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On 3/7/2016 at 9:59 PM, givingtnt said:

its been 2 months. and the forum is still a mess. I mean, the nav looks terrible ! 

nothing is aligned the proper way.

can we have the member titles back ? 

can the typing aeras be boxes instead of guesses ?

 

Mod Edit: If you have a specific issue, PLEASE post a thread in bugs about it. Your bug can't be fixed if we don't know about it, so please report any issues you come across rather than just complaining that we haven't fixed it.

I know I'm a little late to this party but I just want to give some explanation. The design sucks right now. Anybody with eyes can see that. But it's our first iteration. I've been working on some huge back and front end updates that address tons of the complaints we've been getting. We'll have some news on that soon.

6 hours ago, JoeyDM said:

Getting rid of that for new members is too much work for very little functionality. Getting rid of it altogether is stupid.

6 hours ago, airdeano said:

yeah, there isn't really a choice to do so as all members have a template.

so whether a new or existing member everybody has the same placard. this is for tracking of previous discussion participation after the forum update. as to the suggestion of the replace phraseology, doubtful on the hints submitted.

I don't know why you guys are saying it's hard to implement, it's literally just one if statement. 

@LynxThe1st

I've made it so that if a member has 0 old reputation that this row will no longer be visible on their profile. (Effective after the next update.) I definitely don't think we should remove it for everyone though. 

Netbeans is not a bad option but IntelliJ is definitely the best imo. But it doesn't hurt to try them all and see what works best for you

1 minute ago, CtW said:

My mom isn't anti trans, she's just a bit old fashioned I guess.

At least she didn't seem to be hostile to the idea, so I would just call it ignorance - much better than knowing the facts and still being transphobic I guess

Just now, Ryan_Vickers said:

It'd be great to have a lot of default ones then... if we get to many people all using the same one, that's arguably worse than everyone just using the grey head  

We could possibly have randomized patterns so they're all unique and easy to tell apart, but unfortunately I have a looonnggg list of other stuff that needs to get done right now :\ But I really like this idea so if I have nothing to do one weekend this might happen.

I think having multiple default ones would be good, but I don't agree with forcing people to upload one.

this is being addressed in our first major update which is coming soon

Will fix, thank you for reporting  

On 2/13/2016 at 1:16 PM, Overkilled said:

@Cat :^) can we have offtopic back where it used to be

That's not even remotely under my control. I'm just a developer - I don't actually manage any community stuff. 

As far as this forum being dead - it's definitely not. Speaking from experience, I have nothing but good things to say about our forum team. They've made some changes, but I have complete faith in their decisions. Even after release, I've been working tirelessly to improve our software and design. We're in it for the long haul, and we're going to slowly evolve from here.

I personally think we should rename the good point button to thumbs up, because agree and good point are the same thing and having a thumbs up button would be a good general option if none of the others apply.

1 minute ago, alpenwasser said:

While I must say the trackpad on my MBP is very nice, I actually find it to be too large. I keep accidentally activating it with my palms when I type (yes, I have fiddled with all kinds of palm detection settings, and I've had it happen both in Linux and OSX, it just seems that I hold my hands in a way the designers did not intend when they made that machine).

I use an 11" macbook air so I don't have that problem  (I know the screen is tiny, but portability is important)

On 2/10/2016 at 9:36 PM, AluminiumTech said:

There is a registry, you just don't see it. Just like how macs have a Bios that nobody but apple sees.

Drivers are something that also you don't see but apple does. And as @LinusTech said, people serious about work use Mice not trackpads.

 

I agree with that last bit about using what works for you. So long as it lets you be productive and allow you to do some great things.

OS X does not have a registry. OS X applications handle their own configuration and data storage and are generally self contained. 

As for trackpads, I think Windows users should never even touch a trackpad because they all suck. Mac is an entirely different story - if you're using OS X with a mouse you're doing it wrong. For some reason Apple puts no effort into making mice efficient to use in OS X, especially for things like Spaces and Launchpad. However, the trackpad on my macbook is amazingly efficient. It's so close to the keyboard that I don't have to move very far to use it, swiping with three fingers lets you quickly switch between desktops, etc etc etc. The most important thing is that Apple knows how to make trackpads that actually work well  

However, if you're doing a lot of video editing or anything that requires you to frequently click-and-drag, a mouse is still better.

Making the old design compatible with the new back end would honestly be a huge waste of time -  my focus should be on making the new design better instead.

As for the theme you posted, that's also incompatible. We've made so many changes to the front end to support our custom features (advrep, awards, best answer, etc.) that 3rd party IPS themes (and even the stock IPS theme) are just not compatible. 

That doesn't mean that we're leaving your problem unaddressed - I have been working on updates and improvements to the new forum non stop since release. Obviously we're getting a TON of feedback and it's hard to address everything immediately, but if you have suggestions on how to improve the new design please let me know  

addressed in upcoming patch 

didn't implement this specific suggestion but I did make some changes to the latest topics widget to reduce the height in the upcoming update (possibly this weekend)

fixed in an upcoming update (possibly this weekend)

This is a good question. I use Macs for web development because they're built and designed extremely well, and because OS X is UNIX based. IMO with the MBP Apple has found the perfect balance of power, battery, display, thinness, etc. Apples trackpads are still second to none. More important to me is the fact that OS X is based on UNIX (FreeBSD specifically) which means that Apache and PHP run natively in a Linux-like environment. It's much easier for me to predict how code will run on our Linux based servers when developing on OS X. IMO OS X's interface is also much better. There's no weird mix of modern and desktop UIs, no registry, no drivers to mess with, etc. OS X lets me get straight to work and not worry about maintenance - very important when working with a deadline.

But mainly you should use what works for you. IMO my MacBook was an expensive investment that pays off by allowing me to work much more efficiently and when I'm out of the house. This doesn't mean you can't necessarily accomplish the same things with a Windows PC but Macs just fit my needs much better

Thanks for bearing with us guys. As with any major software transition, we are having some day one issues. Please, if you don't like something or have any ideas, share it with us. We're getting quite a lot of feedback right now so we won't be able to reply to everything, but we're doing our absolute best to read it all.

For LTT 2.0, we have a brand new development workflow that allows us to push updates much more rapidly than we did before. The design is going to iterate and get better fairly quickly. Right now I am working on stability improvements for Awards and Advanced Reputation - both of which were developed in house by LMG - and improvements to the theme (particularly navigation). 

Developing everything in-house means we get much better control and integration, but it also means that we have a smaller team working on a larger codebase. We implore you to give us feedback, it will only get better from here :)

Edit: The speed issues are because our server is working on reformatting all of our content to match the new style. Our database is >50GB of text, so it's going to take quite a long time.

Servers are expensive. We are providing a service, free of charge, to you. I can't blame people for using adblock because of certain ads on certain sites affecting usability. However, I think LTT uses ads in good taste. Please understand people using adblock on this site does cause real damage and we would probably be able to do a lot more stuff if people didn't use it. As far as the ad being inside of the box that the post is in, I think that just looks bad from a design point of view - it should be outside of the box and below the first post. I'll make sure this gets fixed

dennis and berkel 

What good is being "happy" when you're ruining your life and losing your soul? Unless you're atheist or scientologist, in which case, you don't believe in God. To each his own.

You know, to be honest, I don't know why I bother. No one ever listens; usually, they make me look like a radical religion fanboy (which is also an error)

On a serious note, I don't think you are. I think that everyone is entitled to living out their life how they wish, and no matter how much I disagree with someone I will always respect their right to their opinion as long as nobody is getting hurt. Anyways, I'm not going to talk about religion in this thread because that's just going to divide people (and I would suggest everyone else do the same)

It's that mentality that has made this world worse, among other things (abortion, bad politics, etc.)

is people being happy some kind of extremeo liberal communist concept now or ... ?

I like programming, graphic design, theatre, metalworking, and dick. What can i say?

the fact that it loads windows at all is a good sign - you can probably get most of your files off of it but there's no way to be sure. Try plugging the hard drive into another computer or something

Hmm, what's the difference between final cut and adobe premiere

different ways of accomplishing the same things