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UI Changes
Posted: July 21, 2004, 11:22 am
by Sylvus
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.
Posted: July 21, 2004, 11:36 am
by Truant
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.
Posted: July 21, 2004, 12:04 pm
by masteen
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?
Posted: July 21, 2004, 12:10 pm
by Ennia
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.
Posted: July 21, 2004, 12:53 pm
by Dregor Thule
Don't really like the topic preview

Posted: July 21, 2004, 1:22 pm
by Siji
Don't like the topic preview and especially don't like the mouse overs.
Posted: July 21, 2004, 3:10 pm
by noel
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.
Posted: July 21, 2004, 3:11 pm
by masteen
FIRE BAD!!! BREAD GOOD!!!
Posted: July 21, 2004, 3:24 pm
by Sylvus
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.
Posted: July 21, 2004, 3:52 pm
by Lynks
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?
Posted: July 21, 2004, 4:08 pm
by *~*stragi*~*
how can you not like topic preview?
theres not one feasible reason other than you're a finnicky bitch!
Posted: July 21, 2004, 6:12 pm
by Xzion
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
Posted: July 21, 2004, 6:24 pm
by masteen
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.
Posted: July 21, 2004, 9:06 pm
by Boogahz
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

Posted: July 21, 2004, 9:30 pm
by Winnow
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! : )
Posted: July 21, 2004, 10:34 pm
by Truant
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.
Posted: July 21, 2004, 10:54 pm
by Asheran Mojomaster
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.
Posted: July 22, 2004, 12:00 am
by Nilaman
I want my VVs back!
Posted: July 22, 2004, 1:12 am
by Sinzar
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

Posted: July 22, 2004, 1:41 am
by IeailandDokktur
Nilaman wrote:I want my VVs back!
same here:(
Posted: July 22, 2004, 6:35 am
by *~*stragi*~*
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.
Posted: July 22, 2004, 8:33 am
by Drolgin Steingrinder
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 :/
Posted: July 22, 2004, 11:46 am
by Sylvus
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.
Posted: July 22, 2004, 1:35 pm
by Aslanna
'I love them' is in the lead!
Posted: July 22, 2004, 2:30 pm
by miir
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.
Posted: July 22, 2004, 3:54 pm
by Sylvus
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.
Posted: July 22, 2004, 7:20 pm
by Winnow
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
Posted: July 22, 2004, 8:43 pm
by Sinzar
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!
