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Re: 2 Things...
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lugnet.general
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Tue, 22 Jun 1999 19:14:42 GMT
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In lugnet.general, James Brown writes:
> 1: The text is tiny, and often 'greyed out' which makes everything tend to
> blend into everything else,
Do you mean the indented quoted text on the full-article view? Too light
and too small?
> 2: My *by far* prefered method of browsing messages is the 20-at-a-time
> list of subjects, and currently, I can't get the most recent 4 messages
> on that list without playing with URL's and doing guess-work as to the
> most recent messages.
Would it be better if the first
More: All | Brief | Compact
link on each group page repeated the 4 shown messages when you clicked it?
In other words, if the last article is #100, and you click the "Compact"
view, would you rather see articles #100-#81 even though the "Brief" forms
of #100-#97 have already been just shown?
> 3: It takes me one more click to get to where I want to go.
Do you tend to hop around from group to group while reading news, or to read
lots of groups? You might try making a custom HTML file on your local
system with a series of links like this:
http://www.lugnet.com/build/?n=,-20&v=c
http://www.lugnet.com/general/?n=,-20&v=c
http://www.lugnet.com/market/auction/?n=,-20&v=c
etc.
and see how that feels, and if you like that, maybe we can figure out a way
to do something similar somewhere on the server.
> 4: Message display appears to be fixed at half my screen width. This is
> mildly irritating, since I almost always have to scroll down now, even to
> read a short message.
Fixed at half on all of the pages or only the intro-pages?
> 5: Messages don't get marked in any particular way (that I can tell) if
> I have read them. This means that every time I go back to the list, I
> have to hunt down the list scanning text until I figure out what the last
> message I read was, instead of simply looking for the color change.
What video mode are you running in (how many bits of color)? Are the blue
link-boxes not showing up as dark-colored visited links for you?
> Of these points, the last one is the most irritating, since it (so far, at
> least) has seriously increased the amount of time I've spent browsing
> messages instead of reading them. This morning, it's taken me as long to
> get through .general in the amount of time it typically takes me get
> up-to-date on everything.
Do you think it might be easier to see the difference if the VLINK color
was a shade of (the more standard) purple instead dark blue? Did you ever
have this problem with the old interface?
> OTOH, I think the new format *looks* much better. Very clean, very
> professional. Nice work.
Thanks. The old stuff was just a hack thrown together, which just sort of
happened to work. This was thought out. I'm glad that the main problems
are only cosmetic.
--Todd
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| (...) Yes and no. I hadn't actually noticed that yet when I posted that, but yes, I find the quoted text too small/light/hard to read. I thought it worked quite well when quoted text was simply italicized and faded once, rather than getting (...) (25 years ago, 22-Jun-99, to lugnet.general)
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| (...) I have to agree here - as a user of the web interface, it was very disorienting this morning - especially since I hadn't had my coffee yet ;). I suspect that, for the most part, it's just a matter of getting used to the layout, and once that (...) (25 years ago, 22-Jun-99, to lugnet.general)
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