New AFF Website

[melbkate]

One last question / comment - is it the spread out info in the avatar side box that causes the comment box to be filled with so much whitespace? If it is could it be shrunk? See screen shot.

 

[melbkate]

I check into Whirlpool if I want to chat about TV or technology but I certainly don't spend more than a couple of minutes in it a day. It's not a social hang out for me. I like having an Avatar. Love seeing photos.

Oh I only go there for info and it is easy to find. Used to be the case here too.. I have no problem with avatars or pics but thinking they are dominating the space possibly.

 

[melbkate]

You might not be using a very wide screen then.

I'll concede, the design tends to take up more space than it did before, however we have actively worked to remove extraneous information from profiles attached to posts to minimise this. The end result is also a website that is able to be used on a mobile phone much more easily than before, and this does require page elements to be larger to accommodate fat fingers. I can't tell you the number of times the old website got the better of me on my mobile phone. It just wasn't designed for smart phones.



No offence, but if AFF looked like Whirlpool I would resign

I can see what you mean regarding the amount of information and spacing between Whirlpool (1 line), the old layout (~3 lines) and the new layout (perhaps ~6 lines). We are a different website with a different audience though.

Thanks I posted about maybe the sidebox being dominant and perhaps dictating the amount of space in the comment box which even for one sentence ends up being huge and mostly white space - not sure if that is why.

 

[coriander]

Thanks I posted about maybe the sidebox being dominant and perhaps dictating the amount of space in the comment box which even for one sentence ends up being huge and mostly white space - not sure if that is why.

It's a pity the old site isn't visible any more as people seem to have forgotten how much white space was there before.
On the old system if you replied with just a one line reply and the person had a signature it would be a huge amount of white space underneath. No one ever complained about that.

My only niggle is that the text is in sans serif font: serif is much easier to read but isn't as "modern/hipster-ish". First world problems.

 

[Pushka]

Just looking at the history of some of 'the wall' comments posted and clearly a lot of those should have been PM's as they are publically visible and contain personal details. But all posted before the update last week.

The wink looks a bit worse for weather.

 

[Milboo]

It's a pity the old site isn't visible any more as people seem to have forgotten how much white space was there before.
On the old system if you replied with just a one line reply and the person had a signature it would be a huge amount of white space underneath. No one ever complained about that.

My only niggle is that the text is in sans serif font: serif is much easier to read but isn't as "modern/hipster-ish". First world problems.

I've never had the issue with signatures - I have disabled that function so they don't appear.

 

[support]

One last question / comment - is it the spread out info in the avatar side box that causes the comment box to be filled with so much whitespace? If it is could it be shrunk? See screen shot.

Yes, however the thing to remember is that this was actually worse before the update than it is now. We previously included a lot of information under an avatar, including verified airline status and the distance, time and number of flights a member had logged with the AFF Flight Tracker. More importantly perhaps, was the layout dictated that a signature could only start after all the content to the left of a post had finished displaying, stretching posts far beyond what you'd expect. As you might see now, signatures display alongside the content to the left of a post, thereby minimising the "white space".

I have an image of this thankfully, from when I had a play with the Verified Airline Status on @samh004's profile. Ignore his Qantas status, it is not accurate much as he'd like it to be!

It's a pity the old site isn't visible any more as people seem to have forgotten how much white space was there before.
On the old system if you replied with just a one line reply and the person had a signature it would be a huge amount of white space underneath. No one ever complained about that.

Exactly. See above for a funny example.

The wink looks a bit worse for weather.

What're you talking about

 

[LordGarlic]

for some unknown reasons, I cant log in with the app after the website update. Is anyone having the same problem?

 

[blackcat20]

for some unknown reasons, I cant log in with the app after the website update. Is anyone having the same problem?

The app is defunct now that the website has moved platforms.

And I see we have a flight map link again

 

[kpc]

The app is dead!

for some unknown reasons, I cant log in with the app after the website update. Is anyone having the same problem?

 

[LordGarlic]

ohhh..that explains it. Does the administrator has an ETA when the app will be resurrected??

It is a real pain that the app does work anymore.......

 

[kevrosmith]

For those who were asking about not receiving emails: this was the method I used to start getting notifications about all the threads I had previously subscribed to (now called "watched").

1. Firstly I reviewed any threads I was subscribed to and which had been updated since the upgrade using this link: Community Forums --> Watched Threads. All the threads which had been updated, and for which I was expecting an email notification, but had not received one, were listed there.
2. Unfortunately, when I clicked on the thread, it didn't necessarily take me to the first real Unread post of the thread: I guess it couldn't quite transition which post I had really last read during the upgrade. Therefore, I just paged through until the upgrade date and read all the posts after this date.
3. Once I had done this, I selected Community Forums --> Mark Forums Read. After I had done this, I started to receive emails for all the threads I had previously subscribed to.

Using this method, I have not had to unsubscribe and resubscribe, or un-watch and re-watch etc.

Hope that helps others.

 

[serfty]

ohhh..that explains it. Does the administrator has an ETA when the app will be resurrected??

It is a real pain that the app does work anymore.......

No app has been selected as yet.

If you are using a mobile device, bookmark the following link and use that: Recent Posts | The Australian Frequent Flyer Online Community

 

[coriander]

ohhh..that explains it. Does the administrator has an ETA when the app will be resurrected??

Later rather than sooner.

1. For many users, the mobile version of this forum is superior to the old app.
2. Read back a few pages for reasons why vBulletin has been abandoned and forum has moved to Xeforo - read this review(see post New AFF Website)
3. Perhaps also read the "Users Guide" linked in the first post of this thread.

 

[JohnK]

Here's something I considered a few days ago but waited to see the results after a few days.

The Mobile data usage has increased the past few days. I'm not viewing anywhere near as many threads as I used to view with vBulletin.

Is this new software more data usage hungry? I only have 1GB/month and don't do very much on phone other than AFF and Line chat to wife.

 

[moa999]

Is this new software more data usage hungry? I only have 1GB/month and don't do very much on phone other than AFF and Line chat to wife.

Not sure about the general forums, but any Trip Reports will likely be substantially larger given photos can now be 5Mb each - previously they were compressed to about 100k each

 

[travelislife]

I didn't even know it was happening and have been trying to access the app the last few days with no success so jumped on the desktop site to find this!

I think the update is 85% good. My one negative (which unfortunately impacts a fair bit), I am low 30's and struggling big time with the shade of the quoted text, shade of links at the bottom of the page, any of the light grey text on white, really having to strain to read it. I don't wear glasses and generally have no issues. Would love it to be at least a couple of shades darker grey.

 

[support]

The app is defunct now that the website has moved platforms.

The app is dead!

The old app is defunct is more accurate.

It is a real pain that the app does work anymore.......

Part of the update has meant a forum that is more responsive and functional on a mobile phone or tablet, large rendering the app useless. This is not to say that we are not investigating a replacement app, we are. But we have not chosen a candidate at this stage. The primary focus the past few months has been getting to the stage we are at now.

The Mobile data usage has increased the past few days. I'm not viewing anywhere near as many threads as I used to view with vBulletin.

Is this new software more data usage hungry?

I would imagine it's actually leaner thanks to better coding, however previously the mobile mode for AFF was largely text based and devoid of graphics, so if you were using this, you may see an increase now.

Not sure about the general forums, but any Trip Reports will likely be substantially larger given photos can now be 5Mb each - previously they were compressed to about 100k each

This is something that will need to be investigated, as we obviously would like some form of compression of images to take place, while allowing members to still upload files easily.

 

[oz_mark]

The app is defunct now that the website has moved platforms.

I did muse it was about to be enhanced into oblivion...
New iOS and Android Apps - Bug Reports and Suggestions

 

[kevrosmith]

One thing I'm missing is seeing the Thread title at the top of each post. Though this comes down to how I access Unread Posts in threads I'm watching.

I access Unread Posts from the email notifications. I have rules in my inbox which move them to a folder, and then occasionally I review that folder. Then I open all the threads from the emails into new tabs in my browser, and then work my way through each thread one tab at a time.

Seeing that it jumps to the first unread post, and that post doesn't have a Thread Title, I have to scroll back up to the top of the Thread (and lose my place of the first unread post) or look at the URL to work out which thread I'm viewing (if the content is not immediately obvious.. which, when people post off-topic frequently, is often the case )

Any chance of having that re-considered if possible?

Here's an example. Unless I look at the URL, I don't know which thread these posts are in:



Ooh... I like being able to post screen shots straight in without having to save the image first and uploading it.