New AFF Website

[RooFlyer]

When the update was released I put the shortcut to the home screen on the iPhone.
It looked like a Xenforo icon.
Now it looks much better. Don’t know how/why it changed.

Mine too

 

[Freq Flier 2013]

Personally I can't see it.
The vast majority of content is a deep grey (I'd say 95% black) on white - a classic combination.

Other key text is deep blue on white or an inverse white on blue - again clear as daylight.

Less important content (quoted text, signatures, forum descriptions) is a medium grey on white but still readable.

About the only thing I would say is slightly light is the forum navigation bar under the blue bar and the tools/quote/reply buttons - but all are still readable.

I must say that the new format - xenforo makes it a lot better for me to use this site on my iPhone. Easier to read and better contrast.

 

[RooFlyer]

I just did a Travel news forum search on "Ryanair" (without the quotes). I got a list of threads, but no dates are given.

Are search results sorted by 'most relevant' or by date (presumably most recent first)? Any chance of having dates of the posts displayed; more recent results are much more relevant in most cases.

Edit: Also, the search appears to be case sensitive. After I made my own post (using the word Ryanair ), a search with Ryanair finds my post, but a search with ryanair does not.

 

[Denali]

Old AFFer layout, never noticed the ads.

New layout, ads popping up everywhere and hating them.

 

[samh004]

I'd say the developers have uploaded a favicon (favourite image).
Favicon - Wikipedia

We've had the favicon since day one, but what we didn't have was what is referred to as an "apple-touch-icon", that enables Apple devices – and presumably Android too – to use a customised icon on the home screen. The favicon would have been too small for this purpose.

Edit: Also, the search appears to be case sensitive. After I made my own post (using the word Ryanair ), a search with Ryanair finds my post, but a search with ryanair does not.

I'll have a look at the search setting later today, but we are simply using the default search that came with the product. It is possible to get better search engines if you pay for them. Not sure if we need them though. Will have to investigate.

 

[Bundy Bear]

Old AFFer layout, never noticed the ads.

New layout, ads popping up everywhere and hating them.

Sometimes I wish that the old AFF would come back, but not having problems with ads.

I guess it will take some time to get used to the new look.

 

[QF WP]

Old AFFer layout, never noticed the ads.

New layout, ads popping up everywhere and hating them.

Hmmm, shouldn't be any ads for Silver or Gold members...

 

[JohnK]

I guess it will take some time to get used to the new look.

A long time....

 

[anat0l]

Old AFFer layout, never noticed the ads.

New layout, ads popping up everywhere and hating them.

Hmmm, shouldn't be any ads for Silver or Gold members...

Happened for me before on and off with the new forum. It is only one ad per page that appears here or there, but an ad nonetheless.

I think @support et al were looking into it and maybe tried a fix. I see it hasn't quite ironed out yet.

I wonder how ads and controlling them on a user-by-user basis works with forum software.

 

[admin]

In regard to some of your posts about ads: Paid members (i.e. GOLD and SILVER), should not see any ads. That said, there were a couple of "hiccups" earlier this week, but I think the problem has been corrected. So apologies for that. If you are a paid member and see any ads on any of the the forum pages, please contact me.

Free members will continue to see ads - just like they did before the change to Xenforo!

 

[Limewood]

I still don't understand why the banner and text are so faint? there is no reason for it and the point size of the reply is like 6 point.

the site entry banner looks excellent.

 

[anat0l]

Interesting - a few posts, including one of mine, were moved from TOTT to this thread (fair enough), and in my alerts I received a message saying as such (including a reason why the posts were moved).

This is different to the previous AFF forum software, and could help a few understand why their posts in what not thread have disappeared.

I wonder if you receive similar alerts for other post changes, e.g. post was deleted or modified due to moderator activity.

 

[serfty]

Such notifications are at the discretion of the moderating agency.

XenoForo makes it a simple process should the actioner so desire.

 

[QF WP]

Interesting - a few posts, including one of mine, were moved from TOTT to this thread (fair enough), and in my alerts I received a message saying as such (including a reason why the posts were moved).

Glad you liked my work - they weren't going to be useful in ToTT, but they were "on topic" here

This is different to the previous AFF forum software, and could help a few understand why their posts in what not thread have disappeared.

Quite a step up for us Mods - a much easier set of tools to use once we've learnt what's under the hood

I wonder if you receive similar alerts for other post changes, e.g. post was deleted or modified due to moderator activity.

As per serfty's post above.

 

[JessicaTam]

One word says it all 'BLEACHED".

Headings are faint and bland bring back to life as home page colour please

can you please make the type in and under the banner more faint as I love straining my eyes even more than now and..

What a mess this upgrade is, why was it not fully tested before going live?
and what is it with all this super small font size with faint type and forum headings? (my magnifying glass has come in handy)
I mean really, these fixes are easy to implement.

such faded quoting text is ridiculous no reason for it.

Why have page banners looking different this looks a hell of a lot better than forum pages.

why is the quoted type so dam small a faint?.

I still don't understand why the banner and text are so faint? there is no reason for it and the point size of the reply is like 6 point.

the site entry banner looks excellent.

Your point has been noted.

 

[anat0l]

Your point has been noted.

So why don't you do something about it??

Sorry, that came out far too blunt, but if I had a customer that persistent, I'd either deal with it, or tell them to go somewhere else with their business.

 

[JessicaTam]

The style for the website is fixed, and is not able to be tweaked.

The XenForo Standard Style can be used as an alternative.

Edit: link to the details here: New AFF Website

And another option here: New AFF Website

 

[moa999]

but if I had a customer that persistent

It's a single poster.
Most people appear very happy with the new site.

Stylistically I agree with the lighter quoted text - it's not important and my focus stays on the dark grey primary text.

I'm here to read new content, not quoted posts.

 

[Pushka]

So why don't you do something about it??

Sorry, that came out far too blunt, but if I had a customer that persistent, I'd either deal with it, or tell them to go somewhere else with their business.

Sometimes customers want what the provider simply can’t provide.

 

[anat0l]

The style for the website is fixed, and is not able to be tweaked.

The XenForo Standard Style can be used as an alternative.

Edit: link to the details here: New AFF Website

Are you sure that the website style is fixed? There was discussion some pages back about how the mods etc. chose colours and so on, so there must have been some discussion.

The only thing I can think of is that perhaps not all of the colours of things were able to be chosen, which may affect e.g. choices of colours for the main text versus quoted text and so on. It seems a choice of font face was made available, because the AFF forum font face is different to the Xenforo Standard. That is why I assumed there is a great (greater) degree of control that the mods/admin have over some styling choices that were not exceptionally difficult to change (because not all of our mods/admins are web devs themselves).

Having not used Xenforo I can't comment on how easy or difficult it is to change some of these settings, but I guess if it is quite difficult then that's nothing against the mod team as such but rather I'm incredulous at Xenforo.

I'm actually OK with the AFF default, but I say that as a personal remark and not that it necessarily ticks the boxes for some things like contrast, positioning and so on. On the latter note, I'm of the opinion that some of the feedback offered here is too scathing and is simply a negative reflex reaction to change, but that is my opinion. The Xenforo Standard style has somewhat better contrast as far as the content goes, but it seems less "defined" (not as many clear lines - may be awkward to see where the post controls are) as the AFF style. Plus, the combination of the serif font for main content with Trebuchet MS (sans serif) with a third font for controls is not the most pleasing for me; the choice in the AFF style to stick to one font face for everything sits a bit better.

Maybe Xenforo would have been wiser to add at least one more default style which is higher contrast, e.g. monochrome, complementary colour scheme, etc.. I suppose if you were technically able enough, you could also write a GreaseMonkey script or similar to modify the CSS on AFF to suit your own tastes.