The new xBhp: Suggestions and Improvements Thread

[satyenpoojary]

[B7ACKTHORN]

Yes. Blue color is always pleasant and, the current color resembles as if the entire page is CTRL+A and the letters are very hard to discern either, so at least I'd have to "select all" to see what's posted.

I'd request you guys to revert to the old color scheme and with added emoticons of the first version of xBhp, before the second overhaul was done.

Cheers!
VJ

[Hackdrag]

Good progress for xbhp ..but here are few things need to change:

the look and feel of color schemes are not good at all , from user point of view its not pleasant, previous look and feel and color scheme are best ..both interms of interaction and pleasant to eyes.
everything else is welcomed

I felt the same.
Home Page looks better

The Website is not optimized for all screen resolutions.Currently it look very small in 1920*1200.
Previous version was working fine.

Another suggestion,

Option for user to select preset Themes/Style.Similar to Quick style selector of teambhp.

Thank you for the nice Update

[Sunny]

Thanks everyone for pouring in suggestions. The iffort team is probably taking a small tea break before they evaluate all this along with me. Like I said this will be a constant evolution now. Most key suggestions here should be implemented by Friday this week!

@Iffort: Over to you.

[stuntababe urvashi patole]

It's hurting my eyes at the moment.. Very cluttered and the colors need to be changed. Otherwise it is not bad

[aloksingh15]

The forum home page looks great and just good work .I am liking it.

[saipranav]

An overhaul without new emoticons is not acceptable...

[tibby]

Welcome change! Especially the homepage.

Areas of improvement:
1. Like everyone else has pointed out, the colour scheme of the v-bulletin pages does hurt the eyes.
2. The width of the content section of the threads has been reduced, which means smaller pics, & more scrolling up/down the pages.
3. In xTracker, the name of the thread & the new post are appearing in same font. Also there is no demarcation to differentiate between consecutive posts.

[phanikar]

With all due respect to the people behind the makeover, applaud. "Iffort" good effort.

Few things I(personally) am disappointed with:
1.The overall layout and color schemes, I am feeling claustrophobic after the layout switch. The older one was way better. My eyes hurt when I am reading something. So far haven't got the idea of wasting the side space of the page. Also the stripes adds to the search for icons/tabs
2.Tourer Section: loved the concept of Pictorial depiction of logs.
a.But felt few more good blogs are missing out.
b.The ride to MotoGp, falling under tourer section????
c.Few itenary planning threads are mixed which requires a small clean up.
d. If older blogs are also considered, then i felt some seriously good blogs by fellow members are missing (P.S: scrolled down till the page loaded any new logs).
3.Talkies: List view was better than the grid view.
4.Too many cartoons, way too many
5.Once I press on new posts, confusion confusion confusion, its like the way the Darsheel safary sees in his class Sticky threads were easily recognizable unlike now.

Moral of the story: Its a good thing that we change with time, but what we bring in with the change should be more user friendly and easily adaptable. I know few might suggest, try it over a period of time, you will get adjusted with it. True, by then my capacity of vision would have gone down by some extent.

The quoted point are my own personal suggesstions, and i don't want people start pelting me stones if you disagree on the above ones

[lockhrt999]

I'd like the width to be 100% like it was before. In the olden days forums used to have fixed width because of the old low resolution monitors. I don't know why do we need fixed width in present days. I have fullHD monitor and forum is looking skinny.

Secondly I think "like" button may be turned into "thanks" or "I agree" b'cause it'll be more used then.

Another thing "Reply to Thread" is still bearing old CSS shadow value.

[lockhrt999]

A few CSS changes from my point of view.

For full screen forum, line 1312 from css style sheet:
Change: width: 940px;
to : min-width: 940px;

Change: padding: 10px 15px 10px 15px;
to : padding: 10px 20px 10px 15px;
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To rectify shadow effect to "Reply to Thread" button, line 3209:
Change:
-moz-box-shadow: 0 3px 8px #dddddd;
-webkit-box-shadow: 0 3px 8px #DDD;
box-shadow: 0 3px 8px #DDD;

To:
-moz-box-shadow: 0 3px 8px #111;
-webkit-box-shadow: 0 3px 8px #111;
box-shadow: 0 3px 8px #111;
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To rectify mis-alignment of buttons First and ,line 1500:
Change: top: -2px;
To : top: -4px;
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To rectify shadow effects of boxes present in the bottom and keeping shadow effect in accordance with "reply to thread" button, line 1586 AND 1569:

change: -moz-box-shadow: -2px 2px 2px #c8c8c8;
-webkit-box-shadow: -2px 2px 2px #C8C8C8;
box-shadow: -2px 2px 2px #C8C8C8;
to:
-moz-box-shadow: 0 3px 8px #222;
-webkit-box-shadow: 0 3px 8px #222;
box-shadow: 0 3px 8px #222;
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To add cool shadow to posts, line 426:
Add line: box-shadow: 0 3px 13px #222;
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And to Quick Reply box:
Add the same line above.
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^These are just my humble suggestions, but some of them are rectifications which were left unchanged from previous theme, which were not compatible with this new theme.

[lockhrt999]

Here's the result of the trickery mention in the last post,
right click on the image and click open image in new tab.



All changes are there,
Forum is full screen (if desired),
Shadow of reply to thread rectified,
shadow of Similar Thread boxes recified,
< First, <, buttons are now aligned,
Posts have nice cool shadow.

Let me know how it looks.

[madhav766]

Re: The new xBhp: Suggestions and Improvements Thread

Well. Most of my grievances were voiced earlier. One thing I'd like To stress: new emoticons!! Please please
Sent from my WT19i

[MG]

The order in the "1st IMP" needs to be reworked.
1) For example a less relevant thread like R15 V1 and RTR Fi(both are now not available) finds its place in the top 6 as compared to say a R15 V2 and Duke 200
2) Also there should be separate section or demarcation for bike/scooters available in India and elsewhere

[lockhrt999]

Just a heads up: RSS feeds of few sections including News are broken.

Edit: Another thing, updated threads titles are being showed into same format, so there's no way knowing which threads are updated and which are not. In the old days updated threads had bold titles.
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And some users are complaining that text hard to read, few said they are comfortable. Let me explain, workstation/expensive level displays have greater color depth so reading this site on them is very comfortable but rest 98% displays in this world are not workstation level so reading text on them must be difficult. CRTs have far less contrast ratio than LCD/LEDs so it becomes even more difficult.