiple times recently due to new changes

IeailandDokktur · Post by **IeailandDokktur** » July 22, 2004, 1:41 am

Nilaman wrote:I want my VVs back!

same here:(

*~*stragi*~* · Post by ***~*stragi*~*** » July 22, 2004, 6:35 am

Truant wrote:
Stragi wrote:how can you not like topic preview?
theres not one feasible reason other than you're a finnicky bitch!
in all honesty...it's pretty pointless...unless you are someone who can't remember the subject of a thread by the title. Most threads here don't stay on topic of the first post, or if they do...they're quickly beyond it. So seeing a preview of the first post, on a week old thread is pretty much pointless.

on topic or not, i don't read a thread if the first post is not something i don't care about.

Drolgin Steingrinder · Post by **Drolgin Steingrinder** » July 22, 2004, 8:33 am

Actually, it annoys me. Not being able to click-scroll is annoying as hell, and often it seems like you'll click on a topic or thread, but instead you'll be sent to the forum index.

If the thread preview could be set to mouse-over on the text link itself, it'd be fine. As it is now, it's too much. Sorry, but you suck, Sylvus :/

Post by **Sylvus** » July 22, 2004, 11:46 am

Drolgin Steingrinder wrote:Sorry, but you suck, Sylvus :/

You're so banned. So are all the other dissenters. Ban ban ban.

You can still click-scroll, just click somewhere other than the cell that holds topic titles, right-click, or hit shift when you click.

69% of Elvis fans can't be wrong.

Aslanna · Post by **Aslanna** » July 22, 2004, 1:35 pm

'I love them' is in the lead!

miir · Post by **miir** » July 22, 2004, 2:30 pm

I don't like the mouseover because sometimes VV won't be my active window, and I'll click somewhere in the window to activate it, and it'll take me to a forum or a post I didn't wat to go to

I dislike it for the same reason.

And maybe you could truncate the autopreview at 50 character instead of 100.

Post by **Sylvus** » July 22, 2004, 3:54 pm

Alright you bastards, I changed it so that you clowns can click on the window without worrying about it taking you to the thread. Hopefully that will quell the gnashing of the teefs.

HOWEVER, if you double click the cell it'll take you inside the thread. Or you can click on the text link same as always.

Winnow · Post by **Winnow** » July 22, 2004, 7:20 pm

Sylvus wrote: HOWEVER, if you double click the cell it'll take you inside the thread. Or you can click on the text link same as always.

Anyone here double-click their mouse?

Nice work sylvus!

Edit: I was really hoping VV could get something like this on all of it's pages:

http://homepage.mac.com/kevin/time.html

Sinzar · Post by **Sinzar** » July 22, 2004, 8:43 pm

Sylvus wrote:Alright you bastards, I changed it so that you clowns can click on the window without worrying about it taking you to the thread. Hopefully that will quell the gnashing of the teefs.

HOWEVER, if you double click the cell it'll take you inside the thread. Or you can click on the text link same as always.

Much better now!

VeeshanVault

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