New Responsive Design for DCUM

[Anonymous]

Good morning--There have been many comments about the size of the font for the Subject when using on a laptop (not mobile device). I pointed out yesterday that the forum topic on the left is a very small font size and then the Subject column is huge and then the stats to the right are very small like the forum font. It would be great if there was consistency in the font size across for each thread subject. I posted this comment yesterday, and promise not to mention it again, but it does seem to be a common complaint from those who don't use the site on a mobile device. Thanks for considering, have a good day!

[Anonymous]

Hi Jeff! Is the “reply” button new with the responsive design? And, if so, is the result of hitting “reply” that your post shows up without any context for the post it’s replying to? I’m seeing a bunch of posts now that seem like they are direct responses to other posts but without any indication of which post they’re responding to. For example, 11:16’s post here: https://www.dcurbanmom.com/jforum/posts/list/75/1128681.page

This makes the conversation pretty confusing; the “reply” function is useful only if there’s some indication of the post it’s replying to. College Confidential does this pretty well, with a little reply icon that you can click on to show the post it’s in response to.

[Anonymous]

please do not get rid of the legacy version! Although if you do, it will finally break my addiction to this site so maybe it's for the best.

[Anonymous]

I LOVE it

[jsteele]

Anonymous wrote:Hi Jeff! Is the “reply” button new with the responsive design? And, if so, is the result of hitting “reply” that your post shows up without any context for the post it’s replying to? I’m seeing a bunch of posts now that seem like they are direct responses to other posts but without any indication of which post they’re responding to. For example, 11:16’s post here: https://www.dcurbanmom.com/jforum/posts/list/75/1128681.page

This makes the conversation pretty confusing; the “reply” function is useful only if there’s some indication of the post it’s replying to. College Confidential does this pretty well, with a little reply icon that you can click on to show the post it’s in response to.

Since that button is causing confusion, I've removed it.

[jsteele]

I've just deployed a bunch of tweaks. In some cases you may need to clear your cache or restart your browser to see the changes. Nothing spectacular, but a lot of font size changes.

[Anonymous]

jsteele wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Hi Jeff! Is the “reply” button new with the responsive design? And, if so, is the result of hitting “reply” that your post shows up without any context for the post it’s replying to? I’m seeing a bunch of posts now that seem like they are direct responses to other posts but without any indication of which post they’re responding to. For example, 11:16’s post here: https://www.dcurbanmom.com/jforum/posts/list/75/1128681.page

This makes the conversation pretty confusing; the “reply” function is useful only if there’s some indication of the post it’s replying to. College Confidential does this pretty well, with a little reply icon that you can click on to show the post it’s in response to.

Since that button is causing confusion, I've removed it.

Thanks!

[Anonymous]

Wheee the legacy version fool

[Anonymous]

Love the responsive design for my phone!

[Anonymous]

Please consider removing "Anonymous, Date, Time" and "Last by Anonymous, Date Time"

It's just a whole lot of unimportant text that clutters the page. Why must we see the word anonymous a million times?

Just list number of replies and page numbers.

[Anonymous]

Please shorten the descriptions under each category. They are way too long. So much small text filling the screen. The copy editor in me can't stand it.

[Anonymous]

I dislike. But I will get used to it. Wahhhhh!

[Anonymous]

jsteele wrote:I've just deployed a bunch of tweaks. In some cases you may need to clear your cache or restart your browser to see the changes. Nothing spectacular, but a lot of font size changes.

The fonts look better on a desktop browser, in my case, linux/firefox. There's still strange whitespace between Replies/Views and the Last Post columns in the forum view.

[Anonymous]

Looks great on my phone! So much easier to read.

[Anonymous]

I am glad it stops resizing to weird and unreadable sizes on my phone.

Suggestion might be to keep the subject line font the same but make the font size for the other data considerably smaller (date of last post, etc.). 14 pages of suggestions so don't mean to bury you in complaint if you have already made a final decision on this point.

Also, not sure if this can be supported here without logins but it would be awesome if the posts that you have read could be a lighter blue or something and back to the original color if someone posts something new so you don't need to double check posts for new content.