TV Forum Neon

Would be interesting to know what the ratio is of the regular to neon users is. Myself, I don't really get on with neon.

It would probably be helpful to Asa if you and the others who've tried and dislike Neon if you explained what puts you off it, or why you find it troublesome.

(unless, of course, you've already done so )

Like it would make a difference?

Tell you what WOULD be good - make it Tapatalk enabled. That way I can use my Nexus7 and not even bother with a web browser.

The problem is the url auto parsing doesn't realise that ] isn't part of the url. The code needs to be altered so that it still shows up as an embedded tweet on Neon, but shows up as a regular link on the old TVF (assuming adding the embedding feature isn't possible on the old version).

Why wouldn't it? As far as I'm aware I've tweaked/added/removed stuff as a result of comments people have made here. My psychic abilities are minimal so it would be good from those that don't like it, to know why they don't like it. Is it the complete design? Just parts of it? Is it overly complicated? Unnecessary features? Difficult to read? I can only go by what I hope people like and what they've said or requested.

Personally (and I know I'd say this anyway), I've always used Neon - I like the embedded Tweets, quick reply and latest images on the homepage. Searching can be better (anyone who knows the recent Andoid/December issue may guess as to why 'All time' searching hasn't worked, even on the old site!) and the social buttons haven't exactly caught fire so they're just some of the things being fixed or removed for the next update.

I didn't intend for the crossover to be quite so long otherwise I'd have implemented the Tweet on the current site, I appreciate some are coming across that who don't know/care about Neon.

In terms of stats it's about 10% visiting Neon, 90% the old site.

The problem I have with Neon is that everything is too spaced out, if the layout was close to the old one(but NOT the same) and with the Neon features, I'd happily use it.

Asa, there's really only one request I have in terms of Neon - I'm finding the predominantly white background a little bit too straining on my eyes. I did prefer the old blue background of the old site. But, as I said last night, I'm pleased with the majority of Neon's features. One of my favourite aspects is the quick reply - so much easier when you just want to post a brief message without much formatting.

Asa,
The issue for me is (much like Windows , I don't feel like I really must upgrade, and so I never changed my speed-dials and thus kept using the old look. I have experimentally changed my speed dial and I'll report back on things.

I'm not sure about the bar down the right, is all I can say so far.

Yes, I know what the problem is - hence why I said there is a problem in rendering correct URLs.

I think the only problem I had with the forum once I made the effort to adjust (which took about 20 minutes) was the latest post previews that appeared under each thread title - and there was an option to turn it off (which I did).

I prefer the grey background, personally - it looks more modern. I would suggest to people having eye strain issues to turn down the brightness on their monitor, or turn on a light in the room.

The grey horizontal line placed before signatures needs to be made clearer - I keep reading the signatures as if they're part of the post. However, it needs a 2 or 3 pixel gap for those of us with signatures with transparent backgrounds, so they don't appear underneath the image. If the line were extended to 300px, it would match the maximum size of image signatures.

Possibly the only other thing I miss is the post count. I always liked to see how many posts I'd made, and now it's gone I don't know when to buy myself a cake for post 1,500 without going into my profile summary page.

Other than that, I love Neon.

I think this is skewed by the fact the normal forum is the default. But I'd say that's quite a good figure.

Point your mouse at a username above a post...

Right. There's a thing now which is doing my head in. Whenever I want to go to the next page of a board, I naturally home in on the first numbers I find at the bottom of the screen. The numbers I find and click are not the numbers which relate to the board pages, but to the last thread on that page.

This is an example of my dislike of the column on the right there.

Props for using the correct Twitter icon and not the 't', though.

I don't mind Neon, but just haven't been using it because I don't use bookmarks, and typing 'neo' instead of 'tvf' into the address bar in Chrome is too much work. Effort!

However, I've been using it recently, and it's lovely. I don't mind the white, it's clean, looks good, and I don't have the same aversions to it I had originally. I said I felt it deviated from how all other forums looked too much when it first appeared, but now I don't mind it at all.