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<blockquote data-quote="MacInWin" data-source="post: 1673077"><p>Having used it for a few days, here are some things that have made the site worse than it was before. (No, chscag, this is not "Resistance to Change," these are REAL steps backwards.)</p><p></p><p>1. The Forums page no longer shows which forums have new posts. It used to, now it doesn't. To see if a forum has new posts you have to open it to see if there are any bolded thread titles. Yes, I know the New Posts function is there, but that shows ALL new posts, even in threads about which I care nothing. Why did they take away functionality? It doesn't cost anything to have a signal on the Forums page like they used to have.</p><p>2. The "View First Unread" has been moved to the right side of the screen, where is used to be on the left. Why is this a backwards step? Because when you open a thread you click on the thread title, which generally is on the left. On the old (and better) website the "View First Unread" was then on the left, very nearly where the mouse pointer ended up after the click on the thread title. That proximity meant that your mouse movement to get to that prompt was very sort. Now I have to cross the screen to the other side to get to the same function. It's not a "killer" fault but it is certainly not an improvement and the change was totally unnecessary. Change for change sake is not a good thing. I was a in software design and the key to good design is to make interface changes IF and ONLY IF they improve productivity. Never, ever, make a change that makes productivity worse. Ever.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="MacInWin, post: 1673077"] Having used it for a few days, here are some things that have made the site worse than it was before. (No, chscag, this is not "Resistance to Change," these are REAL steps backwards.) 1. The Forums page no longer shows which forums have new posts. It used to, now it doesn't. To see if a forum has new posts you have to open it to see if there are any bolded thread titles. Yes, I know the New Posts function is there, but that shows ALL new posts, even in threads about which I care nothing. Why did they take away functionality? It doesn't cost anything to have a signal on the Forums page like they used to have. 2. The "View First Unread" has been moved to the right side of the screen, where is used to be on the left. Why is this a backwards step? Because when you open a thread you click on the thread title, which generally is on the left. On the old (and better) website the "View First Unread" was then on the left, very nearly where the mouse pointer ended up after the click on the thread title. That proximity meant that your mouse movement to get to that prompt was very sort. Now I have to cross the screen to the other side to get to the same function. It's not a "killer" fault but it is certainly not an improvement and the change was totally unnecessary. Change for change sake is not a good thing. I was a in software design and the key to good design is to make interface changes IF and ONLY IF they improve productivity. Never, ever, make a change that makes productivity worse. Ever. [/QUOTE]
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