Try the LDSFF 2018 Beta.. (new design, more mobile-friendly)

[BeNotDeceived]

Grey is a colour as indicated in the Oxford English dictionary. Gray is the Americanised version of the word.

Grey is an alien; Gray is a color.

You say potato, and I say paatato ... Gray vs Grey

President Monson, says Canaries with Gray on Their Wings = I rest my case.

[Elizabeth]

Americanised English is not correct English no matter who uses it.

[BeNotDeceived]

He speaks for God = works for me!

He does say the canaries were among her things.

Then again God did create everything that was created, so that must mean people are things too.

3 All things were made by him; and without him was not any thing made that was made.

[Rose Garden]

I like the larger font and more space. I like the idea of the scrolling quotes because quotes can add so much space but the scrolling is annoying, as many people have mentioned. A "read more" type feature on quotes would be nice, where they are collapsed but you can expand them.

An arrow to go to the top of the page would be good but it needs to be larger than the last one. The last one was so small it wouldn't work on my phone unless I made the screen really big.

[inho]

There used to be an asterisk by posts that I've commented on. There doesn't seem to be an indicator of that anymore as far as I can tell.

I'd like to have something like the asterisk in the new design too.


At first, I didn't like to be forced to scroll the long quotes. Now I have already gotten used to it. I think the new way is better. There are often really long strings of quotes in posts and the readability of the thread is much better when not everything is shown. Alternatively, people could just try to learn to quote the part that is relevant, not the whole post.


I would like to have easier access to new notifications. Now I have to click the link to go to Notification page in order to see who has quoted or thanked me. In the old version, one didn't need to load the Notifications page, the most recent notifications were shown right away.

[Rose Garden]

There used to be an asterisk by posts that I've commented on. There doesn't seem to be an indicator of that anymore as far as I can tell.

I'd like to have something like the asterisk in the new design too.


At first, I didn't like to be forced to scroll the long quotes. Now I have already gotten used to it. I think the new way is better. There are often really long strings of quotes in posts and the readability of the thread is much better when not everything is shown. Alternatively, people could just try to learn to quote the part that is relevant, not the whole post.


I would like to have easier access to new notifications. Now I have to click the link to go to Notification page in order to see who has quoted or thanked me. In the old version, one didn't need to load the Notifications page, the most recent notifications were shown right away.

On my phone it's a really difficult process to trim quotes so I don't think people in general will trim quotes.

[Rose Garden]

Also, the circles next to the thread titles aren't working to take me to the last read post. That feature is vital in my opinion.

[creator]

Thank you for all of the feedback, keep it coming. Even if I don't respond to specific comments, I'm taking everything into consideration as I continue to make updates to the new design.

[Elizabeth]

I did not update, I intended to stay with the familiar one, but the decision was taken from me and the change has automatically occurred.

[Jonesy]

I'm using mobile version. Not sure if this makes sense, but there is a lot of unused space; the old version seemed more compact and condensed. For example, the topic boxes are large and and the words easily fit inside. The more compact everything is the better, I say.

Is the old version not useable anymore?

[BringerOfJoy]

Well, it was a bit of a jolt, when it came up today, but it's great to have something a little more mobile friendly. I was able to find anything I use on the forum pretty quickly.

[Elizabeth]

I do not like it.

[Rensai]

Are we being forced onto the new layout? I can't seem to find the option to choose anymore.

[jdtech]

If you could swap the user-name / info / avatar with the actual post content, that would probably be helpful. All the white space right down the middle of the screen doesn't quite look right to me (on a regular computer browser - don't know how it looks on mobile). I find that having to read the actual post content on the right edge of the screen somewhat annoying.

Otherwise, it looks really clean and nice. Navigation look and feel is different, but manageable and easy to adapt to.

[jdtech]

If you could swap the user-name / info / avatar with the actual post content, that would probably be helpful. All the white space right down the middle of the screen doesn't quite look right to me (on a regular computer browser - don't know how it looks on mobile). I find that having to read the actual post content on the right edge of the screen somewhat annoying.

Otherwise, it looks really clean and nice. Navigation look and feel is different, but manageable and easy to adapt to.

Hmm...just figured out how to hide (minimize) the navigation on the left. Definitely a better experience with it mostly hidden. Would still prefer to have the user info swapped with the post content though. White space on the right, to me, is definitely preferable to having white space down the middle.

[Durzan]

I dont really like it either.

[friendsofthe]

Did not opt into any beta version. But what I'm seeing looks like I'm in Windows recovery mode, ugly... hope this isn't the future of the forum!!!

[SmallFarm]

If you could swap the user-name / info / avatar with the actual post content, that would probably be helpful. All the white space right down the middle of the screen doesn't quite look right to me (on a regular computer browser - don't know how it looks on mobile). I find that having to read the actual post content on the right edge of the screen somewhat annoying.

Otherwise, it looks really clean and nice. Navigation look and feel is different, but manageable and easy to adapt to.

Hmm...just figured out how to hide (minimize) the navigation on the left. Definitely a better experience with it mostly hidden. Would still prefer to have the user info swapped with the post content though. White space on the right, to me, is definitely preferable to having white space down the middle.

Oh that's much better

[David13]

I don't like it.
I didn't take the opportunity to try it out.
It was just involuntarily forced upon me by default.
I came to the site, clicked on, and this new format came on.
Can I go back and use the old one?
Thanks
dc

I don't think we needed a new format. The old one worked fine. No problems. No need to 'fix' anything. What's more is, I suppose this cost money. I can think of better places that money could have gone.

[commonwealth]

yeah I don't care for it either. too big and bulky. can't see as much as I did before.

[Hidingbehindmyhandle]

I tried it and went back.
too much white space
not enough page definition - stuff is just all over
information density way two low

Can I go back?

[Hidingbehindmyhandle]

I tried it and went back.
too much white space
not enough page definition - stuff is just all over
information density way two low

Can I go back?

and font size too small for amount of white space
using ctrl- to get better view makes font too small

[SmallFarm]

I tried it and went back.
too much white space
not enough page definition - stuff is just all over
information density way two low

Can I go back?

and font size too small for amount of white space
using ctrl- to get better view makes font too small

It's better if you collapse the column on the far left. Try clicking the three lines next to "board index"

[BeNotDeceived]

The color for text in quotes and signatures is a really light grey and for me at least, its a strain to read. Can you make it a bit darker or something that contrasts with the background more?

Quoted below is text from my most complicated post, to date. Your post was an excellent example, where the timing couldn't of been any better. Elder Bednar, described timing, such as this, as a "Tender Mercy" in his first GC address.

...

... “Heavenly Father is aware of our limitations and knows the factors that contribute to our limitations,” he said. “Despite our deficiencies, however, He also knows how to communicate important directives as we are able to receive them.”

He cited the passage in Doctrine and Covenants 1:24, “Behold, I am God and have spoken it; these commandments are of me, and were given unto my servants in their weakness, after the manner of their language, that they might come to understanding.”

... I just saved my text as God Speaks to Us in Ways We Can Understand, ... edit1 ldsff after saving it with "stub" in place of "edit1". Next ... Saving now, replacing "stub" with "fnl" after one last preview. Happy posting everyone, have an awesome day.

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Many Display Properties are device specific IAW User Preferences, typically set in the control panel. When submitting, bug reports it may be helpful to identify the type of device, version of software, and which browser that you are using and/or screen captures.

Snippet Savers has a new post, about how to insert screen captures in posts and IMs, that aren't too big. Just having a little fun, but if your alien is looking a little light, then please do give him something good to eat.

Edit was to add {/quote}

[jdtech]

Looking at it on mobile now, and I can definitely see the appeal.

When showing the latest posts list there are no obvious links to the latest unread post, or the last post for any given topic.