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Dr. Delight

My poll suggests 12% Like, 20% are ok with it, 66% dislike it.

PJ_Soul

yellowledbetterman80 said:

so whats the purpose of the "Activity"section. all im seeing is everyone changing their profile pic or people using it thinking they are sending a pm. What are we suppose to do with it?

It's like wall posts on facebook. A place to air dirty laundry to the entire forum, lol. :P

aurynsdad

benjs said:

Hey Kat, since you're asking for a discussion, here are my sentiments on the site.

“Pearljam Community”. Really?

On the main page - why are sub-headings aligned further to the right than the headings if they’re nearly equal font size? Keep everything aligned as it’s distracting to see text moving left and right.

Spacing: why is there so much more space beneath headings than above it (take Not Pearl Jam’s Music, for example)? Being consistent and going with age-old standards would be nice.

Popular Tags: this is not Twitter. We come here to make statements longer than 140 characters to each other.

Category Filter: Why opt people into followed categories as a default, when 95% of the viewers won’t notice and hence will never change it to all categories?

Who’s Online: Unnecessary, but nice! I like seeing the usernames when I float my cursor over the images.

Reply-ability: A ‘Post Reply’ button on the top of the page would be nice, or a hidden button to post a reply when your cursor floats over a post.

Font: Horrendous. Particularly illegible on all screens I’ve viewed it on (iPad mini, iPhone, 15” MacBook, 27” iMac). Something about the spacing between letters is hard on the eyes. The default font sizes should be enlarged as well. Yes, I’m aware that my browser can change the sizes if I would like, but a good web design shouldn’t require me to do that upon each visit.

Colours: Really, where the hell are they? White? Seriously? Terrible design idea for a website all about reading – this creates eye fatigue rapidly.

Overall feel: toy-like, unprofessional, cheap knock-off, poorly translated, work in progress, beta, junk are the words that come to mind.

The guts of this are clearly nearly the same as the old design. My suggestion: offer the company who was (over)paid to ruin a good thing an ultimatum of a quality revision with the attention to detail this site needs, or money back and a smooth conversion back to the old site - which, from what I can tell, was superior in nearly every regard.

WELL SAID!

pjradio

EdsonNascimento said:

Why shouldn't new users have a voice in this? Are you afraid they'll make us sound old and stodgy?

I AM old & stodgy & yes, they can have a voice (i guess)....but, i don't care to hear "Love the new site, looks like Arcade Fires" ..."When does the 45 come out?"...not what I care to hear.

You might...I don't.

Just thought we had a good thing going as it was...thats all

just read back...am I wrong about my percentages?!

troysp1

I do not want to come off as negative, but I do want to comment. I am on the site pretty frequently and this change has affected my usage. The site is hard on the eyes because of the color schemes and the flow for me from post to post and forum to forum is just bad.

I appreciate 10 club trying to make changes and updates to keep the site fresh, but this change is going to make me slow down my activity on the site dramatically (if not stop all together). Hopefully you take the criticism as constructive and listen to the comments made by many active members.

RKCNDY

The one thing i fear is that I don't visit the forum on the weekends...so when I log back in on Monday, the threads i have posted in will have that yellow notification, and it will say "489 New", I don't really care that much how many new posts are made after I last looked at a thread

And how do I 'unsubscribe'? I accidentally clicked on a thread I never read and it keeps telling me how many new posts there are...I DON'T CARE!

corduroykelly

This new forum is awful, just terrible.

Leezestarr313

Also, it seems you cannot delete it if somebody posts something stupid on your wall. That's not cool ...

-Emma-

You can add a horizontal line to your signature...edit your signature by typing this with no spaces: < h r > at the start of your signature.

You can also make the text in your signature smaller by adding < s m a l l > to the beginning of the text and < / s m a l l > at the end of the text.

Spiritual_Chaos

It's not a looker on ny phone. But at least it got a version for phones now. Which is great. And the white works better than on a computer screen.

So yeah... You win some, you still loose a lot.

I don't see myself being as active on this trainwreck of an improvement.

Should have used a classic look toit and just added support for youtube and images (like I thought they would...)

Yuck.

:-q 8-} \:D/ ^#(^

-Emma-

In safari when I have typed enough to fill the first line of the comment box, the letters go behind the smiley drop down before it goes to the next line...

Spiritual_Chaos

Honestly. Its pretty damn decent on my phone. When your in a thread.

Outside on the porch it doesn't look to good.

The font works good on my phone too

narnia

Is anyone else having trouble accessing the 10C PJ Radio on an iPad?

My connection on my PC keeps being refused too. >:P

jcarhart

I couldn't be more disappointed. It's hard to read, not user friendly and on any device besides my I-phone it is impossible to read or navigate. I might have to completely withdraw from the site as it is unusable. I expect renewals to drop dramatically if something is not done. Please take all feedback to heart!!!!

YLed2

So is this thing actually for real? Is this a joke? Is this a "test" phase? This is a real question I'm asking here. It feels like I'm lost in cyberspace hell with this new format. It seems like punishment and a deliberate way to push people away from the forums - and trust me, there will be plenty of people dropping like flies.

FAIL.

Dead Man Walking

Can someone tell me how to view "Recent Discussions" (the new "Active Topics") without all the "Announcements" stuck at the top? That's really the only thing I'd like to get around.

Thanks.

jamminpearls

This new board is horrible. Every new board takes time,but this one is brutal. I hope I don't come across this board drunk. If I do I might puke.

ceska

My bookmarked threads are useless since the URLs are no longer relevant.

The search bar is markedly improved (blue text in a black box as it was before was horribly unreadable), but the searches don't return any results.

norm

Dead Man Walking said:

Can someone tell me how to view "Recent Discussions" (the new "Active Topics") without all the "Announcements" stuck at the top? That's really the only thing I'd like to get around.

Thanks.

mouse over each one and a gear icon will pop up...click on it and click dimiss

FrankieG

PJ_Soul said:

Leezestarr313 said:

PJ_Soul said:

Dr. Delight said:

That blows. Watch out late night Crew!

There will be a lot of posts that are just a period.


Well at least I found a source for the old smilies.

Please share!

FrankieG planned ahead and posted this! http://imgur.com/a/wHchf

WOOO! Not really planned ahead. I used the wayback machine to grab them. If you find anymore that I'm missing I will update!

New album with updates: http://imgur.com/a/nk0s7