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Post by SerenaJo on Jun 2, 2013 2:56:01 GMT
Ok, pretty sure I never selected a gender for my profile so where did that come from? Did it steal that from the furking email address it made me verify? i don't suppose there's any way to unselect it? I don't see a gender displayed in your profile or to the left of your post. Maybe it's only visible to you? Edit: Nevermind, glad you figured it out.
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Post by judgedeadd on Jun 2, 2013 6:52:53 GMT
I miss my profile text being nicely centred beneath my avatar. Agreeing with you here--the older one looks much better in my opinion. Edit: Ignore the username on the first image, that's me being a derp At least we have a proper search now.
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Post by GK Sierra on Jun 2, 2013 7:05:43 GMT
>dork457
How someone else's username get stuck on my profile details?
I hope they get the glitches in this ironed out soon. The Quick Reply box seems to eat every tenth post or so.
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Post by maxptc on Jun 2, 2013 7:06:44 GMT
Like with any and all change, I hate it and and refuse to believe I won't feel this way forever.
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Post by Max on Jun 2, 2013 7:09:16 GMT
Well, I do appreciate the larger avatars. It allows me to do something use an image I've been wanting to use for a while.
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Post by GK Sierra on Jun 2, 2013 7:09:57 GMT
Like with any and all change, I hate it and and refuse to believe I won't feel this way forever. Speaking of stubborn inflexibility, Windows 8.1 cannot come out fast enough. I want my start icon back, and I want to be able to boot to desktop instead of that stupid "Metro" menu. The see-through window borders that suck up memory were bad enough, but Windows 8 is truly atrocious.
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Post by judgedeadd on Jun 2, 2013 9:06:39 GMT
>dork457 How someone else's username get stuck on my profile details? I hope they get the glitches in this ironed out soon. The Quick Reply box seems to eat every tenth post or so. Whoops! My bad. I've taken a screenshot from an old backup and edited the image to put in an avatar and tagline I really liked, but simply forgot to change the most important bit.
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Post by philman on Jun 2, 2013 9:20:20 GMT
As with anything new it'll take getting used to, but the old design wasn't my favourite forum layout either, so sure we'll all get used to it.
Having the next page button at the top of the screen is disorienting though.
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Post by TBeholder on Jun 2, 2013 12:34:22 GMT
Speaking of stubborn inflexibility, Windows 8.1 cannot come out fast enough. I want my start icon back, and I want to be able to boot to desktop instead of that stupid "Metro" menu. The see-through window borders that suck up memory were bad enough, but Windows 8 is truly atrocious. Try XUbuntu. Or if you're into overweight GUIs, try KUbuntu. This way you get, at very least, a sane menu and multi-workspace desktop. It's not like it can't read and write your NTFS partitions with whatever remains on them until you decide to wave Windows goodbye, and the original registry branches can be saved and stuck into Wine registry. So you would need to reboot only for games that won't run without EA botnet client or Sony spyware.
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Post by Rymdljus on Jun 2, 2013 14:39:15 GMT
Oh dear. My first thought was along the lines of "Awww :/" But I suppose it's a good thing in the long run. Bigger avatars is nice!
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Post by TBeholder on Jun 2, 2013 14:57:10 GMT
Especially when half of them look like zombie babies?
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Post by Lightice on Jun 2, 2013 16:46:03 GMT
Like with any and all change, I hate it and and refuse to believe I won't feel this way forever. Speaking of stubborn inflexibility, Windows 8.1 cannot come out fast enough. I want my start icon back, and I want to be able to boot to desktop instead of that stupid "Metro" menu. The see-through window borders that suck up memory were bad enough, but Windows 8 is truly atrocious. I know how you feel; I won't buy a Windows that looks like it was slapped together by a colourblind art student and forces two separate interfaces on you. However, the start button of 8.1 won't work the same way it did in previous Windowses. I recommend downloading Classic Shell[/quote]. It can emulate just about every Windows-setup prior to Win 8 admirably. I'm still using Windows 7 for the duration, and it fixed many frustrating issues that I had with the changes to Windows Explorer.
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Post by GK Sierra on Jun 2, 2013 17:03:00 GMT
Especially when half of them look like zombie babies? For some reason they remind me of that weird dude from Katamari Damacy
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Post by Marnath on Jun 2, 2013 17:05:36 GMT
Like with any and all change, I hate it and and refuse to believe I won't feel this way forever. Speaking of stubborn inflexibility, Windows 8.1 cannot come out fast enough. I want my start icon back, and I want to be able to boot to desktop instead of that stupid "Metro" menu. The see-through window borders that suck up memory were bad enough, but Windows 8 is truly atrocious. I have you beat. I'm still running XP and I have no plans to give it up.
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Post by GK Sierra on Jun 2, 2013 17:16:34 GMT
Speaking of stubborn inflexibility, Windows 8.1 cannot come out fast enough. I want my start icon back, and I want to be able to boot to desktop instead of that stupid "Metro" menu. The see-through window borders that suck up memory were bad enough, but Windows 8 is truly atrocious. I have you beat. I'm still running XP and I have no plans to give it up. Windows 2000 Professional was my fav. If XP is a Firebolt, Windows 2000 Pro is a Nimbus 2000. Speaking of stubborn inflexibility, Windows 8.1 cannot come out fast enough. I want my start icon back, and I want to be able to boot to desktop instead of that stupid "Metro" menu. The see-through window borders that suck up memory were bad enough, but Windows 8 is truly atrocious. I know how you feel; I won't buy a Windows that looks like it was slapped together by a colourblind art student and forces two separate interfaces on you. However, the start button of 8.1 won't work the same way it did in previous Windowses. I recommend downloading Classic Shell. It can emulate just about every Windows-setup prior to Win 8 admirably. I'm still using Windows 7 for the duration, and it fixed many frustrating issues that I had with the changes to Windows Explorer. You know, I think I'll take you up on that recommendation, actually. I tried putting my own start menu together, but a lot of the programs save to some other file path for some reason. It's just not the same. The way I see it, all the action is happening on the desktop anyway, no matter what OS you're running, so why would you want some separate interface that does the same jobs, and takes up the entire screen in the process? It felt cool and futuristic at first, but the novelty wore off fast.
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Post by eightyfour on Jun 2, 2013 18:00:01 GMT
Windows 2000 Professional was my fav. If XP is a Firebolt, Windows 2000 Pro is a Nimbus 2000. So very true. I'm still mourning the day support ran out for Windows 2k. As far as I'm concerned, there's been barely any real progress in any subsequent release. Most of the added or "improved" features are just fluff that I could very well do without.
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Post by TBeholder on Jun 2, 2013 18:52:00 GMT
Win2k was NT, and XP was (the next version of) NT, just with more lax configuration. At which point they ran out of possibilities opened by cannibalizing VMS and returned to the insanity of their own ways. The way I see it, all the action is happening on the desktop anyway, no matter what OS you're running, so why would you want some separate interface that does the same jobs, and takes up the entire screen in the process? It felt cool and futuristic at first, but the novelty wore off fast. Beats me. You see, everything is so much easier in freedesktop-compatible systems. I have exact the same menu (minus specifically marked items) in any window managers. Which can be switched in two clicks (Compiz Fusion icon), by the way. And if there's any need to tinker with it, that menu is readable, editable XML, which also allows to use custom menu as a submenu or separately (from one more menu-invoking button placed on the toolbar). Shortcuts also are plain text and dumped only in 2 places (system directory when it's installed with software, and user directory for customized/made up items that override system ones). Oh, and the question of what got installed where becomes trivial when it's all handled by package manager which shows the full list of files for anything installed. Click on package, click on Files tab, scroll, may as well select with mouse and copy full path if you need it.
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Post by eskhn on Jun 2, 2013 19:00:07 GMT
Win2k was NT, and XP was (the next version of) NT, just with more lax configuration. At which point they ran out of possibilities opened by cannibalizing VMS and returned to the insanity of their own ways. The way I see it, all the action is happening on the desktop anyway, no matter what OS you're running, so why would you want some separate interface that does the same jobs, and takes up the entire screen in the process? It felt cool and futuristic at first, but the novelty wore off fast. Beats me. You see, everything is so much easier in freedesktop-compatible systems. I have exact the same menu (minus specifically marked items) in any window managers. Which can be switched in two clicks (Compiz Fusion icon), by the way. And if there's any need to tinker with it, that menu is readable, editable XML, which also allows to use custom menu as a submenu or separately (from one more menu-invoking button placed on the toolbar). Shortcuts also are plain text and dumped only in 2 places (system directory when it's installed with software, and user directory for customized/made up items that override system ones). Oh, and the question of what got installed where becomes trivial when it's all handled by package manager which shows the full list of files for anything installed. Click on package, click on Files tab, scroll, may as well select with mouse and copy full path if you need it. I used Linux for several years, across several different distros. The part you're leaving out is that getting Windows-only software (especially games) to work is a pain in the ass.
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Post by TBeholder on Jun 2, 2013 19:10:33 GMT
I mentioned problems with rootkit-dependent ones (mostly games), yup. And ones that refuse to work without the last patch of the last version of DirectX. Most soft that isn't too perverted or haxx-y installs and runs in Wine "as is", though. Even if it's heavily networking and relies on tray icons, like MirandaIM. The only thing about Wine that annoys me is that it can't work with USB as such (devices not present in system as disks, sound cards, etc).
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Post by snipertom on Jun 2, 2013 19:38:41 GMT
Well, i have a rule about Windows. Which is that every other release sucks; basically M$ overreaches and doesn't deliver a polished product first time around but the 2nd time is usually pretty good.
Win95- surprisingly good Win98- sucks Win2000 (based on .NET)- great Win me- like boxbot Win XP- good Win Vista- sucks Win 7 (which i'm on)- fantastic Win 8- sucks [not to mention the whole designed for a tablet thing?]
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Post by spritznar on Jun 2, 2013 20:05:09 GMT
Ugh. I'm clinging to my winXP but the computer itself is a dinosaur. (Currently on the iPad because my desktop hates the new interface)
I Scavenged a used computer that runs vista and tried to reformat with xp but the hardware isn't compatible with the software so I need to reformat it back but the DVD part of the cd/DVD drive is dead. Incidentally, does anyone know if you can reformat a desktop using an external DVD drive?
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Post by Lightice on Jun 3, 2013 3:27:12 GMT
Ugh. I'm clinging to my winXP but the computer itself is a dinosaur. (Currently on the iPad because my desktop hates the new interface) I really recoomend just buying a new or slightly used computer at this point. You can still find cheap laptops that run Windows 7 in some online stores. With Classic Shell you can tweak it to look and work almost like Win XP. Clinging to old hardware past its time will just earn you a fatal crash when you least expect it, and Microsoft is going to stop supporting XP by the end of the year. Amusingly, although I newer used Win 2K, myself, I've always used Win XP and now Win 7 in classic look that most resembles it, since I prefer the old school interface. I'm just not very fond of the bright colours and visual effects of the later versions; they're just a distraction from the content itself.
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Post by The Anarch on Jun 3, 2013 4:28:51 GMT
Win95- surprisingly good Win98- sucks Pretty much in complete agreement with most of your list, but I'm almost exactly the opposite on these. Win95 drove me straight up the wall, but I had a Win98 machine for years and years and loved every second of it.
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Post by GK Sierra on Jun 3, 2013 4:33:50 GMT
Win95- surprisingly good Win98- sucks Pretty much in complete agreement with most of your list, but I'm almost exactly the opposite on these. Win95 drove me straight up the wall, but I had a Win98 machine for years and years and loved every second of it. I miss the 90's a little more every day.
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Post by sapientcoffee on Jun 3, 2013 6:40:18 GMT
Having the next page button at the top of the screen is disorienting though. So very much this. This is a terrible, horrible UI decision. Ugh. Also, I thought if I hit quote, it would take me to the login page (which is also horrific), but nope! Instead it was all, "I'm sorry Dave, I can't let you do that". So that's a first. Now Proboards tells me my account is "upgraded". Thanks for not giving me that option guys. /grumbling ("The thread in which you are posting has no effects applied to it." Wait, what?) Edit: Ah. Allowing more scripts causes the page navigation bar to float down the page. Hm. Still like it at the bottom, as that's where my mouse is more likely to be.
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Post by jasmijn on Jun 3, 2013 8:10:29 GMT
The part you're leaving out is that getting Windows-only software (especially games) to work is a pain in the ass. That's why I dual boot 'buntu and Windows. If you see me using Windows, either something is terribly wrong or I'm playing games. If you see me using Linux, either all is well or I'm playing games. If you see me using OS X, you need to contact the authorities because I have stolen someone else's computer (with the intention to sell it, of course).
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Post by Toloc on Jun 3, 2013 9:19:57 GMT
Most things I probably will get used to.
The avatars are a little too big if you ask me. Just a waste of space. Especially the blanks. I like the mini avatars next to quotes though.
A paginator at the bottom would be nice.
The "Related Topics & Stories" thing is annoying (especially the "Stories from around the web")
The edit and quote buttons are too close to each other and not visually distinct enough. But that's just me complaining that I accidentally selfquoted and wondered what the hell happened.
Have the ranks been changed? Not sure if I was a full member last time I looked. Could be wrong about that.
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Post by Tataudu on Jun 3, 2013 10:02:51 GMT
Well now my icon looks remarkably faltering. Also, "Stories from around the web"? Noooooo go away.
Also couldn't someone script up a theme for this so it matches the main Gunnerkrigg page so it doesn't look so damn weird in comparison? That would be cool.
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Post by Rymdljus on Jun 3, 2013 10:23:11 GMT
Have the ranks been changed? Not sure if I was a full member last time I looked. Could be wrong about that. I think you become a full member at 100 posts.
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Post by Toloc on Jun 3, 2013 11:44:55 GMT
I just noticed that links are not underlined/highlighted, neither by default nor when hovered with the mouse. REALLY BIG web design no-no...
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